001Thank you for the opportunity to be here today. Lord, we give you all the praise and the glory. We ask your guidance as we make decisions. We ask for your strength, your wisdom, and your continued blessings on Levy County in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. 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 our agenda. So move. Second. Have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Welcome everyone. We're going to have a big morning. We going to start right here with our friends from Willist Elementary and Willist Middle High School with a with a little report. Madam Superintendent,
002you just gave the I gave it all away. Y'all want me to do it for you? Sure. Come on. You couldn't do as good as a Will. We are very We are very happy to have you here this morning. We are happy to be here. Um we always love to brag about what's going on on our campuses. So um Will um schools do a cross age tutoring program. um and the bus picks the kids up at the high school and drops them off over at our school and at um JDE. Uh a couple of years ago, I think maybe my first year at AP, um I had done all this research, getting your masters, and one of the things that I had done a a paper on was cross age peer tutoring and how powerful
003it can be. Um, and it was showing how kids can make like a year and a half's worth of growth in one year. Um, and so I had approached the subject with Josh at the time, um, Josh Glenn, and he agreed. And they've, in the past, they've done something similar to it, um, where the kids go over and read and things like that. So, we just wanted to kind of fine-tune that process. Um, and so, um, he agreed and we've started it and every year we've kind of grown and gotten a little bit better. Um, but the definition of tutoring is an approach in which one child instructs another child in material on which the first child is an expert at. Um the second child is an office. Um the major benefits are um academic
004skills, developing social behaviors and classroom discipline. Uh it's not just for academics. Um enhancing peer relationships and it even gives the kids higher self-esteem and they see that that um holds true for both sides for the tutor and the tutor. Um So this is just some research. Um being closer to the knowledge um and status that 2D is a peer relationship feels um freer to express opinions, ask questions, uh risk um uh interaction between the instructor and the student is more balanced. Um and if if you know um John Hattie, uh I'm a huge um fan girl. a little picture of me and him up the top. I got to meet him this year. Um he has um an effect side and any point four is what they call the hinge point and so anything
005bigger than 04 they consider um more than a year's worth of growth. Um and so you can read some I won't read it to you but you can see um the effect size of peer tutoring is 79 which is almost two years growth which is awesome. Um and it just is very impactful for students. um especially students with disabilities. Um they just I think it makes the students feel uh freer to to learn and not um embarrass to ask questions. Um and they just kind of listen to other kids better than they listen to adults sometimes. Um so some of the things that we realized when we were doing this program and we've kind of added every year is um the tutors have to be trained um and very um specific training. Uh we we
006train them on, you know, how to handle behaviors. Um we train them on, you know, what to do when they go into a classroom. If the teachers in whole group, you know, how do they what do they do at that time? Um how to pull small group. Uh they are taught ELA strategies. They're t strategies. Um, and we do that right in August in the very beginning and then they get a recap in January as kind of like a fresher refresher. Um, Michelle comes over and um Michelle Eastman Louise comes over and um uh Heather was coming over uh and and doing the reading portion um in the beginning of the year. The kids are great with helping us get everything started up. Um the badges is a big thing uh logistically getting them into
007classrooms. So right in the beginning of the year they get trained and then they help us kind of do some um logistics in the beginning and uh get to know the campus and um they're a huge help. They're such a huge help. Any moment you can jump in? Well, on our side obviously we just provide the kids to them. Um we with Ricky and I working close um I mean she had a kid last year and she's like um she will not stay off her cell phone. So I was like hey you're going to turn in your cell phone when you leave the high school and then you can get it back when you come back. So uh we've really looked at the kids that we're sending over there. Um we um take about a
008week and a half to sit down with parents and families to say what do you want your schedule to look like? Um and peer counseling is something that they're wanting to entertain. Uh we kind of lay it out for them. You know, you're not going over there just to hang out and play on your phone for two periods. Um you're working with kids. You know, you're helping the teacher. You may be grading. You may be working one-on-one with a kid. You may be doing small group. Um so that we're getting the the right kid for um Ricky. Um and we've kicked some kids out if they don't do what they're supposed to be doing or they're not taking it serious. Um, I make a phone call and they're really quick to change that schedule and
009we tell them in the meeting like we show them the data like this is how powerful an impact you can make with these kids. Like I got lots of hope in y'all and what you can do for our kids. So they we try and and tell them the importance of of their task. Um, like I said, we learn every year um, cell phones are the bane of all of our existence. So, we just created this really simple little um keeper and they get there, they sign in in the morning and they put their phones up and they do a really good job um of doing that and others are really quick to rat other ones out their phone today. Um so, but it's it has caught like this year has been the best year um
010since we've started it with just because we add to it every year and we learn and we know what not to do and the selection process. I think it's tuned every year as well. So, it I like can't say enough great things about our tutors this year because they're just they're they're just amazing. Um here's some pictures. Um this is over the past couple of years. Um one the top two I think were last year, the bottom two are this year. Um but the they're pulling small group. They're working oneon-one. Um they're providing help for kids if they're on a um computer program. We have some behavior kids that that need a little extra guidance. Um and they're able to sit next to them and kind of keep them on task and on track. Um,
011here's some more. Um, one thing that I really do love is um, we have some peer tutors who are bilingual. Um, and we have a 27% uh, Hispanic uh, ratio at our school. So, they're very helpful. Um, they go in and work in our community classrooms and they are really able to give those kids some extra assistance. Um, which I just love that. And a lot of these kids know these kids from the community. They look up to them. Um, and we created a little video. Taylor, what do you like about being a peer tutor? What do you like about working with Cheyenne? I like how she cooperates with people. And what do you like about What do you like about being a peer tutor? Can you ask her what does she like about working
012with She said that I like Tony, what do you and your high school? [Laughter] Why do you like working with your peu the most? What do you like? So I like she's patient with us and she helps us a lot. And what do you like? Whenever I need help on a question, she'll help me explain how to do it and she'll go through it. What do you like most about having your high schooler in your class? And what do you like about helping the students in your class? And do you think being bilingual helps you in the classroom that you're in? Do you have any questions for us on our program? I have a question. So, are they working um with the students in a particular program or it's just whatever the need is at
013the time that they so is what the teacher is doing at the time, but they're always in there at the same time. So, like if that teacher is pulling small groups at that time, she's usually pulling small group um every day. And then we have the same um materials that they use every day. So depending on the teacher is what materials they're using during that time. Do the girls have something to say? That's what I'm going to Izzy. Izzy's at Wilson Elementary and Adrienne is at um Joyce Bick. We do have kids that also go to Joyce as well. Adrienne as actually in my nephew's class in back in September. I was like, "Hey, you know, what are you learning at school?" And he's telling me everything. I was like, "Is Miss Adrian in there?"
