001you're going to do better uh the next three gonna kind of carry you through that. Uh and then the last goal, [clears throat] probably our most ambitious uh to outperform the state average on statewide tests for the appropriate grade level within the next two years. Uh we originally said that it was three years, so now it's two. We are going along there. I'm going to talk about that, but we have not surpassed the state average yet with our total student population. Here's the trends over the last three years against the SAT. Uh you can see the years there and how we've done compared to not read the whole graph to you but uh you can see we're right at those uh state levels just below it in a lot of cases. Um and what we
002found by setting that goal here's the actual breakdown of what those bar graphs what those are coming from right here in case you're more of a numbers thing. Uh you can see like right here our average language score was 469. state average this last year was 487. Uh the thing we've noticed as we've been working with that over the last four years I can see math too is that moving target of the state score is probably not a great thing to be measuring ourselves against because it doesn't always reflect the work we have done or haven't done. Uh, so what we found is it's much better to go um over a growth model like looking at this class when they were on the PSAT versus the SAT. What do they get better at? What do
003they not get better at? Um, here's just another breakdown look of that of where we're at in this last year. Um, of of those that met both of the ELA and math goal, we actually did move in the right direction by 1%. Um, and we are when it says down by 2%, that's actually a good thing. You want that number to be lower. That didn't meet any either of the goal. Uh that's actually moving in the right direction, too. I just wish these percentage numbers were larger, but we're not there yet. Um I could go back to that if you have questions, but I want to talk about that growth model piece of it. These are just notes for math department. I had the English department in there also, but I didn't want to be
004here all night. If you do want to talk English, we can talk afterwards, too. That works for me. So what we found was uh students that are actually in our building in the brick and mortar building uh the average was a 460 on the state average was uh 456. So you found that the things we are doing in person are really working well for our kids as far as getting us over that state average. That was encouraging to see that kind of growth uh for the work we were putting in uh in person. We saw an increase of students who were proficient in all four of the subtopics that SAT is broken down into. uh the biggest growth uh being like I said their advanced math and again that's comparing what they did as sophomores
005in the PSAT to what they did as juniors in the SAT uh not necessarily the class of 2024 versus or 25 versus 26 but actually what they did on similar tests over the course of their time. Uh we did ask the staff schoolwide to focus on problem solving and data analysis as one of the subtopics and our brick and mortar students again went from having 43% to 50 this year. Uh so that did show uh some good growth uh in what they did as sophomores versus what they did as juniors. Uh and then back there we did with our PLC's this year we targeted uh some mobile students and incorporated weekly SAT prep questions into the classes. What we found was uh we were telling kids, hey this is be on this if you like
006the SAT, this will be what you'll see, but we weren't actually giving them the real questions. So familiarity with how they ask the question, how to break that down was a big factor for us uh this year. Uh, and that helped. Uh, if you see that right there with those bubble kits, we saw 46% uh, pass on that the girls at an average of 59 points uh, on on that test, which is great. Uh, before I go to I learn, any questions about SAT stuff? Cool. I learned this was some really cool data that we saw out of our seventh grade. Uh, this is Mr. B's class specifically. uh when they finished sixth grade, here's how they were uh on their uh state compared to the state. Uh and then we saw that jump into
007where they were when they took I learn here just a couple of weeks ago. Um so we did move a lot closer to state moved back toward us a little bit, but um that was a great great one-year growth. And that's part of the discouraging fact when you talk about tests you're taking as a junior, test you're taking as an eighth grader is there's a lot of foundational work that happens at all the other levels. Um that those gaps are hard to uh close sometimes, but we're doing some great work with how they focus that this year. And you can see that right here. Um these numbers all going in the right direction because this approaching number that is even larger than the 20, we didn't have any backing up out of the green and
008yellow. we were pulling people out of this well below grade up into approaching. So, very happy with how our seventh grade data is trending. Uh, a couple of academic celebrations uh before we turn it over for CTA uh you guys might have seen up here. We do have another state champion uh team. I told them to enjoy their Wednesday night and not uh come. They said I can't hold up their banner, which is I got myself. Okay. Uh so, we do have another banner. You guys probably saw uh the three we already have hanging in the front. So now we have to redesign our front. We had the interdisciplinary if you haven't heard uh team that won state uh convincingly uh that was made up. We had a lot of quality teams this year. Uh
009we were actually able to take the interdisiplinary here straight state trophy and also we had an English team runnerup. Uh unfortunately they were leading through the first 24 questions. They were in first place 24 out of 25 questions. they missed the 25th question and that put them into a tiebreaker scenario where they end up in fifth place but a very very strong showing from our English department uh team as well. So those are some great uh celebrations we had there and um I wanted to just update you on that graduation piece. Uh last year we approved starting uh the Latin honor system uh for honoring our students graduating with high GPA uh starting with this graduating class. We're going to be able to honor 47 students from the class of 2025 with those Latin honors.
