001is [Music] that works [Music] put it here when it's ready tonight 6 30. we should be thank you please rise and join me in a moment of silence we want to remember carol little who passed away september 21st mrs little worked at central in the central family for approximately 25 years so if you'll keep miss little in your thoughts for a moment of silence mr grimm do we have anybody to lead us in the pledge or [Laughter] hello everybody can you believe this in the pledge of allegiance i promise 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 so much please be seated call our role dr o'neill present mr heater present mrs president
002mrs barnes griffin president mr irvin president mr well president okay we'll show everybody present uh we're on to the agenda mr graham good evening mr williams uh board of trustees uh dr kwakowski and cabinet members uh thank you for having me here tonight to talk a little bit about north side middle school tell you a little bit about where we're at right now and where we're going this year and then i'll introduce i always try to bring some of our students and even our staff members to give you a little taste of some stuff that's going on at northside each year so we'll get started here and i'll i'll start with just some general information i'm sure you're aware a little bit of this but we when i did this presentation we had 579 students
003we're probably not too far off that the other day we were 575 as you know we get kids in and out quite frequently but that is the largest in-person enrollment at northside middle school since 2016-17 so so that's a really good thing so we've got lots of kiddos in the building this year uh our typical enrollment the first three four years i've been at northside it's been about 525 each year so we've obviously grown that a little bit this year we have 36 teachers 12 support staffs one student assistance coordinator a couple counselors and then myself and two assistant principals um we had some really strong general education programs special education programs and then we also house the gifted and talented program there in the middle school as well we have anywhere from 12 to
00415 clubs in our building going on at any certain period of time and we have nine different athletic teams which uh their season comes to an end for fall sports uh next week so and then we'll after fall break start the winter round of sports so that's just some information um this is our ilt through niet we have an instructional leadership team um that's made up of the administrators i have two of the best probably uh master teachers i would say in the district in lori church and joanne norris they are fantastic um i have four mentor teachers this year so we're fully staffed with mentors and they bring a variety of backgrounds from english to science and technology and math to music so i've got a little bit of everything in there so they
005have a well-rounded they're well-rounded group that can represent all of our our teachers and help all of our teachers and then we've really enjoyed working with melissa blossom this year i think she's been here at some point or will be here at some point and has talked to everyone we really have enjoyed working with her she's pretty much going to be a muncie only person here very soon i saw an email from her today saying that she had finishing up some of her other schools and she'll be at northside on friday working with our master teachers this week so um so there's our data it's not the most outstanding data in the world um i will say our ela data is is decent compared to surrounding school districts uh schools that are very comparable to
006us we actually had about a 10 growth from the last i learned tests in our eighth grade i learned scores we were at 20 some percent and last year grew to 35 so our ela data is not great but it's kind of holding steady so we're looking to improve that and i'll talk about that here in a minute our math data is a little bit uh of a concern and that's really where we're spending a lot of our time this year addressing so those are some areas that we're working on and i'll go into kind of what we're doing to address that so we have we've got a pretty substantial goal so if you just saw those numbers um we're really pushing our teachers a little bit this year typically in the past we would
007say let's try for a five or ten percent increase in our scores so we're shooting for 55 percent so that's a 20 increase in english and even up to a 40 percent increase in math so it makes teachers a little bit uncomfortable at times because we're saying 55 55 that's what we're shooting for um don't know if we'll get there but i think we may get higher than that normal five or ten percent just because we're shooting so high and that's kind of been the thought process of setting the goals that high especially when we're working with niet so we have some specific goals that we do every week which is quite different than we've ever done in a building that i've been a principal at typically you would let teachers you say okay our
008scores are this teachers do what you do you're the experts work at these skills and try to raise that so we found that that may not have been as successful so we've set some very specific goals this year so we're doing some very specific strategies every week repeating them over and over with our kids to get some very targeted results to see if that works we're not just simply leaving it up to the teachers to come up with that so we have some number sense activities we do we've got some problem solving activities we do every friday and we've got some informational tech stuff that we're doing every week in our non-math classes throughout the building so we're trying to make it very intentional this year and that's definitely through help of ball state we
009sat down with ball state over the summer and developed these goals and then we've worked with nit niet to carry them out throughout the year so those are some things we're doing very specifically at northside so our plan with that is we have two great uh pds liaisons that are in our building a lot dr suzanna benko was in was in today she sat through our ilt meeting she was in our english classes dr gatzka's in our meetings so that's been a great partnership i can that will continue to get better as they start to do professional development and they're really working individually with a lot of our teachers i mentioned melissa blossom and then you can see our building initiatives every week we're working on number sense problems problem solving activities and math classes
010we have two initiatives there because our scores need a little bit more help in math and then we have a building initiative and informational text each week so this is the exciting part of our presentation that was kind of the you know the nuts and bolts things that we're doing every day academically but i i wanted to bring a group this year that really uh stands out in our building you'll see that here tonight so last year in january mr dennison came to me and said hey i want to start a club so i'm like okay tell me what you want to do well i want to make i want to make a tv club so i want a club that can do tv broadcasts so i want to you know teach kids how to
011do this i i think it would be very neat so um i said sure so i said i think there was this program at one point at central or somewhere andy piccardo had this equipment so i called dr reynolds and said hey do you still have that equipment he said yes i do so one day on mr dennison's prep we came over and got this camera from dr reynolds and and off he was going and then from there now he has his own classroom because we have an extra classroom for him he's got cameras we bought him a teleprompter he's got a green screen uh he's got kind of his own little studio there that he makes these broadcasts in every week so he started a youtube channel for these broadcasts he does a tremendous
012job of promoting it and this year that club has grown to 80 students in its membership so so that's pretty impressive when you think about how many clubs and different things uh it's by far the biggest group of any one group that we have it's bigger than probably band it's bigger than choir it's bigger than drama it's bigger than any of our athletic teams it's by far our largest student group it's so large that every week we do a broadcast um it's a different set of kids every week because he has so many kids to get in to make sure they're doing something every week they're doing something so um it's it's been a it's been a very positive thing um mr dennison you know through this hard work i recognized him as our north
013side teacher of the year last year and then he went on to be the secondary teacher of the year so he's a pretty phenomenal teacher in choir but he also spends a lot of time with this technology and this this tv group that he has each uh week that's for sure so they do live taping there's some pictures of the set they cover athletic events and report out on these to the students so um it's it's definitely becoming a pretty developed thing in our building before i introduce them and they kind of show you what do you guys have any questions your staffing okay staffing is okay at the current time so as long as staffing stays in place i think i've got an aid position open so but other than that staffing is is
