001e e e heart I pledge algian to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all present Dr present present microphone on sorry about that um and I am present uh Grom Elementary School you guys are up good evening Mr Williams Dr Reynolds Dr Bell and members of the board tonight I have Mr n our assistant principal and Miss Johnson our school councelor and some pretty awesome Astros to here to present an update on some exciting things happening at grisa our school enrollment averages are about this same from the 2023 2024 school year to this year what we really appreciate is the fact that we continue to have instructional assistance support in our primary grades working with
002our youngest Learners and we are thrilled that at the semester the district prioritized supporting our students with IEPs by adding a third resource teacher and instructional assistant teachers and students are being better supported with both academic and behavioral intervention plans and we have seen a reduction in suspension since coming back from Christmas break so thank you very much for prioritizing that and for supporting our school our school goals continue to be the same this year as last year we're working hard each day to make continued improvements in attendance and academics and behavior in past presentations I have shared with you policies procedures incentives and Frameworks to increasing attendance and academic achievement but this year what I thought would be exciting or something new would be to share with you what we're doing as a school
003Community to reduce the number of our out of school suspensions and to increase seal supports at Grom some exciting updates for Grom are that we were recognized by the Indiana Department of Education in two areas the first was that we were awarded a purple star school which we're super proud of and that distinction is given to schools with a commitment to service members veterans and students and families connected to our nation's military and then the early literacy award was given to three schools in the state and we were one and those schools um have established strategies in Partnerships supporting all students in the Mastery of foundational reading skills so if you know me my heart is always with our K2 kiddos and teaching them how to read and I really believe that teaching kids how
004to read and developing a love of reading is a lifelong skill so we are very proud of the work that we do each day to support our students and their family and something fun that also has happened which I don't know that slide is in there um is that our school received um a facelift this year so over fall break smoots came out they did a phenomenal job if you've driven down Macedonia you've seen it um we have beautiful new landscape that was put in over fall break and it really uplifted the grounds um it enhanced the aesthetic appeal and presents our school as a welcoming place for children to be and for their families to visit good evening uh once again I'm Ryan Mason I am the assistant principal gism uh thank you so
005much for inviting us today um I wanted to talk to you about a little bit about our uh discipline and behavior models that we've implemented um this year uh once again our school goal is to decrease our out of school suspensions by 20% um and Miss Charles and I and our school support team uh have really really worked hard um you know it's a fine line between uh uh supporting our teachers and doing what's best for the uh the students and also supporting our families so we really work really hard at um coming up with plans and coming up with um alternatives to uh keep kids in school and so I just kind of want to point out a few of the things that we're doing a gism this year that have really seemed to
006help and benefit uh our students so the first thing I want to talk about is we have kind of streamlined our mtss process we're really looking at grouping students and finding out what intervention we need to uh Implement with them as far as Behavior so we're doing a lot of SEO groups uh with our um our counselor our Student Assistance coordinator our um Family Navigator so we got lots of kids doing lots of intervention groups they've got one-on-one help with um Breakfast Buddies Lunch Bunch uh a lot of um outside of the school programs as well that has really helped with uh making sure that our students are receiving behavior intervention as well as well as um getting another resource teacher that's going to help provide uh those students with Behavior Support as well uh
007the second thing that I wanted to address was um looking at our PBI system from last year um kind of really felt like it needed a little bit of a revamp and so this year uh we've Incorporated a number of things to kind of help uh improve our positive behavior intervention systems uh one thing that we have started is our Astro store and that's going really well students throughout the days and the weeks can earn uh Astro and then they can at the end of the week spend those at our store and then also uh starting the semester we have started awesome Astros initiative and so each week we focus on a positive behavior that we want the entire school to focus on so last week it was uh being a kind helper this week
