001All right. So, it is now 6 o'clock and we're going to welcome you to our March school board meeting. We're going to start with the pledge of allegiance. 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. And we're going to follow that with a moment of silence. Amen. All right, Mr. Martin, I'm going to turn it over to you. All right, welcome to our March board meeting. Um, first off, we always have consent agenda. Are there any questions? Okay, with that, I'd like to make a recommendation that consent agenda, financial report and board minutes of the regular board meeting um regular board meeting and special hearing held on February 12, 2024 and the
002special board meeting held on Febru February 28, 2024 be approved as submitted. All right, so we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? A motion. Motion by uh Jessica. Do we have a second? We'll second. Second by Ryan. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Okay. All right. Up next, we have the best part of meeting, the student achievement success. And this year, we were fortunate enough to start a bowling team. And coach King and Coach Brewer um have led these boys to the state championship. Over to Coach King and Coach Brewer and let them talk about introduce the team and go from there. Well, first, uh, I want to bring up coach Brewer. Uh, coach has been unbelievably a great resource, uh, for us. He was also instrumental in getting bowling started.
003I know he had talked to the school several times about getting it in and, uh, just, you know, stayed after stayed after it and, uh, we got it in there. And again, as far as a technical aspect of it, uh, huge on huge on that. I found out that there's just like any other uh sport, there's many different ways of the skin a cat, so to speak. And uh you know, he's he's got his way of doing it and uh you know, it seemed to work. Um but again, he was uh huge huge in our success this year. Uh starting with the sophomores like we got Zack in a hosa. Zack, come on up. Uh again, we've going to have to find some younger bowlers to come up and we're working on that, both boys
004and girls side of it. Uh then the juniors, I've got Aaron in a hosa, which uh Aaron was all state uh for us this year and did a fantastic job uh down there. Uh Cole Ingram Jr. uh Cole also had great games down in Little Rock. Again, I speak of Little Rock. I don't know what fire codes they have in Little Rock, but I think every one of them at that bowling alley was probably gross. It was very difficult to get from one side uh to the other. Uh Payton Kerman uh and Titus Stevenson are both juniors who were not able to make it tonight. Titus had a grandmother had a birthday and Payton had a little activity. Uh then I have Aiden Richtor is a senior who uh is not here tonight. He works
005at the bowling alley and I would not be surprised if that's not where he's at right now working. And then my two seniors that are here I've got John Olsen which was very huge for us. John was a new bowler to the game pretty much this year and at the state meet I mean he he percentage-wise did so much better than what he had done over the year and I believe he's going to be a lifetime bowler just like not only the boys but I think most the girls who have not bowled uh they are going to turn into lifetime bowlers as well u and then I've got Tristan Williams which I think Tristan is president of just about everything uh at the school we've We got student council. Uh, hey, come on up, Payton.
006Student council. We've got senior class president. And what else? Those two. That's pretty big. I mean, being the president of both of those. I don't know if that's happened very often. And right here, he walked in on top. Payton's the one that we were uh was talking about earlier. Payton did a great job for us all with all state at the meet down at Little Rock. again they u they surprised not only me and coach but all of them you know there's one meet right in the middle of year was kind of looking and coach I said we could talk to them they were they were we think they're good enough they might be able to do something special this year and we kind of talked to them about that and we had our worst
007meet of the year and I coached I said you know let's don't mention that anymore and then they went on and did exactly kind of what we were talking about uh but when we left the district meet you know we finished second the district, you're thinking, well, we can go down and make a good showing and they did much more than that. And we're very proud of them as every one of them are fine gentlemen are probably going to be very successful in life. So, how do we top this? How do we top it? Yeah. What about next year? There you go. I like it. I like it. Again, not only good ballers, but again, they are very, very, very respectful kids and they represent our school very well. That's awesome. And coach, our our
008girls team plays very well. Our our girls our girls team was third down overall. Uh and again talking about lifetime bowlers. I think we had two that had powled before and we got you know we got coach Reynolds and even not just coach Reynolds but the other coaches on the guys side. They worked with us beautifully on baseball and you know I was a baseball coach. I didn't like people missing for other things. You know we go along with it. you don't like it. Uh we had four softball girls, I believe is what we had and coach Reynolds again uh let us have them and uh no questions asked and I knew they were competitive and I knew they had you know good motor skill and uh they uh they approved and again I believe