014holding pretty steady right now kid's doing okay students doing okay with how the years so more more kids in the building mean more needs that's for sure so um they seem to be doing okay but they do have their challenges it's been it's been different for students to go from not being in school from march of 2020 to being in school for the first time in august of 2021 i said that's probably the group that's had the the biggest transition time the most challenges are those students that left in march were virtual all of last year and are now returning to school for the first time in you know a year and a half basically um so so that's the group that we definitely spend a lot of our time with it seems like though
015just transitioning them back into middle school especially in sixth grade it's a huge transition going from elementary anyway but the last time you were in school was as a fourth grader and you weren't there as a fifth grader and now you're a sixth grader that's probably been our biggest challenge so far but we have great staff uh and dr k and dr reynolds have been very great at seeing what our needs are so they they communicate with me probably more than they probably want to communicate with me i ask them i ask them a lot of questions at times and they're they're outstanding at getting me what i need and they've really addressed some of the areas that we we need in our building and they've gotten us the help and resources to make those
016those challenges a little bit less so one of the things i want you to convey to your staff your administrative staff and your faculty on behalf of the board and you know i understand that the pandemic has resulted in some learning loss clearly across the state and we've seen that but one of the things and it's it's a small victory but i think uh we need to celebrate it was what you pointed to on the ela the scores in muncie community schools uh were more favorable in terms of learning loss statewide than the than the other districts on average yeah so thank you for your work there yeah and then secondly uh one of the things that i think is critically important to recognize this year and this is the first uh in probably six
017or seven years and that is with the exception of typical new school corporation which is an outlier uh in the old north central conference muncie community schools has seen enrollment growth for the first time in that length of time and that's contrary to every other school in the north central conference and you're part of that and we appreciate it so thank you with that is any other questions for mr graham i i do just a quick one so eric maybe this is dr case so looking at the the data do you have a feedback loop with the elementaries on math and the other so there is a feedback loop to help support the incoming students got it okay good may i just say one thing so i i would just like to recognize mr grimm
018he is an outstanding principal he cares deeply about his students about his staff every parent i talk to he does a great job with communicating with them and i know that when we're trying to think about things to do as a district i always call eric and say how will this impact you is this a good idea he he's just a great person to to troubleshoot with and i just appreciate his leadership and so i know all of your staff does too so thank you eric thank you so mr brim is there anything that you at north side or otherwise need from the lord to make your job easier to help our students um i i can't say i mean we can always use more of everything so i mean so that's that's kind of
019a question and when you ask a teacher or a school person what they need we can always use more we can always use you know more help here more help here but you know typically when i when i need things i will i will go to dr dr k and say hey this is what we need this is i mean i i met with her before our meeting with our attorney today and said hey this is a program that's that's not going the way i want to i want to run some things by you this is what we need this is what i need to help this program and and and dr k and dr reynolds are awesome at getting me you know what i need so i would say right now we just we
020have to we have to keep battling because uh because that's what it takes in education education's hard so it's it's not an easy occupation at all and all of us that are in it certainly know how difficult it is every day well thank you and who do you have with you tonight so i'm gonna introduce our secondary teacher of the year isaac dennison and he's going to talk a little bit about what titan tv does at northside and he'll introduce the students that he brought thank you mr how are you you're doing good thank you mr grim thank you to the school board um this group as he has said has been one that started earlier um this year uh in the uh actually right before winter break i asked mr graham it would be
021a good idea and he said let's go ahead and go with him so i really appreciate that and how he's been willing to uh try new and different things especially how we were all trying new and different things uh in these crazy times of education so what's gonna happen is actually i'm not gonna tell you guys all about time tv i wanted uh just three of our 80 students um to come and kind of do a mock broadcast like we normally would do um and so what you'll see is you'll have we have someone who's a voice over we have someone who's a talent who he'll see him reading off of a teleprompter and someone who's the producer and director and i get to take the lovely job of sitting down in a chair which
022i love so if you'll give us just one second to bring the stuff into the middle and i'll have them go ahead and start [Music] um three two one this is seven tv coming to you live on tape from north side middle school studio 105 today is tuesday september 28th 28th now let's take it to the local locations in muncie community school of central august with william thanks time i am live here at the central office let our school board know a little bit about time tv there's a lot to find out so let's get right to it first off thank me started right after birth there is a call-out meeting and had a total of therapies to the sign up for the after-school club those 30 students were put into rotation and from that
023he created our very first broadcasting messages thanks to 17 broadcasts featuring weekly announcements weather birthdays sports highlights and trivia challenge we were able to connect not just the students inside our building but all students your virtual report this year for 80 suit we have already put together six broadcasts of investments news broadcasts are not the only thing we have produced last screen we produced four different spotlights from black history month future three and studio interviews you also come on five virtual performances for our van that requires south side stand and central campus after that a virtual brd showcases two awards ceremonies our first ever live stream was the eighth grade celebration from class day school last year that's enough talking about the past mostly about the future you can come to live stream we hope
024to watch live streams or events such as sporting events in these school classes he already planned to live stream at the choir concert next tuesday at 00 pm champions club our online goal note is to have this plug on class one day but until that day we'll keep on making broadcasts and connecting students and that we have come to the end of this week's broadcast make sure to follow us all on our social smash that subscribe button on youtube and check out the names for kind of movie crew members who work behind the scenes to make this production run smoothly this week all of us here at kind tv i'm liam stay classy nice job guys and then we also wanted to we also wanted to uh present our original titan tv mug to the
025school board you guys can put it wherever you want to on a shelf somewhere but uh thank you so much we want to say thank you we wanted to say thank you so much for all the support uh with titan tv and stuff because it's not been easy to put on but these students are fantastic and we love the fact that whenever we do share something especially on twitter within minutes it's already shared by dr reynolds half the time and also by muncie community schools and and we absolutely love that and the students love the support that that we get from this so thank you guys so much for having us this evening could you bring your could you bring your students up and have them introduce themselves um [Music] hey liam hey liam do
026you want to stand at the podium uh ammon i'm an advanced choir mr denison he's a really good choir teacher um one of the best years i've ever had at northside mr graham's really good principal he always makes sure everyone does what they're supposed to do it's good learning do you want to be a broadcaster maybe one day do you have any questions for us nope okay [Music] hey i'm abby uh i am also an advanced choir with mr denniston um i was in choir ever since he started which was sixth grade so i've had him for three years and he's been an amazing teacher actually he's done funny skits he's made us laugh he's made us just happy to learn new songs and sing them last time was in choir i wasn't really happy
