001[Music] I think that [Music] Mhm. [Music] Oh, no. All right, I've got 5:00. Uh, first item on the agenda is for the opening prayer. Uh, Mr. Hughes, do you care to lead us? Dear Lord, again, we're thankful for this opportunity that you've given us to come together and meet as a board. And we pray that the decisions that have been made in the past have been beneficial and will be beneficial. But we're also mindful, Lord, of the ones that we make tonight and in the future. We pray that you will be with us with each and every decision that we make and that it will be beneficial to to this school. Lord, again, we're thankful for a successful year last year and we look forward to the the year coming up. We pray that you'll
002continue to protect the school and protect our admin, our children, and our staff. Again, Lord, most of all, forgive us of our sins. It's in Christ's name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. All right. Next item on the agenda is to consider the previous month's uh and any special meeting minutes. I think we've already approved the previous month's minutes. It's just that special meeting from the 9th. I'll make a motion. I have a motion and second. All in favor? I. All right. Next item is to consider the financial reports and bills. This this one uh internet went down today. We didn't get complete financial report. We got this from uh uh engine went to Calico Rock and they ran it for us over there and uh they didn't get all the bills um and didn't
003get all financial report like you usually get and u simply because we couldn't get to it except uh what we've got right there. And um we got an email to us. Do what? I said we got an email too. Did y'all get the email? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We got it via email. Okay. I don't think we got the whole Didn't get the whole thing. I thought we did or something. We didn't get like the check registers and all that stuff like we normally do, but other than that, we got transfers and we've got uh like the You got some negatives in here. uh like the u oh the school safety grant. We still got money to come in there. Some federal programs we still got money to come in and uh we still got some
004uh local money to come to be added to this before it's all over with. So we'll see how it all turns out. We got a couple of transfers to make uh some pretty good size transfers um as far as federal programs into back to operating some things there. And uh so I think we're look like we're going to be all right and [Music] I'll just be glad when we start out July. July 4. I won't be near as nervous then, but [Music] lunch fund is probably we're probably going to have to pay out some of the lunch funds because when you all at some point in time you you somebody had to tell you surely that you wasn't going to break even in the lunch box and that's uh um because that you when you
005lock that in, it was 52% and we've got it back to 68 something now. So, um, and they let us redo that. So, it's going to look better. I don't know if it'll ever completely break even, but you won't be it's not going to be that bad. It's not going to be that bad. And we'll this summer by delivering the stuff we're doing, it's going to help it. It's going to help the bottom end. We've already got the bills in for that. That's why it looks so bad there, but we haven't got the reimbursement in for it yet. [Music] I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second it. We have a motion and a second to approve the financial reports and bills. All in favor? I. All right. Next item is the update on the
006summer feeding program. The U last Thursday there were you don't care that last Thursday the we finally got our food in. Uh we got we took we put uh 10 days of that uh food out to the uh uh these the families that are listed there and uh I think there's 80 different families um and maybe did I see 220 or something like that you know kids and all that something like that I can't remember but uh it's pretty close to that number that we actually serve and we'll we'll put that out every Thursday. Every Thursday they'll get five. Each child will get five breakfastes. And this is what the These don't look like much, but they're all balanced. The the milk I've never seen milk before that you didn't have to refrigerate. Uh when
007I saw that sitting in the cafeteria, I like the diet. I like the dye. But why wasn't the refrigerator or freezer? But anyway, they they calm me down a little bit about that. But they this is like for that's like for lunch. This is like for breakfast and that's a different breakfast right over there. And all of them are served with milk. So uh they they get juice. Uh they get cereal milk to go to cereal. Uh you can see there's all kinds of stuff. But um there's a box down here. Yeah, there's a box like that. Each one of those each child will get a box like that right there. It's pretty good. Yeah, that's awesome. So, we're really we're kindly We haven't blowed that up yet enough, but we're going to uh who's