008it's following hallway expectations and then the teachers throughout the week reinforc that with their students and then at the end of the week they choose the student that uh exemplified that targeted Behavior and then they come down they get a certificate you can see the second picture here uh they get a certificate they get a picture they get a prize and um it's really been so far I think very beneficial we've seen a lot of students that may not always get recognized for positive behavior they're the ones that are get getting this uh recognition and I think it's been a great uh morale boost for them and just make them you know feel good about themselves and then finally I wanted to address parent Communication in our school uh last year I talked about our
009out of school suspension re-entry conferences which we're still doing and they've been a real positive benefit for our kiddos that have had behavior issues getting the families to come in and as a team we problem solve you know what can we do to not let this happen again uh but on top of that I've also we've also been really working on having preventative parent meetings we see these behaviors kind of amping up a little bit let's talk to the parents let's invite them into the school so that we can address the issue before it gets that far and so we're being a little more proactive with that uh and also with that parent communication just uh really I think it's uh using parent square has been a big help to us this year um it's
010a quick way that teachers and administrators can just uh communicate with parents throughout the day so that you know because we're all very busy and getting them to be aware of what's going on and I feel like my theory is always the more that the students know that home and school are communicating that's when we're going to start seeing real change because they know that they're not going to be able to play one site off the other so um I think it's been a big uh something that I feel like i' I've really tried to work on this is my second year as assistant principal is getting to know the families making them feel welcome at school and you know we may have disagreements but um we all have the students best interest at heart
011and now we just need come together and um figure out what we need to do next steps with the with the students and with the families uh one thing that we did in January was we did our pie in the face initiative uh so I was thinking you know when we were meeting with my with the PBIS team December we've got Christmas coming up and we've got Christmas parties and we got Christmas break and so we've got lots of things that kids can keep focused on and work towards when you come back from Christmas break not so much so I figured let's try to do something in January and this is what I we decided on so students we had 10 volunteers of uh staff members and then students during lunch got to vote on
012the top five who would get the pie in the face uh I came in first place uh not surprising uh I think I out I think I got more votes than all the other participants combined uh but it was great I heard every single day you're getting a pie in the face I know I tell him I think I'm going to be sick that day but I showed up so uh wanted to share a video with you all about uh how that went and you may notice one of our uh uh students here might be in this video I don't know what I did to Mr Finnick this day but he he hit the Bull's Eye for sure so I say overall the students loved it and I'm just excited to continue to uh meet
013with PBIS and think of more fun ways to uh incentivize students to have good behavior at school so thank you so um one thing that's really cool is I've had lots of great opportunities if you're familiar with Lori desel she um I was able to go to one of her trainings talking about drum circle um I am a m Southside graduate music is important to me and you're drumming today so what we I was really excited to be able to introduce drum circle at chist I don't want to introduce something if I'm not sure if they can handle it and after my time there I was like we can do this um there's a lot of research talking about drum circle it's community building I have a paper so um some of the different things
014that come out of it social skills teamwork sharing impulse control um having in IB because I'm handing children a drum and even some of my most squirly little children who I was afraid were going to throw it at me they stopped when it was time for drumming one two three four stop and they did over and nowhere so um we wanted to go ahead and just kind of demonstrate one of our drum circle a couple of our activities so I have some students I'd like to invite up I'd also like to invite Dr Reynolds to the circle come on in you can't tell me no and I'm GNA also force them over number one fear most people in we're all say our Nam I didn't that my thank you jacobe thank you Tren thank you
015T hello I'm Dr have [Laughter] I will take my f we start we [Music] ready on WE this [Music] okay we're going to try this again but we're going to do everything [Music] is [Music] if don't get we're do same I'm let know [Music] start you're not the moment start I will you're only GNA fall you're not going to listen when I start a second I'm GNA play a you're play the same thing pass [Music] raise your hand me what I need first is [Music] round one [Music] ready for [Music] [Applause] we Goa many so all the Astros here all that just played in the drum circle once you guys come on up I've got Mrs Whit my wife and I bought some books tonight and you just happened to be on the receiving end
