001And then he's talking about too many people on this side. had a really good I didn't I don't See that? She's not >> Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. It is 6:30. I'm going to call the meeting to order and we will begin with the pledge. To the flag of the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> And with that, as usual, we go we'll go to the superintendence report. >> Good evening. Um, members of the board, to our community, welcome back from fall break and welcome to our first ever board meeting at 6:30. >> Yes. Yes. Um, this past Sunday, we tragically lost one of our young employees, Kavon McClung, to gun violence. Kavan was a recent Warren graduate and a valued member of our transportation department. Please join
002me in keeping Kaban and his family in our hearts and prayers as we take a moment of silence in his memory related. Um tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. So that's taking place right now at P30 at 30th and Post. Uh, city councelor Renee Allen is hosting a re-imagining public safety community forum titled building the system our community deserves. Uh, David Muhammad, the executive director of the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, and R. Warren, police chief, James Northingington, our expert panelist, addressing data prevention and intervention to the gun violence crisis that we're dealing with. Councelor Allen has expressed interest in working closely with Warren on this issue. and you'll hear more about our safety uh fair coming up that's related to the issues we're dealing with. I want to thank Indie Black Expo, our
003Warren Central team who are many of them are here tonight for hosting the mental health symposium in September. I know I was impacted personally by Dr. Russell Leay's uh comments. Dr. Leay is a MD and PhD and is also working on his third doc doctoral um degree. He was one of the panelists and he shared lots of lived experiences, advice for kids, but his most important advice was for us adults. He told us to shut up and start listening. And um you know, really that's how he said it. He's like our our young kids will tell us things if we stop and and take the time to listen to them. So that was great uh great advice. We're continuing to share our strategic plan presentations. Uh community, we left several of our strategic plans on
004the table as you walk in. So, I would encourage you to take one of those with you. Um, we wrap up the high school on November 4th. Um, thanks to Dennis Jarrett, um, who is our, uh, chief editor for the Indie Far East magazine. We, we asked that the magazine be released on board days. So, if you didn't pick up a copy of it, please do. The front cover spotlights uh, Butler University's new founders college program, which is a new two-year associate degree program um, for students. They have identified and removed uh typical barriers to higher education including uh tuition, books, supplies, and transportation. Uh this first year, Warren has over 30 students participating in this um program, the most of any local high school. Uh this month's issue also highlights our jog center, which
005opened up in uh September. Dr. Sullivan is highlighted there. Where you at, Dr. Sullivan? Um Dr. Rogers is highlighted in there who we'll celebrate tonight. Gloria Williams is highlighted in for a region 8 outstanding board member recognition. I also want to highlight one of the stories. Um Angel Herrera was on the Pleasant Run robotics team in 2017. This team made it all the way to the World Championship in Louisville that year. and they were also featured on CBS Sunday Morning for the resiliency and success that they experienced that year. Um, fast forward today, Angel is a freshman at Purdue studying computer science on a full ride scholarship. He credits Lisa Hopper, his STEM teacher and robotics coach, for building his confidence in this area. Beautiful story. So, I encourage you to read that story in
006there. Um, lots of other great stories, too. Dennis, great job. Um this month uh board and community tonight you'll hear from our chief operations officer Marcus Clayton on an update on our enrollment management and redistricting plan. And then also we have lots of great um student performances coming up at the high school. Uh Friday is our um Warren sings. This is our high school um and middle school choirs that will be singing. It does say admission is $8, but admission is free. Uh the fine arts festival uh is next week the 28th. The middle school and high school orchestra spooky sounds concert is on the 30th. Um I have to mention it Julie and then you can do the rest. Our Warren family and community safety and health fair is this Saturday from 9 to
00712 uh p.m. at the high school. Our the Indie Far East magazine is being recognized. Is that correct Dennis? At the cafe awards >> uh next Thursday the 30th. So congratulations to them. And then I was asked to highlight the P30 community event uh next Friday, October 31st. And that's my board for the that's my report for this month. >> Thank you so much. Always good to hear all the good news. And continuing on with excellent news, we are going to begin by spotlighting the Warren Central High School unified sports teams. in the spotlight. >> Did you want to read something? >> You want to go ahead? I'll let you go. >> Good evening. Um, Warren Township board, um, as well as Dr. Hansen and, um, our community members. We are super excited. This year
008we have had some phenomenal action out on the field with our unified flag football team. And so I wanted to highlight a few things because a lot of people don't know a lot about the program, but they are out there doing their thing. And so tonight, we are proud to recognize the incredible accomplishments of our Warren Central Unified Flag football team for their outstanding 2025 season. This year actually marks the first time in school history that our unified team advanced to the IHA IHSAA unified flag football state championship game. So give it up for them. More importantly, they did this with an undefeated regular season record in every game this season. The team scored at least 50 points and every single athlete on the roster scored at least one touchdown, which is a true reflection
009of teamwork, dedication, and inclusion at its best. The Warriors were crowned sectional champions, defeating Hamilton Heights, Hamilton Southeastern, and Carmel before going on to become regional champions with victories over Brownsburg, Bedford, North Lawrence. The team capped off their wonderful and historic season by earning state runnerup honors after a hardfought game against Decal High School. So, this is their trophy that they received. couple students that we and athletes. We want to extend special recognition to Eli McGee who was also named athlete of the week at the Warren Central for his leadership, playmaking, and positive attitude both on and off the field. In addition, three of our student athletes, Eli McGee, Abby Goodall, and Demetrius Buntton, have been recognized for unified all state. These athletes were chosen by their coaches for their exceptional performance at sectionals and
010regionals. At the state tournament, Abby Goodall and Samario proudly represented Warren Central by reciting the Special Olympics oath reflecting the true values of unified sports, which is friendship, inclusion, um, and respect through competition. Um, additionally, lots happening there. It was fun. The statistics were worth celebrating. Um, this championship bound team consumed approximately 500 Chick-fil-A sandwiches and nuggets throughout the season, which is clearly proving that it is the food of champions. I don't know. We didn't get paid to say that. We might we might need to throw that. We might need to utilize that a little bit. But none of this sex would have been possible without the exceptional leadership of our coaches. So, we have coach Carly Murphy and Coach Dena Condra who have done above and beyond for this team. Together, they have built
011a program that celebrates ability, teamwork, and belonging. Their commitment, their passion, and guidance has made a lasting impact on every student athlete um and continues to embody what it means to be the pride of the east side. So, um, the other thing that's on here that we haven't mentioned is that, uh, Coach Dina Condra was, uh, nominated for, uh, coach of the year for our United Flag football season. So, that is wonderful. So, congratulations to Warren Central's unified flag team, sectional champions, regional champions, and state runners ups. It's an unforgettable and record-breaking season, and so we are super excited. um you've made Warren Central um and our entire community incredibly proud. So yes, >> I'm just going to add a few more things because um well one I could never have done that so that
012was awesome. But uh Dena, just so everybody knows, Dena is our reigning um Warren Central High School coach of the year um from last year. So, she's she's got a good start, good leg up on this year, too. Uh, but I also wanted to just throw it throw this out there. Uh, not only did this group um, you know, get state runner up this year for for flag football, they've also won the last three MC championships in flag football and the last three MC uh, championships in track and field. So, they've got a great thing going. Um and uh last year they they finished seventh in the state in track which was the highest finish uh that we had uh for Warren Central as well. So obviously Dena and Carly uh and some other coaches
013Amanda Westerfield and um Phyllis Mays have done a great job with our kids. So we're really excited, really proud of them. Uh proud of everybody. And u you know Saturday was was so much fun. Got to watch the girls play, then come over watch uh this group play. And um as as um Miss Hughes is going to going to say, these kids represented the east side like no other. So we're really proud of them. Proud of everything they've done. Congratulations. >> All right. Ready? Ready? >> One, two, three. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. coach. because we are going to embrace the joy this evening. Next we have the Warren High School girls varsity flag football team. We roll deep. This is how we rolled into every game. I >> stand here and hold this. >>
014All right. Again, good evening. Good evening. It brings me great pleasure to present to you all our Warren Central girls flag football program and team. And as you can see, it has grown. It is growing. Um and um there's a lot of excitement that is developing behind um this sport. And so I'm not going to steal some people's thunder here, but I do want to highlight a few things um about the team and this season. And the Warren Central flag girls flag football program completed their second season since the program began its pilot season three years ago. In the two years we have started the program, we have had more than 100 girls interested in girls flag at our high school and roughly 75 to 80 try out each season. So, as you can see,
015it is definitely popular and it is definitely growing. From the pilot year starting with eight schools, we are proud to announce that there are about 97 schools going into next season as of mid October, which is reaching closer to the goal of 100. And we'll talk to you about the significance of that number and of the program growing. The program is coached by Miss McKin, Mrs. McKenzie Brown who was also named the girls flag coach of the week for week number eight. So that was exciting. Girls Flag football has completed year one of its emerging sport status and we'll define that and the goal is by 2027 we should be a sanctioned sport by the IHSA and that is significant. This was the first year a postseason tournament was held through the Indianapolis Colts girls
016flag and more than 60 teams participated. Warren Central was one of eight teams that won the first ever sectional title and advanced to Grand Park for the final tournament. So, these ladies have put in some work. Let's give them a round of applause. Good evening everyone. Um, I just want to add to that. Um, this was a really historic season in addition to last year launching this program for our school. Um, as you can see, even though right now we're only limited to 25, we're excited for next year to be able to have both a JV and varsity program. So that way we can get more opportunities for more of our girls that may have not made the program for this year um a chance to be able to play. Um we're looking to hopefully
017here soon expand it down to the middle school level as well too. Um so then we can get those girls rolling which we have a lot of interest in that as well that are already reaching out to coach Kenzie. Um the special thing about girls flag to us is our partnership with the Indianapolis Colts. Um, the Indianapolis Colts and the Ursa family are very passionate about girls flag and their initiative to try and again make this a sanctioned sport. There are not very many states in the United States that are sanctioned. So, the goal to reach 100 schools is the promise by the Indianapolis Colts and with us again being now at almost 97 going into next season is a great accomplishment. Um, serving on the Colts committee to try and get these schools to
018commit has been a great thing. Um, and then a lot of our girls being able to go out to some of the special events that the Colts put on from clinics um to the mural. If you've been in Lucas Oil recently, they unveiled a girls flag football mural with all of the flags of each school that is committed. Um, we had some of our girls be able to go to do that. So, um, it's been really special. They've been at almost all of our um, a representative has been at almost all of our games. um they're really helpful in terms of uh providing financial assistance for uh the cost for our flag kits um when we host tournaments when we had the sectional things like that. So we really appreciate all their help um especially
019with Zire Franklin who's also an ambassador for uh flag football as well. So but I really appreciate McKenzie being able to step up doing this especially not playing sports. I know this is a huge challenge for her. Um, but this has been something again as a historic season. Um, being able to be one of eight to have this. Um, oh yes, and in addition, we have an, um, coach Steven Brown, Dwayne Brown, >> Kenzie's husband, uh, Dev right in the back as well, and then wherever Kairen's hiding >> all the way in the back. Um, and then another special thing into the uh the program, some of our varsity boys football players. Um, we did this last year, too. We had a few that helped as student coaches as well, too. So, that kind of
020was a a positive for us to, you know, have both groups together and then they're able to teach girls u the different skills within football, especially if they've never played before. So, that's kind of the cross collab. That's a benefit as well, too. Do you have anything you want to say? Have her speak. Hello everyone. Um, I just want to say thank you for all being here and representing Girls Flag. The one thing I want to say for sure, I am very very lucky to be coaching these group of of girls. Um, every single last one of them hold a very special place in my heart and every single single last one of them get on my nerves. So that just shows that every single one of them have a part of me inside of
021them. Um, the biggest thing about Girls Flag right now that's taking off is scholarships are being involved now. There are plenty of girls in the state of Indiana, yes, are getting full scholarships for girls flag. Um, that is a big importance of it all because not only are we giving them opportunity to do something for the community, but they also can go further on in life and get a free education and that is the most important thing. So once I can say this to the girls now because I say it to my boys, use football as much as it use you. It could take you very far. Enjoy the sport, love it, and have fun. >> Well, thank you. They're going to get a picture. picture. Shorter people in the front, taller people in the
022back. Y'all know how >> Keep coming this way. >> We are a family. >> There we go. Over here. Everybody can see me. Ready? >> Go and shake hands with the board. Get in the line. >> Congratulations. What year were you one of these? >> Congratulations. I don't want to hurt you. >> Congratulations. >> Happy year. >> Love is popping. >> Congratulations. Okay. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. Do you have a ribbon? >> Congratulations. >> We are later this year. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Some young people. >> Congratulations. Loved you on um morning show. >> You did great. >> Congratulations. and your sitting down. >> And continuing on, we have um I'm hoping to pronounce your last name correctly and forgive me if I don't. Is it Britney Clar? >> Perfect.
023>> Excellent. Hi, I'm Britney Clover and I am representing the Indiana Association of Career and Technical Education and I am excited to present this award to uh one of my dear friends, longtime colleague for about nine years that I have known him now. I first met him as Steve Rogers. It wasn't until about three years into um knowing him that I was at the ACT state conference and was serving on a panel with him and I looked at our panel insert and said, "Dr. Steve Rogers, >> where'd you get your PhD from? And um luckily it was Purdue, so that black and gold always absolutely beautiful. Um and actually helped encourage me to continue on with my education through some scholarships. So excited uh that he was able to kind of mentor me through that.
