001March 25. We thank you for each one and we ask you to be with us that we will make life. Whoever wants to go first and you know it's springtime. So, for the student at the primary school, we have uh Sawyer Telis. He's not here, but he's very uh very well behaved, good mannered, works hard, and um we just wanted to recognize him for all of his hard work. Um at the also at the primary, Miss Pam Wells. Miss Pam Wells works anywhere we need her to work. She loves the kids. Um she helps with our after school program. And so we uh we always want to honor Miss Pam Wells because she she takes care of everybody else. And the other one that our staff, our faculty, Miss Stephanie Manning, our DC coordinator for
002the district, one thing about Miss Manning is when things go ary, she's always trouble. She's always Well, we'll figure it out. Oh well, we'll just figure it out. And so if we need to figure something out, we figure it out. We're gonna pray about it. Figure it out. That's right. What? We'll figure it out. Thank you. Congratulations. So, our student is Mrs. Ary Hill and she's new to our district this year. She teaches fourth grade math, but she's been recognized for her optimism and just we love her and the students love her and she has just become part of our family instantly in the game in the field and to help us grow our kids. So, we appreciate Mrs. Dale. Our staff of the month is Mrs. Melissa Whitethornne who is our custodian at the
003elementary and she works along with the third and fourth graders and she keeps it shining and we have the compliment all the time when people walk in our building they thought oh it smells so good and I'm like yes it's fresh and clean so props to Miss Cody and Mrs. We get a compliment all the time how good our elementary looks and it's because they do not stop they are non-stop all day and our student of the month who has perfect signing is Mrs. Jada Middleton. Come on up, Jada. I'm so excited that you made it. To say that Jada is sweet is an understatement. She is so sweet and respectful. She works hard in all of her classes. She gets along with everybody. She really is a jewel to have on campus. And so,
004we appreciate her. And we have a special connection because years ago, I talked our oldest brother in fifth and sixth grade. And so she keeps me up to date on Jarvis all the time and it keeps our conversations going, doesn't it? Yeah. Well, um, we had a few uh awards that we wanted to give out two special awards. But the first award is for our staff of the month and that goes to Miss April Dickerson. She does a wonderful job with our AL school. Um it's a hard job. Um but she does a wonderful job trying to keep them in line and them making sure they get what they need to get. Um the second person is another AOE SA uh faculty member and that is um Coach Holidayiday Austin Holidayiday. He told me what
005you know told I'm not going to be there because we're going to be hitting ball. So he's also our our our baseball coach. So they are at practice. Uh but uh he knows how much we love him and are very thankful and blessed to have him over there because he works with each individual student and trying to get them what they need. Our final staff member or faculty member is here tonight and this one goes to Miss Autumn Stole. Now all the kids are she keeps us laughing and she keeps everybody's spirits up. Absolutely love her because she always has something positive to say and she's also taught us a few dance moves. My dance moves are really good. I'm not missing [Music] Yeah. Okay. So, we also have two special awards um to give.
006As far as students go, we couldn't pick just one because these two groups have done phenomenal this semester. And our quiz bowl team, our DHS quiz bowl team have really outdone me. Our kids know things and they know things so well that they're going to state. um and they're able to show it and Mr. Duran has worked extremely hard with them and to bring them out of their shed because we've never our GHS world team has never worked this far before. We've never really collectively had one, but we do now. Um well, we've had one, but they have they gone to state. Oh, okay. this girl right here. Awesome. But anyway, we're we're very thankful for them because they have done wonders here and Mrs. Brown has done wonders working with them. They come up
007all the time. They work and they ask questions and they have been awesome. So that's for our quit team. Miss Manning, would you like to accept this? I sure will because I I'm taking two of them tomorrow to help run junior high qual with the seventh graders with um our Dawson tournament and they they step in and step up and um there's several of them on that team that help mentor the younger kids and I love it. I just think they're excited for it and Mr. Durant is awesome. Thank you. And our our final award um it goes to our ghs concert band. They are doing so well. They have come such a long way. Mr. Burton has done an amazing job with them. Um as far as they scored a one in sight reading.
