001many different ways. Good evening everyone. I have five o'clock on my phone, so we're going to go ahead and call ourselves to order. If everyone rise and join me in a moment of silence 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. Thank you all. Please be seated. We will call our role. Dr. O'Neal present. Mr. Keer present. Mrs. Barnes Griffin is absent. Is she coming? No, she's out tonight. Um, Dr. Washford here. Mr. Urban here. Mr. Love here. Thank you all. Um, and I believe we have tonight in the spotlight the Munier Career Center. So, Mr. Beasley, you are up. Good evening. Good evening. Evening. Thank you for allowing me a few minutes to share
002about the great things happening uh at the Muny Area Career Center. Um, before I get into the regular presentation, uh, I would like to invite a couple of our students up. Um, Nomi Galan and Julio Rodriguez. So, Nomi, I brought the chair in case it's easier for you to sit. I know you're still recovering there. Um, Caleb, I I can't I'm having trouble hearing anymore. Could you repeat her first name? No. No. No. Okay. Thank you. And, uh, so Nimi and Julio are both juniors from Muny Central High School and they're also uh, career center students. Uh Normy's in our dental careers program and Julio is in our software uh development program. And I asked them to be here tonight because uh they did something recently that I think is really deserving of public recognition
003and celebration. Uh and so I'm going to do my best to tell the story of what happened, but I invite Noi and Julio to uh just interrupt me if I get anything wrong uh or or maybe at the end correct the record. Um, and of course board, uh, if you guys have any questions or or want to discuss anything with the kids, I'm sure that's welcome as well. I know they do need to leave shortly after we finish because I think there's a practice to be gotten to, so we want to make sure we do that. So, a week before spring break, Nimi and Julio had just returned from lunch with Julio's family. And when they got out of their car, a gentleman down the road was calling for someone to call 911 and asking
004for help, saying that his friend who had been driving their vehicle uh was unconscious. Now, at first, Nomi and Julio were not quite sure if this was legit or is this some kind of prank? Does someone have a, you know, a camera somewhere and they're trying to catch how we react? Um, but they did soon realize that this was indeed an emergency. And these two young people went to the vehicle. Nomi quickly assessed that the driver of the vehicle was turning blue and was unresponsive. While Julio called 911, Nomi directed the driver's friend to help get him get the driver out of the vehicle and on the ground so that she could start CPR. Nomi started chest compressions as soon as she could, and she counted her compressions as she had been trained to do.
005She also made sure that the chest compressions were going deep enough to be effective. Julio knelt down beside her and stayed on the phone with 911 while they counted their compressions out so that the emergency dispatchers could track the intervention. As Nomi continued, she could see a bit of color come back to the gentleman's face. And when the ambulance arrived, they were able to turn the patient over to the EMTs who rushed him to the hospital. To the best of our knowledge, which is limited due to patient privacy regulations and protocols, the gentleman was treated at a local hospital and he has survived. And I again I just wanted to take this opportunity to recognize Nomi and Julio for their courage and composure in a high pressure situation and also for their willingness to help
006a neighbor and a stranger in need. So, if we could maybe just give these folks a round of applause. So, they're they're very modest about this sort of thing, of course. Um, and I know that they they're probably not like ready for a grilling, but anyone has any questions or anything else that they want to say, that's fine. But we also know they've got some Julio. Uh, you're junior. Yes. And software design? Yes. You want to what what do you want to do? design games or um we we do coding there, but I I wanted to take a sec to thank the Mac staff and everyone here at the air career center for making this possible for us to even learn those skills and even learn how to produce those out. And if we weren't
007here, if we weren't here at the map, we wouldn't learn those skills to perform CPR or even know what to do in that situation. So, I just want to thank thank Mr. Beasley and Mr. Mrs. Ward for allowing this to be possible and allowing us to come to the MAC. Yeah, that's wonderful. Yeah, really appreciate you saying that, Julio. Yeah, and uh yeah, thank you, Julio, for saying that. So, we are very fortunate on our staff. We do have three trained CPR instructors. Uh and I think for for your session, it was uh Mrs. Carolyn Brown, our dental careers instructor, and Mr. Chris her teaches in our fire and rescue and ENT program. Um so, they were trained by two very very qualified individuals and uh clearly did a good job. when Nomi was relaying
008the story in a bit more detail than I shared with you tonight. I mean, it's a scary, intense situation, but it was clear that she really had the presence of mind and was thinking about am I doing this the right way? Uh, and made sure that she was doing it the right way to make sure that it was effective. And so, just very again just very proud of both of them for for what they what they did and and the difference uh that it made in this gentleman's life. So, thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Remarkable. Remarkable. just I I can't imagine having the presence of mind to do that. So, it was really quick at first, but as the passenger side, but to the driver's side and he was like colors and then I was like
009so I went over there and I pulled him to like get him out on the ground and his like partner friend had a bit of an attitude like And then he was kind of I think like I was a heavier guy. So I was like I tried like grabbing his leg and like struggling. So I just repeated that whole like [Laughter] session like the first impressions the first impressions I did I wasn't like So I made sure that like my little bit of car. So like I was like All right, I'm tired now. And then finally, I talked to the police afterward, but Well, that's remarkable. Thank you so much both of you. Thank you guys. Appreciate you coming out tonight. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. Of course. Yeah. Thank you all for your time today.