010The highest being sumakumi which is a 4.0 or above. We actually have 21 students in the graduating class that are earning a 4.0 or above uh in their GPA which I think is phenomenal. uh magnum at second level 375 399. We have 12 kids getting that honor and then we have 14 kids getting that kumlady honor which a 354 about 35 374 uh and those will be signified with uh some bins that they'll be able to wear on their sash. Stole stole is the word stole uh at graduation. So we're very excited about that. Um and I think it speaks to the testament of the academic competitiveness that they have in this class which is why we end up with valictorians as well. But you can tell that the rest of these were not the
011rest of the 40 were not far behind with that. So with all that, I'm going to give this in and out mic to Carrie Young, our lead CTE teacher, and she CTV update that you guys had asked. Good question. All right. It's not working. Okay. Can I get the next slide, please? Uh, one second. Oh, I need to jump to the other one. I apologize. We're jumping around a little bit. That was all that I had. That was the last of that that slide deck. Can you go to the top of the presentation? No, that's not me. No, that's all. I guess while we're waiting, I would like to say I have been so excited to take this role on this year. Um, I feel like the CTE department has had some big growth and
012I'm really excited to see the steps that we're going to take next year and in the future. Um, I will say that coming from an English background and going into the CTE world, it has been a completely different ball game. I have so much appreciation for our guidance counselors and our administration because oh my there is a lot of rules and legislation that goes into CTE that I was not aware of and did not have a complete grasp of. So kudos to all those people for making these be easier to plug me in or share it with you. Yeah, if you got that. Give me one sec. One second. Cara, tomorrow Friday class 7 o'clock right here. The NSA NSA's guide to winning. Try it now, Cara. Okay. So, to start us off, I wanted
013to review all of our pathway programs that we offer here at Lakeland. So, I will piggyback off of what Jason said. We have a great deal more pathway options than our local schools. Um, and we have a wide variety agriculture, biomedical science. We are the only school in the area that offers that and it's one of our largest programs. It does an amazing job of preparing students to go into that medical field. We offer three different pathways in business. Civic arts, we have four different options. Um, our construction trades program, we are also one of the only ones in the area that still remains. The other largest one is Impact in Kendville. And so I think it's a nice talking point that we can as our own school support our own construction transfer program when
014at impact it's 12 schools supporting that program. Um our newer additions would be our dental careers and our vet career programs. We also have education professions and engineering. Upcoming we have a returning pathway of entrepreneurship. We have a lot of excited students who will be joining that class next year. And then upcoming we are looking at um reintroducing early childhood education and then an advanced manufacturing pathway as well. So here is a breakdown of our program numbers and it is a three-year comparison so you can kind of see the es and flows of the programs from the 23 24 this school year and next school year. um to note big one um again as I mentioned before biomedical science is a huge program for us. We have a lot of students enrolled in that also
015these are enrollment numbers and with that our guidance department tracks then how the pathway numbers actually come out. So for each of these pathways, um the numbers do look lower, but these this is an accurate representation of how many students we have in each of those classes. Um for our dental careers and our vet careers, it's exciting to see that those are staying steady. We're holding our own in those programs as they're in their infancy. Um you can see off to the right the breakdown of our civic arts and how those individual numbers look. And then also in here is our workbased learning. So as diploma requirements change and we have our new diploma coming out with our incoming freshmen. It will be more and more important for us to have really strong industry partnerships
016and have strong workbased learning. And over the last two school years or this year and for next year, we have really good numbers. So that's really exciting to see that we're trending the right way and being able to be prepared for those changes in the future. Does anybody have any questions about these numbers? I know that we've had some inquiries from other schools. Yeah, that's on the next slide. Y I'm sorry. No, you're good. I just Okay, so here's just kind of how things have gone this year for us. Our construction trades program, um, it was a bit of a year for them. Uh, at the beginning of the year, we found out that the house that we had secured at the end of last year did not pass a soil test, so it we
017couldn't build there. So, Mr. Troyer had to find new alternatives. And luckily our athletic department said, "Hey, we've got some work that needs done." So the class started by con um constructing two sheds. They made uh those for the baseball and softball fields and then they made two mobile ticket moves. And then so those took care of the program during the fall. And then we also decided to partner up with Habitat for Humanity here in the range. And when uh they were looking for a partner, we knew it was going to be a little bit later of a start. We were hoping to have the project started in like the November time frame. Unfortunately, we had some delays with securing contractors and permits. And then when we finally had all those things happened, cold weather
018hit and then it got too cold for them to be able to break ground or pour concrete. So, they actually weren't able to start building the house until mid-March essentially. And now our students, they have 19 students in the program and they have gotten it from concrete to walls and they've installed windows, roofing, and siding as of this week. So in a two-month time period, 19 students have made so much progress and we're super proud of how they've been patient and understanding that this isn't a normal year for us. Um, we do have the house secured for next year, which is really exciting. and they've already signed their we have their deposit and they're hoping to break ground in June. So, they should be able to hit the ground running um next year as soon
019as school starts. For this year's Habitat House, we do have an open house from noon to 2:00 p.m. on the 17th. So, if you would like to see that, um you can go check it out. It's on It just slipped my mind. I think Spring Street maybe. Thank you. [laughter] Um for our dental program, we're really excited to see that those numbers are staying consistent. Um here's a really excitement exciting piece. We uh actually the LRA family dentistry had our students attend the Field Dreams Career Expo. And while we were there, all three schools from the county also attended and students from Western Prairie were like, "Whoa, this is a super cool program. I want to be a part of this. And we actually had a student from Westview come do a shadow day, check
