001that you come before us this evening. Move among us. Give us wisdom, discernment to make the choices that we've made, the decisions that we've made. We have people among us close to district where they need your support. They need your grace. They need separate healing for family members, friends, and loved ones. We ask that you come down upon our students while they face the last days of their school year. Be with them in testing. Be with the teachers. Be with the staff. Keep them safe. We ask all this in your name tonight. Amen. 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. I'll entertain a motion to adopt
002our agenda. So moved. Second. Motion and a second. If there are no objections, we'll pass that by general consent. Seeing none, we'll move on to welcome everybody here tonight. We're gonna We got a lot to cover. We're like smoking the bandit. We got a long way to go in a short time. We got a late start. All right. We're going to start with Miss Kaylee Wade. Not just me, all my friends. So, um we want to give the board an update on our district mentors. We have three wonderful, awesome teachers who are our district mentors. Um, as you know, several years ago, it's been a long time. Uh, we had a lot of people coming through the education programs at the universities and they were coming out fully certified. We know that is not the
003case any longer. that most of them come al certified. And so we needed some assistance in getting them across the finish line because it is a a monumental task to come in when you've never been through an education program, learn how to teach kids, manage kids the curriculum, and then basically get another degree. And so we um found Mandy through some wonderful knowledge of hers and some expertise and some um other districts and how they did that. We came up with this program and it's been very successful and we added a little I'll let them um shine tonight, but they we added a little another thing to them this year and they have taken it on and done a beautiful job. So I'll let you guys have some handouts for you of course so that
004you can some of these slides are a little wordy. We want to make sure you have a copy. Thank you. All right. So, this is the team. Um, I'm Lauren Whitehurst. I serve the community. So, all I'm ser Well, the first thing we put together is a little infographic so you can kind of see um you know we talked about these teachers are obviously coming in alternatively certified but this year we also support teachers that are coming straight from the college of education so on a professional certificate and this is just to show you the different levels of mentor support that they receive. If you're year one brand new to teaching uh whether you have an internship or are coming from a different field you're getting weekly support. So you're seeing us every single week.
005um we are meeting with you in 45 minutes or um or sometimes they ask can you come back for lunch and it's even longer but they are definitely um you know our number one priority is making sure that we're seeing them because it's their first year going through um education and then we move over to people that are bi-weekly those are year two um or people that are on a temporary certificate that still have modules because the modules are basically what we were calling getting a second degree so they're having to dive into 20 different things that they've got to complete 20 modules throughout PC um thing could be on classroom management or u might be on you know differentiated instruction things that are kind of very foreign so they're still needing that support so
006we're not you know moving them quite to a monthly level even if they've been in the PLC program for four years we want to make sure that they're seeing us and getting those things accomplished monthly support would be people that are temporary certificates but they're year three through five these are usually are people who just have testing so they just need us to come in there and pump them up and be like okay let's study prep a little bit. Let's go through some questions together like are you registered for your test? Do you know how to register for your test? Um you know go through some of the testing options which we'll talk about later for some prep things that they do and then also admin can request we meet um very closely with admin
007and admin can sometimes sometimes I'm sorry sometimes say um this teacher could use your support can you fit that into your schedule and we accommodate those admin requests. Uh so some of the things that we do uh we put these into two different categories and I'm going to talk to you about the here and now. So when we see them and they're on fire and uh they're you know struggling and it's just you know like they need to have something prepped, they need something copied, they don't know how to put grades in Skyward or just they're struggling with whatever it may be. Um I'm going from the bottom up now. I would say that that's when we come in and we bring the light and we put out those fires and we try to um
008you know get them in a calm place, make them feel ready. A lot of times that question is just what's on your mind and it can lead into so much. Um, but we've also put together some documents that will help them so they know all the different things that we can do. Um, we're going to offer non-evaluated support, coaching, mentoring in the areas reflected or the areas that have shown themselves to be something that they need based on an observation. Um, and a lot of times that comes just from admin letting us know um, and the teacher feeling comfortable and saying, "Hey, I've got an observation coming up. I need to area who are there to support them through that. Um the how my mentor can help. You'll see that document just a minute. Yeah.
009This is what we hit them with right when we introduce ourselves and say, "Hi, we're going to be your mentor this year." And so it's like, you know, coming from a different field, they're like, "Okay." and you're assigned, you know, sometimes you choose a mentor in life, but we we are assigned to them and uh we're their lifelong friends, but also we want to show them like we can help you with instruction and here's all the gamuts of things like that. It could be something as simple at the beginning of the year. I think we definitely help a lot with like prepping materials, making copies, you know, just helping them with like, you know, making sure that they feel good and they feel ready and knowing what they um, you know, need. And then it
010moves into more like detailed lesson plans, you know, reviewing curriculum maps, hitting the stuff that's a little bit more needy. Um, and then classroom management, uh, all the different things that fall under that. A lot of times it's just setup of the classroom. You know, we're walking in, we're like, okay, if there's a lot of stuff on the desk and stuff, they're not ready for students. Let's help get the room ready. And so, but then that moves to what are you going to use for behavior management? What does the school use? Um, how to keep, you know, positive relationships working with families. um messages, Skyward, all those different things that fall under that. Certification of course is going to be the testing that they need to do for the modules um through PLCP. Also, they
011have reading competencies on top of that. So, they have all these requirements, reading competency competencies and how you get reading endorsed in the state of Florida and that is a lot of work in addition to all the other things that they're doing. So, really, we're like a really great manager. I always tell them when I go through things, you don't have to remember all of this. That's my job. So, my is just to help you check off these things and move along and stay on track and say, "Okay, we got this accomplished this year. Let's tackle something else next year. You did a test. Awesome. Let's go and dive into the modules." We don't have to necessarily knock it out all at the same time, but we do have some big overachievers and teachers that
012do complete it very quickly, but um we're the manager of all those things. And then finally, growing professionally. A lot of times we've got a teacher who, you know, may have had um some education experience or maybe they went in through like the pro program and they've got some background as a pair professional or like volunteered and so they've got like a handle on some things or they're just a natural. So then we can help grow them professionally by um helping them with we coach teach with them so they can get that experience and do that. But we also do that with teachers who don't have that um level of where they're at. uh we can do walkthroughs you know and actually do an observation for them and uh you know give that data and
013help them to grow that way. A lot of reflection even book and podcast recommendations just anything to help them grow professionally network with other teachers. Um we do a lot of times even like sending teachers to other campuses to observe teachers there if they're like an island um like Yankee Town. I have a first grade teacher there who needed another first grade teacher to observe. So we we sent her to Joyce Bullet and she had an awesome day and got to teaching and it's really cool just county all healthy county so it's really cool to network and connect teachers that way okay and almost done I was like and yes practice is a little hard right finally the we call this a teacher 101 so every month we walk in with a cute little newsletter
