001element. According to our contract, >> the contract does not allow for um or it allows for meetings, but they're optional. >> Okay. Um >> it does not allow for professional learning professional learning on those days. Yeah. >> And so that's where I'm a bit concerned. Right. we see more and more uh newer or inexperienced educators coming into the field. Um and I know that there have been some surrounding counties that have explored and participated in a regular half day Wednesday in order to accommodate that. Um, uh, I I was just wondering, Miss Moore, if you have any interest in perhaps next year modifying that calendar in some way to provide more opportunities for for time for that. Um I I think yes, we can definitely look at um working um this year really to identify
002any additional days that we could ident uh we could allow for professional learning. Um if historically if we were going to make any major changes to the the schedule, we usually pull our our stakeholders. And so if we were to be considering anything like a half day um then I would say that we keep with that same practice to identify um what supports specifically for our families of our elementary students um would be needed for us to be able to go in in that direction. However, I do agree with you that if it's something that we would to be considering, we were to be considering that we would take uh some time to to really gather that information going into, you know, the the full year looking at what does that what does it look
003like for cost? How does that also impact um the schedules for our um uh support staff as well? What does that look like for for their their schedules? >> Right. Um, I'm just hearing that while our schools are doing a great job of trying to embed some professional learning within uh their teacher planning, there's always challenges because you have IEP meetings. You then have reduced uh ability to phone or meet with parents during the school day as well as get all the other administrative stuff done. And so um you know just kind of some of the larger initiatives that we have um and some of the needs around let's say AI and technology training I I really think that we need to take a look at a creative approach to add additional opportunity for time
004for professional development. Um when we look at the professional development for the that year right now proposed um how many days do we have built into the calendar for so two days at the beginning of the year two in pre-planning one in um later in August on the first election day and then the January date. Do we have an idea of the surrounding counties how much uh professional development time that they offer in comparison? >> In speaking in full days, we are on par with them. Um but other counties do have the early release days which we do not. But daywise for full day pls we're on par with certain counties. >> More of a cumulative. >> Yeah. I can definitely get back with like hours or >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Thank you. And then
005what that um those half days look like on their calendars because many of them it's for um planning and you know the planning versus professional learning or whatever that mixture is. >> We can get that information. This is going to come back before you actually next week because because of how this month looks. This will come back before you um next week. um it'll come before you at the 1:00 and the 6:00. However, if we need more time, we can definitely do that. But this is usually the time frame of when the calendar um is approved. But we'll get that information to you. We'll send it to you at at um as the board and then we'll announce that information publicly um at the 1:00 meeting next week. >> And I know Hillsboro County, they
006they I heard great feedback with how they implement their half days. So, if you're looking for counties um in Oyola and testing dates like fast testing or any or any type of testing, they have a pretty good schedule. So, >> thank you. >> But sometimes it's not even a half day. It's more of like two hours. Uh yeah, just to be able to do an event. And one thing that I would caution us is that we would want to use that time very strategically and have like a a countywide professional development type of activity so that it's very organized and we're getting the bang for our buck and the bang for the our famil family's time in in changing you know what is our typical uh cadence. >> Any other questions comments? you answered my
007Daytona State College question. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> And just for the for the um public again, this um um we have had our committee u we do have parental uh representation, but uh if families or they have any questions there, um they can go on to our um website and submit um their that information there. that way. They can also email any of us as well as email um each of you to provide some input. But as of right now, the timeline is to bring this back to you at the next board meeting and because of this schedule um because of this the month this month um that'll be next week. Okay, >> great. Thank you. Thank you. 9.02 2526 ESC early college agreement. Mr. Please board members, superintendent Moore, bring before
008you our early college agreement. This is an annual agreement that we do according to statute. Uh just so you know, this agreement while it's in place is an older statute. We actually offer our dual enrollment opportunities extensively with our students and staff where literally hundreds of students participate with dual enrollment. So we don't have students participate in this process because we have our dual enrollment option. have our statutoily we have to approve this both at Beijing State and in our district level to submit the state. >> I see. I was kind [clears throat] of confusing [laughter] the two. I've got it now. >> Yeah. [cough] Any any questions regarding it forward? >> I had a question. Um so I know the district so textbooks, workbooks, and codes that we cover. If there's any equipment or