010Oh my goodness. Our pleasure. It's our it's it's a privilege. All right. You all have a nice night. You do the same. Thanks. So, as I mean I know all of you know and everyone in our schools know that uh just the kids uh really make it all worth it and uh you know this kind of story I think helped bring me our whole staff even other students uh because we've shared that experience with other students as well um back to you know why we do what we do and um and also just how grateful we are and how proud we are of of our kids uh for all that they do. Um, so yeah, we'll kind of that's kind of the peak of the presentation right there. We thought we'd just get it out
011of the way early. So, uh, it's not going to be quite as exciting moving forward, but I will do my best to keep your attention. So, you know, at the career center, I like to just kind of start with just an overview of kind of kind of, you know, what what what we do. So, we do have there's kind of two sides to the career center. There's career and technical education or CTE, as high school juniors and seniors uh, studying in specific career pathways. And then we also have adult education programs where we do high school equivalency uh and we also do uh English language learners classes for ELLL adults uh learners and then also uh some career certification and training programs that we have uh on the adult edite. I'm going to talk a
012little bit about both sides of the MAC tonight. Um so just quick information about the career center up here. Obviously you know see we have 16 career pathways. um in all of the pathways. We're excited this year. We've actually finally gotten to the point uh working with our post-secondary partners. Uh Vincens and especially IvyTech is a great post-secondary partner for us uh opening up those college credit opportunities for our students. So this year uh for the first time since I've been here, we are at a point where in every firstear pathway, students have the opportunity to earn up to nine college credits, in some cases more than that. Um you see that 10 pathways offer students uh the opportunity to earn either a certificate or a technical certificate from a post-secondary institution in most cases
013IvyTech Community College. Uh I know this year we will have I think 168 of our students uh from the career center will be recognized at IvyTech's commencement on May 10th uh as attaining a certificate or a technical certificate through their MAC program. So, we're very pleased that we've been able to make that much progress uh in terms of what we're able to offer students. Um and then of course that last piece there is that we have, you know, many of our students, they participate in extended internships and work-based learning experiences. Um couple students, I didn't ask them permission to bring their names up, so I won't bring their names up, but I'll just talk briefly about a couple of students. We do have one young man this year who he's a secondyear electrical student, and
014he started in the fall uh with an internship with Titan Electric. Um, and uh, in December, this young man, he finished all of his classes at the high school. He's a my central student, finished all of his classes at the high school, so he's got all his credits under his belt. He's still enrolled in our program. Um, but they, Titan asked if they could turn that internship if they could just hire him and bring him on board. And so their plan is to, he's hired now. He's been working with them. He still comes here two afternoons a week to take his classes over at IvyTech. um but he's hired with them now working with Titan and uh looks to start in their apprenticeship track uh at the end of this year. So very excited about
015that kind of opportunity. Um you know we've had students who have really gone out and and done great work. Uh we've opened up some new opportunities with the medical assisting program uh with partners. We have great partners with open door with IU Health and students have been getting out there into those experiences and really uh making an impact. You know we our CNA students are testing right now. how they're doing their state certification testing. Um, and a really cool thing about that is these are juniors who come in. I mean, some of these kids are 16, 17 years old. They go out and they do their internships. Uh, we have a number of students every year, and this happens consistently, who get hired, uh, while they're doing their internships. They actually get hired, start coming
016on board and working as CNAs, um, and then continue to do that even while they continue in the second year program and finish that up. So, those work-based learning and internship experiences are outstanding for our students. Uh, and really appreciate all of the work that our teachers and staff put into making them happen. Um, because really we we believe firmly with especially with CTE, right, that that hands-on learning and as much as possible the real world learning, it has the biggest impact on our kids and really helps them grow into into great young adults. Uh, just enrollment trends. So, try to uh show everyone where we are each year. So, um, last year we got over the 400 mark and we stayed over 400 this year. Uh, I think we do, as when I made
017this presentation, yeah, on April 1st, we have 572 applicants for next school year. Uh, we, you know, we don't anticipate we will end with that number of students, but we do think that, um, I mean, my personal goal, and I hate saying it out loud because it makes me feel like, you know, hey, you're kind of jinxing it, but is it I would love to I would love to be in the fall at 500 plus students, uh, at the career center. And again, that's a testament to the students who have come through and done a great job in our programs. Also to our staff and our teachers who just do an outstanding outstanding work with our kids every day. Um, and also I want to shout out our school partners. So we partner with 12
