001e e e can notna be on she is y okay good evening ladies and gentlemen I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order and we're going to start with the Pledge of Allegiance thank you so much for joining us this evening and we're going to begin with the superintendent report good evening president Burke members of the board Comm it's great to see a full house this evening looking forward to celebrating some of our students um a few updates since the last time we met um we concluded um all but two of our process and progress checks if you remember this is an opportunity for us to sit down in front of our um staff we met with Lakeside Hawthorne Renaissance Eastridge Brookview and Sunny Heights um gives us an opportunity to see
002how things are going how we can support our teachers um U Indi invited us to come and visit with their president and um heads of all their departments Laura buckrite Ryan Russell Bri Brown and I met with them to identify ways that we can partner with them to support our students who are College Bound and um also how we can support our teachers um it's been a very fast moving 30 days of the new Administration um we met um a couple weeks ago with our multilingual staff to better understand the challenges and fears that some of our students and families are facing due to immigration um policies that are being enacted um we have a a better understanding of how we can support them uh yesterday during our professional development uh day uh Zach Zamara
003from immigrant connection met with several of our staff to provide an in more in-depth understanding as we're learning more about what is um happening and how we can best support our families we'll continue to learn we'll continue to monitor that and board I'll keep you updated um along the way um board I passed out in front of you a letter that all K12 schools in postsecondary institutions received on Friday um it is infamously known as the dear colleague letter it's from the Department Federal Department of Education Office of civil rights and essentially what this letter does it undoes the previous administration's priority of diversity equity and inclusion and it states that if K12 schools and postsecondary institutions do not comply um with this undoing we run the risk of losing Federal funding um I want
004our board and our community to know that we are monitoring this we are watching this um we believe that um diversity equity and inclusion are important um and uh you know we just are trying to make sense of this we're working with our legal team um as well as our other uh peer districts to to Really interpret interpretation is very important right now and um I will share with you that um Perry Township did lose some of their Federal funding yesterday they were notified that one of their grants was eliminated um due to this um kind of new policy so it got real yesterday and we're going to continue to monitor that so Bard again I'll keep you updated as we go along uh I want to thank all those that were involved in self-care
005Saturday our staff that um par ated had a really um nice pampering last couple weeks ago um real quick mcrc recognition congratulations to Mr Taylor and the mcrc team for receiving the Community Education award from the Indiana Youth Services Association uh this happened in January where mcrc was recognized down at the state house um we had a great legislative Forum uh thank you board and staff who participated in the district science fa at Creston um our students that are moving on Kate that's in April um so I'll let you know how they do there want to wish our wrestlers um good luck at State this week weekend and I just want to continue to acknowledge and celebrate Black History Month um for me it it feels like it's more important now than it ever has
006been so um that's my report evening thank you so much Dr Hansen and with that we are going to move on to our spot lights with Lauren Hughes sorry I'll wait till they come up uh good evening everyone uh president Burke Dr Hansen members of the board Warren Township colleagues and guests uh for those of you who may not know me my name is Lauren Hughes and I'm the assistant to the athletic director at Warren Central High School um I'm excited to stand here today A little nervous but excited um to recognize two of our amazing programs that we have um that have made a strong impact on our community within a strong within a short time frame um our girls wrestling and our girls flag football program um first I like to recognize our
007girls uh wrestling program uh this season girls wrestling became extra special as this was the inaugural season of being officially sanctioned and recognized by the ihsaa and an official state tournament was held back in mid January Warren has been well known around the city to and state to have a solid reputation when it comes to our girls wrestling program of being consistent not only with numbers but Talent as well under the leadership of head coach Andre Taylor our program has continued to strive for success by sending four state qualifiers to the 20 25 ihsa state finals this season Amina Rus nuko Taylor State qualifier at the class Rihanna Benson fifth place at the 105 class shemaya long seventh place at the 140 class and not present with us Jasmine Holland Ro Ry fourth place at
008the 190 weight class through majority of this group represented today um our seniors the future is still bright as this program has a very good young group not only in the high school but also at the middle school level as well congratulations once again to our girls wrestling state [Applause] qualifiers ladies if you want to come up so we can shake your hands con okay all right next we have our girls flag football program first we're going to show a video um the Indianapolis Colts for those of you who may not know um have been really really awesome with us with our girls flag football program since we started this this year um they did a Content piece um for National girls and women in sports day at our high school a couple weeks ago
009and they chose us as their platform rather than highlighting somebody within their organization so we thought it was really cool that they did that so I'm going to play that [Music] first it's not just about getting them to see themselves push themselves to be better but you can see the confidence I've played a lot of different sports but none of them have given me The Sisterhood I would say flag football gave me it helped me be mentally strong cuz in my other Sports I kind of have a problem with that so it helped with my mental side and it helped me figure out some things physically that I can do that I didn't know my body could do I definitely stepped up into a new leadership role and like found that voice in me to
010be a leader when you see the confidence grow in a girl or just in a human being you could just see they make better decisions in life my brothers played football and I've when I was in sixth grade I signed up for the boys football team and my dad said I couldn't do it because he didn't want me to get hurt with boys so when I came to high school and I heard that this was an opportunity it got me really excited to do it flag gave some of those girls an opportunity to find what they like and actually push themselves not to be scared to try something new we've been having slow internet problems it's not you if you want to watch it we did share it out on the weekly Communications and if
011you don't have access to that um it's on our social platforms we shared it through Colts Community it is on the Colts community and the Colts page um in addition to us being tagged I believe on it so it's a good a good video if you want to go back and watch it so sorry about the technical problems on that so um but back in the spring of 2024 I worked with the Indianapolis Colts to get the girls flag football team started at Warren Central it was a risk with establishing a new program but we knew this was something our girls in our community needed we held a call out meeting right after spring break and we had more than 100 plus girls interested towards the end of July we had more than 70 triy
012out for the team needless to say Warren needed girls flag football more than girls FL football needed Warren these young ladies under the leadership of head coach McKenzie Brown and former head coach Quinton Wilburn have not only learned new skills in a sport that majority have uh never played before but they have also learned to lean on one another and develop a strong Sisterhood on and off the field thanks to the Indianapolis Colts our partnership with them and with girls flag has grown even stronger and they've help and they have truly helped share our story and display the true Pride of the East Side the NFL and Indianapolis Colts are committed to making girls flag football a Varsity Sport in all 50 states and currently Indiana is sitting at 41 schools as of last week
013who are committed to playing with more than 70 plus that are interested in learning more information having these two programs both girls flag and girls wrestling added within our school has been a Saving Grace for many who may not have had an outlet to go to before according to the women's sports Foundation it has been founded that by age 14 many girls are dropping out of Sports at the two times rate of boys why is this happening you might be saying to yourself because surely this wasn't happening when we were growing up here are a few factors that the wsf have found to back up this statistic the lack of access girls have 1.3 million fewer opportunities to play in high school than boys have safety and transportation issues uh social stigma girls in sports
014may experience bullying social isolation negative performance evaluations and more decrease quality of experience cost and lack of positive role models but luckily today we are happy to say we have several organizations that are committed to help increase the number of girls participating in sports Again by investing in these uh these groups groups like girls wrestling VI the ihsgw and the NFL and the Indianapolis Colts for girls football Warren Central Athletics is excited to see the growth of where these teams will be in a few years and who knows maybe one day you'll see some of these girls competing in the Olympics thank [Applause] you e e okay next up we have chania brown with our student council update um good evening president bur Dr Hansen members of the board um I would first like to
015start off this very long information dump with a very sincere apology for not being here at last month's meeting I had mixed up my dates and unfortunately had assumed that our meeting was later in the month than it actually was and it wasn't until that actual day that I met with my principal and I was like oh yeah I'm getting ready for the board meeting tonight and she said that already passed and I was like well that's unfortunate okay so I just had to wait until this one to basically share everything that's been going on um however diving into a few subjects at hand as there is much to talk about to make up for my absence um at the school we have started the planning for prom and we are looking to finalize those
016details by the end of this month to prepare to have those out by March so that everyone can be ready um we also hosted I believe our third pep rally in January to bring in the new semester and I honestly would say that this one was one of the most active that we've had our student body be in um we received what I believe to be the best results of our pepper rally so far so I think it's safe to say that we are for sure knowing of the standards that we need to make our pep rallies be met um also just to step back a little um we have started the planning stages of a new event that we are planning to bring to the high school Under the hopes of being considered as
017prom Expo um where we will basically have multiple vendors with the criteria such as dresses tuxedos nails hair makeup artist The Whole Nine um and more just to help with the planning of the student body's prom night to ensure that it is just as magical and memorable as we've all been hoping for uh we are currently in the process of clarifying um the vendors that will be present on this event hosted on March 12th from 12:00 p.m. to 2: p.m. and we are looking forward to this being one of many successes in the countdown of prom uh one of the many important goals that student council has set for ourselves at the high school is to make our community more involved and to bring each other closer together and one of the best ways to
018start the growth of that Garden is with the seedlings otherwise known as our youth so in an attempt to start bringing together the road to high school and graduation we had a few of our student council members as well as myself um visit the Sunny Heights Elementary School to meet with their student council and while we were meeting with them we did multiple fun activities pertaining to the qualities and skills needed to be a leader and to be successful in student council our goals with the children who we hope to be seen as the future of Warren Central High School student council one day is to Aid them in the planning and execution of an event that they wish to see at their school we're still in the beginning stages of this so far but
019we are hoping to make this happen at the end of the school year for their peers and our Legacy um and also just to bridge off of that um we have made successful communication with the middle schools of our Township to host a full out Community event we are also still in the beginning stages of that plan but we have received a few dates that the middle school student council meets and we hope to touch base with them on one of their meeting days to begin the planning and detailing of this event and that will hopefully bring together our Township and Community um these are just a few of the major things that we have in plan and I cannot wait to return to share the outcome and feedback of our work on these events
020and plans in store thank you thank you so much Miss Brown that's a wonderful update we truly appreciate it um our next presenter is Jenny meas oh hiding in the back of the room I'm so sorry I missed you there we go good evening everyone my name is Jenny manales and I am the mayor's neighborhood advocate for the far east side and I will be sharing some updates with you guys about Community things that are happening um if you're unfamiliar with what my role is I serve as a liaison between the mayor's office different city and county agencies and the general public some events we have coming up inrc is having their neighbor power event which is an amazing event to have different workshops different people tabling different resources um you get to be part
021of discussions in terms of key neighborhood issues some of the things you see some of the things um you would like to have more of just a conversation about what neighborhood looks like and there'll be plenty of different resource tables available as well that is March 8th at 9:00 a.m. at Martin University as well Indie Parks is hiring um they are starting their summer hires it's a little hard to think about Summers when it was just snowing as I was driving here so but they are starting their summer hire programs already um they have bonus referrals as and things like that as well they are already starting their summer camp scholarships um these are limited scholarships available for families based on financial um needs they do have different criterias and uh percentage of fees that
022could be wave um but they have started getting a lot of interest in these and people signing up for these so if you have kiddos or no kiddos that would want somewhere to go during the summer and be part of activities that Parks offers um and you may need financial help they have that available so going from Summer back to Winter um I wanted to briefly touch on potholes we are seeing it there's probably going to be more you've probably dropped in a few already um so just a quick reminder if you're unfamiliar about how potholes are formed um so when it rains or snows or anything like that that water goes underneath the ground then it freeze because it's 2° outside and that raises the concrete up a little bit and then once it's
023raised up we go back to like a random 50-day in January or February then it thaws and that water is underneath and then as cars drive on top of it it is breaking down the road into that space where the ice was that's now just water again and then bits of concrete just chipping away and falling in and the more this happens the more water that was underneath and things like that the bigger the pothole and so as these temperatures fluctuate you will probably see new ones develop um and there are many ways that a pothole is fixed there's six right now what's being used is called the cold mix um due to the temperature um and so that cold mix is more of a a temporary solution it's not meant to last um just
024because the concrete that is used during the summer to redo the roads and things like that has to get to a certain degree to um really be more of a permanent solution and so you can notice a PO hole gets fixed and then in a couple weeks it's back up um so all that to say you will see these potholes please call the mayor's action center and report them when you see them so that they can come out and DPW can come out and and fix them and put those um temporary cold mix in and as a reminder if you're unfamiliar if your vehicle does get damaged by a pothole you can call the city um to get a reimbursement on that tire that may have gotten flat mwbd which is our office of minority