016so come on up pick we're going to pick out a book so you guys pick out a book that'll be interesting to you and take it home you want that one you know Michael Jordan you can you don't don't hesitate johs okay great you're welcome thank you thank you so you can imagine having 18 kids do this in a music um class it just teaches them to wait their turn show compassion for others um take there's just there's so much they got they they got from a lot of impulse control creativity and all of our kids talked about how much they really enjoyed doing the drum circle and how it was a really great team um building activity so we're super thankful for all of our Community Partners Mr paiges you know is a jewel
017a gift to our school he brings in a lot of outside support wraparound Services we have churches that work with us MPD we've got parent volunteers we've got church volunteers um we had M Central come over and partner with us this year so we have a lot of w BR support to help us have our success at Grom and we appreciate you taking time out of your evening to hear about Grom and we appreciate the support that you continue to give to our students our staff and our families okay uh questions for how's um early grade literacy that's kind of where my heart is at so we we place a huge emphasis at Grom on reading and on teaching kids to read so all of our kiddos have a reading lab time where they receive
018reading instruction at their level so some kiddos go with our intervention teachers um some kiddos go with our more veteran teachers and they receive instruction at the level where they're at so our big Focus this year is on youly and there's a lot of really great research out there about using the ufly curriculum to teach kiddos letters and sounds how you blend those sounds together to make words and I can say that I just completed um monthly data chats with K5 and our kindergarteners are really strong we are really proud of the progress they've made and most of our kindergarteners when you look at the phonics theic awareness high frequency words and vocabulary in I ready which is the tool that we use to kind of access their progress they're already late K so we're
019thrilled we have them in books we haven't ever had our kindergarteners in guided reading books this early so I definitely think that CK youly OG and we have two really good intervention teachers that work with our kiddos um it it is making an impact and I think we are out of that covid era we have preschool so there's just a lot of really good supports for our youngest Learners that our hope is that by the time that they do get to third grade that we have a larger percentage of our kiddos that are not still learning how to read but they are really ready to read to learn and they have that strong Foundation of what do I do when I get to a word and I don't know it and that they are fluent
020readers so uh the third graders this year U it's my understanding that there'll be two testing opportunities in the summer in addition to the school year test have you oh we met today we already we met today so our what we're going to do is we are testing all of our third graders in small group so their home room teacher is testing them in groups of three four I'm testing kiddos individually our intervention teachers are testing the kiddos that they've had all year so they're going to test in the best optimal environment that they can and then we will get those results back the exact same day that we finished segment three so at Grom we're going to test on a Tuesday and a Wednesday so Wednesday by 11 o'clock I will have my spreadsheet
021out and we will know what kids have passed what kids haven't passed and then we will regroup them so kiddos that passing scores of 446 kiddos that pass of 400 are historically with really good intervention we can get them to pass in May so we have strategically already told a couple of our third grade teachers that they're going to have those quote bubble kids for the intervention time from March to May and then our intervention teachers will be taking kiddos kiddos that pass that need enrichment and novel studies are going to go with a different teacher and then kiddos that still need that phonic femic instruction they're going to go with a different teacher and they'll receive youly so then we'll test them all in May we'll see what they do in May and Mr
022harro and I met today and we are um already going to start looking into some summer like I read um curriculum options that we could purchase for Grom um so that our two weeks of summer school is the most intense rigorous instruction that we can give um I love to teach still so I plan on being a part of of teaching still um and our our goal is to have as many kiddos pass as we possibly can okay um we're in the process of trying to work with the university to add additional tutors that would be great yeah we have after school tutoring so the more hands that we can get the smaller the groups we can have the better yeah and we're thinking of some during the school day tutoring as well that'd be
023great we'd love it we got the stakes are very high obiously they are very high they are yes let us are is there anything that you need from the board at this point to maximize uh your performance at with the third grade literacy that's where the focus has to be very very strong you need all your good thoughts next week as we are giving the assessment and we are really um pumping our kids up telling them they can pass it we do believe in them so just send good thoughts our way um we all are very much invested in them passing the test and a lot of hard work has gone into preparing our kiddos and our teachers definitely um sense the urgency we sense the urgency um I'll probably be able to sleep after
