001All right, we are here for the May school board meeting. Let's start with our pledge of allegian moments. 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 now a moment of silence. [Music] Amen. All right, Mr. Martin. All right, first we have a resation you need to talk about for a second. We do. We do. So, Miss Mindy Kon has stepped down. Um, she gave us notice of that yesterday. And Mindy, we just want to say thank you so much for the time that you've served on on here. And how long was it? Six years. Six years. Six good years. uh on here, you've been a part of a lot of uh
002growth and change and so we just thank you so much for the service. We know that the pay was rewarding uh as it is for all of us. Um and we just thank you so much and really appreciate the time that you did serve and what you contributed to the board. So, thank you. Thank you. [Music] Um next we have Mindy for me. Thank you. you are you've been on the board since well I I was able to take over superintendent and I'm I'm really proud of the work that we've done academically extracurricular and specifically with the PLC process and putting that in the building. So thank you so much. Thank you. It was an honor guys. I appreciate it. Thanks. Thank you. All right. Up next we have um two presentations. The first one
003is Mr. product talking about um high school graduation cuz it is going to be a busy week and I think all three of y'all have kids participating in graduation this this year. Crazy week this week. Uh what I'm handing you right now, I'm sure most of you guys have seen before. Um but it's really just our senior timeline. Um and we've got a lot of exciting things happening right now with athletics. Um, so that being said, we have some spring sports athletes that are not going to be able to participate in all of our ceremonies. Um, so we are going to have some alternate graduations going on um that we would love for you to be a part of. Um, you can kind of see our first event there on the little handout I've handed
004you is the employed enlisted enrolled ceremony. That is also when our alternate graduation would take place. We would love for you guys to be there. Um Mr. Hecman has responded and kind of let me know that he will be there. If you guys can let me know, that'd be great. Um we can also plan accordingly last minute if we need to. Um but that will be special, I know, for our spring athletes um for for you guys to be there. Um that will roll right into our 3D ceremony. Um, we will have a brief intermission but in between those two where I will dismiss you guys from the stage mainly because I don't know if you guys are going to want to sit on the stage for that for the entire 3D ceremony. Um, but
005you guys are more than welcome to stay for um that will roll right into Thursday night's events, our scholarship night. Um, again um not necessarily don't have to be present for that, but would love for you to be there to support our students. And then Saturday obviously is the big show. Uh we have our graduation commencement and we'd love you to be there as well. So great. Any questions about ceremonies? What time do you want to start on Saturday? Do what? What time do you want us during Saturday? Uh great question. Um really 10 minutes before the ceremony starts. 15 is fine. Um 15 would make me feel better. Um but we have uh we we've done it just a few minutes before the ceremony for and just kind of told you guys where you're
006going to be sitting, where you're going to be standing. So, um, but yeah, if there's any special requests, I know in the past we've had some special requests, maybe a certain diploma wants to be handed from someone. Um, just let me know and I'd be happy to make those arrangements. Sounds great. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Leonard. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah. And everything, but it's it's a good it's great to have a lot going on. You know, about 5 years ago, we didn't have anything going on and didn't have a good time with that. So, we're excited about that. Um up next we have uh Miss Mr. Farah and Miss Moon um our math and literacy specialists for the district and they're going to share a little bit
007about um what they're what they're up to. All right, give me just a second. [Music] That's fine. Okay, sorry. No worries. Thanks so much for this time and this opportunity to come and share with you guys. Uh my name is Gary Fair. I am the K12 math instructional specialist for Peridge. And I got to say what an honor and privilege it is to work uh in this district. Um just the excellence and the the the commitment um is shown not just in this room but but in the classrooms out there as well. Um it it trickles down. It truly does. Um and and I'm just happy to be a part of it. to be honest with you, I feel like I'm joining at at the right time because there's a lot of momentum here and
008there's a lot of of of great progress uh to be had. Matter of fact, I was just doing a little bit of data dive um earlier today and I found that um at primary kindergarten through 2 grade 99 percentile in in growth, incredible growth uh at the primary. Same at the middle school, fifth and sixth grade, both 95th 99 percentile in growth um just on the on the MAP testing. So I mean there's there's tremendous work being done out there. Um and there's there's more opportunities for for not just growth but also achievement. Um one of the big things that that I have personally felt this this year is the work that's been done before with the instructional model. Um the the intense focus that has been paid to that. Uh this year the teachers