025and women business um they are doing this workshop on March 3rd it is on the other side at Eagle Branch Library um but if you are or no a business owned by a minority woman veteran and or dis disabled owner they are having opportunities to teach people how to get certified um through that office and that certification unlocks different opportunities and things like that impd is having a blood drive um on April 18th from 12: to 6:00 p.m. it will be at imd's East District um over on Shadeland um and this is in memory of Officer Brienne leaf that was tragically killed in the line of duty Indigo just went through their Blue Line Community meetings and hearings um this past week or so and so they're Gathering all of the feedback they've um gotten
026as they move forward in that project that will be connecting the west side to the east side from the airport all the way to I can't see what street that is but all the way to the east side as well one more announcement for everyone there is this um initiative called Vision zero if you are unfamiliar with vision zero um it is essentially trying to get zero deaths deaths from a from Mo automobiles um whether it's uh pedestrians getting strike by by automobile kids being killed getting off the school buses things like that just safety in general and there are a couple options if you want to learn more and if you want to participate in pedestrian safety if you go to Indie mpo which is Indianapolis Metropolitan planning or organization they have developed a
027vision zero toolkit that talks more about um the dangers of just safe things relating to safety and things like that for example on it they say that each year more than 4,000 people are need needlessly killed on American streets and thousands more are seriously injured so it gives you different toolkits um one just more information um and data and things like that as well as planning and policy strategies and different resources our City County Council they adopted to have a vision zero task force um and with that task force they currently have a um survey that they are doing to collect information and some of that survey includes question about what safety improvements would make it easier for you to walk walk bike use public transportation or drive a vehicle safely in Marian County it
028also ask things like what specific locations in Marian County feel unsafe to you and why and a host of other um questions on that survey as that task force gears up to um put into effect the things that they learn and strategies they come up with if you would like um access to that survey and to that link I will be back there for a while and have the QR code as well you could email me at jenny. manales indy.gov that's jny m n l ind.gov any questions thank you thank you so much Miss manales we appreciate your information always and with that we are going to move on to board comments Howard dorsy Jenny pothole Blitz man I was just getting over about a year couple years ago to that kind of stuff and
029now they're back but that's okay good presentation really appreciate you being here with us um chania don't worry about having miss last month okay it's not a big deal okay you got you're going to you you you you set the stage the standard for the kind of kids we like in in in our in our school and you don't have to worry about that we know that you're probably more busy U before nine o' than most people do all day so don't worry about it you you doing a great job um I just want to say the district uh science Affair I thought was really outstanding uh you know we've got the the best the best kids we got the best kids uh the quality of that uh of that uh that fair uh I
030was one of the judges and one of the and and and and all of them were great so it was really a great time so I just wanted to say that uh and bring that up real quick here uh girls wrestling hey we're setting the standard for all of the other schools to get together a team that's going to be able to compete uh with our girls uh come on girl football that's great that's great and I'm I'm glad we're we're leading we're leading the charge on that I really am feeling good about that um girls wrestling come on we got some tough girls there and I think they're going to do even better than the girls that we that were uh mentioned today uh I'm looking forward to it you know I had a
031chance to go to um right after the I don't know if yeah I did mentioned the two the members of the board right after the the legislative hearing legislative Forum uh I went by the uh the atorium and uh I I was amazed at what I saw there and oh by the way we also had some wrestling a wrestling invitational that day as well and uh our guys performed very well and we also had some basketball I mean it was a bunch of stuff going on over at the high school and so that's just uh kind of typical uh but I enjoyed that as well so uh I want to just say uh it's uh really great to to to to to to um uh continue with this uh uh the rest of this semester
032uh we're looking for some great things uh we've already got we got a bunch of challenges coming up that are facing us and so we just got to meet those and I think we will uh that's about all I've got thank you Howard Julie um I have one thing to say as I was sitting and listening to you you are a amazing and if you are representative of what we have at our high school Top Notch very nice job you are poised um I just think a lot of adults could not stand there and do what you do so kudos to you very nice um I went to the state house yesterday for along with Rachel and michan um for uh the isba State House day um and I went to NBA's advocacy and Equity
033Institute in um Washington DC and met with a couple of um legislators there as well um I am in my robotics season now I've been sick so I haven't had the opportunity to go too much this year so far but I'm looking forward to getting back into that and our first competition is February 28th through March 2nd thank you jul oh sorry thank you Julie Kevin good evening everyone uh starting off the New Year again and things are going getting off to a great start and on the piggybacking on uh Howard's comment on the girls flag football if you didn't get the opportunity to see that video it is definitely worth going to find and watch it's excellent pres presentation uh also I had an opportunity to uh be one of the judges the science
034fair and Howard stole my show on that one also but they did the kids they the the the things they're coming up with and things are doing really good it's really impressive to see uh the young minds that work in the projects they're building so it's it's a really good uh uh want to put on your schedule for next year for the science fairs and things and also there the legislative form we held it was a uh as always they're always very informative and we're already thinking next year how we can manage to get all of it in because it's so much and it might have to be a A two-parter or something to that effect because between the information is available the time the new environment it's a lot of things that's that's that's
035transparent now and also uh one more heads up along the flag football tip the uh Youth League will be starting their flag football and information to be coming out with the with the elementary schools to get all that involved so we can have the things running from the ground up before we take care of our babies to the high school and I believe that's all I have for this report thank you so much Kevin lesana good evening everyone you all need to wake up it's not bedtime yet long day um tenage you always do such a magnificent um presentation but this report highlighted peer mentoring and per statistics and data that P mentoring is one of the driven forces to overcome the school to prison Pipeline and our youth respond better when they have positive
036peers to uh be able to connect with so I appreciate you as the president and the student council looking at that and being able to afford that opportunity to our elementary students so great job pre Expo um you just had my heart over here just jumping jumping jumping um because a lot of times we may have you know as your peers may want to come to prom but cannot afford it our parents may not even know how to plan that so giving them an opportunity to be able to see what's available and what's affordable and how they can turn a magical event with little finances is is amazing so thank you all for tapping into that demographics to be able to um reach a broader audience for prom so great job we will be um
037as some of you may know um mcrc we have a hoop house and that is a tunnel Garden so in that we would probably be able to serve thousands of pounds worth a free fresh produce year round and the goal will also be to um connect with some of our schools that have Gardens that have outside Gardens to bring some of their um seedlings and produce over to be able to grow year round so I'm really really excited I've um recruited um um Kevin's wife she's also a grower so she is very um excited to be able to assist thank you Dr hen and Matt for everyone who helped um make that um dream come true and I attended several events science fair as always is always a joy to see um what they're doing
038mental health to the team that help bring together the mental health I saw teachers walking in with excitement and walking out relaxed and that's what we wanted our um I won't steal the joy because next month we will highlight our cosmetology class but if you have not been over to the Walker Career Center and got treated by those ladies the professionalism is off the charts I was in awe so please go patronize them they are waiting for customers um so just flood flood flood through um and I think I will end on that good note and I'll turn it back over to you madam president thank you so much lesana Terry good evening everyone um last month I forgot to mention Raymond Park had their science cipia Invitational and I was honored to be there
039and see all of the schools that were participating in that and hand out Awards um also went to the science fair it was really interesting um great stories on tooth decay and water filtration and how um far slime can be stretched I got to judge with Allison so that was fun um also took part in the legislative Forum um as always I appreciate you being here and always being the voice and echoing Lana the P mining piece is amazing what we can offer our young our younger seedings um even um our Sprouts that are in the Middle School um connecting with them and just being positive role models will help them grow so thank you for all you do and that's all I have thank you so much Terry Gloria can you hear me we
040can yes okay hello everyone I'm so sorry I wasn't able to be there in person uh I know J J was like she was just came from Washington DC and I am in Washington DC right now so um Everybody um you know I I'm excited that I was still able to attend the meeting I have a few things that I would like to say you know I can't give enough ditto to our student representative everybody has really praised you and I just want to get mine in too uh we have an awesome student representative you're very informative and and I just want you to keep up the good work you do a great job secondly I am so proud of all of our students here in Warren and I want to encourage more students to
041participate in after school activities if they can Sports and academic um activities because in addition to what you do in school it always helps to have these extracurricular activities to try to keep you really engaged in school so I want to encourage more and more students to participate and hopefully parents if you're having difficulty with Transportation or Finance notify someone and let someone know because you know I always say you have not if you ask not so it might be someone that may be able to help you I want to encourage all of our seniors to focus and get keep your grades up because we want all of you to grow graduate I just want to have a strong finish so get busy this is the we we have a few months left and I
042want to be so proud at that graduation to see all of our seniors graduation and then last of all it's cold outside and I was so heartbroken when I heard about the two children that froze because they were homeless I work with the homeless population and I am saying to all of our parents out there if you are homeless or you know there and don't have heat you know please contact we have Morhead Community Center you don't know what to do contact someone there James Taylor is the person in charge there contact him go to our Morehead Community Center and ask for help and there will be somebody there that can assist you and direct you on what you can do we're here to help so please please take advantage of these opportunities and have
043the rest of a great year thank you thank you so much Gloria um for myself um I wanted to discuss um really quickly the girls flag football for those of you who watched the Super Bowl one of the few highlights of the show it being that the game was such a blowout was the NFL commercial about flag football and getting it certified in every state and all I could think of was hey we're doing that we're working towards that and it's really great and like Kevin said if you can watch that full video you should it's quite well done um as Julie mentioned I went to isba State House day um we've hit almost the halfway point of the session um so we really get to see what is sticking to the wall um and
044what where we need to put in some work for the second half and um Raymond Park Science Olympiad competed in regionals this past weekend at Manchester University where we took first place we're very [Applause] proud um and with that we are going to move on to board correspondents Mr Humphries we do not have any today uh Madam president thank you so much um green cards and no green cards okay with that we're going to move on to the consent agenda um this month the consent agenda consists of the approval of minutes financial report payroll claims um claims registered and year-to date summary of fund balances supplemental Personnel reports field trip requests permission to accept gifts and grants change orders contracts and the use of school property do I have a motion so moved Julie made
045a motion do I have a second I lesana triplet second and lesana triplet seconded the motion um as we have a member attending re um virtually we'll be taking an oral vote Mr hum pray we'll start with you Miss Williams Miss Gloria okay we'll go yes okay that's a yes for Miss Gloria Mr Howard yes Julie yes Terry yes Miss L yes there would be a yes for myself and Madame President yes and that will be a unanimous vote excellent the motion carries unanimously next we will move on to the human resources report can I have a motion I will make a motion Terry made a motion do we have a second I'll second and Julie seconded it Mr Humphrey if you can call the role once again Miss Gloria yes Mr Howard yes Miss
046Julie yes and Miss Terry yes Miss sh yes myself I will abstain Madam president yes and that is and that also passes excellent and with that we're going to go to Dr Hansen for some introductions thank you board it is my pleasure after your approval of tonight's h our report uh to introduce uh a familiar face in Carrie Taylor Carrie could not be here this evening but you did approve her new title as interim um director for um on the porter side so we want to congratulate her and thank her for um her good work she's been doing some of that work um since we last met but tonight we give her that official title so good job Carrie that is evident by our strong trai tradition of identifying and developing our own leaders and
047sometimes we also want to seek individuals who bring a fresh perspective and can Elevate our district and Community we are um excited that we have found that leader in Dr Michael Sullivan if Dr Sullivan could come forward please Dr Michael Sullivan was approved tonight as our new assistant um superintendent for secondary and while he's not perfect because he went to Pike high school he looks good in black and gold though we are excited to have him um as our next leader in that position he is currently an assistant superintendent in Avon schools and has previously held District leadership roles in Dayton public schools and Fort Wayne with a deep commitment to Student Success he brings an extensive experience in instructional Leadership School Improvement and strategic planning I want to thank our talented secondary team who
048were a part of the process in selecting um Dr Sullivan and we are excited to welcome him to the Warren Family and I'll let him tell you about the opportunity to get closer to his own family Dr Michael Sullivan you want come on over here good evening uh thank you for the opportunity very grateful uh excited about getting started uh was talking about my experience of having been in Dayton public schools Avon High or Avon Community Schools in Ford Wayne um it is going to be a great opportunity for me to get closer to my grandson who will start at the uh priest K school in the fall uh so that was a great opportunity for me and being able to make my way to waren uh a lot of great things that I know
049that are going on here and a lot of people here that I already know and again I'm very excited about the opportunity [Applause] and now we're going to move on to the legislative update with Julie okay let me see if I can find this okay um this is going to be a little bit longer report um because there's a lot going on out there and I want to make sure the board as well as those that are here and those that are listening um have a good understanding of what's going on um this first slide I don't normally talk about Federal stuff but there's a lot going on there um I don't know if you've heard most of in this most of you in this room have probably probably heard that President Trump would like
050to close the Department of Education um that won't be quite as easy as just saying it's gone uh but we've seen some of the moves that have been going on and Dr Hansen talked about uh Perry already losing a grant um but we're concerned about our funding we're concerned about our title money so I just want you to know what we have in title money title one uh we have $3,780 $780,000 that we get um for title one which includes like our elementary counselers our reading coaches instructional coaches all at the elementary level intermediate reading uh intervention interventionists and and um it also includes things like Elementary day tutoring Elementary summer school um mckin vento support instructional software and curriculum resources that sort of stuff um title two is elementary and Intermediate Middle School coaches