027with choir and i was like on the verge of quitting choir but my mom wanted me to pursue choir and i'm so happy i made that choice actually okay that's it hi my name is nia pryor even though they can't get it right they call me naya uh i've been i'm an advanced choir to the titans and i've been inquired i'd say in school for two years i went in sixth grade and then i did virtual for seven and i came back this year and it's been a blast he is an overall fun teacher and you can tell that he actually enjoys teaching that he is in there instead of being someone that's just throwing music notes in people's faces constantly he's there to make the kids laugh and that's what's a part of being
028an overall great teacher and what makes it a great year so i'm glad that i joined the choir i've made great friends and i've just overall been great to have this opportunity and being put in this spot and my favorite food's mac and cheese bye and i'm just like smiling thank you for thank you so quick quick question mr dennison or mr graham have you connected with ball state university our news link or sports center to introduce the students to what we have over ball state that would be exciting to them in this regard that's definitely been a goal for this year and uh as uh as the club grows and everything right now the biggest thing that we're able to handle right now is doing our weekly broadcast which takes i mean right now
029they're doing it during their lunches um and it takes a whole week to put that all together so but like we said in the future we'd love to see uh we'd even love to see it turn into a class and that would provide more opportunities like things like that um right now the biggest thing that we've been able to handle is the weekly production so that's definitely a goal so anything with both state mr grimm isaac um if you guys want to make it a class why don't you put together a proposal and see what we can do good okay very cool will do okay they're always looking for more equipment in titan tv too so that's so if you say there's one thing if there's anything you have in northside middle school i know
030mr denison always has a list of okay i would like a new one of these so so he may hit uh hit you up for that if you put that proposal out there for him okay thank you thank you everybody okay dr kwayakowski ceo comments oh yes do you know we actually have one more we still have muncie visitors bureau i'm sorry i'm sorry muncie visitors bureau isn't about you yes mr president and members of the school board it's my pleasure to be with you and dr kwakowski and your cabinet so good to be back home again with so many familiar faces and friends um i'm here tonight however uh representing muncie rotary we have enjoyed a long-standing partnership with the delaware county fair and muncie central high school when i was interim principal at
031central i realized how difficult it was for small teams of athletic or athletes and scholars to raise money and so we partnered with delaware county fair to welcome to be the welcoming faces at the main gate each year at the county fair now let me tell you it's a long week don't get me wrong we earn every penny that we give to you tonight but i'm thrilled that on monday night uh from um july 19th through july 24th we are delivering checks for 450 dollars to six small teams that were our partners at the main gate so if tonight any of the coaches are here please come and get your check from uh the girls golf team larry alexander 450 dollars from the national honor society lisa lessinger 450 dollars it really is a great
032time honestly great time every night from muncie central girls jv basketball team ron howell 450 dollars for the muncie central high school tennis team don wayford 450 from the muncie central girls soccer team um laura brandt here oh oh god thank you so much and uh and that's it actually the girls basketball team does two nights um and so they get nine hundred dollars for a couple nights worth of work thank you mr basham uh thank you and thank you for the work you're doing uh with the visitor bureau we're neighbors obviously right um vip tent this weekend yeah thursday night uh don't miss uh muncie marathon and um iron man it's going to be epic thank you for your work for your donation thank you okay um dr krakowski well thank you tonight i
033have a pretty quick um board update i wanted to share that beth buehler one of our teachers from east washington academy wrote a grant to the community foundation and she was one that was selected it was in the the muncie star over the weekend and she will use the funds with her high ability program beth does an outstanding job i always enjoy going and visiting her classroom today we had our principals in it was a early release well it's actually parent-teacher conferences teachers were busy meeting with with parents and our principals had the opportunity to come for some professional development so our our attorneys helped us making sure we kept up on federal and state statutes making sure that we're doing everything we can to educate all of our students and keeping all students safe
034and so we appreciated that it's my cabinet we've been out in schools and it energizes all of us when we go into the schools the students and the teachers um you know what we see happening is lots of good things any questions for dr k just the grant what was that kitzelman or is that what i don't know so it was just a community school grant um the robert bell yes thank you okay any additional questions okay we're on to public comment um julie schneider hello julie snyder teacher at muncie central um i will be very brief i just thought i would uh tell you guys that we had a great time today at our meeting with ball state um we for two hour release time the high school teachers went and met with all
035of the different sciences and humanities groups and math teachers and art teachers i mean it was everyone was there they had some representation from literally every department and they had it set up in the ballroom with you know tables where we could it was kind of like speed dating in a way we got to go around and talk to everybody but i just wanted to i was talking to dr reynolds beforehand i had a great discussion with the political science teachers i teach government and i'm always looking for a way to be more innovative but also just a way to i think introduce my seniors to that next level especially since i teach ap and dual credit and so we had a really good conversation about meet us coming to their classes for days where
036they might have a panel or a guest speaker or something going on and so i was kind of knocking it around and we were talking about how would that be if like let's say three days before we say hey would you be able to come to this panel we're having in political science you know 350 and so i was talking to dr reynolds and said would that be feasible because i know it would be hard to get like the paperwork through and all of that but if i just wanted to take kids for one period to over on campus and with block i mean it's very very feasible to do that we could run over there and get back and hopefully we can all work together to make that happen because that's what i was
037envisioning instead of having to like plan it weeks in advance or whatever just being able to like go to one of their classes or them come to one of mine and and do stuff yeah i see no reason that can't happen yeah they were very open to it it was it was a great afternoon of just talking about things like that and and i for one um think my kids would love it uh they love getting outside the building um so i tried to do that as often as possible um so and we could definitely mitzbus could get us there i mean heck they wouldn't like it but i could make him walk it's not that far right but but i just thought i would let you know it was great that was when we
038talk about a partnership that's what i was envisioning thank you for making it happen yeah thanks uh mr bolts phil boltz hello uh hi it's uh really good to be able to uh attend the meeting this this month i'm really excited um i'm phil boltz community organizer supporter educator advocate i have two daughters at east washington east washington academy uh in the high ability program got the name right um and they both enjoy they've been greatly benefited by that thank you for the that program and what mcs offers to our community i'm a proud munsonian uh and i've been a vocal supporter of public education and development since i returned to muncie in 2011 to pursue my phd uh in education um in our community i helped organize events and organization with a group called
039muncie resists which was created to amplify the progressive community voice in east central indiana recently there was an event in muncie which purported advanced public discussion of critical race theory social emotional learning and other critical issues facing our community this event uh wasn't publicly accessible online and muncie resist has convened a broad panel of educational practice and philosophy experts within our community to address the questions being raised in that community uh that event is on october the 7th at 7 00 pm it is available via facebook muncie resist the event is called critical insights the truth about critical race theory social emotional learning and education uh or at school excuse me and school practice um questions such as do public schools have a role in discussing or educating students about race are reflective and social
