001if you would like to address the board please out a yellow card and get States for it stands one nation under God indivisible well I'm excited here tonight to talk about Oxo and the good things that are happening at Oxo and and we have had a goal from the beginning of the school year about making sure that students feel like they belong and one of the ways that we've done that is by um celebrating good behavior good um choices that kids are making and um I have a friend here that's going to help us talk a little bit about this and so do you want to introduce yourself to everyone my name isalia I go in third grade and my teacher is Miss and one of the ways that we celebrate at our school and
002help students to feel but belongings is by giving away what are they called 3M 3M Mighty Min moments so these are things that students can earn when they're caught doing good things and if you could see here that in at oxville we've given out 3,510 we've celebrated 10 different moments of leaders ship uh just this year and Mahal has gotten some of them right so also we have when you earn these um we collect them and we keep tracking them as a grade levels right and so we find out which grade level got the most 3m's and then they earn a recess with Mrs Garber and Mr be right and uh and we really have felt like a sense of belonging has increased attendance everything achievement positive behaviors we took a um survey at the
003beginning of the year and one of the questions was do I feel like I belong and we grew 6% from the beginning of the year to the middle of the year with 86% of our students feeling my fa long and we feel like this is one of the reasons but I really wanted Mahalia to come here and talk to you a little bit because she has come a long way and has has really um 3M have been something that's been really good for her so she's going to share a little bit about herself with you okay so can you tell us Mahalia um how have you changed from second to third grade it was a little rocky at first but then I started to go up because of my behavior and I've been doing good
004yeah and so how have you been working on your behaviors what have you been doing what in the morning what do you do every morning I always have these and one of our binders and we actually like do the goal name and date and and so when you set this goal you think about what are you thinking about your whole day right and she tries to say so a typical goal will be how many out of 10 are you trying to do and be trying to do eight seven or nine eight seven eight or nine out of 10 and then you would meet your goal right yeah but what happens if you get a 10 out of 10 I actually get one of these you earn a a 3 hour a 3 hour and so
005can you tell me uh how many of these have you earned probably 20 to 30 and so how does it make you feel when you earn these Mighty tickets I'm really proud really proud right and so you've been working hard and like she said Rocky at first but we're growing growing right so what's one one thing I know uh we had a meeting with her mom and her mom said well we were trying to just get one of these and she already had how many probably she had 10 and then she said so what's your goal for the end of the year 100 are you 200 so good so thank you Mahal for sharing you that I'm proud of you so I just there's one more slide up there and we just really wanted to
006talk about like referrals at our school have been just really impacted in our gen Ed classroom so we at this time we had 140 last year and now we have under a 100 of girls so we're just really thinking about the behavior that kids understand um they're going to be celebrated and they they know what to do and expect so we're really excited about um Mahalia and the students at oo earning these three M tickets [Applause] Mahal I hope you have a great rest day thank you guys for coming okay next up consent agenda 3.1 minutes from February claims claim distribution summ resour request any comments questions all Yes uh thank you for allowing me some time here to talk about our growth um our at every uh beginning middle and end of the year
007we look at how is our achievement doing uh throughout the distri district and and so this year uh some exciting news and and some exciting uh growth that we've seen in our achievement so if we start with kindergarten and we look at um what you see here is uh this um when we look at this chart we know we've talked about that kindergarteners come to us uh having a low preparedness for readings right and so we see that by the green and blues so the top line is the beginning of the year or Boi and the second line is thei or middle of the year um so we see that in 2022 23 uh we saw increase which was which is what we want to see but in last year we saw even more increase
008and this year we we see even more increase and that's that's what we want to see in terms of our programming in terms of our support for our students we also see that red line getting smaller which is which is of course what we want to see if we move to first grade [Music] um when we move to first grade we see that that again those red lines start to creep down and start to to get less and less our green and blues are growing uh again something we want to see so moving to second grade [Music] um this is where we're starting to see our first year of kids being in CK having instructional coaches for support of teachers letters um letters instruction and practice for our teachers and we're seeing again those lines