051professional development um let see if I can slide this down quick uh teacher evaluation software um content specific instructional specialist this is all mostly professional development items title four is um instructional software learning management system mckin vento um items and then our um Ida which is also a big chunk is um supplies and materials employee salaries and benefits um non-public school proportionate share which is in all of those items um so for a grand total our funding is uh$ 7,95 th000 624 for um that's approximately 5% of our funding and let's see uh we also get some non dooe federal funds eate funding which is $750,000 that's our district Internet Internet Security firewall uh Network components such as our routers switches access points fiber lines and then doj cops Grant um it's a three-year grant
052for four 4,2 uh 400 $20,000 which comes out to about 140,000 per year uh for a grand total of $890,000 so that's um a chunk of change that we're looking at there um when I was in DC we asked um Congressman Carson's office you know what do you want us to do I was with um some um school board members from Lawrence Township and one from Washington uh Township also came and so they came with me to my meeting with him and they said keep everybody calm because there's a lot going on out there and it's scary um I'm going to say we stay calm but we need to uh be aware and we need to contact our legislators and we need to tell them we need this money because um it's a chunk of
053change and it's our it's our um idea our our spe special needs and such so we we really need this um so I'm going to move on now to Indiana um partisan Schoolboard um bills are back and um there's two of them Senate Bill 287 and House Bill 1230 uh Senate Bill 287 passes Senate and now we'll go to the house we're still not sure what's going on with house build 12:30 it's being heard on third reading tomorrow um so we will wait and see the worst of the two bills is 287 we really want it to go away um and if you'd like to talk to me more about it afterwards if you have questions about it it's just School Board should not be partisan it should be about what is in the best
054interest of children and this is a passion to me when I came on this board I got a a nice little note from the lady that was retiring and she said in that always think about what is in the best interest of the children when you are making decisions and I have tried to do that and I've tried to keep politics out of it because that has nothing dnrs do nothing to help our kids it's what is in the best interest of them and and you just really need to keep an eye on that um some good news uh 11:36 and 1501 are dead at least for the moment um even though they're dead they may prop uh come back in another bill if they decide to amend something I don't think so though but
055I'm keeping my fingers crossed um Senate Bill 146 teacher compensation passed out of the Senate and has been referred to the house and I'll talk a little bit more about that in a second Senate Bill 482 on AB absenteeism passed out of the Senate and is referred to the house as well um going back to teacher bill um the sen Bill 146 teacher compensation that Bill wants to start I just want you to know where we're at now in comparison to these bills so that bill what we're currently required by law to have 40,000 as a starting pay for our teachers that bill would like to move it up to $45,000 warrren Township is at 50,500 for bachelor and 51,500 for a master's um some of our recent teacher compensation increase es um the smallest
056was 2021 uh 1350 and then 2122 we tackled comp compression and uh added $2,200 on it as you can see we were in the 2,000 range or 3,000 range since then um thank you Brian I borrowed one of your slides Allison I'm borrowing a couple of yours now um on uh the bill on absen ISM I just want you to know where we're at um we are um better off than a lot of schools but we've been working on it longer under Allison's lead she's kind of taken that one on and uh we use raw we which helps quite a bit um but you can see this bottom line right here I don't know if my cursor's on there or not y right there that was the first year we did it and we were
057down in the 88 889 91 kind of bobbling around the next year uh we did better and we moved up and then this is this year this kind of orangish color right here um the reason we're continuing to get get better is we think well um we're we're moving up but our chronic absence absences are uh a hindering so this year she's been working on that and as you can see um we want to the 10% is where kids are consider considered chronically absent um so this blue light blue line here um was our oh this wait this green line was our first year and that's way up at the top that's we have a lot of absences there then you go to this kind of a pinkish color here we're getting better the next
058year but now working on The Chronic absentees um we're getting better we're we're getting close so are we're going to keep working we're not going to hit 10% this year but we're going to keep going and next year maybe we will um I average out if we go back to this slide I took I left off the 99.32 because July was only a one week but if you just take these numbers here and you average them and I know it's not exact because it's there's different numbers of days in a a month but we're about uh 93.8% when you do that so we are working our way up um and that when you talk to other school districts and you say what that is they're amazed they're like how'd you do that how'd you do
059that um so we are working our way up and we are doing a great job at that um not so good news Senate bill as I mentioned earlier 287 is moving over to the house um and some funding concerns Senate Bill won property tax it passed out of the Senate and has been referred to the house um that one when it was initially when it initially came out was um um devastating to say the least we were going to lose about 22 million approximately over three years out of our operating fund um and that's scary and there's some other districts that were losing 81 million 77 million a lot okay now we are they they've been amending this and it's less but Senator Braun has said that he will veto it because just recently because
060um it's not what he initially requested uh Senate five Senate Bill 518 passed out of the Senate and has been referred to house bill to the house that happened just today um House Bill 10:01 is the budget bill um the bad news is I think was the last um bi anym uh the curricular materials we switched over to that which is good news I mean the state is paying for that our families do not have to pay for that but it was set up with a line item for that because um you don't want it to get mixed in with everything else because then it kind of gets Lo lost in there and and it gets added in with everything else and um it was a line item just to look at curricular material that
061schools would would re be reimbursed out of that money um in this house bill they've moved it over into to the education fund uh which means they won't really think about curricular material when they're building this budget anymore it's going to get mixed in it's just going to kind of be absorbed and just be part of um what we get the complexity index and funding is down 6.8% in fiscal year 26 and 9 .9% in fiscal year 27 um but say we're going to increase by 2% but the Lion Share of that will go to Charters and vouchers it won't go to K12 Public Schools um good news though sped increases to 3.5 in in fiscal year 26 and 3.6 in fiscal year 27 CTE increases to 8.7 and 8.1 elll will increased 8.6 and
0627.5 I found it kind of interesting yesterday at the um State House day I don't know if you guys caught it or not um um Bassler said um that he didn't for the special ad and the CTE and elll they understood what they needed what was needed and why those increases were needed for the complexity index he said well I don't really understand what is needed for this why do you need this extra money for these kids um is basically he doesn't understand the needs of our children so I think we need to get together and write down exactly how these how this how this is used and what we use it for and give that to him so that he knows um I maybe if he gets that he'll say oh okay and then
063we'll see um Cate bills 1 443 and 518 this would be our estimated net revenue loss now remember these bills are a work in progress right now none of them are set in law yet or hopefully they won't be but um they're kind of playing around a little bit remember when I said Senate Bill initially was going to be like a 22 million loss uh now in 20 20 26 uh it's going to be 338,000 410 that we will lose 27 be almost 600,000 and 28 will be um 760,000 um Senate Bill 443 I put it on here because we do lose money but it's very NE negligible um all school districts will lose total of 2.4% so that'll be divided up among all of the um school districts but um that's just going to
064be a small amount it's very negligible uh C Bill 518 um for the operation fund and the operation referendum fund now these are very much estimates they are a work in progress they keep changing um this is like a living document so please use these as estimates and guesstimates um we're still trying to figure out what it's going to cost us but we wanted to give you you an idea the first year out of our operational fund we will lose 1,569 527 um we really haven't figured out the other year so I just kind of put that across the board okay and in um the referendum fund be 1, 145,50 and I did the same there so in 2026 we will lose just under $3 million in our operational fund fund and 27 be um
0653.2 and 3.3 and um our I'll when I get to our operation I'll I'll show you what that kind of does to us a little bit um this is our education fund um our budget is 90 million do in there wages and benefits what we pay out to our staff our teachers our instructor assistance principal secretaries and other instructional staff $83,400 which leaves for everything else out of the educational fund $6,600 but $2 million of that um is for substitute teachers okay so 92% of our education fund budget is going to wages and benefits we're a people person we have teachers we have um instructional assistants we have front office staff we have principles I mean we're we're a people business um and then if so if you that's 92.6% of our educational fund if
066you add the substitute teachers in which are also people that takes us up to 94.9% um and then if we look at our operations fund the budget it's 38 million but um Matt is an amazing person and we're looking at maybe coming in at 36 million instead 19.9 uh million of that is wages and benefits um and then the rest of that goes to technology maintenance trans Transportation that's a maintenance is a big one 9.5 uh superintendent and business office uh PC and uh and work comp that's our insurance um and then other um so our budget for the two if you add them together and I'm going with the 36 since that's where we're going to Prett pretty much come out budget's $126 million the education fund is 83.4 million and um operations fund
067uh 19.9 with total wages and benefits being $103.3 million that's 81% of our education and operation fund so we give our money to our teachers that's what the um or to our staff that's what the legislature would like to see um I do want to go and talk again real quick about um let me think which bill it was well anyway um the teacher oh the teacher compensation a bill um they wanted 45,000 we're at 50,000 I told you that um but uh they also want uh 60 at least right now it's 62% required by law that um we pay our teachers okay so um out of all the money that we get 62% of it needs to be teacher specific which is includes principals and teachers and such um it would not include our
068instructional assistance and and things like that um we currently are at 68% that bill will move it up to 65% so we are um definitely working hard on paying our teachers so I want to make sure everybody's aware of that as well um this is our operating referendum fund I want to make sure everybody understands what that is uh we want to thank our community here because without this um without them saying yes to the referendum uh we wouldn't have these items or we'd be struggling to have these items um we said we wanted the money to go to school safety and security staff retention recruitment um prek through 12 Transportation student St staff technology student learning K12 Etc and this 2025 estimate is what we expect to spend on those items totaling 13 million
069which is the budget for that um year-to dat expenditures now this is as of December of 24 um and you can see the the things we are paying for are things that are we said we would okay that's the important thing about this slide you don't see any extra add-on lines where we are paying other stuff with this so uh school safety 1 Milli 650,000 um $871 945 is what we've paid so far um our anticipated expenditures uh this year is 12 to 12 a. half million and um the other thing here is this uh operating referendum has a lot of wages in benefits in it as well our our safety officers our sro's and ssos are paid out of our referendum um we have our family engagement Liaisons that are paid out of the
070referendum as well as some of the um hourly pay that our um instructional assistance and support staff get come out of that as well it's a small portion but it's a part of their their salary um transportation that has some wages and benefits and uh student learning uh also has some wages and benefits included in it um so I think we're close yep that's it um I hope this helps explain things a little bit there's a lot of questions going on out there as to whether um school districts particularly public traditional public school districts are using their money wisely and um such they're really pushing Charters and vouchers and the money that we are getting um is being siphoned off a bit by the vouchers and the um charter schools so if I had a
071table up here I was going to bring some little math manipulatives and and do it for you if we have 90 kids here and we had five kids here and five kids here these 90 kids would represent the kids going to traditional Public Schools this five here would represent the vouchers and this five here would represent the charter schools okay it's around that it might be six for vouchers and four for Charters or whatever it but it's pretty close okay the money we get is one pot of money right now voucher kids if their parents make 220 to $230,000 a year for a family of four they can get um a voucher and then um there is about 5% of the people left over who are not getting vouchers those are making over 220 or
072230,000 um they have the opportunity of going Universal they will get that but that doesn't mean that we're going to get more money necessarily for them these kids are already going to school their parents have already chosen um public or private schools for them their parents can well afford it and they're paying it now um so when that money goes over there it's a pot of money and what was here goes this way there's no extra here it's like you have a bucket of water and some move some of it goes here and some goes here um so we are looking at um tough times um especially with Senate bill one and 518 so we really need to think about that and we need to work hard with these other school districts and get together
073and talk on what we can do and get parents involved because I think that's what it's going to take I think it's going to take getting our parents to say no no no um so if anybody out there is interested in helping me with that I'm going to be contacting um some of the school board members from Lawrence Township they are very interested in that and um the one that was there at Washington Township we'll get with them and I know there's other board members that are concerned about this but we're going to start working on this for the second half because we need to make sure some of these bills that are going through don't make it so any questions for me Julie I just love how your advoc for us at and I
074know what lesana and Rachel have gone as well but it's very important for the advocacy to really let them know how we feel and what is in the best interest of children well you know especially with the the vouchers and such these kids um they were initially made for kids that were social social economic status was low and they weren't would not be able to go to a private school because they couldn't afford it um they still can't because they can get the voucher but um the cost is still too high it only subtracts so much off and they still have to come up with the other 10,000 or whatever amount is left over um and then the other thing is they don't necessarily get to go there even though they want to it's school
075choice is not school choice for the kids necessarily or the parents it's school choice it's more like student choice where the the voucher the private schools get to pick what kids they want and they can say no and and they can send kids out after ADM count day and they come back here we are like Rachel said a couple of months go I think um we are that soft spot it was a great example we are that soft landing spot for kids we take all kids and um we love them and we wrap around them and we help them so um and we will continue doing that no matter what we get but it would be nice if um we got funding to do that in the way that the kids deserve so thank you
