001To 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. >> Call this meeting to order. If there is uh anyone present who has completed the registration to address the board paperwork and would like to offer public comment on any item or items on today's agenda, please step forward when your name is called. Seeing and hearing none, I would entertain a motion for the consent agenda. >> Mr. President, I move to approve agenda items 4.1 to 4.4, which includes the minutes from the July 28, 2025 board meeting, monthly claims, Extracurricular field trips, facility usage, contributions, gifts, and superintendent are presented. Second, >> it's been moved and seconded. All those in favor to approve agenda item 4.1 to 4.4
002as presented, signify by saying I. >> I. Those opposed same. >> Mr. President, can I ask one question on like the garden grant? >> The what grant? >> The garden grant. >> Oh, garden. Yes. Um, so who is our community partner with that? Do you know? >> Well, Andrew Showers works with who else? Uh, he's got the seeds from >> Purdue Extension has worked with them. They've got seeds from when they did the seed library thing at the at the library. >> Um, and then didn't you do something with bonnie plants as well? >> I don't know. There have been multiple partners, but what anything in particular? >> No, I just I actually looked up the application and kind of looked through it and and it mentioned having a community partner. I'm just >> Oh,
003I can't tell you on the grant exactly that. >> No, I have not reviewed that. >> I just know that lots of people have been interested in wanting to support it. And then are they doing anything in collaboration with the FFA or BAT or is this >> um I know the other day I was in our fax room because there are gremlins tearing apart our uh washer and uh we've got fresh basil in there that's out there. So the idea is they're interfacing with our packs to provide them some herbs and different pieces that they'll cook and use. >> And they're doing a project with fourth grade, aren't they? At Pleasant Hill. >> Yes. uh they had wanted to do it in the spring and they're what didn't work out so they're planning on doing
004it this year. >> Yeah, I think that's I >> where we'll go over and they'll teach the kids some things that have to do with gardening and so forth. >> I know our food service director Lauren is really looking forward to doing some things and and I'm glad to hear the facts thing is already happening because now that I know there's basil over there I maybe too. >> I just thought it was interesting because I was in a conversation last week with the director of the state and he had mentioned getting schools to do more garden type projects but they thought your growing seasons through through the summer when kids aren't here and that kind of being an obstacle on >> well so um Andrew showers was here with different students and in one case
005student and his grandma um consistently throughout the summer so if you go to they've got a log you Obviously, he was kind of coming in. He was doing the watering and then kind of tending to it. So, um he was there. I'd asked his wife out and she was there. She goes, "That's my husband's project." I That's on him. >> But I'd love to see I think we started to do something in the STEM room and I don't know if that's continued, but a lot of schools are putting in like a Viper green type of thing where they they use uh the ultraviolet lighting and things like that. And I I'm interested in that, too. But I'm happy with the garden. That one kind of on its own with Andrew's interest. >> Just getting started.
