001We come before you this evening and first and foremost we'd like to thank you for all the blessings that you give us in our lives. Thank you for a wonderful community. Thank you for an extremely wonderful full boardroom this evening. We know that you always care for and watch over anyone in need. There are always people in our community, in our schools, our children that need your guidance. They need your peace. They need your healing. So we ask you this evening to please provide all those that do need that extra help from you to wrap your arms around them and just share that with them in every possible way you do throughout each and every day. Please give us the wisdom this evening to make wonderful choices over the things that we have to make
002decisions about. We ask this in your name. >> Amen. >> Please address the flag. 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. >> All right. At this time, I'll entertain a motion to adopt our agenda. >> So move. Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion carries. Welcome everyone. Got a lot to accomplish tonight. Glad to see you all here. Um, >> nice looking crowd. Nice. I will turn it over now to our superintendent for some highlights. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have some great highlights to share with you and I will ask the administration that's
003in the room to come forward to when I call out your name. Um, board and everyone else tonight, you will see some of our students that have gone above and beyond. And we know by what we're about to award them that they have worked very very hard to accomplish this achievement. >> So if I can have Mrs. Wiggins to come forward please. >> I'm sorry. [Music] >> That's mess. accomplishment and I can >> we have Gabriel Rodriguez come to the front. >> Gabriel scored a perfect score in his fourth grade. [Music] >> And can we have Remy? She made a perfect score on her fifth grade statewide science assessment. [Applause] Mommy. Great job. I have some very special recipients from Bronson Middle High School. We have Haley Kurtz. She had a perfect score on her
004FAA, United States History Assessment. Come here, Haley. We also have Alex Resto Rodriguez or excuse me, Alex. Yeah. Rodriguez, the FAA biology one EOC. [Applause] Great job. [Applause] So from Chal High School, we have Burton. Perfect score on the ELA seventh grade assessment >> and perfect score on the seventh grade math assessment. All right. [Applause] Oh, there she is. >> There she is. >> We have Josia who got a perfect score on her grade five. [Applause] High school is here. There you are. >> All right. Wilson High School proud to present Marina. She received a perfect score on her seventh grade teaching system. and Katie also [Applause] and Mr. Woodro Union. [Applause] >> You want to take a break? >> I would. I would love that. >> A break. And then a group picture out
005front, everybody. Okay, so we're going to take just a break. Go outside by the sign. Get a group picture of all these great students. Be cool that their parents got in there with them. >> And the board members want to bring the IQ level down on these kids. >> We can go out by the flag right there. >> Five minute break. Then we expect you all to come back and listen to the business part of this. [Music] Miss Christina Story, will you come front and center, please? >> Miss Christina is coming before all of you to tell us the wonderful, exciting things that she is doing in her classroom at Chief Middle High School. and she has brought her amazing students with her and I will let her take it from here because she has
006glorious things to tell you. >> I'm not going to tell y'all anything my students are going to tell you. >> So, we're going to start with Jacob. He's going to come talk about our cafe that we have at the school. >> Okay. I've heard good things. [Music] >> You got it. You got it. >> Come on. beside you. >> We're right We're right here, Jacob. Go for it. >> Every other week, we we go shopping for teachers when we do >> a lot of important Managing money while also a chance to go to her and have her [Applause] >> nervous. >> You're next. This is Nelson and he's gonna speak about how we go to Harmony Pregnancy Center and volunteer. >> There's some pictures up there about Harmony. Our class is working on Josh. [Music]
007I actually practice a lot reading. I get better when I get over >> saying I know you >> and then this is Freddy Web and he's going to talk about us going to our community food bank that we go to every Oh, Freddy. [Music] [Applause] >> Each month we >> participate in a community and job skills activities at a local food bank. We assist with setting up, helping, organizing supplies, and supporting individuals who come to the food bank by carrying items to their We as a class are responsible for breaking down tables and boxes during clean up. This ongoing activity provides valuable opportunities to build work skills, practice teamwork, and engage in meaningful community service. [Applause] Then Alana is going to come up here and speak about our clothes closet that we run to help
008out everybody in the county. So if we get something from the county that they send us that they are in need of, then the kids pack bags. So she's going to talk about that one. >> Please pause. >> Our school operates a closed closet where we collect and organize essential items such as toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, deodorant, and clothing. With these supplies, we pack care bags for students in need across our school district grades prek through 12. Through this project, we develop important life and job skills including organization, teamwork, responsibility while also giving back to our community through meaningful service learning. [Applause] [Music] And then the kids on Friday made everybody a treat in the classroom and they're going to pass that >> you did great. >> No need to be nervous. Y'all were all fantastic.