076so much Julie PR she says that we're still going to be in session next month so I wouldn't listen um next we're going to have Mr Russell with the with a presentation on the new high school diploma good evening president Burke Dr Hansen members of the board tonight I want to give an update on Indiana's new high school diploma uh this was passed by the state or approved by the State Board of Education in December um although as a board like ours like yourselves who certainly stay up to date with not only policy but legislation I know this isn't the first time you're hearings um about this diploma but tonight I want to give you a what I would refer to as a general update in terms of what this new diploma is what it
077represents and the opportunities um for all students in Indiana then talk about some very specific initial steps that we've taken here in waren Township and how it aligns to our strategic plan that's in place uh as we speak um it aligns to all of our strategic area Focus areas or priorities and board goals uh it's not just about academic excellence and student achievement um it's really about every single component and that'll make more sense as we work our way through uh so the first few slides are really content Direct IR ly from uh the idoe and I think it's important for everyone to at least have a general understanding of the rationale behind the change um when Julie was talking earlier about attendance I'm going to jump right there it's actually um the last bullet
078point on here but I know in some initial presentations uh I was shocked to learn now this isn't Warren data this is state of Indiana data that over onethird of seniors in high school are chronically absent in the state of Indiana so over 33% of seniors in the state of Indiana are chronically absent and they really link that to apathy and relevancy of high school um but that serves as one of the uh rationals but if I go back in order now uh fewer Indiana students are entering higher education we've we've seen declining rates in college entrance uh for our graduating seniors in Indiana um since 2016 and and even fewer of them are actually graduating college once they get there uh so the graphic you see there represents who's going to college straight from
079high school and unfortunately those numbers who uh percent of students who are actually successful uh in college or fore University uh is even lower than that ultimately the foundation of uh the work that we're doing in waren Township we talk about our journey of our graduate skills and this second bullet really hits on that student stents are graduating without the without the skills they need for rewarding career opportunities um then um specifically on the enlistment front students uh We've also learned I think a shocking rate um that over 60% of the students who want to enlist find out that they are disqualified after it's too late that may be specific uh academic qualifications that may be what the milary or service branches referred to as character disqualifications um but ultimately our students are getting too
080late into their K12 career without determining exactly what they want to do the day after graduation and we've utilized that phrase a lot but ultimately these were some of those uh rationals that the state has given another way to look at this I really put it in three three buckets so why that why these diploma requirements are Chang changing or have changed now it's about making the high school diploma more flexible and relevant for students employers and communities as a community we want students prepared to be successful in the community employers require re rely on us to help prepare students to be successful in in the employment uh highquality work-based learning we have talked a significant amount of just how rewarding those work-based learning opportunities ities are for students and we certainly in the state
081of Indiana obviously here in waren Township want to make sure we increase those opportunities and then um uh note lately we've had a lot of conversations about credentials of value uh increasing access in the number of students completing high value post-secondary credentials before they graduate high school it opens up the doors for students when they're able to get a credential of value before they intern or before they exit uh high school so ultimately as the state was looking at uh Workforce Development uh the quality of our graduating students in the state of Indiana U they wanted to reimagine what that High School experience could look like for students um and uh they certainly not only proposed uh but passed some changes so this is really nitty-gritty when it gets into the detail on a few
082things that I would want to start off by by clarifying the new Indiana diploma was approved for the class of 2029 which is our current eighth graders who will be freshmen next year so when you look at this slide or these next two slides these the future Indiana diploma diploma is not the graduation requirements that we're talking about the class of 2025 or 26 or 27 or 28 uh anyone in high school now does not um their Pathway to earning a diploma falls under the current section it doesn't fall under the future section so we're really talking about what those opportunities look like um for our current students in e8th grade moving forward so that being said I'm not going to read this for batim but I do just want to point out a few
083uh significant differences that um I know you may be well aware of already you can see um in terms of number of credit ultimately and the next slide will show this but the Baseline uh number of credits for high school graduation with this new Indiana diploma is now 42 credits instead of 40 credits that's made up and this is really by department and I will say I think it's important to know um that at the time of approval and we're just a few short months after that time of approval this is really all the information schools have to um start to think about there are a lot of questions yet still to be answered by the doe um which we understand that's going to take some time um so if you ask a very specific
084question on what classifies as a stem focused credit we don't necessarily have all those answers yet because I can name a a lot of different scenarios in which we may think that applies but we're still waiting on Direct guidance from the doe for um so anyway English still same same amount of credits um that being said right now uh the only required English class that is uh traditional in nature would be English n as you know we have English n English 10 English 11 English 12 English n is still required um but the rest of those credits with the exception one has to be a Communications focused course uh can look a lot of different ways not suggesting at this point that we're not going to have students in English 10 English 11 English 12
085but depending on what that student's graduation plan may look like it may be an English class geared more towards a specific career path it may be an English class that's geared more towards um an enrollment path um which will Thresh out those details I know Math's a big one I know um even a year ago as this diploma conversation was going up I know I think we were well we were writing down to Nashville uh president Burke and we were talking about the math debate whether Algebra 2 is going to be required component or not um well the approved new Indiana diploma Algebra 2 is not a requirement for graduation this does not mean we're not offering Algebra 2 it just simply means that it's not a required component um for math you will see
086in addition personal finance is a required course now um and we that's music to our ears because we heard that through our strategic planning process and especially with the conversations with our students our students desire relevant personal finance classes especially when they're um in their later years of high school a lot of them had referenced how they got some introductory personal finance early in their freshman year and it would be more applicable to them when they were older after they had jobs after they had a car or after they were paying certain things trying to figure out what college or post high school life looked like um so that that certainly is a required course now four additional math credits again we have a laundry list of math courses that students can take um but
087uh two algebra one credits or the Baseline uh piece that you're probably familiar with uh science Technology and Engineering Biology one is still a required course you'll see an addition of a computer science course uh I'm going to reverse just a second last or actually in January it's February right in January uh you approved a computer science inter personal finance course they add to the course editions that was in preparation for this uh just to draw those connections together um but biology is still required and again that one example I gave to start those two stem Focus credits um I know um uh having a lot of conversation with Dr Rogers we have a lot of questions about what a stem Focus credit could be is it anything CTE related could that be a stem
088Focus credit is anything in math a stem Focus credit again I say that just to allude to while the bones of the plan are here and approved by the State Board of Education there's 's a lot of details to work out excuse me social studies um here there there's a couple specific ones on here and the one that sticks out to most people in the social studies realm is economics is no longer a required course to graduate in the state of IND Indiana um again a lot of people connect that personal finance with economics and uh on a philosophy basis we could debate what uh was the absolute best path forward but the final diploma rule uh by the State Board of Education still requires or does not require economics it also considers a world
089perspective credits you're required to have two World perspectives two World perspective credits um and uh that falls within the social studies department on this plan and inclusive within that is any advanced World Language course so Advanced Spanish um meaning like a Spanish 3 or Spanish 4 uh would satisfy that requirement we we're starting to get more information about that another one that stands out greatly is if with uh PE under the current uh graduation uh diploma requirements you need two credits in physical education and one in health uh now for physical education and health you need one credit in physical education and one in health so it eliminated um a PE credit moving on or to the electives uh directive electives um again those are things very specific for students uh which now um the
090comparison here is from a directive elective to the old term to now a personalized elective the the goal in that name change just in general is to make sure all the courses that a student is taking is aligned to ultimately what they want to do the day after graduation or it connects or gives them some type of value to what they see in their future selves uh again another change um College and Career Focus courses commonly referred to as PCC or preparing for college care and careers is now required graduation uh course uh we already teach that course in high school we actually call it uh freshman seminar and embed the preparing for College and Career um uh content within that course course so as you can see again there's just a lot of lot
091of nitty-gritty details within this um that provide um I'm going to say some opportunities for us uh in how we um provide a personalized path for our students and what they want to be um how we want to help them be successful as they move forward the other addition and one that I think um is both exciting and scary um is the addition of of what they call Readiness seals um so Readiness seals aren't required uh to graduate in the state of Indiana uh but they're they're viewed almost as a credential or a stamp or an honors or a way to enhance your diploma in the state of Indiana so you can see there's three distinctive Pathways to steal or to seals and I hesitate to use the word Pathways because it's overused in a
092lot of context especially talking about graduation uh but really at the heart of this it gets into a student and what their unique their new unique opportunity or path is in high school for what they want to do after graduation so it's broken down into enrollment for those students who are looking to go the college route employment for those students who may be looking to go directly to the employment path or enlistment and service seal for those students who want to go directly into one of the service branches uh in military so ultimately what this is is you can get an honor seal which is an addition you get your diploma with a honors seal or you get your diploma with an honors plus seal if you meet the criteria that's listed on here and
093again there there's a whole lot on this slide to unpack um but just specifically in terms of the context of what that means so an enrollment for so someone who wants to be College Bound obviously there's a lot of flexibility when you just look at this chart because it just says yes the only English course you absolutely have to take um is English not or two credits of english9 something that's communication focused and then five additional credits but then when you look more specifically at the Readiness seals it starts to outline some more specific coursework that you're going to have to engage with and the criteria to be able to accomplish that to get there so I'm just going to use a couple of these as an example so for an honor seal at least
094um four credits in World Language six social studies cred credits again the required math was only six credits but you would have to have at least math eight math credits uh a c or average in all your C or C or higher in all the courses and a cumulative uh GPA of a b average uh which is traditionally a 3.0 and then you would have to complete one of the following at least four credits in AP six college credits while you're in high school or score a 1250 on the SAT or a 26 on the act so um if you're able to obviously earn your Baseline diploma and satisfy all of those requirements you would get an honors enrollment seal on your diploma an honors plus seal is um I don't want to say self-explanatory
095but it's just a level up from honors plus with that um you have to do everything within the honor seal and earn a credential of values so that's an associates degree a technical certificate or the Indiana college core um in your high school career you would have to have 75 hours of work-based learning and then demonstrate skill development communication collaboration and work ethic how we determine if someone does that at this point again we're not exactly sure what those requirements will be but this just outlines those um specific paths I again I want to look at just a few of these as we move on you can kind of work your way uh through these this table and these three columns and just see the outline of what those um specific different seal options look
096for students I do want to highlight with the employment seal complete 150 hours of workbase learning so again Seal Seal related honors plus seal 75 hours of work based learning employment seal 150 hours of work-based learning employment honors plus seal 650 hours of work-based learning so obviously there's a extreme heavy emphasis on being able to provide students the opportunity to engage in work-based learning during High School um for that and then um not the short change the enlistment seal uh but certainly we're we're fortunate to be able to have G GRC at our high school which provides that um and then um achieve a score of 31 on the asab uh complete a career exploration program attendance goal and again you're going to see more of those things on uh skill development communication collaboration and
097work ethic um so there's a lot there's an awful lot there in in terms of the seal um what I really want to do um just with all that information coming at you so fast and furious just talk about why this why I view this as such a great opportunity for us based on the conversations that we've been having specifically around our goals and our strategic plans so I I took two specific goals specifically out of our strategic plan uh one of those is increase the percentage of students graduating with high school with Advanced enrollment employment and oror enlistment credentials uh so that was written with the purpose of mind and making sure we're pushing students in order to earn honors and honors plus seals um right now the way Advanced enrollment employment or enlistment
098credentials are defined is the percentage of 12th grade uh students earning an associates degree an Indiana college core or a technical certificate uh so this this data right now is coming right from the Indiana igps dashboard um and that graduating high school with advanced credentialing is really what it's referring to um uh right now uh Warren Township our current reality is we have about 4% or exactly 4% of our students uh who are graduating with Advanced credentialing as defined by an associates degree in anti College Corp or technical certificate and just for reference the state average is 5.5% um the next one is increase the percentage of students who complete College course work prior to graduation we want to increase that to 67% that's defined by the percentage of 12th grade students passing an AP
099exam or a dual credit class prior to graduation right now about 40 well 49% of our students meet that requirement either uh earn a dual credit pass an AP exam for that and that state average currently is 56.5% so as you can see and I'm going back to this readiness slide our goals are specifically targeted about um increasing the expectation for achievement for our students to be able to accomplish some of the most challenging seals not just to graduate high school we have a graduation goal we'll continue to focus on graduating students but simply graduating students without earning credentials um is not best preparing them for their life After High School which is why we have to raise that bar in that expectation for students next I just want to talk uh a few short