009have worked extremely hard to to develop and build those proficiency scales. What does proficiency look like uh in every grade level and on every standard? coupling that with uh my goals for next year. Very simply, we're going to align our feedback. Um it's it's one thing to say, well, this is what proficiency looks like, but to make sure all four of us are looking at it through the same lens, we need to make sure our feedback is aligned. So, when we're talking to a student that is potentially on a level two, we're all using the same uh vocabulary or the same words so that student understands no matter if they're talking to me, Mr. Martin, or anybody else, they know what a level two looks like or what a level three looks like with that
010with that common feedback. Um, with that we we kind of have to take a step backwards and we have to make sure that the assessments that we are giving are all the same. Uh, the teaching might be a little different and that's that's the beauty of of P Ridge. We've got so many different people here um that they teach differently and and uh the one thing that we have to do to ensure that we are teaching with best practices to ensure that we are uh maintaining that growth and that achievement is we have to to give that common assessment so that way we can have that that data and that information to look back on. Um so our our goal for next year is going to be uh common assessments um common agreed upon assessments
011made before the the unit of of instruction starts and then finally uh looking at it through the common lens of that feedback uh that feedback loop. Um so like any good mathematician I've got a three-part plan. Uh part number one is that backwards design that developing the assessments before instruction begins. um making sure that that feedback is written with common language so there's no misunderstandings with what a level one or two or three looks like. Um part two after we get through um with that that common feedback, part two is going to be collecting that data so that when we can then analyze it for those best teaching practices. Um my my goal for uh for the teachers and for uh the students is uh not just to uh to excel them to grade level,
012but to grow them where they're at. If they're at a level one, that's fine. We're going to we're this is what a level one looks like. We're to grow you to a level two. This is what a level two looks like. Um these are the things that we expect. Beyond that, um targeting that intervention and that enrichment period that's in every single building. um allowing the teachers that freedom to say, "Hey, data showed you you did a great job of growing these students that are at a level one. Let's put these students with you for this small little um or for the small group time that that 30 45 minutes of instruction. Let's put them with you so that way we can grow all of our students." Um that's that's where the conversation has been
013uh leading in the in the math department. It's no longer my students, it's our students. Um and that's been felt K12 really. It's uh mainly because of the great job that the building administrators do. Um but it's also evident in the teachers that are that are here in the district. But like I said, just happy to be a part of it. Thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you. Any questions? That's great. I love the the backwards design piece. Thanks so much, guys. Thank you. Yeah, that's great. All right. I'm Hannah Moon. I'm the K12 instructional specialist. just this is just a mini update on literacy in the P Ridge and it really is just continuing the hard work that these people have already done. Uh so we've already gotten started on
014the next school year. It's all about tier one. So we're already getting um lots of teachers trained in the writing revolution and it's not just English teachers and social studies teachers, science teachers, code teachers. We do literacy in all the classes. Uh so lots of teachers signing up for the summer refreshers on you fly getting a little refresher on morphology. The co-op isn't doing a sound ball training this year. So Prairie Grove has generously going to collaborate with us so we can do some sound wall training here on the ridge. Uh continuing those coaching cycles for that job embedded professional development and every new teacher will get an orientation on our our literacy curriculums. uh foundational literacy K3 we are so proud Gary just kind of referenced the excellent data we're seeing uh but we
015also think of it like the game Plinko from the prices right if you get just a little thing off it hits down uh all the way down the K12 continuum so we are doing we're planning a tier one audit uh to identify and support any needs into those subs skills so we're really just trying to hone uh whether we need to do more coaching ing cycles or mini professional developments. Uh third grade, we have a lot going on. So many exciting things happening in third grade. Um probably the most exciting thing is just a little bit more focus on morphology. Um so this is where it'll allow our um teach our students rather to unlock many of those words uh for that upper part of Scarboro's rope to help with comprehension. independent reading is um
