001[Music] All right. So, good evening. It's June 16th at 602 and we're going to start the June regular school board meeting. Um, I want to thank you all first of all for your flexibility with moving it from Monday to Thursday. So, guys, thank you very much for that. I appreciate it. Um, we're going to start with the pledge of allegiance and then we'll take a moment of silence. [Music] 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. All right, a moment of silence. Amen. All right. All right. Welcome to the June board meeting. Our first item is consent agenda. Are there any questions over the consent agenda? Nope. Okay. With that, I'd like
002to make the recommendation that the consent agenda, financial report, and board minutes of the regular board meeting held on I'm sorry, May 9th, 2022, and the special board meeting held on June 9, 2022 be approved as submitted. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? A motion. All right. So, we have a motion, a second. Second. We have a second. All right. All in favor? All right. Any opposed? Also, we need to welcome Jessica. Absolutely. All right, Jessica Brandon, welcome to the school board. Yay. Your second one and you're just now getting. So, yay. I forgot last time. My bad. Up next, we have action items. And the first one's a little bit different. Is uh approving a temporary dispersing officer. um with the board election with having the runoffs next
003week um and term links pushed back to July um we the board needs to appoint a temporary dispersing officer to be in place until the July board meeting um and their duties include all policy 1.16 but it's basically signing up on checks electronic transfers and the dispersement of funds. Miss Pell, would you like to say anything about that? No, that's basically it. It's just reviewing our dispersements and we will um this is basically a 30-day commitment and um we'll redo that at the July meeting when we have a full one. But to be in compliance um with rules and rags, I need a dispersing officer. All right. Any nominees? I don't mind. I Yep. I nominate Jessica. All right. I second that. All in favor? Any opposed? Done. There you go. Jessica Brandom. Okay. Up
004next is um board meeting dates for the 22 23 school year. Basically from July um 2022 through June 2023. Um the district has always um held its regular board meetings on the second Monday of each month. Um the dates presented to you um for consideration align with that position. And of course, if y'all approve those dates, um they'll all be held here at at 6 [Music] PM. And on the second Monday of the month, um usually the August board meeting we have a little problem with, but that may be the first day of school. That is not the case this Okay, that's what I was trying to look. I couldn't remember what the August is the second Monday and the first day of school is August 15th. So that's actually a really good Okay. So
005that works for you guys. Yes, ma'am. Okay. That was the only one I was concerned about. Are there any questions? All right. Okay. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the board meeting dates for the 2223 academic year as presented. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. All right. John with the motion. Do I have a second? I'll second. Jessica second. All right. All in favor? Any opposed? Up next, um we have approved policy changes. Um ASVA on June the 1st sent us a few policy changes. A lot of them do not require board approval or anything, but there are a lot of um rewarding, changing names, acronyms, and things like that, but we need to have those in place before June
00630th of of this year. Are there any questions over those? And these were all recommended by the state. Yes, ma'am. No. And you didn't have any concerns with any of them? No, ma'am. I mean, the first one, it's literally changing the Apple program to AR PEP instead of Apple. Yes, ma'am. Okay. All right. So, we uh with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the um school policies as presented. All right. We have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? A motion. Do we have a second? I'll second. All right. All in favor? Any opposed? Any conversation? All right. We're good. All right. Next is some are someus. Um the first one is with Serat therapy. We have used those for the used them for the past two years for OT PT
007um and various services, therapy services like that. We're very pleased with them, but we renew that every year. So, I would Are there any questions on that? And it's just a one-year commitment, right? Yes, ma'am. Every year it's a one-year commitment. Any concerns? No, ma'am. None at all. Okay. Any questions? Anybody? Okay. Okay. With that, I would like to make the recommendation that we approve theou with SRA therapy services for the 22 23 school year. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion. Jessica with the motion. Do we have a second? Second. All right. Any conversation? All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Next, um, we'd like to extend this MOU to cover a little bit more. It's project 479. Um, project 479, it's been a part of the district