100minutes on kind of what some of these initial steps for how we're preparing for the class of 2029 so building upon the success of that freshman seminar course um as you know we started that Freshman Academy this year we're very intentional about the Freshman seminar class um another component that's not listed as a direct requirement within a graduation or within the actual diploma is for students to create a graduation plan or a high school plan um right now um the preparation for that is embedding students exposure to what coursework looks like exposing students to their pathway in order to get a Readiness seal and having all of that embedded within that freshman seminar course um give students the opportunity to explore the robust course offerings I know I think it was just last month we
101had the conversation about how do we make sure students and families in the community know about the opportunities that are available in waren Township specifically at the career center specifically at other um all the different course offerings there and again from a student lens it's embedding that directly in some of the instruction and the coursework that they're getting um and then make sure that they have all the information they need as a student to create the high school experience they desire to meet their long-term goals back to the original first slide when we were talking about why Chang the Indiana high school diploma increased relevancy making sure students were equipped with the knowledge and information before it was too late and they could not no they could no longer pursue their passion or interest because
102it was too late for them to make that decision um moving a step further thinking about what that looks like um for us it's about starting that conversation even before students get into high school so starting next year for our eighth grade class um so our current seventh graders which is a class of 2030 um we're going to have students build their High School plan in 8th grade we're going to expose them to what course opportunities look like we're going to expose them to the seals we're going to talk about what it means to be on an enrollment pathway an enlistment pathway or an employment pathway we're not going to lock them into a specific schedule or anything um and make them commit their four years years of a life when they're an eighth grader
103to sign on the dotted line but it's about providing the appropriate exposure and instruction to students so they know what opportunities are there so that if they know that they want to go on an enrollment pathway that they're going to have to take eight credits of math they are going to have to make sure um that um not only academically are they preparing themselves and take advantage of those different opportunities but they are making sure through their course scheduling making through the other opportunities and the other experiences that they want to have in high school um for what that uh ultimately will what the reality will be for them and I'll leave you um at least with this presentation I'll leave you with a few thoughts um so I truly believe the class of 2029
104will benefit from The increased flexibility and opportunities to tailor their High School experience but there's a lot of work to figure out exactly how we make that a reality for you know nearly 4,912 students um So currently things that uh we're deep in the thinking process getting professional development on uh I know next week the 912 team and myself will be attending new Indiana diploma um professional development and collaboration session so we can talk not just amongst ourselves but uh with other districts just about different uh ways that uh all of us are trying to tackle this work um you know but for right now for us it really STS starts about reviewing all the course offerings to provide students opportunities to add credentials of value to the resume if we truly want to add
105credentials of values to our students when they're in high school that conversation can't happen just when they're a sophomore talking about their junior year or just a junior when we're talking about their senior year it has to be intentional it has to be planned and we have to have an efficient way of offering those courses we love the expansive course offerings that we have at the high school um that being said we have to make sure that they're aligned to student interest and need to meet their goals you saw a big part of those seals and a big part of uh credential is for those on the enrollment seal it's really an analysis and look at the AP and dual credit opportunities that our students have uh we know if you want to in earn
106an Indiana college core diploma uh you're going to have to participate in a sequence of dual credit courses that uh as you're scheduling yourself your freshman year that has an impact ultimately on what would be available for you your senior year uh for the employment seal looking at the different CTE and other Pathways that are offered there uh and making sure students have Equitable access to get into those programs um as they certainly want um to add those uh credentials of value to the resume and then ultimately I can't stress this enough increase work-based learning opportunities to ensure students have the ability to earn a Readiness seal uh we can't allow access to be the reason why a student doesn't have the ability to earn the seal we have a lot of work to do
107to figure out how to expand that access with the community with employers um we will be calling upon uh the community and employers uh to support us in this endeavor to support our students in this endeavor by opening their workplaces for experiences for students um which will be a critical part of this to to make that a reality feel like I just um said a whole lot of stuff really quickly um but I'll tell you this is only the beginning and there's a lot of work and um more information to come but I was excited at least give you an update on on the initial um things that are going on in the what the future of our high school diploma looks like for our students happy to answer any questions yes sir yeah I
108don't know if I can give you a direct answer on how we would directly be able to do that um a few things that I would just point out um is you to earn that honors plus you have to do one of those three so um either a 50 on the asab enroll at RC at the Collegiate level or be accept an acceptance into the service Academy you don't have to accomplish all three thank goodness um but it's one of those if you look at I don't want to say the future of accountability really for Indiana schools there's a lot of metrics that are really developed about what students do after they leave us so when you look at the igps dashboard now some of the ways that they're measuring uh and comparing schools is
109what is a students median income five years after they graduate high school so there's a lot of things contingent upon uh what a student does after they leave high school that they're linking back to their High School experience as a measure of accountability accepted to a service Academy for the requirements that is required to get in the service Academy you got you can't be in high school while you can you know get AC you know accept a service Academy you're going to have to well I think it's going to be difficult get those other two that right there the enlistment enrollment in the RTC at the Collegiate level because not in college and then acceptance to a service Academy that has to take a lot of preparation before he gets to really a senior year
110absolutely and I think one of the other parts and I know some feedback that we uh or I can speak for myself I directly provided when you look at some of these seals and you look at some of the P so I'm going to transition back to the enrollment skill um when they talk about earning four credits in AP uh some students are taking those AP tests the spring in the spring of their senior year and we don't get the results back the students don't even get the results back until after they graduate um so how they're going to be able to configure or determine what if a student earns um you know Miss Brown if you if when you graduate high school and after you take all your tests I'm assuming if I know
111anything about you that if you were in the class of 2029 and you saw these requirements you would be going after some type of seal um if I walk across that stage I would want to know if I've earned that seal or not not have to wait till August when the AP scores come out to say oh yeah I actually earned the seal I want to know at the I want to know that at the time of gradu uation and Mr dorsy I think the same thing applies where the enrollment in Roc at the Collegiate level may not necessarily happen in high school obviously it may happen two years later but then gets linked back to that honor seal Plus for their high school diploma which is some of the critical feedback that we have
112given about how they will measure seal completion because of the timeliness of when some of these events will take place for our students I think you're G to have some difficulty with that one I sorry and and and uh and be be interested in knowing if you had a chance to talk to you know little or any of his guys in reference to that particular challenge that uh no but I'm going to be with a group of people on Tuesday and I'll certainly um bring it up yeah I I kind of wonder if um you know I don't know if um ivytech has Roc or if IUPUI which is no longer IUPUI um has Roc um I know Purdue does because when I was there I took an ROTC Class A climbing and repelling class
113um and so maybe it would be easier for students that are around a college that has that but just like um in the uh enrollment section where they have to get associates degree I mean they can get some of those classes through US probably but they may not be able to get all of to get the so they may actually have to go to IUPUI to get that degree so like if they're they live in Lafayette maybe if they go to Purdue and take an ROTC Class yeah I think I think in the next time I have the opportunity to give another update to talk about um how we're communicating more practical ways for how our students can actually accomplish these things so for us on the honors plus seal for the enrollment the direct
114pathway for our students to earn an honors uh seal Plus for the enrollment piece is Indiana college core um the associates degree while there's some opportunities for technical certificate what we will be talking or what we are talking The Freshman about is if you're targeting that honors plus seal we have the opportunity for students to earn the Indiana college core which will qualify them for that as long as they meet all the requirements of the honor seal and and that 75 hours of work-based learning so whether it's the enrollment seal and Indiana college Corp are providing more practical guidance and Pathways for students about how they would get that enlistment honors plus seal Mr dorsy we have to create and that's why we need community colleges universities employers there's going to have to be a
115partnership approach to this um because some of these are not completely out of our control uh but we have more influence on how we can support some students in some of these areas than others thank you this was very informative it was good information okay thank you so much Ryan we appreciate your time as always um we are going to move on to the business of citizens presence and I know we have a yellow card I'm going to thank you for your patience this evening um Mr Humphrey Mr Jonathan minroe yes members of the community um thanks for your time you guys have a lot to be proud of um but clearly there's a lot of challenges at the moment as well I'm going to try to uh talk on the microphone there sure so
116everybody can hear you thank you can you hear me now yes good I'm gonna try to uh talk while I bring up Google Maps here um I live in Lawrence Township uh and I'm a volunteer with a campaign called forest for Indie okay and uh we try to preserve Urban forest and I'm here tonight because there's a one particular Forest that's very close to one of your schools to Hawthorne Elementary in fact and this Woods I'm going to show you here is actually the largest unprotected Woods in Maran County okay and it's 70 76 Acre Woods and it's never been plowed under okay which means it's um pretty much a remnant of the woods that covered the whole city at one point in time so I'm going to move the cursor here to show haon
117elementary and then this is what we call East Side Flatwoods and you might even have seen some po poers or lawn signs around okay so um the city of Indianapolis has an opportunity to buy these Woods okay the owners want to sell them they want to they're willing to sell them at a discount um with the aim of preserving them because these Woods have been in their family for Generations the city has identified over their various years that um they actually want to acquire these Woods turn into Nature Park for Public Access again to preserve the woods um the mayor's office just at the moment it seems like they need a bit of encouragement from the neighbors and from people who have a stake and have an interest in this uh so our community-based campaign
118is asking locals to contact the mayor's office um I I don't presume to tell the board how to sort of go about the the sort of business of of weighing in on it but naturally given the proximity of the school to the woods and the sort of development pressures in the area we think it' be just natural for for you to to sort of express your interest in in preserving these Woods um as I said there's a lot of development pressure in the area there's we we expect that there actually will be some construction in this Zone here but the plan that we have that we'd love to see is is most of this open space and all of these Woods turned into a park if the purchase of these Woods doesn't occur soon then
119it's likely they will be sold to developers who knows when that those woods be demolished I'm not saying that they would or be imminent but the opportunity to buy them is like now it would seem um and we're encouraging the mayor to to use funds this march to uh to approach the set the owners and it would be a $3 million price tag is what we're what they're looking at um so do do you have any questions um I don't believe so and we it has has been your three minutes okay um Mr Monroe I want to thank you for your time this evening and thank you for your patience okay um if you want to leave any materials just go ahead and leave them there and we'll collect them on the way sure thing
120okay I will leave some materials okay thank you and thank you so much we always appreciate Community involvement so yeah it's um sorry it's not it's standing board policy that we don't comment on community comments immediately so um and with that we are going to move on to action items starting with Matt good evening president Burke Dr Hansen members of the board uh we've got two um related board policies that we're going to ask the board to um adopt revisions to this evening um board policy 7310 and 7 7450 both deal with um property inventory and the definition of of capitalization with um Federal grant purchases specifically uh and so the the most significant change in both of these board policies is it moves the definition um of equipment from $5,000 to $10,000 which to
121be candid primarily results in an accounting change when we have to do federal reporting um it eases the burden at some level and this was made possible by a change in the federal CFR um earlier in 2024 changing that definition 5,000 to 10,000 so um in both of these policies we're looking to align local policy with with uh the revised Federal CFR policy 7310 specifically deals with the disposition of surplus equipment as we discussed last month and so U with that said I would ask for the board's approval of revised version of policy 7310 I'm happy to answer any questions so moved we've got Julie making a motion do we have a second I will second and Terry seconding it um with that Mr secretary if we could have have vote Miss Gloria yes Mr
122Howard Miss Julie yes Miss Terry yes Miss L yes and myself as a yes and Madam president yes yes that passes unanimously excellent that passes unanimously can we have a motion I would like to a motion for policy 7450 so moved Julie made the motion do we have a second I'll second Terry seconded the motion um once again Mr secretary if you could call the role for a vote oh is there any discussion my apologies okay hearing and seeing none if you could call the role Miss Gloria yes Mr Howard yes Miss Julie yes M ter yes Lan yes myself I say yes and Madam president yes the motion passes excellent um and with that we are going to move on to a public hearing yep so um with the president Burke with your approval
123we're going to open up a public hearing it can be within the confines of the board meeting we don't have to suspend the board meting or anything of that sort so if it's okay with you I'm going to open a public hearing excellent sounds great okay so I want to provide um some brief explanation to the board to the the community about what we're we're doing this evening um I'm going to lay out the action item then I'm going to walk backward to how we got here um so board we're asking for your authorization um to spend $3.5 million within the education fund on curricular materials um what I want to make clear is that this isn't new money we weren't otherwise going to spend this is a change um from One Fund to the