040social emotional practices a beneficial part of education in the united states so we would invite everyone to join us for a panel discussion of current practices within the schools with edu elementary and education uh multicultural education scholars and advocates from our community uh bring your questions and walk or because it's online click away i suppose um uh walk with essential resources and literature about these issues uh thank you very much and i appreciate your time mr boardman [Applause] not as tall as he is um i am jim borgman i'm been in muncie indiana for 35 years seems amazing i'm here as a community volunteer i for years have served as a chairman of the iu health uh baltimore hospital foundation minitrisa and the children's museum and i am if any teachers were here what would
041be called a problem student and made it through because certain teachers found ways to help with social emotional learning so i would be a proponent of that all of us all students show up with different backgrounds different emotions different problems and if you try to teach them or treat them all the same way they do not work so you'll lose them immediately i've been a basketball coach in the area for years lastly at bursts it's the same thing it's the same thing when you employ people i wouldn't tell everybody that you've got to be the same way at our law firm i would find the way to make it best for them that's our job as leaders is to give them the opportunity to succeed and the school board's the same way if you're going
042to meet every child at the same place you're going to lose them so you've got to recognize that they do come with different social backgrounds different race backgrounds different emotional backgrounds and i whether it's called critical race theory or just caring make it caring go find each way to make a better day for all those kids and i encourage you to look at all opportunities to innovate every chance you can obviously the scores are better but they're not where you want them they're not where the students want them and so we're not meeting every need we can so until we're doing the best we can with every student we have to look at every opportunity whether whatever name you want to call it whatever way you want to treat it just find the best way
043to get them the best result and thank you for your efforts thank you jim arnold mr arnold i'm jim arnold parent concerned citizen and taxpayer i'm here tonight to read what i was not allowed to read at last meeting the parent education bill of rights by todd rokita attorney general of indiana one you have right the right and expectation to question question and address your child's school officials and school board members at publicly designated meetings with proper notice and the meeting provided you have the right and expectation to question and review the curriculum taught in your child's school by questioning local school board and school administrators you have the right and expectation that the academic curriculum taught in your child's school aligns with indiana and federal law four you have the right and expectation to
044participate in the selection and approval of academic standards for the state of indiana number five you have the right and expectation to obtain educational materials and curriculum taught to your child in the classroom and number six you have the right to run as a candidate for your local school board unless of course you live in muncie indiana that has unelected school board members but i will leave that discussion for another day or another speaker i came to the 914 meeting intended to read the student and parent rights into the record as a precursor to future participation when not allowed to speak the 914 meeting i went back and looked at that meeting and also the meeting the emergency meeting from 83 21 8 10 21 and 8 24 21 and all three of those meetings
045included the call to order in in the public display on youtube the call to order the moment of silence pledge of allegiance and the roll call the 914 meeting started part way into the first speaker my question to the board is what happened to the first part of the 9 14 21 meeting where i was denied my right to speak on a technicality and another citizen was ejected from the meeting without cause mr williams clearly stated that the meeting had been called to order and that no one had signed up to speak hence i could not speak so if the meeting had been called to order where is the public record video of that part of the meeting and what purpose does the pre-meeting sign up requirement serve other than limiting the participation of the
046public thank you mr arnold cameron grubbs good evening board i just wanted to uh come up here for a couple quick things one is to thank you for setting an example uh to the rest of delaware county with the masks and everything that muncie is in muncie community schools have really stepped up unfortunately other schools aren't really following as i wish that they would but i appreciate what you all are doing with that i i did also want to ask about something that i've i've recently um encountered at some of the schools when i visited some of the schools is that there are no there's no visual cues to anybody who may be deaf or hard of hearing when you go to the security button you'll hit the button and if you can hear them
047address you then you can tell them what you're there for but if somebody's hard of hearing or deaf they wouldn't be able to do that and then once you pass that and they go to let you in there's a small little click but there are no visual cues to say hey the door is unlocked um also i think it wouldn't be a bad idea to be able to have the ability to open the door remotely so if someone were to be you know in a wheelchair or something like that it'd be great for them to have the door open for them remotely so that they could then enter the building um but lastly i just wanted to tell you all that you were doing a good job i think you know part of the bill
048of rights for parents would be to not have the uh teaching curriculum hijacked by people that believe in the conspiracy theories and things like that and to have truth and and appreciate what y'all are doing and uh let's not let's not give in to a vocal minority so thank you thank you mr grubbs mr hyatt heard me okay thank you any andy no this was the only sheet okay at this point i would ask the board given uh the circumstances statewide nationwide and other to move up for a motion to move up dialogue of the board um in front of the consent agenda now in order for a presentation to be made regarding many of those issues that are facing schools across the state across the nation i have a presentation if board would indulge
049me and those it's for the benefit of those who are streaming and otherwise i have gone over this with dr k and i believe it will be helpful to our students their families and the broader community so i would entertain a motion to move up the dialogue at this point motion to approve second been moved and seconded all those in favor signify all right okay thank you so we are a unique place in the life of our nation as we face pandemic economic issues political division and schools have not been exempted from from this disruption i spoke in indianapolis with dr jenner recently where we talked about the fact that kovet has been a multiplier where we had challenges already the pandemic has multiplied those challenges people are anxious we have economic uncertainty and education
050while it provides the surest path through that anxiety has become in many ways a political football i'm going to spend some time this evening and if you'll indulge me going through some background it is at a high level and it is some of this is by way of example but i will be specific when that's the case i want to go for a moment and speak about house enrolled act 1315 which created the venue where we sit tonight with this group that was passed in may of special session may of 2018 by the indiana general assembly to create the historic partnership between ball state university and muncie community schools this legislation was passed to enable our schools and this is a quotation from the statute to take advantage of its relationship with the university and
051grants the district all administrative and academic flexibility to implement innovative strategies this statute required the submission of an academic innovation and financial viability plan by june the 30th 2020 this has occurred it is available on our website and hard copies would be available upon request the mission statement includes the phrase placing learners first and that has been the guiding load store for this board the development of this plan was a community-wide effort with the assistance of the united way we held over 50 listening sessions throughout the city we heard from over 500 parents and caregivers from over 20 local non-profits and foundations for most of our muncie community school faculty and a broad-based national panel of educational experts a significant part of that plan again driven by parents faculty local funders and nationally recognized educators