014that has a neat little icon and stuff on it and go through all the different things the headings for this one are all things instruction you know because they haven't heard these terms a lot of times and it's like or they've heard them and it's like they just weren't ready for them at that moment, but we want to make sure throughout the year that they're supported in different things. This also helps if a teacher is just like not we're we're struggling to build that relationship and we need to get that relationship going quickly because we need to be their safe person. this has been really helpful to be like, let's look through this and go through it and make sure you feel good about all these things or can you go through this, highlight the
015things that you need to talk about and then I'm going to come back later and we're going to go through all these things together when your brain's ready for it. And teachers have been loving it this year. Um, we've been putting questions in there. I mean, one that's jumping out at me right now is like questions about emergency drills, you know, like if they've gone through a lockdown practice and stuff and they might want to like clarify some things, we can be that person and then if we don't know the answer, direct back to the school. Um, but just so many different things that we kind of like and we do these each month. So these are the teacher 101 ones when we reference those progress reports of course is in September because that's something
016that they're going to be experiencing knocking those things out. Positive phone calls. That's a really big one that I like talking about because if you set the tone off of a positive ear, it's all it's going to be wonderful and amazing at that point. You establish like the first time you call, I always tell my teachers, the first time you call it should be something positive because then when you have to call with something negative you've called and like it is awkward and a lot of my, you know, newer age teachers are like, can I just text them? Can I remind message? So, and I said like just do like five a day and then be like check check even just for them to hear your voice and say, "Hey, I'm really excited to have
017your child in my classroom this year. It's going to be a great year. Let's do all we can to support them." So, just little things like that, knowledge that we have as teachers, we've tried to put into this document to pass along to them. Um, it's just a collection place to move them along and help them have a positive year. All right, that's me. Um, so she talked a lot about the here and now. So, when we walk in, there's a buyer, they have that scared look in their face that they're going to walk out. We're going to that and keep them in the room. Um but for our teachers when they are in a good place um that might be on a temporary um we focus on that path to professional. So she mentioned
018the PLCP program. That's the professional learning certification program. And um that was where our program started, you know, was to help these teachers that were choosing professional learning certification program. And a lot of the things that you touched on earlier, the how my mentor can help me was something at the very beginning. um the teacher uh 101's was something at the very beginning, but now it's going to help pro and our PLC um teachers. And so when they choose to join the program that's offered by NEC um for free for our teachers, we walk alongside of them. We orient them um we help or their secretaries, we help keep track of what modules they've completed um of the 20 and some of them are super easy. Some of them are very robust um where you're
019planning, you're videoing your preassessing, assessing, analyzing your assessments, um keeping track of when you assess, what what changes did you make in your instruction before you moved on to the next lesson. Um so they do go deep. We help them register um prepared for the required testing and they have three tests that they have to take, their certification, their professional ed, and their general knowledge. and then being a part of PLCP, depending on what they teach, they have to also be reading endorsed if they're elementary or teaching reading or an ESC teacher. And then if they're um like science or social studies, they only need reading competency one and two. And um a lot of them are like, "Well, I'm not a reading teacher." I said, "Uh, is there reading in your content area?" Then
020yes, you need to know what areas students struggle with with reading and just having some tools in your toolbox to be able to support them as readers and learners of your content. Um now, uh some of the teachers, like we said, they don't have coursework. They might have come from a out of state college, um that didn't have an internship or testing. So, we do help them a lot with those three tests I mentioned. Um so, we've created um and gotten teachers that have already passed their test to um have a lending library for our teachers that might not have the funds to buy their own test prep book. So, um we've also worked with two different um test prep companies to accounted test prep for our teachers where instead of paying $50 a month,
021we can offer it for $25 a month. Um and um completion of the professional competency program. So if they graduate from a college and they didn't have an internship, the state of Florida still wants to have proof that they have mastered their Florida educator accomplished practices. Basically what we call them is the teaching standards. Students have standards that they need to learn. Teachers also have standards that they need to show mastery. Um and so through that program that's embedded in the teacher 101's and in our mentorship and our weekly support, they get um exposure to all of the things that they need. Um so when they choose PLCP um we offer one of the perks of doing this program and not going to college on their own is we offer free um paid um work
022time for them um to work on those modules. So you can see here we have modules once a month after orientation. we skip to December because December is kind of like Mayber and it's just a little busy. Um and we've basically mapped out if they needed to finish all 20 modules in a year, they could um if they attended all of these um cadres. And then something new this year um that was a huge success because this is volunt voluntary. They don't have to come to this. Um but here is where we kind of grab a hold of them and they can't say no is we offer sitebased quarterly support at their school during their school day where we get them a sub for three hours. um and they come out of the classroom and
023they work on the modules with maybe two or three um other men mentees with us in the room. Um and so you can see the rest of the modules mapped out. So if they came to everything, they could get a really big hand good um head start on finishing all of their things within PLC. Um we send out this this is just a abbreviated version of our test prep options where they can click on the link and see the library books that we have for lending. Um and then links to learning leaison and 240. Learning leaison believe in that to be successful in the test you need to learn all the content. And then 240 believes I'm going to give you a diagnostic and then I'm going to make your path based off of what
024your weaknesses are. So depending on their style that they want to do, we have some options for them. So why why are we here? Why are we doing this? These are the numbers to back up um our program in 2019. We had eight teachers on a temporary certificate. Um, and out of those three, they had chosen the professional learning certification program. Today, we have 71 teachers that are on a temporary certificate and 50 of those teachers are in our PLC program. And so, um, we started this program in 2022, 2023. Um that was a year where teachers really had no idea was a what was ahead of them and they kind of were like yeah I'll start that yeah I have three years on this temporary I'll start that when um yeah in year three
025so we started and there were about 10 teachers in year three that had to finish all the things all modules all testing all um reading competencies in the year. It was a very wonderfully stressful year. Um, but we had a really good success rate. We had 14 teachers complete that year, the program. Um, now in March of 2023, um, the state said, "Well, Jon, I feel really bad for you. You only have three years to finish it. You can do it in five." Well, then you can see we fell off um and we only had two completers last year, but we're ramping up them back up. And so far this year, we already have seven completers um that have moved um on to professional and then or are like they've applied and we're waiting for
026the state to do it, but the application has been submitted. And then um we have six that have all of their modules complete of the 20. They're just finishing up testing. So they're trying to wait for competency to be um available for them to jump into. And um since the induction of the program, we have 89% retention rate of our employee um our PLCP completers and that was the whole goal was to get to know these teachers make connections let them feel supported um so that they would stay um and we could retain them. So when we were asked to present um to the board um we wanted to survey our principles and our mentees and just ask them we asked them three questions um what what has gone well this year. We actually only
