001I don't think it's six. All right. So, it's six o'clock. We're going to start our June board meeting. Uh let's start with the pledge of allegiance and then followed by a moment of silence. I pledge allegiance 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. [Music] Amen. All right, Mr. Martin. Yes, ma'am. Um, first on the agenda is our consent agenda. Um, we have that every month. Are there any questions? With that, I'd like to make the recommendation that the consent agenda, financial report, the board minutes of the regular board meeting held on May 13, 2024 be approved as submitted. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? A motion. Motion by Jessica. Do
002we have a second? I'll second. Second by Sarah. Any further discussion? All in favor? All right. All right. Up. Next, we have an update on student achievement success. And Miss Bennett has been kind enough to stay here in the summer to um go over um um what the primary's done with math assessment this year. No rest for the weary, right? No rest. Absolutely. Give me just a sec. There we go. And I do not I do not best. All right. And I'm going to go over a little bit about the great success that we've had over the course of the three years and especially this spring that the front primary had with our um so just where we started back in spring of 21 to where we are now in spring of 24. So in
003math in 21 kindergarteners achievement percentile was 91% and their growth percentile was at 43. First grade was at 53 and 15 and second grade was at 37 and 24. In the spring of 24, kindergarten was at 97 with a growth percentile of 99. First grade was at 76 with a growth of 69 and second grade with 63% achievement and 88 for the school growth percentile. So we've seen a lot of really good growth in the course of the last three years. That's super remarkable. I mean, and so I guess my question is what do you attribute what do you attribute that to? Is that because 21's postco and that's lower postco coming back or is it something else? It I think that definitely could be in um in 21 that was the spring before I
004came so I'm not really sure. I mean I think there was probably a lot of other aspects going on. I know in the three years we've worked really hard on our PLC's and they're working really really well. Um our teams are working well together. Um and there were we've got that collective efficacy that they want all of our kids to grow and they're learning from each other. Um I think also our work with visible learning this last year really did um we saw a lot of improvement with that um in all aspects in reading and math. I mean the work of everyone in that building it is is amazing when you go in there. the level of work they're doing, the level of attention, it's it's special. So, are you ready for the next slide?
005Sorry. No, you're fine. Um, next is read. And so, kindergarten in 21 was at 70% and 13 on growth. First grade was 57 and 29. Second grade was 41 and 52. And then, um, this spring in 24, we saw huge growth. Um, kindergarten's at 92 and 98. First grade is at 63 and 31. in second grade with 61% achievement and 91 for student growth. So, I can't just brag on our staff. It takes all of us to make it work and they have worked so hard and they have put in so much time and effort to really make this happen. So, Miss Day and I are super proud of all of our staff. That's amazing. Those are phenomenal numbers. Hold on. Is that okay? Um this is just the percents from this year in the
006spring of our school. So as a school in reading our growth was at 61% and our achievement was 65% of students met the achievement. Um in math we were our growth was 67% and achievement was at 69. So that's taking into account. Um for growth and achievement they have to have a fall score. So I think it was out of 500 I think it was 19 kids that those numbers are based off of. And that's kindergarten, first and second. Yep, that is the whole school combined. So, I wanted to shout out some of the visual successes that we had in our building. Um, so this was the percent increase in students who met growth goals from winter to spring. So, Miss Evans in kindergarten had 31% more of her students met growth um in math
007and 41 in reading. Miss Tremble in first grade had 26 and 45% more in reading. And then Miss Hudin in second grade had 18 in math and 13 in reading. So some of And this is I mean it's just the highlight one from each grade level that really was um over the top we felt like. But every grade had lots of stories very similar to this. Wish we could have put them all up there. So this last year I got to spend a day each month with our leadership team, our admin team down in Little Rock. And one of the big things that they really focused on was success and and celebrating that success. How did you celebrate these teachers with these phenomenal growth numbers? So the next last day of school we had a
008breakfast and I had a slideshow very very similar to this. A lot of these graphs I took from the slideshow that I did for the staff. And so we all got together. Um I fed them breakfast. It was right before the bell rang. I had them all come in and we just talked about this is amazing. Look at what you guys have done. And I really wanted to capitalize on the winter to spring because we did make some changes in our instruction after we got our winter scores in. We were like some of these weren't where we wanted them to be. What do we need to do? What can we change? And so I wanted to highlight the the changes that we've made. We saw huge growth and just just minor things. I was like,