018high schools. So I really want to give credit to uh the high school the teachers and the school counselors and the administrators. Um, you know, our motto here at in Muny Community Schools, placing learners first. I feel very fortunate to work with all of those partners because I think everyone in those schools, they're placing kids first and they're thinking about what's best for kids and and I really appreciate all those all those great partnerships. Caleb, do those numbers uh the over 400 does that include the adult ed? No. No. Yeah, adult ed is a completely separate program. Yeah. Okay. Um, speaking of adult ed, I'll jump in a little bit and kind of give you an overview of of what we do with adult education because this is kind of a, you know, we're we're
019not trying to keep it a secret. Um, really we want more people to know about what we offer with adult education. You know, we're known for high school equivalency. That is the bulk of our of our adult program where we devote most of our resources. So, if you look over on the left here, the community base, what this means is out in the community, classes that are available uh to adult learners. Uh, we offer them in Hartford City. We're also in Winchester. Uh we have them here at the career center. Um we also offer classes at the YOC and we're this spring we opened up a a limited class but with the Ross Community Center which is which is not too far from here. Uh we also have uh classes for high school equivalency in
020corrections environments. Um so we are in the Delaware County Jail. We are in the Randolph County Jail. Um and we actually do high school equivalency testing in those jails. So, we graduate every year. Uh we graduate uh individuals who are inmates in those facilities with the hopes obviously that when they're released uh they will be able to engage in the workforce and and be productive. And then we have our our ELLL classes. Uh so Ross Community Center has been a great partner uh this year especially opening up helping us to to recruit new students into that program. Um and and and our teacher and that on that side does an outstanding job with our uh English language learning adults. And then we have those career certification programs. So, uh, this year, I believe it was
021this fall, uh, we started a clinical medical assistant, uh, Gina Phillips, who actually teaches on the CTE side during the day. She teaches our health science 2 program where we do medical assisting. Uh we've opened up this program for adults and we have several employer partners uh such as Open Door, Meridian and other local healthcare providers where a lot of times what they're doing is they are referring their current employees to us uh to get upskilled and certified as a medical assistant and um and that's been a very successful program. We also do the child development associate or CDA program partnering with local local child care centers. also Muny County Community Schools and other school districts that offer pre-k. They will send staff to our CDA program so we can get them trained and certified.
022Uh and then we have a welding program that's offered through a partnership with IvyTech. Uh that focuses on AWS uh MIG welding certifications. This year we've also added a component to that adult uh that adult program where adult learners can uh they can actually get direct entry and even advanced credit in the milrights uh union apprentichip program. And so we have I know we have one student this spring who's going through that. So we hope that that individual is successful. He'll actually finish that program go right into the into the apprenticeship program but have a year under his belt already uh after just completing eight weeks with us. Um and then we do parapro for folks who work in the schools. Uh we do serve safe. Those are that's for folks who are working obviously
023in restaurants and customer service and sales for folks working in retail. And then we also have an HVAC program. So, we do that. That's more of a limited enrollment program, but we do have an HVAC program that provides folks with those foundational skills and certifications to become an HVAC uh professional. Caleb, do you do you know if you focus on the direct digital controls under HVAC more computerized based? I do not know that. Yeah, I could find that out, but I do not know. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thanks. Um, and then want to just say, you know, we we did a we did a press release earlier this year on this, but I wanted to point out uh our adult education program due to the hard work of our teachers and staff. They were recognized by
024uh Department of Workforce Development as a program of excellence here in the state of Indiana. And they're recognized by that for consistently meeting goals. The the two main areas goal areas for us are increasing enrollment year after year which we have done successfully and then also uh meeting our measurable skills gain goal. Measurable skills gain basically it is it is a it is a a data point that captures an adult learner has has attained some sort of objective um skill gain. That could be they've they've attained their high school equivalency. It could be based on standardized assessments, their readings, their reading skills are increasing, their math skills are increasing, things like that. Uh, a career certification, all that sort of stuff. So, we're getting more students and we continue to be successful with those students,