020out the program, and he said, I want to do this. This is what I want to do. And so we made arrangements so he can be part of the program next year. So we're super excited to have a West enrolled in that for next year. Um, from the vet program, again, it's only year two and we are staying strong with those numbers. And Lrange Vet Clinic has been an amazing industry partner for us. Dr. Hillary and her crew have been amazing to work with. So, kudos to them um for making it a really easy process for us. We have also received contacts from a Westview parent. Uh their student is not old enough. They're only an incoming freshman, so we can't enroll them yet in the program, but they wanted details, wanted information because they're
021like, "This is such a cool program. I want my child to have the opportunity to be a part of it." Um, workbased learning, as I mentioned earlier, we're excited to see growth in that form. We've really focused on building partnerships this year because we know as the new diploma comes out uh in those seals, it requires in some of them at least 150 hours of work-based learning. So, we will be competing with those industry partners in the county. So we have to make sure we have those really strong partnerships so that our students get those opportunities. Um we've made really cool updates to the process for students this year. We implemented Homebase app which is they utilize this app on their phone and other companies actually use it as an HR tool and it's really
022nice. Students are able to check in and out of their internships and so it acts as a time clock for them. So we have the documentation and it gives us GPS location. go. It helps with accountability for students and safety issues. So, if something would ever happen to a student, we would know where their last location was. Um, our workbased learning coordinator came up with a disciplinary form that it would be very similar to like a strike form that you would see from an employer. So, if there's ever an interaction in the classroom or with their uh internship site, they go through a strike policy form just like they would in a review. And it's been a really nice way for students to self-reflect. On Wednesdays when we have those two-hour delay days, they have
023workshop Wednesdays. They learn how to write resumeumés, do mock interviews, all of those kind of things. And then we've switched up our reflection and evaluation process so it's more inclusive for both employers and students so that we can get really good feedback on what their ideas and the quality of those internships. Nice. Our big exciting piece for workbased learning is the student chamber launched this year. Dr. Blaze is on that board and has been instrumental in helping us get to this point. Uh these internships are with chamber members. It is run by the Lrange County Chamber of Commerce and up to 10 students from each school corporation throughout the county are able to apply each year. And to start off, we had four students who went through the entire application process and were accepted for
024next school year. Um, we've taken a little bit different approach to promoting CTE. We've made some hallway graphics um to kind of explain what pathways are and keep career clusters and some of that information in front of our students so that they're thinking about it more frequently. our guidance department at the like the eighth grade freshman level has started implementing four-year plans and our students really know and understand what their options are. We had a really strong freshman orientation this year. I think we had was only maybe 10 people show up at those events and we made sure there was a high CTE focus and pathway focus because we know with those seals and the changes in the diploma that CTE is going to play a larger role for them. Um, when it came to
025scheduling, we went into the classrooms and did presentations so that students again knew what their options were and felt comfortable in making those choices and we did that for all grade levels um and then actually helped them through the scheduling process. And then um with those events, we made those program info sheets which is what I passed out to you guys at the beginning so that each um program has its own one-page little flyer that students In case anybody who would want to see more about our programs can get like a quick little overview. Um, next year we are planning on doing a CTE program of the month. So highlighting each one of our pathway programs throughout the school year, giving it a shout out and having associated activities. Um, in February it is National
026CTE month. So we would like to recognize that with the CTE week. And then um, we are going to do a little crossover curricular um collaboration with our math and science departments where we show kids how because we all hear when am I ever going to use this and we know as adults we actually use those skills that kids don't always see that. So we are going to have days where maybe um Mr. Mr. Troyer goes into a math class, maybe geometry, and talks about angles and measurements and those type of things and shows, hey, I literally use these skills every day in my career. Another exciting part for us from the CTE perspective has been the career coaching grant through. Um, big takeaways for this have been the agilities, which uh agilities are essentially
027a career um inventory like a yeah career interest inventory. But one nice thing about this is it shows students their strengths and interest, but it doesn't say this is who you are. It shows you what you're good at and says these are ways you can grow or develop those strengths to be what you want to be. So has this really nice and growth mindset component to it. Uh, one nice thing about this is all their curriculum and the resources are completely free and uh, they're created by teachers. So, they're very easy to use resources and it gives our students the opportunity to use these career explorer tools to find out, hey, this is what how I can apply my life's interest and my strengths into a future career. It helps them explore post-secary education options
028and it gives us a K through 12 curriculum. So we can talk to our students and use the same language all the way through. So if I say hey you activated your serving and carrying agility all your students all the way through can know and understand that which is huge. um to grow on the things that we have gained from this grant. Next year we are going to have an agility or a Laker launch week where we have a pool week um at the end of semester 1 where we focus on career and college and career exploration activities having career fairs and those opportunities for our students. And then we would like to increase our experiential activities. So getting our students to some of those colleges, trade schools, two-year you know, associate programs and some