009"Hey, you know, let's just try this and see how it works." And so we saw a huge growth in that. So, I wanted to make sure that um I wanted them to leave for summer knowing the great work that they did. And I did text them all before we came to I was like, "Watch the school board meeting tonight." So, hopefully they're watching. That's awesome. Okay, so these are all of our teachers who had 80% Oh, I am so sorry. That's okay. It's 80% and above students who met projected growth goals. So, this was um all of our K2 teachers who had um percents of 80% and above who their class met their growth goals. We have to shout out Miss Spirit. She had 100% growth in math. Every single one of her kids met
010their growth goals. And that's something I've only seen happen a couple of times. So, we really wanted to shout that out. Um again, when we met the day before the end of school, we went I shout it out to who was really extraordinary. 94, 93, 100. Those are all just amazing growth scores. And Miss Pile's a first year teacher, isn't she? She is. Yeah. So, we we were really lucky. She's done an amazing job. And then our last page, we wanted to shout out some of our special education special education students who grew at least 20 points in both reading and math on their RIT scores. Um, and so we had five students that we wanted to acknowledge. Student A grew 22 points in math and 46 points in reading. Student B 31 in math,
01139 in reading. C was 26 points in math and 43 in reading. Student D was 26 in math and 42 in reading. And student E was 40 in math and 42 in reading. So we are it, like I said, it takes all of us. Our special education teachers have really outdone themselves. They've worked really hard in um working with our Jed teachers and just all of that goes into this kind of success. This is awesome. Thank you so much for sharing. This is great. You know, I know she didn't Miss Bennett didn't talk about it much, but the work that they're doing with PLC's visible learning, conscious discipline, it's taken it all together. And when that happens, great things occur. And the work that they're doing down there is phenomenal. So, we're very proud of
012them and very grateful for them being there. Absolutely. Okay. Up next is our action items and our first is our cyber security software purchase. This is a renewal for um um oh my goodness solution networks crowd strike is what it's called and this um you see the 375 on the quantity that's how many adult lic computers that we have is to make sure that we are protected for data breaches and whatnot through there is and it is just a continuation Mr. So I just hear from technology. Would you like to add anything? I know I keep pushing that. The crowd structure security software and we put it on our devices to keep uh bad actors from trying to install software information. Uh it's really nice to have. Yeah. And when you get into you always
013see the the articles about ransomware from municipalities, school districts, hospitals, and whatnot. This helps to keep that from occurring. It's not a guarantee, but it it helps us um to prevent that from happening from sharing um our students and our staff's personal information. Okay, any questions? Okay, with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve cyber security software from Network Solutions in the amount of $38,654.85. All right, so we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Make a motion as presented. Motion by Ryan. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Sarah. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Okay, up next we have anou um with open avenues for Arkansas re rehabilitation services. And I know Dr. Bass is here, but what this is is this is for us
014to have um um pre-employment transition services for our students with on 504 and special needs um IPs. And so it's a really good process that we have used for several years and it helps integrate them into the workforce and they and it's just good stuff. 100%. I think we've been very fortunate last year we had 100% employment of our seniors. We're looking forward to juniors and seniors this year having that same opportunity. It's them being out is the most important thing sometimes. So it's very exciting. And I know last year you had mentioned that there was only a couple companies right now interested. How many company have you how many more companies? Four. And um actually we're partnering with Unbridal this summer. And so we're excited to bring them alongside too for some of these
015students that need that um those volunteer hours. They're starting to go ahead and let some of them start coming in the summer and get used to the organization. So, and I will tell you these kids, these students are excited. So, when I got to go to the Special Olympics, they were all telling me about their jobs and telling me to come visit them at their work. So, it was very exciting that they were all pumped about it. So, that's awesome. Any other questions? Okay. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve theou with for pre-employment transition services with Oakland Avenue's Arkansas Rehabilitation Services. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Motion. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Jessica. Any further discussion? All in favor?