025getting them getting them to their adult learning goals coming up. So, this spring, uh, would love to, you know, anyone who wants to come, we would love to have you. Uh, at these are kind of our two big culminating events for the school year. Uh so on Thursday, May 15th, we'll be in the Muny Central High School auditorium for adult ed graduation. It's always a really fun celebration of the achievements of our students. Uh kind of the centerpiece of that graduation ceremony is always we'll have three or four student speakers where they really are the keynotes. Um and so we we are excited that and would love to have have everyone there for adult ed graduation. And then on Thursday, May 22nd, we are going to do CTE recognition and signing day. We plan to
026do that in the Muny fieldhouse. and that will be um during the school day. So, historically, we've done a CTE recognition night. Um but at the end of the school year especially, we find that a lot of students from our 12 sending high schools have a hard time getting back. Some have practices. That's also open house season uh for our seniors. So, we're doing it during the school day. Uh and again, we'd love to have folks there. It'll be a combination. We'll do all of our recognitions and awards and we'll also be inviting all of our post-secondary partners as well as employers who are hiring our students, different union and apprenticeship programs who are bringing our students in. Uh they'll be there to also do signing day with our kids in that event. So, everyone
027is invited. We would love to have you there. Um I think that's all I have. I probably went over time. So, but I blame NY and Julio for that. Okay, Kayla, quick question. Are you having trouble in any particular discipline with finding internships? some of your students. Uh yeah, we always need help. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I would say um our So we have some established programs. So health science, dental careers, we've been doing internships. Early childhood's another one. We've been doing internships for a long time and we're not really having trouble. We have just great partnerships built and those teachers do an outstanding job with those. Um but yes, we are trying to expand internships. Automotive next year we would love. So HVAC, this was the first year for our HVAC program for high school
028kids. Um, next year we would love to have more internship opportunities in HVAC. Um, we'll also have more opportunities in the on the manufacturing side. Um, electrical is always an area we'll be looking for students. So, yeah, we um, we're always looking for for more partners to come to the table. Yeah. Caleb, you talk about building trades. Um, do I understand that we're going to participate with Habitat to build a house this year? So, I I don't think I'm I don't think I'm supposed to say like anything official. We Okay, we we are we we are in conversations with Habitat and we're very excited about that possibility. Obviously, Habitat's a wonderful organization. Does a lot of great here in our community. Um and and so we definitely look forward to that opportunity. Yeah. I I
029I didn't mean to put you on the spot. I know that's in the works and and that hasn't happened before, right? That would be a first time thing. So, so I think there's excitement on both sides. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, and it's exciting for us. So, we've so, you know, we we used to partner with with another nonprofit here in Muny and that change that that that opportunity kind of went away a few years ago. Um, since then, Mr. Pinrod and our and our carpentry uh team have done a great job of finding opportunities. Um, but we are eager to to be able to reinvest those energies here in Muny with a local nonprofit doing doing good work just like Habitat. Well, it needs to make sense. So, but thank you for the consideration. Absolutely.
030It's great. Thanks. Any additional questions for Mr. Beasley? If I could just share, Mr. Beasley and Miss Ward do a fantastic job as you all know. Um it is without fail that the area superintendent that send kids to our programs and trust trust with these folks um are always complimentary of how how well the the programs are ran and and monitored and the communication from these two guys um is is just outstanding. So, so thank you so much. Thank you. Do you need any assistance with marketing your programming? So, a couple things. I'm glad you glad you asked that. Um, we we actually have some some things in the works already that are really exciting. Um, one's going to focus on early childhood and that's from that's that's through a local grant through the community
031foundation and other local partners through the funders forum. Um, and so that will that's going to be focused on early childhood pathways. Um and then Ball Brothers Foundation has also uh through through their annual grant we have some funds available where we that we can do some more marketing and and try and get the word out a bit better. So any of your students and any of the programming um going on then to say for example building trades going to Purdue um or any place else that you're aware of uh specifically to Purdue or to other schools? Any other schools? Yeah, I mean every year we have students who go to Ball State, go to IU, go to IvyTech, I mean go to all kinds of different different colleges and universities and right now so
032we're we're in our career development workshop phase right now. So this month we're doing resumes, we're doing mock interviews with our students and part of that is also every senior will develop a career action plan. Really they've already kind of done the front end of that work. Um but we will go through and confirm with them before graduation you actually here's your plan for where you're going next. uh to make sure they know how to how to take that next step with with some confidence. So if you had any interest you're ward any interest in putting together a schedule of say field trips to various campuses get in touch with me. Okay. Okay. I have some thoughts on how to fund that. Okay. Um great. Yeah. And I I think you know if you can