016a focus and yes we want to create joyous, curious, lifelong learners. That's definitely a goal. But we're also developing that neural network. So we know when students when they learn their phonics, they also need to be able to apply it authentic text um authentic text so they can create that meaning. Um so we are working on that to also increase their uh stamina. But of course, this all leads to hopefully fluency. We want our readers to be automatic. We don't want them working so hard on trying to decode. We want them to turn down that noise, that hard work on decoding so they can have more bandwidth so they can focus on the fun things they're reading about. And of course, that's going to increase comprehension and [Music] motivation. And of course, rigor is um
017a focus of ours. P Ridge has a lot of advanced students. So, this is really important that we keep this um uh as our focus. So, we're continuing that proficiency scale work that Gary just mentioned. Um this helps with our teachers to know exactly the target of every lesson so we can have that explicit instruction. Um, this is incredibly important especially in literacy because if we just get one word off, uh, we could accidentally be teaching two grade levels below. So, we need to be really precise um, and really supporting our teams and how to authentically use these proficiency skills. How can we use them if a kid isn't m maybe they've already learned it? What do we do with those students? What do we do with those students who are struggling? making these proficiency
018skills pragmatic in helping them collaborate with each other. And of course, this will definitely help us with uh continuing to hone the differentiation between our advanced coursework on exactly what does that look like. Um and that's the update for literacy rich any questions. You know, the work that Miss and Mr. um have done. Um it it's been really good for our district, really good for our teachers as we continue through our PLC process, you know, to identify who's learning, who's not, what are we going to do about it, they have done an outstanding job going into PLC's and helping helping our teachers. So, it's good stuff and we help our teachers and help our students. Yeah. Okay. Hey, Mr. D, I need to go back and talk about our zone 4 vacancy. Okay, go for
019it. I forgot about that a little bit. So, we have um we went through this last year when Miss Sarah Gusa stepped down, but we have to announce that we have a vacancy. We will put this out tomorrow through social media and everything to advertise, but we have 30 days to fill the seat. And so, we have some things that we have to go through um and everything. This person will serve from now until the spring of 20 20 26 election just like we did um with you Eric. You served for a year and you ran. Yeah. Because we've now we've missed a deadline for the current election. So it's just an appointment like Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And what that means is it's zone four. It's that little sliver right there. It's our most
020densely populated area subdivision wise. It's windmill subdivision um out east of the of this building all the way through Standing Oaks, Hazelton Heights, and through there and everything. Um what we've done on here is um to be appointed to zone 4, you have to be a qualified voter registered in the period school district. You have to be a resident of the district and the and the zone. You have to live in zone 4. You have to submit an application. It's there in the link. It's the exact same application that we used last year. Um, what I've got on here is for them to submit it to me before May 26th at 2 PM. And the bottom link here, if you click on it, you can type your address in and it will tell you exactly
021what zone you live in in anywhere in Arkansas. So, that can help help people with that. Of course, if they have any questions, they can reach out to me. And so what we need now are some timelines like tomorrow we're going to post the vacancy the 26th um uh deadline for applicants and we need to have a board meeting probably the week of uh Memorial Day so that we can appoint someone and then give them time to get ready for the June board meeting. So would y'all like for me just to work with y'all individual day? I'm sorry. It is the 26th, so like the 27th. I'm gone the whole weekend. Okay. Um, how I I could call then, but we have a family reunion in Tennessee. Okay. How about we do this? Let me
022We can I'll get with each of y'all and we'll get a time set up and it may be that Monday a Monday after Memorial Day. I think that's like June the second. The second. And that still gives a week to um get someone sworn in to replace that because I if we do that on June the 2nd on June the third I will appoint board members I will file that appointed board member with the county and that gives them so many days to get sworn in as well. But it's a very quick time turnaround on this. Um they did change the law but it's effective like July 1 that gives you 90 days or 60 days instead of 30. 30 is just a a very quick turnaround with the holiday sure week and everything. So,
023we will get a time scheduled for that week and we'll also use that special board meeting to do another round of personnel and we'll probably look at board to board transfers then as well. Okay. Okay. Are there any questions? That's a problem with your call. Sorry. Okay. And now we're going to try to get back on track on our agenda and we have the consent agenda. All right. Are there any questions on the consent agenda? Okay. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation that the consent agenda, financial report and board minutes of the regular board meeting and special hearing held on April 14th, 2025 and the special hearings held on May 5th, 2025 be approved as submitted. All right. We have recommendation. We have a motion. Make a motion. Motion by Ryan. A second.