024He's currently serving as the Indiana Association of Career and Technical Education Directors Divisions President. And it is not an easy task this year. In the last three years, there has been a 53% turnover rate of area CTE directors in the state. And that doesn't count the ones that have turned over every year in that three years. So he has put some great initiatives together rallying us all together and helping create a support network that has helped me continue in this profession. One of those um actually two of those has been touring the lovely facilities here. When I first met Dr. Rogers, uh, my mentor introduced me and said, "This is the one you'll have to chase. He's the one that's going to be driving those initiatives." Um, so be friends with him. And I said,
025"Sure thing." So, one of them was coming and looking at the amazing dental program. The dental teacher was like, "Hey, have your teacher come out anytime." And I said, "No, I can't afford this. Tell her to close down if she tries to reach out. uh don't let her come in here because if if she saw those facilities, I know that she would want something as grand and I'm working towards it. Um but we're not there yet. Um another one has been the the rest of the remodel. I finally got a quick tour of that area and I believe I was standing in the automotive area and I said, "This is absolutely amazing." And a student came out of the locker room and he goes, "I agree." and they just walked off. And I just was
026like, that is amazing that they see the facilities that they're getting to learn in through all these grants and local support and schoolboard support um to make sure that they are prepared for the jobs of the future. So, um I'm going to still be chasing you, Dr. Rogers, but until then, I will present you this award. speech speech. >> I I've been involved with Indiana ACT and uh I acted for almost 20 years now. So I truly appreciate uh Indiana ACT's award. It was was very much a surprise. So I appreciate it and humbled by it and thank you very much. So Congratulations. >> And next up we have Natalie Reutder. President B um Burke, Dr. Hansen and the board. I'm very excited to be with you guys this evening. Um we I get to
027um announce a very special award that was given to one of our instructors, the Indiana Association of Adult and Continuing Education. Every year they have an annual uh conference and during the conference they choose one outstanding instructor um from the state of Indiana. And this year I'm uh grateful and thankful to get to share that Brenda Gaston from Warren Township was chosen. >> Um so just to put a little context around it, there are over 850 um adult education instructors in the state of Indiana. Um, so this is a great pleasure and um, Indiana or Brenda has been with us for 14 years here at Warren Township. Um, Brenda is not only an exceptional instructor, she's also been an instructional coach where she's worked um, to mentor new teachers, um, she also supports our existing
028teachers and she's deeply deeply passionate about helping our teachers so that students achieve success. Um, so I couldn't be more thankful and grateful that Brenda's part of the Warren team and so I'll hand over to you. >> Hi everybody. I did prepare a little speech here. Um, when I was given the award at the conference, it was a surprise. So I didn't get to say maybe everything that I wanted to say. Um, so it is a pleasure to be here tonight. Thank you to the school board and everyone for having me. So I would just like to read um what I prepared and um and thank again everybody um for your attention. So I'm going to start with the word essential. How would you define this word? The word essential was used a lot during
029the pandemic. It became a buzzword to describe workers who couldn't remain at home, right? Or we had to um describe workers who couldn't remain at home while the rest of us were on lockdown. The grocery store cashier was now an essential worker. Um our shi our views shifted and they also expanded during this time. So as a English teacher the definition of essential is absolutely necessary cannot be done without indispensable. Synonyms fundamental vital and basic. So when I began my career in education I taught elementary and I always taught with creativity, enthusiasm and passion. However, it never really occurred to me to think about these students as becoming part of the essential workforce in our communities one day. Which businesses have a talent gap? What's a talent pipeline? Which industries are most most prevalent in
030our neighborhoods and in our state? Which professions have the best long-term security? These are some of the bigger picture concepts that I've developed while working with adult ed and advocating for adult education. Um, as a K12 educator, doing lessons, following required curriculum, preparing for mandatory testing, making sure my classroom climate was positive. They kept me busy. However, when you stop and think about the ultimate goal of a compulsory education, it's critical to think about these questions. Our adults are all ages at a at in our building. Okay. Um and our off-site locations. We also have how many off-site locations? We have several. So, our we're over at Highlander Park off of 21st Street if if you were not aware. And we now have some really nice flags that say free GED classes. Um, which I
031think we're in a clever spot. Thank you. Um, so our students are all ages, some teenagers still, others are in their 70s. So I think about the unique talents, abilities, backgrounds, and skills that they have developed from their various educational and work experiences. At least once a year, I help students collect previous um educational and workplace information, organize and present an all about me project to an audience of their peers and our staff. I see and our entire Indiana Adult Education Organization sees every single student who walks through our programs doors as essential, full of unlimited potential. This is a quote from one of our successful HSSE graduates who was able to get a promotion at Amazon and go on to take HVAC training after completing our program. When I came to Warren Adult Education,
032I was very excited by the kindness of the administrative and teacher staff and especially by their professionalism. For example, Miss Brenda Gaston was a booster for me because she pushed me a lot to go toward my goals. So, to me, the ultimate compliment in my opinion is a booster to someone's life. And I am so proud to be awarded teacher of the year from Warren this year and outstanding adult educator. And I've been privileged enough to work here for for over 13 years, helping mostly our English learners overcome their language barriers, encouraging them to persist with their education and career training goals. So, I want to thank Natalie Rutder, our amazing director, all of our talented Warren staff, and members of the school board who invited me here tonight to recognize my contributions to this
033program and give me a chance to speak. So, I leave you with every essential student we teach or reach creates a stronger and more vibrant community. Thank you. I guess I can shake your hand. Thank you guys so much. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you so much guys. >> Thank you so much. Congratulations. It was a privilege to be here. >> You're in the building. >> Okay. And now we're going to move on to our student council representative, Janiah Bracken. Good evening, President Burke, Dr. Hansen, members of the board, and attendees. Welcome back. I hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable fall break. Tomorrow, our student council will be hosting its annual leadership retreat at the New Beginnings Church with the theme of making waves in leadership. Throughout the day, student
034leaders would take part in fun and meaningful bonding activities while actively learning about what it means to be a leader, someone who inspires others, takes initiative, and creates positive change within our school community. Additional news from the CSC. We're excited to announce that the successful Warrior Rewards program is making its return this year and even better. It includes a car giveaway for seniors. This program continues to recognize and reward students who demonstrate commitment, responsibility, and school pride. Thank you everyone for being here today and allowing me to be here. And thank you for your continued support of our student council in all of our efforts to grow as leaders and make an impact a lasting impact at Warren essential. Thank you. >> Excuse me. How do they how do they earn the car? >> How
035do they earn it? You have to have outstanding um grades. You have to make 97% attendance and you also have to >> be an outstanding leader. All right, thank you. >> And batting cleanup, but still very, very valuable. We have our mayor's neighborhood advocate, Sydney Starks. All right, good evening everyone. I hope everybody's doing all right today. Um, so I'm going to go over a few community updates uh with the city. Um, like said before, I've spoken a lot about the new city trash vendor contract with LRS, which is Lakeshore Recycling Systems. So, at the beginning of October, so October 6th, uh, crews started rolling out the new uh, city trash bins across the city. So, we're hitting in different districts. Remember, there are exceptions to those districts. So, DPW districts are not changing the
036bins. So, exceptions for 5, 7, 8, and 11. Uh, DPW, the Department of Public Works, they also did a great job at an FAQ page that you could find at indie.gov. Um, lot of different questions on there, but, uh, we've been encouraging people if you have specific questions or having issue with the transition to call the mayor's action center. um our CSRs have been doing a great job of communicating with us as the mayor's neighborhood advocates on different things going on in our areas pertaining to it, but slowly but surely it's getting done. Um so any questions with that, feel free to email me. I'll give my email at the end um once I go through some of these updates. The next thing I want to highlight is the YMCA, uh the Ransburg YMCA here
037on the east side. They're having their uh fall fest. So that's this Friday, October 24th, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM. It is a free event, but registration is encouraged. Um, and that is on their website as well. It'll be crafts, games, hay rides. I'll be stopping by as well, so I will be there. Um, and then also for IMPD updates, they're having a trunk or treat as well. That'll be this Saturday um, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Free event as well. and that is at the JD Sports Corporate Office parking lot. Um, and they're also looking for volunteers for Indie PAL. Um, so volunteers are needed. Um, there's an application. Um, so indiepal is the Indie Police Athletic and Activities League. Um, so super fun and interesting. Uh, indie.pow.org has all the information there
038for people who are interested in um, signing up for that. They also have their next IMPD East District task force meeting that will be November 12th. I will be there as well. I don't believe they had an October uh meeting. So, the November one will be the next one. Um moving on to animal care services. So, ACS is hosting um an adoption event. So, that'll be taking place November 8th from 11:00 a.m. to 300 p.m. Um, it's at the puppy playground, which is 7224 Rockville Road. Um, so that'll be a nice event as well. I also want to, um, give an update from DPW pertaining to leaf collection. Um, so they have the annual leaf collection program. So, that begins Monday, November 10th through Friday, December 5th. During this time, residents can leave up to
03940 bags of leaves per week for free pickup on their regular scheduled trash day. So, it has to be on your trash day for that. Okay. And then, um, another update I want to share, the final update. So, um, Indie Peace, they're also having a trunk retreat. So, that will be, um, October 31st from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Um, that'll be at 17:01 East 25th Street. Um, so they're having it so you can register by car. So you can do that at www.indypace.org. Does anyone have any questions about anything that I went over? >> What time is the task force meeting on the 12th? Do you know >> task force? Yes. Give me one second. So that is at I believe they have it at 6:00 p.m. and it should only be going for about
040an hour, but I can also confirm that. I do want to say that I rolled out my first uh newsletter this month. Um that was received very well. Um I've been signing people up for that. So how to um sign up for my newsletter? You just send me an email. My email is sydney.starksindy.gov. That's sd nest sar ks at indie.gov. I also um have some of the information that I talked about today on there and then I'll be rolling out my November one soon as well. Um and I also believe I have the IMPD information on there too. >> Board, you have a copy of It was a beautiful newsletter, by the way. >> You have a copy of it in your folder, your black folder. >> Okay, great. All righty. Well, thank y'all. I
041hope you all have a good rest of your night. Thank you. Thank you. And with that, we are going to be going to board comments. Um, oh, that's a side eye. So, we'll be starting with Gloria. >> Well, welcome back everyone. I hope everyone had a great fall break. I know I did. Um, there has been so much being said, I only have to hit on three things. Um, Halloween is coming. And I remember when I was a teacher, I used to dress up as a witch and give Halloween safety tips to the kids. I was like, "You better." I changed my voice and everything, but I would like for everyone to encourage our kids to be safe. They get so excited running around trying to get the candy and we want to make sure
042that they're safe, not get hit by a car and stuff like that. Um, next is gun safety. Um, it's so sad that we're losing our youth to gun say gun violence and we need to start talking to our young people about how to solve their problems without being violent. So, each one reach one. We need to really reach out to our young people. Uh, and I know that there's a health and safety coming up that the superintendent talked about and that's going to be October the 25th. We hopefully they'll talk about it there and we need to encourage more people to attend that because safety is going to be really important for our young people and for us adults too because we're losing adults as well and usually our young adults. They have just began
043to live. They can't I want them to grow old like me. So we have to really talk to them. So uh the last thing is um this is principal recognition month. I know some people haven't said anything but that includes administrators too. So if you have not given recognition to a principal or an administrator, please do so because they need to be recognized every month. But this month we want to make them really feel special because they work so hard to try to work with our children and our ch and our families. So we want to encourage you and I just want to go good job principles and administrators. keep up the good work. >> Uh, welcome back. Uh, fall break, a good, uh, breath of fresh air. Um, I'm looking forward to a a
044great period between now and the Thanksgiving Day break. U, a good pause. That'll be a good pause. Uh we've got a lot happening between now and then. So let's go. >> Okay, this will be the last update about our um health and safety fair unless I decide to come back and tell you how wonderful it was next month. Um so I just want to tell you some things that are going on. First of all, regarding your Halloween safety if you want to dress up like a witch and come and help because we have a Halloween safety activity for our kids. Um, we have DIY first aid kits. So, if you don't have a first aid kit, come and build one for yourself. Gun. >> This is This is my uh witch's tone. You better watch
045out because I am going to put a spell on all the cars. And you better look both ways before you cross the street because I might just let them hit you. Okay. Um going to gun safety now. Um, as you know, um, that was what got both Tabitha, my cohort at this, and myself, um, going for this safety fair. We were tired of seeing children hurt by guns, um, our adults being hurt by guns, etc. So, there is a lot of gun safety things there. We're going to have BS Smart there. We're going to have the youth uh Marian County youth prevention youth violence prevention. I always have to figure that one out. Um will be there and we also have um uh Indie Peace that will be there as well. And between the three
046of those we're going to have gunlocks and gun boxes that we can provide if you need them. Um, and then the kids will be able to will get activity books that they can color on gun safety, too. So, you know, if you see a gun, don't pick it up. That sort of thing. Um, a huge we're going to have a huge fire uh safet fire safety poster that the kids can color. And then we'll have one big picture that all the kids have colored together. Um, we have stranger danger, touch a truck. Um, we're going to have car seat checks. So, if you have young kids and you have car seats for them and you want to check and make sure they're put in right because you're concerned about that, you slow down and the
047kid goes forward like this or they go sideways when you're turning. Um, you can come and check and make sure that you have your car seat in properly and if not, how to get it installed. And if you don't have a car seat, there will be some available as well. Um, while supplies last. If they run out, you can go to another table that will have a QR code where you can sign up to get a car seat through the IFD, the Indianapolis Fire Department, and you just you'll find out they'll tell you when to come and you'll um take your car and your kids there and they will put it in your car and teach you how to put it in and they will make sure that the straps are all correct for your
048child and everything. So, um come check that out. Uh that's from 10 to noon. Uh Decatur Township Drug-F Free Coalition Education Trailer will be there. So this is for adults over 21. That's for the parents and community members over 21. Come and check out um some information uh regarding that. They have a trailer that's made up like a kid's bedroom. So you can go in and and they show you where to look and what to look for. And there's also information on mental health of children as well. um teen impact driving. The kids can put these goggles on and they do a um obstacle or a course where they're kind of going around and they have to put keys in a container or something like that and so they get a feel of what it's
049like to be under the influence. Um so hopefully they will understand the importance of not drinking and driving. Our kids have a lot of temptations um at the high school age and so we want to give them as much education as possible in a fun way too. Um our transportation will be there with a school bus. Um we have um STI, STD and HEPS testing. It will be confidential but you can get that testing done as well. Um NDP will be there. Um they have uh domestic violence there and then conflict resolution. >> Good. They'll have a conflict resolution and there's going to be a table um in the high school area where um it's going to be directed directly at high school age kids for um domestic violence and conflict of uh conflict resolution.