008Correct. So I mean it's awesome. our kids, the kids that are in there are finished and they are dedicated and it just goes to show what you can do when you take forward the work. Thank you. And we're very proud of them. I'm going to do that is not known I was going to do. Uh, I think most of you know, you've you've seen the amount of work that Amanda Jones has put into her education to our kids education and she was rewarded recently for all of that hard work by anybody. Um, and so that's why I'm presenting this to Dr. I'm just going to do it in the kitchen. I bless y'all. always. that resirculinary. [Music] 25. I think it financial Every month I've kind of said we're not at we're not at we're
009at our final exit conference. So hopefully before too long y'all should be getting reports now. It has to go through some processes still. So it may be a little while but you should be getting your audit report back before too long. I would love if we get it back so we can have it for the next meeting. I won't guarantee that's going to happen, but they will mail them directly to you next to getting that. Um, we're about twothirds of the way through our financial year. That seems a little unreal to me. I can't believe we're to that point yet, but that's where we are. And as always, if y'all have questions on the financial report, be sure to holler at the beginning. Any questions? [Music] motion. Motion motion. So you know we've been working
010with CRW for we had to evaluate different bids that they sent us and it was Rhonda, Wendy and I sit together and we evaluated each company. Each company had different brands, different options. Some of them had configuration including you know based on that we made our decision and we evaluated like I said each company together but that is to be able to replace all of our access point Wi-Fi basically and that's what it's going to be. You're pretty familiar with CDW. I've heard that. We have purchased most of our uh I guess pretty much everything through CDW in the past. They have given us the best price for just about pretty much everything. Even in this case, they were pretty competitive with everybody, even better than others that service. We've never had an issue with
011them. We've always had great experience with them. So the the counselor the consulting company exactly CRW and then the people who gave us I think the best quote and the best PDW. So I know they sound familiar but yeah like there was I think Ronda believe four bids that were submitted on that application. So to be able to use this money, we have to submit an application and let different companies pretty much offer what they have. And we just put out there what we needed. And one one bid was less, but it wasn't. There was actually two bids that were a lot less, but some of them did not include taxes. Some of them did not include configuration. So they were missing a lot of that stuff. And once you added all those things, they
012would bring up the price even higher or write up the same thing. And we weren't really looking for those devices anyway. We just have to we just have to look at them and say, "Hey, this is not what we want." And they I think on the on this paper you got it shows how we evaluated each one by points. I think it was one to 20 what it was I believe on that. And we just score each one depending on what they offer us. I like this set right away because you can evaluate each company depending on on what they offer you compared to other we had in the past. Any questions with that? if everything goes through. Um, we're hoping to see this maybe by the end of the year, but it takes time
013for all these paperwork to go through the Wi-Fi. Remember back when we had trouble getting students access Wi-Fi? So, we're actually going to be replacing what we have and we're going to be adding extra to different zones that we don't have any right now. Um, it should feel a lot better than it's newer. What we have right now still works, but it's not uh being made anymore. The company actually closed either with Airhide. They sold to a company named Dream Network and they're basically supporting us, but they're not supporting the product. So, if we have any more issues with the product, they're going to help race. So that's why we're having to go ahead and update those now. [Music] school that memor [Music] And we all know one main company 70% of our product is
014company and then 30% we can go with another company. We're uh we have better buying power by doing that. How much will we have to play with? You know what? Sorry. I think the um that Claudia sent me. She approached us about the group of one of our classrooms at primary school like one night a week working adult ESL class and GED tutoring class. So that that would kind of connect us a little bit more with the community and also allow members of our community into our school to do some things to improve our community in general. and I remember she could you have questions she would be the one to act with herbal brain child and we're always looking for ways to extend our school into our community and I think this would be
015one of those this for like after hours. Yeah. How how many people do you have that has an interest right now? So far, I'll say probably 10, but I don't know if there's more than that. Our our plan is to u visit population. That will be like a main point of contact. language barriers between us that don't know Spanish very well or and the Hispanic community which is growing to be a bigger bigger part of our community and we talked about some of our high school students to work with them That would be good for them because we are trying to increase that graduate with that field by literacy and that would be a good way to approach that as well because we've got two right here that when they were in school they did
016that. Victor and uh Miss Riley worked with this program similar to that when they were in school. Am I correct? Back in 2002. start turning love. It's not only entertaining to the sort of community but also in general to whoever is interested on on obtaining their like I was saying yes uh they offer school time at the adult center in aria but that's kind of you know go your family, you know, there's something else for them. And literally, we're providing police, but so far we've been telling our friends and they seem interested already. But I want to tell Kendall one I needed to be a room where Victor doesn't have his stuff stored and two one that we know the AC and the heater function in there. We have a motion to [Music] One out,
017one in. not a student that has been attending schools here in the last two years. Uh but she does live in the district and parent guardians work in aridelia so they have applied for board transfer to aradia for her. the one from we have one of our employees who is one of our fantastic heroes at primary school that wants to bring her seventh grade daughter here starting after spring break. So that one is for her to move into county one that's not already in school here but we are one with that We can go. We can go future business. [Music] We're ready for it. We'll start with high school today with our data in our data and comparing the fall inter back after we tested in October. This is what the day looks like now.