027asked two questions of our mentees. What has gone well this year and what would you want added or um enhanced or you know give us some a little bit of constructive feedback. We're okay with it. And then the principles we asked three different questions. two of those being that. And so we just picked three um from my Williston people um quotes from their survey. And I just wanted to highlight Jacob Hall was a teacher that I didn't get to support last year because he had a sightbased mentor. Um and so I came in, I supported him bi-weekly because he's in that second year of the pro based off of the um the tiers of support that Moren talked about earlier. And um he said mentoring this year helped him move to the next level. Um
028and and how taught him how to support positive behavior and not focus on um harping on the negative. Um and then implementing the AVID strategies that he was learning at school, like his school was doing a great job with PL, but he was like, "How does that look in my music classroom?" Um and so by having this program and me being able to sit with him for the 45 minutes of his planning, he saw value in it. Um my second quote is from Lish who took over um a classroom that was kind of on fire, right? Um three like the week before Christmas and um she's done an amazing job. I love working with her. Um and so the things that she was like, I just needed all the systems. There were so many systems
029I did not know in in my school that she was able to help me with. And then just having somebody to point her in the direction of the the curriculum, the resource, who um can get her the resources that she needed, and just being a listening ear, a consistent listening ear that um I'm not busy doing other things. My time was strictly for you for 45 minutes, um whatever you needed. And then, um Leah Boyd, uh the Wilston Middle High assistant principal, she highlighted that the teachers that she's worked with were really open and receptive to my feedback because it was non-evaluative um and more willing to alter their instruction because it wasn't like a I told you so from an evaluator. Um and then something new that we added this year for our PLCP
030teachers was um in November, once in semester 1 and once in semester 2, we sat down with um admin, me, the mentee and the mentor and we just did a pulse check on what have you accomplished so far, you know, from August to November and what have you accomplished from November to March um in the program and then also what we're working on like outside of instructional supports that we're working on. And then school was able to share something positive about that person where I got to hear it um that was going on in their classrooms or how they were um adding to the school culture and then an area that I could continue to support and um she did a great job. She always said, "Is there anything that you need from us?" you
031know, and that gave the mentee a chance where she might they might have felt uncomfortable um saying that like on their own, but like their mentee was there, their mentor was there and their mentor would stand up for them. Um and so really good um rich conversations came from that. Um and so that's Wilson community. I'm the newbie of the group. This is my first year and so everybody that I was supporting was new to me and I was new to them as well. Um my first quote comes from Jennifer Gideon. She's a kindergarten teacher. This is her second year in the PLCP program and she's been mostly focusing on um reading competencies. Um but the things that she highlighted um she actually switched halfway through the year last year. She started in fifth grade
032then finished in kindergarten. And so even at the beginning of this year she felt very illquipped for kindergarten. Um so she had lots of questions. So some of the things that we talked about were center time activities just keeping those engaging and rigorous but they have to be able to kind of do them themselves. um classroom management strategies that looks a little different sometimes for going from a fifth grade classroom to a kindergarten classroom. Um implementing parent teacher conferences like she talked about trying to make that positive um connection first and then also understanding her data from state assessments because that looks very different from the fifth grade to kindergarten and how you're looking at that knowing how they're fairing against the rest of their school, the rest of the district, the rest of the
033state and just knowing where to go from there. Um, I also support um Roslin Bethula. She's an ESC teacher. This is her second year in PLCP. Um, she's finished her reading endorsement this year. So, that was the main thing that we worked on. Um, she got all of her competencies finished. Uh, she talked about the fact that it was very helpful and timely. We met on a weekly basis. Um, valuable support and guidance, just knowing where things are, what to do, reducing workload. Obviously, that's one thing that teachers feel kind of bogged down at times. So, anything that we can do to kind of help them feel a little bit lighter to get through their year. Improving her classroom culture and then also just gaining insights in her in the teaching profession. Just knowing what
034to do, where to find all the things. Um she is one of those that's just a lifelong learner. She wants to know everything. What how can you help? What can you do? She goes to all of the um neck trainings, just anything. So she's like a sponge. She's a great person to work with. And then also um with Amy Weber, principal at CES. She just talked about the consistency because we are there every week or bi-weekly. Um having great resources for them, scheduling observations of other classrooms. Morning talked about that as well, just putting them in a classroom with someone else so they can watch some good teaching practices from highly effective teachers as well. And then in her coursework and endorsements, I think she was probably talking about Roslin because that was one of
035our big celebrations this year, just being able to see them be able to check something off of that list because they get a list and so when they get to check it off, we get to celebrate with them and that's one of the best parts of our job. feedback from I have Thomas who does in lab he's in his second year of PLCP um and has gone from traditional classroom to ingenuity which is completely a big switch for him and it looks really different in PLC trying to fit that into what they want their modules to look like and you know just um that was something that he touched on you know that doesn't fit the mold of his unique and common teaching role but he always says everybody says I have an answer or
036I'm going to find the answer and that's always true and been there for him through the thick of the thin. Um, and another one of my teachers at Bronson Middle High is Catherine Barios. It's her first year in PLC and she came to us from North Carolina and um, a completely different field. She teaches Spanish and AVID um, and she said mentoring is giving her a safe space um, to ask questions and grow professionally. And then Kaylee, the assistant principal of Bronson Elementary talked about when I listen in and get specific feedback from them or from the teachers um then I review it uh well in this case from admin I would review it with the teachers and then give them actionable steps um just touched on being friendly being approachable being direct um I
037think that that's one of the things that we all pride ourselves on is that we do mentor them they are mentees but we do get very close with them and we you know become um you know the knower of all things um but at the same time like their biggest cheerleader their friend and just love watching all the successes that they experience brought me Heather. All right. So, we gave you some specific quotes, but after that, we went back through the document. So, we kind of wanted to see those things that kept popping up from menty after menty. So, if you look, we kind of made a little word cloud here of those things that several people kind of commented on. I'll give you a chance to look at those. I'll highlight a few of
038them, but um some that kind of pop out. Effective feedback, eager to help because we are we do enjoy being able to be a timely that keeps coming up. But there's several different little comments, so I'm not going to read all of those to you, but you can look at those. Um, same thing with administration, looking at what kept popping up from all of them. Teachers have support. Um, I don't know if they specifically put it on here, but one that everybody keeps talking about is the non-evaluative. It feels very different when you have admin come in the room than when you have a fellow teacher come in the room to say, "Hey, why don't we try this? Why don't we look at this?" Um, the different iation. We differentiate for our students all the
039time. We have to can't say that word differentiate for our teachers as well because they do have different needs at different times in their educational career. So those are some different things that they talked about and then we are lifelong learners. All year long we've talked and thought about what are things that we can add so that we can make this program even better. So we put our heads together. We also look back at some of the suggestions from the mentees and from admin and we came up with some ideas. One of the things that some of the mentees talked about is wanting us in their classroom a little bit more. Some of those observations are naturally embedded in the PLCP program, but if they're working on reading endorsements, then they're not doing those modules.