014And he's like, "Miss William's sister." Miss William. That's funny. That's actually what I was going to say. I feel like from our point of view, it does feel like that and they can really connect to this. A lot of times they say that I remind them of their own siblings and I go to school with their own. So, it's definitely relatable for them. It's also personally for me. I feel like it wasn't mentioned. Um, very rewarding. Every day they tell me something new that they've learned or They tell me their entire spring break in detail while I'm trying to get them on the computers or trying to get them to learn something. It's definitely very rewarding. Good. Do either of you want to teach? We're recruiting them young. Yeah, it's definitely rewarding because you get
015to see the students actually be able to understand what they're struggling with and for them to be able to get through it and work through it and get their grades to be high. It is. I remember when I was in school, I was a peer counselor at choice public and I remember how rewarding it was and how the kids really looked up to you and they said they were kind of plugged in because you was kind of that generation closer to them versus a teacher. So, Right. Yeah. They definitely think you're like That's right. That's right. I remember that from the high school there. Well, we appreciate you girls doing it. Do you have a funny experience that you can share that happened? That's appropriate. Oh, come on. Turtle and actually yesterday the turtle we
016let it loose and we lost it. So all the kids took quite some time and a lot of laughs and we made up a lot of stories about the turtle. They're great though. They participate in like all of our days. Like we have dress up days and a lot of them participate in that. They'll even bring snacks in for their class and I'm like, you know, we can provide that. And they're like, "No, no, no. We want to do it." So, and they really take like ownership of their class. That's great. Did you find the turtle? I thought we were going to have a bigger problem. No animals were harmed. Fantastic. Very good. Why were you nervous? You did great. I say something. It's in the minutes. There. For a while, I wasn't going to
017let you watch my pet turtle, but now it she was worried if she did a bad job that the whole ting would be closed. We're going to vote on that later. I'd like it to extend. Yeah, it's great. Sounds great. To share to share what you do with them. Well, it started when the high schools and Joyce Will were so close. Walk over, right? Um if you ever talk to Hunter Hug and ask him his peer counseling story, it's really great. Um when he was in high school, but I I think that it's a great program. I told them out there I didn't teacher and my peer counselor, she was a second grade teacher and um I was like maybe I could do this. Maybe something I want to do. Um so I I think
018it's a good program for for both. I know a school where it's just across the street. Yeah. My mind was turn across the yard to stop traffic. They're fast. Apparently turns are fast. Apparently turn over. Awesome. Thank y'all. Thank you. I guess we should give you a hand. Did I say you two could come up yet? Y'all got somewhere you need to be? Always. Brian, help you with this. Oh, it may not be too good. Um, thank you for having us. I always love hearing things that are going on. You you remember I was a peer counselor in the office. Yeah. Many many years. I remember being mistaken for a peer counselor when I first started. You went much older than some um but yes, we've had a lot come through and it's such a
019worthwhile program. Um, thank you for letting us come today to share with you state of prek. So prek is growing. It's become a very robust program in our county. Um we've got a lot of legislation that has come down in the last three years, but I haven't really shared out. We've been trying to figure out implementation. So I just wanted you to be a breast of everything that's going on and some new legislation that may be coming our way um in prek. And I have my um handy sidekick, very distinguished principal, who has our largest prek program. She currently has seven classrooms of prek at Joy School Elementary. Um, so just a recap of what we provide in our program. It is a full day school-based educational opportunity for general education students in the BPK
020program. A little over 50% of all of our classrooms have these general education BPK students. Um we provide uh it was decided many years ago before my time that we would provide a full day program even though we only get reimbured from the state for half a day um because we felt it was important that the students get that full experience of the school day. We also serve special education students that are eligible for early intervention through an IEP. Um those are threeyear-old and fouryear-old students that take about um 49 or less% of a class. And we We do full day, we do half day, and we also do walk-in services um for students um that need specific interventions. Um we are aligned with the division of early learning goals um that to increase kindergarten
021readiness, to build high quality programs meeting individual needs of students, and to increase the knowledge and skills of early learning professionals. Um so I take these goals to heart in everything that we plan for our program. So let's get into the numbers. Um, I've only been here for four years, so you've got four years of data. That's when I started collecting it. Uh, when I started in 2021, we had nine full classes and five classes with 205 students. We currently have 14 full classes and one half class with 255 students. Um, so we're seeing growth. While other um, grade levels may be declining in enrollment, prek is not. Um we definitely are seeing growth in both our BPK students as well as our special education students. Uh we started off in 2021, we ended the
022year with 77 um BSE students in our classrooms. We're at 86 currently as of today. Um and uh anticipate having some more staff before the end of the school year. Um we also serve walk-ins and we started off with 14, we now have nine. That decrease in walk-in services is because more parents are actually taking us up on our full day school. to offer instead of wanting walking therapy. They want full experience and so we're seeing that increase in the classroom. Um you'll see we also started three years ago an employee child program. Um for this program uh as an incentive and a way to retain staff. Uh we have employees that can pay to have their three-year-old child. Um I allow one per class um that they pay a very small rate compared to
023daycarees to be able to have their three-year-old a year early um into our classrooms. And so you'll see um that has fluctuated. We started with six. Last year we had 15. This year we have seven. So really it's just based on the needs of the staff. Revenue. So where we get our funding, one BPK student, if they come full-time for the 540 instructional hours, generates $2,88. An employee child, if they come for the full year, um, generates $3,340. And an ESSE student in full day attendance is $5,95.39. Um, so you'll see how our revenue has grown um each year. This year it's a little bit lower. You'll see it's highlighted because those are projected numbers. We haven't finished the year yet. So, um I'm kind of projecting based on the number of enrollment for our
024BPK revenue and our employee child revenue. Our ESC revenue, we have not had uh survey three numbers released yet for us to accurately um um calculate that. So, that's based on survey 2. I anticipate that's probably going to go up about $90,000 um once because we've had 16 additional students staffed between survey two and survey three that are being served. Um so we probably will see something very similar to last year um in our in our revenue. Then we go to our expenditures. Um I know it's very small and hard to read, but you'll see the top half of the that shows salaries. The bottom half are other expenditures um including subs. Um equipment and supplies is really furniture for new classrooms. travel for our prek ESC teacher who is an itinerary teacher and serves
025all five schools. Um her her salary part of my salary um and then a planning period supplement. I'm actually Adrienne's mother is the only teacher I have that she gets paid a planning period supplement to push into prek during her planning period and to help us with serving because our case load is so large at Joyce Bullet. So she's part of that um as well. Um currently 99% of all expenditures are salaries and benefits and stuff. Um so less than 1% is used in equipment and supplies in county travel and summer planning hours for our ESC teacher to come up and get started um early before pre pre-planning. Um salaries have significantly increased in the last three years. Um I've got a note on the top of 2223 is when the $15 dollars an hour