006>> Some of those unexpected things. >> Sorry about that. Mr. President, >> I apologize for not asking if there was any discussion. I would do better next time. All those in favor to approve agenda item 4.1 to 4.4 as presented signify by saying I. I. Those opposed same. Motion carries. Dr. Moran, >> I'm super disappointed that the paper's not here tonight because I want our elementary principles to please stand. >> Come on. And then I mean, you've seen their I read three results. They are fantastic. And that did not happen on its own. It happened with a lot of hard work. So, I'm going to put you on the spot first, Mrs. Mosley. We may not see another 100% pass rate again. So, we're gonna we're gonna revel in this one. What do you attribute
007to achieving that? Because it's really difficult when you have >> Absolutely. I think for us, one, we tightened up our core instruction, which is what happens, you know, our main instruction. And then last year, we restructured how what we refer to as tier 2 works in that what we call it as of this year is what I need time. So every student, regardless of who they are, receives 30 minutes, five times a week of instruction based off of their data and their scores in regards to what they need when it comes to literacy. So it made a big difference. >> Do you think your involvement in the literacy cadre was helpful? >> I do. I think uh one just having a network of other people in other buildings, other coaches and so forth. um along
008with the workshops and having our own coach that works with us um a and we track data differently. So I think all of those pieces together made a difference. >> So what about you Mrs. Park? >> Well I would I this particular cohort for us is a really large cohort. So this is 66 kids in third grade last year moving on into fourth grade this year. Um I think some of the same things. I think the tier 2 instruction looking at their data understanding where the kids are. Um we also what I want to say in this group um it has a very large I don't want to say this a larger population of uh special education students because it's such a big um cohort and you know we had some great successes of kids
009that have a significant amount of our special education students passed. So, that's a great thing moving forward because now we know in legislation these students that are not passing have to continue to take this test every year until they until they pass it. So, we work really hard on that. So, thank you. >> That's exciting. And I She also has the abundance of um students who whose first language is not English. >> Yes. >> And so those two >> subgroups are are ones that have the most challenges to pass. And I you had Excellent pass rate. So, really good job. >> All right, Mrs. McCoy, tell us what's your secret to success. >> Well, I would say that our teachers have really embraced understanding all of the science of reading research and a lot of
010professional development we've done with our staff has changed the practices we're using in the classroom. And so, like Mrs. Mosley said, all that data driven instruction is, you know, every decision we're making, we're we're putting something in place, we're watching that data, and if we're not getting the results we want, then we're making a we're doing and it trying something different. So, um, in fact, even this year, we're we're trying some new fluency activities that we hadn't done last year because we have two kids that didn't pass IER and we're like, we could have got those two kids. So, how do we figure that out? So, we're trying some new activities this year. We just actually did PE after school today with our second third grade. So, we're going to try some some new things
011and see if we get some results, too. So, excited. >> Yeah. Percentages tell one story, but then when you hear it's just two students, it's like, okay, we can do that. We can get those kids. I think they're do a round of applause. [Applause] I know it's been a lot of hard work. I've heard some of the conversations. I've heard recounts of some of the conversations, but I just did those came out this year and I was just ecstatic because we got to lift you up when we can. Things like that occur. Um, that's one thing the state got right was the science of reading. the record showed that. Um, next up on our agenda is I need to ask for your approval of the health and wellness grant proposal to the community foundation. We
012annually do this to um provide CPR training for staff. um mental health vouchers for students, um dental or or doctor appointment or eradication needs. The community uh foundation has been very generous to all three district districts and giving from that fund. So this year, Mrs. Swank is asking uh or including in her proposal a request for $11,51424. >> Mr. President, I move to approve agenda item 5.2 for the McGomery County Community Foundation Health and Wellness Grant proposal in the amount of $11,51424 as presented. >> Second. >> It has been moved and second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor to approve agenda item 5.2 as presented signify by saying I. I. >> Those opposed saying motion carries. >> Next up is a resolution to establish a supplemental payment. What does that mean? That means
013it's any payment made to a teacher outside of the teacher's contract. I'm a little puzzled why we need a resolution when we already have a policy that does this, but we follow the rules. So it's basically saying that um when we go to the bargaining table that we already we know that there are going to be stipens paid for different things such as um professional development during the summertime. Um any extra work like a a middle school language arts department that needs to work on curriculum adoption and updating their alignment of their maps, things like that. Um, so it gives us the authority to say we're going to hold back some funds so that we still have items to bargain with. They're these supplemental payments are not bargainable. But we're always going to talk to