124other so by way of background uh we adopt our budget each year in March and we operate on a fiscal year basis fiscal year from us works out really conveniently lines up with the school year July 1st to June 30th lines up with our major funding source state tuition support um we're an outlier and adopting on that cycle we're one of two school districts that do um and every once in a while you can you can run into um a hitch with the process and um so this year we do have to adapt um so specific Al what happened is uh two years ago as part of the 2023 budget as we recall the general assembly funded curricular materials um so that doesn't change at all where our parents no longer have to pay for
125curricular materials um for years before that curricular materials was in a standalone fund fund 900 the curricular materials fund previously called textbook rental when we adopted our budget last year that was still the law of the land um and that fund was still in place after we adopted the budget in March the general assembly session wrapped up and one of the measures that passed in that session uh eliminated the curricular materials fund and required that state funding move into the education fund effective on January 1st 2025 and now as we purchase curcular materials uh we also have to pay for them now out of the education fund as opposed to the curricular materials fund so the next action item we're going to have this evening is discussion of the actual curricular materials themselves um what
126we're asking for this evening is the board authorization to spend money out of the education fund on curricular materials um so I'm happy to answer any questions and I will say as part of this hearing too we we have to go through a public comment process too yes and I do want to U make the comment that this public hearing was appropriately advertised and put out there to the public um are there any public comments we will start there okay hearing and seeing none do we have any discussion or questions for Matt did you say it was it was published yes we we published it in the star and the the ibj on uh Friday February 7th okay not seeing any other questions and not having any public comment then we are going to close
127the public hearing yep and and we we are going to move on to resolution 63525 and Y so so essentially the resolution this is um an addendum to the budget that the board authorized last March and that was certified by the department of local government Finance last month it would move our education fund budget from $90 million to 93.5 million um with the additional appropriation going into supplies uh for the purpose of paying for curricular materials I do want to share transparency for the board and and for the public we actually don't believe we're going to spend a full $3.5 million we advertised at that level to give ourselves um as much flexibility to negotiate as possible um the the actual amount we're going to spend is is going to be um probably somewhere south
128of $3 million out of the education fund this year but with that said we'd still ask for the board's approval at the amount we advertised thank you and with that do I have a motion on the resolution so moved Julie made the motion is there a second second Terry seconded is there any discussion hearing and seeing none Mr secretary if you could call a vote Miss Gloria yes Mr Howard yes Miss Julie Miss Terry yes m l yes and there would be a yes for myself Madam president yes passes that motion passes thank you so much you thank you for your time this evening Matt and we are back to Ryan it is it's out of date that's actually oh my goodness it's curriculum adoption who could see shocking shocking we're now talking about curriculum
129adoption president Burke Dr Hansen members of the board um tonight um um here to talk to you about English language arts curriculum adoption um I will say as uh Matt alluded to this will in um with an action request to approve uh the recommendation but um uh we're not quite there yet so let me get through this I also want to reference uh you all have a black folder as well I'll be referencing some materials uh within that so I just wanted to make sure you that before I jumped in um with the reading uh English language arts curriculum of adoption and this is focused really or specifically on grades k38 uh our Focus tonight is investing in academic excellence and student achievement and Alignment to the board and strategic Plan Focus areas um a
130lot of tonight I'm going to talk about the process and timeline because I'll start off by saying there's no such thing as a perfect curriculum um so we really value the process the feedback the inclusiveness um in in which how we get to the recommendation um for that so uh this is a broad overview and I want to go into some specific details quarter by quarter um in what led us to making this recommendation that uh I'm going to make tonight um curriculum adoption doesn't happen overnight um it's it's a long process uh takes a lot of time um but again I I think there's a significant amount of value in the process um so really when we started thinking about adopting a K8 reading curriculum for the 2526 school year um was really summer
131of 2024 when we really started those initial steps um so looking at the evaluation of curricular options that we had and I'm going to talk about some statutory requirements that we had for that uh talk about how we got to a pilot process and how we selected that then moving on to how we supported that pilot uh how we supported the teachers what that collaboration looked like and then really embedding once we got into the second quarter of the school year teacher feedback reference checks engagements and feedback from parents and caregivers um the survey I'll share some data um of what our teachers feedback was um and some testimonials from teachers and parents as well as we looked at the different options and then really there's the um cost and Analysis just taking all the
132data looking at all the different components of the evaluation rubric we use which uh again I'll get into more detail so that's that's a very high overview but just wanted to set the stage with that so I don't want to reference this as boring stuff but I think it's important to understand just what the statutory requirements for curriculum adoption especially with something as high-profile as reading is in the state of Indiana code or state of Indiana code in the state of Indiana there's a specific code which is referenced there that requires the idoe to evaluate curriculum materials and create an approved list to inform local adoptions um so um I have no idea how many available reading curriculum options K8 there are in the in the United States um I can tell you specifically um
133there are three core reading curriculums that are fully approved by the state of Indiana and what I mean by fully approved is there's more than three that are on the approval list I think there's five total but some of them say you can approve them but you can't use this part of them or you can uh you can use this component of the curriculum but you can't use all of it which is just absolutely confusing for teachers and staff and it's an implementation challenge to say that you can use part of the curriculum but not all the curriculum and trying to look and how to monitor that and support that uh is overwhelming so there are three core reading curriculums that are fully approved D um for K8 in the state of Indiana out of
134those three approved reading curriculums only two vendors cover the whole grade span k through eight uh so for Co coherence sake we think it's really important that our students um that our curriculum has vertical articulation uh meaning that students aren't jumping in and out of different curriculums as they matriculate the way through uh their educational Journeys so I say all that just to set the stage because tonight I'm really going to share with you about what we went through to really evaluate two specific vendors for reading curriculum um the all of that those statutary requirements in our initial review really focused on Focus us on two main vendor products so amplify ccla um or La depending on the grade land um amp which core knowledge language arts or just language arts if you're in the
135six 8 space and then McGraw Hill open court um and or and study sync as you get in 68 um so those two provided an articulation from k28 we felt that we um with um the independent reviews and then obviously on the Indiana approval list it really allowed us to focus and set our SES on a high level review of two uh rather than starting in the abyss of dozens and dozens and doz cous um to really focus in that support the other thing that we've had a lot of success with and we really leverage to help gain valuable feedback as a pilot process uh we were able to identify and select teachers to Pilot the curriculums during this school year so as we speak today we have uh multiple teams of teachers piloting both
136options in all grade levels um so those teachers were um um express some interest and then we also thought it was really important to make sure that if a third grade team at um I'm going to say Hawthorne because I know Hawthorne's one of them if a third grade team at Hawthorne wanted to we allowed the whole team to Pilot so they would have enhanced collaboration so it wasn't one teacher's doing this curriculum one teacher is doing this curriculum the whole team was the principle the the Reading Coach everyone could support it at a high level we didn't want we realized what the pilot that we would have multiple curriculums going on we didn't want to have three curriculums going on within the same school or the same space because that again that just gets
137overwhelming uh when we think about what that support looks like and then before the school year started as we identified those people obviously providing that training uh for the pilot teachers and the administrator so that they were fully equipped to be able to utilize that curriculum to the best of their ability from day one was critically important for us so we went through that process to identify them did the training got them their materials got them ready so they could start the year the other thing we did is we let the teachers that were piloting to know that their pilot was for this whole school year every single teacher knows we're making a recommendation tonight um and for the teachers who are piloting the curriculum that were're not recommending they will continue to Pilot that
138curriculum for the rest of the year just for continuity um so um again trying to be um I don't want to say sensitive to the burden but understanding that it doesn't make sense to switch curriculums in the middle of the year um we'll talk about how we'll prep them for next year but it doesn't make sense to make that change now so anyway that was this summer um as we looked at that July through September I know July's summer but we also start school in July um so we really thought about as I alluded to this just curriculum imp implementation training for teachers um you know we knew we were looking at new reading curriculum we are right off um a really um um especially at the K4 level uh we were right in the
139high of getting some I3 success and and significantly improving that we knew that with a new curriculum um came some new approaches and and different um ways or things to look at as we were trying to continue some of those strong foundations that we had built um but just really making sure that we provided the appropriate um professional learning opportunities for those teachers again not just the teachers but the coaches the principles everyone supporting in that building to be able to get what that was we also know we've heard this throughout this year and we knew it to be true this summer when we were talking about it teachers really value collaborative opportunities with their peers um so getting teachers together who are utilizing the same materials to learn from one another um to talk
140about the obstacles that they were facing to problem solve with each other um uh was a critical part of the pilot it'll be a critical part of the implementation support as we move forward into next year uh but we knew that that was um that was important we also utiliz the pilot as a way to interview the vendors um and this was a really telling part that I think um was helpful and influential through the evaluation process as well obviously vendors want our business um with that but I'm more interested in the level of support that they're providing us and our teachers through that process if they weren't going to be able to provide a high level of support during an evaluation process what were we going to be able to expect from them after
141we purchased the material um so and we were upfront with them about that that they were um they were under a microscope right it it look we weren't asking them to jump and them say how high but at the same time we wanted to make sure that if our teachers had needs and how the best utilize the curriculum and the resources that they had that they would be responsive to our staff they would be responsive to our questions and that that they had the not only appropriate levels of support but the right type of support for our teachers when they needed it so that was influential that um looked from the beginning like them collaborating with our teachers whether it be weekly or monthly virtual meetings with the pilot teachers them coming into classroom to
142watch and provide encouragement anything around that um was part of the process and very helpful for us the October to December timeline um the other thing that we really wanted to dive into was um learning from experiences with other Indiana school districts that are utilizing this curriculum so relying on our um peers in Maran County uh other Indiana school districts that adopted these curriculums to learn about not only their teachers ex and administrators experience with the curriculum itself but their experience with the vendors and the provid or the vendors and the support that they were providing as well um we had a lot of conversations with different districts different types of districts about uh the successes and challenges that they were they were having uh which again doesn't necessarily mean we'll have the exact same
143successes and challenges but allows us a better plan for and support implementation of whatever curriculum that we move forward with because although we were able to identify a lot of those components to the pilot itself um sometimes it's nice to know what other people found uh extremely helpful or what other people found um not as helpful as we started to put together our implementation support plan our professional development plan for how we were going to implement that new curriculum um the other thing that was critically important was to make sure that every teacher in grades KU K8 who had anything to do with Reading had curriculum materials available for both C from both fendors to be able to review provide feedback on so that takes um that looks a little different um based on um
144what level of involvement the teacher wants to have with that so again if you looked at any a lot of times they in the media center sometimes there in other um LGI rooms uh but grade level content grade level materials available for all teachers to review whether they were piloting or not so if you are piloting one we may we wanted to make sure you had access to see what the other one looked like uh same thing vice versa and if you weren't engaged in the pilot we wanted to make sure they had the opportunity to riew both of those as well on top of that it just wasn't what I call a blind review you go in and look at the books look at the pictures see what that looks like uh but we
145created opportunities for the curriculum vendors to come in and provide formal presentations to their teachers to give overviews of the curriculum um that seems like a given but at the same time we wanted to make sure teachers had the opportunity to hear directly from um the implementation specialist from the vendor specifically um about at least their recommended ways of curriculum implementation be able to address any questions teachers were coming in or looking at through their review and then we did do a formal survey uh one of the things that I mentioned that I would reference in this is um um I don't know how much level of detail you want to get to on the evaluation rubric but there is a copy of the evaluation rubric in there and I'll I'll talk about the component
146shortly as we go through um and that's why the feedback from teachers um was based off on and then January and February um we also wanted to make sure that all parents and caregivers had the opportunity to review the curricular materials and provide feedback um as a uh newer tradition um schools have multiple family literacy nights now I know in collaboration with Dr Anderson uh we had each School make sure that they had one focused in January uh not specifically for IAD awareness but also to make sure that parents were aware of the curriculum materials that we were reviewing giving them the opportunity to review and allow them to provide narrative feedback or talk about uh areas of interest that they saw in them or any questions that they had so we could address those
147as well um we really started housing in on professional development and implementation planning in January once we got pasted uh once we got into 2025 in this new year the other thing that I think um um I've seen districts make mistakes not us but I think what one thing was really important for this evaluation process is we fully negotiated two contracts and two professional development plans for both vendors um to get a true comparison of total cost and all overall value and to really take a look at what that professional development package is so for example if a if a which is what we didn't do um but what I mean by that is if you say you want to go with curriculum X then start talking about negotiating a contract or then start talking