026went into effect. That affected all of because all of my um staff are pairs and then the following year we also um had the lead teachers go to a new pay scale um which is only one step lower than the highest pay for pair professionals. So those two increases in salaries um did significantly increase our total salary. So um the majority of our classroom supplies though I do um get through federal grants. Miss Jerry is my lifeline to all things title. So, we piggy back off of federal grants as much as possible. We had we got a significant amount from ARC um $200,000, which in my world is significant, and we were able to go in and replace a lot of old and worn um equipment in the classrooms, kitchen sets, um you know, play
027sets, food sets, and then we also were able to purchase over $100,000 worth of supplemental books to supplement our curriculum for each theme. Um but all of that has been grant funded. So, we've been able to really focus general fun just on paying staff. And then our expenditures do exceed our revenue because we provide a full day program. So we pay full base staff, but we only get reimbursed for half of those students for a half day program. Um so I changed this. The setting is all I I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. It was a book that came out in 1986. Um, yes, I was already in education at that time and I've changed it and added pre kindergarten because um, things have changed significantly since that book came out. Um,
028I personally 26 years ago was finishing out my first year of teaching in a kindergarten classroom. And my kindergarten day was whole group circle time, centers, small group, uh, recess and nap. And that is now what it is in prek. That is no longer what kindergarten looks like um, at all. Um, but that is now what our prek classrooms look like. So when we look at laying that foundation for all academic years, um we now see it in our pre kindergarten classrooms because we're teaching them all of those things on how to be a citizen of school, how to uh get along with your classmates, how to share, how to clean up after yourselves, how to go through the lunch line and get your lunch. Um so a lot of those foundational skills we now
029have students that they're needing to get it in preschool because kindergarten has such high academic that they can't they can't wait that long. So, the Division of Early Learning recently put out this information. It's not new research. Um I think it continues to be refined as they get more information each year, but kindergarten readiness is extremely important. Um now more than ever with all of the increased demands of our standards for children who enter kindergarten behind, roughly 75% will never catch up. Um, so if we don't get them ready for when they enter kindergarten, 75% of students will never close the gap before they graduate. The strongest predictor of later achievement is what they come in at school entry, reading, math, and their attention skills. Um, their ability again to participate in the classroom. Um,
030state and local pre kindergarten programs almost without exception improve academic readiness for school. Participants in preschool score higher in third grade language arts than non-participants and participation in early childhood experience increases graduation rates. Um so we definitely have an impact that last the the 13 years that come after um preschool. Last year we have lagging data unfortunately in BPK. So I have last year's 2023 kindergarten readiness results. Um all kindergarten students in Florida 51% of them showed readiness on the star early literacy. Um having that cut score at that time was a 690 in Levy 48% of our students showed kindergarten readiness when we looked at the whole kindergarten. And then compared to that BPK completers in the state of Florida last year, 64% of them were um kindergarten ready and in Levy 57% um
031were kindergarten ready. Um looking at that improvement in comparison to the year prior the state went up in both areas only 2% in Levy we are closing gaps. We increased 5% of all kindergarten children and 6% in BPK provider um VPK completers. So I'd like Hillary to kind of share her perspective. As I said, she has our largest program um out of our um 15 classrooms. Seven are at Joyce Pulit. So it's a significant number of children that she can kind of share about concern readiness. Um so we um like she said we have currently have seven classes or a lot of little people to do a lot of training at the beginning of the year especially um but we're going to have 101 of those going into kindergarten next year. So that's a great
032um a great number that we've already had impact on. Um, and I would say that sums up why preK is so important um, at our school is we have touched them before they get um, to kindergarten. So, we've set our school expectations um, and then we've taught them how to be students. Um, because the kids that come from other BPK programs in town that are run a little differently than us, not saying anything negative against them, but they're just run differently than school is run. um or they're coming from home. Um and that looks different for every kid. It could be positive for some kids and then not so much for others. Um so we have to train them the first while um on how to be kindergarteners um and before we could ever hit
033the ground really running. Uh so it we're very fortunate that we're having such a large number roll into our kindergarten um each year. So, um, last year we served six, uh, classes of prek with about 85 rolling in, um, to kindergarten. Of course, give and take a few that may choose to do something differently than, um, attend JBE. Um, so our current kindergarten class is 183 students. Um, 59 on our last PM two star early lit, 59 of them were already proficient. um and over half of those were in our prek last year. So, we're making up what's proficient um because we've touched we believe that early early intervention and early learning um is really impacting us there. And it's even more so in math. Um 52 students were already proficient and 62% of those
034kids that were already proficient were in our prek last year. um students with discipline referrals. Um 15 students in kindergarten. It feels like it probably should be a little bit more than that, but those 15 students keep us busy. Um but 15 students in our kindergarten generate uh have generated office referrals this year. Um four of them were in our prek class in our prek group last year and two of them were we were aware of. They gonna take a few more years to work that out probably. Um, so you know, to me it's the whole picture. It's not just the academics and the preparation. It's teaching them how to be citizens of our community at JPE and of the world um and how to how to interact with others um appropriately. So we're like
035the foundation of all things learning and being a kind human being. Um 66 students in kinder have in the third quarter missed 10% or more of instruction and only 35% were in our prek last year. Kinder is a big year of people not taking attendance seriously. It's like they know that they're in that letter of the law of they can't really at the age of five be turned in for truency. Um I don't really feel like they're aware of that. they just like it's kindergarten because they think of kindergarten like what the old kindergarten used to be. Um so we're working we've worked out because those kids have been in our prek we've been able to work with people a little bit more on why attendance is important um before they step into kindergarten um
036the next year. Um super exciting this year our uh fabulous reading coach and math coach um we saw a need in the um data that's being generated in prek for acceleration of some students. Um, so we have a nice little group of 15 or so that they're pulling several times each week to give them acceleration. Um, because they need more than what preK is providing um, as far as academics go. So, I'm super excited to see what they do. Um, I firmly believe that not one shoe fits every kid. So, we have I was talking just yesterday, we have kids on our campus that have wacky schedules, but it's because we're giving them what they need. Um, so they may go here for this and here for this, but it it meets their whole picture.