016Any opposed? Okay. All right. Up next, we have anotherou and that is with SRAD therapy. And what this is for, it's for occupational therapy services. It's we've used it for several years now for OT. And um I don't believe anything changes. There's not even a price point. They didn't give us a price increase. No, I like it. They're one of the few vendors this year at this time. I like it. Any questions? Okay. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve for occupational therapy services with Surat Therapy Services Incorporated. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll motion. Motion by Sarah. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Ryan. Any further discussion? All in favor? All right. Up next, we have board transfers. This has um
017um cooled down a little bit since we had school choice um last month, but we have five students transfer. One need petition to transfer in and three petitioning transfer out. We have space for um all five right now. We have ample space especially kindergarten. We're currently at 93 which it will increase over the summer, don't get me wrong. So that's kind of where we are. We always recommend we transfer in and transfer out if we have space. Any questions? Okay, with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the board to board transfer desk. All right, so we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? Make a motion. Motion by Ryan. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Sarah. Any further discussion? All in favor? Okay. up next stress student
018services sorry and we have policy updates for the 2014 school year Mr. Rainy turn it over to you um in our review of uh our policies and current practice we had uh two policies that we wanted to look at updated uh policy 4.23b 23B which covers vaping and ecigarette. U you can see on the policy we've got language that was stricken through for first violation and second violation uh under that policy. Uh and so we rewrote um Miss Markfeld and myself initially met with counselors uh from the junior high and the high school uh and some of our SRO's uh about our policy and our current practices and we felt like uh 4.23B 23B. You know, we were doing uh some disciplinary stuff, but there really wasn't any education or uh diversion type things for
019our students. And so, we wanted to make sure that we included that in our policy. Um so, we updated uh just a little bit of you know, the practice and the policy. And then we have a section that on I don't know my version's just all black and white but um up top the second uh paragraph it says students found in violation of the policy grades K4 are sub subject to discipline measures as determined by the campus administration initially um K12 students all were under the same policy and so you know if we had a kid or a 5-year-old bring a let's say a bait to school that they found you know on a home or wherever they were subject to the same disciplinary measures that a senior would be. And a lot of times
020when we have that occur, that's not a student discipline issue. Yeah. That's helping the parents. And so we wanted we wanted to um give a give a little bit of flexibility for the different grade bands and those things. So we have an update to the vaping policy and you can see what has been stricken through and then what is new language. Um, and you know, all of this stuff that you read is at a minimum. And so, um, u, you know, if we we got into, you know, distribution and different things, it allows us some flexibility that we didn't have in language previous. And then second to that, 4.24 is our drug and alcohol policy. Um, same thing. You can see the first violation language that was strien through. And then um the the second
021and subsequent violations all were the same uh thing on our previous policy. And so under a second violation of our drug and alcohol policy, it's all kind of been rewritten and added. But we didn't feel like the same thing that we had very good uh educational pieces in there. It was a lot of kind of, you know, don't do this and here's the punishment, but we weren't really supporting the choices and education and why uh you know these things are maybe harmful to you down the road. And so our counselors and stuff felt like this was good language. We we met with them. We updated the policy. Then we followed up with a district committee that included uh high school and junior high principles, Mr. Martin, Miss uh Taber, myself, Miss all got together, reviewed
022the policy, made a few more changes, and felt like this is best for our students uh going forward. And so update, clean up the language a little bit on on those two policies. Can I ask a question? Yes, sir. So, so that's great. I'm appreciate you uh reviewing and getting input from a lot of people. So, I'm not trying to be critical. I'm looking at both policies and I'm seeing that it can be reduced to 5 days and if I see if I see optional the diversion thing that we're wanting kids to do in this situation I see is optional. So the the the thing became if we say Miss Taber has to go to this class and she doesn't attend am I going to keep her out of school for the next 45 days