148about the professional development package I don't think you get the vendor's best foot forward um I think um I'm not a used car salesman uh maybe I should have been I don't know but at the end of the day um the the goal is to make sure each vendor thinks you want to select them um and then try to squeeze as much blood out of that turnup as you can as you're trying to negotiate that price so one thing I'm proud of our team and how we operated and went through this process is um we certainly had interest as we were looking at very Parts but we NE negotiated contracts with both not just for curricular materials but assessment pieces and professional developments we had a true comparison um which ultimately resulted uh into some
149saving I believe into savings for us um which again is that last point just those contract negotiations um when it got really tense we had to bring in Matt in to say like we can't buy anything if you guys don't do this and then um you know he he he helped us drive some things home for that um so anyway I say all that because I wanted you to know that there is months and months and months of focus worked to get to this recommendation this is not on a whim I know we had a lot of conversations about what curriculum we're using how it best supports our students um uh obviously this process um was um very important for us so I I mentioned the evaluation criteria and I don't want to bore anyone
150with this um but we triy to use some independent evaluation criteria as well to look at what uh research says is best practice in a curriculum evaluation um and then looked at some additional components we had teachers rate everything other than overall cost and value in professional development and the reason why the professional development was is because that not everyone had access to the professional development for that so we could have um a um just a 11 play Level Playing Field for that um we started this school year talking a lot about standard alignment and that was the very first part of our evaluation rubric again uh not just to read them but instructional design foundational skills uh you're really looking at some specific components of reading that not only are foundational research pieces but
151in pieces that have served us well uh in our past success uh writing development assessment support for exceptional Learners cultural inclusive inclusive inclusivity and uh representation teacher support digital tools family involvement resources and then obviously those last two I mentioned um you can see how the RS broke down in the handout but again very detailed as far as the feedback that we were looking so I said all that to get to this slide um what we really looked at and this is teacher survey responses and I refer to this as favorability ratings uh what I mean by that is there is a fourpoint scale from exemplary to needs Improvement and if a teacher rated it a three or a four I considered it a positive Mark or a favorable rating anything less than that wouldn't
152be encompassed with that so you look at all of these different components from the evaluation rubric as far as how we looked and evaluated this this is 100% teacher feedback that you're seeing right now um everywhere with the exception of support for exceptional Learners was rated hire for amplify ccla and La uh the MRA Hill open court um or study sync um some of those more significant than others um but a teacher favorability rating um really outpaced uh with amplifi than it did in mcra hill now before you ask me the question what about the oel and support for oel materials this feedback was exceptionally helpful for us as well because some of the components that we asked them to add onto the curricular materials was additional support for exceptional Learners um now we've had
153a lot of conversation about how we best support our multilingual Learners and a lot of that was coming from there um which when you review the quotes there's a specific piece called language studio uh that we made sure every grade level at every school had access to as a way to address one of those components um uh specifically in there um for that so overall just from a baseline uh teacher feedback um that was what that teacher feedback looked like um I did just pull out a few teacher testimonials because I think it's not just what the rating was it's kind of the spirit of the feedback that we were able to pull directly from that survey um uh for someone like me in a position like me there's some words that really stick out
154and I get excited about um rigor is one of them I know that's weird but at the same time it's really important for our talk about increasing cognitive demand for our students so they can Master uh grade level standards uh these are our teachers I feel that ccla provides the rigor our students need and our students love the connection to science and social studies through the reading curriculum um the other handout that's in there that's the more colorful one is just a series of knowledge uh it's it's called the knowledge component uh of the ca curriculum that embeds a lot of science and social studies uh components within there that at first glance our teachers were terrified that our students wouldn't love after the pilot in the feedback they were um googly eyed over it
155I don't know term to uh Express over that but they were just excited about the connections that our students were making uh to some uh what some people refer to as um you know content that they weren't sure how they would react to I love the second one I'm grateful that CA gets me excited about teaching again and I'm surprised how engaged the students are on the topics they're accessible while still being relevant and culturally diverse um again that's it's hard not to like the comment not that you like like comments or don't like comments but again it excites me that it gets people exciting and then I love how much my students are learning enjoying what they're learning during the knowledge block with CK and again the relevant culturally diverse topics within the knowledge
156block specifically represented in amplify which is ccla uh is something that has just been said over and over and over by our teachers um and it just um really is going to serve as a found foundation and springboard for us as uh we look to implement and then again pulling out a few parent testimonials from their fillback feedback uh just a look at uh the lens that they're coming at this CA is more well-rounded in preparation for a high school in the world that they're entering thought that was an insightful comment based on the topics that they're looking at ccla shows more minority voices and culture again we're seeing a lot of reference to um that one component of cultural inclusiveness um in representation within the content the knowledge block of the ccla um and
157then uh I thought this was insightful um or or just helpful feedback for us I like the paper resources that ccla has so I can stay more connected with my child's work at home again that parent involvement and parent resource that comes along with this it's not all on the iPad right nothing wrong with iPads um but it's not all on the iPad and the physical copies of the books and Those comp components or something that really came out especially at that 68 level ultimately uh I get to all that to tell you that our recommendation for curriculum adoption um is amplify ckla and La grades K8 moving forward um and ultimate if ultimately if you ask me to Bullet five reasons why um I'll tell you this in no particular order um independent reviews
158score amplify ccla as the highest rating curriculum available in Indiana uh we rely a lot on Ed reports.org for curriculum reviews um and I can make those reports available to you guys if you would like to see them um but um highest rated curriculum available in the state of Indiana which is why uh I think another reason why um with your approval every Maring County School District will be using amplify uh as a reading curriculum um for that which is another Factor um uh for us as well te uh ter teacher parent caregiver and student feedback all demonstrate its preferred option um it's one thing to be the highest rated curriculum if no one likes it um but the feedback was in um almost all cases clearly pointed at amplify as being the uh option
159or the choice um the the desired Choice um one of the most important factors here uh not that anyone's more but the Amplified professional development offerings and implementation support are exceptional if I said that the pilots were an interview for what type of support that we would get um amplify um and um I don't know if any curriculum vendors listen to this presentation or not um but um amplify Far and Away exceeded our I'll say my expectations and gave me confidence that we could rely on them as a trusted partner in implementation for support for our teachers and unfortunately McGraw Hill did not um which was a factor the overall cost of both options so you say you negotiated two contracts um ironically at the end of the day the overall cost for both options
160is almost practically identical um one of the things about having a approved curriculum vendor is that they have to have specific State pricing um that they published on the doe website um with the additional options that we wanted to make that we got with teacher kits with ML supports and other assessment packages when you look at the full package options for there uh with an adoption of this size you're talking about about a $50,000 difference between the two um which is remarkable um that they're that close um and then ultimately that last part of the rubric overall value of amplify um uh exceeds our expectations and ultimately is the recommendation before I ask for your approval I want to talk to you about um some our professional development and implementation support that um with your
161approval tonight we're going to start uh working on um we are very intentional I know we had the opportunity um was it like two weeks ago when we were talking about the Lily Grant in general just about talking about the specific Ela support and these are some of these components that I said I'll give you some more information when I talk to you in a few weeks at the February board meeting so I'm here talking to you at the Fe February board meeting about that uh the implementation uh we have um we are ready or we will be ready every ka8 teacher of reading will get two halfday launch trainings in May before the school Year's out where they get all their teacher materials at the time of the training for the F you know
162for next school year it's not I go on summer break when do I get my curriculum school starts it's in the Warehouse where did it go you know all those questions all those things that frustrate um teachers um for valid reasons um part of the reason we're talking about this in February is with the intentional we talk usually the old school Matt's language TBR we have those things we talked about in March we may have approved them in April as we talked about that we're asking for approval in February tonight so we can order materials have training materials available get them in teachers hands fully support the implementation not only in May but start to provide professional development sessions over the summer uh to fully get people um all the support they need to make
163this a success um and then uh as we referenced uh when we talked a little bit about Ela implementation support um a contracted implementation Cort uh implementation coach to support teachers and leaders through this uh this is or will be a vent or a um amplify employee that we we will contract with the work and waren Township onsite four days a week where we'll be able to assign the specific support to building to it's not about monitoring it's about supporting teachers it's about making sure they have the appropriate resources and knowledge and um access to be able to get their questions answered to be able to provide the most um the best experience for our students as we adopt this curriculum with all that said I'll be happy to answer any questions but I would
164like to ask for your approval all of the quotations uh for all the reference materials are included in your folder um I provided a memo as well that outlines the payment terms uh over the course this is a six-year adoption but we're not spending all six years up front um some of those numbers um are there but I'm happy to answer any questions about the contract the process the curriculum um we're ready to get started and obviously would love for you to approve tonight so we can are there any questions for Ryan Ryan um cerfication it's a six-year contract are we completely locked into that six years if this um curriculum does not meet the standards or challenge our youth to the level that um we we want them to be achieving uh there are
165termination Clauses within the quotation contract language that's in there um I will say they um are very um in the unlikely event that that happen uh we are challenged on not so yes we can get out not of everything the specific there's a lot of different parts of this there's a PD contract which obviously we get out the assessment pieces a yearby year that we get out the Boost reading component that's in there uh that's coincided with the yearly curricular fees we can get out we're buying all the teacher materials up front which is we couldn't return them if that happen so some components are we can but there is a termination Clause it's not um it's not a no questions asked termination Clause it would have to have cause um which would be harder
166to would have to be argued probably by through litigation but there is a termination Clause I know that wasn't clear but it's Ryan I know I'm asking years of in advance but when is science and social studies ad options uh it depends on the grade level uh that we're looking at uh most likely social studies uh would be next school year I work in a district um where I get to teach and our students are on this program boost every morning um our language arts our social studies and our science are the same and one thing that I really like um seeing in my kids is it's connecting everything and so sometimes when they read something they think about oh I learned this in science or I heard about this and we talked about this
167event in social studies so it kind of gives a whole round education where things are connecting every day so I'm kind of excited for what we're bringing to our kids thank you um Brian oh yes ma'am this is Gloria this is Gloria I uh wanted to find out do we have to go six years years with this or can we cut that in half to three because when you look at six years like Les was saying if it does not work effectively then we have six years that we have to put up with something that is not good for our students and like Julie says you know it's all about the students we want to do what's best for our students and we wouldn't want to drag this on for six years so is there
168any way you can cut that in half for three years yeah so we looked at a variety of options when that um there's no legal standard or statutory reason why we would have to adopt six years all of that being said the specific package that was negotiated six years triggers a few specific cost savings for us as well I know um so when you look at the uh combination of the products that were selected by the various different quotes that are in that package um you know when you go six years you get X I think I don't want to quote the right number believe it's 15% but six years gives you 20% off the price and then Additionally you get some additional savings for it so I think at on some level what you're
169looking at is would you be willing to spend 85% of the overall cost for three years or 100% of the cost for six years um when you're looking at that contract so I I won't there's I won't say that there's zero risk in any six-year cycle um that being said I think we're also trying to figure out the best way to maximize the contract and the funds the other thing that I think in generally speaking we we actually delayed our reading adoption and we're adopting one year past what most of us around us have which that gave us the great value of doing those reference checks with neighbor and sister districts for that um meaning that um it's it feels um safe especially when every single School District in Maring county is on a six-year
170adoption of amplify um you know I I don't feel like we're in an island I don't feel like we're positioning ourselves in a place where we couldn't pivot because of some termination language um and I also think in a way with all the funding conversations we're having we have to maximize that dollar and the six-year plan um at least in my opinion in my recommendation is the best way best way to get not only the best curriculum but the best value I understand what you're saying but you know when you think about it you know I know we all try to save a dollar and that's important because you know we're struggling in education but at the same time we don't want to uh jeopardize the success of our students um it would be good
171to get those additional savings however if it if you take a look I would rather lose the additional savings than to lose our students because you know if it does not work then we're stuck for six years and can you imagine how long that is for our students what grades they'll start in from K to six and for something that is not working and we're just going through the motions because we paid for it I think that it's important for us to take a look at that uh we're it's a risk yes but I rather risk three years than to risk six if it works in three years great you know then we made a great choice but if it don't work then at least we won't lose out on three additional years of our
172children so you know I don't want to throw our children success away for a discount um I want to say there there is a termination clause which is important to remember and then personally one of the things that to me is the most important is considering our transiency rate the fact that every District in Marian County uses it means that as students transfer in they're not changing reading curriculum they're going to be somewhere right around the same place they're going to be able to pick up what they were doing at their old school which will hopefully look very similar if not exactly where they are at their new school that to me is a huge plus and I'm very grateful for that oh one last thing um you know the concern now is our children