009That's right. >> Great. >> They taste like >> That's what they That's what they look like. >> Thank you. >> High five. [Music] >> That's awesome. We were worried so we made Lenny said, "Well, ladies, y'all have to make sure that she doesn't." >> You're going to tell us tell us tell us a little bit about how you started everything >> in the classroom. Yes. >> Yes. Please. Come on. >> Come on. bragging. >> No, tell us. >> Yes, we're going to get a picture, but I just where you moved into where you were and where you moved. She's going to talk for just a second. What is this? >> We're going to hear from Mrs. Story for just a little bit about the classroom and where she was in Chief Middle High and where
010she is now and how she got there. And then we'll get we'll take a group picture. Okay. >> I like that. We do have a really we do have a really awesome new classroom this year and thank you to everybody that help us get that because that it is amazing. We have room for our clothes closet and the opportunity to do all of this stuff in the kitchen is amazing and just all the space that we have now is amazing. And I don't what do you want me to say? >> Well, I didn't know how to plan anything but they did. They talked about all the stuff that we do and it's very important to me that they get seen in the community and they're a part of the community because >> these are the
011job skills that they can do and this is what they're going to do and I just think it's important that they get seen and I love that they enjoy it. They enjoy it. >> I would like to say something. I've been and visited her classroom and it is so amazing. These kids are all so engaged. She does such a phenomenal job and I as a board member just want to thank you. >> Thank you. >> And her husband Mark is very supportive and helps her with lots of projects >> that and then I have amazing parents that support things and all of the crazy ideas that I come up with as friends. They didn't know that they were going to be >> working in a restaurant part time. So >> they didn't know that they
012were going to be lugging stuff to cars with kids and yeah so they are very supportive of this. >> Trust me we sign the big we know you knew I didn't know they're like oh we're just going to work at a school. No they're working in a restaurant part time and >> leaving closed closets and everything else. So >> thank you for all you do. Thank you for protecting [Applause] Is there enough room here for a picture if we could? >> Okay. [Music] >> Sure. That'd be great. >> Come on, board members. >> Yes. Absolutely. >> You're going to get used to that. >> Absolutely. [Music] here. [Music] >> Cheese. All right, I got a bunch of snatched [Music] >> we got [Music] some questions. We'll need a [Music] Hi, >> thank you. >> Good.
013How are you? >> I'm getting a lot of those kind of questions and when it's attorney everywhere >> 100% You ready? >> We'll we'll now move to G, our disability awareness update. Marcy Young, follow all that if you dare. >> There's like hurrah. >> I'm like, I need my friends to cheer me on. >> I would just say I don't have nothing. I can't You can't do that. >> I can't top that at all. Um, I really just wanted to grab you guys for just a minute kind of in honor of the disability awareness weeks, the first two weeks of October, just to kind of touch base. Obviously, there's no way I can compete with all of that. But I just wanted to give you guys just a little bit of information, give you an
014opportunity to ask any questions um kind of about what's been going on. Um, the next slide there kind of just shows our number of students with disabilities in Ley County. This is just students with IEPs. We're right at about 20% of our kids have IEPs. That does not include our students with 504s. The next slide kind of shows you a breakdown of how of the different disabilities um that are represented. Uh you can see the largest amount there are students with specific learning disabilities. Almost half of our kids have a um SLD. And um this is just by primary exceptionality. So, of course, we have kids who cross over multiple categories. Um, another big one, um, down the red at the bottom here, that's, um, autism spectrum disorder. That's almost, um, 10% of our kids.
