001Oh my gosh. >> Welcome. We call the meeting to order. March 9th board meeting. >> Mrs. Burgerer, Mr. Burns, Mr. Hood, Mrs. Slate. Thank you. >> Recognition guest. >> First up, we have uh the three Ps award for the month of March. She's already received the award. She gets they usually give it about a week ahead of time, but um uh Rachel Smith has been um selected, nominated and selected based on her positivity among other things. But, uh, the nomination was received from from Dawn Norris, and I'll read that. I usually read that for every time someone's nominated gets the award. Rachel has a very demanding job running the cafeteria, but she always has a smile on her face, and she doesn't let the stress get her down. She's always looking forward or looking for
002ways to help the staff and students, such as planning a large Thanksgiving meal and even providing Thanksgiving box lunches for those who were on a field trip that day and missed the great meal. Rachel has gone out of her way to help me personally with the Veterans Day Assembly. Uh she has a heart for veterans like I do and she has helped make connections with veterans who are interested in sharing their stories at the Veterans Assemblies in the past few years. This year in particular, she helped make connections with both Amy McGrath and the Patriots Landing. Rachel knew that Amy would do a great job encouraging the high school students, especially the young ladies, to be the best they can be and dream as big as anything possible if you believe in yourself. Rachel cares
003about all the students and it shows her positive energy and outlook is contagious. She is a great asset to be so congratulations. >> She's excited. Congratul Congratulations. >> We have quesadillas. That's the soup. I know it's a thing. >> Yeah, >> just a few words on Rachel just above everything. I mean, just the work she puts in the kitchen. Um, she leads a great group of ladies that work hard every day. It's a lot. Uh, you got 1,600 kiddos roughly. Um, a lot of meals scratch, a lot of things homemade. We're one of those few uh school districts in the state that don't adhere to the federal school lunch program because we're not in that. And so for her to put the best food forward, um our kids buy it up and eat it up
004probably at the disdain of their parents pocketbooks cuz I get my >> I get my monthly reminders how much George Kaiser is. But that means they're eating a ton of food. um willingness to think outside the box in regards to food, try new things, order different types of things that kids might like. Um even the recent partnership with Little Flower of having them have some of their cookies in here. Those have been very popular. Um just across the board, we're always looking to innovate, but more importantly leading within that kitchen to to lead that group of ladies to um produce every day for kids because it can be hard. So much appreciated and uh thanks for all you do. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Do we have any public comment? No. No. Okay. >>
005Moving on to the discussion and action agenda. Well, first is the um amend the policy to approve. I'm sorry, the the visitors to school policy. Take a motion to approve to amend the policy 10.5 which is the visitors to the school. >> I'll make the motion to approve to amend the policy 10.5. >> I'll second it. Is there any discussion? >> Second read for visitors who join virtually notified of recording. So >> second read on that. >> Mrs. Burgerer. >> Yes. >> Mr. Burns. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hood. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Slate. >> Yes. >> Okay. Um be allocation guidelines for the 2020 2627 implementation policy two 0.24331. I think I might need my glasses. And I can take a um take a motion to approve the allocation guidelines for 2026 school year. >>
006I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. >> I know we discussed this. >> Yeah, these are just the guidelines that dictate how we set allocations for each building for the high school, uh the elementary and and guardian angel. Um, this is the board approving the way in which we would create those or the formulas that that determine the numbers that dictate the amount of staff per position. >> Mrs. Burgerer, >> yes. Mr. Burns, >> yes. >> Mr. Hood, >> yes. >> Mrs. Slate, >> yes. >> Okay, >> moving on to the playground equipment. >> We discussed this many times, too. So, um, we're finally settling. Take a motion to approve the bid from Miracle >> for the new playground equipment and installation. >> Second. >> All right. Do we have any other discussion? We kind
007of talked about this a lot. We've got >> three quotes. >> All the quotes. >> The last one was really high, right? Compared to where we're at, >> kind of like a middle person. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> So, it just seems like they're going up the more we get. Yeah, that last one didn't seem like the one to be in the play. >> Yeah, I don't know. >> So, rate Miracle with regards to helping us plan and prep. Uh the second one that came in were able to reduce cost to get to Miracle with removing some of the items. Um so, Miracle was a solid solid choice for this. >> And the last round of renderings we got is the new price, right, with the removals. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Which playground equipment
008is expensive. The work that went into doing the research from Campbell County >> to even Fort Mitchell, city of Fort Mitchell, uh to a variety of other schools in regards to how much down to checking in Old County. Um it is costly and it does cost a lot of money to uh purchase new playground equipment and and that surfacing that goes with it. Um the space being expanded a little bit allows our kids more space, but with an investment like that, kids use it every single day. And um we know our teachers and our kiddos will be happy. And I know Friday nights will have some fun in there, too. Uh but this is a space that's going to be utilized by our community, our kiddos. So I think it's a really great investment. >>
009You ready? Mrs. Burgerer? Yes. Mr. Burns? Yes. Mr. Hood? Yes. Mrs. Yes. Okay, moving on to deed RFP for the minivans. You can take a motion to approve the HEG Ford offer for two minivans and trade in the value of our current fans. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Any questions on the minivans? We had he and he Ford and Carrie Nissan. Uh, Hag offered a good trade-in value with two used minivans. Carry Nissan offered a decent trade-in value with two new minivans. Um, both came with good warranties. Uh, the total cost on HEG was about $20,000 less than the carry Nissan. Um, uh, and the Nissan wasn't going to be able to afford us the vans for 3 months. We need those vans now. we needed them weeks ago when we