040So, we may not be doing classroom observation. So, our goal next year is to embed that in our teacher 101. So, it's like we're going to come into your room this many times per year and we're going to focus in the beginning of the year on classroom management because that's usually the first thing that someone coming to the teaching field needs. They've not been in a classroom before. So, it's just all of the systems that they need to put in place to make their classroom run effectively to handle behavior in the most positive way they can. Um, in October and November, we'll focus on student engagement, the things that they can do to make sure that those kids are buying into what they're teaching them. they can be an expert in their content area, but
041if your kids are not engaged, you're just talking to yourself. So, it's helping them with those things that they can do to engage the students um in January and February, a little bit later in the year when they've gotten those other things under their belt, then we can start looking at effective questioning, increasing the rigor because we know the state tests expect them to be able to apply themselves with rigorous tasks. So, we've got to help them to put that practice into place. So those higher level thinking questions, questioning each other, those really good discussions that we want them to have. And then in March and April, because we are an AVID district, we want to show them how that they can put those AVID strategies into practice in their classrooms. And so we're going
042to actually focus on some specific ones in the year where we can come in and observe their use of those strategies in their classroom. um with the actual PEC program or PECP program, one of the things that we wanted to do was actually talk to them more specifically about the professional education competencies. Those were the ones that she was talking about as like their teacher standards. And so they kind of forget because they're in the nitty-gritty with the kids, they kind of forget about like which ones of those things they need to focus on. And these go right along with the Danielson rubric that they're going to be evaluated on. So, we're going to highlight some of those as well in August and September. Their professional responsibility and ethical conduct, just the things that they
043need to know about the right way to be a teacher, the things that they should be doing. Um, October through February, there's a few more instructional design and lesson planning, instructional delivery and facilitation and assessment. That's a little bit longer of a stretch because there's so much involved in the instructional design. There's actually a page and it has lots of little boxes that they get checked off and there's quite a few under that section. And then ending the year in March and April with continuous improvement and responsibility. We obviously want to implement that and get them in the frame of mind of what can we do to be better. We always want to be trying to be better no matter if we get a highly effective or not any more distinguished evaluation. What can I
044do to be more distinguished next year? So just kind of putting those things into place. Um with a school-based admin overview, what we found is we do communicate with our admin, but they're obviously not in the room when we're having these sessions. And so there was a little bit of confusion about some of what we do. And so we are going to take some time next year to meet with them and just to make sure they understand fully what our program looks like. Sharing some of the same documents that you're seeing, but just understanding what we're there for, that it is a very individualized program that we're dealing with what they need. We don't walk in with a script of these are all the things that we're going to do today. We have that teacher
045101, but if those are good for them, then we're going to figure out where they need something from. Um, and then also looking at that with the admin to say, "Okay, these are the things we're touching on. Is there anything that is specific to your campus that you would like us to add to this so that we can make sure they understand how this particular thing works in your school?" Because obviously, even though we're all in the same district, schools do things a little bit differently. So, we want to make sure we give that admin the opportunity to tell us how that would best work on their particular campus. um the school-based pre-planning meeting with mentors. Obviously, our new teachers that will be hired in the next several weeks. They're going to come to Elevate
046Levy over the summer. And so, after they have that three days of onboarding, then we also want to add in those school expectations and well as well and give them an opportunity to sit down with us and talk about what that looks like on each individual campus. It is a very overwhelming time. Obviously, they're coming in and all the teacher things are thrown at them. So, this gives us an opportunity to sit down with them and really talk about their campus. Kind of make them take a breath. You've got this. What can we do to help you get through these first few weeks of school? Because I think sometimes they think they're the only ones that feel that first week of school craziness. I'm like, no, you've been teaching 25 years. You feel crazy the
047first week of school. So, let's look at what's manageable and we're going to help you get through this. And then last, the sitebased PLCP cadres. One thing we talked about in a meeting last week is especially like Yankee Town and Cedar Key, it's a little bit harder for them to get over here right after school. So, it's been we've talked about being able to offer a sitebased as needed day for them to work on their PLC modules. We can stay for an extra hour after school. They still have the option of coming to the district to do the the two-hour one, but then this gives them an option if we choose to give one to just do it right after school. So that is the end. But one thing I did want to say, spending
048the majority of my educational career in a much smaller district, it has really been wonderful to me in this program to see a district that saw the vision to put this into place and to continue to support it because it is very, very effective. It helps the teachers and just gives them the support that they need. They don't get that everywhere. And so I think it's wonderful that Levy had the vision to do it and to keep working with it. Anybody? Well, I just want to say that I was involved my last year, the first year of this and we had an awesome mentor that came to our school that year and I was mentoring another teacher and I would think, "Oh gosh, I've got to remember to go over this with her or tell
049her about that." And so I would get with her during plan time and she would say, "Oh, Lauren's already done that with me. She's already taken care of." So it's very needed and very appreciated. It's good as we have supported this as adapting workforce obviously having to come from you know a lot of certified teachers to now a lot of people teaching outfield that Le County has the vision to kind of you know support these teachers and we want them to succeed not just support our students but we al need to also support our teachers and help them grow and have the consistency and hopefully staying with the district and we know that certainly helps you know the more retention and everything else with the teachers that consistency and Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. I
050just want to add real quick. You guys did your survey, but we do a district survey and so I pulled up and found some words that were used to describe the three of you and best mentor I've ever had. Amazing MVPs of angel, God, and blessing. That summarizes all of your work. Thank you very much. Thank y'all very much. If y'all need to go, slip on out if you need to. Well, one of your kids. Well, I'm saying if they want to leave, want to stay, you stay. Oh, yeah. For sure. Drink the water. For sure. While talking. Hey, Mandy. You know what to tell Jim for me, don't you? Thank you. All right, Mr. Mr. Richardson, come on down. Tell us all about it. They got they got they got it. We share the
051presentation with you, Miss Boil, but we didn't email it to you. Would you like us to email it to you? Yes. Well, do you do they does Mr. Bennett have it? There you go. Boardroom. Do you have internet access? and how this came about. I heard that y'all could not go to state, right? No ma'am. Did it get cancelled or what happened with that? We didn't have enough funding. The funding got cut by the government, so we didn't. Okay. And when I heard that that one evening, that's how they came before you tonight. figured let them come and show their wonderful talents to us because they didn't get the opportunity to go to state. I know. I know. Yeah. Not her. It needs to go to boardroom.org. And then Mr. boardroom.org Okay. Yeah. All right.