015Um, and developmental delay is another big one. That's green. Um, that's our kiddos that come in um, with kind of an unspecified like disability when they're younger, our three, four, and five year olds. um that program used to kind of we had to re-evaluate that um by the time they were six years old in the past and a few years ago it changed to 9 years old or second grade whichever comes first. So I think that's why it's such a big percentage because kids are kind of hanging on longer than they used to. >> Um so that just kind of gives you an idea of the breakdown. We don't have a lot of students with traumatic brain injuries. I think we only have two in the district. Um, we only have one student that is
016dual sensory impaired. Um, and I think that's because that's not even reflected up there because we only have one kiddo and that's student with a both a vision and a hearing impairment. Um, so that's kind of our kids. I wanted to show you guys just some district highlights from the district level, not really getting into any real specific schools. Um, this year we had a move for inclusive scheduling. We actually had three schools elect to participate um with Florida Inclusion Network to look at their scheduling processes and see how they could look at um providing more inclusive services. Um and those are the three schools that uh participated. Um they've all added adult um support facilitation which is pushin support um and that was new for Chief Lund Elementary and Bronson Elementary. Um checking in
017with our administrators after the first nine weeks. It's been an adjustment. Um, but they're doing well and I'm hoping to kind of circle back around with them now at the start of the second nine weeks to kind of see what's next. Um, and kind of where we can go from there. Um, in terms of professional learning, a big thing that we've added in the last two years is a paraprofessional learning day for our paras at the beginning of the school year during pre-planning. um that kind of came from our administrators asking for it and um it's proven to be pretty uh wellreceived. We usually have a really big crowd. I think we've had between 70 and 80 paras in the last two years come through. So that's um fun. And this year we've had an
018increased administrative presence at our professional learning um coming to learn a little bit more about uh ESE in general. I've had some ask me if they could just go to ESC school. And I said, "If it was that easy, I would put everyone through it." But I said, "The best thing you can do is come as often as you can and learn as much as you can and hear the things over and over and over again." And we have some that are really engaged in in that learning and that I'm really proud of that. Um, on compliance standpoint, um, DOE monitors us every year. Um, for the last year, we uh had meets expectation. That's as good as it gets. Um I'd like to have something a little better than just meeting expectations, but they
019don't offer that for us. Um they look at several different categories. I didn't bring all that to show you all the details, but um we are meeting in most every in most every um area in which they monitor. We just started our um every year we're monitored on our transition IEPs. So that's for our students who are 16 and up. So a lot of the the students that you saw here um and in our high schools they pull those IEPs and we have to self assess every year and that is the expectation is 100% compliance and we were 100% compliant next year. So I'm hoping we can meet that again this year and we've had zero corrective action. So um in the areas where they monitor that if we have something wrong then usually they
020tell us you this is your corrective action plan. you have to set a plan and you have to monitor. So often we don't have any of that going on right now. So we're proud of that. And then obviously I think we've been working pretty hard on our transition services. I put Miss Dory's classroom up there. Um that speaks for itself. Um we also have our Weebly program which is workbased learning experience. Um that's Mr. Clancy. Um takes students out to work. I was just meeting with him this morning. Um he is taking 18 students out to work at several I think six different job sites across the county. They're going to Manatee Springs, um Bronson Ace Hardware, they go to the Willist Animal Group, Wag, they go to the Children's Table, Finders Keepers in Chief