033get some of these students on campus that's that's helpful. Yeah. Adult education. Um any any problems marketing that? How many how many graduates you going to have this this uh so off the top of my head I don't the graduates number I want to say right now we're at maybe between 35 and 40 high school equivalency graduates and then we'll have more certific career certification graduates than that. Um marketing yeah is always a priority for that group. I mean, most of our referrals honestly come through word of mouth, local agencies and organizations that we partner with. Um, you know, Eastern Indiana Works is a great partner for us, uh, to to refer students to us. Um, but yeah, I'd say and we have a small marketing budget written into our grant, but it is pretty
034modest. Um, and so we use that kind of as strategically as we can to get the word out. But yes, I'd say, well, again, if you want to put together a proposal, okay, for marketing for any any one of your programs or all of them, um, and get that to me. Okay. I can probably find some of that money. Okay. Okay. Great. I really appreciate that. Any other questions? Quick clarification, K, you said 12 high schools around the area. That would suggest you're really reaching out to other counties surrounding us. Yes. So we have we have eight high schools here in Delaware County and then we go to Monroe Central, Winchester and Union City and Randolph County and then also Blackford High School sends kids to the career center as well. Yeah. So yeah, it's
035it's a lot. Yeah. Yeah. But we're like I said earlier, I mean that partnerships really help. And again, we we've got great people at every school. they they see the value of career and technical education and they do a great job of making sure that the opportunity is available to their kids. So, and and also I'll say too I mean high the high schools are doing you know some of their own programming as well. I think CTE is really kind of in the in the midst of a bit of a resurgence you know and across the state and I think that's all positive and I think we're finding that there's a demand for it from students right whether it's here or at the high schools kids want to they want to learn this way um
036and so we're we're excited to just be a part of it. Any additional questions? If you need anything, let us know. All right, we'll do that. Thank you, Kim. Thank you, Dr. Reynolds. Yeah, I I uh I see a kiddo in our audience tonight that is being extra good, so I'm going to I'm going to keep it extra quick for for her to make it and continue extra good, being good out there. So, um I I do have a few things for you tonight. Want have some celebrations. The um as I mentioned at our last meeting, the winter color guard uh competed at state finals uh the Saturday, the first Saturday of spring break and and had a wonderful show and they were they were ninth. The um indoor percussion in their second season out
037competed at the indoor um indoor class A state championship concert finals and they were the state champions. Wow. So um I hope to bring them in to the next meeting and recognize them. uh only their second year of existence in our corporation. So just a a a tremendous um accomplishment by those kids and and staff. Um Saturday the in the midst of our closures and delays, our choirs performed, our um top top uh north side middle school choir performed at the Isma State contest. Um receive when they they they compete in the highest most difficult division. Received a gold rating with distinction, which is the highest honor you can get. Um, so a kudos to to North Side and um to those those kids and that that staff. Um, I would like to have a
038special thank you to our parents and our students who helped us weather the storm the last last week and and do some um very quick changes that um that we needed to to go to to uh to accommodate the the loss of power in some of our buildings. So, lots of people worked really hard to get us up and ready to go um at two of the schools the next day and then um the north side took a little extra day which which caused a few more issues, but our you know, our food service folks and our SSC people just jumped on board and made sure that that things were ready to go when kids returned on Monday at North Side. Um strategic planning, we are down to our last listen and learn session. It's
039going to be April 15th at 5:00 at Northside Middle School. We've had good attendance um to the to the previous two and look forward to to talking to families and community partners about our strategic plans and next steps. Um enrollment opened on Monday. I know it's hard to believe, but enrollment opened. So parents can now get online and and fill out those forms, update any of those forms that they need to for next school year. Um really a pretty smooth process once you get into the system. So, if if you need help getting into the system, every school can help you out. If you are the if you show up at a at a Westview to drop off a a kindergartener, but need help with your middle school kid, anyone can help you get get
040logged in and and um get you access to your to your enrollment forms. And um now we're in the season of getting ready for our kindergarten roundup. So, uh April 10th at 5:00 at each of the elementary schools, we'll have our kindergarten roundup. Uh so with students and parents will have an opportunity at five o'clock to to visit classrooms and and take a look at the cafeteria, check out the bus, check out the school, all those things that um ease the ease the worries of the kids, but probably more importantly ease the worries of the moms and dads and the guardians that that bring those kiddos in. So um so excited excited to see those new faces on April 10th at our kindergarten roundup. And finally, at your placement, you will see a a packet