050And then there's going to be a table out in the main area that also has that information as well for families um family domestic violence. Um, let's see. Uh, MCRC, our um, Morehead Community Resource Center will be there sharing everything they have so that you know what resources you can get by just going a short distance away and they'll be able to help you out and your family out. Um, Aramark will be there. Um, I think they have a game to test your skills if I'm not mistaken. Is that is there a like a Yeah, a spinner thing and you get to figure out Yeah. Anyway, um if you need a smoke detector, you can um sign up for a smoke detector via QR code. And there's much much more. So, all of this being
051said, if you want if your kids want to go to that IMPD trunk or treat, bring them in costume. We want them at our place. Have them there until noon or whatever from 9 to whenever. do all of our stuff, have fun, and then go over to the IMPD place that I think is JD. I think it's off of 33rd Street if I'm not mistaken. I'm not sure if it's on uh Midhoffer or Post, but it's right around three because I drive past it a lot. Um anyway, come to us first, go to them second. Okay. >> What date is ours? >> The 25th. This Saturday. >> The trunk or treat is No, that's the trunk or treat is Saturday as well. That's through IMPD. >> Okay. This Saturday. >> This Saturday. >> The 31st.
052>> No, the Indie Peace one is the 31st. So, >> okay. I think that's all I got. >> Welcome back everyone. Um, I know it's cold outside and it seems like it just happened really quick. Um, just bundle up, stay warm, and I hope that with the new semester or quarter starting that our children are really taking hold and really enjoying their lessons and absorbing everything they can before fall break or not fall break, but Thanksgiving break. So, as you're alluding to, but um I do I have seen um Miss Julie and her counterpart from Lawrence Township working endlessly on this gun safety program and I know that they put a lot of work into it really trying to protect our youth and our families. If you really um don't have anything to do or
053if you think something's more important to than this um swing by there. It's 9 to 12. >> 9 to noon. 9 to 9 >> 9 to noon at the high school door 25. It's in the competition gym, the hall of fame outside area. Um we have I think I said touch truck. We're having that firet truck will be there too. So um all kinds of stuff. I agree with everybody else. Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed a little bit of your break. Ryan, you just look like you worked the whole time. >> Okay, >> as we know, um this is really to our um our gallery, to our staff, and as well as our community that are listening. It is a strong possibility that SNAP benefits will be um on hold next month. As we
054are going into the holiday season, we already know that that brings on additional barriers and stressors for our families which increase mental health challenges for food insecurity. And I also want to thank um Ryan for moving so swiftly. Um it was I always give Ryan credit for something, Dr. Hansen and Matt for um fall festival. Our families are used to a large farmers market and this year just with collaboration with the safety fair um we weren't doing the fall festival. So I called Dr. Hansen and one of my probably distressed voices like hey we're forgetting a big a key element here. Our families look for these food opportunities for fresh produce. So, I want to thank you all for collaborating with us and um MCRC, MLT, and MSD Warren stepped in to take up the
055rest of that bill. So, we will have fresh produce. We will have um we will only have 150 dozen eggs. So, first come, first serve. Um but we will have um eggs, we will have a um protein and fresh produce. So please, staff, family, community, if you need food, please, please, please stop by the free farmers market and if you're facing food insecurities, um we will have a sign up there to be able to reach out to you. the other opportunities um for the holidays. November the 22nd um we will be working with um the Pacer team to um on November the 22nd from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. will be a um giveaway and that is specifically for um targeting our Haitian Creole families. um on that day. And then November the 26th, we
056will be back at MCRC along with MSD Warren. Um Airmark helped out last year coming along making sure we have um at least 500 food baskets and turkeys, some meat, protein. We have turkeys and chickens cuz everybody don't need turkey. And the last um announcement I want to make for the holidays is December the 20th will be our holiday fair. We will have um toys, the sign up and registrations. Dr. Hansen um if you guys Lamar can get those links out to the community. It will be at um the high school is always so gracious to allow us to use all three courts that day. We will have toys. We will again have food, produce. uh we will try to increase that because our babies are out for two weeks and um most of the
057times they get most of their food supplements from school. So we want to make sure during that break they still have something to take home. So that is my um community announcements. Again, if you know anyone experiencing food insecurity, um on the 26th, we usually give our staff, um Dr. Hansen usually take care of special invitations for at least 50. If we need to increase that, let me know. But we open the doors to our staff first before we open up to the community. So, please don't be ashamed. Please, please, please. We are there to support. Thank you. >> Can I say one thing uh in reference to what you said? It's really important. >> Um if you have any donations that you can give to Morehead, they accept donations. I know that frequently I
058take new items or slightly just slightly used items and I usually get a lot of new items and I just take it over there and they have you can just take it and let them know you're there and take it to the back door. So, you know, the more donations the better because they really take care of a lot of people in the community. So, if you find it in your heart to give donations, they accept them every day, any day. Thanks. Just like old times. So, well, once again, welcome back everyone. And um we starting off with a good note on our first meeting back. We got to celebrate our young student athletes. We got to celebrate our teachers and our in uh directors. So, uh we're getting it done all ends there. We
059got our safety going. We got our food our community support net going. So, we're getting it done here at Warren as we always do. So, uh once again, thank you everyone. Welcome back and let's keep this thing going. Welcome back everyone. I hope you had an amazing fall break. I have been asked to share that um tomorrow evening from 5:30 to 7 LOL's Haunted House will be open for the 13th year. So lucky number 13. Um if you want to go visit the first half an hour from 5:30 to 6 the lights are on. Um the second hour from 6:00 to 7:00 the lights are off and they would love to have everyone attend and come see it. It's during their fall festival, but they have been turning that cabin into a haunted house now
060for 13 years. So, there's that. Um, I want to go off of what Lana said. As a reminder, 211 um is a wonderful service to try to also find other help throughout the community, whether it is food or services. um we're going to have to all come together as more and more things are dropping out with federal funding really just disappearing come November. So um to repeat what she said, reach out, get what you need. Um there are organizations and people who are willing to help. So please make sure that you are doing that. And with that, we are going to go to Kevin to see if we have any board correspondents. >> Uh no, madam president, we do not. >> And do we have any blue cards? And no, we do not also. >>
061Excellent. Well, not excellent, but at least we got that done. So, next we have the consent agenda. Um, this month, the consent agenda consists of the approval of minutes, various financial reports, the human resources report, field trip requests, change orders, contracts, use of school property, and conflict of interest forms. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Terry, and thank you, Julie. Is there any discussion? Hearing and seeing none, we will move on to the vote. And the motion carries. Um, we have one more item from our consent agenda that was pulled out, which is our financial claim register. Um, do I have a motion to accept that? >> So moved. >> Got a motion from Julie. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Howard. Is
062there any discussion? Hearing and seeing none. That will also go up for a vote. And that also passes unanimously but with one abstension. Don't know why that was so difficult for me today. And with that we are going to move on to our reports this evening beginning with transportation with Lindtorm and Bill Halen. and Austin. I apologize. Your name was only on one of my two documents. And Austin Fner. Good evening, President Burke, Dr. Hansen, school board and guests. My name is Lynn Storm, and I am the very proud director of Warren Township Transportation. Um, this is my 15th year in transportation. I'm even prouder of the fact that I'm a Warren Central graduate, as are my three children. Yes. Yay. Yay. Me and my >> There's not a lot of alumni in the room.
063We have to unite, Lynn. >> I know. Warren Central did a good job. >> Yes. Yes. >> Oh, I'm Bill Halpin, an assistant director of transportation. Um, my initials for high school are WC as well, but it was Warsaw Community, not Warren Central, but I've been in Warren now for 28 years, so a very proud warrior. >> Hi, I'm Austin Felner. I'm the garage supervisor for the district. Um, I did not graduate from Warren Township. I went to a neighboring school district. Uh, but I have been in the district for going on eight years now. >> I'll let you in on a little secret. The year I started working in Morren Township is the year he was born. >> Yeah. So, I've been here for a minute. Um, we're going to start out with the
064strategic plan focus and board goal is to invest in safety and operational excellence. and then I'm going to let Austin talk to you about our bus fleet. >> Good evening. So, our current fleet overview is right now we have 145 buses in our fleet. It's split between yellow and white. White buses are are are activity buses. Um we have 104 propane powered buses. That's around 71 almost 72% of our fleet. 32 buses is about 21% 22% I'm sorry and then our nine activity buses it's nine almost 7%. Um in August the transportation department expanded and updated its fleet with the purchase of 13 new and replacement vehicles. We purchased 11 new buses, four diesel powered buses with under storage, five propane powered buses that are 78 passenger conventional buses, um, and two propane power propane
065powered wheelchair accessible buses. We also purchased two used activity buses to replace some of our two the two oldest activity buses in our fleet. Uh, infrastructure upgrades. Since last year, we have completed our um almost completed our propane expansion. We used to have four 1,000galon tanks that we used to fill our fleet. We have now since removed those and added one 18,000galon tank um with an additional two dispensers. So, that gives our drivers four areas that they can get fuel at to kind of speed up the the rush in the afternoon to get fuel before they head to before their routes. We also added a new bus wash, a state-of-the-art bus wash that has been installed. Um, it's now operational. This system offers greatly improved washing capabilities that can now accommodate our service vehicle fleet.
066This helps really good in the winter time to help remove all the corrosive chemicals, the salt, um, debris from the road in the winter time to help prolong the the life of all of our service vehicles and other vehicles in the fleet. um upcoming upcoming inspections and recent success. Our semianual bus inspections are scheduled for the 28th of this month. Um we only have 11 buses due this time around. Uh we anticipate achieving another 100% score on this. Uh for our 2024 annual inspections, we received 91% score on the first time pass. Uh, this represents our highest first-time score in many years, and we are focused on improving this initial score during our 2025 inspections. I'm going to pass this over to Lynn. Now, this is Deanna Horn. She is our senior router and she
067was um our support staff person of the year for transportation. More importantly, she was the operations support staff person of the year for the entire township. So, we're really proud of Deanna and the work that she does. We have another router, Rakia Clayton. Um, we did have three routers. Greg Miles was our trips and activities router. We unfortunately lost him to cancer last February. So, we have absorbed his job into our department. Um, and with that, I'm going to let Bill talk more about uh our routing technology and the new things we have coming up. >> Thank you. With the absorption, excuse me, the absor absorption of our routing position, we're now down to two routers instead of three. Um, we are in the current process thanks to you school board of a migration to
068Traversa. Uh for the last I think it's at least 12 years we have been using a program called Versatrans to route our children every morning on these buses that we send to school every day. Traversa is the neighboring product for it's the exact it's the same company but it's an upgrade from the Tyler company and Versatrans the way I like to compare it is Versatrans is like the iPhone 7. It works well. It gets the job done. And now we're switching to Traversa, which is going to be the iPhone 17. >> So, we're looking forward to that. And I want to explain a little bit some of the differences that you're going to see uh in our but that we will see in the office, but hopefully in efficiency for the uh school district will
069see them as well. And the new system, we'll see a better we'll better serve our township, allowing our router team to handle the needs much more efficient efficiently. When you look at Traversa, it is a all-in-one suite program. Right now, our current system in Versa Trans, we have three different software programs to accomplish all these things. Routing our children to school, getting the trips and activities out for our kids, updating the GPS for our drivers, our parent communication, fleet maintenance, dispatch, and resource management. It's all done through three software programs. This migration to Traversa is going to be an 18month process, 12 to 18 months, and we're going to concurrently use Versa Trans and uh Traversa both together. So, as we do that, I'm going to let you know a little bit more about how
070we can do that to uh benefit our families. The first way our families are going to be serviced better is we're going to be able to have alternative stops for our families. And the way for me to describe this to you, we all know in this room that it takes a village to raise a child. And in our current system, we may have we can only have a child on one particular bus. And a Warren Township student may go to tutoring on Monday or Tuesday. Wednesday, they may go to the YMCA. Thursday, they may just go home to their regular their regular home. And there's all these pieces that we manually have to update in our current system. And it will not show up on the driver's tablet unless we make those systems. So this
071new addition to Traversa allows us to put a child on multiple buses and will automatically appear on the child's on the tablet because we know plans change. Don't go to the Y tonight, mom's going to be home. So we're really looking forward to that change and our routers are going to benefit from that. The second way our families are going to be serviced better is the creation of bus routes. On our iPhone, I keep going back to the iPhone because it's something we all can relate to or any cell phone. If we typed in on our map directions to Memphis, Tennessee, it would automatically pop up three different ways to get there. It would show us different routes that we can take. The fastest route, the most direct, the least turns. Well, this new Traversa
072program will automatically do that. We put the addresses in the system. it will automatically put the routes up for us and then instead of having to draw the actual route that our routers are currently doing, they can take a look and go through each route and get the safest stop for our kids. So, this is going to be a big advantage for us with the Traversa. Also, with the uh this is the learning curve for our families, but I think it's going to be something we're going to be able to do. We're going to be switching in the next 12 to 18 months from the Mytop at My Stop app to the My Ride K12. It's going to be an upgrade and then we're going to have to strategically get this out to our families
073so they know that this is going to be the new app that they go to to watch to see where their child's bus is at. The advantage to our families is if I'm a Warren Township parent that has three students that go to all of our different schools, in order for me to see each child's bus, I have to log out of my current student, log back in on the current app and put those credentials in the local ID number, the 8digit date of birth. So, it's a little tedious process. With our new system and the myide app, you'll see all your children on one page and it's just a matter of clicking. So, we're looking forward to that upgrade as well. Again, this is not something that's going to go like this. This is
074a process that will take 12 to 18 months. We're going to run both systems together until we're ready to actually make the switch. And with our redistricting uh plans, you know, we're looking at this really closely. Our first meeting with our company for Traversa, is it November, Lynn? November 10th, I believe. November 5th. So, we're starting that process. And then for our drivers, in addition to the uh the uh when you guys approve Traversa, we also are getting an upgrade in our tablets. Our actual driver tablets are rotating out. We're buying 25 I think it's 25 to 50 a year depending on I I forgot what we were buying a year, but but whatever it is, we're rotating the tablets in and getting the old tablets out. The good news is no matter what system
075we're on, Versa Trans or Traversa, it still runs on the older tablets or the new ones. So, we think we got a really good package here and we're looking forward to the change. And speaking of our drivers getting new tablets, I'm going to let Lynn speak about the driver training and certification. We get calls all the time and say, "Why are you short drivers? just get somebody with a driver's license. Unfortunately, it does not work that way. All of our drivers have to maintain compliance and ensure the highest safety standards. Um, they have to meet the following training and certification requirements. Um, their licensing, they don't just have a regular driver's license. They've got a class B commercial driver's license, and that includes school bus endorsement, passenger endorsement. So that says they're allowed to be
076in a school bus and that says they're allowed to have children on that bus. Safety and emergency response training. We um teach all of our staff in the non-violent crisis intervention training. They um they have CPR AED certification. They have special needs training. And when we do our special needs training, um I I will invite you when we're getting ready to do it again because it's hands-on. It's on the back lot. They're jumping in and out of bus. We've got runners. We're trying to um plan for anything that might happen on a special needs bus. But then that also includes um our students um that the driver and the monitor have to be specifically trained for their need. If we have oxygen on the bus, if we have um a service animal on the bus,
077if that child requires a dastat, if they're diabetic, we have um uh diabetic kits that we pass out to that them. Um there's just uh all kinds of things, the stomach feeding tubes that we have to train our drivers specifically in as our special needs children need. Um, we do the I love you guys training and we did the this year was our first year we did the Naron Narcan training and we have Narcan available on every one of our buses and our certification requirements um for with our ongoing compliance and health the adherence to state and federal requirements certifications. So, uh, with their driver's license, the, um, all bus drivers have to take a certification. We have to reertify every every year, um, with the state. Uh, we have to have an annual physical