021>> and a flower shop. I can't remember the name of the flower shop right off the top of my head. Something silk. >> Oh, sunshine. Sunshine Silk Florals. Um and so he has various groups of kids um going and working in those settings. Um he has several employers um in the area that he can choose from. And we talked um today about some ways to kind of honor and um recognize those employers that are having our kids come in and work on a weekly basis. Um and that's been a real successful program for us. Um I asked Joyce Bullet to share some of their highlights. there on the next slide. Um these were their kind of things that how they approach um ESSE at their school uh totally um from early intervention all the way
022to the different ways that they support their students um and provide those uh ESSE services. Uh they do a really great job um as all of our schools do. Um but they really kind of weave that ESSE in through everything that they do. Um and they're involved those teachers and general education teachers are working side by side um with intervention um all of their decision making and as they support their um ESSE students in the classroom. So that's just a little snippet of kind of what's going on around the district. I didn't know if you guys had any questions for me or um anything like that, but I think we're doing a great job. I think the stories classroom is just an absolute shining star and I'm so proud of her and she does and
023um just a real exemplary program I think. >> Any questions for me? >> Thank you for all the >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right, we'll move on to our public comment. Anything? I don't see anybody out there that that wants to comment. Did we get any emails? >> No. >> All right, we'll move on to the approval of our minutes. If everyone's had a chance to read over the minutes and they're okay, I'll accept a motion to approve those minutes. >> So moved. >> Second. >> We have a motion in a second. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Like sign. >> Motion carries. >> Now move on to our consent agenda. >> Excuse me, Mr. Chair. With this new format, you don't have to do a separate
024approval on the finance. It's all together. >> It's all together on there. Good. Good. So, it's all together now. Okay, >> Miss Campbell, do you have any questions on the consent agenda? >> No, I do not. >> Miss Baxter, >> no. My questions have been answered. >> Mr. White has so many things answered, he didn't even show up. >> Mr. Clemensy, >> all mine are answered. >> All mine have been answered, too. And I will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> So move. >> Second. >> Have a motion in a second. All those in favor, please say I. >> I. Any oppose? Like sign? Motion carries. Madame Superintendent, you have words for our group. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, just want to compliment, of course, all the students that work so
025hard to make fives on their tests. It's not easy >> um at all. And those of you that are teachers and admin in here. You know, it's previous admin, it's it's not easy at all in this day and age to do that. So, kudos to them. And of course, to echo what Miss Marcy said about Christina's room. Um, if you haven't visited Chief Middle High, absolutely go visit the classroom and it's it's a wonderful experience and I know you're more than welcome to to go there. I guess a lot has gone on. Um, homecomings were great. Kind of got around the county to see parades and football games and king and queen. Um, so that was a wonderful experience. And today, I know Mr. Mlen went around and some of the district staff went around
026um tried a a little bit of a a different um procedure with some school improvement. the SIP, having it on the campus and having some of the admin put their agenda together. And I know Miss Tanya did a little PD over at Bronson Middle High because generally they had some other admin at the time they last time they did it. So, they had her come over and help and Mrs. Bray said that was wonderful. But all the schools that I visited today were fully engaged. Um, most of the teachers were there. only a few were were missing, but they they got together at the beginning, had had some great learning PL and then some just separated and went into their own fifth grade cohort or third grade and they just worked through the next com
027coming coming nine weeks and where they were at data wise and their students and they drilled down and they just I think they had a great day from what I saw. Mr. Mlen, did you see the same thing? some really exciting things happen. >> Good. Um, also during the admin Google meet that we had and Miss Tanya if you want to elaborate on anything but first um and I can send you the email on this. There was it's called the workforce cap grant. Um, and Levy County has received another CAP grant for the amount that's highlighted here, $91,418. And I know Miss Tanya is working on some wonderful things within our district. And this is a big deal, right? to support our health programs at Chief High and then begin the development of applied cyber