009are uh are decreasing uh in terms of red and yellow and increasing in terms of blue and green so now with blue and green we have uh 57% of our students are reading on grade level whereas um we have a lot of kids that are still really close as well in that yellow uh one thing that's important to note is every time we give an assessment uh whether that's it doesn't matter what grade um beginning of the year and middle of the year the tests are different so the test gets harder at the middle of the year and the test gets harder at the end of the year so it's not just that kids have learned information we want you know we would hope that right but they're actually growing to be on grade level
010and that's what this is showing so that's really exciting because in each of these grades it's not just about um learning new content it's about learning enough content to be on grel uh which is exciting so when we move to third grade we move away from dibles which is which is a reading measure that we use to be able to identify uh how to support our students and we we move to end OFA to tell us how we're doing at the beginning of the year and the middle of the year we also of course course have I read which is this week uh it's a big week for our third second third graders but we we also have I learn but we need other pieces of data to tell us how we're doing along the
011way and so as we look at this we see that again the beginning of the year and middle of the Year expectations for third graders are different so we expect more at the middle of the year and yet we still saw improvements in all of our grades for reading and in all of our grades for math um one thing that's important to note is we um when we give in of va those percentages like East Side at 44.2% that's a pretty close relationship to what we might see or I learn so it's predictive of what might we might see in passing for I learn um math achievement is not as predictive because they're different tests they haven't aligned that as well and so um we we usually see that that's about 8 to 10% higher
012than this score is about 8 to 10% higher than what we see on is what I the reason why I wanted to show it today is because we still see significant growth in our math scores there so while it may not be the 20% that we were hoping still 10% would be fantastic uh we usually say that if we can grow four or five% in a half year that's that's that's pretty outstanding uh when we move to fourth grade uh we see similar uh some outstanding growth I just want to highlight Southside here the they have done some tremendous intentional work with their fourth grade in terms of moving from 20% to 42% they're super proud of that and they should be right um so a lot of really strong numbers um across the board
013here for each of our grades and and um it just shows it shows us that we're working really hard but there's a reason right we see it in our kids and so that's exciting to be able to see in fifth through 8th grade um we see the same we see the same uh scores um obviously we don't have four element or four different fifth grades so it's all together here we do see decreases in sixth and seventh grade and so um we've I've had conversations with okay what what does that what does that mean for us and we've dug into that date a little bit more at both of those schools to to make some adjustments for the second half of the year and we feel like those adjustments are going to be supportive of
014of growth just want to point out the E grade language arts is really uh is really strong uh that's a really strong number uh as well as fifth through seventh math um really some nice scor there and some impr when we look at the high school the high school doesn't have dibles or NBA like those are nationally normed assessments and so we compare ourselves in those thing in those tests to others around the nation this year we haven't had something like that in in high school and so this year what we did was we created our own assessments but they're using questions from sat and PSAT so so the ninth and 10th grade tests that we created both for the beginning middle and end of the year are um aligned with PSAT and then the
015test in in 11th grade is is related to sat sat this we too so uh hopefully we'll we'll see the results of that here soon um but some really good growth here again the the 9% uh dip there in in ninth grade something that we've had conversations about but because it's the first year of our test we we want to see how the outcome is there uh with with our PSAT um the other the other component of this is sat and I learn are very different from each other so this is the first time that we're kind of adjusting some of what um what we're focusing on at the end and that that makes a difference there so any questions I can flip back to to any of these pages that any questions about the
016data that that I Shar here looking at the closer to pre and years school a little less than cool in many cases kids have a skin in the game when they take these like they do they have something making it very much in their interest to put forth their best effort so so there um we do talk about um it really is a lot of work on our teachers parts to to make sure that kids feel the the necessity to be able to see that but it it also goes along with our goal setting so when kids see that this is how I'm doing and how how it's going to affect me moving forward there has to be some conversations there for for that to be able to happen if um grades there's no grades