029of our local employers. So maybe to Bluegate or some of our industry partners like Exos or Niscoco so that they can see what opportunities are here for them in the branch county and surrounding. Another exciting thing that's uh hopefully going to happen for us for the 26 27 school year is for uh our seventh and eighth graders. This would be a Patterson College and Career Ready Labs. So these are this curriculum offers students handson learning experience with all 16 career clusters. So they get to try out different activities in all different fields. Um the pictures from below are ones that I found online from students in other skill or from other schools. So they have a vet program, they have electrical, construction, there is criminology, all kinds, anything that you could think of, barbering, culinary
030school. So our students before they enter high school can know what their interests are and what they really want to pursue when they get to high school. Uh right now, as you can see the rendering, that is the design that we have for this space. Um, Alexis and I are both working on securing grant funded funding to make this happen and industry sponsorship. And our final slide is about the learn to work program. So we have been working very closely with Westview and Prairie Heights to launch a advanced manufacturing pathway. We know that in our county, manufacturing is our largest employer and we don't have a pathway that pro provides career readiness for those students. So, it's really important that we secure something like that. Our plan is to locate this new advanced manufacturing classroom
031at LIS in what was the former shop rooms. Um, the pathway would be advanced manufacturing industrial maintenance technician electrical. It's big fancy term, but students would be getting industrial maintenance and that really electrical heavy focus in that area that they could take to any type of manufacturing setting. We have industry partnerships with Niscoco and Exos and we are very actively working to get our grant submitted for this by tomorrow. That's all I have. So if anybody has any questions, I have a question actually. Okay. Um so we have we have a lot of good things happening. So obviously we have education kids. We have different things in our community that these kids can come back to. I know we are in K through 12 education, but what is our plan to engage the kids when
032they leave for college to realize the amount of money they save either from the classes or even from a teaching perspective where to get them back in our building? So, one thing that Jason and I recently talked about um is working on collecting alumni information so that we can go back to students and have them and then being able to use those resources to bring them back as guest speakers, as visitors and be in that constant contact so that we can have them be part of our CTE day in these curriculum classes and have them be a linker for life. All right, I'm up with Lakeland by the Loopers. Here there is the slide. You will see we had a change of I believe it's only three students this time around. Um I can't see
033my numbers because they're too small on my phone. uh we landed at 1436 for this past month. So you can see the changes in where they occurred in our numbers. That puts us down 67 students from the 2324 school year. Next month at the for the end of year report I will be telling you our estimates for next year and that brings us to treasures report I believe [laughter] I know there's a lot of red um correct after month left than half. All right. Um so we are at 33% of the year at the end of April. Um we have collected for our ED fund 4,492,000 or 33.97% of our revenue budget the year. The operations fund we have collected only 421,500 um which is 58%. Um just a reminder uh taxes make up the
034property taxes make up a huge portion of our operations fund and those are only given to us in June and December. So collection ended Monday I believe for property taxes. So u we should see a check hopefully in June is when they should see that the number should be a lot better um in July for us. Okay. And then expenditure wise um year to date we've spent 4,545,000 in the end fund or 29.65% of the expenditure budget or 34.4% of the revenue fund. So just a little over that 33% kind of target. Um and then in the operations fund we spent 30.4% of the expenditure budget or 34.6% 6%. So, we're just a little over there. So, so we're at there. And then um I continued with the um the graphs where you you kind
035of see the breakdown of where we're at. So, our ED fund, but don't really see a lot of movement within the ED fund from month to month. You know, it's most mostly salaries and benefits um supplies in there, too. Um, and then on your sheet you will see last year's year-to- date number so you can kind of see requested that threw that in. Um, so you can kind of see where we're at. Um, I think important on this point out the percentage for salaries. Yeah, that is you're right. So yeah, our mandate um currently is 62% of salary and benefits must be spent um from the education fund and that is going up to 65 for the next um budget year. So we are at 64% and 25%. So with that with the salary and
036benefits there we're hitting those numbers well. And then our operations fund. Um this one, you know, mostly heavy again on salary and benefits. People are expensive. Um and then um supplies and equipment, utilities, things like that are, you know, also up there. So um you can see where those numbers are too. Yeah. Do you have any questions? Um I think I did make a note that last year um we were kind of high on repairs um at this point in time and that was because we started gym project um payments coming out for that at this point. So all right any questions for me. All right. So next item school board president's report. Uh, I just have a couple things. First, uh, going along with the academic team, it was awesome to see a pretty
037good community turnout on Saturday night as they came back into town with fire trucks. So, something cool, something different to be a part of. Um, as we celebrated their success and then the other thing is we are winding down the year. So, we know everyone's a little tired, but just finished strong. So, we appreciate everything you guys have done this year. All right, so new business. We have first reading of the elementary handbook. all the changes to the hand in your packets. So, we did have those changes available. Um, I do not have those here. So policy Monday accurate all the different departments of that Any other questions? We have a motion. So move. No, we're gonna We're going to wave the second. Yeah, I can't talk. Okay. Um, I'll make a motion to wave