052with social emotional learning so social emotional learning which has become controversial i'm going to talk about what it is in this political divisive time so full of mental misinformation and resultant anxieties we have received a number of questions about the need for social emotional learning and its curriculum our public schools in short sel which is what i'll call it promotes whole child development by teaching skills like self-regulation persistence empathy self-awareness and mindfulness practically speaking it teaches students to regulate their emotions to pay attention and to work well with peers all you have to do is look at the news on social media or on your television at night and you can see that some of those lessons have been lost on our fellow citizens all of these are valuable and important attributes of educational and
053personal growth and success the curricula used at mcs is second step success if anyone wishes to see it we will happily get you a complete copy this is not a new curriculum the bush administration named this an exemplary program in two thousand one while we may may wish to believe that these life skills are with our students when they arrive at the schoolhouse door some of our learners come from backgrounds where they do not receive modeling of these behaviors from any adult sibling or peer in fact the modeling is often often counterproductive to those who question the need for such learning modules whether out of sincere interest or political mischief i would ask the following questions and some of this is driven by my experience as a trial judge in union county indiana liberty where
054i had jurisdiction including criminal domestic and juvenile would ask these questions did you move 10 or more times at least twice due to eviction between the ages of 5 and 18 did one or both parents spend at least a month in jail or prison during your childhood did one of your parents die a premature death due to drugs violence or insufficient medical care did you grow up in a household with no books have you ever lived in a vehicle for any period of time have you or a sibling ever been a victim of abuse neglect or sexual assault have you been in your house to witness an act of domestic violence against a parent or caregiver have you ever been sick with strep throat bronchitis the flu a tooth infection scabies or head lice and
055not had adequate medical intervention have you ever gone to school hungry or to bed hungry have you ever witnessed a caregiver commit an act of unimaginable cruelty to a family pet and i could go on during the last 30 years of practicing law serving as a trial judge with criminal juvenile jurisdiction immediately with domestic cases including today an arbitrator and in working and volunteering in public schools i have worked with many young learners who have endured one or sometimes several of these traumas as we've learned more precisely over the last 20 years through brain science traumas of this magnitude for any person but especially for someone with a developing body and brain will wreck emotional and physical havoc they are in fact a form of malignancy sel is simply one of many tools that our
056magnificent educators use to help and educate children when people ask if there is any political agenda hidden or otherwise we should answer honestly and truthfully that the only agenda is to do our level best to help our children get to a point where they can feel a sense of confidence and security that enables them to learn that gives them a sense of hope and helps them to see a path where they can be in greater control of their destinies as adults through perseverance self-reliance and reaching out to loved ones family and trusted others for help when they need it on a personal note emphasizing this or illustrating it perhaps i was born in 1966 my brother was born in 1970. while we had good parents i can say without reservation that my own social emotional
057learning was hands by none other than fred rogers mr rogers neighborhood debuted in 1968 it ran until 2001. this program for those who may not have seen it was on pbs and emphasize young children's social emotional needs rogers taught young children about civility sharing tolerance and self-worth like many in this room i also learned these lessons or had them emphasized from several of my teachers in my case i think of mrs marion pope my third grade teacher at kitchell elementary who recently died as she neared the age of 100. so i suppose that this may be political with the broadest possible possible definition but not in the nefarious manner that some would have you believe now turning to social studies and english language arts what is our goals for social studies and mrs snyder's here
058tonight and some of this comes from her department what it is it is our goal to develop and citizens that will perpetuate our democratic democratic traditions aware that we work with one another to move forward developing human beings that understand that no one's experience is universal developing students that are seekers privileging learning over knowledge learning history through the experience of more than one perspective learning government and economics with the consciousness of how policies impact different people in different ways what it is not it is not classrooms built up from lecture and thoughtless rote memorization of trivia names and dates in my case as much as i loved union county high school and as much as i loved kelly drake who taught history it was terribly terribly terribly boring god rest mr drake's soul it is
059not the imposition of a worldview that attempts to set or prescribe norms and it's history it's not history detached from the present because history is a continuum as i will talk about in a moment and it is not critical race theory that leads to my next point or discussion critical race theory what is it we've heard the term critical race theory a good bit over the past several months i saw at one point where critical race theory was noted on cnn one day like 277 times during the course of a day however when i have inquired the vast majority of people do not have a correct understanding of what that term entails or means as a result misinformation and misunderstanding have filled the vacuum anytime there is misinformation being disseminated for primarily political purposes on
060either side of this spectrum one of the goals is to create fear and apprehension among listeners this false anxiety is then used to drive a political agenda whether that be from the right or the left with that background in the late 1960s and early 1970s several law schools in the united states saw the emergence of critical legal studies note that's separate and distinct from critical race theory critical legal studies or cls developed as a branch of legal studies during that period of time again the late 1960s early 1970s its genesis at that time or its beginning was a natural outgrowth of upheaval over the vietnam war frustration with the pace of the civil rights movement and general dissatisfaction with the political status quo exemplified by the next administration scandals that culminated in watergate as i
061will discuss in a moment critical legal studies again formed the foundation on which critical race theory then emerged at its core though deep differences have emerged among between scholars of critical legal theories imagine that differences between scholars it alleges that laws both legislatively enacted statutes in court-driven common law have been constructed or construed or drafted in a manner to mainstage maintain status quo power structures that create significant economic and social hurdles for marginalized groups marginalized groups have been defined in that scholarly study without limitation by gender national origin race ethnic ethnicity religion sexual orientation or the economically impoverished as the 1970s gave way to the 1980s harvard law school's first black tenured professor derrick bell wrote a law journal article entitled brown versus board of education and the interest converges dilemma that's that law journal
062article formed a core basis for the beginning of critical race theory by way of background bell received tenure at harvard in 1971. prior to that he was a lawyer at the naacp's legal defense fund handling civil rights litigation bit of history the ldf or legal defense fund's predecessor and interest with thoroughgood marshall as the lead trial lawyer handled the brown case resulting in the supreme court's 1954 decision in brown versus board of education desegregating public schools across much of the united states even in 1980 professor bell's article was deeply controversial in that it critically questioned the naacp strategy of integration for many the brown decision was thought to represent a moral awakening and the prevalence of decency among among a core majority of american citizens bell theorized in his argument that to the contrary the