037Um, that's something that I feel like our staff works really hard to provide um for them. So, next year, if they're knocking it out of the park, um they're some of them are already reading um coming out of prek. So, then it's going to be what are we going to do for them next year? Um I haven't seen as many as I've had in the past couple years, and this is just kind of a side note, of kids being able to skip a grade. Um, so I've had several skip kindergarten in the past couple years. A couple skip first grade. So, um, it's pretty cool to see, you know, sometimes we hear a lot about the opposite um of um the end of the spectrum sometimes, but we also have kids that are being accelerated
038even at our even at our level. Um, and to me, a huge thing, and I feel like sometimes we can get lost in our complaints. I feel like I hear from Becky, he's got to stop staffing these kids over there in the district office and these kids that are coming in um that are students with disabilities. But it's such a powerful thing to have them already on our campus and such a high percentage of those students on our campus um already because we're I mean, we're at like six six and so in every single one of our classes of students with disabilities in preK. Um and so we're touching them early um and actually for a few years for several of them who come in at three um and they literally will be two when
039they have the meeting and then we will be waiting until they turn three and then they step in the door. Um so we get several years with um a lot of them and that just sets them up to be successful when they when they enter into kindergarten. I feel like, you know, if they would have stepped into kindergarten without having services prior to to that, they may have needed a more restrictive setting than what they need once they've been in our kindergarten, which is all inclusive. Um, so I feel like we're able to keep our separate classroom numbers um down because we realize that, oh my gosh, this student may have looked like this when they walk through the door at three, but by the time they are ready for kindergarten, well, they don't need
040that separate class. they can just go into a um a general education classroom and receive support services inside their classroom or they may need a dy certified teacher with an aid. Um I feel like that enables us to be less restrictive um for kids with students with disabilities because we've had them for a few years. So um summary is my gosh, why not? Um, I feel like you're only going to benefit I feel like it benefited us largely this year that people in our community that have BPK programs didn't have their certificates ready. So, we got more we were inundated with kids and that, you know, um, we have quite the number of kids this year, but it's only going to help us in kindergarten. Um, and those kids are going to be going to
041be more ready to tackle the things that kindergarten has for them. Um, versus the kids that are in a different somewhere else or at home. And speaking of students with disabilities and just kind of putting it in perspective, um with Child Find, of course, we start um evaluating students whenever it's brought to our attention by age three. So our goal is again early intervention, a lot of these students qualify as developmentally delayed. And then, you know, we see more and more of those children not needing services once they get to age nine or second grade because they started at age three getting intensive intervention. But giving thinking about our numbers, we um in the last couple of years, we've been tracking how many evaluations and reevaluations are done districtwide. And districtwide from preK to sec
042to 12th grade, we typically do about 300 um evaluations or reevaluations. Um a third of those are prek. So we evaluate um almost a hundred students a year, ages three and four, every single year for the past four years. Um so we we believe again in early identification to early intervention um and gets those students in and getting services before they're even required to attend school. Um and does VPK make a difference on third grade? So, this is Levy County data. Um thank you Melissa for sharing uh the report card uh information. Um you'll see the website you can get this. So, this is tracking the data um from 2020 up to last year 23. The blue line are um third grade students who scored a three or higher that attended BPK. The green line
043is they attended but did not complete BPK. And then the teal line are students that uh got a three or higher but they never attended a BPK program. Um there is a note that the 2023 data those were the kids that were affected by CO. So um the it's a little bit skewed compared to the other um trends that you see. because we had a lot of non-completers um co the co year of free right they're scared of yes that's the other thing they work out all their little immune problems in kindergarten um of course anytime that the state gives you funding for anything there is accountability and so we have both VPK accountability which is one measure and we have ESSE accountability which is another measure for BPK this was a new state statute
044that went into effect a couple of years ago, but this year it will be the first year that we will actually receive a designation in a performance metric for our BPK program. Um the 2425 school year. So how we perform this year will be public knowledge. Um and this replaces those kindergarten readiness rates that used to be advertised um for programs private and public. It is now considered a BPK performance metric. The way that it is calculated though I am very excited for the the mathematician and me because we actually look at um not only student data which has been the trend previously but also what's going on in the classroom. Um so half of the BPK performance metric is based on the quality of the classroom. We have state observers that come in using
045the class observation tool which is a federal federally adopted tool um has been used in Head Start for over 20 years. Um so they come in and they observe our classrooms for two and a half hours um using that that tool and we get a composite score. It's on a scale of of 1 to seven. Um and that is 50% of the overall metric for that school program. Um they also show some accountability that if we get below a four, we lose our contract for the next year. So, we have to keep um that high quality going on in the classroom and that's been a focus since this came out um two years ago that we've been really working on improving our our teacher quality and that student teacher interaction to meet that um requirement.
046The other 50% is broken into two parts. 30% in learning gains from PM1 to PM3 on start early literacy and 20% achievement. and achievement is them meeting the cut score which was a 690 for star early literacy is this year has been raised to 707. Um so the state is raising the bar a little bit on the first year that we're going to actually be graded. Um but um we've been we were knowledgeable about it. We've been working towards it. Um so we are looking um what I love is it's not just looking at achievement which typically historically that's all prek has looked at is kindergarten readiness but we're also looking at learning gains so that we can how far we've brought these children from the moment they stepped into the the door. Um, part
047of the state statute does not allow a letter grade. So, they had to do designations so they could not be confused with our K through2 grading system. Um, so our designations run from excellent to above expectations meets expectations, below expectations and unsatisfactory. Um, below expectations and unsatisfactory are placed on probation. the state rule for that just uh was approved by the state board this month on what that means. It's a lot of paperwork um to do to be a provider on probation. Anything meets expectations and above um though is free and clear. And they're also looking at possibly um giving some compensation to those that meet excellent range if there's enough in the budget to do so. So there may be some performance pay that comes from this. So they whenever they uh adopted the
048metric they went back to the t last two years of data and gave us anformational only score of what our our programs would have scored if they had been graded in the past two years. So of our five schools you can see um their performance um designations bees went from meets to above expectations same as CES um CKS went from above to meets expectations. I have to commend Miss Cris because her school has consistently performed at the highest designation of excellent for the last two years and Yankee Town is above expectations. So, we don't have any schools at this point that is are in danger of being placed on probation and they're also they're excelling. They're above what the state level is. In ESC world, um the year I came on board, they adopted a
049new way of um grading our system using outcome summary. So, this looks at the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards. There are 167 of them across 80 or eight domains and how students um special education students are performing when they enter our program uh against those standards and how they are performing when they exit our program and what growth they made. There are two summary statements that I'm responsible for answering to. The first one is basically based on where they came from. Did they make growth? The second one's a little is how many of them are on grade level when they leave prek. So, that one's a little more challenging. Um, last year's data in leaving on that first summary statement of kids making growth, we met the state target. In fact, we exceeded the
050state target in all three outcome areas. Um, I'm also happy to say that we exceeded the state average in all outcome areas. Um, our teachers are doing a great job and I really believe our inclusive model speaks a lot to that because we how high expectations for our students and we don't dumb things down um for them. Um however, we're still working on that summary statement too of getting them to grade level. We're getting closer to the goal um but we're not quite there yet. So, legislative updates. Besides that performance metric, we also now um have to find early literacy and math deficiency in our students after PM2. Um a new state requirement that started this year is are required to provide interventions to students that score below the 10th percentile on PM2 for the
051second half of the year. Um so we did that this year and we're looking um very closely at that data and they get daily intermission in the classroom. We also for the first time are going to be required to provide BPK summer bridge which is BPK summer school. So students not only in our public school program but also in the private school programs that score below the 10th percentile, we must provide summer school for them 100 hours. Um aligned to the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards with a 1 to 12 grade ratio for the teacher. Um so right now we are planning for two programs, one at Joyce Bulock and one at Bronson um that we will be offering for those. We will not have the data though on who's going to be attending