038the second reading. Second. Sue seconds. All in favor? Motion carries. The mic is going everybody else. All right. So now we have the junior senior high handbook. Uh all the changes are highlighted in that. Uh there are two inaccuracies that fix. One of them is page numbers. Make sure they match everything. And two is uh a letter we sent out from every year on it back in there. It's the same letter. Uh but other things that change people's names. Thank you. We also uh changed the academic honors shirt policy that's uh it was kind of confusing. You were earning it over the course of a calendar year. Like you had spring semester, freshman year, and fall of your sophomore year, which is made a lot simpler. If you're on the high roll one semester, you
039get the shirt in two semesters in a row or your academic letter. Much simpler. Kids who earn the high roll this semester will get started by hitting your academics. We changed that in there. Uh we also changed the half day attendance policy to match spoiler the athletic handbook from half day four periods of the day. Um it was getting confusing on the 11:35 is that a half day or is it 11:40? So full periods much easier on the secretary say yes. No. Uh, and the attendants took out all the words that you just put in the table to explain to our much simpler, less likely. All right. You guys want to move forward or do we want to look at waiting secondary? All right. So, we got Shelly with the second, Sue with the first
040motion. All in favor? Motion carries. Athletic handbook with Rain Yoder. Uh we just have two changes in the athletic handbook. The first one we had a section on ticket prices that said students that are not participating athletic events in our respective pay to go to that event. Uh that changed this year when we got a sponsor to cover student admissions the games. So we're just changing that section to reflect that. So it says they will be permitted to attend athletic events free of charge courtesy of athletic department sponsors. This is currently sponsored by travel and they are reviewing again for next year. We just found out this this week. So that's great. Um we do have to get all sports passes for them still and they're supposed to present that when they get there. So
041you can tell they're actually student that comes up sometimes. You can always tell the students that are trying to get in just looking down might not be like so that's one change. Uh the other one Jason already mentioned um we tried to get a little bit more aggressive in supporting the attendance goals that the school has. Uh it's been a focus for the for the corporation and for the high school as a whole. And we already had a rule that said you're supposed to be at school for half the day in order to uh compete in practices or games at night. Uh we we were able to come up with a report with the help of K Davis at Tech. Um, so we run that report every afternoon. We can check if our students are
042actually all our athletes are actually meeting that requirement. Um, and then we share that with the coaches so that the coaches know who's allowed to participate that night and who's not. Um, and it's it's actually worked pretty good. We've got pretty good. It got the attention of the kids the first few weeks. We started checking that. Um, and we did have several kids coming down saying, "Well, I got here 1150 or you know I came in right so we just wanted to clean that up instead of saying a half we want to make it four periods so it's very easy to tell or not the only changes full yeah full hour I would like to make a motion to Wave to second reading. Have car with a second. All in favor? Motion carries. All right.
043Now we have the administrative. I'm loud. I can talk loud. Um I'm going to ask you to wave the first reading. I just wanted you guys to review this. Um this is a first for Lakeland. We haven't had an administrative handbook. Um so I think some of the administrative team to review it and see what their thoughts um any questions they may have and then we'll bring that in in front of the board next month along with any salary changes for the coincide. Okay, thank you. athletic funds for anybody. Um I think you have this document hopefully printed out. But we have a couple of positions that weren't filled this year. Uh coaching sings that were already on the books and in the budget, but we didn't fill them for one reason or another. Most
044of them were actually filled in some capacity. It was just maybe we had a volunteer but that volunteer wasn't able to commit to the whole season so they weren't in the paid position. In one case we had a board member in one of those roles they can't be paid. Uh so we had about six I think the number is $6,953 um that was budgeted and not used. Um in past years we've transferred some of that money over to help pay the salary of our strength coach where are the agree that you have to PSM. We pay for about half of that contract, half that salary. The nice thing about it is we haven't ever had to pass more money to do that. We've been able to do it with existing funds. And uh this is
045one of the ways that I I helped cover that the last few years. So, uh a breakdown of what I wanted to do. Um I had a couple people I wanted to pay out of that because they gave us some special this year as volunteers really stepped in and helped us out. Um I went to pay them first and then moved the remaining amount over the money. So the people that I wanted to ask for a special site for Rebecca, she gave us some pretty big help during the fall. We were having some transition in our cheerleading coaching. Um and then in the winter we had Cheryl Bone just wouldn't give it up [laughter] with uh gymnastics. They assisted a lot. Uh they weren't able to be at everything, but they helped run all our
046events, our sectional, and I wanted to thank them for that. I felt it be appropriate to they did more than enough work to get some of that stip. So, I wanted to split the assistant gymnastics for them. That'd be 853 a piece. And then that left $4,747 remaining that would be transferred from that corporation fund of where the sidings are from over to the athletic department and that will be used to help pay for I'll make a motion to approve the funds for second. Care with a second prop with the motion. All in favor? [snorts] Motion carries. Yep. All right. The next item on the agenda is Chromebooks for all the schools. So, we have applied and received the common school loan and we would like to use that to purchase Chromebooks. We are speeding
047up our timetable in order to get all of our grade levels with the exception of kindergarten on the same platform. So, everyone would be using the Chromebooks other than our kindergarten. We were hoping to pilot something different for kindergarten this year, but we haven't been able to get that to the teachers. So, we're going to put that off until next year so that they have an opportunity to try some devices before we make a choice on that. We have a motion. Second. All in favor? Motion carries. All right, Alexis, you're up next with textbook fees. Okay. So, I actually sent all of you, I think Melanie sent it along, is a giant textbook fee document that kind of outlines all the textbook fees for every single grade, every single class, and even their consumables money.