063court's determination was the result of an interest convergence in cold war pragmatism in short as the u.s was locked in a struggle with the soviet union the images of racial oppression in the u.s handed the soviets a propaganda weapon to wield at home in eastern europe and in third world countries consequently according to bell's theory and it was and remains a theory the court's brown decision was an effective means to deprive the soviets of a propaganda propaganda tool and was in the broader interest the broader political interest of the united states while bell's theories were subject and remained subject criticisms from a number of quarters they gained tractions with a group of academics at several other law schools along with bell these professors formed the basis of the critical race theory movement throughout the 1980s
064crt has evolved as a natural derivative of critical legal studies in this regard crt does not attribute racism to white people as individuals or even to entire groups of people simply put crt states that u.s social institutions the criminal justice system the education system the labor market the housing market the health care system are laced with racism embedded in laws rules regulations and procedures that lead to different outcomes by race in august of 2021 a group talked about states and their reaction to critical race theory crt has become a political football as significant portions of the united states argue and scholars argue that labeling u.s institutions as racist is a broad-based institution or pardon me a broad-based assertion that anyone associated with those institutions is also a racist this defensive posture has also extended to
065the assertion that k-12 students lack the intellectual capacity or maturity to address crt with all of its nuances and complexities and i can think you can see from my even very brief introduction that it is extremely nuanced and it is extremely complex as to this latter assertion regarding those complexities and nuances critical race theory has historically found its home and will continue to historically find its home in college and law school classrooms on the contrary at mcs it is our goal to provide a diverse educational experience that emphasizes culturally responsive and diverse approaches to learning this is fundamentally distinct from and different from any relationship to crt both in theory and in practice our approach relying heavily on primary source materials is constructed in order to provide mcs students with exposure to a broad array
066of academic materials in english language arts and social studies while certain events in u.s history will not and should not avoid the specter of racism i.e slavery the civil war jim crow the civil rights movement for examples and the history is related to there too this does not involve teaching or exploration of crt at the k-12 level as noted this is generally a topic suited for law schools or specific undergraduate college and university programs by way of example an example only i'm going through a following list of things that we can and should study and mrs snyder i think some of this you are already doing but these are things that i think will give you an indication and those watching tonight an indication of the approach that the board advocates and i'm walking through
067this in chronological fashion because i think it will be easier to understand we can and should study the declaration of independence the genius of the second paragraph that jefferson drafted in 1776 we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness when that was drafted and then adopted in july of 1776 the world had never seen anything like it uh when you're thinking about the the nation states in europe which was the primary political basis uh of which the the world was aware this was this was radical mount holyoke historian joseph ellis says this phrase contains quote the most potent and consequential words in american history over time this passage
068has come to represent a moral standard to which the united states should strive however we can and should understand that in july of 1776 this phrase applied as jefferson drafted it only to white men of property we can and should study the united states constitution in all of its genius its 1787 drafting and its ratification in 1789 the genius of articles one two and three creating a separation of powers and checks and balances and the bill of rights conferring heretofore unheard of freedom on certain citizens we should also and can and should study the compromises that permit its ratification specifically think of article one section two the three-fifths clause and article one section nine preserving the international slave trade for those states that we should wish to preserve it to 1808 we can and should
069study that certain founders including ben franklin recognized at the time the moral atrocity of owning human beings and robert carter iii who began freeing his slaves in mass in 1791 and that those founders at that time saw fit to draft and adopt the northwest ordinance of 1787 banning slavery in the territory including the area where we sit tonight we can and should study christmas addicts the man at the boston boston massacre in 1770 the first black man killed in the fight for freedom we should also study the high school in indianapolis and oscar robertson and the struggles he underwent the mid-1950s playing for the state championship we can and should study the seneca falls declaration in 1848 where elizabeth katie stan stanton lucia mont and frederick douglass all came together for the first time to
070express full support for women's equality we can and should study the consequential presidencies of andrew jackson and john quincy adams but we should also study jackson's abhorrent conduct as it concerned native americans and their relocation during the 1830s we can and should study nat turner the 1831 slave rebellion in virginia that hardened attitudes throughout the country as it concerned fugitive slaves we can and should study frederick douglass and his genius william lloyd garrison uh writing for the liberator the the ferocious john brown henry clay of kentucky john calhoun of south carolina and daniel webster who forged compromises preserving the union until the civil war broke out we can and should think about chief justice john marshall on the united states supreme court enshrining the concept of judicial review whereby chief justice in the supreme court
071was able to pass on the constitution of congress's statutes at the same time we can and should study the acts of chief justice roger tawny with his terrible decision dred scott in where the court held that the united states constitution was not meant to include american citizenship for people of african descent regardless of whether they were enslaved or free we can and should study abraham lincoln his evolution and maturation from the cooper union speech in 1860 to the issuance of the emancipation proclamation after the battle of antietam in the fall of 1862 being issued in january of 1863. to the gettysburg address in november of 1863 where lincoln engrafted the equality clause of the declaration of independence onto the constitution to his best speech the second inaugural in march of 1865. in thinking about lincoln
072we can and should study at the close of the war where he gave a speech in april of 1865 where the first time he mused about extending the franchise or the vote to emancipated slaves we can and should study that john wilkes booth was in the crowd that night when he heard that he said that's the last speech he'll ever give and then he killed lincoln a couple of days later we can and should study the iron brigade its first day at gettysburg the iron brigade included the 20th indiana commanded for a time by a man named samuel james williams of selma indiana right not too far from where mark irvin lives until he was killed at the wilderness in 1864. we can and should study and think about the 54th massachusetts including others who
073were black troops commanded by robert gould shaw and middle immortalized in the movie glory we can and should study reconstruction 1866 to and the remarkable passage of the civil rights amendments the 13th 14th and 15th amendments that resulted in the first black united states senator hiram rebels of mississippi being elected many of you probably don't know but rebels attended beech grove quaker seminary a school in union county indiana where i grew up we can and should study the compromise of 1876 whereby the presidency was traded to rutherford b hayes in his race against samuel tilden thereby clearing the ways for 90 clearing the way for 90 additional years of jim crow to exist throughout the south we can and should explore the genius of the american experiment in the post-civil war industrial explosion from a
074primarily rural agrarian society to an industrial society it's very similar to our transition to a heavy tech economy right now where great fortunes were made with rockefeller carnegie and jp morgan giving rise to our modern economy and then theodore roosevelt's response and attempting to rein in their excesses during his president's presidency we can and should be aware and study the battle of wounded wounded knee in 1890 and the supreme court's decision in plessy versus ferguson in 1896 where the court to its shame ruled separate equal separate but equal to be the law of the land understanding that separate did not mean equal we can and should study that great president theodore roosevelt having booker t washington of the tuskegee institute to the white house in and the controversy that generated across the nation we can