052until after this PM window closes. So we have about two weeks to get the data, invite the parents and get them in. Um but we projected based on PM2 that we were going to have about 20 eligible students. So we we prepare accordingly. A bill to watch. So I know that y'all are like me and you just like to read Senate Bill for fun. Um so I've been looking at some of them. Um, and this one kind of um I had that face whenever I read it. Um, it increases the school year BPK program from 540 hours to 1440 hours. So, with 180day school year, that would increase our program from a three-hour program to an 8 hour program. So, it's just to kind of be aware of that because I'm not really sure how
053that would work with transportation and all the things. on the good side is usually when they put it in statute, they fund it. Right. So, we would hopefully benefit financially from that decision. Um, but it's going to um definitely have us thinking outside the box in other ways. Um, if we have to go to an eight hour day for BPK children and some planning that I did with my district leadership team has been so supportive of our program. We are adjusting classroom units based on projected enrollment, which we do every year. We're going to have some shifting of units from one school to another. One school that's down, another school is up. So, we just kind of shift those around. Um, we were also able to work with Miss Jerry on um some funding for
054an additional pre-K early intervention and ESC teacher. Um, our current ESC teacher serves all five schools. She has a case of right now 86 kids. Um, it is insane. She only can do one day a week at each school. And so, for us to really be able to do what we need to do and provide services. We uh want to slowly start adding um additional special education support. Um but it also is slow because we can advertise and that doesn't mean anyone's going to apply. We're going to try uh to get um a teacher who where we can split the county and the one I currently have will serve um choice school and town and we have someone to serve Bronson chief and zebra and that way we can increase the amount of services that
055we're providing both to teachers and students and then we're going to continue with coaching support and professional learning opportunities so that we can keep growing our support. Any questions? that state observation. Do they just come once a year? Yes. Um and the way it's worded in statute is they come that once. If you score below a four, you are allowed to pay the coalition for one additional try. I see. Um it's $300 to pay them to come back. Um thankfully we've never had anyone even close to being that low. Most of our composite scores um range from low fives to low sixes. We stay pretty much in that in that range. So, um I know you say that you're coaching and providing support, but for instance, our teacher at Cedar Key meeting expectations, what support
056are you offering her? We actually had so my ESSE um itinerate teacher is also class um a state class trainer. So, she we keep up her certification. She that there are no special education students at Cedar Key, but we had her going there twice a month to model. So she has gone in, she had modeled lessons, she has helped to work out her schedule. Um she took it where it's based on the schedule. She would model a section and then she'd come back and observe her, give her feedback. So we used a coaching model um to support her. That shift was a shift in instructional staff as well. So for Cedar Key, we went from a veteran retired teacher that we talked to coming back to a brand new we helped her get her CDA
057credentials, first year in the classroom teacher. But I I can tell you that the I would I go to every observation and sit in there. I'm allowed to do that as a director. And the observer said the the change was significant. She commented as we were leaving that she could not believe it was the same classroom. Her score is just just talked with her. Her scores just doubled, didn't they? Yeah, she's like a 5.67 from the 4 something that she was. She's improving. She made significant improvement. And uh what what is the criteria for hiring an aid for prek? What what credentials do they have to have? For a parah is the same as our regular parents. For our lead teachers, they have to have a CDA um in early childhood or an AA in
058early childhood or have a bachelor's. Um, and then they are required to do 20 hours uh for for the BPK side. There's 15 hours of emergency literacy and five hours of standards training on the 167 standards that we have in prek. Um, they have to maintain the emergency literacy. Every five years they have to take another class. So they have to they have to renew certification now um just like our regular teacher student. So you say they can have a bachelor, but we don't hire people with bachelors because Yeah, because I know years ago there was a push for for that in the prek, especially when you see how important it is from the state level, especially with our chancellor Krie Miller. There is that's a long-term goal in the state is eventually prek will
059be certified teachers with the same expectations. Um but they have to put their funding behind it before it can happen because our funding just doesn't right meet the salaries of of a certified teacher. And as far as um uh entry into prek, anybody is accepted or is there a number a certain number in each community that can can? Well, I do it based on classes. So for uh what I take is 11 BPK per class which is beats that 51% of general education and then I leave the remaining spots for special education students because those come throughout the year. Um so if we try to adjust accordingly I have had years last year was a year that we had 12 that stayed on the waiting list that we never were able to open another unit
060for. Um, but we we look at I start taking in spreadsheet of all the ones bringing in their certificates from January 1 and by April I usually can predict how many classes we're going to need and that's where we've adjusted for next year. So we try not to turn them away. That's why we added the seventh class this year to Joyce Bullet because we had enough to create a whole another classroom. It was two when Annabelle went. There was only two 11 years ago. It's grown from two to 11. Cash was in. Yeah. We're We've grown a lot since I've been here, but it continues to grow and the accountability is there. So, you know, we're trying to make sure these kids are ready. It's a hard job. I mean, three to three to five
061is a big and then you have the non-English speakers and you have I mean, that's a it's a tough job. Yeah. I have to say my BPK instructors are amazing. Um they do what really truly none of our other teachers are expected to do. They're 100% inclusive, right? They have multi-age. They change diapers. Um they do all the things. So they're really amazing instructors and for them to get these results consistently, I'm always in all of them. Amazing. Thank y'all very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. As we transition to Mr. Bennett, if y'all want to head out and go back to school, not you. Everybody else got 45 emails. Thank you very Thank you. Have a good day. Mr. Bennett, good morning. Good morning. So, you've had an amazing presentation about research and
062practice on peer tutoring. You've had an a extensive presentation on how prek is going to save the world. That's I'm going to talk with you about firewalls. [Music] So, I hope you're going to do a song and dance, please. Listen, whatever it takes. It takes. So, in all seriousness, it is time for us to renew our what is really our biggest secured cyber security package that we have. Um it's been a few years since we've had this this up before the board and um we work with a vendor named Forinet. Um, I wanted to take a minute because it's a big package to kind of go through the different components of it and some of the reasoning behind it. Um, but before I launch, I do want to single out and say a huge thank
063you to the two gentlemen in the back of the room here, Mr. Lawrence Fields and Mr. Joseph Log. They developed an excellent um, relationship with our coordinate sales representative and um, did a lot of really great work trying to make this the best possible package for our district. So, kudos to them. Um, so what's included? I'll say that you have a little bit of supplementary materials in your package. And in particular, you may want to pay attention to the cover letter that I have that has a few more details in addition to this. The biggest component of this package is what we call our firewall. The firewall contains both hardware and software components. and it's essentially the thing that keeps both the bad guys out and provides filtering for for the internet for our district
064for both students and staff. Um that filtering is something that is a requirement for our participation in the federal program which is how the majority of our network is funded. Um it also helps us stay in compliance with federal laws like the the famous tick tock man and things like that. Um so when we looked at how to renew our package this year. One of the things that we chose to do was what we would term right sizing the hardware in our package. Um the hardware that we have now has very similar functionality to what we would be getting under this. But because technology has advanced, we have been able to really downsize the cost of uh of what what we had currently to a smaller package and maintain that functionality. Uh we also eliminated
065a significant component on the software side of the firewall uh that we just don't deem as critical anymore. So again, that's kind of a nod to a little bit of cost savings. Uh this package, by the way, does include the antivirus protection that that we district. So that's the the big component. Uh we have also included kind of as a package, you know, Mr. Asel, we think of when we bundle home and auto, we're trying to bundle. Appreciate that. So um one of the things that we chose to bundle was for fish. Uh this is actually replacing a contract that we currently have with a different vendor for a very similar product. And this product is something that allows us to simulate fishing attacks for the district and then provide training to our end users
066on what to what to look for in in in potential fishing uh scams and things like that. So again, that's just replinging it's out there under a different vendor. For mail is new. Uh we have seen a very dramatic increase as have pretty much everyone uh in the industry with the volume of fishing attacks. That's kind of just been a general change in the landscape. And so this is an additional component that we felt like we needed. And if you if you just wanted to imagine Serena Williams standing between our email and the outside world with a tennis racket, that's basically what this does. it um is trying to make sure that we keep spamming out, that we keep viruses out, and that we have some tools in place so that we don't lose any