041of all of our summer school offerings. Those went live today. Those uh those are reflective of our uh recent practice of of high school, middle school, and elementary offerings um at um that we'll that we'll provide over the summer. Again, just excited about if you take a look, it's a it's a packet of of opportunities for our kids. Also located in there will be our um our partnership programs from the Boys and Girls Club, Motivate Our Minds, the YMCA, um uh church partners, all of their summer programming and opportunities are listed in there. So this this looks very similar to what it does on the website. So when you go to our website to check out our summer school opportunities, you'll click on high school, middle school, elementary. Is it one click search for summer
042school on your grade level takes you right to it and gives you all the links for registrations and and filling filling out any forms that you need to. It'll talk about costs and and anything associated with the partner programs. All of our programs are free. Um but some of our our partner programs do have some costs. Um, Eric, next uh when we when we start to get uh teachers lined up and and squared away, Eric, we'll we'll talk a little bit about each program um at an upcoming board meeting. But we wanted to get this out. Our our principles and directors are promoting these our summer programs at the at Camp Adventure. We've we've already started promoting those and getting kids signed up. And um now that after I read 3 is completed for for
043some of our folks, we're looking at summer school and those opportunities for those folks that don't that didn't pass or are projected not to pass the IE3. So excited about all the opportunities. So any questions for Dr. Reynolds? And we I see Camp Adventure Science and Literacy Camped by BSU. Uh oh, I see. I I read two literacy camp. That's what I was looking for is so that second graders. Yep. Current second graders going to third grade. Correct. Yep. Okay. So, uh what are we doing to push these out to parents and and caregivers? Uh principles are leading that charge. Um starting with targeted students that that are maybe struggling with with their reading proficiency. We're going to start with those targeted students and then fill up the classrooms. Um, are we also pushing out
044more generally through our email systems? Yes. Yep. Through the parent square system and our parent square. Yep. Okay. Any additional questions? Okay. Thank you. Y Dr. Reynolds, uh, we don't have any public comments. We're on to the consent agenda. Um, any questions concerning uh, the consent agenda? want to take a moment and thank um Kyle Padet for uh three years uh in his role as a teacher and football coach. Uh coach Padet brought uh a lot of uh pride and energy uh to his position and I think was uh was a good hire and we we hate to see him go but wish him the very best. So, and we have a new teacher from Gryom tonight. Um, is that Miss Callahan? Hi. How are you? How are you? Come on up. Tell us about
045yourself. So, I'm Katie Callahan. It's nice to meet you guys. Nice to meet you. Um, I am graduating from Ball State in May and I majoring in elementary education, minoring in Spanish, child psychology. Um, a little bit about me. I grew up in the Air Force, so I've moved around a bunch. I'm not just from Indiana. I've lived a bunch of different places. Um, yeah, I love working with kids. I've worked a bunch as a camp counselor outside. I worked for a summer in the Rocky Mountains at the YMCA there doing a lot of nature activity with kids. Um, I've worked at the Boys and Girls Club here in Muny, um, with some preK kids and I love that, too. So, well, welcome uh to Muny Community Schools. Did your student teach here? Yes, I'm
046student teaching at Gryom in a fourth grade classroom. Okay. Well, so you know, you know the building. I do. Yes. Uh do you have any questions for us? Um you don't have to if you don't. I didn't have any prepared to be completely honest. Yeah. What grade are you going to teach? Um a primary position. They're still working some things out with teachers. Yeah. Okay. Well, we are just tickled to have you and and we wish you the very best and congratulations on your graduation from Ball State. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you very much. [Applause] Bishop is not here. Shannon Bishop. Okay. Okay. Any additional questions concerning uh the personnel agenda or the consent agenda more generally? If not, we'll entertain a motion to approve. I heard a motion. Do I hear a second? Um,
047have a second. Um, all those in favor signify by I. I. I. Both same sign. Okay. Mr. Jerome, we've got a permission to advertise the 2025 bond project that follows up our introduction to the topic at the last meeting. Yes. Thank you. Uh, presented in your board packet. kind of introduced some of the topics last last time. We have uh several urgent needs in the district and I'm basically asking the school board tonight permission to advertise for two upcoming uh public hearings. The first one April 22nd, the second one May 13th to help introduce the project, talk about the potential cost, the tax rate impact and such. Uh which we're still working on with our attorneys and bond councils to get that all figured out and be prepared for that meeting. Uh last time uh