008for several years with our AL program. you know, they provide life skill development, connections with the community through entrepreneurial opportunities and lunch and learn sessions with professionals in our community. Um, what we're wanting to do is expand these services beyond our current AL students to include our prel students. And I know we have Coach Neil here and Miss Bryant. Miss Bryant, I cannot remember your first name, but Miss Bryant, Miss Beth Bryant, here to talk about that if y'all have any questions. So, Coach Ne, thank you guys for the opportunity to speak today. Um, so what we're excited about all the movement we've got in alternative learning and we we've had an opportunity to bring in an awesome resource for our kids. And so, um, Beth and I have got together over the last couple
009months and really worked out a plan to present to y'all today and and bringing in project 479 and bringing a project room for our kids to utilize as a tool. And so what project 479 is is basically a project room where kids can express themselves and and work through some of the behavior issues that we're seeing without with inside our alternative learning programs. And so we're trying to be able to pro provide a service and provide a tool for our kids 5th through 12th grade to be able to come into the project room, work with our project 479 staff, um, and be able to work on those communication skills, work on those barriers that they're they're they're needing to overcome and and being able to complete our goal of transitioning back into the general education
010class and help them be successful within the classroom. So, um I'm super excited about this program. Beth and I have been doing a lot of our work. Um and it's kind of tying in the full circle of the work that we've been doing in alternative learning. And so, um I was going to read off their mission statement. So, you asked it. Um here it is to provide a safe environment where young people are creatively empowered to develop their full potential and discover their worth and value. And so we're looking to house this out of the industrial shop building which is right next to alternative learning right now. It's centrally located for all three campuses. So middle school, junior high and then our high school students are in our building at this location. So we will
011be centrally located there. We will also be providing staff during that time. So we will have either a certified or a classified staff with our kids at all times. Bad is providing two staff members every day, four to five days a week. And so during North school operating hours, it's grantif funded at no cost to school, which we love to hear. So it's a it's a it's too good of a opportunity for us to turn down. Um, and we're excited to extend this and hopefully grow it. And I think another thing that me and Miss Taylor have been working on is this is really for alternative learning, but we're trying to be preventative and and extend that out to our tier 2 kids that are being identified early and help them before they move on
012to alternative learning. And so as we grow and we get we get proficient at scheduling and we're using utilizing that um the program as it's intended to be used is that we'll start to dive into those tier 2 kids um and really be preventative and help those kids uh before they get over to AL. So identifying any question and this is M miss. So I do have a question. So, how many kids do you have or how many students will you have in that class or is it just optional or suggested? So, what we're planning on doing is taking our students throughout the school day as they are in alternative learning setting or their classroom and and scheduling in where they're going out for an hour at a time. Um, now to tell you that
013I have the exact schedule within that day, I'm waiting on building principles to do that because I got to build that within our AL schedule. Um, so that's not exact, but what we're doing is we're going to take each grade level or building. So, we have middle level that's together. So, fifth and sixth grade, they will have a class time with Miss Beth. So, their aid will take them up. They will have that time to work on their projects. Um, Miss Beth, if you would like to elaborate on some of those projects, that might give them a good idea what they're going to be doing, but they're going to have then we'll look at attacking seventh grade and eighth grade and kind of moving those during their AL time slots. So, you're not going to
014mix fifth with high school kids? Nope. Okay. Nope. No. They will. they will be out there and sometimes like it it won't be a full class. It'll be where those their their staff is working with two kids at a time and it'll be a small group setting where they can really work on those fine-tuned skills that those kids need to be working. So, how does that work for kids who are transitioning out of AL? Are they still going to be in project 479 or so? Yeah, we are going to try to make sure that we still utilize that resource within there. Uh everything that we've seen when kids transition, they still are tied to us. We're we're the goal is to fully transition, but we're trying to do that on a on a year basis
015or semester basis. And so we're not going to be able to do that after two or three weeks. And obviously we're going to build build the kids within the AL environment, but also we still stay connected. Okay. And so, um, that's a good question. I think that as long as they're there, we want to try to keep them there and keep keep growing those skills because it's as a fifth and sixth grader, it's not just going to change in a week. Right. Right. That was my concern was we get them started and integrated and then all of a sudden, oh, you're out of AL. See you later. I don't think we just pull the pacifier out immediately. Okay. Yeah, we want to work through that. I think it also depends on kid kidtoid basis and