075and should as good hoosiers study madam walker purported to be the first self-made woman millionaire who came to indianapolis in 1910. we can and should study woodrow wilson of virginia seeking to make the world safer to democracy but took race relations backwards while re-segregating government offices and district of columbia and screening birth of a nation at the white house in 1915. turning to world war one we can and should recognize the courage and bravery of general macarthur as he led the 42nd raindo rainbow division including the 69th new york consisting of poor irish immigrants from the island of manhattan we should also study and think about the harlem hellfighters who fought with equal courage on the western front alongside french troops turning to the 1920s american culture was coming into its own literature music being
076two great examples we can and should study the great literary figures coming out of that period ernest hemingway f scott fitzgerald elaine locke of the harlem renaissance langston hughes pearl buck zoranil houston and others like ralph ellison and richard wright who came later we can and should study the great migration as hundreds of thousands of our black citizens left the old the states of the old confederacy and moved north to cities like muncie our own mary dallas and being a part of the tail end of that great migration as we go to the 1930s in the scourge of the great depression we can and should celebrate the ingenuity of the american spirit with the building of hoover dam and rockefeller center in the midst of a great depression thereby giving so many citizens much needed
077jobs we can and should celebrate that great black contralto marion anderson who sang at the lincoln memorial in 1939 with eleanor roosevelt's intervention after she was denied access to constitution hall by the daughters of the american revolution we can and should celebrate and study the life of benjamin v cohen a jewish man born in muncie in 1894 attended the university of chicago and harvard law school and became the principal drafter along with tommy cochran of much of the new deal legislation that passed in that consequential decade turning to world war ii we can and should be aware of and study dory miller a mess steward confined to that role by his race on the uss west virginia who on december 7th 1941 after his captain had been killed took up a gun and eventually received
078the navy cross for his heroism on that day we can and should study the tuskegee airmen navajo code talkers the women's army air corps rosie the riveter all those women who went to work among those at ford's willow run plant which was turning out b-24s at the average of about one an hour and for those of you don't know b-24 liberators is a massive four-engine bomber and the united states was making one an hour this is just a bit of a digression but at the end of the war the german army was still using horses to pull its guns and they were just general motors ford they were just overwhelmed we should celebrate that we should celebrate the genius of ernie pyle from just down the road and i believe was dana indiana as he
079reported on the common soldier both in europe and in the pacific we should can and should study eisenhower as using his social emotional genius to cobble together a coalition of disparate nations in order to feed the greatest threat to humankind the nazis can and should think and talk about the lesson of the internment of japanese americans and again the shame on the supreme court of affirming that decision in a case called kormatsu we can and should celebrate jackie robinson and larry dobby jackie robinson integrating the national league with the brooklyn dodgers and larry dobby integrating the american league i believe with the cleveland indians we can and should as we turn to the study thorogood marshall and his work as a lawyer his role in supreme court has often eclipsed his role as a courageous
080lawyer working throughout the south fighting for integration marshall's work among others paved the way for so many including our own job judge robert wilkins of muncie northside who currently serves on the u.s court of appeals for the d.c circuit often said to be the second highest court in the land we can and should celebrate the heroism of general o p smith and lieutenant colonel don faith at chosin reservoir don faith grew up in washington indiana and received the medal of honor posthumously for his actions in the winter of 1950 and north korea we should can and should study martin luther king and rosa parks and montgomery the freedom summer where andrew goodman was trained right down the road at miami of ohio western college before he went in along with michael schwerner and james training
081to help register people to vote in that consequential summer of 1964 that resulted in the three of them being murdered and buried in an earthen dam by the clan turning to culture again we can and should explore the written work in the 1960s of james baldwin harper lee in indiana's own kirk vonnegut the music of motown marvin gaye smokey robinson the supremes and indiana's own jackson five the bakersfield sound with buck owens and merle haggard and the folk music coming out of new york and california with bob dylan and joan baez we can and should celebrate american ingenuity at work and space in the space program with the gemini and apollo missions gus grissom in the gemini missions and perishing on the landing pad to the challenger disaster disaster in 1986. in january of 1986
082on the challenger among the crew members was a man named ronald mcnair a black man who was born in south carolina in 1950 when jim crow was still very real to receive his phd at the mit uh and then become a crew member on the challenger where he perished alongside a social studies teacher named christa mcauliffe from new hampshire we can and should study the cold war's end in the late 1980s as the united states continued at that time to be a beacon to freedom freedom-seeking people all over the world with the iron curtain managing to fall peacefully which was no guarantee we could and should go on but time prevents it but this is an example of a broad perspective approach to social studies and english language arts again this is not critical race
083theory this is the ability to see the world from a number of different and unique perspectives as our students attend school they want and crave to understand the story of where we came from and that some of those people look like me they came from circumstances like me and they overcame them this is a lesson which should not and cannot be lost on our learners with that being said john meacham wrote a book last year and i'm almost done called the soul of america and in that he has a quote from william l shire william elshire was in germany just prior to the american involvement in the war shire was one of edward romero's contemporaries working for cbs radio this quote is from meacham's book william l shire who had covered nazi germany wrote on
084returning home i had seen these poisons grow into an ugly witch hunting and worse in the totalitarian lands abroad but i was not prepared to find them taking root in our own splendid democracy and i will tell you that my observation as a student of history is that we are we have some of those divisions occurring right now and and they are not healthy now going to turn to harper lee my favorite novel of all time is to kill a mockingbird harper lee wrote that in the late 50s i believe she's a native of alabama and her one of her protagonists in that story is a lawyer named atticus finch and atticus is a widow widower raising his two children jim and scout he's talking to scout after her first day of school and he
085says quote you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb into his skin and walk around in it this quote from atticus teaches scout that before you judge or disagree with some you should put yourself in their shoes even though you might disagree with it so the greatness of america from my perspective and i'm speaking for myself here is a mosaic of diversity that against high odds and threats both foreign and domestic has come together and thrived to be the longest surviving republic in the history of the world for it to continue we must work to walk around in each other's shoes to paraphrase atticus and to see both ourselves and each other from a perspective of grace and learning as that great industrialist malcolm ford
086said malcolm forbes said diversity is the art of thinking independently together we can and should and will as long as we sit in these seats to equip our learners with a thorough rich and diverse curriculum that enables them to enter the world with skills knowledge and dispositions to thrive as active citizens in a democratic and global society thank you [Applause] i apologize for the length of that uh we're on to our consent agenda um you have those items in front of you from the consent agenda are there any questions or changes to those items to approve a motion to approve second moved and seconded all those in favor signify by passed uh mr drum financial report uh yes thank you included in your board pack at this time with some fiscal health indicators these physical