017aligned to it but grades don't often motivate um the people that the kids that we that we would like to see motivated um and so um um it's it's a challenge uh for sure but um we're we're able to see some games so so several took it seriously mentioned the younger their different tests is this same test High School um they are different tests as well they are different tests as well so we took look um questions um sat and actually this is the first year that sat put these out but they have just a a giant Bank of questions um that we could choose from so it's been really nice to be able to have that uh so that we know the alignment there and have some questions and at other County schools and
018other state schools we can't so we can see National Data for both Bibles and NBA um but what we are we U not every school gives those assessments um and so those are Choice uh assessments to be able to give the state the state requires that we have a A literacy um assessment for for foundational literacy and then something additional for third through eth grade but uh it's up to schools to to choose that I will say that as we move forward with the string um uh like I said we have I read this week and our our teachers and and kids have worked so hard um and so we're excited to see how how that how that turns out our second grade are testing again this year um last year I uh shared some
019second grade data but not all of the schools in Indiana had to do second grade I read last year this year they will so we'll be able to see some of those comparisons about how how did we do in comparison to not only County Schools but the state um third grade will be able to do that that same kind of thing uh our plan would be for R read is we had 142 kids in January and February participate in after school tutoring um so we were uh really excited our elementary is really uh did a lot of work to to to help with students there uh had provided transportation for some of them that that needed that and um and so we're excited about that and then we'll offer another another uh time for for
020tutoring for students that don't pass um this this time we'll we'll know in the next week or so um how how our our students have done and so that will get that will let us get started right away um and we did also tutor 35 Juniors on Sat a little bit harder to get Juniors to stay after school but uh for those that were interested we um we were able to have about half of those were in math and half of those were in language arts and and so you know I heard a little bit helps right and so um hopefully those those pieces will will help um the other thing that I just like to point out we're moving to double block for for eighth grade or for seventh and eth grade math next
021year and part of our preparation that we're looking at that we're working on this this semester is we have a math specialist coming in he spent two days with all of our math uh teachers at the junior high all of the coaches and principles in the district and um so we're not only supporting the junior high but we're supporting math in all of our schools he'll be with us two more times yet this spring and those those have been really helpful and Powerful for for our team question I'm sorry remind 10th grade is PSA correct thank you yeah so um just uh might know not know that we do this twice a year something um our policy committee now is Mr ly uh myself uh shad and Carla uh that do this this update is
022pretty minimal so uh we didn't have the guy come in especially knowing that um the fall update based on all of the new stuff at the federal level around uh Dei and other exe all the executive orders that have happened we'll create new policies so we'll probably have a book um of new policies in the fall so twice a year um the board receives an update theola is a service that we pay for probably most School District she's theola that um they update policies and make sure they're consistent with new laws or court cases um and twice a year we bring an update uh to uh to the board so this uh is a first reading so really just here it is um and then you know look it over if there are any questions
023between now and the next meeting um let me know or let Carla know um and we can get those answered um we have policy on determining legal settlement um you'll see there we have another one uh well a couple on student conduct suspension and expulsion um those are in uh because of a house Ro act that allows us to communicate over uh via email with parents if that kind of thing happens each have be certified mail um so that would be changes there and then you see some changes to um ABM counts and then there's some stuff in there about artificial intelligence uh as well Tyler's been working on that um and um has that so again any questions uh let us know and we'll get them answered before before the next that's it no
024action great K solution yeah so I'm gonna introduce uh we have Danielle super and Randy Hayes uh from Ki here we've been District's been working with Ki for a long time uh on uh Furniture uh I think Ki was involved in move up as well but definitely east side and west side when we recently renovated those classrooms we work with Ki they are part of um basically their pricing has already been pre-negotiated uh through a purchasing Cooperative with the service center um and so we know we're getting the best price and Randy always steers us correctly anyways um to so um they're going to talk a little bit about what you have in front of you and about the pieces I think have a few slides and then um I can kind of walk through