024we get the the test done because we we know the stakes are very very high and we don't want to be retaining students yeah well I if you can do a drum circle which lost me yeah we're we are very we are very hopeful we've definitely put put the work in and we started that back in August okay any additional [Music] questions we heard about 92% right now so um our Student Assistance coordinator is phenomenal um and our family Navigator and they from the time that they come in till the time that they leave they have their nose to the Grind calling parents doing home visits getting doctor's notes um having conferences talking to kids we have SE my Mrs Stone has anal attendance group so we have targeted kids that she sees for lunch
025four days a week um in in a hope that they are wanting to come to school to have that positive interaction with her so attendance wise we feel really good especially in cold and flu season that we're still at the 92% um attendance rate so hopefully once we can get into the warmer weather we can you know we can have some higher percentages here um March April and May and hopefully that average will get you know to n 93 or as close to 94 as possible but I think back to a couple years ago we were at an 86% um attendance rate so the fact that we are at 92 I think is a huge Testament to a lot of people doing a lot of really hard work in our building so one of things
026that I'm hearing I've talked to all three of the hearing officers in the program that we started this year one of the themes that is emerging is what I'll call that um belt between they don't have bus service but it's still you know a bit of a walk and so Transportation seems to be a barrier for some and no they haven't specifically singled out chrism but are you seeing that being a pattern with your absenteeism within that area where we don't have bus service to pick up but walking is still perhaps a bit of a challenge or have you broken it down I don't think it I will say at Grom Mrs Stone does a really good job of working some some sweet deal that the that families that need Transportation are getting it um
027our it's about a mile walk so Earth stone they do have to walk from Earth they do have to walk from earthstone but we have some kiddos that have some that have gotten some special transportation for some unique circumstances and Mrs Stone's really good about working with DCS to get and Mr pages to get those Services hooked up for those families so our kiddos they're coming or they're walking I mean we we have we have families that since coming to project attend they understand the seriousness of it um and they are bringing their children to school good I'm glad to hear that uh anything further any questions your point there was a period of time you had a lot of construction going on did that affect your attendance oh no they they no they they
028um the yeah the foran the foreman was really gracious and Matt with me and they did not start work on Macedonia in the morning until we were done with morning arrival so they would wait until 8:00 and then he would pack everything up at 2:00 so they were they were really kind they would come they would meet with us they would say you know we're a little bit delayed here this is what we're thinking we're in a pave you know what what times are going to be best for you um so that did not impede our attendance because they weren't working um at arrival and dismissal on on Macedonia during college I did some road work and I loved when people people made those demands I'm sure you I smiled and I was very nerv
029no no I was really no I I was a laborer you enjoy it I'm no no I'm serious I was happy when somebody said you can't start before 8:30 and you have to be done by two that was music to my ear yeah they were happy to pack a it too especially in August when it was really hot out I was throwing hammers in the back of TRS yes yeah okay uh anything further thank you for the work you're doing thank you thank you [Applause] okay we are on to our history Black History Month presentation thank you all thanks for coming Astros well good afternoon president Williams and members of the board thank you so much for allowing me an opportunity to highlight a few events um in honor of Black History Month um the
030first event I wanted to talk about briefly is the MLK Dream Team Black History Month essay contest and um we had a winner from the high school Michaela Gibson she's a freshman at M Central wrote an outstanding essay um on Harriet Tubman and she um was supposed to be here tonight and I was kind of hanging out over there hoping that she would show up um principal Walker he arranged for she and her mom to be here tonight so I'm not sure what happened with them but she could not be here to read her essay but that's unfortunate because she it was phenomenal so U maybe you'll get a chance to check it out at another time but the other event that I wanted to highlight is our Black History Month decorating contest and I
031want to take a few minutes just to kind of give you a little background on it for the past five years now um our schools have participated in the Black History Month decorating contest where students and teachers can decorate their door they can decorate their um bulletin board or their wall outside of their classroom um the theme is always left open I think it's very important that the teachers and students can come up with their own theme whatever they would like it could be on a movement it can be on a person past or present so we leave that totally up to them and they can be as flexible as they want to be um and so it's always a neat way for our teachers and our students to learn about black history and to