016how they're how they're growing and learning and when they're ready and we'll utilize them as well to see what they're saying. We'll be able to collaborate with with another organization and work together as staff and what they see and so will the so will the classroom staff. So, the grant covers one year. Uh, no. It's just like any MOU. We'll review we'll review it annually. Okay. And so the grant while they receive a grant through their organization uh the rci inc this is one of the pieces of their holistic grant. Okay. And so every year we'll just like we do with Ozark guidance or any service like we just did with rot we'll review theou what worked didn't work and we'll come together. Perfect. Okay. Awesome. Would you like to go over some of the
017projects that you guys are involved with? Well, we do um it's a very organic program. I have with me my um program manager Chad Benbrook and he is quite gifted in all things whether you're whether they're learning to sew, whether they're learning to build, to paint, to sketch. Uh we try to have the room filled with just a variety of things that students come in and see what catches them, what what is their spark. Um, and then we work on it together and we help kids gain confidence through learning those skills that maybe they didn't realize that they were brilliant in an area before. Maybe they felt like that they they don't succeed in certain areas. And we try to find them that area that they can succeed in. We help them build assets that
018will help them thrive when they get back into that regular setting. And just the confidence building that we see in young people when they realize that they're gifted at something is really important. And so we've been doing this uh we've been doing our regular classroom programs now for 21 years and our uh project 479 we've been doing with alternative schools for the last 11 years. And so this is something that again we'd like to invite you as a board. Um if y'all approve this, come sit in, see see what the kids are doing. Um each year in the Roger School District, we do a Christmas bazaar and what the students build or what they make, they sell. They get to go through the whole thing of producing a product, advertising that product, manning their booth,
019the sale of that product, and then they keep 100% of the proceeds that they make from that to help their family through the Christmas holidays. And it's really important to see the growth that they have when they begin to learn those skills, then they want to take that knowledge and they want to take the um the proceeds from that and they want to bless somebody else. So, um, again, we'd love to invite you to come down and just check out what's going on and how kids are learning in that organic manner. Beth is a Pidge native, so we're excited to bring the program into P Ridge. And so, awesome. Any other questions? No. Thanks for all your hard work. Great. Yeah. Thank you very much. I love it. All right. With that, I'd like to
020make the recommendation that we approve theou for project 479 for the 2223 academic year. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have Yeah, that was I said I'm doing pretty good tonight. We have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll take Okay. So, who wants to do it? I'll do the motion. Okay. Who wants to second? Definitely. All right. All in favor? All right. All right. Up next, we have our our agreement with Miss Bates. Miss Fates apparently helps helps us um with our students who are blind and visually impaired. We've been using her for for several years and we would by a couple of years and we would like to continue to use her services. Again, this will be for the 22 23 academic year. Any any questions? No. No. Okay.
021With that, I'd like to make the recommendation we approve the agreement with Miss Cecilia Bates. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion. Do we have a second? Second. Sorry, guys. until we get a full board. It's basically going to be me, John, and Jessica. So, all right. So, we have a second. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. All right. Up next, we have um student services report and Mr. Ranger. Uh food service has an ending balance for the month of May of uh $523,733.94. So, our balance continues to be healthy in food service. Uh we are in the process of soliciting our bids for the 2223 school year. We'll bring those bids to the board in May, I mean in in July for approval. And so we do,
022you know, anticipate like everything else the costs to be uh increased uh with with shipping and freight and diesel and everything else. But uh we're waiting to see what those uh numbers come back and we'll bring them to you um in the July board meeting. Uh we will also at at the July board meeting, we will bring to you uh what we would like to set for u uh prices for for breakfast and lunch uh at the July board meeting. So those two things will be coming to you uh next month. So just so we can we can prepare there. Um and we're still waiting on some guidance from child nutrition as to what that looks like, but we'll have it by by the July school board meeting. Um other than that, summer summer lunch
023has begun. Uh we're feeding uh between 30 and 40 for breakfast uh each morning. Uh 50 to 60 about uh each each day for lunch. It it fluctuates just depending on what camps or or what groups uh stop by. I think we had as many as 140 uh one day for lunch. So um um you you never know what will come by. We did get slowed down. uh they were doing some road work on Weston Street uh here towards the end of last week that that slowed us down just a little bit uh because it made it more difficult to get to the middle school. And so uh as we continue with I think we've got volleyball or cheer camp next week and then a space camp coming in in July. So we'll see our