078examination saying that we are physically able to drive a school bus. We have to lift and drag 50 pounds. Um, a bus driver has to have 100% usage of all their extremities. So, they can't even if they come to work and they've broken a finger, then the state says that they can't grip the wheel and they can't drive a bus. So, any little thing will knock them out of commission. Um, and then we do pre-employment and random drug testing. In the mornings, um, Bill stands at the back. He checks all the drivers and monitors as they come in. In the afternoons, I do that. So, that's just we're supposed to put eyes on them. So, if we see anybody that's suspect or concerning the way they're acting, then we would send them for um a
079random drug and alcohol test. community and state partnerships. Our our commitment to safety extends beyond the road through active cra collaborations with stoke state and local agencies. Um this year we um worked with the Indianapolis Fire Department and we gave them two buses and they were able to do training on those buses to uh see what it would be like to extract the side of the bus in an emergency situation to get seats out, get children out. Uh we do state training support. We facilitate facilitated state level safety initiatives by providing our site and buses for internal training purposes including the filming of promotional videos on stop arm and railroad crossing procedures. Um those were videos that were made with Indiana State Police because the Indiana State Police is the governing organization over all school
080buses in Indiana. And then IMPD has chosen warrant to come out. They bring their SWAT team out. um every year and um it's a little scary but um they bust through the windows on the old buses and I mean they're tearing through there and these guys are big. They run 10 miles um around the It's two miles if you walk around the whole transportation department and they run to 10 with all of their gear on before they start doing these um uh their rescues on the buses. So they come out and their whole thing is to train their staff on a bus under siege should that happen. upcoming events. We have our 12 year old and older buses inspections that Austin already talked about. Um we're doing the journey to safety this Saturday and we'll
081have the bus out there for people to look at. Um we've got coloring books and games and prizes and then next week is transportation appreciation week from uh the 27th through the 31st. So any small gifts or treats, we we love treats um would be appreciated. And th this doesn't stop here. We do all kinds of other things in the community. Last year alone um I had five dogs board the buses and we um we volunteer to foster those dogs until we find their owner. We take them to see if they've been microchipped and then we post it on the Warren chat to find where their owner is. Uh, we had a really um kind of a neat experience, but IMPD called me and said, "We have a little lost lady." And I don't know
082if you guys, some of you may have heard it on the radio um a couple weeks ago and they said, "She's got gray hair, blue pants, green shirt, and a flower in her hair, but she loves the school buses. She's over in the L Raymond Park area, and we were hoping one of your drivers might see her wandering around. She had Alzheimer's. So, I put a call out to the drivers. Everybody is looking for this lady because the buses are everywhere. Um, our bus driver did not find her, but the police did find her and she was safe. But, um, we do whatever we can to help the community. Do you have any questions of any of us? >> Yes, sir. >> Yeah. Uh, I got quite a few. >> Okay. >> What is more
083expensive, the propane or the diesel? >> Austin. It kind of varies depending on uh the the additions that you add to the bus. I mean, they're within they're within 1,500 to $3,000 of each other. Just depends on the on the add-ons that you do. >> Are you talking about the cost of the bus or the actual fuel? >> Are your white buses are white activity buses? You got you said you got nine of them. Are there any more white activity or any white buses or just or do you just have nine white buses? just have activity buses. >> They large or small? >> They're small. They're 14 passenger >> buses. Okay. Are they the same buses you use for your uh special edge kids? >> No. Okay. Don't do that. Uh you getting any fuel
084discounts for your for your bus for your fuel? >> We get it at a at a government rate. Uh I'm not exactly sure what we pay at right this moment, but we do get some sort of government discount. >> So, Why are you using why you have it mixed up like that? Diesel and fuel. I thought that was kind diesel and propane. I thought that was kind of interesting. >> So we the the propane definitely is cleaner and more it's cleaner for the s the urban areas. Um it's quieter especially on on the buses. Uh we use the diesel buses mainly for long trips. So trips that go out of town, out of the state, we use those because in the event that we send a propane bus, it's a lot easier to find a
085diesel station to fill up instead of propane. >> One other question, how often do you conduct your random drug testing? >> Um, we have what we call the drug wagon that comes once a month and we're just randomly selected. Um, sometimes I've been pulled every month for six months and then I might go a year and not get pulled at all. >> What do you use? Social security numbers. >> What do you do? >> That I have to go out and present my driver's license and my social security number. And then they tell me whether I'm getting pulled for just um a drug test or drug and alcohol because they do breathalyzers, too. And um they do what it's a split test. So, they do a test right there on site and then it usually
086says that you're a pass or a fail. Um, and then they send the other half of the test off. And so there be should there be a problem with the first test, it won't the first test won't say what it is. They just say you passed or you failed. Um, the other test gets sent off. It takes a couple days and then it comes back and tells us what exactly they failed from. Was it cocaine? Uh, was it marijuana? So what do you do to a person that fails tests? >> Um we we call HR. Um but we do offer we do have situations where we have had employees fail a test for a drug or for alcohol and when um they've been forthcoming before they're going going out to take the test and they'll
087tell me that you know this I was with some people over the weekend. I I'm really afraid this is not going to go well or I was doing something. I took some of my sister's pain pills. I don't have the prescription for them. Um because that that stuff will come back. So, we'll work with them. Um and we have had drivers and staff that it has put them out of commission for maybe a year to six months because then they have to have uh they have to go through our drug testing company. Um and they have to pay for it. Um, and it's it's usually anywhere between eight and 12,000 for them to get a clean bill of health to come back. Um, and at that time, if we can, we will let them continue
088to work doing something. It would not be driving a bus or being a monitor on a bus. Um, but we would try and find something for them to do uh uh that's not safety safety sensitive until we can get them back to work. >> Have you had have you had you had any reason reason but uh have you had to use your Narcans? >> We have not yet. >> Yeah. Okay. But you you you guys trained in that? >> We are. >> Okay. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. >> You know, in in reference to when they come and say, "Oh, I had a a busy weekend and drank too much." At that point in time, uh do you just say because I if they had that, they shouldn't have showed up for work. They should
089have just not showed up. But >> true. Do you tell them they have to go home or or do you allow them to drive or >> if they don't take the test, even if they fail the test? If they don't take the test, there it's an automatic fail and they have to be terminated. I have to recommend them for termination. If they do take it and they fail and they're honest, then there's a doctor that they would see within our drug testing facility that they can talk to and explain. Um they don't have to disclose that information to to me or or our um safety person. Um, but they they do have to tell that personal information to the doctor and then he determines uh what steps they'll he would take if they if they
090just need to be off six months if um they'll come up with a whole plan and let them know how much it's going to cost them and how long it before they could go back to doing their regular job. >> I have one other question. Um how many of your uh buses are aironditioned? >> Uh we're very excited about the air conditioned buses. Um we have 12 12 now. Um the on um all of our special needs buses are air conditioned. All of our wide activity buses are air conditioned. Um last year the our big buses that we started ordering um started coming with air conditioning just in the driver's box. And it's not that we don't like the kids, but it's very very expensive. And if we can keep the driver cool while they're
091on that bus for 6 to 8 hours a day, then um that kind of helps us with our driver retention. But we don't have a lot now, but going forward um we will we will have the air conditioning in the what's called the driver's box. >> Okay. You you say moving forward it'll just be for the drivers and it won't be for the students >> until they can come off the price of um we're we we have a budget. Um, we have we get about 2.5 million to buy our buses every year and that only gets us 10 or 11 buses. Doesn't get us a lot because they're very expensive. Um, and hopefully that the price will start coming down, but um, Caramel has air conditioned buses. They're the they're the only ones >> because
092I know I I just imagine when it's really hot outside. I can't imagine me getting in my car and um not having air condition and and basically you can roll the windows down. Yes. >> However, it's raining or storming outside and it's hot. You can't raise the windows down. So that's that would be >> it's it's hard. It it it's hard. Um and we do other things um upgrades on our buses that not everybody's doing. All of our buses have lap shoulder belts in them for the children. We have special lighting, so the buses are much brighter now. Um, the school bus across the front and the back and the stop arms are are lit more brightly like what police cars are. >> Um, you know, I just had a bright idea. You know, we
093always have the education foundation and you know how they have people bidding and and get why couldn't we have one of those just for our buses to try to work on getting more air conditioned buses. You'd be surprised how many people might donate. >> So, I mean I'm just offering that as a suggestion moving forward because, you know, I want our students to be comfortable, too. So, >> sure. as a member of the um Parks and Education Foundation, Miss Williams, we will take that topic off um line um as we gather more information, but I do have um two things for your Nor. Is that put in a um is it in a safety area just accessible with um for the drivers? >> Yes. >> Okay. And then I didn't hear you mention stop to
094bleed kits. Do you have stop to bleed kits on all of your buses? >> Do we have? >> We don't have stop to bleed kits. >> Okay. Um, have you all taken the stop to bleed training? >> All of your drivers have taken that. Okay. So then we need to work on how many >> 150 >> stop the bleed kits. >> Thank you. I didn't hear you mention that, so I just wanted to check on that. Thanks. We would love that. >> We'll work on that. >> I think we're good. Thank you so much. >> Technology update time. >> Good evening, President Burke, Dr. Hansen. Members of the board, uh hopefully you recall this time last year you approved the purchase of additional modules for our synergy student information system. One is analytics, the other
095was MTSS um schoolboard goals. I think we'll find that these two will at one point hit every one of these goals in the strategic plan. So just a little background take you back to um a few years ago. So way back in 2015 we purchased an analytics software called decision ed and we used that for quite a while. We replaced that with five lab which was more intuitive and graphical than decision ed was. It's also known as frontline student analytics now. Um one of the uh difficulties with five lab was uh we lost access for teachers to reporting. Um this was always on the road map with five lab but it just never materialized. Um also with five lab we had uh difficulty measuring its use. Um, ironically, we had asked them, they would send
096us a spreadsheet here. Here's all your usage, and I would see that some of our top reports were New York State, uh, reports, uh, which obviously we wouldn't use. Uh, they recognized that was a problem, but never were able to really give us clean data that just represented warrant usage. Um, but the limited data that we did get suggested that we just had a small pocket of users that were really heavily using it. So that made us look into maybe we should look for something to replace that and get back teacher access for one. Um we wanted an an data analysis reporting and dashboard tool um that would look at all of our academic data and clearly access for teachers was important for us. Um so in May of 2024 we issued the RFP. July
097we had vendor demonstrations. We had stakeholders from across the uh district involved with that. They narrowed it down to two vendors, Renaissance Learning and Synergy Analytics. We wanted the early warning system. To get that with Synergy Analytics, you had to also purchase the MTSS module. Um so we ended up uh landing on uh Synergy. It turned out that the price of analytics and MTSS was very similar to the price for Renaissance learning and the price that we were paying for five lab. So we actually gained some functionality by switching to analytics and MTSS. You'll see in the presentation I combined the early warning system with analytics rather than MTSS. uh right now. Uh so again last year at this time uh you approved the purchase of those modules. So synergy analytics um the benefit one
098of the big benefits of this is the software package that our users are in every day. That's where analytics lives. So um it so the timeline so jump back the timeline as you recall so last August through December we were looking at uh five lab report usage and then we did an official kickoff with uh edgypoint in December. Uh so we did some training with our staff uh in December and January and we were building our first dashboards with edgypoint staff helping us February through May. Then we worked with the high school team uh on adjustments to standard reports that edge point delivered and we started producing our own warren specific reports. So you know we had some quick wins. We were able to le leverage our current uh skill set within it to just
099pick up the building of these reports pretty quickly. Some of the challenges really was just us knowing where to find the data within this database because now we're looking at tables we weren't always looking at before. challenge for edgupoint which was a challenge for five lab which was a challenge for decision ed was renaissance. So they kind of scratched their head and said how do these students work in your system? So we were able to uh get over that hump and uh get some reports produced for renaissance and um the rest of the schools. So this implementation team there were two members from edge point one was the product manager uh we had our technology team Todd Garing who's sitting in the back uh was part of that Alex Puit our programmer and I was
100on that team and we have two of our esteemed high school team here with us tonight Allison and Trent Boddine and Brie Brown also was part of that process. Um when I get to MTSS later just remember what this slide looks like. um you may be shocked. So what does it look like? I I mentioned before that it's all within the same system. So when I'm in Synergy, I can go right to this option for the Synergy Analytic homepage and you can see a list of dashboards that are available. So as I click on each one, you'll get an idea. If I click on assessments, you can see we have an I read3 dashboard. We have a number of attendance dashboards that you can see here. discipline dashboards, enrollment dashboards. These are uh marks or
101grades uh dashboards. And I like to show this one because it's a role-based system. So, for example, the the dashboard at the top is what the high school sees. So you'd see like just general marks, all grades, D's and Fs, and then we have a freshman learning center uh report there on the end. But the middle school doesn't see that. Middle school sees the same first three, but then they have their own middle school honor role dashboard that they see. And the high school does not see that one. So it's all based on your role, what school you're at, and that's just determined by your Synergy access. We also have dashboards for online registrations, some at a glance secondary student perspective. Pulls a lot of information onto one screen for you. There's also for supervisors,
102teacher gradebook activities, and then we have our device invoice uh program in there as well. So, I mentioned the teachers have access to this as well. As you can see, it's important on this screen. This is the same place they go to get to the grade book. And right next to the gradebook option is the analytics. And we'll get to it later, but you can see over there on the right is actually MTSS also. So they log into one system and they can get to all of them. Right now they have access to chronic absenteeism, missing attendance, and the letter grade analysis. Um, so at the end of each day, they can just go in and run missing attendance and they can find whatever they're missing for that day and can go back and update
103their attendance. So, I mentioned there were some dashboards delivered out of the box from Edgypoint. They were out of the box, but we still had to fine-tune them to work well for us. I mentioned Renaissance in particular to make that work right. Um, there were uh some discipline enrollment marks student and supervisor dashboards, but we quickly transitioned from this into just creating our own. So, these are Warren created dashboard reports that we have created since May. So we've made a lot of progress in the last five months or so with a lot more under construction right now and a lot of these were created with the assistance of the high school team. When I mentioned there was a small group of users in five lab before most of those users were at the high school
104so that's why we focused on them to begin with and a lot of these high school reports also are applicable at middle school. So we'll be able to push those down as we get sign off on how well those work at the high school. So, I'm going to give you an example of what they look like. So, if I were to select one, this is a 9090 report. So, one of our goals is to have 90% um of our students have 90% or greater attendance. So, anybody in our staff can come in here and see how we're doing so far. Um, and it's important to know like all these places where you see the colors or the numbers. I can click on those and it'll drill in and I can see the students that are
105part of that percentage. I'll show you how that looks here in a bit. This is a recent one. So, we have tardy totals by type and period. The high school uses this. What's nice is there are some uh codes that are dependent on the or color codes that are dependent on the value. So it makes the values bump, you know, bounce off the screen a little more. You can see there's one in red. So it makes it a little easier for people when they look um you can see I've grayed out the students, but on the left they would see the student name and the ID as well. They can also there are tabs here at the top. They can switch the uh to look at a particular tardy code if they want to. I