052Good evening everyone. I'm the outgoing battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Cobb. They're going to be giving the presentation today. This is the incoming battalion commander Abigail and the incoming exodywing by JC. Um, JRC stands for Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp. Many people think that if you join JTC, you have to join the military, which isn't true. DRTC is a high school credit, and we don't push you to join the military. However, ROC, which is college level, if you're in ROC in college, you have to join the military because they pay for your school. So, if you us. Make sure you put the J. Um, and our mission is to motivate young people to become better citizens. We don't want we don't push anybody to join the military. If you want to, that's fine. I'm doing it,
053but bunch of cadets aren't. So, it's we just want people to be better citizens. All right. Leadership and teamwork. So, in our program, we promote teamwork among our cadets and leadership among the cadets who have been in there for a while. Um during class we promote activities that build teamwork while the class leaders. They build their leadership by leading our cadets and you know steering them the right way while we're doing these activities to help them build leadership. Um within we have the top three we have the BC which is the battalion commander. We have the exo which is the executive officer and then we have our command sergeant major. Now the job of the battalion commander is to oversee the entire battalion, all the cadetses, all the staff, everything. While the XO helps her
054oversee the staff and officers, while the command sergeant major helps her oversee cadetses and also the command sergeant major oversees the drill team, the color guard, the flag detail, all that. So in staff there is the S1. The S1's job is to input all cadets into a system in JRTC called jumps. Jum stands for JRTC unit management system where they input the cadetses and they put in based cadets have awards, promotions, ribbons, all that. They make sure all of that is in there and ready to go. The S2, their job is to make sure all our equipment and all the stuff we have gotten from say the government and the military say that's all still there and safe and not broken or anything like that. The S3's job is to or uh organize events that
055we have done and put like cadets who have gone to them into drums and make sure that they log who went there, who did what, all that stuff. And they also build our weekly schedule so we know what we're doing each week. The S4 deals with equipment and supply. They make sure all of our cadets have uniforms for JR toC. They make sure that if we don't have enough uniforms for all the cadets that we tell our instructor who will get us more uniforms for that year. And at the end of the year, they make sure all the uniforms come back so we can repeat the process next year of giving out uniforms. And finally, the last staff position is the S5. the S5, they organize all events we have. They make sure it's all
056in order. They make sure everyone knows what they're doing. They'll call restaurants, say when we're dining out, they'll call them in advance so the restaurants like know how many people are coming and how much we should expect to be paying. And they also look into pricing, you know, how much things cost, how much money we have to pay for stuff. And that's all the staff positions. All of them play different roles, but they're all very important. Okay, organizational day. We just started organizational day was something we started this year. We do on the last club day of the school year and it's basically we get cadetses who will have good grades, no less than a C in JC and no Fs and they can have no disciplinary actions, no referrals, no ISS, no OSS. We
057get them together on the last club day of the year and we just do team building exercises to help like strengthen them, help build morale. We do tug war, soft kickball. We have water activities, throw water balloons, we did the ice bucket challenge but without the ice cuz I was too cold. And we also let we my ex come in. We let them put water on us like big old bucket poured on us because they wanted to and you know it's helped to like build crowd make stronger bonds between each cadet. So that's what we did. We also they get free food when they go so and free drinks so they don't pass out. We don't want that. And yeah, that's organizational day. We started this year. We're hoping to throughout the years to get
058more cadets motivated to keep their grades up because we're all about education. We want them to have good grades so they can graduate, become better citizens, and like do something in their life. So yeah, the drill team. So the drill team is a group of cadetses who specialize in drill movements. Drill is marching. Um at school, after school, we will hold drill practices where they practice drill. Now, usually we hold these practices on Tuesday and Thursday, but as the year goes on and we get closer to drill competitions and even state, we up how many days we practice. We up the time we practice and all that. And while we're practicing at school, the cadetses, they work together to sharpen their skills. They work together and build teamwork by boosting each other up, making each
059other better at drill so we can all work together better as a drill team. This year we were going to go to state. We were eligible to but we unfortunately could not make it to state due to financial cuts. And also in the drill team there's as you can see we won multiple trophies. Okay. But there's also different things you can win trophies for. You can win them from squad for a squad which is six people and one person to command them. A platoon which is 12 people and one person to command them. And color guard which is four people. two people who hold one person holds American, one person holds a state flag and the other two hold color guard rifles and you just march around in a box. It's hard. We used to
060be bad. The academic team, the academic team is six cadetses. We get six cadets from the program who are good in their studies and we put them all together. We practice in the mornings and we all compete on a national level. we compete against other schools which have DTC programs and this year we went to the academic pool which is the big thing for it and we went to it but we didn't go to Washington DC on board we went that good I guess but next year we'll try to like practice more and then hopefully make it Washington DC that's the whole JTC like a battalionist everybody in the JTC program we call them a battalian There's 105 cadets in the battalion. We're hoping to aim to get more. And we also allow it's mainly
061eighth graders through seniors. Those who are allowed to participate in almost everything. But we allow seventh graders into the program for like a taste of it to see if they like it, if they'd like to join, for them to know what it takes. Every Wednesday, we wear uniform. Most people don't like wearing uniforms. So, we bring them in to see if they want to wear it. It's not just this. It's like the blue is fancy. Some people don't like wearing that, but yeah, they just get a little taste of it, see if they like it. Um, I joined the program when I was in seventh grade. I like it. I'm about to be a senior. And it also like helps build you throughout the years belonging in it. It helped like it made me gain
062confidence. Oh, seventh grade I could not do this. I could not stand up here. But I built confidence and I also like I'm leaving. I'm I'm responsible enough to lead the big town. In seventh grade I was like I wouldn't say bad but you know I was a little wild. Now I'm more responsible. I work worked together very well and so it's helped me really come together throughout the years. Any questions? She trained you up right. Right. Yeah she did. Yeah. How do you how do you uh master your rank? Like who decides who the um head person is? chief this well so cop she was the previous battalion commander she was a senior she's a senior so mostly 11 to 10th graders they applied we do interviews so I did an interview to be
063BC he did an interview to become exo and chief is there and cob is there as us positions that we talked about about certain things mean in the program current events because you got to make sure you know current events and they ask these questions and then In a couple days, they go over it together and they both decide who would be the best fit for the program along with staff positions. That what we do as staff. They get interviews and we decide who will be best for the program. You also get promoted by doing good in the program. Like this year I got promoted to first RJ because I had two classes there to see I was only a junior who had two classes. So the more you participate, the more you do things
064outside of school, car washes, fundraisers, everything, you get promoted up because you show how much you're into the program and you're willing to do for the program. So when was state and when did you find out you couldn't go to state? State was closer to um December, a little bit after December because that's when the main competitions happened. Uh so around January is when we went to a competition that decided whether we could go to state be eligible for state or not. And we did win and we were able to apply and be eligible for state, but that's when the financial cuts happened and we weren't able to attend state. So there's no state contest. No state contest. They wiped it completely out. Hopefully next year though, it will come back better. We were pretty
065good though if I say you had to be to get. Are you the only junior ROC in in Levy? Well, you've got to go to Chief Land and get us set up with an air in Bronson. Can't do that. What's your favorite part of it? If you had to pick one part, um I don't know. I guess I like teaching the cadets. I have two classes, second period and seventh period. And I teach the upcoming seventh graders. I teach them ranks the phonetic alphabet military time and I like teaches them them things they don't know. Very good. Very part um definitely just the experience you get when you're in direct to see a lot of stuff will happen throughout the year that you might not expect and a lot of fun activities that you go
066through throughout the year. Um I've been in it for two years relatively short for some people right but throughout those two years I've loved the program. I've loved it since I've joined it. I think it's a great a great club in school, a great class to have and I'm very grateful for the program. I never think of summer. That's all for you instructor. How long have I been in the program? Yes, ma'am. Five years since day three. I'm a senior now. That's awesome. Are you going to join the military as well? What service? Which service? Army. One for you. What you think? I plan on going into RTC and joining the army as an officer. Awesome. Great. You too. Army Thank you. Thank you. [Music] And if y'all need to ease on out, you can.