028security that Michael has started this year. Good. Good. >> And the second celebration is Joyce Bulock Elementary has been featured as a school AVID showcase and that will happen nationally. >> Yes. >> And it will also we're also going to um highlight them on a district level January 28th. Did I write that? Okay. I went by memory on that. January 28th, um, district can go to the school and they will be showcased. But then on April 8th from 8 until noon, and you're more than welcome to come vote once, twice, both times, um, they'll be nationally recognized where other districts come and some people even fly in, you said the other day. >> So, they'll be recognized there. Um, just good stuff. Good stuff happening. A lot of celebrations, a lot to be very, very
029proud of. And I think that's all I have. >> Fantastic. >> Mr. Delaney, >> just quick clarification because we do have this new format on the consent agenda. I think the board was voting on items J and K and just wanted to make sure that the minutes reflected that. K is listed as the consent agenda finance. J is the regular consent. >> Yes. >> Okay. Clarify that >> y'all voted on both. >> We voted on both. >> Got it. >> I I should have said that. My apologies. It won't happen again. >> It probably happened. >> Maybe one more time. >> One more time. One, maybe two. >> Yeah. Then the next joker. >> Next time I'll take off the word consent agenda. I'll just say finance items >> or they can vote on them
030separately. >> It used to be So >> on the agenda for tonight, there's a J. >> There's a J and a K. >> A J and a K. [Laughter] >> Okay. All right. What we'll do next? Consent and then finance. Okay, what we'll do, >> it's a diligent community. So, this is our first time we're learning. So, it'll be number eight, administrative services. And then number nine, if we have instructional services, number 10 will be finance. We'll change the K to a 10. >> Oh, >> but tonight we better give it a number instead of a letter. >> Okay. Okay. Yes, sir. Okay. >> All right. We now move to our board comments. Mrs. Cam. >> Yeah. I enjoyed all the celebrating. It's wonderful to see everything that's going on everywhere around our county. So
031many wonderful things and it's just brings a lot of joy joy to my heart to see it. Um, I just want to make a comment about we just consented to the school improvement plan and you mentioned the work day that teachers had uh working on it. Um, so we celebrated all these wonderful things and and we do have so many wonderful things, but now here's our work before us and I I have had a lot of time to lay around lately. So I read a lot of these u plans just very curious and so much work goes into it. It's just such a tremendous amount of work and and then I look and I see, you know, who's responsible for all of these things and it's it's it's such a tremendous responsibility and I just
032um I know that we're up to it and I just want everyone to know that I'm fully supportive and will in every way try to uh support all of the um the interventions and the uh objectives ives that we have put before us. But I think Ley County is up to it and I'm very proud of them and I'm proud of our leaders who have put these forth, you know, for us to see and to guide us. Um, and the only other thing is, um, this coming weekend is the seafood festival at Cedar Key. >> We're back. It's been two days. We have restaurants open. We'll have more vendors than we did at the last one day. Um, and uh, hope I'll see some of you there. The school will be selling PTO will have
033hamburgers and hot dogs, whatever. And then the individual clubs will have other food items, >> seafood items, >> and of course the safety patrol will have water. >> There you go. >> Miss Baxter. >> Well, things are going well at Chief. Um, they've been having the parent teacher conferences at both schools. Those have been going well. Report cards are going home soon. Um, Chief Elementary is having their fall festival on the 24th and also the Rotary will do the Purple Pinky Day that day as well. And um, as far as the high school goes, they're getting spruced up a little bit and they want to thank Mr. Stockman and his team for doing the work that they're doing at Chief Middle High School. They appreciate it. And that's all I have. >> Thank you, ma'am.