024participation numbers kind of you know fluctuate up and down depending on what events we have on campus. Now I know the last week in June, first week in July are dead weeks for sports. Do we still continue to serve breakfast during those two weeks? We do except for uh right around the July 4th. We we're taking some time off there and then we'll continue back. Okay. Yes, ma'am. Um other than that, uh on the maintenance front, we are continuing getting, you know, school ready for the 22 23 uh school year. We've completed our first project that was completed was uh paving behind the intermediate school. Uh all that kind of road work right in there by preK and down the hill. uh it's done and it is u uh it's night and day different. It's
025a it's kind of a blessing with with the potholes and issues that we have. It's it's really made a difference and so it's something that you noticed uh immediately. But but Pipcon did that work for us. They they're also the group that did the work at the primary school a year ago and so we've been pleased with with both projects. And the trash truck hasn't ruined it already. Not yet. Yeah. Um, we are continuing with our our floor care and our our building care, um, replacing ceiling tiles, uh, updating, uh, uh, you know, working on on stripping and waxing our floors. Uh, we've got, uh, those dead periods coming up for athletics. And so, uh, we'll be working on some gym floors during that time. Uh, getting all that stuff done here in the next,
026uh, couple weeks. Uh and then our guys are are just working through uh the work orders that that they have received since uh April and May and you know into the the school year. So we're moving a lot of furniture and spending a lot of times in in buildings. Um right now uh we had Joplin floors come. They did uh late LDT in the two prek classrooms for us. And then in the hallway behind the prek that work is all uh been completed and looks really good. It's the same flooring that we put in our libraries last year. Okay. And so it's all all identical. It it matches everything that we've we've done. Uh and that group did uh really good work. We're we're pleased there as well. U we are continuing with our our
027ESG project. Uh we've you still working on HVAC. We're waiting on coils to come in. Uh they feel real confident that they will have the HVAC portion done by the time school starts. And then Queen City is working on the roofing. And so, uh, we are, I believe, Mr. Martin and myself meet with them every other week. And so, we're continuing with with progress and we get updates every every other Tuesday. Uh, Queen City has been on site. They're working. Uh, it's probably too early to tell if are we ahead or behind. Uh, they're just kind of progressing. They've they've uh sectioned off the the roof in different different sections and they're working on section J. They haven't started ABCD yet, but they're working on J. So, I don't know. But they they they are
028continuing with with their project and going through it. Um, and then we are we are finalizing u all of our annual inspections that must be closed out and done by, uh, June 30th. And so, uh, Mr. McNav and Mr. Hoy have been working on those. We've got our final inspection scheduled for the 21st. Uh, those will be completed and then we'll be we'll be done there. So, and we're doing safety inspections, too, right? Yeah. Our gas pressure testing, boilers, fire extinguishers, sprinkler systems, mandated by the state. We've got to get them done. And so, we're going through our list and having all those completed. Any concerns or anything that needs to be replaced so far? Uh, we we've had some things that uh like some vent hoods and things that we we've had to to
029get corrected and stuff. And so, uh, as they've found those areas, we've noted them, created the work order, and we're addressing those immediately. So, we'll be ready for school this day. That's all I got. Okay. All right. Any questions? Okay. Up next, we have curriculum and instruction. You know, this is the meeting each year that we we do a little spending and approve some curriculum purchases. Um so Miss Saber um do first we have our wit and wisdom um which is what we use to break minds for our literacy. We've been using it for the past two years. Um that purchase price is for $36,800. It's um student guide books. It it's consumables that you use each year, workbooks and things like that. And also the I would call the license for the teacher resources
030that they have online. Um do y'all have any questions about that? Were there any concerns from the teachers continuing wit and wisdom? No. Um, and we had some grade levels, one reason the cost was a little more this year, we had some grade levels um that had opted out of workbooks the previous year decide they wanted to use them because they were a little more engaging and helpful for the students. Okay. Okay. We feel like that's working. Yes, ma'am. All right. Um, so with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that uh we purchase literary literacy resources from Grape Mines in the amount of $36,800. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Do we have a second? Second. We have a second. Any any questions, comments?