008going to be in charge of that now? I just asked a question. Oh, I think you volunteer them all. But we really, that's what I was telling you. We really need somebody, some one person that's really responsible for taking, you know, if they don't take the pictures, at least get the pictures and write the story. And I'm the worst writer in the world. I'll just tell you that. Um, but uh Oh, that part. I thought you meant like actually delivering it all. No, no, no. I want to help you deliver it. I don't care to help deliver it. You know, one day I'm not doing anything one day a week. Surely I can do most of stuff in three days a week. But we got enough we got enough 12 month we got enough 12
009month people here that we can we can take care of that. We really do. We've got enough people there 12 months that can run this stuff out. I have some volunteers which used a few volunteers and boys did. They come by got all this stuff out. So if people knew that we needed somebody to volunteer to do that, I'm sure we could get plenty of volunteers. Elementary secretary, I can't say enough about her. She just she's a she put this list here together. put the right place, the right bus routes and everything on it. And uh it's uh it's it's something uh so uh some of these people like it like you can do this in Mountain Home except you got to go get it. And you know if some people they got kids at
010home, they can't a lot of times they can't just you know pick up and go. We're we're taking it to them. And that's that's that makes me feel pretty good about some of these uh kids having plenty of food and plenty of food. And and you know, I've seen so on that list. I've seen some with five kids and you know I it's got to be a blessing a little bit of blessing for these for some of these people to get this and even people that don't need I mean necessarily don't need it. There's no income guidelines on this. You just if you live in this school district or you go to school here and you're under you're 18 under you're 18 or under you get you get some food. So anyway, have we done
011this in the past? Do what have we done this in the past? Is this the first year we what we've done in the past once I think of what Candace told me that she tried to one time tried to have meals here and you couldn't get hardly anybody to come and uh cuz you know you got you got to come get them but if you deliver them to their house and we're still taking applications I mean this if somebody wants them done know somebody that uh just tell them I mean I I try to catch everybody kindergarten graduation everybody Actually with kids there and especially little kids that you go, "Hey, you need to fill this out." You know, that's awesome. And uh maybe you were to start carrying that box around. Go, hey, what's
012that in for? And I might I might do that piece of candy. Hey, yeah, I start I get how many of them I get in my pocket. I tell you what, I about that bag of candy in there about bore that thing out. You know, my wife kind of throwed a scare on me the other night. She said, "I told some of those kids are diabetic." I never even thought about that, you know. Yeah. One of those boxes in your refrigerator anymore. Well, I I just wanted to give you an update on that, where we're at, what we're doing. And uh like I said, we're hoping it'll go out a lot smoother. I wasn't ready the other day, and I don't think anybody else was and realized what it was going to take. And but
013we got them all out and we're going, like I said, we're going to we're going to do it Thursday. We're going to get them out Thursday. You can see the routes that that uh she put on those. It it really it was a blessing for that for for her to be able to do that. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. Very, very cool. And Mr. Davis, can I can I give you some stuff before we talk before Miss Sure. Chapman does this? We've looked at uh we if you looked at this first security thing. If you looked at this first security thing, you're a financial person um that did this that did this for you. And it's amazing to me and I think it's amazing to everybody that the last uh the last four years you've grown
014an average of $4,70,26 each year in assessment. And uh what that means is that even at the at the universal tax rate, you turn 25 back over and you still you got 12.39 above. That means this is another 50 51 thou at 96 98% is $51,000 a year without any kind of tax increase uh that you uh you've done that. And for example, I I want you to think about this. In the last 5 years, in the last 5 years, 5 years ago, you had you had 71,596,37 assessment. Today, you've got 91,932 and and 7 uh uh $932,7. Okay, that's a increase uh of in taxes overall. I'm talking about times your taxes. That's an increase of $760,358. I mean, you know, and that's that's just just, you know, the stuff that's acrewed through there.