023until she does or am I going to put a limit on it? And so that's why it's five days reduced to this. So if you chose not to do it or student chose not to do it at some point you got to give them back in class and back in education. So okay that's perfect with that. Yes. But when the punish the same question but when the punishment's dealt out this they're saying you're saying you were going to have 3 days up to 5 days if you don't complete this. Yeah. Yeah. If you were caught up with the fate, you got five days of ISS. If you take this course, we'll reduce it free and get you back into class or whatever this and we we working with our principles right now almost 100% of
024the time we do the course, we reduce it and we go on. But we we felt like we needed a cap. Yep. So that we can move on with education. Any concerns with K through four being subjective? Um you want me to answer that? Go ahead. No, ma'am. Okay. I think we need some administrator discretion in that. Um, we can literally have a um primary school child pick up the bank off the coffee table or whatnot and they're literally just to it around their backpack and just pull it out and there it is. I mean now that's why there needs to be some discretion now you could there's that in the fourth grade in the fifth grade that's you know just 90 days difference in the age of the child you know there would be
025that would be considered as well but we have had a couple of instances where an ele a primary school child or an elementary child's brought a a baby to school and could may not even have a cartridge in it maybe an old one and whatnot It's still technically a and then do we feel that that same language needs to apply over to the drugs and alcohol for it to be subjective for K4? Well, K through 4, um, when you look at the expulsion policy, it's very explicit on what qualifies for K through 4 to be expelled and it's like a weapon, extreme violence, and things like that. Well, I just we added it for the vape, so I didn't know if we needed to add that same verbiage over to the drugs and alcohol. Oh,
026yeah. I see what you're saying. Just to be consistent. Yes. Okay. Just the verbiage. Okay. The top red line on here. We circle. Yeah. That's just just for consistency. Any other discussion on the policies? No, I just appreciate recognizing that that was not a child, you know, issue typically in kindergarten and being able for the child to have some advocacy or we need to be able to um students make mistakes, but there's different levels of mistakes. distributing is a right is a very it's a much more severe choice than just a first offense and the way our policy was written um someone who who was passing who was distributing had was the same as someone who wasn't and that's different. Yeah. Any other questions? Mhm. Okay. With that, I would like to make the recommendation
027to approve the policy amendments as as presented with the addition of um students found in violation of this policy and grades K4 subject to discipline measures as determined by campus administration to be added to policy 4.24 as well. All right. So, we have a recommendation as presented. Do we have a motion? I'll motion. All right. Motion by Sarah. Do we have a second? I'll second. Is that you? Yeah. Okay. All right. Second by Jessica. Any further discussion? All in favor? Okay. Up next is um food service prices, lunch prices for the 245 school year. Um, every year, um, we complete a the pay lunch equity calculator and we are requesting a 10 cent increase to student and adult breakfast and lunch. So, we'll go to our proposal to do a dollar go to a$180 for
028students. For breakfast, $2.50 for um, adults and lunch prices. Um, grades K through six will be $2.40 40 cents and grades 7 to 12 would be 265 and adult lunches would go I believe from 460 something I think 465 to $5 a I'm assuming it's just because the cost of food in general's gone up I mean even if you go to Walmart you know we were carrying a positive balance But um we the price of food wasn't increasing the way it is now. I mean over the past um 2 to 3 years our food bill has gone up just like people's homes and everything it's gone up 40 50%. I hate to say the 10% increase doesn't cost it it helps a little bit and of course reduced will stay at 40 cents for lunch