014our teachers association when we have um wide sweeping things like um the special education teaching in July. That was a lot of money. That was mostly grant money, but still it was money that that we spent. So I would would have been Mrs. Aian at the time because Mrs. Rogers is our now our co-president instead of Mrs. Bell this year. So she you'll be sitting here at some of the meetings. She didn't just take a send interest to Dory. She's here she's here in official capacity. So really it's just a resolution saying that we have the authority to make supplemental payments and that we've discussed it with our association. >> Mr. Mr. President, I move to approve agenda item 5.3 to approve the resolution to establishing payment as presented. >> Been moved and second. Any
015discussion? >> Is there a is there a dollar amount cap that this pertains to or is it just whatever the superintendent feels? >> The the policy does say at the superintendent's uh discretion, but also says in the uh academic needs of students. So these aren't things like coaching stipens beyond the contracting they are meant for that they have to be in the they have to relate to the CP so >> questions been called all those in favor to approve agenda item 5.3 as presented signify by saying I >> I posted saying motion carries >> Mrs. Nice. I believe you're up. >> It's my turn again. Um I would like to ask the board for approval to advertise the 2026 budget advertisement for all funds as presented. >> Mr. President, I move to approve agenda item
0165.5 for the 2026 budget advertisement for all funds as presented. Second. >> It has been moved and second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor to approve agenda item 5.5 as presented signify by saying I. I oppose saying advertising budget. >> Dr. Thor. >> Yep. Next, uh just a quick update on the infamous solar field at Hill Elementary. It is in working order as we speak. Um it has been for probably last three or four weeks. We've been working performance services on um in a number on to rebate us what was lost and we've come to a pretty good number. Pretty excited about that. They were able to take what Som has been able to produce in this time span compare it and then that's what they're going to provide us in funds. So
017we're working on that to get a payment schedule set up with them. But overall um re-engineered things seem to be in working order and we're grateful that performance services follow through. >> How long are you thinking to back two weeks. >> that's what he told us. >> Steve just emailed the night >> $54,88. >> We did verify. Katie came in and we looked at usage at summer usage at Pleasantville and the amount the difference and these amounts are right on where it was like $36 at summer for their month. It was $3 to $5,000. So I I think this is more than fair. They didn't try to skin us out of any money. So >> I'm just grateful they held true to their word and that's something I can respect and yeah moving forward. So
018grateful and the project as a whole was all warranted. Correct. >> Yes. Okay. >> And lastly, >> Dr. We have um a proposal here that Mrs. Vansig worked on for the high school. It's a grant through the drug free McGomery County initiative um through the opioid settlement and it will create a course for synthetic vaping, right? It's not really what it boils down to. I can't remember what START or SMART stands for, but synthetic something. But anyway, this group has had some great success in West Lafayette um that would come in and work with our our students uh who have been offenders of such thing and also do some precautionary or some preventative work too. Um they have other things that they offer as well. So this grant will be a nice way to see
019what they have to offer and we may be available to do some more work with them at a later date. So asking you to approve the grant in the amount of $8,890. Mr. President, I move to approve agenda item 6.1 for the approval of free county 8,890 as second. >> It's been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor to approve agenda item 6.1 signify by saying I. I. Those oppos. Carries. My golly. getting off into that. Uh we'll get started. Mrs. Rogers, anything you want to add from the NMTA? >> Uh not at this time, sir. >> Thank you. Uh Mr. Guthrie. >> Um let's see here. First off, kudos to our elementary um principles, uh teachers, everyone that worked on that. I I got the opportunity to have a third
020grader last year. Um you kind of get to see some of that. It's just it's impressive. Um maybe a a board meeting ahead of it. Um but I figure we may as well mention it since we approved the field trip. Got our FFA going to World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin for the FFA dairy judges. Really excited uh for Kid Ireland and Nancy Bell to get a chance to go take them out there and do that. Uh so that'll be coming up here at the end of September. Um tailgates are back so we'll be doing that this Friday. We're really excited to do that. I really really appreciate both Shrader and everything she does with my last minute request and putting up with those things um because that's truly what they are. Um at the