009kits, is that something that we have to budget for? >> You refer to like required for the classroom. >> Yeah. >> So, we cover those pieces. >> One more question, too. Just uh so in our school district, I know we have 504s and IEPs, and I know IEPs are not seen, you know, and used in colleges. So I'm just curious, do we have that communication with students or parents before? Because I know a lot may not know that. So if they're dual enrolled, do we have >> the IPS don't stop. So they are still in place in that space. Now they may dual enrollment or >> Yeah. because they're that's that's their federal protections. Now it may look differently and we explain that with them and DSC does as well when they meet with parents
010but that they don't lose those they don't shed those rights by going into a dual program. So >> yeah. So that when when a student um goes to college, they would go to um >> and the name is escaping me right now. >> Accommodations officer, accessibility office. Accessibility office. Yes, >> but I know it's different. >> It definitely looks differently. However, they are um afforded to them. >> They're made aware of it. I guess I just Yes. Like when they're going through their >> uh teachings with uh you know signing up and registering like here is your current IEP and then when you transfer or when you're taking those courses it could change similar but >> we have great relationship with our universities and colleges and they do an excellent job of communicating with families
011about roles expectations and what they can anticipate when they take dual opportunities. Previously some time ago I had asked if we do any um exit polling uh from our staff as you know I'm seeing an uptick in the number of pair of professionals um related to turnover. Where are we with that? I know some of the questions were a little bit more generic and maybe not >> uh maybe that information is left with the principles of each site as opposed to coming to the HR office. Is there any additional movement in that? >> Yeah, so what we've done kind of over the past year is we've recognized that in order to make sure we're getting responses, we need to make sure we're sending it where it'll be received. Um so we've updated our process to
012where um when someone gets onboarded, we're collecting their personal email as well. So that way when they do leave the district, should they choose to, we're sending it to their work email if they still have access to it, depending if they're giving a notice, and then we're also sending it to their personal email. So that's helped us with uh getting submissions back. Um in addition to that, we're still seeing the the primary response we're getting on why they're leaving the district is personal reasons. Um that is the clear when you look at all the different ones between money, relocation, personal uh reasons are by far the highest one. Um, but yes, we are taking a look to see where we're at as a district, especially heading towards 2026. Right now is when we're going to
013start to see folks start to look to maybe make a move as they're heading towards the holidays going, you know, I can kind of finish out the semester and plan accordingly. So, we're keeping a very close eye as to how those are progress uh progressing from our support and our instructional roles. And then once we hit the other side of the new year, we'll start really evaluating to see if we need to hold up a job fair, especially as we look at bus drivers and kind of looking to see what our needs are heading into this last semester. Um, that's all we're we're kind of looking at. >> Okay. How many open positions do we currently have? >> Right now, when we look online, I believe we are at just over we're at 49 total
014postings in a couple of those. For instance, par profofessional, you'll see that there's about three FTEEs attached to it. Now, that also includes we have a couple of um athletic coaching positions. Uh but when we look at it right now, we have about eight classroom vacancies. So, that's your, you know, your first grade, your second grade, your fourth grade. Um that's kind of what we were what we're looking at. And in those classrooms, we're able to abide by um those practices where we talked about um having a full-time um a long-term substitute uh ideally certified and um for a high school or middle school if it's a subject specific, they're um taking advantage of some online program to substitute that curriculum. >> That that's what we're looking at doing, especially with our sub pool. So
015I I can just based off of recent memory, we've had the high school reach out going, "Hey, we know we have a classroom vacancy about to come up because for instance, a teacher is about to give birth, right?" So they're having that conversation with our office cuz they kind of have an idea of, "Hey, in the next few months, we're probably going to have a vacancy for the remainder of the year and they're having that conversation with our office to see, hey, for instance, science, I'm just going to throw science out there. Do we have anyone in that sub pool?" So we were starting to have those conversations on the front end. That way, the school can best prepare to know if it's going to be a a long-term solution, midterm, or if they're going