025um the money into it here uh when we're done so whoever wants to take the [Music] podium ading Concord somewhat Con in the color sche well on beh of Danielle and I and Ki thank you for the opportunity that you have only here today but for your support and long BR solution you guys have really done a a good and thorough process of determining what product and solution should build in each classroom we started in September with Dan and Jeff and Carrie and Jennifer coming to our Ki showroom in Chicago and having a very broad example of products to choose from Mar and down then uh unlike most other school districts we met with every single teach and I really thinkk the principles of the schools for allowing that time to take place it was
026probably two days it was probably a total of I mean 16 hours to meet with each of the teachers and then an additional um six hours for principal um so really vetting through exactly what the needs were um what the reality was to get those needs um the pricing on that um and then how to make it best fit budget wise and then also um advoc onal of those teachers when it comes to the meetings um with principles so they they would get all the teachers would get to dream with Dani and and then Jeff and I got to say no that was my main tank I'm here to advocate for you but I can't tell you a yes or a no and us I think it's important that you know that Haley m is
027our design design for the Chicago District of Ki she was assigned to your guys project and really what you see is the result of her professionalism and experience so tonight we're just going to briefly run through the design aspect and then of Pro Y I think it's also important to note um so I was not a part of east side and Westside uh renovation at that time Randy was um it's also important that we made sure to take feedback of how that existing furniture was working for them maybe what was working what was not working um any new additions that Ki brought forth too um that we thought would be um helpful in the classroom moving forward um so that's just a note of what also went into all of those hours of conversation um
028really started at because if you look up ki.com they're going to see hundreds of products um so they did a really good job in the showroom Nar narrowing down um what would work and then we brought in actual physical samples also for those teachers to try out as well um so this is Oxo um this is the whole school so what we do is um we actually sat with each principal and went room by room to make sure that layout looks good space design looks good the actual product is going to fit their need need everything down to um there's what's called a Caster a wheel on the tables or chairs or Glide which is just the footing of the chair um and then also in regards to that the color scheme the fabric vinyl
029so really every single detail of a Furniture aspect that you could think of was really talked through and discussed with each of the teachers and principles um so this is just kind of the overview of Oxo but if we go further we have individual renderings as well so this is a typical classroom um that was decided upon so uh each teacher actually got the option between their shape of dust um I believe oo one school has all rectang all rectangles the other school four grade did what we call odd odd CS um but this is really the typical setup um so you have Lounge for engagement and types of learning and then you have the four leg desk with The Book Rack underneath um and then also our introduction of the chair with the rocker
030on it so that's a really cool new addition for KI actually a piece that allows movement for the chair but is bit tested weight rated you're not going to have any children falling back um but that's really great for all types of learning and that actually can be removed too um so moving on moving on this is just another um example of the option um we had about four different options but really there was only two that one out across all the teachers um keep on moving down we have an example of kindergarten um we keep moving prek and then this is an example each special ed um actually got the opportunity to um design it how would best fit for them this is really the standard so you have different table options for example
031hey can you go back to the prek real quick so it's we we'll come back to you um prob either the next board meeting or board meeting in April but there will be uh kitchens um little KET like wooden kitchenette and then there's one there's a workbench uh Southside and then also um these tables that have sand in it they can't pull it out but it's just like a de thing so look more like sorry no it's okay all good um that is important to note these renderings all of them look like the same sizing but those are dependent on the grade so prek has about a 10inch chair um and it's all based on uh existing information research that we have um and so on and so forth so just to note that as
032well this is the Media Center um that we have planned as of right now this is kind of like the wow piece um I think and where uh we spent quite a bit of time to make sure that there were different opportunities for engagement and um solo reading uh that was really important so we have a lot of different Lounge options um all able to move and be flexible so all of that furniture can rearrange into a different layout dependent on the needs of that day um we keep moving down a little bit this is an example of the Reading Coach all those tables can be moved and flipped up so that's really flexible seating and tables um we keep moving down this is just an example of the offices so this is the counselor