067You're ready to go. Supper. Thank you very much. What about ice? Get ice cream. That's right. Chief, y'all did good. Make it happen. Have a good day. An associate to help. I want to say it has to be pretty impressive for those two young people. I know. Stand up here, which bullet points and do that presentation. I thought so, too. As you can see, Mr. I'm not going to make slides, but I'm always following the kids. You follow it today and I walk in here and she's not here. I'm like, "Okay, I'm not following her." So, tonight we have six bids to award. I can talk fast. So, if you have questions, stop me, ask me questions. Um, we have a petroleum bid, which is like our one of our yearly bids. We have in
068that bid, we have two one-year option renewals inside that, so it could be up to three years. Typically, it is. as long as the board and United Fuels currently agreed to it. Um, we also have five roofing projects to do for the summer. To give a timeline, we had advertisements the end of March, beginning of April for both of them. The only thing that differs with the roofing a little bit is we had mandatory pre- bids that they had to be at to be able to bid on the um roofing project. Um, and the deadline for the roofing project was a little bit later to give them more time. We had some addendums to send out, that sort of thing. Um, I think we can move in. I'd like to start with the petroleum bid
069252. Um, I did the tabulation sheet a little bit different this year. Typically, I only put the people that or the vendors that um, submitted a bid. Those were all the vendors that I sent the bid packet out to. Um, United Fuels was the only one that sent one back. We did have Almond Oil said that they sent one information back said no bid. They said, "We cannot offer a fixed margin for the contractor, including a weekly price. We get a rack price sheet from United Fuels currently every week, and we look at that markup to make sure we're getting charged what we're supposed to be getting charged." So, it's a variable. So, it's a variable based on the rack price. Correct. So, the price of the fuel changes weekly, but the markup what they
070can charge us. It stays the same. I was wondering how that worked. Yeah. Um, with that said, we got the bid back from United Fuels and it was a sealed bid and it was not sealed when we received it. So, with that being said, we have a few options we can do because it wasn't technically received properly. Um, first, we can reject all the bids and start over. Second, we could ask for direct negotiation with United Fuels because they were the only one that bidded. I don't really see a need for that because the only thing that was wrong was a sealed envelope. wasn't proceed. Um, third option is we could move forward since they were the only ones to submit a bid and that's my recommendation off of two reasons. One, we sent out
071a bid three years ago and they're the only ones that receive sent anything back and the markup price you see is the same markup price from three years ago. It's not changed. Yeah. Essentially, they're bidding the markup price. Correct. Correct. And for my part, I would like to interject on this. United Fuel was a service we get from the uh staff is phenomenal. You know, the times we have a shortage, unexpected use, and it's a long call and they're here. And so, we've got a long history. They, you know, we don't deal with the supervisor. We deal directly with the drivers and they get us taken care of. So, what what's your opinion of why we'll get more responses? My opinion is we're getting a good deal. Yes. The other thing, you know, we've got
072tanks and locations and and uh you know, almond is probably the the one we have had place in Wilston before. What was it? Tri County. Tri County oil has you know tried to work with them just nobody seemed and you know a lot of times with coming into a contract that you know it's easier to give a good right price right just my opinion it seemed like a good price I'm just curious why we don't get more participation from I know you know from other people like to try county to yes almond you know I'm just I've spoke to them on the phone and I just never get anything back in Almond I think too like you said just out Gainesville versus the only people that want mutual relationship with I would I would think
073that since we did not get any other bids and we have dealt with United Fuels all this time and I never suspect anything with that. I I would not have a problem going forward with this. And there is a a good explanation for that in my opinion as we discussed in a bit opening. Uh Mr. Bruce used to submit the bids. Longtime employee he has retired have another gentleman and he is not familiar with the bid submitting process and I think that's why we got it that way. He just didn't understand you know that it needed to be sealed. Is it just the envelope wasn't sealed or it was just like a Okay. Just curious how it was. No, we we do sealed bids. So, I wasn't sure if it just wasn't sealed or it
074was just No, it was not, but it was stamped. It was stamp. They put a cover letter on stamp with the date, the time. Yeah, we would need a motion on this one way or the other. So, move to accept the bid for United. Second. Have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. All right. Next one is starting the roofing project and this is for bid 2410 for Willis Elementary for building 127 and 8. I did create a different sheet. I'm sure y'all can see two different ones. One's the bid tabulation that we did at the um bid opening. The other one was one so y'all have to calculate all the prices up. Um I apologize. I did not put it in
075order of the price. I did an ABC order on that. if you did it that way. But um I will say as you can tell there on there I did that a little bit different too. I sent more bids out than those. But what you see on that sheet is everybody that showed up to the mandatory preid meeting. So out of all those we had six that sent bids back. Technically seven, but we had one that showed up after the deadline. So we had to reject that bid and not open that at all. So we had six out of those 10. Breezy. He handled the mandatory free bid meeting and I appreciate it because I was on vacation and actually I owe him thanks for awarding the last bid I was sick at. So I
076appreciate that too. Um we had a really good turnout. I don't know if we've ever had that many people turn out for how's it advertised to pre- bid. So we advertised it in the paper for two weeks. I also listed it on the website. But what we're finding out we believe there's a third party out there taking it from that website and put in other areas and that's where they're grabbing it. There was somebody that referenced demand tomato store. We didn't put it there, but it was grabbed. I know. I know one of them picked it up off demand and in our packet that we send out uh when they we have the mandatory preid is all of our construction bids are like that just because there's so many moving parts. We don't want people
077coming in at the 11th hour. Right. Yeah, I see the need for it for sure. I just want sure I had a call about asking about how advertised. Yeah. And the advertisement mandatory preid, correct me if I'm wrong, does not go out in the advertisement. It's just a call for bids. They have to reach out to us for the actual I think I had it in there. Did you have it in there? It's in there. the only way I know how to operate. Oh yeah. Yeah, there's definitely a need for it for sure. You know, make sure reputable reputable companies and also at that mandatory pre- bid at the end of that day, we have to have a uh pre-qualification statement, which is insuranceances, uh licenses, and all of that to make sure we're not
078moving forward with a company that's not even qualified to bid on the job. So that's due early in the process to to make sure we're not wasting time with somebody. Yeah. You get somebody low bid, but if they can't do it, you know, not qualified. That's right. It was in the paper was Yeah. Everything was all the advertisement. So So you want to do these each location? Yes, we're going to do it by each location. Um, we also required in the bid packet that if you've not done business with the school county on roofing projects to submit three references and of life size projects that you have done. Um, with that being said, I'm going to recommend CMM roofing based on the price and Mr. Wood. Okay. and you he talked to the reference I
079uh reached out to four of the references they listed on their submitt and I got responses back from two and they were pretty much global responses just you know just quality work. The job superintendent was available anytime they needed something if they had no change orders. That was another thing. no change orders to their jobs. Uh, which there will be on some of these because our roofs are so bad. We have a line item in there for different cost associated with temporary dry in because we have to replace some roof sub decking, structural decking. We've done it last year as well. And so that's a per piece item. You don't know what you do until you get in there. There will be a few change orders and saying that uh on the on the line
080item cost CMN CMN grouping was higher on the per piece stuff than the next low bidder in most circumstances was Keeler not all but I my estimation of what it's going to take for those line items will still be way less overall. Yeah. Overall, I mean, I took into account because you're only dealing with the difference in the cost, not not the whole, you know what I mean? They're charging this, they're charging this. Yeah. Basically, so at Wilson Elementary, it's almost a $40,000 difference. So, you don't see Yes. And that'd be basically I mean, they would the other key would have to do some stuff anyway. So, just the differential with me the difference. That's what I'm talking the CMM. I looked them up that this was out Tampa, right? Area is that? I looked