067data in situations that might be deficient. uh for voice. So when last we came before you with a security package, one of our big concerns at that time is we had a lot of computer hardware that end users were using old machines that we could no longer update with security. And through the hard work of of our departmental staff, we've been able to retire a big portion of those enduser machines. But the other piece of that that has now become present is that over the past five to 10 years, we've transitioned from the old what we would call a copper line phone system to a true voice over or we're getting to a true voiceover IP system. And so those voiceover IP IP phones are essentially little mini computers that have to have security updates
068in the same way that a computer would. So the industry has has moved away from copper. um telecom providers like AT&T are no longer supporting copper phone lines and they're trying to get them retired. And so there's really no going back from voiceover IP, but one of the consequences of switching to voiceover IP is you have to keep your hardware current. And so that's one of the reasons that we looked at incorporating this for voice package within the larger bundle uh of our uh foret renewal. And basically what this will do is it's it's going to replace our current AAA phone system. We have current contract for maintaining that for the team of about 135. Uh and it will be replacing that and also buying that new hardware that will allow us to continue to
069have security updates to those enduser phones. And also another little piece of this uh is that there's some legislation out there that when you are a user that has to call 911 from one of our devices, one of our phones, there's some very specific requirements now in law about what kind of information that phone call was supposed to provide to emergency management. And so we need units that will be able to be compliant with some of these new standards. Um, so that's that's the reasoning behind the core voice. You'll also in the quote you'll see quite a bit of training and configuration. That's because one of the realities of cyber security software packages like this is that they're very vendor specific. And so if you get to know and get to implement a system like
070um there's a pretty high amount of training and configuration that you have to go do to go from one vendor to another vendor. And so, um, you you always see that when when you have a component like this, it's it's always part of the package. Um, our implementation though will be by our staff. This it's not going to be somebody coming in. This is just training to support our staff as they do the upgrades. So, that's what's included in the package. I wanted to take just a moment to talk through several different considerations or questions that you may have. Um the biggest of which really is cost and this is just a reality unfortunately of the cyber security world right now. Everybody has seen escalating costs and it's something that I'll be honest with you
071I've pressed our staff very hard through this process to try to keep our cost down as much as possible because it's it's it's expensive. Uh so they they did work like I said with that great relationship with our vendor to try to in several different ways. One was, like I said, we tried to eliminate some of those hardware components that we no longer needed, software components we no longer needed, downsize when we could. Um, we looked to a longer term that I'm going to talk about in a second, um, to see if we could get some cost savings there and tried to again wrap around bundle as many other products as we could within the package to try to provide some cost savings there. Things that we knew we need to have, maybe we were
072getting from other places to try to include them in this package. Uh so finally we we also were able to negotiate as part of this um basically a free short-term renewal from the end of my current contract to the end of this fiscal year. So that was a little bit of cost savings we were able to to get in there for us as well. So that's the costs question on the the question of how are we addressing changes in security landscape. Like I said before, we've seen a big increase in the amount of issues that we've had through email. So, we've tried to add that for mail component kind of as a response to that. Um software or I'm sorry, hardware going out of end of service life is now an issue with our phone.
073So, we've tried to include that to kind of patch that so to speak. and then trying to maintain that security awareness training for end users which has been something that we have found extremely useful. And just as an illustration of how that works, if we have a situation where we have an actual attempted fishing attack and and we like any district our size has have had those, uh we can immediately take whatever that attempt was, fashion it into a campaign and then push it out to all of our other users so that everyone else understands if they get something like this, this is how you need to respond and this is what to look for. So it's very adaptive and it's been very useful. Um I had mentioned earlier that we don't really there's a
074a big challenge in regards to cyber security because the systems are so vendor specific. Uh if you try to switch back and forth a lot if you like a bidding process that always awarded the bid to the lowest bidder you're going to dramatically increase the amount of time and effort that has to go into making all those conversions over time. So because of that and other reasons, this is really pretty much with everyone a game of direct direct negotiation. And so that's something that is allowed for information technology under some of the information that you have in your packet. Uh and I just wanted to be transparent about that. This was not a bid process. It was a direct negotiation. Then we get to the term of the package. This is the other thing that's
075obviously pretty unusual to to come before the board and that is this is a fiveyear six payment package. That's a long time and um our our staff is very comfortable that we're with a product and product line that's going to be able to stay current and that we won't have any issues in that regard. But the big reason we did it is if you look there at the cost savings, you're looking at anywhere, and this is being extremely conservative, probably 50,000 plus per year savings by going with a 5-year package. Now, that assumes about a 2% inflation rate. What we have actually seen is probably closer 5 to 10% over the last few years. And what Fordet themselves will tell you is to budget 10 to 15%. So those numbers that you're looking I asked
076them to be very conservative in that regard for you. So, um that's that's basically some of the big things that made this package the way it is. I want to pause there and see if we have any questions. I knew what would the transition be like? Good question. You know, so we actually as part of that extension, they're actually going to extend our current system for about a month beyond June. Uh and so between when this is approved and and really about the end of July, we'll have our existing system and be working on building out the new one. You'll see there when you look at the quantities on some of the um on some of the items in the quote, you'll see that part of this system does include backup systems. And so whenever
077you look at um updating the firewall or something like that, it's a critical piece of infrastructure. You always have a backup. You try to shift, but you have the old ready If something doesn't work out with a new, you can quickly shift back to the old and maintain stability. So that's all built into package. Y'all follow up on references from other people who might have the same software. We we actually our gentlemen back there are part of a group called Intac. Okay. Which is um kind of an offshoot of me and they work with other like districts in size and things like that. And there there are some other products out there. Um but several of the other districts do use for that. It's considered pretty much a if not an industry leader a well-known
078name got in the industry. Is it normal for the for the down payment to be so much? So the reason for that is that we are trying to use a couple of different funds for um covering the cost of this and there are slightly different rules for how software versus hardware can be paid for and so the down payment is really where we're paying for a big chunk of the hardware that's part of this package if that makes sense. Okay. Oh yes ma'am able to use capitals the forward to a software because we originally paid for our first four or five year term using our funds. So we knew the state was going to come. So this was a really great way to fund it. Okay. and they can keep up with it by doing
079this on this stuff is constantly changing their their confidence for years from now they're going to be some that was a very specific question that I asked the gentleman in the back and I can let them speak for themselves if you like but basically yes and part of the PD that's in this is PD to help make sure we stay current system stays current these modern firewall type systems are constantly updating because they're linked for all the other people out there that have similar systems. If an issue is reported somewhere in, I don't know, Ohio, that then becomes something that Forinet is aware of and then is pushed out to the rest of us in a preventive fashion, if that makes sense. So, it's it's just an inherent part of modern firewalls. This is the
080way to go. So, the part of like you Part of it is hardware. The other part is the subscription service that we pay to the vendor to keep everything updated. The way we have integrated the system is we have a main point which is the internet access which sits in the room over here you know um that's where a firewall sit and then you have endpoint protection. So the endpoint is everything out in the world. So laptops um desktops everything that that's the end of the line. So the way we have our security set up is our main point of internet access is also talking to our endpoint of internet access so that all the communication they're all getting instantly updated multiple times an hour the Ford guard labs are constantly monitoring the entire world
081and they're as they find stuff they're putting in it automatically uploads to our firewall and it also translates to all of our end points. So, it's a very complex system and they make it ends up being easier for us to manage everything because updates are horrendous. I can just tell you that we constantly do updates to everything all the time. But um in this in this package now not only we protecting our endpoints meaning laptops and and desktops and servers and now we're also updating on the phone system. So all of those you don't believe it but there's a lot of hacks to get to that traffic that that server or voice over IP is using. There's a there's a portal that has to let that traffic through and having compromised or vulnerable hosts on