032be creative as they would like and also have a little fun with it so there's nothing like having a a little bit of competition amongst your friends and colleagues so the judges use a rubric to score the displays and it consists of four categories um a total of 100 points each category is broken down um and it's worth 25 points a piece the categories are the topic the subject and informative of it the originality and the creativity is another category the visual impact and also the completeness now they do have an opportunity to um own bonus points if the display is interactive and so a lot of the teachers and students they choose to do something to add a little twist to theirs to make it like Stand Out Above the Rest um the judges
033consist of various Community leaders we have um Ball State professors I reach out to them I reach out to ibtech this year I reached out to um a couple of our security officers a parent and just various Community leaders um across our community so it's always nice for outside people to come in and take a look at the talent that we have um amongst us in M Community Schools um this year the students and teachers had the whole month of January we've done it a little bit different um in various years but I thought this year I want them to take the whole month of January to complete their displays they have the whole month and once February first comes the displays are up and ready to go for outside folks and administrators and teachers
034to look at the displays and enjoy them as they're coming in and out of the building so hopefully if you've been out in our buildings you've seen and come across a few of those um each year the judges pick an overall winner from each building and then the district Equity team we pick an overall winner based off the individual winners which is always a very very very tough decision for us to make um and so um you will see displays of the winners from each building on our screen here um Ewa Karen schroer had a really good one I mean all of these are good these are the top what the judges consider the top and the best of the best and keep in mind all of them are very very very good um there's
035Jaylen hence music teacher she used some records to display um some music and different musicians the Harlem Hell fighters from the Monier career center I would encourage you and I invite you to please take a walk down the Mac hallway once you leave here Chris Herer um he and his fire and rescue students just outdid themselves this year and mind you the competition here at the Mac I mean I literally have to walk down the hall like hiding because everybody is pulling for me to come and check out their display and the construction class they won overall last year they even did a little um tribute to me in their display this year so you'll see a picture of me back in my college Days running track yes it's me and so they did a
036Sports Illustrated theme so um if you want to get a little please go down that hallway but today I would like to feature the overall District winner and that is we have them here with us they are featured here tonight um In the Flesh Andrea strey and the third graders from Longfellow Elementary School and as you see here they did Henry Box Brown display just phenomenal I don't know how she comes up with these uh ideas but she is very creative along with her students her kiddos and so this is them in their display and um like I said just phenomenal we were blown away with a lot of the displays they keep getting better and better each year each year I think okay they can't nobody can do any better and they always come
037out with something different and I'm sure the judges that are sitting in this room would agree with that but um just a phenomenal display here and um I'm so glad that they are here with us tonight and we can congratulate them in person and so I would like um oh and they will be presented with prizes and a certificate each um building winner will receive a certificate and also um a little black history swag and in the past we've done um we've always done like some type of party you know kids like to eat and so we have done a donut party in the past we've also done um I know when Dr K was here we did like little uh packs of candy um we have also done popcorn we did a popcorn party
038last year to our gger was phenomenal and helping pop uh popcorn for all of the classroom winners so we were busy popping popcorn and driving around the the district trying to deliver those and so the kids also were able to enjoy a black history video or movie of some sort while they enjoy their popcorn so we thought that would be kind of be fitting for them to enjoy that but um I'll stop for now how many students do we have tonight oh let's see we got four here from the third grade class and how many students do you have total 177 yes 17 so so why don't you guys come on up okay Mrs Williams and I purchased some books for your classroom and then you guys can you guys that are here you can