087health indicators the state state of indiana put these together about three years ago to put them in front of school districts and school boards to make sure um that the school district is trending in the correct way so i had a chance with our forecast five uh data software we've received our information uh just recently we had some updated data so i just put the first slide up there thank you very much and really what they're just trying to show there is trend what you're looking there on the bottom is just your total cash balance of all your funds that's what's along the bottom there your total cash balance of all your funds and the green line is revenue the kind of orange line is expensive so it's always better to have more revenue than
088expenses and that's showing really the trend um from about 2017 through 2020 that you have there uh where that blue wave on the clear on the far right on the bottom that's about 27.9 million of cash balance and so that's a good thing and then the trend above it as you can see that spread between revenue and expenditures has been trending the correct way over the last 40 years so if we can just go to the next one okay that's just really that's just showing our approved budget appropriations over the last it shows that since 2012 the relevant years i would say is probably the last three years you have showing there 2020 shows about 6 million higher than 2021 that's because the department of local government finance had asked us to appropriate the transfer
089from education to operation we no longer have to do that that's why it went down to 50 million in for 2022 because it doesn't show that it's only 51 million was 51.8 million was our advertised budget for that particular the year we just did we'll go to the next slide number three i wanted to just show if i could the tax cap that happens here in the muncie community school district and what you see on the far right when you see those green we see that all those bars all those columns are growing over time they're in 2021 that's almost 12 million dollars of tax cap and just to rephrase that what does that mean when we talk about tax cap currently the way the law is homeowners receive a one have a one percent
090tax cap two percent for agriculture and other residential and all other commercial all other property including commercials a three percent tax cap and that's just something we live with that's something we live with here it's in statute as you can see the trend for muncie schools has gone higher so more property owners uh hit the cap so when that happens we receive less property taxes but that's is put in place by statute to benefit uh the taxpayers so that's i'm just showing those particular funds it primarily uh only impacts as you can see the operation fund that's why that's in green so go to the next one just wanted to show once again this is kind of a circuit breaker tax cap impact again i just wanted to show some school districts comparing us against
091some districts that might be similar size and i picked the athletic schools from our north central conference i highlighted muncie central muncie community schools on the far left there which shows uh we have a tax cap of almost 12 million dollars and the levy is clear up almost 23 million dollars so we lose that gap between that yellow dot and the bar right below it if you compare that to other schools beside it even if you can't see the fine print that's comparing anderson kokomo marion richmond logansport and lafayette and the one on the far right which is almost excuse the numbers for themselves tippecanoe school corporation that is the donut district around purdue university that is a very growing a very growing district and it just tries to show some comparison uh we're not
092alone in having tax caps of course but we're certainly one of the the largest tax cap districts in the state go the next one if we could we're almost done there uh i wanted to show here our overall fund balance from about three three of our main funds i took the education fund operation fund and rainy day fund and then we compared that spending compared our spending versus that cash balance and our number is a little over 45 so that's higher is better in other words you'd like to have a high cash balance and this is what it's showing that so if you look at logansport on the far right very hard to see they only have a three percent um three percent of a spending of their cash balance they don't have as much
093cash on hand for us at muncie we're certainly benefited because we did receive uh 12 million dollars from the state of indiana and we have put 9 million of that in the rainy day fund so it is still there still there with us and we're still paying back our state loan so we have trimmed it in the correct direction now if you go to the very last slide i took some of our this particular slide if you include all your entire funds it's it's like an ice cream cone layer of colors and flavors there but we only it's almost too messy with all those colors but we just did on the far right as you can see we're only comparing three funds for muncie schools that was education operation and rainy day and as you
094can see we have trended up we have trended up the last four years uh and there's that 45 percent uh cash balance again compared on our spending so once again our our fund balances have gone up and that is a good thing and you can see yes we cratered and muncie did not do so good back in that 2015 16 and 17 time frame but has gotten better since so trying to show trend as a fiscal health indicator that's one way of measuring it and i just wanted to give you that brief update i i just think you know building on something you said earlier part of our statute was to build a sustainable financial plan and i think you know certainly the administration should be applauded for for that effort um this is a
095really good report um there are all challenges we have a lot of needs so we can never have enough but um i i think dr k and brad and and uh and chuck and team have done a wonderful job of doing the best we can and delivering quality education and i think that's indicative with all the trends so i'll move approval the financial report mr mr president thank you thank you mr peter additional questions hi okay thank you um dialyn thank you president williams good evening everyone the indiana department of ed requires that school corporations adopt a policy uh for the district distribution of teacher appreciation grants it's also known as tag the tax policy has to be adopted every year the ideal he wants to ensure that this money goes to our well-deserving teachers
096last year mcs received about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars uh it came in november and we have twenty uh days to distribute the money uh the money was given in december um the money is given to all teachers that are effective or highly effective the highly effective teachers get 25 more than effective teachers so at this time i asked the board to approve the muncie community schools teacher appreciation grant policy ms phelps this looks like the similar thing we've done every year is that career we yes we have to do it every year i may so the funds that we receive it's from the um the state appropriation they have a separate line item and the state budget that goes for the teacher appreciation grant and so each year depending on adm they calculate
097for schools and they send those funds out so these really are it's a separate grant from the department that comes directly to muncie okay any questions approval been moved second move to the segment all those in favor signify bye both sides they will show that past uh this phelps do we expect that to occur at about the same time period from the departments um money goes straight to to brad's office and he has a formula that he uses in order to calculate the amount of money money each teacher receives does any other member any other member of the board wish to be heard before we'd move to media questions i just have something that i did not mention dylan um who does a great job in hr and our teacher how long has mr denniston's
098been here two years this is his third year third time here he's done it so thank you for being part of the hiring team for a teacher like that [Applause] oh sure so i i earlier today when during the public comments there was a question about the video and i just wanted to comment that we live stream the last board meeting we had a sub filling in unfortunately darren darren was out for a funeral i believe and so um you know that person had a little bit of struggle getting the video to tape with the line live stream so it was unfortunate that it didn't start quite as quickly but it was just a simple error for a sub filling in for us okay thank you um without any media questions okay i'll entertain a
099motion to adjourn so move moved and seconded all those favors signified by all right we'll stand adjourned thank you