015Uh the one meal in this district right now, we're collecting about 94.23% mer collection rate. Now, the the state will send you the difference between the 98% and what you're actually collecting. We should get that check. should come in at between now and June the 30th. And uh but one meal in this district produces at at that tax rate that will be $86,624. That's at your 94.23%. And you'll see this thing called UR and that's universal tax rate. And what they do, you know this probably already, they take your your what your the first 25 meals of all the all your assessment, they multiply it out and they send that to the state of Arkansas and then they send that back to you basically that amount to you in per student on a per student
016basis. And what they do, for example, if you got $8,162 is going to be what you get per child next year. Okay, I say they divide that out and say, "Okay, you should be able to they divide number of kids by times your assessment and all that stuff." And then you you get this uh they say, "Okay, you should be able to fund $5,000 per kid for each one of you 3162, you know, and we'll we'll send that to you." Um in addition to that, so that makes up the 8162 next year. You should get next year. We've got to also supply. We got to pay the insurance, the health insurance. The following year, they're going to take some of that money away from you, but they're going to pay the health insurance, which is
017great cuz guess what in what health insurance is going to continue to do? It's going to go up. So, the state's going to take that over for you. Next year, they're already I watched the I was watching one the Zoom thing this morning when I got here. And of course, it with the when the internet went it did, too. They're looking at uh on the uh uh oh uh insurance cost. I think this year, I didn't look it up, um but I think we paid about 60 maybe $60,000 in insurance cost this year. Um and they say you're going to save anywhere from 30 to 40% on that next year because the state's taking that over. And uh but And you think about this too. I didn't realize this. Y'all got 132,511 square ft of
018buildings. That's a b that's a lot. I mean that's to me that that's a lot of buildings. And let's see what else do I say. [Music] I'm what I'm trying to do is tell you too that in this right here when you looked at that uh it's this money right here it says you're you you may it says you're supposed to get um this is like I said this is your your group this beard loop bunch for security and it says you're going to get gives you a lot of good information um about the millillage and all this stuff. Uh, but it says that you're going to get uh an increase of I think it's $188,000 for this what you're projected to get next year over what you got this year. And what that's uh
019but that's based on $453 kids. You got 473 right now. So you're looking at at somewhere in addition of about 160,000 or a little north of that in addition to what they've got down here for that. So, uh, if you look at everything overall, uh, your increase next year, and remember, you got to you'll have to, uh, you'll have to pay the insurance, but that shouldn't that shouldn't be that that's not going to be shouldn't be not be that much difference than what we're doing now, uh, of about I think your increases run somewhere around $360,000. I'm giving you that in information before Miss Brook presents anything about what she's what she's asking for. I just wanted you to know uh those those things there. And one other thing you're one of the people she's
020going to recommend. One of the people you're she's going to recommend uh is the baseball coach. He's uh he's teaching AL right now. Um and uh we uh we looked at uh um probably that's what we'd like to do with him. Uh and he will each one of those uh each kid that each uh AL student will if you you got to you got to do a 20 day you got to be in there at least 20 days. And what he what it will do uh it'll generate if you keep him in there longer than that when you add them all up at the end each one of the ADMs in there will generate you an additional 5212. We take the 36750 that we've been paying and you're it'll cost you about $16,000 for him,
021but he'll generate more than that in AL for you this coming this coming year. And if we keep this program and which we need, you'll need to keep this program. I know you don't have to do a pro AL program anymore, but you need to keep this program. And there's, you know, there's a there's rules that goes by. says these you got to be two out of three of these to be in there. And uh um one of them is disruptive behavior, but there's lots of other things that the and you she'll have to form a committee that'll meet they that'll actually place they'll be able to place these kids or not place these kids in there. And u I don't know if I don't know of anything else that I had before she got
022to this. I just wanted to give you kind of a rundown of of what before she asked for anything. I appreciate that. Like suggest I'm trying to give you some information. I'm just trying to give you some information that you that you probably you need this information to be able to make u any decision on um on personnel. Okay. Is that everything? Okay, Mr. Chapman. Okay, so I gave you guys a folder here and that first page is what we're going to talk about first. Um, you all know that since we moved Miss Jones, back to instructional facilitator. We had an English opening, so we have been interviewing for English positions. And I've spoken to our counselor, Miss Ron, a lot about this. Um, if you go back two years, we had three English teachers
023on our campus. um when they moved Miss Jones into that instructional facilitator role the first time, we went down to two English teachers. And what that did was those two English teachers absorbed um all of the kids that they could and then we had to cut electives. So my proposal that you're going to see on this first page, there's two different things here. On the left, this is if we had three English teachers. The numbers in parentheses, those are real numbers. That's how many students would be in each one of those classes. Miss Braun pulled this information for me. The big thing here that you're going to see with three English teachers is this class called Strat Reading, Strategic Reading. Last year, um, Miss Ce had one class of strategic reading for our seventh graders