106I like this one because it gives you a sample of some other types of reports that can be thrown out there. So, you've got um some options here that just show you um you know, how we've done uh historically um and also gives you a breakdown by grade and um I think the one on the right is also by grade. It's cut off at the bottom there, but but you get a flavor for what what it can do. And again, all these numbers I can click on and it'll give me the detail behind it. This is a new one where we've created for our school enrollment. So this is as of a particular day what our enrollment looks like across the district. The left column is the total district. We can see a breakdown um
107across the schools. At the top I've got my tabs. So if I want to look at special programs, I can click on those and get numbers. You would see on here um you know two colors on the bars. And like if I were to click on sped, you'd see the sped number and the gen ed number together and a broken record. You can click on that. You can also see uh who's who the students are behind that. This is the all grade analysis. So this is breaking down A's, B, C's, D's, and Fs uh by grade. Uh you can also change the tab, department, course, or teacher. Click into it, see the students. Here's that middle school honor roll that I talked about before. I like this one because it I've grayed out the uh
108student names on the left there. You can see they're blue. They're hyperlinks. So, I can then click on those students. And this was what happens when I click on any of those bars and I get a list of students. I'll have a hyperlink for that student, which will let me drill right into that student and see whatever information is on the report. Here they can see there's a bunch of tabs at the top that lets them filter by grade or the honor roll type. Here's a letter grade analysis. Again, this shows you like we can even spread it out beyond just the A's and B's. We've got the B's and minuses and the pluses, etc. And you can see at the top there's filters. U, this is actually for the teachers. So, this is uh
109one of the math teachers at the high school. So, what's really cool about this and um this teacher in particular asked for this feature. So they can also scroll down on that screen and they can see their list of students. So these are all all his students and how their what their grade is, what their percentage is in his class. And then over on the left is the hyperlink. So they can click on any of those students and see what they're doing in all their other classes. So it gives them insight into is this student just struggling in my class or are they struggling in all the classes. So that's just like all the other U screens that we've seen with the hyperlinks. It would look just like this where the original report there is
110on the left but it's popped up another report on the right that is the drill down. So technically early warning system is part of our MTSS package but it really kind of lives in reality in or the in analytics with us but this is an example of what this would look like for the high school. So it gives them you know the credit risk analysis you know how many kids are at risk due to attendance or behavior. Um and then it has a summary at the bottom. So it's giving a point score for all of these and then showing and then they they're able to click into that to see what those students who those students are so that they can take action on it. So here are kids with credit risk analysis right now.
111Um so again it gives them a lot of insight into what is happening here for these particular students. Here's a drill down on the summary. And again, you see like over on the right here, it's giving you some color-coded cells based on the number to just make those jump out at you if they're unusual. So, that is synergy analytics as it lives today. I've asked the Bodines to come here tonight and maybe share some thoughts on u how it's helped them hopefully. So, No pressure. >> Okay. So, I was gonna go through a couple of these and how we use them. Um, real quick, just so you could kind of see. So, this all grade analysis, you can see at the top it says by grade level by department. So, what our department chairs have
112been able to do is look at a particular course by teacher and see how the grades are doing. So, if you have three world history teachers, for example, how are the grades looking in those classes? if there is there one world history teacher that has very different grades and so they can look at those quickly and have interventions with the teacher and say hey how's it going what's going on with your grades you have a lot of missing work how can I help and so we've been able to intervene quicker because we have more access to the data and we're able to quickly look at and see where there might be issues um with our grading practices um I'm jealous of the honor roll so we're going to talk about that but for our teachers
113um they can look and they can go by period they can go by course. So, this particular math teacher has two distinct courses. Um, so he has a dual credit class and then a different class. And so, he's able to look at his geometry classes separately from another class. So, he can kind of look at that grade breakdown and kind of see how that is working. So, he has quick access to anything he can do to analyze. They also have attendance dashboards. And so, that's been really helpful for them to kind of correlate grades and attendance quickly. The early warning system has been um super useful. This one is credits. Um, you'll notice that 858 don't have credits yet. Well, those are our freshman, so they don't all have um their credits defined yet, but
114we're able to, our counselors use this often to be able to look at, I need to meet with some sophomores and I have 300 kids in my roster. How do I know who I need to meet with first? So, they are able to look at this and they can filter by themselves um their counselor name and they can quickly see who they need to um work with and um at what time. And then this other one um here you can see we've added multiple categories with 3,000 kids at the high school. There would if you only had three buckets it would be a thousand kidsish in each one. So with having the five distinct categories we can clearly see we have 30 high-risisk very high-risisk kids at the high school. So we can quickly drill
115down on those kids and start working on with our interventionists and our counselors and our deans and get those interventions more quickly because we're easily able to identify those kids much easier now than we had before. >> Um Trey, you want to talk about your freshman learning center? >> Good evening everybody. Thank you for letting me um come speak tonight. Um, we all know we I know it's been talked about a lot of times in this meeting in cabinet and the high school the significance of freshman being on track to graduate when they metriculate from their freshman year to their sophomore year. And one of the biggest hurdles was collecting that data was taking hours and hours and hours of time. We were getting pieces of it here and pieces of it here. And then
116Allison was having to teach me how to do formulas in a in a spreadsheet to get it to do some wizardry so it had the information that I needed. So back in Kent's timeline when he said we started um talking that was the first thing that we said we needed easy access to how do we know what freshman on track. Um I think the one thing that really stands out for me with the analytics and the way that we're able to access now is it's real- time data. So we see some students that are struggling. we put together some interventions and in two weeks from now we can look at the data and it's real- time gradebook. It's pulling real- time gradebook data from the students teachers grade books. Is a student passing? Is a
117student not? Um because they're freshman, we're looking at their course grades because they don't actually earn credits until the end of their f endure. So, we are looking at gradebook grades as of today. Would they earn a credit based upon their grade? and we're able to say, "Okay, this student is passing all their classes. This student is failing two of their classes, so they're they're still on track because we really want them to have 10. This student is failing too many classes." So then we can put together some interventions and then two weeks from now, we're able to see that data and see if our interventions have worked. In our previous iterations of programs that we went away from, it wasn't real- time data. It was data we were sending them. Um, a lot of
118the data that we were pulling was only grade reporting time. So, end of the first quarter, midterm. So, now we're several weeks away from when we reported that. The data that I would be looking at was still the same data from three weeks ago. Whereas now, I can go sit down at my computer and I can see tonight what the freshman data looks like as of tonight in the teacher's gradebook. So, it's really been um useful, especially as we're looking at the freshman on track. Um, and then being able to sit down in our team meetings and instead of spending time putting the data together, what are we doing about the data? That's where our time, we're able to spend our time what we're doing about the data as opposed to just spending hours and
119hours and hours getting the data. >> I just wanted to ask one question. >> I know. Uh in working with my niece, I noticed that uh kids tend to not do their assignments. And luckily, I learned how I learned how to do the parent portal to keep up with it. And I would when she come home, did you do your work? Yeah, I did it. Okay, let's look. No, you didn't. Okay. So, how I think that's the big problem because uh if I had not checked behind her, oh my gosh, she would not have passed. So, I had to stay up on it. Is there any way uh when you see these kids are at risk? Nine times out of 10, they have a lot of missing assignments. Is there any way? >> So, we
120that's one of the things we work with the teachers with because some of it is a teacher tracking issue. So, um, teachers have really great instructional strategies, but their operations management in their class and tracking that missing work. So, that's one of the things the data has been allowed us to do is kind of see teachers that have more Fs in their class and kind of work with them on what other procedures and protocols and routines for gathering that missing work. Um, I think Canvas in some regards has been great, but also sometimes you just submit it online and there's not that back and forth. Remember, you put the names of the kids who had the missing assignment on the board. So, we've been working with our new teachers especially on some of those protocols
121and how they can work with kids to get that missing work in more efficiently. >> Great. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> You better move quickly because I might have another question. >> Only halfway done with this presentation. >> Yeah, you know, my support is my emotional support is coming up here. So, uh, which is perfect for MTSS. Before we jump into MTSS, you know, I I'm famous for saying we we know we're doing our job well when nobody notices us. So, it's it's rewarding, right, when we do things like this for the technology department to get that kind of feedback. Um, it's it's really motivating for us to, you know, produce even more effective. So, back to the board goals, these are things that help those students succeed better because someone is stepping in
122to help them with that. So, >> and I would like to say that's what I wanted to say before I said that. I think that is excellent this this what you have going because you're able to monitor them, be able to see what they're doing across the classes, you know, different classes and sort of keep up with it. This is exactly what is going to help our students. So, I think that is brilliant. Thank you. so much. It's great. >> You're welcome. The next part is equally important, more important to some students actually. So, I mentioned that to get um the early warning system, which is at 9:00 on this dial, um that's part of the MTSS uh package. So, we decided to um we got this. Let's just go ahead and start using the
123MTSS portion as well. Now, we couldn't do everything and I'll show you. Um, similarly, right, we had uh December of last year, we had our official kickoff. December and January, we had uh our project management team uh look at demos and a selection of what modules we would pilot because we knew we couldn't do all the other uh pieces of that pie that you saw on MTSS at one time. So February through May we worked on just completing the uh surveys from synergy on how we're going to use MTSS. Um so uh then we had training in July. The first session was just on MTSS plans and the second session were the remaining modules that we decided to pilot. You can see here forums, check-in checkout, minor incidents and emotion tracking. Some of the challenges
124with this was complexity. This was a lot more difficult I know for me than I expected uh when we started it. So we went through a learning curve of just how does synergy MTSS work so that we can tell them how we want it to work for us. Um and then of course anytime you're working with school staff there's just a challenge to find times that work to get everybody together. So this is you know when you meet with the synergy MTSS team they say it's simple we just follow this road mapap and we'll just you know like hey it's this one and a half hour webinar this is another one and a half webinar okay and then they'll like well here's actually what you're going to do so the first step it might take
125you four to eight weeks oh my god eight weeks just to do step one yeah so uh it this is when my eyes were opening even more to give you an idea Yeah, here is one of the surveys that we filled out. This is one tab on a spreadsheet. So, I had to make the text pretty small to get it all in this slide. Um, >> even goes down further. >> It does. We're very fortunate that we're not in Allison's office, so she doesn't have access to her stapler because she likes to throw it at my head for suggesting we do some of that we that we do some of this. Um, so I referenced back in analytics, hey, where do you see the MTSS project team? So, here it is. We had three folks
126from Edgypoint. We had our core project management team, Allison, Todd Garing again sitting in the back and myself. And you think to you're going to say to yourself, well that's about the same size as the analytics team. This was the team, right? So, uh, a lot more people. So, it became a lot more complex to have all the meetings and figure out how this is going to work. And it wasn't like we told them, you know, hey, plug in, you know, one here and three here and five here and we're ready to go. There was a lot of back and forth with the edgoint folks to get this correct. Um, so I mentioned before this is just right inside synergy. Teachers could see it in teacher view. Our staff can see it in their navigation
127tree on the uh SIS side. And here is an example of the things that they can select. And again, not all of these are being used at every school. We're piloting these, many of them in just certain schools or grades. So, what I I pulled up some example um views here of what an MTSS plan would look like. So, like for at this particular school, there's six plans. I picked one out so you can see uh how it's showing for this particular student at Eastridge. You know what it's got some summary information here on the right. You know what are the issues? Um here's the plan that was created. So um high level information there. One of the things is the area of concern in this particular place. It's reading. Uh the learning gap is
128decoding. The intervention is UFI, which is what >> you fly. >> So, that's right. >> Thank you, Mrs. Griffin, for poking fun of me. >> So, you can see the staff that's involved in this particular plan. Um, documents that have been uploaded for this. So, it's all in one place. A lot of this existed in schools already, but they were Google Sheets, Google Drives, different forms at different schools. So, this gets it all in one place and consistency across the district. They can quickly come in and see here, they could record an outcome, but they can just come in and see also at a glance the monitor the progress of this. Now, we're still early in this, right? We've gone through one quarter. Um, so there's a lot more to come here uh with all
129of this. You may certainly >> So, these are our plans for individual students that we've identified that are struggling with something. So whether it be math, reading, behavior, attendance, u and so these uh used to live on paper, on spreadsheets, um that screen you saw a few minutes ago with the people's faces on it. What's great is that uh if I have a plan for a student and they have an ML teacher and they have the general general ed teacher and the counselor that are involved, they can all have access to the plan. If the student moves from one building to another and that plan can stay active. These plans can be written for one student or groups of students. Um so I was looking through them today and um one teacher had a couple
130students in her class that were struggling with um the same math skill. So they created a um plan for them and one of those students also had um a reading goal. One of the things we really wanted to get to and this has helped us that big giant spreadsheet that you saw with all the parts um was targeting exactly what the students need. So when we're making a plan because they're struggling to read, we need to know what the skill that they're stuck on so we can provide an intervention that is evidence-based and specific for that skill. So we worked with Kate and the teaching and learning team to make sure that the um uh interventions that were put in here match the need. Um so we're being really smart about um the goals and
131the um interventions that we're putting in place for the students. Um, so we're really excited to see this start and we have most of our elementary schools um that are already using and have multiple plans in their buildings. >> Thank you. Yeah. So, um, when I created this, we had 42 students. I'm sure it's higher now. 36 with active plans. Um, and you can see a few, um, schools that have multiple students. Uh, Pleasant Run has the most students and then Lakeside and Eastridge. So, I mentioned there were some other things that we um that we are piloting. Forms is one. So, you can see the forms that we have in here. And again, these existed, they just existed in different um well, different forms at each school. Um, so this gets them all in
132one place, consolidates them, consistent forms across the district. Uh we're going to should be beginning now piloting the check-in checkout process at LOL. Um also minor incidents. So at the high school we're piloting minor incidents. So we don't necessarily need a referral for everything that goes wrong. So this allows them to just enter a minor incident. Um and you can see a list there of minor incidents. Um and we've had at the time of uh me creating this about 1,200 incidents entered. We're doing a sixth grade pilot on emotion tracking. So the students when they log into student view it'll pop up and say how are you feeling and this is being captured at you can see Crescent Raymond Park and Stonybrook. Um so this will all start to ramp up as we go through
133the school year as well. >> How are you feeling tonight Alison? >> I'm feeling great. um excited. Um what's cool about the emotion tracker is the students input how they're feeling for that day and then it shows up on that teacher seating chart. So we had a training over fall break with a group of um sixth grade teachers to pilot this. Um our the check-in checkout um is in in alignment with our PBIS. It's a tier 2 intervention. Um so what's great and a challenge that we've struggled with for many years is you have a student who has an MTSS plan. They're in check in and checkout. They're seeing the counselor and those all live in separate places. So when we're talking about students and how they're doing, we have to look lots of places.