082the other side of it allows somebody to come through that portal which is what a firewall does allow stuff to come and not. So in order to do that or or what we want to do is make sure all of that is just as secure as every other piece of equipment that we have. We we update firmware. We update software. We update all these packages to keep everything um in tight. And part is that the I joke about this all the time. I can do all of that and make this Fort Knox um we can do that, but I can't stop somebody from clicking a button. And that's where the fort fish and and the training programs come in because I can't eliminate human element out of everything. So, um yeah. We've actually been working
083on this package for well technically three years because that's when we shot the first and we were like how we're going to do this. But we've been working six straight months uh back and forth back and forth. The vendor has been excellent in helping us figure out a way to cover the cost. And this was the absolute best we could deal with and and Warren can tell you we've never seen a deal this good. They actually gave us an extreme It doesn't sound like it but it is extremeount over 50%. Would you also hit on the the heart and maybe they can interject the hardware when we spoke earlier? You know, in my mind I was thinking all this new hardware with the phones, are we taking a step backward because technology is moving um
084forward so quickly, but the way you explained it and some of the benefits that these this hardware wear will give us in the rooms throughout the district. So, you know, we have schools that are varying ages in terms of how long they've been built. And so, some of our newer schools were designed and built with phone extension designs for every room. And that's partially a security feature. Um, some of our older facilities we've had to retrofit and that's been the gradual process that we've been through over the last 5 to 10 years as we've moved to voice over IP. And I think where we're at now is, you know, we're getting a stock of phones devices essentially in this package, but we need to and I've had this discussion with the guys. We need to
085stop and pause and think where do we really need those extensions to be within the schools? Are there are there places where we need to shift what they have? Are there places where there are extensions that we don't need? Are there places where we do need extensions that we don't have them? So, you know, now that we're essentially deployed, are we deployed where we continue to need to be deployed? Um, so that's one of the things that um and it does this does tie in with security. You know, you want to have as many different routes for someone that's having an emergency to be able to communicate as you can. So, that's a big consideration for Yeah, I would say it's a it's a very complex package. There's a lot of moving parts. It covers
086a lot of aspects. the scope of cyber security and also as as Morgan pointed out, it's part of the filtering and just for the staff and the students protecting the students. Um, our schools, we house a lot of very sensitive data. Uh, and especially for young individuals that, you know, potentially any kind of breach of that data, they might not know that effect for years until they go to actually get a bank account or something like that. And this package, like I said, it's got a lot of moving parts. There's updating hardware that that needs to be maintained. There's software protecting end points. We have there's software that looks for known vulnerabilities, things that are known out there and stopping those. There's components in this that look at things that are unknown. Just says that
087seems like behavior let you know about this odd behavior. It behaves about something like what we know, but it's not exactly like that. What do you want me to do there? And then um there's I mean it's quite a bit of stuff. But if you're saying can we you know can we promise that we'll never be breached that's a that's not something we can always you know that's not something anybody can really promise. What we can do is do our best to protect every device make all the updates so that you know like you said we can't stop somebody from clicking something but if we can have everything um being monitored watched looking things. We can stop them from moving around the network. So, they say they get to a certain computer, say, "Oh, I
088know. I saw that you just clicked that. You should click that." Or, "Hey, this looks odd. I'm not going to let that let that happen. I'm going to notify uh us in our in our console, and we can see that, make decisions about those things." So, there's just a lot of pieces to this. It's not one aspect. As Lauren says, we can't prevent every we can't prevent everything, but we can make it absolutely possible for every single anybody that attempts to anything. We're going to make it and we will die on that sword. We will try our best everything we can to and this is one of this is one of the tools that we have to make that happen. So just to share a little statistic with you um I think like over 87
089last I saw like over 87% of schools have uh experienced a successful cyber attack. um over like 90% of cyber attacks come via fishing and 70 something% of those are via email. Uh and so just trying to you know this package is trying to focus on what the current trends are. Of course education is constantly being attacked. It's growing every year year over year by you know several factors. So it's it's this pack is designed to try to keep up with the modern trend. questions. So again, I cannot compete with prek students, but I do have artificial intelligence and so I did use artificial intelligence for policy. So if you need a slide like that, basically you just ask chat ga for a slideshow with lots of So we would need a motion to approve
090before Morgan, can I ask you a question? So will this updating be complete before the beginning of our new school year? It will be right around that time, but it's but it won't affect our our starting the year. Yeah, it'll be a gradual process especially with the phones because like I said we need to do and will it all be done remotely or will we have to it's a combination of both. There is hardware that has to be installed and configured and then there's also software systems that have to be configured. So it's a combination. So you'll actually have to have our computer our staff will do the physical installs when when necessary and then some of that training package that you saw in the package will be part of that is the configuration. Does
091that make sense? I'll entertain a motion. So move second motion and a second. There's no further questions. All those in favor please say I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Lot, good morning. Good morning. Uh, last board meeting I introduced uh, seven proposed uh, board policies. Uh, most of these came to us from the effect. I know some of you weren't here. I'll try to real briefly um, go over the reasons behind this. So, we had six of them came from the effect and those were primarily because of some new state board rule. One of those is uh some four or five Florida requirements. Um and I told those that were here that you know actually Mr. Gore is already ahead of that and had already made those
092changes that just now came out uh in the proposed board change. So we're ahead of that game, but we do need to formalize that uh because of a new state board rule change. Um there were some changes in regard to Florida statute 435.12 which dealt with some background screening and contractors. There's a new system the state is rolling out and it's going to mean some heartburn for us and that we we all have to basically most most of our employees will have to go back and get refing because they've created this new clearing house. and that clearing house, you know, in the long run would be good because as people move from one district to the other, we won't have to refing people. So, it's a good move. It's a good thing, but um some
093of the language uh that we needed to update in our policies in regard to that clearing house. Um and then there were some new changes in regard to uh federal regulations for federal food applications for breakfast and lunch programs. And so those food procurement changes there were a result of that. Um and then the only one that didn't come from EAC was 4.05 in regard to examinations. And that came as a request from our principles who wanted some flexibility on those exam days. And our current policy said we're limited to two exams per day. Uh they wanted to extend that to three. U many kids don't even take three exam or a day or two exams a day um because a lot of those tests are now incorporated within end of course exams and so
094forth. So a kid will be sitting there for a period or they'll be checking out for a period because they don't have an exam. Uh the principles thought that that would make their life easier. So that's that's what we do here. We support our schools the best we can. Um, as you look through this, were there any other questions that we need to to address or answer? I had a question about uh where it says that uh you have to educate the parents on the fortified program, right? And I know that you do we do have it on our website, but is that enough? Well, I'll I'll turn it over to Mr. Gore because the statute says we have to make it available. I'll make it available because it says here training. That's why So
095what we what we do is we we share the information on our website and we also share it on our Facebook website at the end of the school year and so that meets according to office of state schools that meets the requirement through statute and that's good does a very good job of keeping us in good graces. Any other questions? The next board meeting, I'll come back and I'll ask you to uh for final approval. So far, there's been no public comments or anything that addressed from the public in regard to these proposed board changes. Thank you, Mr. L. Mrs. Lake. Thank you for allowing us to slide this one in from Bower. We just had uh a ratification by the staff for anou for updating our supplement schedule. So the reason this is coming
096to you as anou is it's outside negotiations and we wanted the supplement schedule to start with the start of the school year since traditionally we don't retro supplement. That way staff would have uh the full year earnings for this increase. So you'll see the attachment is we did a 10% increase across the board. We excluded some supplements. Those were excluded to come back up under discussions when we had compensation because they're ones that that roll with the employee. And then we added some new ones to honor some experience in some coaching areas. And then on the last page, we gave some parameters to follow the coaching and club sponsor experience uh supplement. So I'm here today to just get approval from the board to move forward with this. Do I hear a motion? So moved.