024and they all took it. She cannot teach that anymore because her numbers have exploded. So that class has to be pulled off of her. But the beneficial thing about strategic reading is that it is a standalone class that teaches students um non-fiction reading text. And if you look at our science scores from 2 years ago, they really struggled in that non-fiction text cuz that's what a lot of the science and the math portions of the test are. they're having to decipher a non-fiction question. What are they asking me to do? And that's half the battle with those tests. So, this was kind of always the plan to add these strategic reading classes. It was just we didn't have the staff to do it. So, if we had three English teachers, what you see there is
025a strate one of them would be strategic reading for seventh graders. And it has the numbers because that's a semester class. That's why there's two sets of numbers there. Strategic reading for 8th grade. Again, that's a semester class, so there's two sets of numbers. And then a strategic reading for high school. And what we would do in that high school strategic reading is 9th and 10th graders because they are the ones that are tested. We would identify that bottom 25% and we would put those students in that class to hopefully help raise their test scores. Um, and again, not just test scores in reading, but their test scores in math and science because if we can give them, you know, reading at a higher level, it's going to help with all those test scores. Um,
026we could also, if we had three teachers, we could give one of them yearbook. We have no one to teach that right now. Nobody has room in their schedule. I did yearbook this year, but I did not have a class period for it. So, there's that. And then the third thing which is what a lot of this information behind this um spreadsheet is one of the things that we would like to do is add a CT program for pre-educator. Um that is one of the H2 pathways. Um, I don't know if we've talked much about this, but the Department of Education has identified these uh CTE programs called H2 that are high demand, high wage, and the pre-educator pathway is one of those. We have two H2 pathways right now, and they're both in Agg
027at our school. So, if you're not a student who's taking a classes, you don't have the opportunity to complete in one of those H2 pathways right now. Where that's going to become important is when you get to this packet that says success ready pathway guide starting with last year's freshman. They can get a diploma with merit or distinction. That's what's on this first page if they complete an H2 pathway and they certify in whatever certification we offer in that H2 pathway. Um, where that comes into play is our school district gets points towards our overall letter grade based on how many students we have that graduate with merit and distinction diplomas. So these kids are now going into 10th grade. So it'll be a few years, but for them to graduate with this, we have
028to start them in this pathway now because they have to take three courses in that program of study to complete that pathway. So, if we had this third teacher, one of those classes that says intro to teaching, that would be us starting this this pre-educator program of study. If we don't have another teacher, we don't have the ability to do that because we just don't have room in our schedule. Um, so that is the three teachers and then there's one section also there that the one that says speech/film is lit. We have six students that are going to be seniors right now that have not had a speech class. They have to have that to graduate. That what we did was we combined that speech class in with our sophomore English, but those six kids
029for whatever reason didn't get it before we get that. So, they have to have that to graduate. If we don't have another teacher, they would just have to take that through virtual Arkansas. As a former speech teacher, I don't like that because through virtual Arkansas, they're not learning to speak in front of people. They're learning to record themselves. I think they all know how to do that. Um, so that is a semester course. We have to balance that semester course with something else. And that's what that film is lit is. It's an English elective. Um, that ideally that would probably go away next year because we should have all of our kids taking speech through that 10th grade English class. So then we could add that next level of that intro to teaching um pathway
030once we eliminate that class. So on the right side you will see what we can do if we just have two English teachers. Um basically we offer what we have to offer and then we have one class of strategic reading and that's that seventh grade class and then no other grades would have the opportunity to do that. Um, so financially, yes, this is adding another teacher. Um, we we have had that in the past. We've had three English teachers in the past. I believe it was so that would have been three three school years ago. It was Miss Jones, Miss Habner, and Miss Book Out were our three English teachers. And then, like I said, when they moved her over to that instructional position, they just absorbed and eliminated everything we could eliminate. So, I
031would like to see this scenario where we have three English teachers and we can offer especially those strategic reading classes. Um, I would much prefer to see our kids in that than sitting in a study hall where they are not getting any kind of targeted um, you know, intervention. the win period that we have um we do some of the strategic reading type stuff in that but a lot of our students if they're low in ELA they may also be low in math or science and if they are low in more than one area then we just have to pick during that win period which intervention are we going to give them this way they would all get that reading intervention and then if they need to go to math or science during when they