048Um, I did try to put it on one sheet for you so you can kind of see some highlights from our textbook fees this year. Um, I had one parent who saw it on the board agenda who called me and said, "Wait, I thought we didn't have textbook fees." And that is still true. Parents do not have to pay any textbook fees. Um some classes do require a fee for different things, but our state does send us um an amount of money to cover these fees. So, some of the highlights um that I'm going to talk about here in a few minutes anyway are Lego curriculum for STEM for grades K through six. Um our K2 teacher um students will be having an MC curricular materials. Um, we are adding a US history book and
049a new German curriculum. Um, for consumables, we approximately added about $5 per grading course due to rising cost of items. Um, we just want to make sure our teachers feel prepared um, and they have all the supplies they need to teach the classes that they teach. Scholastic news went up again this year. Um, it is 6.88 per student. teachers do still feel like it is beneficial for our K through six students. So, we will still be um purchasing that for them. Um I will after tonight I will have two more curriculum still to come. We are still on the hunt for a health curriculum. Um we have had a couple options. The first one um our teachers didn't feel like it went deep enough. Um the second one was too graphic. So, we're going to
050go back to the drawing table and try to find that one. So, um, also a computer science curriculum. The state of Indiana is requiring us to teach computer science, so we are adding that course next year. Um, so the teacher and I, Mr. Carell and myself are still on the hunt to make sure we choose the correct platform for that course. Um, looking ahead for textbook fees, you'll see that in the math um, for K through six, you'll see kind of higher numbers in there. It's just because I've been trying to make sure we have enough money in there to adopt our new math curriculum next year. So, next year will be a big year for us in adopting a new K6 math curriculum. Um, I will say when I said this to the intermediate
051building, they all go, "I like what we get." And I was like, "Well, that's good." So, if we want to go with that again, we can. If not, um, we're going to evaluate and see what our options are. Um, last year, the state textbook fees that we did receive did cover all of our fees that we need. So, that was super beneficial. We are keeping our costs low so that way that money is being used appropriately. Um, do they need to approve that before I go on to my curriculums? Dr. Blaz, all as one. Perfect. Okay. Um, so starting off tonight, I do have a copy. Um, if you did not have it in your book right now is the Lego curriculum we're going to be using for um, STEM. It is these are some
052outcomes that the LEGO said they are proposed that will happen. Um, talking about the integrating the fun engaging hands-on learning with LEGO education. Um they'll get to the students will be able to be creative. They'll be able to use robotics, design, engineering. Um all towards that steam learning. All students will have exposure into career pathways with opportunities to increase their skills, confidence, and possible interests into various industries, which kind of leads us into that same CTE platform that we're working towards at our high school level, junior, senior, high school level. Um the program is super hands-on. Um we have a new teacher who um after board approval tonight who will be teaching this curriculum in our K through six classes. Um can you click it please? Thank you. So kind of it broke it down.
053Each school will have a class set of materials. Um so our kindergarters will use Steam Park. Our first through fifth will use Spike essentials and then our sixth grade will be using Spike Prime. Every grade has their own curriculum that they follow. They have lessons online. Um the training is provided by LEGO. Um it is Chromebook compatible. So it is super easy. It is all web- based. Um it fit we are working with fitting in with our new knowledge units at the primary building. Um we're also adding in some college and career kits for sixth grade to kind of beef up um getting ready to head into the junior senior high. And then the employability skills that Cara has discussed will also fit in nicely with the new computer science course at junior senior. So
054on the Lego curriculum is just kind of one a way for us to kind of build those students up heading into that junior senior high building. The next one is an MC curriculum. Um why are we getting a new phonics curriculum? So when um ESRE funding came out um and when Lakeland Primary decided to choose a new reading curriculum, we were asked to choose a phonics and a knowledge curriculum. So at that time we chose amplify skills and amplify knowledge. CKLA um is kind of what it's known for. So with that we have found as teachers um and the committee that came together we did not feel like skills was meeting our needs like OG did in the past. We were kind of pulling in our OG skills again trying to rebuild those skills. So
055with that um the committee decid decided we met and went over three different curriculums for phonics. Um our amplify contract ended with esser money. So um we are not tied to amplify currently. So, the committee decided to go with ISY. Um, I will have copies of the new books. We're getting new ones for our training, so I'll have those for you to look at next month, too. Um, the committee we met, we um had some teachers trying out the lessons, and we really built like felt like this was the way to go. So, um, additionally, tonight you'll be you'll see that I'm asking for the MC training to be approved for our K through three teachers. I did ask our third grade teachers if they wanted to join in on our fun week of training
056the first week that school is out and they said absolutely. So they will be joining us so that way they can have that continuum of that curriculum heading into third grade. um so plans for the use that it's going to be a roughly 75 minute block that we will use this curriculum at primary then it will be used in intervention as needed um when students do see a little bit more with this we also are going to keep the CKLA knowledge for our content time so we're going to use some of the knowledge units which is from amplify however the CKLA is the free version so there there will be no cost to us to use that curriculum Um, and that'll be a separate time from the skills time to make sure that our students
057have um access to different things throughout the day and they can kind of get a break too from their little brains reading all for three hours at a time. Um, sustainability. This curriculum um will be very helpful for us because we only will have to replace a few things each year. Um, the large cost is upfront right now, training the teachers, getting all the materials, and then it'll just be like buying small things every year. Um, replacing books, things like that. Um, not the giant cost that we've had with Amplify currently. So, it'll be a good curriculum for us to be able to sustain. Summer school curriculum. Um, just a reminder, I read next testing is next week. Third graders are testing on Wednesday. Um, the ones that did not pass in March and our