048we talked about some of those urgent needs relating to roof projects, some heating and cooling uh projects at the field houses, some other buildings as well, uh external doors at Muny Central, uh high school, uh some resurfacing of tennis courts and the track at Muny Southside, and uh also replacing some bleachers uh that are in dire need. So anyway, we'll have more information on that at our public hearing coming up uh April 22nd and asking the school board permission to make this uh advertisement for this these public hearings. Any questions for Mr. G? Question. Does the HBAC at North Side include the cello? Yes, it does. Okay. Are you air conditioning the gym by any chance? That's a good question. I can't answer that yet just because I haven't uh speced that one out totally
049just yet. But that they would not we would not. No, they would not. We would what the the primary the big thing of the project certainly uh the Munyfield house, you know, we're on a rented boiler for the last two years. And uh that one we've got to make sure we get that replaced. And that one does include air conditioning. So that would be a first for anyone who's ever sweated through the basketball sectional or graduation or other different events in the fieldhouse. So that'd be a first. Any additional questions? I think it's important to note that we anticipate these to be tax neutral, tax rate neutral. Um it's work that has to be done and we can do it without additional taxing. Yes, that is. Any additional questions, comments, or otherwise? Would entertain a
050motion to approve the permission to advertise? Approved. Okay, I'll second it. Um, all those in favor signify by I. I. Same sign. Okay, we have um Mr. Grim, it's my memory that you received the delegation of calendaring. It's one of your favorites. I know. So, and I noticed that Dr. Reynolds just ran from it as fast as he could. A few of those that today shove this way. So, yeah. Good evening, uh, board and Dr. Reynolds. And, uh, just a couple things with the, uh, calendar. We uh mentioned this a little bit with last uh meetings uh with the current 2425 calendar. We are going to ask that we moved the building snow day of May 9th now to April 18th. That was a day where we have multiple subjects of AP testing on May
0519th which would cause some issues with kids coming in and not having school and different things. So, we're asking to make that change uh for this school year. And then also at the same time, we're asking to change the 25 26 calendar, next year's calendar, to remove the three buildin snow days on April 3rd, 17th, and May 8th, and add those to the end of the school calendar, May 26th, and 28th. That would then change our last student day to May 22nd which is before Memorial Day and then the last teacher day would then change to May 26th right after day. So those two changes we would uh motion that you uh take a look at tonight. Okay. Um any questions regarding the changes to the calendar? So effectively what you've done is you've taken
052those three days so that you could get an earlier end date. Yeah, we uh we removed them totally from the 2627 calendar that we adopted earlier uh based on requests from the the community and different uh teachers and students and everybody that were surveyed. So we thought at this time we would also remove it from next year's calendar as well. We haven't used those days the last two years. Now, you never know when you're going to use those, but there have not been days that we've needed. So, you know what you've just done, right? Jesus, right? It's going to be like a North Dakota winter here. Okay. Well, whatever you guys want to do, maybe go until July next next school year. Okay. Uh, any questions at all concerning the calendar? Okay. Would entertain a
053motion to approve that change or those changes? Have a motion. Do I hear a second? Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor signify by I. I. I. Those same sign. Okay. Uh, who's doing the middle middle school course of study? That would be me, too. I get to do that one as well. So, this one's fairly simple. not as many changes as we saw with the high school adoption with the the redesign and all the different changes with seals. Uh the middle school course of study has just a couple brief updates from last school year. Uh one of those is to the dual language program. We've updated that now that we're fully into the middle school. Uh next year we will have our first cohort of dual language students in eighth grade. So next year
054at North Side we will have a sixth, seventh, and eighth grade cohort. So, we need to make sure we updated that to make sure that the the courses were in there for all of our students in the dual language program. Uh, and then we also did add at the end of the middle school packet some information on the high school credit requirements and seals as well as a sample freshman schedule for our middle schoolers to take a look at of what that will look like at the end of their eighth grade year going into high school. Okay. Any questions regarding the changes to the middle school curriculum or course of schedule, course of study, I should say. Um, if not, would entertain a motion to approve those changes. Move to approve. Got a motion. Do
055I hear a second? Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor signify by I. I. I. Same sign. We've got a supplemental curriculum adoption for social studies. Good evening. Good evening. Um, for your consideration, I'd like to put this motion before you. Um, we actually I didn't put this in the memo, but I want to say it out loud. When we were doing our process checks at the middle school, um, we got a lot of feedback from our social studies educators in both buildings. Um, the last adoption, McGraw Hill, I think was about seven years ago. um and they indicated that they would like to have some additional resources aligned to the Indiana academic standards that they would have access to. Um and then that's what precipitated um the timeline that you can see here um