032could do that. So, that was one of the things I thought was really a good thing about it. Um, I just included this other stuff so you guys could kind of see why we want to add that pre-educator program of study. We are going to be talking to you more about these success ready pathways and merit and distinction diplomas because that's going to become a really big thing. It looks like there's a lot there's a lot it's a lot of information and this is where they're kind of pushing. They want our kids by the time they graduate to high from high school those three E the enlistment and military service enrollment and post-secary training or degree or employment and career that provides a sustaining wage. They want everybody that comes out of high school to
033be in one of those categories. So we're trying to look at ways we can start setting ourselves up to do that. And I think this would be the best way. The governor's real big on uh want the kids to be ready to enter the workforce uh be you know or be or go to college or some kind of they want them to be ready to do that. And I really since they're going to turn most of this money this fed money back over to the state uh and she's going to have something to do with that. I think that there will be funding some funding out there that uh we might be able to take advantage of uh toward um not I'm not talking about paying any salary but I'm talking about toward equipment and
034stuff like that that that would might be available for for that. There is a startup grant that we can apply for. um it's too late for this school year, but for next school year, if we start this program of study, there is a startup grant and it pays for like 25 computers, printer, things like that that they would need for that pre-educator program. Um so that is a possibility too that we could work with Carrie and get that. Um and that, you know, the certification that comes with this pathway is a certified teachers assistant. So if they wanted to right out of high school go get a job as a paraprofessional or something they would have that certified teacher assistant certification to do that. Do we have any idea where we stand today as far
035as just percentage of graduates that meet? I don't that's I don't that's one thing that we need to look at. um this they they just rolled this out this past school year. Um was kind of the first year that we started seeing all of this and it was very much um working document all year. So this is the first thing that I've seen that's very concrete. These are the requirements you have to meet. You know the chedd also Mr. Lee told me that or you told me one is not called facts anymore. culinary arts. Yes, they've changed it all again, CTE. They've really reworked it really. I mean, you know, and you know, whatever that entails, we don't know yet. I don't think I think that's another thing that we're still learn trying to figure
036out what all this is going to entail. Is it going to tell somebody going out into the into the to look at these, you know, place these kids like the old JP internship? Most of you are too young to even know what that was. But that was a program we used to have that where our business teachers and they tried to place people out in the community in jobs and then you had to you they had to go to Yeah. kind of like the in the summertime, you know, they go they go out on these farms and do that stuff kind of stuff. But I I would recommend that. I think she she's convinced me. I just wanted to convince y'all. So this says three sequential credits. So that one class gives them the three
037credits they need. Um That one class is the level one. And since it's a new program of study, we don't have to offer the level two this year because there wouldn't be anybody qualified to take it. So next year we would offer the level two and then the next year we'd have to offer the level three is how that would work. And like I said, we should have room in the schedule to do that cuz that speech and film is lit class, we we can take that off the schedule after this year. That's where the level two would fit in. Yeah, that's where the level two would fit in. And then when we get to that level three, we might have to look at where we would put that in the schedule and who the
038good thing about this pathway too is anyone who is a certified teacher can teach these classes. So that's good too. It doesn't limit us on who can do it. It just it just so happens it would fit into the English teacher schedule whereas I don't know where else we would put it with anyone else. Everybody's pretty full. So, and we did have two highly qualified candidates for the English position. Um, as Bradberry was on those interviews, too. We've had two candidates that scored really well um in the interview. So, I I don't feel like we would just be, you know, adding someone that's not qualified for sure. So, qu question for you. Um, you said a moment ago that a few years ago we had three English teachers. Mhm. That was 22 23. Is that
039right? It's when Miss Jones and Bookout and Havner were all here. Let's see. Because the first year she became the curriculum coordinator would have been 23 24. Yes. So it was the year before that it was 22 23. So at that point there were three English teachers and the and the next year she moved from being English instructor to the curriculum coordinator. Correct. Having two teachers, two teachers and a coordinator. Yes. last year. Mhm. This past school year, how many English teachers did we have? Two. Two and no coordinator. And only an eighth of a coordinator. Yes. An eighth. She had one period that was dedicated to that. So, Right. Um. All right. Yes. And that's why I kind of showed you the scenario where there's just two teachers. It can be done. Um, the