039take one you come on out all the way get your book so sort through those and pick out a book to take home and then we'll give the rest of your teacher come on up mysty come on up and you know they're they're all over the place here oh you're welcome you're welcome and so sure what you want a sack no I want to get rid of it yeah great job yeah there you go so nice can always use books right you're welcome okay and so I will let them introduce themselves and if you have any questions for this group feel free to ask hi my name is Genesis hi my name is violet hi Violet hi my name is Jamaria hi Jamaria my name is Tyro hi Tyro and I'm M hi Mrs strey
040well you guys did a great job on your on your room are you having a good school year yes are things going pretty well yes are you learning a lot yes tell me again what grade you're in third third grade so you're doing fractions yes I didn't like fractions what [Laughter] calculators do you have anything you want to ask us about the schools that you need is there anything is really bothering you you sure you please if there's something that's bothering you let us know oh yeah that's fantastic didn't we give a pizza party yeah well we can we do you want a pizza big pizza party so so what what pizza is your favorite in mon cheese cheese myy no what what kind of pizza pizza king Papa John's dominoes Little Caesars Little Caesars
041you're not going to break the bank with Little [Laughter] Caesars for a dollar well we maybe we can get something wait you guys figure out when you want to do it and we'll we'll pitch in this Friday okay for just for this class so the rest of long Fells kind out of luck yeah Pizza well that's fantastic came up with the idea or um my favorite thing about the project is because we got to get in like a photo and we had to like post for it and it was really fun yeah with all your friends each had to like CR down it was like a weird pict situation thing but we made it happen they had like kind it wasn't quite like he was but it was you can see him kind of like
042they had to tell and they had to tell what Freedom why Freedom was important make sure you read a lot okay just read all the time you guys like to read yes also I would like to thank Mr Moore for giving us encouragements and encouragement and oh what did he do in the morning he let us know that we can do anything oh yeah I can't I can't see Mr Mo back there was he was he whispering to [Laughter] you but they they I was surprised I told them when I when I went to their room this morning they were actually had a chance to learning about Wasing me history and how it applies to everyday life so um they just continue to inspire I didn't know you GNA say that Genesis thank [Laughter] [Music]
043you and they are just m Tre comes up with all these Amazing Ideas all the time I don't know how she does it but the kids got involved were really just uh involved with the whole production so [Music] congratulations thank you she won the overall District award like before year you thank you so much thank you that's all I have thank you oh I've got I've got books for Michaela oh okay Michaela can you deliver those to her so those are from Jennifer and I okay thank you had but I was asked to be a part of the program and they asked me to do a poem and so I'm going to share the poem now I am no Nikki Giovani at all but it's like what do you create fore my K K5 so
044I wrote a poem and it's called color I'm to read it to you all but it says my skin is a beautiful chocolate brown yours might be brown or pretty white my eyes are brown or or black or green yours might be gray green or light does the color of our eyes really matter who cares if they are brown or blue the really the really cool important thing that your eyes see me and my eyes see you your hair might be reddish blondish blackish or brown some hair might even be blue my hair if I had some could be all different colors too but what matters more than our hair is that I can be me and you can be you when we run a race and we run real fast we might fall down
045and hurt ourselves or get cut by glass and when we do we might boooo we might bleed like all Cuts do but when we bleed the color is red red is the color of love that's what my mama Tre no matter what color our skin or hair or eyes might be I can still be kind to you and you can still be kind to me so look at your neighbor do it right now and I will do it too now yell real loud to that friend Happy Black History Month I'm up as I was walking away one kid is like really crying really really hard and we're like oh the Luther King like oh you know thank you for heing about just each before you wrap it up did any of you attend any of
046the concerts I attended the one at North Side Oh my God that was great it was thank you we have one more on Thursday oh you do have fourth and fifth graders and some Central attend where is it Thursday Central time uh 115 Mrs do I have this right Mrs Marlette from Southside oh no uh Miss hence the choir choir teacher yeah mus she can sing she can sing i' go watch her in concert but anyway what was amazing was and we were talking about it what got the kids up with their phones Billy Jean I me it went crazy it was just it was a great concert thank you I really enjoy they were in the aisles dancing and they were all having fun so again Jim if you've not yeah thank you thank
047you Ronda Dr Reynolds yeah just a just a couple of quick updates I want to thank um our our Central High School administrative team and students and families just making our the launch of the um our weapons detection system um such a success the kids have been terrific the families have been great uh very supportive uh we had you know the the first full week of implementation we were pretty cold the morning single digits in the morning and did some inflight adjustments um following that first day on Friday and and um got the kids in the building kids were not waiting outside so anyway just thanks thanks to everyone that made that happen and and especially our families and students for being so um adaptive and and understanding of of that layer of protection for