056was really important that number one um it came from them um that the resource was necessary um and then as you can see starting in January we had a cadence of opportunities for review and meetings with our social studies educators. Um the final recommendation is a resource known as teachers curriculum institute or tci. Um it was overwhelmingly recommended by the social studies educators and um the principles and myself as well did a a review. Um, and it's just an online digital suite of um, primary resources um, lesson plans um, that educators can use that are steeped in um, just really good pedagogical practices in middle school social studies classrooms and um, allows for students to be um, interactive um, with Quest. So, it's a it's a way to look at the primary resources and to
057have students engage in some deep critical thinking. um loved the primary uh resources as I mentioned before and also the writing and the writing units. Also, huge plug, vocabulary instruction is heavily aligned to the science of reading um and the processes that um we continue to put in place at the middle school level. So, works really well with Amplify um as well. Okay, any questions? Any questions at all? Just this may be a strange question. And I don't know who needs to answer but under so the heading of social studies is that where we teach all about government. Absolutely. There's actually stress that a newly requirement required course in the last couple of years in the sixth grade level uh government as in addition to the one that's required at the high school but a
058high high level and all of Indian academic standards whether it's eighth grade US history or world history have an emphasis and focus on on civics on government. Thank you. How much primary source material do they will they see on these digital supplemental? The digital supplemental material for TCI is about 50% primary resources. So, um, one of the things that we hope to do over the summer is to work with TCI who will help to train our social studies educators and then think about how we're going to update the maps with the the primary resources. Um, we do know that one of the critical components of teaching primary resources to kids is to make sure that they can understand what they're reading. They can decode some of those words. I've been really proud at the middle
059school level um because we've even brought in our our social studies and our science teachers when we're talking about how to dissect multi-elabic words and to think about word roots and some meanings. Um, so sometimes we're really daunted or overwhelmed by using primary resources, but in reality it just fits seamlessly in with some of the things that we've been doing. Yeah. And if if you wouldn't mind, I would at some point like to see an example. Absolutely. Be happy to provide that. Yeah. Six months or so. Um, be curious. Um, any additional questions? to entertain a motion to approve. So move. Thank you. Do I hear a second? Second. All those in favor signify by. I oppose. Same sign. Okay. Uh we are on to dialogue of the board and future recommendations. Um the only
060thing I would comment on is Dr. Washburn, Mrs. Barnes Griffin, Dr. Reynolds and I went to Atlanta last Thursday to Sunday to the National School Board Association meetings and it was an interesting um few days with quite a lot of good material. But one of the takeaways that um I took from those those meetings and sessions was that uh the work that has been done over the last seven years or so has put us at the front rank of schools across the nation in terms of where we are with regard to our strategic plan and other items. And we're also facing obviously similar challenges now to the vast majority of other schools. And when people ask um how's my doing? I we we are at a point where I think we take more steps forward
061than backwards, but I will tell you that the challenges we face are largely at this point identical to other similarly situated schools, which is a step forward. Um I know it doesn't always sound that way, but it but it is certainly a step forward. So um I would let Dr. Washurn comment, but that was my takeaway from from the sessions. Yeah. Um I attended many sessions and felt that we were in a really good place. But um I was also um heartened to hear that there's many people out there fighting for our kids. So we are not alone in that fight. Um and there are people than us that can lobby and do things like that. And there are people fighting for our kids and we will continue to do that. But many of the
062sessions I was like, "Oh, attendance." I journals and I attended one on attendance. I was like, "Oh, okay. We're doing okay. We're doing okay." Um, so it was it was very heartening to see know that people are out there fighting too with us. Yeah, we're doing good. Yeah. The the Sunday trip back was interesting because the weather was not good in Atlanta and at about midnight in the Atlanta airport, I felt like Tom Hanks in that movie where he lives in the airport. So, it was the fastest flight I've ever got back from Atlanta. Yeah, it was a quick flight. 54 minutes. So, [Music] yeah, it was rough. That 737 was shaking most of the way. So, um so I don't have anything further. Uh Mr. clots. I don't think we have any media inquiries,
063do we? I do want to say the the choir that got that gold rating was the one that we did here. Excellent. Fantastic. Um, with that would entertain a motion to adjourn. So move. Second. All in favor signify by I. I post. Same sign. Thank you all. Have a nice evening. [Music] [Applause] Good job, Caleb.