033office um admin Su and all of that every office was also um very detailed of what was needed and what we can make sure fit compliant um all of those things faculty Lounge and then stem and art I one there so that's just oxville alone very similar is Southside so this is just a big snapshot bird's eye view of the school um but we again made another detailed rendering package um which was pretty awesome Jen and Carrie had separate meetings um they we have a recommended um color selection based on the existing carpet that was chose and um wall paint and other fixtures um but it was great that Carrie and Jen actually decided upon all the same finishes so that's also a really great thing for the district that that furniture didn't really be
034moved anywhere so that's a great plus um so typical classroom here a little bit scaled down um that was one important note outside had a little bit smaller classrooms so we had scale it down just a bit that's something that's really important to us we want to make sure the furniture is going to fit and be flexible for those needs and still the ADA Compliant so we can kind of run through this but it's going to be very similar to Oxo um Special Ed this is just an example that this is their Media Center um so some fun fabric choices here um still flexible still mobile um lots of different options they're Reading Coach so still having those flexible tables and chairs um The Counselor still having some sort of lounge and the typical um
035admin Furniture these finishes were all chosen to be the same as well so that's great faculty Lounge stem and then art as well so that's kind of just a a large overview of a lot of hours and a lot of time um that your District put in any questions we can help answer or while they're thinking I'll add these guys have done a great job we met uh with actually with the right hand team um a couple weeks ago to lay out Aaron laid out um the timeline of classrooms so this will all be timed out so that you know Jeff is not receiving all of this off of the semi and then we're storing it uh it'll be delivered um as uh White and is finishing Renovations of each classroom um so you know
036Danielle and Randy have done a really good job of meeting with contractors meeting with Fred uh and the AR architect team to make sure that stuff's going to match and look good um and fit um MoneyWise um you know we plan for this we have one and a half million set aside for soft cost at oo 1.75 uh at Southside Southside bid you'll see is a little bit smaller there few uh few less classrooms I'd also add that oxo's rooms are a little bigger so they were able to fit a little bit more in their rooms um which also U is why that price is is just a little bit different as well [Music] so that's right what one of the principles really bad taste I would hope not there was one request of yellow
037and again I said you know as the teacher's Advocate I will let them know that got mixed and that's okay um no all of the all of the finishes I made sure were going to be we have like Everlasting colors so those are going to be ones that are Ki standard for a very long time we did a little spec of Concord green um here and there to still make it fun but it's G to be pretty Modern Standard Timeless uh warranty and all this guys lifetime so yeah lifetime warranty on all of it so um arm breaks cter breaks the chair breaks itself we come out and we service that that's a part of the price so that y among those lines we had had warrant Ki uh really builds everything from an engineering
038perspective of Ki until very recently emplo is an MIT engineer so it's an engineering perspective and after years they understood that our products last and we were actually able to go to a lifetime warant what does that mean okay it can be sort of vs right let's face it so what what we've done is we' put a QR code every single piece of furniture will have a QR code on it that you can scan and when Jeff's no longer here when the facility person needs the information it's going to have a line drawing when it was manufactured the order every single detail all the materials put the contact generally I don't contact me yeah call ki it'll have ki's phone number it'll have it'll say lifetime warranty on that as well so that's just really
039nice for facilities team when anything breaks you don't have to go searching of who made this what's the number you just scan that QR code it'll say lifetime warranties and it'll say the phone number or the email to contact and then um all the information there and then we come out when we Ser service that but that's not any additional charge and one last thing uh on the on the did contract on the service center contract there's no surprises so that pricing includes fright delivery installation and trash removal so it's not like we're going to come back and say oh by the way y it is you said you take the old existing trash removal you take those with you not the old existing not old existing but the car I wish we should open
040up a side business for South je what we do we have last school we have grab their chair so keep this moving I will make a motion to approve okay yeah and I'll second that okay any more questions great thank you any questions my information are you doing the any other County Schools yeah um so uh alart County so we work directly with alart school district quite heavily um right now we're actually working on a mini it building there um we did that how many years ago now five years uh yeah four years have you been to the building 100% yep so that's 100% Ki and then they're doing a smaller building so right Ki is number one in education Market in the US highered and K12 our K12 Market is really taking off so