016to have to kind of put some band-aids in the short term for it. >> Yeah. And if it's a um class that is um regardless if they have a long-term sub that is [clears throat] certified or not, the each school is pushing in supports to that uh particular class. So be it their um one of their academic coaches or some uh lead within their school is providing support to that classroom um inclusive of um the lesson planning sitting with that individual making sure that they have opportunities for models and then if it's going to be as Mr. Walker stated a longer term thing then we look at bringing in some of those online resources um in the secondary. >> Okay. um >> and doing a better job of communicating to the families because I think
017that was one of the things that we talked about is many families did not realize though I my child doesn't have a permanent teacher they don't have a rotating sub and likely the sub that they have within their class is certified a certified teacher >> right excellent um um are we at the point where perhaps it would be advantageous to entertain um going into next here. Um perhaps looking at a teacher cultural exchange uh program where uh there are fully certified very experienced educators from outside the states who come in um and teach here. Um I've met with a particular company where they have like a retention rate in the 90 percentiles because these people are literally picking up their life um to come teacher bar. And obviously there's some benefits both ways. Uh at
018what point do you think that that tip may uh occur where we would need to look at some maybe different options like that? >> I will tell you that we have considered um that um in the past and um the organizations that we were considering at the time didn't have the capacity to bring on um the district. based on our um numbers and where we are, I don't believe that we're at the place of needing um that um because we are we you know, of course, we when we lose um some of the heart to feel uh uh classroom teacher positions, it takes a little bit longer to fill those positions, but we as far as our classroom teachers, we're not sitting in a place that we're not filling those positions. Some of our harder
019positions to fill right now are like our school psychologists and um some related services types of positions, but not necessarily our classroom teacher positions. >> But I think some of that is because we don't limit the number of years that they come into the school district with. Right. My understanding is if you taught 30 years in Minnesota, you come here, you're at the 30-year mark. Other county, not all counties do that. And while that's advantageous for us in order to make sure we don't have vacancies, it is disadvantageous for us related to our health care costs. So I was just looking at kind of the whole picture. Um you know how much teachers that are transferring in are coming with that large number of years and what percentage of those are utilizing our health care
020which may be contributing to right some of that. um uh cost on our versus our premiums. >> Um those things are definitely things that will come up um likely in collective um bargaining um as is it's just typically a conversation around the number number [clears throat] of years that we accept. So um all of that would be discussed through collective bargaining as far as the years. >> Mr. I would love to just get a number of the number of people who've transferred into our system with more than 10 years of experience that they didn't originate let's say in in Flaggler, right? And I'm just curious to see what kind of an impact that's h having at this point. >> So we're looking at folks that come into our district with more than 10 years of
021experience. Okay. And we want to dive that down more so to experience earned outside the state of Florida because historically we've always kind of been able to bring in folks if they've taught, you know, 25 years in Valuchia County. They came in with 25 years. When we made the change, I believe in 2021 it was opening it up to not restricting the tent or out of state. So would it be more so for folks coming in from out of state? >> Let's go with the most restrictive because there are counties that limit it. No matter if you've had experience in a in a neighboring Florida county, I think that there's regional pockets, but um and then what percentage of those folks are um choosing our healthcare plan? >> We do it. >> Thank you. Appreciate
022it. >> Anybody else? >> Thank you. Moving on to 19.01. 01's board policy 6550 travel [clears throat] expenses board before you have 6550 uh finance policy with travel expenses. Uh previously this policy was 716. It was brought before the board in April. You approved it in June and it was in effect from June until the Neola policies rolled in. What happened when the Neola policies rolled in? Somehow this policy got kicked out and we put in an EOL policy instead of this policy. It was just minor differences, but we're just going back to the original policy that you already standardized dollar amounts in order to reduce the overhead on some things. There was one item that I noticed in here where it said basically if um and and maybe I misinterpreted it, so I need
023some comprehension help here. is that if somebody travels and the travel cost is less than $80, they're going to get $80 either way. I'm misunderstanding how that works. >> Yes. Well, we'll have Patty come up. Yeah, that was >> that's an H. >> Yes, that's an H. >> That was a federal. >> Yeah, that was federal. >> That is if all of their travel costs for for their trip for the day is less than 80. That includes hotel as well. So the chance of this really occurring is slim to none. >> So this is only if they go overnight. >> Yes. I mean that piece. Yes. >> 24 hours. >> Okay. So here's an example. Uh my husband's visiting a school uh today as part of the what's that leadership program that they're doing leadership.