058second graders are testing on Thursday and Friday. Um, so please send good vibes only towards those students next week. Following that, our service parents will be notified. So with that, we do have to have a state approved curriculum. So we went with the 95% group has a phonics um phonics booster summer for rising third graders. Um I do have that up here if you want to see it too, but it comes with a workbook and a teacher book um to help them make sure they're teaching phonics correctly during that time. Um, we're going to have three different se three different rotations during summer school. They're going to have a phonics session, a fiction section, and a non-fiction. And then on June 26th, the third graders only because second graders only get two chances. Only our
059third graders that are in summer school will take the test for the final time. Again, only good vines vibes only sent to them on that date. I've also asked everyone to avoid that building at all costs on that date. So, we have no loud noises anywhere near there. Next, um, we are adding US history back into our curriculum here at the junior senior high. I met with a very small committee. Um, and with that, we chose America through the lens. It is this textbook up here. So, our students will have access to this textbook in their classroom. And then they will also have online access if they need to do work at home. Um, Mr. Thompson did not feel like it would be fair to have the students carry this book back and forth all
060the time. So he will keep a class set in his classroom and then be able to use it when needed. With this same company, we are using National Geographic. And one really nice thing with them is they do have a possibility of an AP course that goes along with that called the American Pageant. Um so um I was that committee kind of decided, okay, this one has one that follows it, so this will be great. We've always had US class not connected to. Sorry. Thank you. Yes, they are split. Yeah, we've always had US history. Always. It has always been there. I just know we are splitting it. So, we need a separate curriculum. So, thank you, Mr. Sho. Um, German curriculum. If you I just want to do a quick shout out. If you've
061never met Karen Yoder, our um world language teacher, she is phenomenal and she is taking on teaching German next year as well. So when it was time to choose a German curriculum, I said, "Karen, I need your thoughts. What do you think?" And so she reached out to all of her little German friends and they said this is the best option. So we are going to be choosing German teacher friends, I should say. Let me be clear, German teacher friends. Um, and she said that this was the best option for curriculum. Um, so I kind of took her word for it. I thought that she was going to hug me when she when the books got delivered. She was so excited. So, if you want to see the German curriculum that she's going to be
062using, it is right here. Um, our state has also now required us to have board approved curriculum for human sexuality. So, at the primary and intermediate buildings, they are currently using um Barbara Sinatra's curriculum, which is fightch childabuse.org. If you go to that website, you kind of see all the curriculum that's available for them. But the objective of the programs is to educate all ages of children about what to do when confronted with abusive behavior. Whether it be um body safety, abuse, cyber bullying. They use multiple of those lessons on that site. So if you want to visit that site, you can check out kind of what it is, but it's um well known, well used, well recognized. Um, and then they also are going to try to bring back SCAN this year with Mon'nique
063Burr Foundation. And then junior senior high has had Elijah Haven coming in to do some different presentations about human sexuality. All right. So, we're ready for Is there any questions for Alexis? You can record it. We have a motion. Second and Sue. All in favor? Motion carries. All right, we're moving on to item eight on the agenda. my screen and remember who I'm highlighting. So, Kathleen Avery, we wanted to highlight her. Let me find her on my list here. She's a Lakeland grad, daughter of nurse Holly and daughter-in-law Brenda Avery. So, on top of that being a Laker grad and coming from those great lineages, uh she was in the top 10 for the Indiana Teacher of the Year not long ago. So, we are very, very excited to welcome that Laker home. And we
064are also welcoming our new varsity football coach, Tom Wman. And Ryan can give you a little bit of his background. And he's also here if he would like to speak. So, yeah, I'm excited to welcome Tom and Tom and his wife Maria for attending tonight. It's a little bit of a long meeting, but thank you for being here. I'll just talk a little bit about Tom's background. I spent a lot of time talking about it. I'll try to keep it brief. But Tom been a football coach for over 30 years. Started out as a coordinator at East was part of a state championship and state runner up there. Then moved on to for his first head coaching job. kind of took three or four years there turning that program around and then really built a
065solid program coach of the year there and then after about seven years he moved on to Northridge. I think it's I'll probably get it wrong but I think Northridge had something like five winning seasons in the previous 35 years before he started and winning season the first year went to semiate the second year undefeated year couple years after that and a few more NLC coach of the year titles. So, um yeah, quality quality coaching career. Um you know, when you go into a coaching hire, you're always nervous about what you're going to get. You don't know what kind of interest you're going to have. I couldn't be more pleased to be welcoming Tom. He's trying to hit the ground running. Even though he's employed right now at a virtual online school teaching junior high, but
066he's already met our students, met our parents, met all our coaching staff and doing everything he can to get things lined up for the summer, get started. So, yeah, couldn't be more pleased to welcome here. It's been a pleasure to work with him so far. Um in his interview process I just thought I'd share this. Uh he was asked principles for a successful team he outlined three things. Be a person of character hang on to your passion to treat others how you want to be treated and so far that's been my experience with them. and great to welcome you here as well. [laughter] Although awesome as a little bit hardressed with this whole process. alumni remember that Redskins. All right. So, some exciting new hires and people joining Lakeland and also a lot of people
067stepping up and taking on additional responsibility on there this summer as well. So we have a motion. So moved. Second. All in favor? Motion carries. Number nine, transfers. Much of what you see on the transfers, uh, we did take the show choir off our agenda, so that was just still on my slides. A lot of transfers you're seeing are due to our reorganization of both title and um our specials classes. So that was a lot of what's on there. All right. Do we have a motion? All in favor? Motion carries. All right. So we have item 10 is volunteer just to try and coach. Um do we have motion? All right. All in favor? Motion carries. Resonations. highlights there. So, we want to highlight Paul Furnus. He has been with us for about 25 years.