009they are all four of them they're going to be lifetime bowlers as well. Folks, I'm not sure I'll make this is accurate. The girls uh finished third in state and I think they were 21 pins from state runner up. That's awesome. That's awesome, guys. Congratulations. This is fabulous. I know. I know. I mean, how do you top that next year? What? Congratulations, guys. That's awesome. Come here. Okay. All right. Up next, we have our boys um track team. They they did an outstanding job this year in at the indoor event. and one stay in and we're going to turn it over to Coach Upton. It's a yearly occurrence for him as well. You guys come on up. You're on the track, too. Angus, you and Hayden, come up here, too. Um, okay. So, this is
010our third straight indoor state championship. Um, we've won two out of the last three outdoor state championships. We're going down trying to beat Magnolia this year. Take it back from them. Um, got a great group of young men. Um, it's been a pleasure to coach them for the four years I've been here. Um, I'll start out with my juniors. Um, we've got Kade Keith. Kade's a pole vulture for us. Uh, Harper Garren long jumped some triple jumps. Parker Tilman uh, ran the 400 state. Ran the 4x400. We found out he can run the 100 and 200. Also, Jackson Turner is a dathlete. He went to the Decathlon this spring and uh or last spring. Kind of got a taste of that. Now he wants to do more events this year. So he's going to be
011a big help to us. Um Angus Troder here is joining the track team this year. Um he's already PR in the 200 this year. So we're excited about that. We're going to have some more uh races this year where he has a chance to do that. Uh Hayden Bray is a shot putter for us. CPR in the shot put last week also. And then can't forget my seniors. They've been with me ever since I've been here. Um, this is Zach Xorn. Um, he runs the 800 mostly. Um, and on the 4x8 team, our 4x8 team has won the state championship in outdoor three years in a row. And this was the first time we had won it in indoor. Um, and then we've got Troy Ferguson, who I kind of called the MVP of the
012state championship. He was he went down there to run the 800, the 1600, and the 4x800. And then we needed him for the 4x400 at the end of it to get just enough points for sixth place I believe it was in that in that event. And that's what we needed to win the championship. It was very tight um race. We won by 1.5 points. Wow. And uh it a lot of things could have gone differently and we don't get those points. So it was very exciting for us. Proud of all these guys. Looking forward to what they do in this spring. I know. I like it. Congratulations, guys. That's awesome. All right. Up next we have another three I believe our junior high qual introductions. Mrs. Al, can you come join me up here? Yes.
013So we as well are three state champions with our junior high quiz team. Mrs. Alish, our very dedicated coach, Mrs. Alish, how many years have you been coaching our multi? Uh, this will be my fourth. Is it four? Yeah. See what I was thinking too. Mrs. Aldidge is so dedicated. Every Wednesday night the quiz ball team practice. You wouldn't think it, but they are a very loud rockus group. I can hear the bottle from her class at the other end of the building on Wednesday afternoons. Um, it's a great group of kids. She is so dedicated that they even this year sponsored two different trivia night events to help u raise funds for all of their state championship going on that they do. and it had very successful reading and I know some of you
014have enjoyed those nights as well and and um well they're challenging aren't they very challenging. My worst one was answering the questions that the the junior high kids already answered and I'm like I feel stupid. So do you guys mind coming on up so that we can introduce you team? Come on up. kind of stand up here. Yeah, of course. All right. So, we have um I guess from right left with Eli Baker. So, he is a freshman. Now, we got Zeke Whitaker, Kale Christensen, Everett Broomard, and Hunter Rowy. This is just a representation of like our team is usually much much more. And they again like there's 20 kids but it sounds like we usually fit like 50 kids in my classroom because they are a phenomenal group but also very uh anxious to
015learn and very very engaged which is a value at junior high is engagement and they are definitely engaged with their learning. Um they definitely individually like they surprise me by just so how much they know. They really just are absorbing knowledge and they ask so many questions but what really most impresses me is their ability to work as a team. Um their sportsmanship is you've ever got a chance to in a game. Their sportsmanship, they know each other's strengths and they really play to that. They know that they have a geography question. They look immediately at Eli. They're like, "All right, you're our geography guy. They got science. Who's that beacon hunter?" So, they really stick to individual strengths but work as a team and their communication skills are phenomenal. Um, did you guys have