031All right. All in favor? Anybody opposed? All right. Um, up next, um, while we just did literacy, next comes math. And again, it's for consumables and additional teacher resources. You know, we're we're adding teachers, adding classrooms, need more resources. And so with that, it comes at the price of $42,775. We've actually been using um Illustrative Math longer than we have W and Wisdom and are seeing some very positive results with that. Miss Favor, you got anything? Uh no, other than same thing on that one. We had some some grade levels that opted into workbooks this year after watching other grade levels use them. So, we've kind of highlighted that at different grade levels. Yeah, it's it's nice to hit print. You know how that much cheaper, Miss Berno can attest to it. Much cheaper to
032buy the student workbook than printing the piece. Okay. My concern is can we start seeing some of the pricing from prior Oh, absolutely. years. That way whenever Sure. We're submitting all these to everybody. They're they're understanding the the influx. Sure. And some of these like the one we're going to get to with some of them they've actually gone over the threshold of a micro purchase and and because it used to be it's 20,600 I think $4. It's an odd number. And um with I had to say inflation starting to creep in and so some of these purchases have not been approved in the past because they weren't they were under that threshold. But absolutely, we can get that to you. Um, so with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we purchase Illustrative Math
033with Kindle Hunt in the amount of $42,775. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion. Do we have a second? Second. Any comments, concerns? All in favor? Any opposed? Up next is actually an addition to what we've been doing in the past. It's It's really neat. I'll let Miss Miss Miss Taber talk about that for a bit. Sure. Um we had the opportunity um during one of our professional learning days for our CTE teachers um to engage in um this resource. It's from a company called Transfer and it's not a misspelling. That's their company name. Um it's a a virtual reality uh training program where students are um like I did it. I know Coach Neil did. uh you learn how to change oil in a vehicle, but it was
034all virtual reality. Um and so the the students go through modules where they they complete these training pieces. It corrects you if you're wrong. It tests you out of certain areas. Um and then when the students finish certain modules after a period of time, they get a certificate that then tells them you've completed the training to then go and take a certification exam. Um, and so it's it's we're hoping to to build our certifications for our CT programs. We can also use it has career exploration built into it. So we can use it as young as grades five um to explore the career and then in our upper coursework um actually doing the hands-on training through virtual reality. Um and so our college and career counselor um was able to connect us to this resource.
035We we piloted tested it out um through the Northwest Arkansas Council. they have some devices and so we're we're hoping to use that to really support and build some of our programs. So does this include the devices that we that's so the the cost of the the that you see there $25,000 is for the um virtual reality devices and the curriculum and the teacher training and the support throughout the year. So they they provide us that support all year long with those devices, maintain the devices. um we're actually purchasing a license to use the device um so that they can they maintain them because they're really expensive and the updates to them and so each year we'll be able to adjust our um our number of licenses and and they update their programming as well.
036So how many devices are we getting for 25,000 we will get access to five um but the modules cover 13 career areas and that's in each device has 13 career areas. Okay. And also correct me that the group that went um Miss Thomas and Miss Jackson went to the co-op to the initial training with the workforce and they were able to see it. You can while I may have on the goggles, I think there's a capability also project what I'm seeing up so the whole class could see it. So there's some neat piece of I may be doing the actual certification like the oil change example where I'm going through and proving I have the skill but my classmates can watch it every time they pass the goggles so to speak. So then once they
037pass this and they get they pass the exam and get the certification, are they going to be able to take that to something like NTI and further if that's the path that they choose to go? Right. So the the program itself, it's almost like saying I took the class now I need to go to a testing company that that would actually administer the test. So it's it's giving them almost a pass to take the test essentially. Okay. So they're not going to have to get further education in order to take the test. This is alone in some cases it's it's got different entry points. Some certifications require more education training than others. Okay. Um but it it provides them an entry point to those certifications. Perfect. Okay. Awesome. If this is going as low as
038grades five, what grades are we putting in it now? We don't currently have this resource. What grades will we put it in? Oh, I'm sorry. Um so our plan is Miss Thomas is going to kind of coordinate or facilitate the use of the devices. um and she will use them as career exploration in grades five and uh five to really eight. Um and then when we have our actual CTE programs that start out in ninth grade, um that's where they will be used more often um in a sense, you know, it's less of an exploration and more of some coursework that's built into the class. A uses Yeah. Yeah. That's cool. Okay. Think of it as um when we first started getting laptops or Chromebooks, we had them all in carts and teachers would take
039having the cart in their room during their special times or projects. And so it' be kind of the same thing where Miss Jack or Miss Thomas, the college career counselor, is managing that checkout. So maybe the fifth grade has it for this time. Then it goes so it'll be going throughout the district. And that's the beauty of the headsets is the mobility. You're not tied down to a big bulky system until every student gets a headset. Until you kind of everybody get Oh yeah. in our dreams. But um but that's a you get ahead. Interesting. So you're not buying, for example, a diesel truck to demonstrate diesel engines. Correct. Which is hundreds of thousands of dollars. You're letting kids and also allows kids on their own to explore careers we could never offer courses in.