068I believe he joined Lakeland 25 years ago and we appreciate all that he has done for our students. Anything from teaching computer classes when he first came to us to physical education. So, we wish him well in his next adventures. We also want to wish Gabrielle Lurmer the best of luck as she's getting married and will be moving to southern Indiana. So, we're very sad to see that Laker grad go, but the best. And I have another Suzanne Wild. She is our gymnastics coach and she coached with us this season and we'll be moving on. So, wish her luck. All right. Do we have a motion? Any discussion? I do have a couple questions about gymnastics. It took us time to find somebody and then they helped out this year. Do we know I mean
069what is our next step? I know we talked about the past we have to have to replace equipment expense. I'm guessing What is our next look? We have a lot of kids in junior high. We had this year through last year. I'm not Everybody comes back next year. We'll have six discussing this. She asked me to put together some numbers about equipment and things like that. Um, just to add on to that, I did a little bit more digging after the season ended just to try to get a feel for where we're at in relation to other schools around the state. So this year in the state tournament for gymnastics there were 50 schools there were 50 a 2A schools that offer and so we sent some emails and made some phone calls to those
070of those um there are only two that had their own The other sent to participate. So only two of them had their own program. only one of those that program in their school. So like in outside one of two schools, you know, one A or 2 A schools in the entire state have program. Yeah, the biggest there's a couple of that need to be replaced. Those are kind of expensive, you know, usually in the range, I don't know, 1500 some bigger ones. The big thing is our hps and shove it back together because apart, we should get And that's like 20,000. So, you know, within the next two years, I think we probably have 25,000. Yeah. I don't say her to stay on as a junior. Our junior highach reselle said she can come back
071I think it would be a check. I think there is a limit on that as a max. Yeah. I think that's the idea. I would have to contact the contingency. What is your target? on the spot. I mean, I don't have one yet, but uh there's a lot of trips, a lot of trips. You go to Fortimar. It's not a very strong program. Our kids and our coaches They moved it to a sepate building. Yeah, we're actually So we we had a motion in a second. All in favor carries. Last item is consent agenda. Have any comments on this consent agenda? All right. Do we have a motion? All in favor? Motion carries. All right, we're at the point in the agenda where we can have public comments. Persons wishing to make the board aware
072of suggestions, ideas, and comments may address the board at this time. Comments which involve personnel or students must be discussed in private. I'd like to show off this esports network How close were you? right now. That's what I um on our consent agenda, we did have a couple of donations that I do want to recognize. Thank you, Melanie, for reminding me. Um we have a donation from Nathan Stroop. of the class of 2015 and he attended our open house at Lima Brighton. We had some extra yearbooks there from the past and we gave a few to him and I told him you don't need to pay for those. It's fine. They were the little elementary extras that we had. So, he took those with him and we got a very beautiful card from him thanking
073us for that and a donation of $50 to the school. So, we wanted to recognize that. We also have a flowth through donation that we do from the American Red Cross for a scholarship for $1,500. So, both of those don donations were part of the consent agenda. All right. So, we're back to public comments. Any additional comments? I I have one if I may. Could you go to the CTE slide that showed all the different pathways? I can't because it's on Shako's computer. Sorry. It can't be displayed. I'm rather I'd like this to be seen as parents, not as teacher. But when we were looking at the CT pathways, I was astounded to see how many were fine arts. 254 students were fine arts. The next was I think that's our fine arts, whether it's
074arts music, choir, band is one of the things that we forc our sponsors when we go out to attain sponsorships, they do have the option to sponsor fine arts programs and Farmers Bank does sponsor our auditorium as part of that. So that all the money from that sponsorship is available for our fine arts programs. Any additional comments, public comments? Board member comments 10 days [laughter] All I have to say, appreciate everything for this year. I'd say every year we already start a little rough. I think this year a little bit better. Um already go through those moments, but I think I'm on a really really good positive note saying tonight looking good for next year. Keep that rolling. I know we got a lot of things to work on on our end, but just remember
075we got your back. Try to do what we can to make it happen next year, too. Thanks again. All right, calendar and review. Uh, our next meeting is Wednesday, June 11th, and we're back at the court office. I have a motion. So move. All in favor? Motion carries. Ajourned.