040numbers are a little bit higher for those teachers. Um, and then we just can't offer, you know, down there where the asterisks are, you can see we just can't offer anything additional. So, does that does the coordinator justify a full-time position? I think so. With everything that Karen's doing, and Miss Bradberry may be able to speak more on this, but I know she's taking back 504s. She's doing all of our AR app or you two are doing the AR app, but you may be able to tell more of what she's doing on a day-to-day basis as well, but it's a lot. Yeah, she's both at the high school and the elementary both. So, she will work with teachers on um aligning their curriculum with their instruction. Um she'll probably be mentor for new teachers because
041she does have she's a certified she's a certified mentor. Um and we do have some teachers that we're hiring that will need that are going to be on that novice track that will need a certified mentor to come observe them and work with them. Um, so yeah, I think cuz I know at the high school she helped a lot prior with scheduling on with us not having an assistant principal at either building, she kind of fills in a lot of those things that an assistant for for me or Miss Chapman to have time to do those things, right? Have have we created a since the first year of of her filling that curriculum coordinator position, have we created a is there a job description anywhere for that position? Not that I know of. Okay. That's
042something that may be something we can work on work on. So for for other districts our size, just as comparison, do they typically have a full-time coordinator? I've seen other districts our size either have a um an assistant principal that goes back and forth or um dean of students. A lot of times they'll call it a dean of students um person that floats between both buildings. They usually have someone. It's just what they call it is different at each school. A lot of times they uh you have uh some what the what the dena students is takes care most a lot of times will take care mostly discipline allow them to do their what they need to do and uh you know sometimes a curriculum coordinator let them go ahead and take care of the
043discipline in their building and but helps with the transition between grades uh trying to trying to keep that you know keep those grades going you know pulls the information you know you look at that and look at our test scores and I believe you see that in some of the cases if we' moved two or three kids we wouldn't be in the high school uh at the point that we are and that's something Miss Jones did a lot too when she was here she pulled the data she's a data data she's great with data she really is and uh but anyway um and we've been missing that piece I know at the high school of having somebody to sit down with the high school teachers and go through data with them and just say just
044give them that dedicated time to look at that and dissect it and she's really good at that and say here's this list of kids that we need to push. Mhm. That's I think that's what is this from an outsider looking in in a short time. I think that's something that we've been lying in. And I'm not talking about so much at the elementary school because I mean, how you beat an A an A+, but so but I mean, you know, I think we need to uh uh somebody needs to point out how what who these kids are that we need to target with more with more stuff, with more uh remediation, if you want to say remediation. Uh, and um, I think that that's that's where we've kind of missed it. We haven't we haven't
045ident done a good job identifying these kids and saying, "Okay, here's here's your six. We're going to see these I need to see these six scores come up. You work with these six right here." And I especially with them during the period, the win period or during one of these other other classes in major rating. And I think that that will I think that's got to do, you know, uh I think that's I talked with a guy at church and he does this for Pangra and he does the he's he's got two periods a day and they pay him halftime come in two periods a day. He's a data gatherer and you know he looks at this and he said he you know he said look we need to do here's where we need look
046these kids here we got to do something for all of them but for these five kids here we got to move these five kids and we need to develop a plan how we're going to move these five kids and follow that plan during this period of time. That's what when we were at the co-op last week, that was one of the things they told us is the kids that are in your bottom 25%. They really count on your growth scores twice. They count in your overall growth scores, but then there is a separate category for the bottom 25% of your kids that are scoring the lowest. If you move them, you get points for them twice. And so that's kind of what we're talking about with the strategic reading. I had a long conversation with
047Brandy Sel about it since she taught it last year and she kind of explained to me because I was like, "Okay, what exactly do you do in that class? What will the students be doing and how will it help them?" And and that was a lot of what she said is like, you know, having a science teacher bring in a prompt from the test and that strategic reading teacher works with those students on just what are they asking you to do? Because if you don't know what they're asking you to do, you're not going to get that question right. And that's what a lot of where our kids are seem see seem to struggle that we could help them do better. So I know I I think I've told mostly y'all just um when I
048went to Augusta they were on academic distress and I didn't do computers which was my fault. I didn't do a computer back then. one sitting on my desk and I never and I took a board a folder like that right there and I went through every kid that we had every kid in class and some of them that dropped out you know wasn't there any longer but I went through every one of them and I I never will forget coming home that night one night when I finally got it completed and I told my wife I said you know my kids scored pretty well for not be able to read they do pretty good you know and I I said you know and I said if you got this teacher and then you've got this