040Okay. Absolutely. But the focus is that right now it's going to stay in between five fifth and eighth grade until it'll be 512 next year and and it'll be really a scaffold model and that 5 through 8 will be not a full-time kind of access. It'll be built in a room just like for exploration. Our 9 through 12 teachers, they'll have more access to it because it'll be built into their curriculum along the way. So we're only getting five devices though. Yes. and that so that so for example the like the smartfield said it might be one device in a class one day that we're all sharing that I'm using and the class is watching and giving me feedback and so we have some flexibility in how we use them they don't all have to
041fly travel together and we'll disinfect them as a pass and then what do we foresee if this is something after this first year pilot what do we see future cost being the future cost is something that we're kind of working with the company um they have some uh resources that provide some grant funding things like that and so but we also have um the Northwest Arkansas Council has five devices as well and so we're hoping to partner with them to some on some events be able to double our our numbers. Um, so we're going to test it out this year with these five and see how it goes and then do some possible grants. Um, okay. To if we want to expand it or if we see that five is sufficient um, based on on
042the usability of them and how are we how how are we going to write success rate? Like if this is something we want to continue, what are we going to be looking for? Right? I've tked Miss Thomas with with trying to decide how to schedule it out, right? and and say I want every student to experience it and this is what I want them to get out of it. Um it does not cover all of our courses and so trying to then specify in this class we want this many students to provide get enough training to take that certification exam. It might be different by course area. Um so we're going to work with teachers and with Miss Thomas to set goals for each area. Okay. All right. Any more any more questions? Comments? Good.
043All right, Mr. Martin. Um, with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the purchase of the CTE transfer VR career to career career exploration and certification training program and devices from transfer in the amount of $25,000 for one school year is all we're we're voting for. Okay. Yes, ma'am. I'm sorry. For the 22 23 academic year. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Do we have a second? Second. Second. Any concerns, questions, comments? All right. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. All right. Up next, we have a renewal of our New Zeal curriculum. It's what we use in social studies and science. Um, it's it's been beneficial to our social studies and science teachers to have something this paper. Would you like
044to think about it? Uh, Newsella is a an online resource that provides um current events. It it pulls um news articles from Associated Press um and packages them and content areas so that teachers can go in and match it to what their standards are. Um but it providesformational text which is something that our kids we really need to build our skills and is building that reading thatformational text. Um we're going to see on the ACT, we're going to see on the Aspire. Um and so it helps the science social study teacher find relevant text in their content areas. Um it provides some lesson plans and some writing prompts that go with it. You can adjust it to Lexile level so that the same article can be used in fifth grade and eighth grade um with
045an adjustment of the reading level of it. Any questions? What grades? I'm sorry. We use Nella. Um, it's actually a K12 resource. Um, it's mainly used in 312. Okay. Any questions? Okay. With that, I'd make the recommendation that we um renew the renew the service and purchase of New Zealand in the amount of $20,900 for the 2223 academic year. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. All right. We have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. Second. Any questions, comments? All in favor? Any opposed? The $20,900 is a prime example of just going over the bid threshold. Um, last on the list is egenuity. And egeneuity is what we use for our um, virtual program for grades 7 through 12. Um, Miss Conra uses it.