134Well, now we can just look in synergy. You could a teacher can go in and say, "Oh, the students and check in and check out. Oh, they have a plan." Um, oh, look, they were sad today. I need to go um check in with them. And so everything living in one place is just making us more efficient um and making the data more real time. It comes with its own reporting. It's going to look just like we saw in analytics. I can click on these bars and see the detail behind them. Um, I won't go through all of these, but you can see different options here broken down by grade. Um, here's the interventions over here in the blue. Mrs. Griffin is you fly. It breaks it down by the uh groups and any programs
135that we have as well. Um you can also drill in and see um you know the numbers here broken out by uh demographics and you can drill through these. So any of these numbers in blue I can click on I can see who the students are. I can see information about them. So that is synergy MTSS. Any questions for Mrs. Woods? >> Yeah. Uh, I wasn't going to ask this question, but I I guess I got to. You showed this attendance stuff, a bunch of bunch of attendance stuff earlier in the TV view. >> Teacher view. Yeah. What's the difference between that and and and help me understand this and Raptor >> Rowi? >> Yeah. Do you mean Ra Raptor is our check-in at the schools? You mean Rawi, which is the attendance system? >>
136What's I mean, is there some compatibility there? Are we doing or if we were being redundant in these uh the processors? What's what's happening there? >> No. So, RAW gets updated each night from Synergy. So it's the same data flowing over but it has other functionality built into it like the letters that get created, emails. >> Yeah. Yeah. Uh the reports that so for example in order for Rowi to work for us to be able to put interventions in place and see what our most current attended d attendance is teachers need to take attendance. So for example that report that they have access to for their missing attendance then feeds our um you know if attendance is not taken then we can't determine what intervention students need. Um so that helps them be able to
137um have the accurate attendance for us to be able to respond to. Um Raptor is that visitor management um piece of when you're signing um visitors in and out of the building. Um >> I screwed that up. >> Okay. That's okay. I'm a raptor. >> Yeah, >> I guess it was Rowi over, >> right? Yeah. So, our attendance data lives in Rowi and there are some reports um that they've built. So, for example, that 90 um that 90 students or >> 90% at 90% um that Dr. Hansen um set a goal for us on um that isn't specified in in Rowi. Um so, uh Kent and his team built that for us. Um but Rowi is more has more of the interventions assigned with it. Sending the letters, documenting the interventions um and things like
138that. So there's there's not really a lot of overlap. We need one in order for the other to work both ways. >> So you two So since there's no o overlapping that you got two systems there that talks about attendance. >> Yeah. Well, they talk to each other. So you take I take attendance in synergy and that data then goes to Rowi so we can um do something about our attendance. >> It's also helpful because not everybody has access to raw but everybody has access to synergy so the teachers can just see the attendance. So we're working on you know I showed the the grades for those students for the teacher you could drill in and see that. We're also going we're adding in attendance information so the teachers can get they can see like
139hey this student's this is still in progress but this student's missing my class a lot is it just my class or are they missing a lot of other classes too. they'll be able to see periodic this particularly at the high school then like oh it's not just period my period six class that this student is missing they're also missing a lot or this students here periods one through five and period seven or I guess it's period 1 through three and maybe not period four with the block scheduling they're only missing my class we better have a discussion about that right so it's just to give them more insight into it so that wouldn't be something that would be at the fingertips through WAWI for a teacher. So, it's sort of belt and suspenders, right, for
140us to make sure we've got it covered. >> Thank you, Allison. >> So, I just wanted to go over some key points about this. Um, so as I mentioned, I I really believe it directly supports the board goals. Really, all of them eventually I see that happening. Um it just provides unified access to a bunch of data um both instructional and for student support. Um you know as I mentioned it's combining data dashboards and MTSS tools at a comparable cost to the to the alternatives that we looked at. Uh teachers and administrators now have direct role-based access. I talked about that to to real time that's the third time tonight we've said real time student data within the SIS. Uh we've had some early wins um including automated attendance tracking, the grade analysis and identification
141of at risk students. Uh and then again our staff, our technology staff. We're just increasingly able to build and customize these dashboards for our staff. And I'm I'm really excited about expanding this down to especially the middle schools because I as I mentioned as we as we get these high school reports solid and and really usable they're going to make a lot of sense especially at seventh and eighth grade for those middle schools. So just in conclusion it's really um proving to be a powerful platform. It's going to help us make datadriven decisions, monitor students, and provide interventions, the ease of access, cost efficiency, and uh provides that integrated functionality that the prior systems lacked. We're still in the early stages as I've mentioned before, but I think we're well positioned to really have synergy
142analytics and MTSS provide significant value for us and our teachers, especially as we really mature through this process. With that, I'll I'll be happy to answer any questions. I'll be even happier to call any of my friends back up. >> If not, thank you so much. >> Thank you, Ken. >> Okay, Mr. Clayton, you have many items. We're going to begin with enrollment, management, and redistricting update. >> I'm gonna need the whole audience to join me for my presentation. He he will not >> All right, President Burke, Dr. Hansen, members of the board, and to our Warren community, I want to provide an update on our enrollment management and redistricting initiative. And before I jump into this, I think it's important every time any of us have an opportunity to talk about uh this initiative,
143um uh just to again reiterate that the work we are doing right now is anchored in our unwavering commitment to um our school community. Um in other words, we don't want our community to feel like that um our work is what I would say um happening to the community. We we want to remind our community that this work is happening with with you with the commu with the community. Um it's a collaboration. It's a bedrock of our planning ensuring uh that every decision reflects the values and the needs of our students and families and staff and as one of our five strategic focus and board focuses areas um outline. So with the brief time I have um providing this update um what I will touch on is how we've integrated that that feedback and how
144we plan on using that as part of our our focus groups. Also um our representative planning through our our focus groups um the diversity amongst those groups in terms of the stakeholders that will be involved in that process. And then also finally our um plans to continue or remain continuous in our engagement with the community. As we always talk about um our initiative is anchored in our um board and strategic plan um focus um ensuring um invest in our academic excellence and student achievement. Um we're going to ensure we have balanced resources and equitable class sizes across all elementary schools to support high quality instruction. We're going to reintegrate, our plan is to reintegrate the fifth grade students back into elementary schools to provide a development developmentally appropriate K- through5 structure. Um had a conversation
145uh this this afternoon with um our demographer, our firm from Walford, and just in the information that we provided, which I'll touch on that here um shortly. um based on what they've received thus far from our nine elementary schools. They've had um meetings this week with um all nine of our elementary principles. Um right now tenatively they believe that we will be able to move our fifth graders back in terms of just the space that we have and still capacitywise we'll we'll have some space to you know potentially grow. Um thanks Tony. Tierney provided some some information too. So that that may adjust the the number as well. So right now so far so good. Um also utilizing staff expertise during our planning focus groups to consider the impact of scheduling location changes and on
146our teachers administrators that falls in our best in our people and we'll continue to prioritize community feedback as I mentioned um neighborhood continuity and family schedules which was reflected in our feedback but that falls under our invest in family and community engagement. Finally, uh continue through to optimize our facility usage and transportation logistics. And again, you will see how that is co that coincides with our focus groups. So, as many of you know and uh appreciate your attendance and involvement in this process, we successfully hosted three community conversations um back in September right before break. Um and on those three days, the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, we were at Crestston, Stony Brook, and Raymond Park intermediates. And we had well over 150 uh people that attended all three sessions. And uh we successfully collected 134
147unique email addresses for future communications and updates. and I'll talk about the the feedback from uh those sessions as well as the the feedback that's ongoing in terms of what we uh provide and offer on our website. Uh but uh some of the the the feedback um and the input focus on the four key areas if you recall the questions that were prepared for that discussion. So, let's talk a little bit about the feedback. Starting off with elementary school uh balance redistricting. And this is this is again this is a a summary of the the feedback that we receive uh and and input. Prioritize student proximity to their neighborhood. Again, this is coming from our our parents and some of our students that participate in this process and staff, but prioritizing student proximity to their
148neighborhood, school, keeping established neighborhoods together. Consider balancing enrollment by both student numbers and socioeconomic racial equity. There is a desire to avoid changes with some recommending uh the district take a look at the out of district um process. Next, under moving fifth grade back to elementary, some of the feedback we received um and just overall there was support for the move citing the need for developmentally appropriate learning environments. There was concerns centered on elementary building capacity and space which I briefly addressed and we'll provide more information over the upcoming weeks as far as what those exact capacity study uh will reveal. uh the need for adequate staffing and resources in providing um a grandfathering option or stability for current fourth graders that want to stay in their school. School start and end times was one
149of the questions we asked around that. This top topic generated various responses often linked to family logistics. Some parents want to keep the current times. Others suggested having high school start earlier, which I don't know how they can start any earlier, but um others suggested having high school start earlier to allow older siblings to provide after school care or starting high school and middle school later to align with adolescent sleep research. Uh the need to accommodate working parents schedules and child care availability um was also a major concern as we know. And then with our high ability and spe specialized program, the strong desire to have the high ability program offered in every elementary school. Um that that was a winner. Uh to avoid busing students and to create dedicated classroom at each site, ensure
150that all elementary schools have equal access to resources and programs like dual language immersion. Um that they are balanced and protected. Any questions on the feedback that we received thus far? And again, we're still collecting feedback and we'll continue to collect feedback um through our website and every time we um have our community engagement and focus group opportunities. Okay, a brief update on our demographic study. Um we have successfully successfully completed the first round of submittals to um Walpert. Um they asked uh they provided a worksheet uh to us um early on in the process. We had 15 to 20 items um information data points um thank Dr. Hansen, members of our cabinet uh Kent u for providing that that information so they can start their analysis and and start putting together those projections. So
151some of the information that we provided um really kind of fell in three buckets. uh facility information, capacity inventory, our building leaders, elementary building leaders um provided support in that area. Uh our floor plans, our operations team provided that. Our facility inventory um square footage um and any recent renovations. Enrollment data. Um they wanted to look at historical data, district data, um wide enrollment, K through 12, um student potential analysis, um and then as well as the residential developmental data and then academic and program data. And that was part of the the phone call that I facilitated the last couple days between our building leaders and um and Walper specifically once we provided the um the floor plans and um our building leaders were able to fill in the blank in terms of how are
152we using this space. They just had some questions around that. And I'll just kind of give you an example. Um since we moved our fifth graders to the intermediate schools 15 years ago, obviously that created more space than our elementary schools and some of those rooms now which in the past were classrooms are used for other purposes. Um, so you know, as we had that conversation, you know, our building leaders were were really good in terms of, well, yeah, we use this for for resource, we use this for pull out, but now this this could easily be transitioned back into, you know, a classroom. So those one-on-one conversations in terms of building usage are essential to this process and will help us um identify the true capacity and and space that we will need in
153making that transition um as well as the um space for high ability special education and and DLI. So part of the next steps in this process is putting together our focus groups. Um this is something that we've we've discussed um we share with our community. Um we invited them to be a part of this. So as we put this together, we developed some criteria in terms of um what do we want this uh these focus groups to to look like? what we what do we want them to consist of and what type of um diversity in terms of representation uh what should that look like? So what we're what we are identifying is expertise um you know whether it's staff administrators community members community members with direct knowledge of the individual focus group. For example,
154um it would make most sense if we have a transportation focus group that we have members of our transportation team um as a part of that as well as parents, drivers, and and other people that work closely with that geographic representation. And this is very specific. The example I gave is with our boundaries when we're talking school boundaries, which um by the way will probably be one of the more um I would say spirited conversations just because um that can have a direct effect on where students and where families um go to school. But in composing that committee, we want to ensure that we have representation at least two um parent representatives from every single elementary school will be a part of that that committee. So we want to make sure that every single uh
155parent um representative that every single school has a voice and will be part of that that committee. So that's that's what we mean by geographic representation as well as staff um that that represent those schools as well. Uh role diversity, inclusion of parents, caregivers, teachers, building administrators and central office staff. Programmatic insight um again inclusion of those staff and parents connected to specialized programs. We want high ability parents. We want teachers. We want um teachers and and parents to associate with our special education programs as well as our dual language immersion and then continuing that district-wide focus ability to review data and prioritize the best long-term outcome for the entire MSD of Warren Township. So again going back to a group that will work specifically with school boundaries. We want to make sure in working
156with Walpert that we provide that group with the necessary data around okay exactly where our our families are located and and um in reference to where the nearest school is located. What should we be thinking about transportation wise? What does that look like? But in order to make some of those those more challenging decisions, we'll need the data to support that focus. So again, this is kind of a breakdown of our committees and right now we have seven to eight. Some of our committees will be combined. For example, we probably can combine school boundaries as well or with transportation because they kind of speak to the the same thing. But again you see fifth grade transition enrollment management school boundaries which again can be combined with transportation. Um our special programs as I mentioned high
157ability dual language transportation invest in people. uh six through eight innovation is a a key area and as we mentioned some of the feedback uh that we received um school start and end times. So again we will roll out 7 to eight focus group areas and board please feel free if if you feel like there's something that we're missing or something we need to consider um we we're definitely open to suggestions. I think the key thing is making sure that, you know, as I laid out, that we uh fill these these focus group areas with with with our community members, with with staff members. We want to make sure that we're very inclusive in terms of um the individuals that will have voice in this and stakeholders in the decision- making that we will make
158moving forward. Next steps. So timelinewise um starting now we are starting to receive some information from from Walpert in terms of the the projections. These will be key um as we prepare to um schedule meeting times for our uh focus groups um and our enrollment management process and the data that we receive will be critical for that. So we are and as a cabinet we met on Tuesday yesterday yesterday and we talked about the focus groups and um the members from our cabinet that will serve as leads. So, we're already kind of starting that process and then um we will um set those those dates and times as well as we enter November here and a little bit over a week um we look to start kicking off those focus group work sessions. Um and