021high school we've really been focusing on our department goals. We've now established quarterly department goals for all of our departments as we will be managing monitoring that and how we're moving uh towards achieving those successes uh that we hope to achieve. Uh we met today with our reen uh visit um Dr. Moran, Dr. thought Vanquake and I um as we begin looking at exploring expanding our Google College credit opportunities um as well as finding more and more uh pathways and avenues to increase our infrastructure so we're getting more kids uh earning their Indiana college core. Um let's see here from there we got the exciting accountability webinar last week and we're we're digging in and figuring it all out and thankfully the state will let us know on January 1 how we'll be graded this
022year. So, that's exciting. Um, and then, uh, September 4th, we've got our annual senior trip to Camp Roie. Really excited to kick things off with that. Then, high school open house. September 5th at 5:30, the principal found a way to make sure that the open house happens while he's out cooking food. So, it's a good situation. >> Good man, Mr. Moore. >> It's been a good start. um a lot of the projects that happen, all the paintings, some of the things we did in our uh D hallway, get some pictures up of kids activities. So, as parents come in, they can kind of see a lot of stuff the kids are involved in. Some of those projects turned out really well, which is nice. And and Elizabeth Weldon did a great job getting the building
023ready for school. Ticked off all our school safety stuff. Drills, first round of drills have gone pretty well. Kids have responded. We're in kind of year two of re-implementing the uh standard response protocol, but kids kids are starting to become ingrained with it. That's a good thing. Fall sports are are doing really well. A lot high level participation. I'd say an increase from last year, which is always great. Uh open house was a success for us. Um which was a good to see some folks in in the building. And then as John said, letter grades and what we can do with it. Um appreciate he and Brooke being gay some time. last week to sit down as as we're looking at. There's lots of intricacies to it and high school credits and when you take
024classes and what you can call things. So, um they've got a little different expertise on how that all intertwines from that sixth grade to 12th grade. So, we got some headway. I think we're in front of some things. So, it's always good to work with them. >> It'd be such a difficult process if we didn't work well in middle school. It's already going to be difficult, but uh really really appreciate having Thank you. Uh Mrs. McCoy, >> our hearing has been off to a great start as well. Um we've got our intervention groups are started. We're doing our first round of of big data meetings to look and see if there's any new data we've collected so far this school year. That just gives us some good starting points of where our students are at.
025Um and then um I kind of want to give a little plug to an idea that started with Dr. earlier this year um as we were talking about our great I read pass rates we really wanted to make sure that our community um was getting involved in our district push to um increase our students literacy skills and so we're excited that our three elementaryaries have partnered up and on September 19th we are doing a Friday night lights and literacy before the home football game from 6:00 to 7. And so we're using our um one of our title one events that we do every year. Uh we're going to be sponsoring a bunch of tailgating activities for students and their families to come and um learn some things that they can do at home to help
026develop their literacy skills. The Lynon Library is going to be there helping people get signed up for library cards if they would like to do that. Um we're doing some games and activities and then u people that participate in that um student and their families will be admitted into the football game that night for free. So, we're trying to get all of our elementary folks out there and then um at some point during the game, uh we're going to get all the North staff out on the field to make a tunnel and recognize all those students that participated and uh their families as well to let them know um while we're competing against we vote for football that night. We also want to say that in Montgomery County, academics are important to us as well.
027So, um we're going to have it's not going out yet. I know it's coming out soon. I think Mrs. Thompson will be pushing some stuff out on social media, but first time we've done something something like that at a sporting event, but we're excited. We're hoping to make it work for football and then maybe give it a try again at basketball time to see if we can do another round. So, >> Mrs. Mosley, >> a lot of the same things that Chris said, we're excited about the literacy night and we've had a great start. I think the consensus around my building, everybody, whether you're staff, parent, student, is that this has probably been the smoothest, easiest start that we've had in years. And I don't know if it's because we're building on the momentum that
028we ended the year with and just the excitement about um you know our literacy and so forth but you know we've been delving into the new curriculum that we're using with open port and learning that and understanding it. I will tell you that the students have been very excited about some of the texts that we're using and it it's just it's encouraging. So that's a fun thing that we're doing and um we're just off to a good start. >> Mrs. to get >> I I would say the same. I would say that we're our our teachers are coming in excited about the new reading curriculum and talking about it. We've um we've gone through our first data meetings um collecting some of that progress monitoring that you do right at the beginning of the year.