173um academically being able to read and be able to you know um do well academically uh and things like that I understand what you're saying about being able to transfer from one school to another but Ryan I want to ask you this in the past did we have a six-year adoption of our um our materials and if so we're at the point now where we're trying to struggle to make sure that our children do better because you know they didn't they weren't as successful as we wanted them to be so we are here at the table trying to find out what else can we do to help our children do better because they're not achieving as high as we would like them to achieve so if we had a six-year adoption before then that may
174a contribute to why our students was were not doing well because it may not have been working and they were tied into that six years I don't want that to happen because you know if we repeat ourselves then how are we going to help our children to improve yeah I would just say that under um previous Indiana statute and common practice almost identical practice for every Indiana school is all curriculum adoptions are six years um that um that's for all content areas um until recently when the TBR laws changed um every single TBR um everything everything looks that way I don't associate any of our academic struggles to a six-year adoption um uh specifically or a specific curriculum specifically again if you ask me to highlight my confidence in six years it's more about the
175implementation support and the professional development um rather than the curriculum itself um for that again uh in my opinion uh amplifies a clear first one A B and C Choice um and I think the only other thing that I would ask you consider um is that uh if if we want to be responsive to teachers changing curriculum every three years um is a nightmare um just because it takes you a while it takes a good two years just to uh figure out um ultimately how the best utilize the product and if you do that every three years or every two years um you're really putting them in a very difficult situation to try to be successful right and I for clarity I understand the six years um and very verse on that my question was
176just simply if this program is not successful for our students what is I didn't see a specific penalty amount and maybe I overlooked that so that's what I was asking like yeah there's not a penalty per se it just has to be termination right like I didn't see a specific um percentage of a termination so that's why I was asking that question understand yeah I understand it's a termination Clause I just didn't see what if there was like a 20% penalty or something like that yes thank you I want to thank everyone for their comments obviously um particularly Ela adoptions are a big deal do we we have a motion so moved Julie made a motion do we have a second I'll second Terry seconded is there any further discussion yeah um Let me let
177me just say a couple things here first off um I don't think U this is my my my my thought on that um three years is not a to me three years I thought my voice carry well enough not for online okay yeah I don't think this this this is program is not a quick fixed kind of a thing three three three years is not is not is not enough I think it's going to be a longterm sort of a thing six more years I I didn't have a problem with that and I think that's a appropriate amount of time uh process commercial here the did you turn the heat off in this place yes I don't know to get us a quick vot I'm hot right now what are you talking about come here
178freezing uh anyway thought I'd live it up a little bit um I got a question though in reference to these surveys and I hate to go back all the way back there but that stay in my mind right now and I'm going to you said 100% of the teachers participated in the survey I don't think I I held on to that you said 100% of the teachers participated in the survey that we had and I couldn't let go of that um unless I didn't understand maybe think you said that maybe if he did maybe he meant all the teachers that were yeah I if I said that I misspoke 100% of teachers not participate in the survey um okay well okay that's what I needed to know because I didn't I I I wasn't buying
179it that's what I mean so I want to get back to that howy about this Mr dorsy 100% of teachers had the availability to take the survey okay uh so how many took it uh the numbers in the 60s I want to say 68 I can get you the exact number for sure right yeah yeah okay yeah that was that that stayed on that and maybe I just the longer I thought about it the worse it got fair enough and so I asked so I then blurted it out at this point yeah but uh yeah I wasn't buying 100% okay good um 60% you say uh and you could only come up with three testimonies in each category for parents and also teachers I mean talk to me I come let him answer I mean
180yeah there's more I can if you guys want more information of the testimonies I can certainly provide that again those were just supposed to be snapshots of some of the testimonies that we pulled out okay I just thought you have I just thought the testimonies would be a little bit more powerful than just what I saw here okay that's that's all IAD excellent any other discussion can I can I say one last thing um Ryan uh in the event that um there's a problem with uh this material do we have a backup plan a a backup curriculum a backup a backup plan uh in the event we start having difficulty with students being successful with this um I know that you said there's a whole lot to be able to get out of it so
181do we have a backup plan on what we can do to accommodate our students if it's not as effective as we planned it to be okayy Gloria this is Dr Hansen um you know the team did an amazing job of of you know the I think the pilots are a proof point that this is a great curriculum we're hearing that from our teachers we're hearing that from our students we teach the Indiana academic standards we're using this as a resource to teach the Indiana academic standard so I understand the concern um we've seen great growth from our IAD scores based on the framework that we put in place on the science of reading that's not going to change CA follows that model um again you know we're not going to want to put our students
182or our teachers in any sort of way that they're not going to be successful we we are taking your concerns tonight we will um as you heard through the professional development that's being planned the investment that's being made on the implementation coach um it's a significant investment so we hear your concerns and if we feel that we're going down a path that is not going to lead us to success we we will re-evaluate thank you so much for that clarification okay and with that Mr secretary if you could call a vote Miss Gloria yes we will start with you yes Mr Howard yes Miss Julie yes yes Miss Terry yes Miss L yes that will be a yes for myself Madam president yes and that vote passes excellent thank you so much for your time
183this evening Ryan and now you can get out of the hot seat and freeze like the rest of us thank you guys um we're going to move on to resolution 6 1 36.25 um reaffirming The District's commitment to maintaining a safe and supportive learning environment for all students regardless of immigration status um all board members were emailed a copy of this um to review I would like to say that this was liberally um I don't want to use the word stolen but that's a pretty accurate term um from Washington Township and Fort Wayne Community Schools and so I would like to thank them for their inputs um can I entertain a motion so moved L triplet second thank you so I've got Terry making the motion and lesana seconding is there any discussion I think
184you picked the great parts of both of those and it I really like this really like this borrowed practi it's borrowed practi borrowed best practices that's what we thank you any other discussion okay hearing and saying none Mr secretary Miss Gloria yes Mr Howard Miss Terry yes Miss Julie I'm sorry yes there'll be a yes for myself and Madame President Miss triplet oh miss triplet how you doing yes it's cold we're all forgetting what we're supposed to be doing and I'm also a yes all right and that motion passes off um so as a moment of personal privilege thank you so much I truly appreciate the board's support for that and for all of our students and with that Mr Simkins you are the last one make us warm I feel like a relief pitcher
185late in the game coming out of the bullpen let's see here we go president Burke Dr Hansen members of the board uh this time last year last February I brought before you for your approval a similar action item this is uh having to do with the early literacy achievement Grant stiens and our rationale for Distributing those stiens um if you recall the doe um early literacy achievement Grant was established by house enrolled act 101223 to reward schools and teachers for improving students foundational reading SK skills as evidence by I 3 uh just like last year this is a great opportunity to Spotlight the good work that's being done in our schools um with respect to uh vastly improved I 3 results and so therefore again the These funds will be dispersed to the following groups
186of schools that you see there uh like last year uh based on levels of I 3 achievement growth and then also accounting for additional factors related primarily to student complexity um so for for this grant purposes uh a base stip and amount will be provided to um all K3 teachers uh instructional coaches reading interventionists um uh special education teachers and M teachers uh that have a responsibility for delivering literacy and reading instruction to kindergarten through grade three students for the 2023 24 school year so all all this is staff for last year um and so uh based on the groupings of the schools that you see there group one those staff that I just uh named would be in group one would receive the base stipended those staff in group two would receive 25% %
187more than the base stien those you see in the buildings in listed in group three would receive 50% more of the stiping so I'm in the process right now of uh working with our payroll administrator every day reviewing the data uh last year um we were kind of building the proverbial airplane while flying it this year we're a little bit more uh wise as to how it all works and just collecting the data and now we're going through it and making sure we're prepared to do these these stiens these stiens will Pro be provided uh no later than March 21st I'm I'm well aware that the uh I 3 testing assess uh window is fast approaching and so I'm going to work diligently with our payroll to uh try and get these out um as
188soon as possible um but ultimately no later than before Spring Break um also just like last year with other District funds we are also providing stiens to other identified um School Personnel in our K4 buildings um uh so uh for instance um certified staff School Personnel certified Personnel on a teacher contract counselors uh related arts teachers grade four teachers they will again get a $500 stipend uh also various identified support staff in the K4 buildings uh you know IAS media assistants uh front office and uh family engagement Leons and the like we'll get a $250 stipend so again the the the usual stipulations apply one has to be actively employed when we're ready to deposit those stiens we usually do an off Friday so it's very clear what stip in you're getting you can clearly
189see it uh they're subject to taxation it's a one-time stien um they're not bargainable um etc etc so that's that's really uh essentially how how it works and like I said we're we're uh working diligently to get everything together to get it out as soon as possible uh we had about double the funding from last year so I can tell you preliminarily I don't want to say what it is now but looking today for the first time there the the stiens are very healthy there should be some happy uh Happy Teachers with that so I'll be happy to answer any questions excellent can we have a motion to approve the stiens so moved I on second give it to miss La Okay so I've got Julie making the motion and Gloria seconding it is there
190any discussion okay hearing and seeing none Mr secretary for the last time Miss Gloria yes Mr Howard yes Miss Julie yes Miss Terry yes Miss Lana yes and there will be a yes for myself Madame President yes and that motion passes also excellent that passes thank you so much gives yourself a good month to get all that in place we have no discussion um items which kind of scares me I'm not going to lie um but we're going to move on to closing comments with the polite reminder that it started snowing half an hour ago um Mr Humphrey well well uh thank you everyone that's attended and we are off to a good start and thank our wonderful student counsel as always she's always the the Highlight she always brings the joy to us to
191let us see that uh what we're producing and the quality that we have and the knowledge he presents on us and thank everyone that came about uh our outstanding wrestlers our outstanding ladies of football there that's now pioneering new ways for all the young women in the state of Indiana and thank each of you that hung in there with us and continue um the joy and the blessings we can bring upon our community thank you Miss triplet Kevin usually doesn't have that many words so I'll just ditto him tonight be safe Terry um welcome again Mr Sullivan um very excited for our girls the opportunity in sports and one of the big things that I was excited about is some of the trips that our students are going to go visit some HBCU and get
192some real life experiences with that said everyone have a great night we'll see you next month Gloria I am so excited about what we're doing in Warren and only thing I have to say is Go Warren thank you Gloria Howard U I let me say that uh Julie you gave a great presentation thank you things really really good and it was very informative and very helpful I just want to make sure you knew that and you heard that uh are are you feeling better now nice and warm or you cool down great great presentation that was good I like that I think it's going to get a good program I I see big things out of that um mic drop I'm done you yeah bro I dropped the mic that's called dropping the mic Julie
193okay I'm gonna throw one more legislative thing in there real quick because when we were just doing the um um money for the teachers I want to say there's also a bill floating around out there where they want to get rid of the tag Grant and they want to um give teachers bigger amounts but not all teachers or not a not all um highly effective and effective teachers they want to give like $110,000 to some or $5,000 to some but we are expected to put that on as a base on their um salary um that's going to be a bit difficult um adding that on as a base considering um what's going on financially with the revenue um and it also doesn't award our teachers just just just small numbers whereas now we're able to
194award a lot of teachers so um we need to keep that mind and think about that also so sorry I'm done um um if I may can I also uh have a closing statement president go for it um as you all have graciously oh it's on sorry I'm probably just not really close um you've all given me a lot of kind notes and I just would like to give one back um it's one that holds a very deep closeness with me um I just want to say thank you a lot especially to um everyone who spoke on the legislation that's happening uh as I am currently of course coming of age and going into society out on my own um this is a world that I'm going to have to open my eyes up to
195and this is the world that I'm going to have to live in and growing up there are a lot of people that will try to um deter not only myself but also my peers because of our age or our race our ethnicities things of that nature all of our um differences and they will try to deter us from paying attention to what is going on around us but I really appreciate the transparency that you all have um not only because these are some of my peers that these legislations will affect but also because there are people in my family who these things will effect and so seeing how transparent and honest and seeing how strong willed you all are to stand up against um these things that can affect our community negatively it truly warms
196my heart and I am glad to know that we have placed very strong willed and um well-minded people in charge of our community and our Township and our our board thank you first of all thank you so much tanasia second of all now I have to speak so maybe thank you a little less um that being said um really quickly it is Black History Month it is important that we celebrate Black History Month and so for like one last call back to the Super Bowl Kendrick Lamar performing in the halftime show was absolutely amazing he is an African-American pulit surprise in music winner um which is the only pulit surprise for non-instrumental music in music and that is something to be upheld and celebrated and his performance should have reminded us all of that um
197and so I was just really great to see it and I made everyone come in because I had lost everyone in my family because the game was so exciting um so we all celebrated that together um and then second of all as the we'll go with daughter of an immigrant with status issues um I'm very very grateful to the board for passing what they passed tonight the resolution that we passed um protecting our students we are their safe place School needs to be that safe place thank you so much for your time and the meeting is adjourned