034Miss Clemenson, >> um I too enjoy Miss Story. We have We're lucky to have someone like that in our district. I think it takes a special person um to have that job. So, she's she's definitely an asset. And love seeing all the kids. I'm probably going to get blamed for my nephew being called Woodrow at the meeting because he's forward, but somebody else blame on Melissa. She's not in here. We set the agenda. Um, volleyball districts tonight, Cedar Key with I think Willist, right? And then the winner plays Bronson on >> Thursday. Bronson or Chief? >> I don't know. >> She I think it's Chief on Thursday. Okay. Yeah. And um I just want to say I'm very glad Miss Campbell's okay. >> Yes. >> Because there are just certain people that you meet and
035we haven't known each other long, but you feel like you've known your whole life. And I am just you have a lot more work to do. So I'm very thankful you're with us. >> I thank you. I'm very happy to be here. >> Very happy that the Lord >> I couldn't bring it up. >> Listen to my prayer. >> Yes. >> Thank you, ma'am. Yes. I'm thrilled she's here, too. We got a lot more to go. There's a reason you're here. >> Hey, I'm learning. Am I doing better? >> You're doing great. You're doing great. I'm proud of you. Um I'm thrilled that you're here. And I also want to say thank you for She brought us trinkets from her adventures. >> The name on it. >> I see that. >> You get a little
036kickback on that. >> Yeah. I I don't want to tell you though that the Campbell were the most notorious clan in Scotland. But >> you don't have to tell us that. We kind of figured that. We know these Campbell. >> That's not news. >> But I'm glad you're here. I really I'm glad you came to when we got the news. I was like, "Oh, Lord." But you look strong. You look tough. I'm ready. >> All right. >> He's tough. >> We got a lot more to go, don't we? I I agree with all the prior >> uh statements. It's It's uh >> I love seeing Miss Sto's class. I love hearing the stories of Kyle Quincy and those kids going out. I really appreciate those business owners that let those kids come in. Uh we
037are blessed in Levy County to have those people here. And I think I read a story one time that kids with disabilities are actually angels and they're special and they're only given to people who are special enough to take care of them and look out for them. And I agree with that. I also think it's important to recognize the uh the kids with those great scores >> that they received tonight. And I say that to say this and I want this this is being recorded so I hope somebody sees it. Somewhere in Levy County tonight sits a kid that got a three and it took all he or she could do to get that three. I'm not an educator. I lived in a house where I had a kid that could get a five with
038no problem. He didn't have to try. >> I had a kid that didn't try and he knocked down whatever we had to get to move to the next level. That's what he did. We call him Hussein Bolt because he don't have to run fast every time. He just say runs faster than everybody else and he just wins then. And I had a kid that struggled the whole time. And every time and and I I don't mean to short change the ones that got the fives. I'm proud of them. I'm proud of them. But every time that happened, every time they recognize those kids all that made that son of mine feel worse, like I'm not good enough. And so I say this hoping that some kid out there hears this. You are not judged on
039that score. You are a person. That's why we educate everybody individually. That's why in Levy County, we have a person like Marcy Young that will help a parent go my kid doesn't learn the same way. You had that little thing said we don't all learn the same. And I'm telling you right now, if we we we sometimes forget, or at least the state of Florida forgets, if we lined everybody in this room up at one end of a football field, I'm going to be last. I'll tell you that. We're all going to get to the other end at a different point, but we're going to get there. Doesn't mean I'm better than you. Doesn't mean you're better than me. We all get there. Sometimes we're so busy focusing on the fastest, the biggest, the strongest,
040the one that gets the perfect score that the middles get forgotten. They work hard, too. And if I I extend out tonight a hug to every kid that did all they could to get that two, that three, and it took the tears and the strain because it's not fair that so much pressure is put on young people to get those scores. Um, so that's Cameron Asbell, the human's opinion, not the school board member. And I don't speak for lead school, I'm talking for me. And as a parent of a kid, >> I've been on both ends of that. And as good as that five felt, that one felt so much worse. He couldn't help it, as Marcy knows. And I will I'll go further on that. Now, today, those two kids on the on the
041extreme end, my kid, it took all he could do to get a two. We had to go through a lot to get him out of school. He's gone on to college. didn't you chose to not use his IEP that he could take because he said no one knows about this when he went to college he went to trade school at Santa Fe one-year program got out one week after his brother graduated from the University of Florida the five today as we sit here today the number one is making about $20,000 more a year than the five >> the number One is focusing on I want my own home. I want my wife. I want to build this and I want to advance. I'm going to own my own business. I'm going to do 05 is
042going I think I'm going to go a different way. So I say that to say if you see a kid that got a two, got three. Say you matter. We're going to get there. You got this. Right. We're not at the end yet. >> That's right. >> I'll leave you with that. Thank you all for being here tonight. It's a great night. Meeting and journ