024There you go. >> Um and it's not it's just a day trip, right? Um I wouldn't think that he should get $80. >> $80 is only for overnight stay. is for a 24-hour period and it would be broken up incrementally after the first 24 hours. >> Okay. So, that's where it says a travel period of 24 hours consisting of four quarters of 6 hours each. I I'm not yet. >> Yeah, I'm not clear as that. >> So, if I were to travel today um and leave this morning at 8:00 a.m. and I were to um check into a hotel this evening, check out tomorrow, that's 24 hours. So, where the 6-hour increments comes in is I've already traveled for 24 hours. I would then get reimbursed in 6 hour increments. So, if I were to
025check out at 2 p.m., it would start from the 24 hours at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow and then incrementally reimburse. >> So, then that's what it means by 1/4 of the 80 hours. Got you. Okay. Thank you. >> Is there any idea of the impact on our budget on this or is that are we saving as much in administrative that we think it would cost and just paying out? >> It's not a massive impact on our budget. is more beneficial to our staff. And uh with regard to getting them reimbursed with a more um updated rate, the policy has not been updated for years and we were still using statute that has not been updated for over 10 years. >> Okay. >> So um it's not a massive impact, but we have researched it with our
026attorney. Okay. >> Um but it is definitely getting the employees reimbured correctly. >> Okay, sounds good. Thank you. Anybody else? >> All right. 121.01. Do we have anybody for public comments? No, we do not. >> And 22.01 board member request. >> Yes. I wanted to see if we could have um some research on like either building a policy or implementing something in the bylaws. Not unsure what it would be, but regarding student schoolboard members. So, other districts have similar programs, not exactly the same, but similar. And I noticed we don't have anything in either policy or bylaw. And again, I don't know which one, but if we could have just someone review that and see if that's something we should look into adding. >> Um, you're um speaking to like their engagement in the >>
027Yeah. So engagement. So other districts I know they they have them participate in everything during a a board meeting. Some they have limitations. So just trying to see if it makes sense if we have some type of policy or some type of work. >> Yeah. Just >> so we just what have we been using right now to govern that? Is it just a tradition? >> Yes, it it's um it could be referenced in the uh the court policy the manual manual but I know it's not we don't have policy policy around it. this this conver this discussion actually came up with um um between Mr. Delaney and uh Mr. Smith around potentially uh writing a base policy and then uh outlining it in procedure as to what the um involvement of our student school board
028members are. So we can bring we will definitely bring some something back on this. Yes, cuz this this did come up as how do we codify this in writing? >> And then I I saw other districts, they have similar models, but we don't really have any policy or bylaw. So, I thought it would be good to look into. >> And actually, just one more uh kind of piggybacking on our calendar. So, what it would look like for half day. Um, obviously I know it's we're already implementing that with the research that was done, but just information about like how it could be like stakeholder uh information and other districts. So, no rush on it, but just putting it on the bucket list because that sounds like something to look into. And that's it for request.
029Um, for me, I wanted to take a look at what is our administrative overhead cost for managing our substitutes. I wanted to kind of um just get some insight into that as I've seen and collaborated with some other um board members from other districts uh recently from our uh Florida School Board Association workshops that we took part in uh week before last um that they are using some outsourcing services and I just wanted to kind of compare that uh if that would be uh >> and when you say um administrative you're speaking about covering them [clears throat] within our organization versus um partnering with um an organization that they would be in the employees of that organization, >> right? Uh because there would be some advantage there freeing up some of that HR time which
030can be better utilized to support our talent. Um, and you know, uh, my understanding is many of these, uh, placement services, they focus solely on substitutes and take on a majority of like the training and upskilling, uh, which I think, uh, could be beneficial. Again, I'd like to take a look at the numbers and then if that looks good, then take a look at the quality of those programs before going any further. just an initial um dive would be I think really helpful. Um the other item is uh after spending the week um at that conference there was um numerous breakout sessions around AI in education and you know um I think that we uh need to take a look at I know we've had some AI policies but there's some best practices that I
031think now u many of us are more aware of and some connections that we could um um just kind of look at what's happening throughout the state. Uh UF is spearheading an AI um advocacy or um not framework, what's the word? Uh task force and I was happy to see Mr. producing and uh our tech team is already on that which not every state uh county in Flaggler is. But uh I think now with a more comprehensive um education of what the impact is in terms of not just usage but what we need to do to support our teachers, what we need to do to support our parents and even exploring uh career options. Right? November was one of the largest layoffs months since COVID and a large uh impact of that was AI and