041when you get to your high school you get some little I don't know how innovating fiture solution it just keeps changing you said yeah we do a lot of um so on Ki we have a lot of white pages so we do a lot of our own in-house research that's where a lot of our product actually comes from um particularly the chairs have been a focus in the past I would say five to 10 years a student chair because teaching children also evolves um and the students need evolve um so we've done a lot of In-House research of how to best support that teaching um and that's where we've come out with new chairs which sometimes that can be too costly for districts so the addition of those rockers that is I think a $10
042Edition that you can buy per per chair and those they come off put on um so a lot of research continuously Tak place with our doing orts CH yeah yeah we just yep we we y awesome just to give every teacher a screwdriver for the roer things so they can well that is also a great addition that it can be done by the individual it's just a little screwdriver so question up all right so I'm Aon director operations Wan construction Wan construction is please present proposed contract amount for Concords Southside Elementary Renovations under uh public CMC law Wan received in publicly open bids on February 20th 1225 and the result was under budget multiple alternates were requested as part of the project results were reviewed with the administrative architectural and construction teams the team recommends
043that the board accept base bid plus alternate two alternate two is for some wall protection behind the classroom sinks we're requesting Bo approval of a GMP in the amount of 14 m781 315 motion approve we've only seen your presentation for years questions [Music] here I would I would just point out that um the the letter at the top Jonathan about says Oxo but at the bottom clarifies I wouldn't falling on that sword [Music] you okay next up ading for instruction technology Mr Steven hi good evening you got Furniture you've got a budget now I'd like to buy some t for the rooms so I'm bringing to you tonight a proposal just asking to go put out a bid for a request for bids for our classroom technology what we're looking at here is all the
044classroom projectors for both buildings as well as the projectors of go in the gymnasiums and the cafeteria I just want put some bids out there so we can get back no question just comment every time we ask or t building and you and I talk it's like yes yes and so you're answering questions as we're going through the process any questions comments besides say finan report Mr you screen here okay uh for the CL report for the period ending January 31 2025 um basically um I would say that for most of the cash analyses there about where I would expecting to be for for January beginning of the beginning of the Financial year just again just a quick reminder the cck or material is now included as part of the education fund although we we
045break that out so that you can kind of tell the difference um and probably will do that throughout this year maybe we go from there but that would be really the only other com question motion to approve as presented we always mention insurance it's probably um y so for my report um couple things if there's anything uh any events that you want tickets for uh if you don't have that information car can help you we have a musical coming up this week um voice sectional uh tomorrow night um up at Northside gym um tonight starts the dallar scharge phonathon and so um if you would like to be included uh make sure you get a call to donate to our dollar Scholars let me know make sure your phone number gets added to our um
046list so I'd say that's tonight tomorrow and Wednesday so if you haven't gotten a call and you would like to donate to dollar for Scholars um I'd say by Wednesday let me know and make sure um Renee kenower is the president of doar Scholars right now so make sure you get that um other than that there is there's been confusion on the date there is a third house this week um Go's third houses in the morning believe elart then looking Julie elart is at lunchtime right Friday I know Goan is in the morning Friday um I believe is can for this okay um okay so go to go if you'd like to go to third house um then we do have Advocates uh on March 14th so um Mr coun is a is a member
047of that Advocate Group this year if anybody else would like to attend just let us know so so people come that's it upcard meeting schedu uh yep I can do that um March 17th man very good meeting skip sharing okay um we only have one meeting in February April 14th um right after the Monday after Spring Break um and then board tour we do are going to do the high school on March 24th um can't make that again just let us know principles prepared you know small groups and stuff for that a lot so back driving here uh I did read that boys basketball team received a sports and ship award so that was kind of fun being at the game and watching good to see the boys coaching staff and the players give a
048sports Mission those are always fun to see any else say I'm excited for a lot of the improvements we have going on facility wise projects and whatnot a lot of these are long overdue excited to get some of these excited too thank you everybody for coming