159our group leads will will take lead in in that process as well as terms of setting that up. will kind of set um a window of when those meetings need to take place um and to ensure that we're we're consistent in terms of the process. Um again, as we go through November, we'll develop those initial as we again this is all predicated on receiving information back from our demographers. Um we'll start to develop those boundary options and logistics plans. Um and again these will go through the focus groups and they will be discussed amongst the members in those spok focus groups to talk about school boundaries the transportation and other enrollment aspects. You know as we get towards the holiday towards mid November um we want to start um you know making sure that our
160focus groups have have have met. Um right now we're looking at um a minimum of two times, two to three times for them to to engage and meet with each other to discuss and follow up on certain items. Um but we want to start getting some of those preliminary findings before the end of November. as we get to late November, December, um we want to start put together um draft options of some of the findings that we have and start to um communicate that to the board. December, we want to gather and review final community feedback. So we we want to go back and re-engage the community at this point and make sure that um we kind of pro provide them with just kind of an idea of the um the feedback that we've that
161we've um not only received but also some of the information and and and ideas that have come from our focus groups just to get some another round of feedback from our community. And then ideally January, we're looking to um have a um a plan um approval, some options that we can present to the board for a final decision. So those are our next steps and again we are you know intently aggressive in terms of this process. Um but understand that our primary objective as I said at the very beginning is to make sure that this is a collaborative collaborative effort. Um we want to make sure and if we have to you know pull some things back in terms of just a timeline. Um we're more than willing to do that because again this is
162a community school community process. Uh more than anything else we want to make sure that everybody knows what's going on. We want everyone to know what's next. We want to make sure they know when the opportunities will present themselves to be a part of this process. >> Will we get an outline of when the focus groups meet? You said you wanted everybody to know. So, how will you get that out to people so they'll be knowledgeable? >> Yeah, we'll continue to work through um Dr. Francon through Logan, through our community um I'm I'm sorry, our our district communications team to help facilitate that. Um which that's what we've kind of taken advantage of um here the last few months through this process. Um we've sent it out um Dr. Anist since it's weekly communication out.
163We've put information in newsletters. We actually going to put information newsletters in terms of the focus groups and how parents can become a part of that process. Um so we'll continue to use our district communication channels. The reason I asked that question because I noticed on there you said um October and early November. Well, we're into uh the end of October and going into early November. So, when is that information going to get out so that it can be put on the calendar? >> So, we just had a meeting yesterday and um right now Dr. H and myself will work with our communications team to get those out. Two week fall break doesn't help, right? doesn't help, but um just understand that we are um we're on it, Miss Williams, and um we're going to
164get that information out. >> Did you say tomorrow? Did you say tomorrow? >> Yes, tomorrow. Tomorrow. As soon as this meeting is over with. >> There was some intentionality about waiting until tonight. They'll go in as soon as Friday's newsletters. >> Okay, good. Okay. Construction. >> Don't be put Marcus under the gun. Marcus, if it's not reality tomorrow, don't let Miss Scor put you under the gun because then she gonna be calling me. >> Tomorrow. >> It'll go out Friday in school newsletters. >> Yeah. >> All right. Just want to know because if parent most parents if they're like me, you know, I have a lot on my calendar and I need to you know, put it in on my calendar and if you wait till the last minute, I might have something else and
165this is so important. So, that's why I said it's very important that they get that because we're really at the last minute almost right now. And I think this was mentioned at um you know one of the the board meetings, but I think those of us that are anchored in the community, I think word of mouth is going to be just as essential as well because I think part of this as well, yes, we want them to be involved in terms of the the public um engagements that we have and we had that with over 150. But right now, we want them involved in the process. We want them to be on the committees. And again, I know we all know people within the community that that could serve and and do a great job
166and and um has genu genuine concern in terms of direction of this of this process. So, I I would encourage everyone to if you know someone, tap them on the shoulder and we'll get that information out so we can get them signed up. >> Yeah. And just just a reminder, Marcus and I met yesterday when we asked our uh community members who attended the engagements. We asked them to identify if they were interested in being on focus groups. So, we already have a list of warm leads that we'll reach out to them and say, "Hey, you expressed interest. Would you be interested in one of these focus groups?" So, we'll reach out to them as well. >> 134 emails collected. So, we'll utilize those emails for this process. You said tomorrow, right? >> Well, >>
167Friday, we will prepare the language tomorrow to go out on Friday. Okay. >> Well, I got I got a question. >> Yes, sir. >> Uh, it's it's in reference to what you said earlier. You said that you're still getting material or information in feedback and that sort of stuff. >> Yes, sir. >> But it looked like you already got a plan for when you're going to get this these focus groups together. Uh what what was I trying to get to that the fact that you're still getting this data in? Isn't it a little bit I tell you what, when are you going to stop getting feedback and start moving forward with your selection of your focus group? I'll tell you what it looks like to me. You wouldn't move forward with a focus group until
168you know you got everything you need for that focus group to be successful. You got more stuff coming in and you're saying we're gonna have five guys on the focus group. I don't know that >> and then all of a sudden you get this deluge of more information in and it looks like you're going to need seven people. >> You don't sit getting that. Yes. At some point it looks like you have to stop it and say, "Hey, this is the information we're going to go with now. Let's put together a focus group that will be able to satisfy >> collecting that data, analyzing that data, and coming out with another report that says, "Hey, we got the answer." >> I think that's a great question. Um, >> so what what I'm saying is that
169you you said you got this stuff coming in, >> correct? We're talking about late October and then with this October, November kind of a thing. I just think you're you're rushing some stuff through here and something gonna going to got to give. So that's what I'm looking at now. >> So >> I think you need to stop at some point and then put your focus group together and then move forward with the rest of your your plan. Just me. >> So that's a great question. I just just to kind of go back. We've been collecting feedback for well over a month now. We started this process. If you recall at the last board meeting, we talked about we had just launched the um the we put the information on the the website in terms of
170um not only the process in terms of what we were initiating, but also that's what helped us get folks out to the the meeting um the three meetings that we hosted. We also share at that time that we already had well over a hundred respondents going into that first meeting on September 22nd. So we've had that window open for a long time. What I would say is this uh Mr. Dorsy is that we want to ensure that our community because some of our community they won't wake up to what we're doing until today or next week. Oh. Oh, you got Wait a minute. Is that is that happening? So, we want to make sure that we provide opportunities for that feedback to be ongoing. Now, will we still move forward with our conversations and meetings,
171will we still be open to that feedback as part of that focus group uh those focus groups? Absolutely. Um I think as we approach and we get towards the end of November somewhere, that's probably where we'll kind of, you know, have a set direction in terms of where we're going. But I want our community members that will be late to this process to still feel like they have an avenue to channel whatever their thoughts and opinions are about that process um while at the same time inviting them to be a part of the process and participate in our focus groups. So that's why I'm hesitant to want to turn cut it off too soon but yet keep the process going because I want to make sure that they feel like they have um those opportunities
172open still. Well, okay. That's that's fine. I just think you got to be firm with the doors closed. >> Now, I know you're going to get some feed, but you will get some push back or some blowback or something, but people going to get it doesn't matter. People are going to complain and act absolutely crazy regardless. I think you need to have a the defined drop dead date and then you move forward from that. Those folks that were not or still thinking about it or maybe haven't gotten it to you, sorry, we're done. We got to move forward. I I think you have to do that. Now, I notice some people going to get upset about that. Some people going to say, "Well, Dorsey, you should be more more sensitive to that." No, I'm not
173sensitive. You need to cut it off some point and then move forward and then take the blowback later on. >> Okay, we can do that. >> That's just me. >> Um, I just want to say something in reference to when we had our town hall meetings, you had the dates all three days >> and everybody was able to come. Those that were There may have been some people that weren't able to attend those meetings. Is it possible for you to also put dates for the focus groups? Because there may be parents that weren't able to come to the town hall meetings that would love to be a part of the focus group because even myself, I would want to be a part of, but I have no clue when you guys are planning it. So,
174I just wanted to be clear so that if there are parents and people in the community that still want to participate that they will have access to being a part of the focus group just like they were the town hall meetings and even personnel and administrators, you know, give us an opportunity to be a part of it. So, I just needed to be clear when those dates are just like we did the town hall meetings so that everybody can be involved if they choose to. >> We'll do. >> Thank you. >> And that's why I said it need to be done quickly because if we're talking about end of October, November, you know, we're really late in getting that information out. >> Yeah. and also understand that some of that is contingent on the information
175the data we're receiving back from our demographer. So in other words, if we're talking about school boundaries, it's kind of hard to facilitate that conversation if we don't have the updated data in terms of, you know, our student population, where they reside, what shifts have taken place in the last 15 years. Some of that is now there are conversations that we can have based on the feedback we received about it. But to um and that's why we say two to three times per focus group to meet just in the event that we have new information that comes in that will factor in to the proposal they'll put together. >> Have they given that to you already? The only thing right um we the only thing that we've received at this point is a tool for
176our website and that's just a school locator. >> Oh, okay. >> But um >> so we don't have any of the demographics. >> We we we do not the closest thing that we have right now that they're um um they're still receiving some information just some one-on-one conversations have with our building leaders is a capacity study. What we've put a emphasis on, Miss French, is is the the capacity study because we have to know and ensure that we can fit the fifth graders back because without that that just that's a it's a whole different conversation. So that's that's been the objective is to get those back. >> I'm with you on that. The capacity thing is what you need to settle on. >> Yeah, I'm with you. >> Okay. Well, with that, let's go to
177the construction update so we can keep moving. >> All right. All right, President Burke, Dr. Hans, members of the board, I want to present to you October's construction update. And just a reminder, we're nearing the end of this six-year journey that we've been on. So, I would ask you to approve new construction projects soon cuz if not, we're going to be cancelled, even though we we are syndicated because we got about four seasons in. So, you'll be able to catch some reruns, but we you need to approve some some construction projects or we won't have any more construction updates. It's fall here in the Warrior Nation and we are back here at Warren Central High School for the final and the official tour of the brand new Larry Willen locker room. President Burke, Dr. Hansen,
178members of the board, and to our entire Far East Side community. Welcome to the October edition of Inside Warren. Our goal continues to be to invest in safety and operational efficiency. So, for the past year, we have continued to give you previews and updates on the new Larry Willen locker room. But today, we finally get a chance to look at the finished product. So, sit back, relax, and let's head in and welcome to another edition of Inside Warren. All right, we're inside the Larry Willen locker room and the first display we want to show you is the dedication to the man, the myth, um the legend, Coach Larry Woollen. And what we wanted to do was provide a description of all of his accomplishments during his 50 plus years here in Warren Township. But specifically,
179as you can see, his bumblebee shirt, those rings, um, and again, just talking about, you know, his legacy goes back to the 1960s. Again, he was here for over 50 years. So, right next to the display, we have this portrait of not only the infamous Bumblebee shirt. And if you don't know about the significance of the Bumblebee shirt, this shirt was first worn by coach Willan as well as the Warren Central coaching staff in 1984. That was our first state championship game. Um at that time it was uh class 5A um downtown um at the old Hooser Dome, but the coaching staff wore these shirts in the 1980s. And not only did coach Wilman wear this shirt uh for that um 1984 state championship, but also in ' 85, but then what makes this shirt
180even more significant, all nine of our state championships that Warren Central High Schools won in football, he wore this shirt, this Bumblebee shirt, and that includes our last state championship in 2018. So, um this was something that we wanted to make sure that we we in case that we put this at the entry. So, the thousands and thousands of student athletes uh that will walk through these doors will not only um understand and learn about Coach Willen, but they'll understand this the the significant impact that he made on this community. So, one of the what I would say biggest attractions of this new facility is the tradition never graduates pride of the east side wall here. This is where we house um eight of eight out of our nine state championships. The nine state championship
181from 2018 is actually housed indoors in our hall of fame. But our previous eight state championships are all located here in the locker room. And why is this display important? One thing that you can't pay for, the one thing that you can't create, and that is tradition. Our tradition speaks for itself. nine state championships, nine and0 in those state championship games and win. Again, our student athletes walk through here regardless of what sport they play. If they're a middle school, youth league student, we want them to understand the greatness that has come before them and the challenge of what contribution are you going to make during your four years here? Can you put another trophy on the wall? At this time, we'll take a look right across from our state championships, our three Mr. Football
182winners. Starting off, and we'll kind of go in reverse order. Um, believe it or not, our last uh state or Mr. Football winner was almost 20 years ago. Um, a young man that I coached um by the name of Darren Evans in 2006. He rushed for over 3,000 yards, 62 touchdowns, full ride scholarship to Virginia Tech, and played a few years in NFL with the Colts and the Titans. So, um, Darren is one of the greatest Warrior football players of all time. Dexter Taylor. Dexter Taylor in not only rushed for over 2,000 yards at the quarterback position, but he also threw for over 1,000 yards. Um, had a phenomenal game in the state championship game that year, but most importantly, um, Dexter is one of two now. He was one of one for a while,
183but to win as a starting quarterback back-to-back 5A6A state championships. So, he's one of our all-time winners, but he led us to back-to-back state championships in 0405. Probably one of our most known and most popular Warren Central athletes of all time. But Mr. Desmond Tardy. Desmond in 2003 led a very talented Warren Central football team to our first state championship out of the four in a row we won, but it was our first one since 1985. Okay. Part of our history and tradition is to again ensure that we are able to showcase the great players that have come before us. And starting with our all-Americans, again, we are very blessed here on the far east side, Warren Central High School. We have nine high school all-ameans. Starting off with Jeff George, who Jeff was the
184actual national player of the year, um, USA Today National Player of the Year, 1985. But as you can see, he was a multi- first team all-American his junior and senior year, and he was also a parade all-American. Well, we also have our Mr. Football position winners. And as you can see what makes this list so unique, Warren Central High School is the only football program in the history of state of Indiana to have a Mr. Football Award winner at every position. That's um off offensive line, that's tight end, that's running back, that's quarterback, that's defensive line, linebacker, defensive back. And in 2022, Elijah Slyback won Mr. Football at the position of kicker to round out our list. So, we're very proud of this and as you can see, if you go back to the history
185of Warren Central Football, which our program started in 1937, so if we put every single football player since 1937 that played college football, we would have to build an entirely new facility. So, what we did is we just added the players, the former players that played Division 1A football. So, as you can see, going back to 1964 with uh Gunners Janson's, who was also Marian County athlete of the year all the way to 2025. And this is again, this is something that gives our our kids something to strive for. We're very, again, we're very proud of this list and we would put this list up against any other school in the state because you're talking about guys that played u not only at the college level, but many of which made it to the NFL.