097Second. Motion a second. Any questions, discussion? Seeing none, all in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose? Like sign. Mr. Caris. Thank you, Mr. Lake. Thank you. This time, we'd like to welcome all our visitors. And if anyone has any public comments they'd like to make, now is your time. Seeing none, we're going to move on ahead to our minutes. Has everyone had a chance to review the minutes? Yes. There are no changes or no objections. I'll entertain a motion to approve the minutes. So move. Second. Motion and second. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Like sign. Motion carries. Now we'll move to our consent agenda. Everyone has had a chance to look at that. Is there anything needs to be changed or added to the consent agenda? Okay. Mrs. Campbell,
098do you have any questions? No, I don't. I've had them answered. Mrs. Baxter. And I have no questions. Mr. White, my question answered. Mrs. Clemenski, all my answer. Sounds good to me too. Mine have all been answered. I will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. So move second. Do I any more discussion? All those in favor, please say I. I. Any oppose? Like I motion carries. We'll now move to our finance consent agenda. Has everyone had a chance to look at that or are there any questions? Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda on finance items. So move second. A motion and a second. All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Like I. Motion carries. That's what happens when the chairman's reading two steps ahead is
099where his brain is at. Madam superintendent. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, I don't have much. Just I hope everyone had a wonderful spring break and a happy Easter weekend with family and our friends and spring break trips. I know there were some that traveled far and wide and they had a good time. Um, everybody's jumping in, talking to admin, talking to some teachers, and they're getting ready for the testing to start. And I know they're excited, little anxious, but excited with all that. And the presentations that were shown today were amazing. And I know we mentioned it, but I would love to entertain that mentor program between Chief and Bronson with those schools. And um I think actually Cedar Key is doing it with the older students within the school. I think they started the
100SAC committee started that. Oh no, that's been going on a long a long time. And then they they added to it like some incentives two years ago. I remember for the older mentors um taking care of the younger ones. So that was great. There I don't have a picture. I didn't share it with Mr. Bennett unfortunately. I'll get it for next meeting. But American Red Cross have contacted me and I forwarded some of the curriculum to admin and they come in free of charge and they have their own instructors and it's called preparing with Pedro and they have different segments at different times of year and Mrs. Cribs was kind enough to start it kind of do like a little pilot a few weeks ago at during special areas and so I'll share a picture
101but that went over very well and they did hurricane preparedness and the kids when I went there they were just they were laser focused and one of the instructors actually dresses up as a penguin and comes in and it was it was a lot of fun. So, it looks like the next um school is Yankee Town. I think DE is going to try and find a date and do a big assembly where Pedro comes in for hurricanes and then hopefully we can get into Cedar Key before the end of the year with the smaller group. But I'll share pictures next time. It was cool. Very cool. And that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. We'll start with our board comments. We'll start with Mrs. Campbell. Um well, Cedar Key is busy coming to the
102end of the year getting ready for testing and um we have our uh some of our students participating in the regional track and field meet. Extremely proud of them. And we have uh an AVID family STEM night scheduled. And uh it looks to be really exciting evening with a lot of science, tech, and English and math activities that that the teachers and the classes are going to share. So I'm looking forward to that. Mrs. Backter. Um, well, about the same. At Chief Elementary, they're doing different events to kick off testing, and they have the community coming in next week to decorate the hallways to motivate the kids. And they've scheduled a water day for those children in K2 that are proficient. And for grades three, five, um, they'll they'll get to go to Camp Kakqua.
103Um, at CHS they have a career expo sponsored by Career Source tomorrow and I think kids from all over the county are attending and they have a drama production starting this weekend. Um, Freaky Friday and that's all. Mr. Wurst, first thank y'all for allowing me to miss last meet and kind of a once in a lifetime experience kind of thing to go see the Gator win the national championships. I appreciate y'all allowing me to miss a meeting. Um, and today is bus driver appreciation day. So, thank y'all for all the bus drivers out there and all they do. Like I said, y'all driving, taking care of the kids. There's just so much so much that goes along with that. So, thankful for all them. Earth day, you know. So, today's Earth Day, too. Yeah. All
104the days. So, thank goodness we have a rural county where I thought we take care of environment. say to other places it was good, but we're all about that. Um certainly had everybody had a restful spring break back at it. Have all the testing, PM3 testing coming up and um I know everybody's ready to to get through that and like I said, got progress reports this week and so it's halfway done the halfway through the last nine weeks. So before we know it, be graduation. So looking forward to that. So that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Lindsay. Yeah, it's a busy time of year, but it's an exciting time of year. Um, Yankee Town has their basket auction on Thursday night and um already starting the kindergarten and prek roundup. Um, and
105congratulations to Chief. Moving on to regionals in baseball. Is it this week, Adam? Do they play? Are you out? Is it I think it's I think it's this week. It's this week or next week, but yeah. So, congrats. He's too busy keeping people safe, he Yeah. Well, I'll root for them. So, I should know. Yeah. And um that's it. That's all I have. Thank you, ma'am. I don't have much. I'm just fascinated that it just seems like this year just started. This jocker's almost over. I like seeing that. You know, for those of us that live through it, live through the the pandemic, ain't it cool to see kids going on trips again? Yes. And those kind of things. I think that's neat. And then we got the banquetss and the various things that all
106indicate what time of year it is. It's pretty amazing how fast it went. Everybody's done a great job so far. So, we're looking forward to more exciting things. And if there is nothing else, may I add one thing? Well, I was shooting for 10:30. Okay. It'll be it'll be 10:30. I didn't know if Mrs. Campbell was going to mention it, so I just sit slid it to the side. But I wanted to say thank you to Mrs. Baxter and Mrs. Campbell last night um for inviting me to what was an incredible evening. It was the Delta Kappa Gamma International Society for the Key Women Educators and they inducted two of our teachers down there in Cedar Key, Jesse Robinson and Jenny Brown. And they also gave out um some financial aid to Lena Lena Londano,
107right? Lena Londano and Vicky Shuy, but the the collaboration of these women to sit back and listen to them. And I actually was able to be introduced to two of my husband's teachers, one elementary, one high school, that were there. And I heard some great stories. But to hear that that organization started in 1929 and they had the book of all the signatures when you get inducted um by all these brilliant woman women that have done so much for our students and just some have taught each other. It was it was amazing to hear but thank you for inviting me. It was wonderful to experience that. Thank you. 10:31. Good job.