016anything to add? No. Is there a certain question that you guys thought stumped to you at state or just something you're like, "Wow, that was a tough question." And I'm putting you guys on the spot here. [Laughter] But really, if you ever have a chance to stop by my classroom, 406, the junior high, um you can definitely see them in action. They get to do games against each other and really just test each other's knowledge. Oh, up down. Congratulations. That's awesome. All right, up next we have our miss talk about special a little bit. Hey, I'm Dr. Basset. I'm the special education coordinator. Thank you so much for having us. So, we have some little treats involved for you, but that do the learning first just like we do the kids, right? School board. See,
017all right. So just looking at the core values that we've established for our department providing those quality services with high expectations. We have the highest expectations for our students just like any other um student rich deliver meaningful and differentiated support and networking opportunities for families. And this has been a big charge for me is to have as much family involvement as we can get because they are truly our partners. So working with our families, inspire innovation, excellence, and forward taking practices and our staff. So I think we've come a long way with um our general education, partnering with our special education staff and learning together instead of just having these silos and they need to be learning together because they're serving all of our kids at the same time. Foster collaborative, flexible approach to maintain
018quality supports for all students. This is the nature of special education. No two learners learn the same. So just being flexible and our teachers are doing an amazing job with that. Embrace and support students and their families throughout the educational experience to prepare for postsecary transition and adult life. So taking them all the way from our prek little ones that are getting ready to get in our building soon all the way up to graduation. It's a big there's a big range of things, but you'll see here pretty soon those high expectations in high school once they get to high school, they're ready. They're ready to their job ready. They're ready to grow. So, so some of the things that we do here at for special education, not just the teaching part, which is the most
019important part, but offering that support. So occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, also social work, vision and hearing screenings and mobility services. So you know some students in wheelchairs sort of diagnostic services including cycle educational assessments. So we have two examiners on our staff to help us say who is eligible for special education, what do we need to do to serve them? And then again from kindergarten through transition, professional development, training and resources, we really amped up that professional development, educational, curricular, and technology consultation support. And as you know, as technology changes, we have to be involved with them. But that's our kids benefit probably more than anybody else from technology. Okay. So by the numbers, it's changes every day. It's changes every day. Um we're very blessed in peer age. We are just daily
020growing just like everybody else. So total students 305 speech only students 54. So the difference is they only receive those speech therapists. The rest of them receive all those other services. We have 15 full-time special education teachers, four path speech pathologists, one occupational therapist on staff, one contracted OT, a contracted physical therapist, one examiner and one school psychology specialist. So the difference between the examiner and the psychology specialist, their roles, they both can test students, they can both assess students, but the school psychology specialist has that advanced training to help us with some other needs. Okay, academics. So, um just looking at each individual building and the the great work that each building is doing. So, the primary school SLP speech language pathologist. Sorry, there's a lot of acronyms in my world, so my apologies.
021Um speech language pathologist and our SEC, those are our more profound students and we call it structured education classrooms instead of a self-contained I don't like that language. um advocating for our students using those AAC devices. So you'll see some of our I'm sure you've seen them in our buildings. They have like looks like an iPad and they communicate through that iPad. So they are really really taking charge in the district with that. The intermediate school so I put hyphenated. So we were 79th% in comparison to our co-op 67. So that's super exciting. the intermediate 79% P Ridge 67 in our co-op middle school 93% and 63% for our so that's awesome it's amazing um 7 through 12 co- teachings those students grow at a faster rate than their gen years so if you look
022at like their map data or those sort of things there it's those inclusive practices they're really pushing them to in classes they don't expect they have the expectation of them being there participating and that's how the growth is being questions about that all right so this is the best part so we have red apron we have our friends right here this is all about you friends so we have our red apron um students from the high school How do you request that? Just reach out to Miss Jacobs and she will Is that something that we can put on It's on our website on the school websites or it it's out there on our school website. I have a wedding coming up.