024Second by Eric. All in favor? Not a vote. Okay. Up next, uh on board the boards, we're going to push those off until a couple of more weeks. But um on on section four on action items number B, we've got school board meeting dates. We have to approve those uh you know in advance. Right now, I have this second Monday of every month listed. That's what we have done traditionally for well over 20 years. Um, are y'all okay with that? Yeah. And the one thing we have on here, we've always started at 6. I was wondering if y'all were open to the possibility of possibly starting at 5:30. Absolutely. Instead of 6. Okay. Yep. Okay. All right. So with that, I would like to make the recommendation that to approve the school board meeting dates
025as presented and to have a 5:30 start on each meeting. All right. We have a recommendation on the school board meeting dates. We have a motion. I'll make a motion that we approve the school board meeting that presented and the time at 5:30. Excellent. I'll second that. Second by Eric. All in favor? Okay, up next we have our SRO contract. You know, every year we do this in May. We've added a 2.5% increase for that um to bring it up to rough I think right at my goodness. Give me a second. I had it on [Music] there from 283,000 to 291,500. Um that's for an SRO at each campus. safe. It's It's very our community feels very good about it and so do I. Um it it allows for a level of safety in our
026buildings that we would not have otherwise and they are a valuable resource to our community and to our kids. So are there any questions? Okay, with that I would like to make the recommendation to approve the SRO contract with the city of P Ridge as presented. All right, we have recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion by Eric. I'll second. All in favor? Up next, we have ourou with um Sat therapy services. Um they provide OT and PT services to our kids. Um their prices have gone up marginally from last year, but to be honest with you, everything has gone up, more than marginally. So, they do a wonderful job for us and we would like to continue services with them. Are there any questions? Okay, with that I would like to approve theou with
027the rock therapy services as presented. All right, we have recommendation. Do we have a motion? I make a motion. Motion by Ryan. I'll second that. Second by Eric. All in favor? Okay, up next we have out of state trips. Um, we have boys basketball requesting to go to Bart Bartlesville, Oklahoma on June 4th and 5th to Taloqua, Oklahoma on 9 June 9th, 10th to Carthus, m Missouri on June 11th to Web City, Missouri on June 17th. Our girls basketball program has requested out of state travel on June 18th through 20th to Pittsburgh, Kansas to go to Pit State. And then our junior high band, we have already approved this trip. weather got him a little bit. So, we're wanting to reschedu till May 21st to Branson. And that's just a one-day trip. Are there any
028questions? Nope. Okay. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation to approve the out of state trips as presented. All right. Have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? A motion. Do we have a second? Motion. Second by Eric. All in favor? [Music] Um um we are uh let's see where we at. Chromebook purchase. Mr. Hand um has brought Miss Bernel and I um the purchase of 240 Chromebooks and 16 Chromebook carts. Um this is an annual purchase that we have to do to um restock our supply. You know they um Chromebooks have a lifespan and we cycle out about 200 to 250 a year. So, this is an annual purchase. Are there any questions? The I believe Hey, Mr. Hand. I believe this the 16 Chromebook carts will allow us to have the Chromebooks
029stay at the junior high. The major I'm sorry, the intermediate um to keep that um to keep this Chromebooks here. They do not take those home, but we're needing new charging carts. Is that about the same amount every year? Yes, sir. give or take a little bit. Um, this is through cooperative purchasing or tips taps, so it's government pricing and they're usually $250 to $275 a piece. And we use this, we consistently buy the same Chromebook to keep things similar. Yeah. So that to be honest with you, parts change out. [Music] All right, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Hold on. Let me make the recommendation. You don't have Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Um, let's have a recommend. Sorry. Um, I have a recommendation to u approve purchase from CDW in the amount
030of $111,932. That's a good recommendation. Do we have a motion? A motion. Motion by Eric. Second. Second by Ryan. All in favor? Opposed? All right. Next, we have our football field and track construction update. We are at the point of We're almost there. Yeah. Um that's uh uh Mr. Cook was kind enough to do a little drone footage for us. And that's um where we're at right now. Um turf is down. Um tracks down. Track track is painted. Track is striped. um right through here by the concession stand is still needing paved right here where it's all that chat. We have that in the price and we are al once we get we'll do our final walk through with Mr. Elliot the architect and geoaces then they will pave and then we'll be open for
031business. So I would say in the next week and a half to two we will be open for business on the track in the football field. I have like a social media update for the public. Yes sir. Yes sir. But I want to wait. I don't mind throwing that picture out on social media, but I want to wait until we have a release date so that we can cover it all at once. But we are excited. Band bleachers are in, sound systems in. Um, that was great. It's going to be a good environment for all of our kids because please remember on a Friday night game we have the football team playing of course we have cheer we have kids doing multimedia we have the band out there we have 250 to 300 kids involved
032in the Friday night event and it's it's going to be really good. Our community is going to enjoy the increased space in the stands with the band having their own band stand and everything. So it's going to be a really good event for for our community. Yeah, it's great. And the sound system. Yeah, it's Yeah, you can hear it. Yeah. Instead of um like literally having to be in front of the stands to hear it, you can hear it throughout the whole thing. That's amazing. And the goal is for our community to hear too. So that we're advertising. So it' be a good time. Um next we have um Mr. Ramy, you want to talk about policies a little bit? I mean just where we are. Sure. We we've got uh first reading of of