032you there are people uh whose skills are in need for AI operation systems. So I think that's something we can take advantage of and seminal county um has a similar program. So I just think that there's u some forward thinking that now that I'm uh more educated around that topic. I think uh and the other board members could take a look and ensure that we're providing that support for our district going forward >> and Okay, perfect. >> Sorry, that's all >> for me. >> Um I have one I I don't know if we have something on this level yet, but uh one of the companies at FSBA was Gaggle. Um, so it is web monitoring, web filtering, as well as it has um access to therapists, a student crisis line. Um, I believe some counties
033are already using it. So, I kind of wanted to just look into that the cost. Um, >> do you want to talk a little bit about what we is it okay um for um Mr. Ding to talk a little bit about what we currently have with web monitoring and filtering? Um we used Gaggle um some time a ago. I think we were one of their first districts in the state. Um >> so we we have worked with uh Gaggle uh on a couple of things. We did a proof of concept and then we also did a pilot program uh with them. Ultimately, we ended up going in a in a different direction, but we do have similar monitoring in place um for our students um to cover those same areas. the uh I think really
034the only difference is when you look at the systems and how they report is really the um kind of that therapy side of it like that that therapy intervention piece uh is very specific that as far as I'm aware that they're the only ones that tie that directly into like virtual um mentoring or virtual uh uh counseling. And I'm I'm asking just because we still get parents like, "Oh, my child got around this or you know the podcast thing." And um so do you feel like that we have is pretty good? >> Uh I I do we looked at several different uh products when we went through them. Um I would say we're in pretty good shape and I'll just say um you know filtering products are just that they're filters. Um there are stuff
035that occasionally gets through um and you know we've got a lot of sharp kids. uh that are in our schools and uh they have a lot of good time. Uh but we continue to uh work with our administration, our schools. We take a lot of those reports and then we we dig into what what we can and look at when we do get parents that um you know bring different things to our attention or teachers. We actively investigate those go to a root cause analysis and then um put additional blocks in place. Sometimes it's hey we can't use this application until it's addressed. Sometimes it's uh you know blocking an additional site. Uh sometimes it's specific protocols that haven't been used in that type of manner before where we have to look at making adjustments
036either to our um security posture related to our firewall. So there there's a lot of different uh pieces that impact those. And then you know sometimes there's there's things to deal with that are on the tablets that are not on the on the laptops. Sometimes there's things with the laptops that are not uh directly affected on on the tablet. But uh it's kind of working with those working with our vendors. When we identify those things, we always put in uh support tickets to help us identify what those root root causes are. Um you know, it's some sometimes um we have to lock additional things down uh to do it. >> I appreciate it. Just want to make sure we're keeping our kids. >> To Miss Chong's point though, u gaggle's u mental health services I
037thought were were stellar in that area. and uh you know obviously is something that we often provide those as options when there's a crisis. I think we do a great job that Brandy does a great job of that but this is more proactive based upon what students might be putting into the system what they might be searching what they might uh be typing into AI. Um, so I I do agree that taking a look at what we have versus what Gaggle has in terms of mental health for a larger number of our students would be worthwhile to take take a look at that comparison. >> I think that the the the thing too with all of it, you know, um is is around access and um um parental approve approval. And so, you know, whereas
038there may be some virtual options that that they can provide, we definitely can look re look at um some um additional options that that are provided through their service. Um but you know, I think at this time as families are are in need of services, we [clears throat] can provide comparable services and and oftent times those things are face to face versus in a virtual um setting for them. I think the biggest thing too with your point to your point around you know making sure that we are providing a safe environment for our students to learn as they learn in this digital uh world is continuing to say to our families to speak up if there is a way that a student has f you know found a way to get to something else. And
039we do investigate that and look into it because we do have really bright students and um you know we do have students that are uh very curious as well and they're out and they're exploring. They're doing you know all of these things and for us to be able to bring that back in and then help them to be able to learn how to do those things in a in a healthy way. It's like okay you are obviously interested in some of this because it's difficult for you know some students find complex very complex ways to get outside of the sand box that we are providing to them and those students are likely very much interested in technology in a way that many students aren't. And so how do we have those conversations with them to