018And I went further breaking it down because this might be a bit misleading. This is combined. It'll be fall and winter. So there's, you know, a lot more tests taken, but it doesn't give you the true breakdown, but it still shows you where we're at with our level one, level two, level three, and level four students. So with ELA looking from each level on the total growth, we want that level one to go down. We want that to be a negative. So we're gaining at least a level two, three, or four. We gained four level four growth overall. It was not where we wanted it, but we did see some growth out of our EO day. And this is 7 through 10th grade. For our math, we lost a lot more of our level one
019and level two. We gained level three, level four. So, seventh grade math, eighth grade math had a big piece in there. Those students really had a big jump for it. some moving from a level one all the way up to a level three or even a level four. So there was some really good growth that we had in the back for science. Another big one for us and this time around our AP biology student expected. So we had some older kids step up in there and that really worked towards our level fours but we did see growth in the science and we're losing those level ones. Level two stayed the same and we saw that jump in the level three and level four. So it was growth, not where we wanted to be, not what
020we expect, but we're working towards that growth. And the Sunday that's coming up for the high school, we start April 14th. We have what 11 11 instructional days of school left to get the summer. So we have a lot of work to do, but our teachers are working in particularly to day. We're just implementing small groups and we're increasing that on Thursdays. Thursdays at 10 to 15 minutes are long. The small groups is bumping up to 30 minutes for each class where teachers have our students broken apart at what level they are in those content areas and that's the focus that they're putting forward. Any questions? So the same same thing for the elementary. We have our data. This is the 36 data. This is the fall. I clean this. This is the winter and
021the fall. So when it's really broken down, you can look at the level ones for ELA. It's not what we wanted. Um, we gained some level ones. We lost some level two. We did have some growth down here. For math, we lost 15 level ones. That's great. That's very exciting. We gained some level twos, which some of those were from level from level one, and we we gained on the rest of them. So, we we like to see the negative on level one because that means they're going up. That's what we want. Same thing for science. A pretty big drop into level one. So, that's what we want. Um, we have a lot of targeted interventions happening right now in the classroom. They're doing a lot of the Atlas uh classroom tests, getting them used
022to the questions and how the questions are asked, the vocabulary. Even the activity teachers are taking time out of their like um library and PE and helping with a lot of the intervention and just really getting them used to what those questions look like because there's this is such a new test. There's not a lot of exemplars out there that show us what these questions are. So that's why these classroom tools are very important for us to be using in the classroom. It gives us an idea. We we have a lot of We know that writing is one of our lower areas. We are targeting the writing. We're using the rubrics that the state has given us to teach those kids that vocabulary on the writing rubric so that the kids understand what they're even
023getting on. Um here are our testing dates. Uh through six will be the 21st of April. K2 will be the 28th of April. K2 will um be as far as we know now, they are taking the test on the computer. They didn't at the mid year, but they're ready for us to do it this time. So, even in the lower grades, we're doing a lot of um we were very low on phonic awareness, meaning the sounds like can the kids hear the sounds, think the sounds apart, and put the sounds together. So we have again our activity teachers are taking 20 minutes out of their time in the afternoon or in the in their activity classes and really hitting some of those make awareness activities just to give them a little boost. They've got to
024hit some of those targeted areas that we know that they were that they were low in. And this is something new. They have just decided that now we're going to test prek with this. So, we have a plan together. We've got a plan and the incoming kindergartens are basically going to take the kindergarten test and give us a good idea of what we have coming to kindergarten. While it is not the most exciting thing to test a four-year-old on a computer, we hope that it gives us data that's going to prepare us for when they come. Any questions? Well, a lot of sense. Yeah, it really this is just something they're not doing it in all the preks. The state just did this. They just informed us Friday and um our co-op was chosen and
025Girden was one of the schools. Um they're not doing it throughout the state like every program, but I mean it's one-on-one testing. That's what it's going to have to be to be able to accomplish this. We have a crew of people that are going to come together and we're going to each take one student um walk them through. It's going to be 47. Our four-year-olds are our biggest numbers in the head. And we do have touch screen like Chrome pads that we can use. The the Chromebooks really trip up the younger ones because of the mouth the fine. They just don't have the fine motor for that. So we do have touch screens that everyone can do a little bit easier for. So, is it the same test if there's any voting statements? Yes, it
026is. And this is like a trial run. It's not like they're going to hold anyone accountable for this piece. Um, they're just wanting to try it out because I think eventually we are going to get to the point of where we do have some type of test screening or something before our fouryear-olds come to kindergarten, which is amazing. And I think that's wonderful to have. Um, we just have to figure out a better way of how we would do that and how that would look once that comes down. We've always given some type of assessment for a screener just to kind of know what we're getting. This is just more official warmth. Thank you. April 28 as far as the phone book and things like that. Uh yes, because we can't we can't test uh
027prek as a whole group. We can't test kindergarten as a whole group. So, it's really going to be probably six to seven students out of each class at a time. Um the first and second grade will do more small groups, four to five, but with K one it's going to be well prek is going to be one-on-one. Like we have if we have five adults that can sit down with the kids, we only need five devices. Um same thing with um kindergarten. You really you really can do one only oneonone. The test is about to be roughly 20ish minutes, but with each kid it's going to be different. But supposedly this is about the amount of time it should take. So it's not one of those long testing blocks like the other. Well, we can
028I mean if we see that it's stressing the child out so much that we can pause that section and pick up the next day and test them another time. We we have a window that we have to follow and um as long as we get everyone in by the window and I'm not so stressed over the prekay if something happens and we have one that we can't ever get to to test because maybe they're out. We have to test 95% or above in our K. So we'll focus that will be our main He's not leaving us. She's moving out of the district.