049teacher you're never going to be or I mean you know you know you're never going to be on level if you have these two two teachers back to back you're never going to be on level so what I did I started working trying to get rid of these two teachers you know that you can't have them back to back uh some of them left this first one and went to another one then they kind of caught up but they had these two right there it's interesting to look at the trend it really is and I had like I said I I kept that book I it was it was done in pencil cuz you couldn't do it in pen but you know you had to scratch some of them out but it I think that
050the more you the more data that you can have and you can give your teachers Mhm. And you know no teacher wants to come to school and say I don't want to do a good job today. No no nobody does that. I mean you know no teacher does that. you know, you want you want to teach you want your kids to be successful. And I think that uh um you know, the more the more you data you can give them, the more you explain to them how to do this, you know, uh sometimes you they just don't know exactly how to do this. And I think that's where Miss Jones comes in. I think that's where you come in. I think that's where Miss Bradberry comes in. You know, I think you know, you give
051them the data, tell them what you need, and give them give them the the time where you don't crowd them all up, right? And I think I think you'll see I think you'll see success. I've already told Brooke this. I'll just tell you this. I told her I said, "Uh, no pressure on you, Brook, at all. If your if your scores don't come up next year," I said, "They're going to fire me." and the guy or woman they bring in after me, they're going to fire you. I said, "No pressure." But really, what we not jokingly, we've really uh I'm looking forward to this coming year. And I think Brook is too, and I think Miss Jones, Mr. Premier, I think we all are. Uh I think we can get this ship riding back where
052it where it needs to be. And uh I just I feel good about it. I feel good about the people and I really think they they need this. uh or I wouldn't recommend it. I just heard to explain that to you and let you ask questions and see how you feel about that. And uh if you want to discuss a personnel executive session, I think now would be the time before we vote on that. Just real real quick, one one last question just Yes. comparing this coming up year, your your proposal here of three teachers, it would be a basically a net ad of two positions compared to last year. Three teachers and one curriculum coordinator is four. Oh, I see what you're saying. Last year there was only two English teachers, right? Which was
053two, right? So, it's Yes. And and like he said, one of the things I had in my mind was this the baseball coach that we're looking at hiring being in that AL position. We are recouping some of that money. So, it it wouldn't be a complete wash obviously, but it would recoup some of that. $36,750 what is what we would out that's what we paid for four kids going up there and spending less than a week each. Um and then we would get additional money for the kids that we have. Exactly. But we won't get that thing this year but it will be it will come in next year and we should hopefully if we do a good job with the program. We're allowed up to 5% in We don't need 5% in there but
054we're allowed up. But if we do a good job with that I think it will more than pay for a teacher salary in the future. I mean, I don't see any reason it wouldn't. And uh you know, we just got to and what I liked about this guy that was talking about, he's already familiar with AL. He knows the record keeping. He knows the stuff that we have to do uh to do that. Well, I definitely like the idea that this left side proposal offers strategic reading for all the students through the 10th grade. Yeah. Um, I don't think we need to bind our hands and make our make our efforts, you know, nearly impossible. I think it's our job to find a way to accomplish what we need to accomplish here. Yeah. Cuz like
055you said, that's the basis of everything. So, I feel like we've always we've been in like a skeletal crew for the high school. Like I feel like the elementary was always very well like staffed, but I felt like we kind of were very thin thinly staffed at the high school. So, you know, I don't think this is a bad idea. I don't think Miss Miss Bradbury don't have too many people. I'll tell you that. I mean, she's got she got about 75 more kids than I got at the high school. So, she's not she's not oversted. I promise you. I've been in there enough to to testify to that. Um but uh anyway, uh the two there's two periods of u of the AL that I've already got somebody that I'm going to put in
056there that's already on staff. So, um cuz he'll have to have a prep period and a baseball period. So, somebody else will have to come over during those times. But, um I think he I think he'll do a good job there. Yeah. And it makes sense that the English department would be bigger because our students have to have four English credits to graduate. They only have to have three sciences and three maths, but they have to have four English. So, format, excuse me, you would know Miss No, I'll tell them what you're going to do later for us. You're such a nice math teacher. But but yeah, I I mean to me that makes sense that we would have that many. But but the strategic reading was what I was really excited about us being
057able to work into the schedule for all these students cuz I think it would be very beneficial. Miss Bradberry, are you in good shape? [Laughter] Speak now or hold your case until next year. I'll have a presentation. Okay. [Music] All right. Do we do we want to do we want to dismiss the executive session? Yeah, you can. If you want at 5:45. So, I need to come explain. No, you just give everybody go out and you come back in and make your recommendations. Okay. Yeah. That'd be all right. Sure. Yeah, you can go in my office if you'd like to. I've got chairs in there. We're going to stay in here. We're going to go back there. Yeah, we normally go back there. Let's go. Otherwise, we're just into They told me put cheers in
058there, so I didn't know what it was for. [Music] That's for you guys. So that's