040help get them into um be able to use that in a positive way? um connecting them with members of the team for um um technology and all of those you know all of those things because you know sometimes and we and and also empowering our families because sometimes in the afternoon families are like I don't want my child to have access to this in the afternoon and so um string and his team building out systems to be able to empower families to be able to to identify what those things are and how do we limit access to um any of those applications outside of the school day but also not limit it so much that during the school day they can't access their their learning um either. So, it's definitely complicated. >> We try to
041make it as easy as possible for our students to interact with our texts at our schools because very often we we get students that will come in and say, "Hey, you need to see XYZ." Uh, and we're able to address them that way as well. So, it's not every, you know, person, every student that's out there kind of playing is necessarily being um, you know, mischievous with it, but several I mean, there's a lot of students that are like very progressive from the standpoint of, hey, this is an issue. We think we need to come up with a way of addressing it. So, we definitely appreciate those uh those students that are able to come forward and help us with this. One quick question and we'll move on. But could does our monitoring pick up
042words like kill or shoot? Like do we have that ability or that's >> Yeah, it uses um some advanced AI technology and then it also interfaces with real people. So as these alerts are built, uh it uses AI uh in the sense of keyword phrases, um component pieces like what is the context? Uh it has access into our um um Google workspace to an extent. Uh so you can kind of double down on okay, what what are you copy and pasting? What are you putting into um a particular document? Um what are you searching for? or what pages do you go for? So, in the background, it kind of looks at those and then sets up of whether this is a high alert, a low alert, uh and then we're or or an immediate alert.
043Uh and and in those cases, an immediate alert actually triggers to uh partner with our local law enforcement. So, uh there has been um an instance or instances where we've done um life safety checks for for some of our students where officers have gone and knocked on the door. Fortunately, uh those couple of times that I am personally aware of, they were kind of um not of the urgency that necessarily that they they appeared. >> Yeah. But I I'm glad that you missed mentioned the the real person, right? Not just sitting out sending out the alerts um because just from keywords but the system that they have in the background [clears throat] that will allow it to be filtered through real to um in adults or humans and then into us so that we can
044address them appropriately. Thanks. Okay, I guess we'll move on to closing comments. >> [clears throat] >> Okay. Well, I just wanted to just remind everyone there's a lot of holiday things going on. So, Belter Elementary School has their PTO and sack. So, this Thursday, Matanzis is actually hosting a great holiday activity. So, tomorrow at 6 p.m. The Grinch, they're going to have it outside and then breakfast with Santa if anyone's interested. I know they're trying to just encourage little ones and big ones to come and just enjoy the activities. And Indian Trails Middle School, this is coming up. I know. So December 20th, they're going to be participating in CPR certifications for only $10. So I highly encourage if there's any teacher, staff, anyone that's nine and up, it's only $10 and that's the full
045certification. all the instructors are volunteering all their time. So that was grant money from the Ed Foundation. So excited to share that. And then uh I just want to say you know the FSBA conference last week. So thank you you know for being able to be a part of that. It was amazing the things that I took back from schoolboard member but also a parent. It it really was priceless this time. So from a parent perspective. So parents, as you're helping your students and your children learn and get ready for these exams, AI can help. So there's a tool, notebook LM. Incredible. So just today, this morning, and yesterday, I was able to just take pictures of my son's book and and these are free tools. So and it made quizzes and for him to
046understand it better because of the way he learns. It's different and we all learn different. So, parents, take a look at the tools that you might have on your home computer to help your kids. They're incredible. And yeah, the training was great. I can't wait to um use more of it in my school board role. But I did want to reach out. We did learn a lot about the vouchers scholarships while we were there. And just to let everyone know, we had, you know, the state did an audit. So, audits happen like tonight or today. We went over a couple audits internally. So there were there are nearly 30,000 scholarship students that couldn't be confirmed and enrolled. So they are changing processes. So we're hoping that that uh does get a little bit better. That's