02930 cents for breakfast and free will be will be free. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. With that, I'd like to make a recommendation we approve the food service price increases for the 2425 school year as presented. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Motion by Ryan. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Sarah. Any further discussion? All in favor? Okay. are up next is our assurance statement. Um every year um we have to approve assurance statements. Um the statement Bessie is kind enough they are doing ARF. So we only have one massive statement of insurance to to approve instead of a lot of them last year but it is the same um thing. just making sure that we are compliant under ESSA IDA and
030all rules and regulations um with the state department and the US Department of Education. I'm assuming we are right. Yes, ma'am. Any questions? Okay. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the 2425 asurances and GEA statement programs under um ESSA and IDA. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Jessica. Any further discussion or questions? All in favor? Up next we had um um resource approval for instructional approval for res instructional resources. Um our first one they're both renewals. Our first one is Lexia core learning. I'm sure you've seen on your your child may have have used it or you see you see our Lexia star students and everything. Um it's a it's part of
031our what we use every day for literacy for renewal. Are there any questions on that? And the cost last year was $39,600 for K8 for a one-year contract. I believe we want to continue this for our K2 students. Um which is a cost of $38,310, but it's for three years. Um and Miss Taber, please clean me up. One of the reasons why we're wanting to do that is we have a pot of money from a grant we were awarded that was for about 32,000. And so we can use this figure to go ahead and lock this in at this price for three years instead of paying a one-year subscription price and use that grant money and only have a small portion I think 6 or $7,000 come out of general operating. But the 38,310 is
032per year for the next three years. No, it's for it's for all three years. So that's total that's what we're spending total for three years. Okay. It's about 13,000 meter. Okay. But it goes from K2 instead of like we're right now we're doing K through 8. Yes. K2. We had prior previous to uh this coming school year we used it K8. Uh it was really a resource that kind of helped us coming back from remote learning to do some intervention acceleration. And what we're finding is that after second grade a lot of students are finishing the program. So at third and fourth grade they don't need it anymore as much. Uh, so I met with each building. We looked at usage. We looked at our student data. Um, we talked about what would they be
033doing providing with intervention if we didn't have Lexia and they felt like they had um enough resources built up in other areas to provide that intervention. So we um I met with the grant coordinator and talked about transitioning to K2 um again because most of our students are finishing it before they even get to fourth grade. So by the time they get to fifth, they're finished. Okay. Um, so that that's our reasoning for that. And then our funds for the grant will expire in September. So we need to use those. Okay. And so only about 6,000 was going to come out of general operation. Yeah, it's it's right between 26 and I think it's probably $6,500. Well, it's 6514 and 61. Okay. All right. With that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve
034the purchase of Lexia core five for a three-year contract for students in grades K2 for the amount of $38,32. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll motion. Motion by Sarah. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Ryan. Any further discussion? All in favor? Okay. And I didn't realize I got a little bit off off schedule. I switched to B and C. So we need to go back up to B and imagine learning and that is our egeneuity. And what that is is that's our virtual program for um for our students in grades 7 through 12. Um we've used this for a couple years now and everything. It's been successful. So we're asking for a renewal of that. Approximately how many kids do we have virtually? Um we
035finished the school year with around 80 80 and we we plan to to keep that number pretty consistent for the next school year to watch those numbers. It's also our um platform to provide continued academic services for our students where it's held. Um okay. Okay. Um, with that, I'd like to make the recommendation that we approve the purchase of Egeneuity from Imagine Learning in the amount of $27,942. All right. So, we have a recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll motion. Motion by Jessica. Do we have a second? I'll second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Okay. Um, hey, call on. Um, we have a heavy personality test this time and so do you mind if we No, I'd like for us to go. Yeah, I'd like for us to go into executive session. So,
036it's 6:30 on the dot and we're going to go into executive session.