033policies for you from the what we call the May updates. We just had the legislative session. Uh it ended here in in midappril. I believe there were 200 u education bills proposed. 84 of them turned into law. So then we've got updates uh on top of that. And so we've given you uh all those updates. We also have, if you'll remember back, what we call our January updates, we we have those as well. We've done first reading, second reading on those. Uh we're going to we're going to ask for approval of everything at our at our June board meeting. And so to give us a little bit of time, most of the updates are u uh well, all of them bring us into uh alignment with law. Uh they all went through Arkansas uh schoolboard
034Association and and their lawyers and they present them uh to us and and we work with our team to bring them into to per language and and to update our stuff and so uh we've got it presented to that and then we'll revisit in June for for final approval. Quick question. Once we will approve all changes in June, noting that one of them is school board internally from five to four to six, how will we decide that internally in the July meeting? Would that be in a June meeting or I think the hope is to maybe have a a study session, okay, or something. And there's two there's two that we need to look at from a school board standpoint. I think the policies one, two, and one three make um then make some decisions
035on on what that looks like. Yeah, my goal is to have a virtual study session. I know being here in person can't with jobs and everything, but maybe get that done next week and to let y'all get to get feedback from y'all on that and to to be ready to present. Yeah, the four and six year thing is um it it affects we will only have school board elections on even even years now. oddnumbered years. We will not and we will in June we also will have to reorganize or restru you know redo officers again because of um elections that that are happening well technically tomorrow. Yeah, I like the idea of a study session. There's a lot to digest. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It's not only from the school board but it's al policies
036and section one section four policies and student policies that we have quite a few that are changing. and specifically with the cell phones and everything. So to go for that. Thank you, Annette. Um next up we have um meal prices for the 2526 school year. Mr. Rainy. Um we are uh we've got a couple changes with meal prices going into next school year uh with the legislative session. Um they passed the law that all student breakfast is free. And so u uh we're pleased to to offer that. We'll be reimbursed by the state uh for those meals, those reimburseable meals once we we turn them in. And so uh we have that change noted uh on our ask this year. Um, and then by child nutrition uh regulations and guidelines, we can only ask for
037a 10% or 10% a 10 cent increase uh annually to our our meal prices for students. And so we're asking for a 10-cent increase in lunch prices for students. Um, we're keeping milk prices if a child wants more than one meal. We're maintaining those at at 50 cents. I think it cost us 42 43 cents uh to buy a carton ourselves and so we're keeping that as close as we can for for students but um uh we're asking for 50 a 50 cent increase for adult breakfast 10 cents uh for student uh lunches and then everything else to remain the same with free breakfast. um just following guidelines. We're we're the price of goods as we know economically has increased and so uh to help us keep up with the changes in times and that
038sort of thing. It's it's needed to maintain our our quality of service. So for students lunch is going over 10 cents. 10 cents. That's it. Breakfast is free. Free. Yes sir. Reimbursement is free. Yes sir. that that is probably the best bill that was passed in the legislative session is to provide kids with free breakfast. That's impressive. Yes. And so um I'm thankful for their their aotment of resources or their investment of resources to allow that because some of our kids the best two meals they get a day are here at school. That's right. And some of them it's the only two meals sometimes. So it's it's important to be able to feed kids. Any questions on the 10-cent increase? Okay, with that, I'd like to make the recommendation to approve meal prices for the
0392526 school year as presented. All right, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Make a motion. Motion by Ryan. Second. Thank Eric. All in favor. Okay. Up next, we have some curriculum purchases um for the upcoming school year. Our first one is Illustrative Math. We've been using it for several years. I'd say at least six. and it comes to a price of $79,760. Are there any questions? Okay. Um, with that, I'd like to make the recommendation to approve the purchase of Illustrious Math in the amount of $79,760. All right. We have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll motion. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Ryan. All in favor? Up next we have um um that's a an online program that we are continuing to use. Um it comes in
040at the purchase price for math for K1 math and 311 science in the amount of $55,81. It's a program that we have used for years. I know it's going going up quite a bit and um but it's going up because of the expanded use of it. Any questions? Okay. With that, I would like to make the recommendation to approve the purchase of LL in the amount of $55,81. All right. We have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion. Motion by Eric. I'll second. All in favor? Up next, we have Amplify Science. That is a curriculum that we we um we started this year. Um but we also need to expand and we also need to be able to provide the teacher and student digital access in the workbooks and also fill the the science
041kit boxes backed up because of the consumable materials and that comes to a price of $72,21523. Okay. Okay. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation to approve to purchase Amplify Science in the amount of $72,21523. Have a recommendation. We have a motion. Ryan makes a motion. Second, Eric second. All in favor? Okay. Um, personnel. All right. Executive session. It is 6:33. We will go into executive session. [Music]