081it up and it said Tampa and it had they like the Google reviews have 4.4. So they did Okay. I never had heard of them. So I will say this, they uh they supplied uh long list of projects, completed projects, projects underway, big big projects. We stressed at our pre-bid meeting, not bid on all these projects if you can't do them. Right. It looked like they were big and they had a bunch of reviews and everything is good. August 4th deadline for all of them but the health building. So in doing that they only submitted for Willist Elementary and Bronson Elementary greater. So um I really feel good. I you know I didn't know the company either looking at the projects they've completed talking city was one of the people that returned to golf and
082and then also another golf and tennis club and I think it was the city of Dun Eden that said this is their third year renewing a contract with them. Very very pleased with everything they've done and their work and their responsiveness. So um I'm glad to see we're getting some other way. We had Gainsville roofing. We had Kiler Roofing. We had Mass Metals, which is And we also had another contractor, JH Construction, I think. And uh he did not submit any bids, but he did show up for the three bids. It was local good. It was I actually took a picture of the first lineup of vehicles at the meeting because it was so impressive, you know. It was good. We got some I think some real good numbers back and uh when I did
083reach out to CMN CM uh they're not fake roofers not CNN. So anyway when I called the rep on the thing he's actually license holder I'm assuming you know he's way up in the company. He answered his phone. I mean, you know, that's pretty impressive for a big company to to have that as your contact number. I feel good about that. Okay. So, we have the recommendation for Wilston Elementary School. I'll entertain a motion. Each one. Each one. Okay. Got it. All right. Motion and a second. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? All right. We'll move on to Bronson. Now, we can start real quick. Bid bid 2411 for Brunson Elementary. Our recommendation on that one is the same as the last one. CMN briefing. Okay. Uh do I hear a
084motion? So move. Second. Motion and a second. All those in favor, please say I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Bid 2412 for Cedar Key building 2. We are recommending roofing for that with the based on price, but also if y'all remember they did the roof at Wilson Elementary last year. So they had pretty good experience working with us. Okay, I'll entertain a motion. So move. Second. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 2413 for Yankee Town. Um, same thing. We're going to recommend that. So move. Second. Have a motion to second. All those in favor, please say I. I. All right. Last but not least, this building or bid 2414 for my health building. We are putting a metal roof on this and not shingles. And the recommendation for that one
085is to either install that as well. All right. Do I hear a motion? So move. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please say I. Any opposed? Fantastic. I'd like to thank all of you all for making this happen. This will make our life a lot better. all the school administrators and the district administrators. We had a lot of move parts because of school being in session and and summer programs, but mostly Mr. G. Okay. Why see the security fencing for the first two? Ordinarily, I would say if y'all need to leave, go ahead. But you two stay. Not so fast. Mr. Good evening. Hello. This is our third uh time talking about these board policies. Received no public comment about uh any of these policies. They've been advertised for the
086correct amount of time, the required amount of time. Um and so at this time, we just entertain a a motion to approve these policies unless there are questions we haven't heard. Can we do it in one motion or do we need to individ um Mr. Chair, we need to take a brief recess so we have all of our voting Yes. I didn't I didn't even realize you wasn't here. Let's take a minute. Okay. Okay. Talk amongst yourself. Sorry. All right. We're back. Sorry. Okay. I will now entertain a motion. Make a motion to make to approve the changes. I second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments? Seeing none. All those in favor, please say I. Any oppose? Like sign. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Lot. Please tell your dad to
087get better soon. Absolutely. Before us. Yeah. All right. Madam Superintendent. Yes. What is before us again? And I think Mrs. Baxter and Mrs. Campbell, they're probably familiar with it, but this is the first they've seen it is the value adjustment board. And they would like a school board member to be part of the board. It's not a very extensive responsibility and sometimes you don't have to appear just that they need your name. If they have anybody that protests basically their property tax bill, you would then be notified and you would hear their comment sit up on the board and they would listen to to everything and you would make the decision from there. Yeah. Cameron said he never got to go up there and I'm on it. I have to hear two of them. I've
088never had one. I know. He never had to hear one of them. I know. I had a fill in for him one time, too. Yeah. And then Yeah. Yeah. Jason was like, "Oh, yeah. had any my contest? We had two contests. Hey, I every time I've had to sit up there, nothing. Now, I heard there was a bad year. I heard. Was it you? You got the bad year filling in for me. That's wonderful. There you go. It was the year before. I don't mind doing it again. That was the year before. I don't mind serving as alternate because I'm here in Bronson. I can just run up there. So, we just need a nomination or who? I nominate you. I nominate Devon to be the member. and Cameron to be the alternate. There are
089no objections. We'll close uh nominations. And with that, if there are no further nominations, we'll accept these two characters as our motion carries. Mr. White can never miss a meeting. That's not too bad. All right. Looking at the big crowd here tonight. Does anybody have any comments? Any questions? We're going to move on ahead then. Has everyone had a chance to read over the minutes? Yes, sir. I will entertain a motion to approve the minutes from April 22nd meeting. Second. Have motion is second. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose? Like I. Motion carries. Now we'll move into our consent agenda. Mrs. Campbell, do do you have any questions on the consent agenda? No. All my questions have been answered. Thank you, Mrs. Baxter. All my questions have been answered. Thank you,
090Mr. White, you seem to have questions. Uh, all my questions are answered. I certainly, you know, we're losing the Hillary Clips at Joyce Bully. That's shine the star that we're losing, but u certainly, you know, happy for her, you know, in her future endeavors and, uh, certainly a lot of changes at Willist. Um, you know, sometimes change is scary, but, um, you know, it's part of life, you know, so we're just kind of looking forward to see how everything works out. So, Miss all my questions were answered. We'll miss Miss Cribs. She's a um she was wonderful during her time here. And I've said it before, I'm not it's not a popular opinion, but I'm not a big fan of inclusion when it comes to a classroom. I'm a big fan of ability grouping. And
091Miss Williams would be the perfect example of the opposite because she has taken classrooms from all walks of life and just excelled and been amazing. And it's she it's a big loss to lose her. She'll be missed. And all my all my questions are answered. Uh I'll now entertain a motion to to approve the consent agenda. Second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? See no motion carries. We'll now move on to our finance items, consent agenda. Are there any questions pertaining to that? M. Campbell. No. Mrs. Baxter, Mr. Wer. Good. Clemensky. I don't have any either. I'll entertain a motion to move. Approve. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please say I. Any oppose? Like sign. Motion carries. Madam
092Superintendent. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, I just want to say that I think everyone's saying the month of May is Mayber. I think I'll refer to it as May Madness, but I know everyone is working hard. The students are working hard. We've had a great teacher and staff appreciation week. And um just so the district staff knows of those that are here, you haven't been forgotten. It's just a little late. That's all I'll say about that. Oh, anyway, I did hear a little bit of um not a lot good news. You're you are all familiar with the Tri County Community Resource Center. We have a great relationship with them. But I did find out today through Miss Laura over um work law that they have been helping out some of our schools and actually paying
093to send some of our students on field trips that they couldn't afford. and they've done four students in December for Chief Lenel, four ES from Chief Middle High School in January, February, another from Chief Elementary. And April, that was April 10th, no, April, they sent 10 from Chief Middle High School. And Yankee Town, they did five. And then Miss Christina Sto's class went to Disney, which was Wonderful. And they sent um 10 there and then five more from Yankee Town to go on their eighth grade field trip. So, it's from grant money and Miss Lur is reaching out to them, but they never say no. So, it's it's a great partnership. I mean, a lot similar to Levy County School Foundation. They just they always are given back with the funds that they get through
094grant money. I just wanted to mention that. Of course, regionals tonight in Trenton. I don't know what inning we're in. Yeah. Did you hear? Okay. About 30 minutes in. And you know, I'll go back to what Mr. White first brought up and Mrs. Clemensy. There is change right now and and I appreciate your support in everything, the district's support and everything. is hard like you said and I I feel very strongly about this and I think that it is positive for everyone. um some will be missed dearly and I am willing to stand behind all of you and again I thank you for all of your support and we will see what everything what the future holds and work hard to make it a very bright future for our students and that's all I have.