046612. Oh, I'm sorry. 6 through 12. Said the wrong word on that, Miss Saber. Sure. Um, it's also available as a resource to all of our teachers. They all have access to it to pull from for resources, um, videos they could use in class. Currently, we've seen it with our students in summer school for credit recovery. Um, so we we have a variety of uses for it, which makes it really nice. Um, it's our our main platform though for our secondary virtual program. Any questions? Do we have any concerns with egeneuity? I know the year we launched it, we had some issues, we got that all resolved. Do we have any concerns with this program? We are getting better, just like any instructional resource, at um learning how to monitor and adjust um and make
047sure we we curate the content from the teacher level. Um and that's something that our virtual teachers have worked really hard on. Um so we've had a very smooth year with Egeneuity this year. So if we were to ask the virtual teachers, they would absolutely want to move forward with egeneuity. And if we had to have a virtual platform, Egenuity is is one of the most user friendly for our teachers. Okay. And and has the most robust amount of content in it. And we've got all the kinks worked out. So if parents have concerns, they know who to contact and who to go to to get all that resolved. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Any other questions? How often is updated the material updated? They update courses on a yearly basis. Um I just met with them
048last week and um they update and add to the the number of courses we have access to um but then also the content within the courses and the training for the teachers. Mhm. They have um what's really nice about most of these is they have um ondemand training webinars that teachers can access at any time. Um and then we also get yearly professional development. Um and we we get um immediate contact and um updates from they call them success representatives making sure that we're we're successful in our use of their resource and so they check in with us, show us the data related to the use and and kind of pinpoint areas to better support along the way. It also allows us to um say there's a specific course that a student offers that's outside
049of our range and scope. Maybe we don't have a French teacher per se, but someone wanted to take French. This also allows students that are full-time face to face even add on to the learning. For example, last year we had a student who uses curriculum to do the pharmacy prep and then she went on and took the certification exam and came a pharmacy technician all on her own. So, it allows for some independent extension that we couldn't, you know, and there's no additional cost for that. No, that's kind of cool. No, we have open access to any course that's available in their content or in their curated content. So, it's really nice to be able to do that. And you said in-class teachers are able to use this as well. So, are they using this
050instead of teaching the curriculum? No, they they used it in a blended model. So, they might show the video that would be Ingenuity um and have a class discussion and then the students might take the quiz within the platform. And so it's um in a sense they're facilitating the learning using the genuity resource. So it's not something that they're just doing over here. It became very useful when we had a lot of remote learning. Okay. And so we've kept it for those teachers that found value in it. We don't have many using it in their face to face classes, but we do have a few that um especially, you know, if they find an area that's more difficult or more challenging for kids, it provides another almost like homework help. you know, I'm going to
051be able to go home and watch these videos and get help from my teacher that is in class as well. And then have we sent any surveys out to parents who have used this to see if they have feedback? Yes, we actually sent home in the parent survey that went out. There was a whole if you selected, you probably didn't, but if you selected as a parent, I have a virtual learner. We had questions addressed specifically to the platform. Awesome. Okay. All right. Any other comments or questions? Future of virtual school concerns. All right, Mr. Martin. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the purchase of eenuity for the next calendar year, next year's academic year in the amount of $28,000. One other question. Do we have to pay in addition
052to that? Are there additional charges that come for for anything? No, ma'am. On that platform? That's that's all inclusive. The price is the price. Okay. Awesome. Sorry. I just thought about that. All right. Here we go. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion. Motion. Do we have a second? Second. We have a second. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Um up next on the agenda is our audit for ending last fiscal year June 30, 2021. You know, we again we had a clean audit from um the legislative joint auditing committee. Um no findings. Um the results and you know that sounds so easy and everything. It is not. Um, it's the collective effort of everyone in our district from from everyone who takes in a receipt for someone turning in
053$5 for a field trip to POS, fixed assets, payroll, HR, um, you know, accounts payable, purchasing cards, procedures, segregation of duties, Miss Bernell, Jen, Jacobs, Danielle, Amy, all of them, everyone in the district does an amazing job with that to make sure that our district's resources because it's not always just money. It's, you know, fixed assets. Well, it costs more than $1,000, but we have it there that um that our resources are used correctly and that they are accounted for. So, we're very proud of having a um a clean audit of nobody. Mr. Bernell, do you have anything to add? Uh no, other than I'd like to reiterate what she said is is we couldn't have a clean audit without the staff. Um they do a great job of following law policies and procedures and
054so that helps us get this clean up every year. Well guys, thank you very much for your efforts to everybody. We appreciate it. Any questions? I mean I know that's some good reading. It is wonderful reading. I if you take the time or you need something to help you sleep and it will be posted soon to the district. It will be it will be available. It will be available soon. Um, so with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the audit for fiscal year ending June 30, 2021. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Make a motion. Do we have a second? I'll second. All in favor? Any opposed? All right. Um, up next is our salary schedule. Every year we have to approve our salary schedule.
055Y'all have already approved all the changes to be placed on the salary schedule, but we need to formally approve the salary schedule. So, what you have before you are the highlighted areas um that were approved at the May meeting. Are there any questions? Okay. With that, I would like to make the recommendation that we approve the salary schedule for the 2022 2023 school year. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Do we have a second? I'll second. All in favor? Any opposed? Let's call on up next is personnel. So I'd like to ask that we go in close. So it is 6:44. We're going to go into executive session. [Music]