047over $270 million in funding that really couldn't be matched to correct schools. So if you have questions on that, the research and data is out there now. They're still looking into that. So that was really interesting to learn more about from our conference. And yeah, so uh basically I hope everyone has a great week and holidays. Thank you. Um I was uh fortunate enough to be able to get back in time from the conference to participate in the uh Christmas with the hometown heroes organized uh by Lacy Martin and others in that organization. I'm not sure the name of the actual or does anybody know >> is that just I think it's in and it of itself. >> Yeah, I think it's um >> Thank you. Flaggler uh professional women's um association. They do a
048great job. Um and we uh they make sure that the students are different from those who do the shop with a cop activity. But um I was uh fortunate to be able to take a young gentleman from uh Buddy Taylor Middle around to do his holiday shopping. And it just um I was so pleased because he was an excellent example of um how uh community, schools, parents working together are um really helping [clears throat] build children's skills and lives in in a way that um you know just when all the right things come together and I think a lot People have some misconceptions of let's say middle and high school students, but uh really this was just a typical kid and he was just so amazing. And so anytime you can get out and be
049a part of um supporting our kiddos like that uh wonderful and it was just so much fun. The kids enthusiasm across the board. They did a great job serving snacks, having Santa, and then a whole line of people who helped wrap uh gifts because many of the students, they didn't buy items just for themselves, they bought them for family me members, which was wonderful. Um so, thank you to that organization and for the invite. Uh it was really wonderful. Uh there is a FTC uh advisory committee meeting happening on uh gosh uh next Tuesday morning. Uh so if you're a part of that or wish to be a part of that, make sure you reach out uh to uh Renee. Uh Wednesday, Rimfire is having holidays around the world. I'm hoping I'll be able to
050stop by and enjoy that. um just to uh highlight how different cultures celebrate the holiday. It's a great time and uh you know just be able to connect with the students is a lot of fun. Uh, I will also add on to what Miss Ramirez said, the I appreciate the ability to attend the the conference and uh was able to meet with um some of the advocates who are helping small school districts, rural school school districts um network and collaborate with other schoolboard members from across the state. So, it was really a a a rich and great uh time and I uh learned so much from it and hope to bring uh that back to our county to benefit and um that's all I've got. Thank you. >> Um so, it's [clears throat] it's unfortunate
051that the holiday uh got cancelled, the the parade, but I just want to thank everybody that that went uh worked tirelessly to have that ready to go. And um uh so we'll we'll participate again next year and everybody have a great week. >> Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving break and we'll see you next week. >> Yes. Uh tomorrow is the 80th day of school. So, dust off those neon colors and [clears throat] I can't wait to see everybody with their big hair and all the things uh that make you think of the 80s. And so, last year I went8s business and this year, I'm not sure. I may go '8s Christmas or just8s, you know, neon. I think I'm going to bring out the neon colors. Um but that is going to be a
052a very exciting day and so if you want to join us by dressing up for the eighth day of school uh please do that. Uh I too had an opportunity to go to the Christmas with community heroes event. Um that board puts on a great event and so I was able to shop with a young lady from Rimfire Elementary School and she was so delighted to be able to go and her thoughtfulness towards other people was just um so special to be able to to watch. and she and I I think are going to be lifetime friends um because we just connected uh so uh quickly and she was just kind and very thoughtful and um ensured that she got something for herself but she thought about others and her family and she was just
053so uh thankful for the opportunity and she just kept saying I can't believe that people in the community would just do this for for young do this for kids like me and I said yes and It's because you're special and we hope that you you feel that the end of the semester is approaching and so I'm sure many parents are like me in my home right now saying to my children, "Why do you have missing assignments?" Have a conversation with your te your teacher about um anything that you haven't completed or you know have you done remediation if you need that or you know that project that is due or whatever it is. Um so the semester is ending and it is ending quickly. We are uh only a few days left um in this
054semester and so families go on to Skyward look at your children's um grades and then have conversations with them on how they can improve their grades but more importantly what type of strategies they can put into place that help them um be successful each day and not you know waiting until the last minute to try to get that under control. And so it's going to be a great rest of the week. Uh we look forward to the 80th day of school just like we look forward to um today and each day that will come behind it. We hope that you guys have a great rest of your week and we will see you next week for another board meeting. Um so thank you and I hope you guys have a great night. >> Thank you.
055Hope everybody has a great evening meeting.