048our students how's the feedback then very positive very positive um as uh Jim and Jim mentioned we have our final Black History Month concert is this Thursday at 1:15 at Central we bring we're bringing in all of our fourth and fifth graders to um to uh hear that music and see the um slides on the um black artists and the impact they've made on on the music industry it's it is it's just a lot of fun I mean we we just have a um the Southside crowd was very different than the North Side crowd they were just more quiet and reserved um than the North Side folks but um they very respectful um and came up to the stage and had lots of terrific conversations with students after the concert so just a just a
049blast and we're looking forward to Thursday um and and wrapping up that series for our kiddos um we host boys basketball sectionals section week is next week I've not looked the forecast I don't know if we're getting a sectional snow I hope not um we should have a tremendous tremendous week of basketball next week we drew a we drew a buy so we'll be on the Friday second game Friday evening we'll play about 7:30ish first game um will not include us of course and those are two games on um Tuesday some of the best basketball teams in the state so it's it's a um tremendous opportunity to showcase the M community schools if you get a chance to come out and check that out and then the final games on Saturday I believe it's at
050600 or 6:30 I'll have to get back at that time but um again just a just a great opportunity to showcase the historic Fieldhouse and and U bring bring new um bring new folks into that to see our to see our space uh as as Miss Charles mentioned we have our I three assessment kicks off next week that is a um important assessment for our students just to see how they're doing as far as literacy goes at that third grade Benchmark um just ask our families to make sure you're there on time make sure your kids are get a good night's rest get them there early so they can have breakfast if they're going to eat at our school so um again just um just have have those folks and in thoughts and that's a
051and your thoughts that's a stressful time for our kids and our teachers they they take that very seriously um and we want them to take that seriously but understand that it's you know it's it's a benchmark test it's a one-time test that that um we'll move on from and and make sure that that that kids get any type of remediation they need following that but um that starts next week okay questions for Dr Reynolds so have you U had any conversations yet on the implementation potential somewhere security measures north side and Southside um just just a couple of conversations with the principles about what that yep absolutely any additional questions okay uh we are on to the consent agenda um you have the items in your packet uh any questions concerning the consent agenda we
052have uh new hires anybody here that's a new hire Austin Rogers Donald Watkins Eugenia Beaver okay um we have a retirement language Arch teacher Stacy Gil at Central High School is she retiring into the year so thank skill for Miss skill for 25 years of service at at to Community Schools i' wish her well any additional comments concerning the consent agenda if not would entertain a motion moved second all those in favor signify by I same sign uh we have an RFQ RFP for food service that um we have to advertise and this is done on a template uh prescribed by idoe that comes down derivatively through USDA Mr Drome yes thank you yes presented in your board packet tonight uh is the permission to advertise for bids for the Food Service management company every
053five years you have to do this uh the last uh five years we have used chart Wells and uh then we were able to renew it each year that we so chose we're now at the end of that five years we had done this the last time right before Co hit in March of 2020 uh it's hard to believe we're a to it again presented in front of you is the process we're following it's the exact U template they give us from the doe in Indianapolis we just received approval this morning on the actual packet itself so that has been now approved so asking um the school board permission for us to make those advertisements uh tonight any questions regarding the process a uh it's federal funds so for us to comply with federal funds
054we have to follow we have to follow the regs that come in the the doe at the Indiana level imp implements that they're the implementing body for the funds so they prescribe the template y they send out and receive Brad what will the critical things be that you're going to look for in the RFP you say what's the critical thing yeah I mean um not I mean not the RFP I just mean what what's going to be important yeah we have a score we have a scoring Matrix we had to put together for the RF the RFQ um all specified by the doe uh we have about 10 components one one component is price um another some other components are can you do food or family uh local Family Farm uh food can you do