095Excellent. Thanks, Mrs. Campbell. Oh, the attorney has raised his hand. I I normally don't have comments for the board, but I was just gonna uh mention in June, I have been asked to participate on a panel at the Florida Bar Convention where all the attorneys from the state get together and um the topic is artificial intelligence and education. Um, so I'm speaking on certain aspects of that, academic integrity and some things like that, but I think hopefully I will also be learning some good information that maybe I can bring back to the board on how districts are using it in the human resources department and other areas. So, um, just wanted to give you all a heads up that I'm trying to be useful and uh, if I can, I'll bring back some good information
096for us. The school board association is they're having one Wednesday a webinar any of you are interested in. One of my law partners is doing that is doing that. I plan to listen to that. It's great. Okay. Mrs. Campbell. Yes. Uh Cedar Key is um coming to the end of the year. very busy uh awards ceremonies and um uh we had some kids go to state for um whole vaulting um and we had our athletic banquet and it's just amazing in a small school uh how many awards were given but even though we're small we're mighty and we can uh man these teams it's amazing how many sports these kids play And yet most of them are also very high academically too. So it's great. I really am proud of them. Um and uh yeah,
097so looking forward to graduations. Looking forward to going to all the graduations in Lady County. Um and u and we are uh at Cedar Key looking forward to some changes too and hopefully we will hear about those soon. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Baxter. Well, it is um a hectic time as you've mentioned. Um I was invited to attend the FFA banquet which was very well very well done and scholarship night um awards night and uh then Chief Elementary had a talent show and that was very entertaining I'll say. But things are winding down with testing. They are improvements at both schools. So, that was good. And we're looking forward to ballet this Sunday night. Mr. Rogers, um Wilson had their academic scholarship night last night and there was at least 50 something scholarships easy giving on
098I like doing the total dollar amount because it was I think 75,000 at least I would say easy. I mean, it was, you know, and then seeing all the kids go up there and, you know, and I liked how it was, you know, there was vocational and, you know, college scholarship, you know, you know, because in Ley County, you know, we don't need just to support the college, we need to support the vocational stuff. So, it's good to see businesses and individuals step up to give scholarships for that kind of stuff. So, certainly enjoyed that. the Wilson FFA banquetss on next Monday the 19th and you know by the time we come back reconvene or have graduation or Wilson graduating and just crazy it's already another year in the books last day for seniors this
099Friday the one that still go um so anyway then Will as Tammy mentioned Wilson's playing Trenton in the district tonight so softball so we'll see how that turns out hopey big over 30. Other than that, that's all I have. Thank you. Thanks, Miss Clemensy. Um, busy time of year. Yankee Town testing is going very well, moving in the right direction there. Um, if anybody's listened the past however many years, I'm a big fan of Miss Westfall. And I don't do change well, but I am super excited for her because I think she's up for a new challenge, and she's going to have it. you'll love working with her and if I had to pick someone in our district to replace her, it would be Ricky Richardson. So, super excited about that for both of them.
100Um, we had a coming and going celebration. Mr. Hires was there. Wake up, Mr. Hires. He was there with me. Miss Bole was sick, but it was a um it was a great little afternoon to honor Miss Westfall and to um welcome Miss Richardson. So, excited about the future. I uh I agree. I don't like change at all. But change change is good and I think good things are going to come out of these changes. I think it's I think good things are coming. I uh speaking of change, Bronson had its FFA bank the other night and I had this young lady told me she would love to come to Bronson and be a Bronson FFA member, but her daddy just wouldn't let her. And her mama's all for it and she knew she'd be
101better. She said she was happy. Did her last name start with a W? Last name starts with a W. She might be running for district. But I also think she might have been going around. She's campaigning. She's campaigning. There's a great future for that kid. But imagine what it would be if she was from Roxson. And I say that because there's a point in my stories. There's always a point. There always. If you want to see me get I got I I get aggravated every once in a while, but one of the things that really aggravates me, and y'all have heard me say this before. been here longer. Somebody will say, "Well, I come from Levy camp. You can't expect much." Or they'll say, "Well, I went to so and so school." What? I can't
102do that. Or or you will hear this. If you've been here long enough, you'll hear somebody say, you know, I went to Chief, that's why I can't add that. No, that is not true. And so what I would like to do is invite and no offense to anybody in the room. I would like to invite every Yankee that passes judgments on us or every person that makes that statement to come to these senior nights to come to these things where you see kids. I mean I have been at it where a kid from here Levy County went to Harvard. I lived in a a house with a kid that was accepted to an Ivy League school but he chose to go to University of Florida. Um, so to say and and then you meet people
103who have traveled this entire world and have done amazing things that came through our school system and I think that's great at this time of year. We see that and it's really really cool to see a little kid and y'all will y'all will have been here as long as I have at some point. You will have seen a kid that you saw in kindergarten walk across that stage and then a few years later you will see the adult that that kid is and having been teachers and that you see this and it truly is an amazing process that we go through and it really is amazing that this year went so fast and there's amazing things coming about in the next few weeks. I'm excited to see it. And that's all I have. And if
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