029So like we literally are like starting off just like we ended like there's no there was no 10 weeks off. Um, and I think all the activities are starting. So for us, ensemble starts this week. I mean, there's lots of things that are kicking off. It's like layers of how you start. You know, everything starts slow and then everything picks up. Um, we do have one thing coming to summer thanks to the Waynetown Fish Fry. The final four fan jam is coming on the 12th. We they partnered with us because they're coming to the Wingtown Fish Fry, so they wanted a school to partner with. Um, This is all about literacy. Um, so they're they're bringing in the Wabash College basketball team to read to third grade. They're specifically kind of targeted third grade and
030some of the things that they'll give to them, but all of our kids will be able to see the setup. So, if you want something to do on September 12th, come on out to shoot a few hoops on the side part of elementary. We're excited about that. >> Very good. Thank you, Mr. program that you want to add? >> Uh, just a couple quick thank yous. One, Chris Cogill, who's a local owner operator of CF Fabricating, has been tremendous helping us this summer with soccer scoreboards. He helped us do a lot of fab work behind the scenes that no one knows about, but I'm really grateful for that. He's also served on our welding advisory board, and he's also helped sub in the absence of our welding teacher. So, I want to give that great
031guy credit. I know Mr. Zachary's helped in many different roadways, so thank you. And I know Mr. Shepherd, you've been approached a few times. So, thank you for your support of our all of our schools, but also when time of need comes, you guys are willing to step up. Uh, Mr. Kane, thank you to you and your family for uh the great fourth grade field trip. Is beautiful outside >> and the lunches were great. >> Yeah, I wish I could say I didn't weather. >> Yeah, good management as I heard earlier, so that's good. But no, that was a great day. It was always fun to go out there. It's one of my favorite events of the year, but it's turnkey. And the the presenters that day were sharp. They were really, really good. And
032it was nice not to see those hover bees just swarming all over the place. They were gone. I don't know how you highly effective. So, thank you. >> But no, great start and a great start for a great lady this year. And uh we got some fun things in store to surprise Dr. Moran. So, I'm grateful for that. >> Another heart attack. need more schools. >> Mr. Bulland, >> uh just welcome back to everyone and congratulations and thank you all uh schools. I read scores and it's nice to hear the solar resolution >> Mr. Thank you. I was going to say those future readers will make the middle school and high school life so much better. So, thank you for all your hard work and um hope everybody has a wonderful fall and because fall
033break will be here before Mr. Zachary. Um I just Yeah, I thank the elementary schools for the willingness to try new things with the literacy and I think it's pretty neat to do this stuff that you guys are doing with football. That's pretty cool to kind of just help promote what good things is going on. We got a lot of the community there, you know. So, uh, yeah. Well, thank you. I appreciate you guys hard work. >> Hey, and that's a nod to you and M America for allowing them to come over and do that. >> I just said yes. >> And not have to figure out the rest, >> not this management thing, being a good man. Well, there's a lot of varsity coaches involved and those varsity coaches will be taking their teams
034to the school to amp up that week and reading with athletes or whoever. So, it's it's a real true district partnership, but I'm really proud of the work that's going to happen and the celebration we can explore on. So, >> Mr. Kane, >> thank you everybody. And I like everybody said, I get to I get to meet every fourth grader that lives in this county and the north kids, they always float right from the top. So, no, we had a good time. Thank you everybody. >> Welcome back. Congratulations to all you guys and all the staff and aids. Everybody, even the parents, I'm sure he involved. So, kudos to you for orchestrating that. Come back. That's awesome. Welcome back and see what the year I've said every single >> I agree to that. Thanks for
035coming in so early tonight. We appreciate it. Thank you for all you >> That's where most of my girls >> I would like to donate for the tail. Okay. >> But you need to tell me what you want. If you want burgers again or something [Music] and then um what I made a little teacher appreciation week I don't have time I know so I just have to do a little meet every my teacher This is the best way to do it. So I told I told her about my go. You got to do it this way. She goes, "Okay, I can make meles quick." >> Absolutely. It's a parameter.