055what's their service what's their experience what are their references uh so it's a pretty wide cross-section uh that our committee will score them uh the last time we received uh uh we had approximately five uh food service companies that uh we toured all the district we'll tour whoever is interested again about April 4th uh the bids are due April 10th at 10 in the morning uh here and um usually they send us at least five years ago it's three giant three ring binders is what we have to I'm looking at Dr Reynolds because he was on the committee was myself and that gave us a lot of reading during the co um so we'll Our intention is to bring it back to the school board uh May 13th uh the doe is heavily involved in
056the process uh once we finish the scoring and come up with our recommendation we then have to submit it back to the doe in Indianapolis uh they this year they've informed me that they have to view actually live stream our bid opening process which I've worked with uh our our own technology department to figure out how we will do that on April 10th uh which we will and um then we'll come up with a process and recommendation back to the board uh in May okay any additional questions how many did do we J did we receive three last time yeah we took five we took five companies around and I think three submitted and I think you know co could have had something to do with that um uh because the world was Chang we
057just finished the tour uh of all the pre-bid stuff and the world stopped so we'll see see what happens yes it is so Dave you asked a question do you remember the school pizzas from your time the square yeah those have those 99 for pack obviously eat my I just wanted to make sure you knew yeah well I've seen those yeah do they have the mark get trade sh yeah I think that's where I learned how Marketplace works yeah this is what this is what was a choice no choices right dollar 10 was our lunch was 55 cents 55 cents and I was one of the strange children that uh got white milk probably i' be 68 okay so we are getting bids on food we do need a motion move to Second any further
058questions hearing none all those in favor signify by I I post same sign okay um on the dialogue and recommendations uh report that we had a meeting with Dr Reynolds and his team on the Strategic plan which we're seeking feedback now uh March is going to be a time where we uh work to to obtain Community feedback um maybe into April the goal was to have the Strategic plan and revisions to The Innovation plan the state requires um by Midsummer Innovation plan be and the report on the Strategic plan will be due end of October so at some point make sure we're catching um the necessary feedback Dr K and her consultancy role has sent the results of the survey I will for to all of you later this week it by and large the
059the response from all over our parents I thought was PR we get that out um the university is working with us on hopefully some tutor assistant tutors at our early grade specific to third grade as we address this statute that Indiana has passed an effort to get as many as possible our third graders passing third grade reading um the university supplied 100 tickets to the University basketball game on March 4th uh those were divided between South and North South Middle School as incentives for their students very excited about that um the why as its grand opening on March 8th so as many of you as possible I thought Central want to shout out to the swimmers I thought they was going really really well SE I thought that their score was I think the paper
060even said they Central performed really very strong great yeah so that's an exciting time basketball team from the other night so yeah y we should be in there and then uh so in the buy game or the first game leading into our by it's Greenfield Central and who else so Greenfield Central will win that like they have a I think they have a Mr basketball candidate yeah they're very strong that's an opportunity for a fantastic upset yeah we had a fantastic upset last year and we were within a basket of Anderson yep that is right I went to I went to several of the 8th grade Southside games this year and female and the eighth grade boys are really really really good North grade seventh grade really really really good so the future is bright
061if we can keep it moving forward okay uh any additional uh thoughts or anything spe positive things Miss White anything from you okay you need anything Mr Grim you okay okay okay I was glad that they stepped up to that that's hopefully uh let me know if we want to see grant funding to help pay Ian some of those students may have Works to but let me know if we need to seek out some grant funding to help defay the cost of that we could probably get we can probably get one of our funders loc support that are we put together yeah we we'll have I kind of see that as a we'll have a district group and then also a community group that's conversation that's going to be uh seore FES [Laughter] we're gonna
062cover it with cement so on that note we have nor side pool still sits that's a that's a great location you remember It's a Wonderful Life where dance Flor the pool I think just put a over the about the point it costs money though it's it's a money pit both money pits pardon yes and it's just our neighbors have a pool in their backyard and it's not tended so it's like I'm back in IND County because I hear the frogs over there chirping on I'm not joking okay um no media media are you media okay um okay any further to give the order okay I'll entertain a motion to adjourn all in favor signify by I I thank you all have a nice evening [Applause] for for