186Our North South All-Star, which every year the Indiana Coaches Association, football coaches association, they sponsor a statewide all-star game, and this is a record of all of our our South Allstars. Probably the toughest all state football team to make is the Indiana Football Coaches Association top 50 list. This is regardless of class. That's classes 1A through 6A. They select the top 50 players combined each class. So, as you can see, the number of players that we've had since 1994 make this list just in the 30 years of this of this recognition. And again, I would venture to say that Warren Central, if we don't have the most, I would say we're we're probably near the top. All right, our final display is the Warriors and the pros. And why this is so significant, it's significant
187for a number of reasons, but as you can see, going back to 1972, our first Warren Century football player, Scott Yelington, um, was drafted and played for the Chicago Bears. And then you see Jeff George in 1986, Jamie Asher and Justin Smith in the 1990s. But just to give you an idea of just how successful Warren Central football has been since the turn of the century since 2000. Um from 2000 to 2025 as we've already mentioned we've won seven state championships uh numerous conference sectional regional semi-state championships. But most notably we've had 15 Warren Central football players make NFL rosters since 2000. So, it wouldn't be a locker room without lockers. So, at this time, we're going to take a quick look at the freshman football side, but actually in the spring, it will be
188the home of our varsity, JV, and freshman baseball team. And then on the other side of the locker room, you will see the varsity and JV football lockers. Let's go. I don't know why he shot the restroom, but for your amusement, the restroom. And finally, last but not least, one of the best student athlete training rooms in the state of Indiana. Again, we walked through when there was dirt on the floor and then we had some drywall up. Now we have the finished product and we are so happy to serve thousands of student athletes that come in here year in and year out. Um, and I know our athletic trainers are excited about this new space. So, let's take a look at it. We want to thank you for joining. joined us for the tour
189of the new Larry Willen locker room. This project took a little bit over a year, but the opportunity to bring this to our community, bring this to the campus, Warren Central High School. Again, we want to thank our our superintendent. We want to thank our school board. We want to thank um our partners from Powers and Sons and our architects from CSO on this project. and most importantly our branding team from section 127 sport graphics. Um again it's an honor and a privilege to serve you here on the east side and just like it says we are the pride of the east side. We will catch you next time inside War. >> Marcus, I have to say when I'm going through all my material for these meetings, I always watch this ahead of time. So,
190it is a rerun for me already. And the only thing I haven't done yet is binge watched. So, we have to host a party and have a binge watching party of these movies. Absolutely. >> You hear that, Logan? >> We're moving up. >> Make our own. >> Thank you. >> The beat before and after. So, it's great >> our tour. >> Okay, Mr. Humphre, do we have any yellow cards? >> No, Madam President, we do not. Okay, with that we are going to move on to action items and Mr. Russell. >> All right. Good evening, President Burke, Dr. Hansen, members of the board. Tonight I have uh I believe four policies uh for action. uh went over all of these last month and I will note that one in particular one is off of this
191one. So that one wasn't included, the one that we had um some more uh specific discussion over. So I'll do these one by one. So if there's any individual questions, but we'll start off with policy 20 221 mandatory curriculum. This time I would ask for your approval. >> So moved. I was. >> Is there any discussion? Sorry, hearing and seeing the the vote came up. I apologize. Okay. And the motion carries. Next policy. >> All right. Uh, next policy is policy 2623, student assessment. This is the one that updates all policy related to the new regulations around IE3 for second grade and third grade students. Seek your approval at this time. >> We have a motion. >> So moved. Is there a second? >> A second. >> I read. >> This is the one that
192updates the language, but I read and then also includes the mathematics portion at the bottom. >> Is there any further discussion? Okay. Hearing and seeing none, we'll go to a vote. And the motion carries. >> All right. Next, we have policy 5222, release time during school activities mandated by law. Um, this one's related, not the same. The next policy, uh, 5223, we'll talk about release time for religious instruction. 5222 uh just adds uh a component of release time for any other thing that would not be considered religious. Um, so just uh provide some equity in that. Again, seeking approval for 522 at this time. >> Do we have a motion? So moved. >> Second. >> Thank you, Gloria and Julie. Is there any discussion? >> Okay. Hearing and seeing none, we'll go to the vote.
193Thank you. Last but not least is policy 5223 which I just referenced. This is release time for religious instruction which uh provides under the right conditions which are all listed in the policy that high school students can earn up to two elective credits uh for released time religious instruction. Seeking your approval at this time. >> Do we have a motion? >> Thank you, Gloria. Is there a second? >> A second. >> And thank you, Terry. Is there any discussion? >> Hearing and seeing none, we'll go to a vote. Motion carries. Miss Woods. >> Do we need to bring Kent up just in case you need a >> go for emotional support? Maybe. >> Okay. >> Uh, President Berg, Dr. Hansen, members of the board, I have six, five policies. The first one is um policy
1942410 about audio, video, and digital recordings of meetings. Um, this is just uh stating that we u we do allow a parent to um audio record an IEP meeting. We also do that. So this is adding language that we cannot prohibit that um other it gives some um guidance for other meetings. So a parent teacher conferences 504 meetings and then also we don't allow video recordings of meetings or conferences um student conferences unless um a parent or participant is hearing impaired and needs that um for record later. Thank you. Do we have a motion to accept the policy? >> So moved. >> Okay. Got Julie is making the motion and Gloria is seconding it. Sorry. Is there any further discussion? Okay. Hearing and seeing none, we'll go to a vote. motion carries. Next up, uh
195next is attendance policy 5200 and this is with um legislative updates. So um adding some additional um excused absences around FFA 4 armed forces um religious instruction um we're required to categorize excused absences um now adding some definitions um preventing suspension or expulsion solely because a student is a chronically absent or habitual truent. Um and then changing some of the requirements around uh attendance conferences and prevention um with just days and grade levels included in that. Do we have a motion? >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Got Julia making the motion and Lanna seconding it. Is there any discussion? >> Yes. I want to ask did you say um they would be expelled? >> No. to chronic uh absence. >> We are not allowed to expel due to chronic absence.
196So, it's adding language in here. We cannot suspend or expel um for that. So, that's adding that language in. And we did not do that previously, but it's now in legislation. >> Okay. With that, we'll go to the vote. And the motion carries. And then we're going to do the next one as a group, I think. >> Yep. The next ones are group uh 5600, 5605, and 5610. Um all three include language. Um just as the last one about that we cannot suspend or expel solely because a student's chronically absent or habitual truent. Um and then 5610. um also adds that we are not notifying the BMV of expulsions or suspensions. Um so those are all similar and what we're adding again due to that same legislation. >> I was shall move that we accept
19750 600 5605 and 5610. >> Thank you Shauna. Do we have a second? >> A second. >> Thank you Terry. Is there any discussion? Hearing and seeing none, we'll go to the vote and that carried. Thank you so much, Dr. Anderson. Good evening. >> Good night. >> It really is good night. >> We can get there. President Burke, Dr. Hansen, members of the board, I bring to you tonight two policies for your approval. The first policy is policy 5517 and it is anti-harassment. It does identify our title one offic I mean title nine officers and it also we are leaving in the language of unlawful harassment based on gender status, sexual orientation and gender identity. I would like to ask for your approval for that for this policy. What did you say the last part?
198Your your voice lower. I >> I'm sorry. Um we are going to leave in the language of sexual harass I mean based on I'm sorry unlawful harassment based on gender status, sexual orientation andor gender identity. They had um recommended that we take it out but we decided to leave it in. >> Is there a motion? So moved. >> Thank you, Julie. Is there a second? >> I will second. >> Thank you, Terry. Any discussion? >> Okay. So, when you said um they are you saying the law requires >> No. Neiola. Neiola. And they're just they just give us recommendations. Um so it is not unlawful for us to leave it in. They just give us recommendations and we can take or deny. >> Is there any further discussion? hearing and seeing none, we'll go to
199the vote and the motion carries. The second policy I bring to you tonight is board policy 5517. It is on bullying and the only major revision to this policy is the timeline change for the victim and alleged perpetrator of bullying. They will be contacted the by the end of the next school day. Before it was 5 days. So now it's the next by the end of the next school day. Um and I ask for your approval on board policy 5517. >> Thank you Gloria. Is there a second? >> I second. Thank you so much Lana. Is there any discussion hearing and seeing none we'll go to the vote >> and that passes. Thank you so much Dr. Anderson >> and now Dr. Sullivan, who I get to pick on one last time with this is
200your first set of votes. Nice to have you. Love the colorful outfit. >> President Burke, Dr. Hansen, members of the board. Uh I have one policy uh policy number 5771 concerning search and seizure. It was brought to before you last month and I am requesting approval for tonight. Uh it looks at search and seizure uh student strip searches and breath test instruments along with deposition of student property. >> Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> Thank you, Mr. Dorsy. Is there a second? >> I second. >> Thank you, Gloria. Is there any discussion? Hearing and seeing none, we'll go to the vote. And the motion carries. Thank you so much, Dr. Sullivan. Congratulations. >> You've fully done the thing now. And with that, because uh Dr. Hansen knew that it would be 9:32
201by the time we were done with action items. He did not give us any discussion items. And so we are in fact moving on to closing comments. Mr. Mr. Humphrey, would you like to start us off? >> I would like to say uh you all fail. It is 9:32. We started 30 minutes earlier and you still ran over. Good evening. >> Ditto. Good night. >> Um thank you everyone. It was wonderful to celebrate our students and our administrators and our teachers today. Thank you for the reports. Have a wonderful evening. Stay warm and we'll see you next month. >> Well, I have a long list of things. I'm only kidding. I want to say good night, safe travels home, and until we meet again. Uh one one thing I want to want to say and
202I know it slows it down a little bit but uh I'm also on the Warren Township Development Association and we recently opened up a well we didn't but uh there's the Sunshine Market opened up on 30th Street uh just west of uh Renaissance uh in that housing area. Uh as you traveling along 30th going west you can't can't miss it. It's on the left hand side. I would recommend support that. They are there to help fight >> security. >> Food desert. Okay. Is that what they call it now day? >> Food desert. >> Securities. >> Yeah. Food. Yeah. They got produce. They got everything you want. We lost what was it called? U Walmart neighborhood or right? Yeah. So, that's the only that's the only that's the only produce store that we've got in the
203area. So, I just thought I'd throw that out there. They had a opening ceremony about a week ago, maybe two weeks ago, and it's uh I think it's outstanding. Anyway, I'm out of here. >> Oh, I forgot something really important. >> We never give kudos to our photographers, and I want them to stand. They just do such a good job. Stand up. They always working in the background. Come on. And thank you, Dennis, for a great article. I tell you, your magazine is going across Indianapolis. And you know, I hear people saying how good it is. So, you know, this is the pride of the east side, you know. So, good job. Thank you so much. >> Something about the safety fair. Go for it. No. Well, yeah, come to the safety fair. And um
204the other thing I just thought about as u Marcus was doing his last presentation, I saw David Bill's name up there a lot. Um just keep him in your thoughts. This has got to be tough for him. That was a hard decision. And um maybe we can get him back to be a coach or a helper or something, a lay person. That'd be great. Thank you. Thank you so much for being here this evening. Um, we're still going to be at 9:40. So, everyone have a good night. Take care. >> I mean, it's not 10:00. Not as true.