010were allowed to use our our transit vans. So, >> that's a better conversation to have. >> Yeah, the speed in which we were able to get the minivans, uh, plus the cost, it was a a a good call to go with Hank Ford. >> Oh, mini out this morning. >> We have a handicap mini band. >> Oh, okay. And yeah, this would be two additional in regards instead of our two sprinter bands that we trade in. >> So what do we think? >> Hopefully within the next week. >> Okay, >> we'll go ahead and we'll let them know tomorrow morning and hopefully they have them and get them here within that week. Maybe soon. >> You ready? >> Mrs. Burgerer. Yes. Mr. Burns. Yes. >> Mr. Hood. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Slate. >> Yes. All
011right. So, moving on to the consent agenda. Can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> I'll make the motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll second general use of facility as normal, field trips as normal. um the cats offer >> that's we match that and we use that to help us with offset the cost on like teacher desktops uh teacher laptops so we were able to use that money for that uh you see the Thomas M Thomas Moore dual credit that's just rehabing it for another year we have teachers here that do dual credit through Thomas Mo we have kids that go over on site or take the Thomas Mo dual credit online um reimbursements Frankfurt. I'll talk I'll be able to talk about my trip to Frankfurt in my superintendent
012report. Um the KSBA I'll talk a little bit about superintendent report but no pretty straightforward >> discussion >> Mrs. Burgerer. Yes. >> Mr. Burns. Yes. >> Mr. Hood. >> Mrs. Slate. >> Yes. Very nice. >> Information portion, superintendent report. >> Okay, we'll start with Christie. You want to come on up and do finance? I mean so the financials through February we're moving along according to budget you know our revenue is right where we expected it based on the tax increase and what we um collect also um expenses are right along um according to either either at aligned with budget or under budget except for snow removal this year we've had a lot of snow um and cold weather so that is the only line. It's um a little bit over, but it's not unreasonable, so
013we can manage it. >> One of the big costs was we had to rent a Bobcat for several weeks to once the snow gets to a certain point, our shovels don't push it. >> So, you have to get the Bobcat to lift it, put you seen some of the mounds that were out to >> be able to get that snow up and above and on top of the the mound. That bobcat we rent I think arts rent >> arts room. would have been a problem. >> I just really move that if if you have any questions about any of the items if you looked at it. I don't know. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Great. Thanks. >> Next up, we have the uh leadership innovation team presentation. again to remind you as they get prepped
014and ready. Uh leadership is one of the five pillars. Um this is the next kind of presentation of information in the series. Uh so I don't know if anybody's going to come up for Sarah's >> wait. I don't know where Alicia went. is going to try to stay out. >> I'm good. >> All right. Um, so as you know, last month we started kind of the review of each pillar of our strategic plan for the year. And um so each month, last month was wellness, this month is leadership, talking about the work of this first year in the strategic plan. Um so to start us off, we have another Zach Wells um video that will be posted to social media tonight. Um but wanted you to see it first. >> That's my paper. Well, >>
015you can come while the video is playing. That works. Okay. Beachwood has leadership that's embedded in so much of what we do. We say every day we are leaders and we are learners as part of the Beachwood way. At Beachwood, leadership is a pillar of what we do each and every day. And I think teaching kids to be leaders is about teaching them how do we influence others so that we have this culture of greatness and this ability to believe that we can do anything that we put our mind to. At Beachwood, everyone in the building can be a leader and it's a priority for the Tigers to do so. >> So, today what we're going to talk about are values. Does anybody know what that means? What are values? >> I'm like really respectful
016and like I help people like out. Like if they're like hurt, I like say, "Are you okay?" And like if they go like get a teacher or like like if somebody fell, I'll go like help them up. >> Leadership is not limited at all here. Um, we really work with our students to be a leader individually. Doesn't necessarily have to be some big grand moment that defines them as a leader. Taking initiative and like asking for other people's input, which is such an important like role of a leader just allows you to branch out and meet new people at the school and just help with the overall direction of a project or just in a group setting. There are so many amazing leaders in this building. >> Are you committed to being the toughest people
017out there? >> Not only mentally, but physically. >> Try to get as much as you can and reach out to them and try to get your needs set. >> Good morning, Tigers. Welcome to our second edition of BN. >> I think what we're learning is that we're tapping into a lot of those different leaders and each person has their own special gifts. Our leadership innovation team is a group of staff members here at Beachwood and we look at leadership as a pillar. I think that's a really powerful part of our edge program is having community leaders in the building truly every day. Um and for even our young ones, our older students to be able to see, okay, leadership doesn't just look one way. So that each of our students can see themselves and what
018they could potentially be in the future. One of the really cool events that we go to every year leadership wise is the Anthony Munoz leadership conference. We've had the opportunity to do some really cool things with that event because you come back and it's teaching them how do you put leadership into action? What's your practical application for that? >> Along with my classmates, we created a mental health wellness day. After our guest speakers, we had breakout events um like yoga, like mindful coloring, um things like that. So, we had to work with other partners as well who are willing to chaperone um those breakout sessions. >> Anyone can make an impact. Anyone can empower others. Um, it's about helping our kids learn about their strengths, learn about their gifts, and how they can use those
019to impact others positively. >> My name is Cash Murd, and leadership is a top priority at >> Zach does good job. Good kids, good staff. Um so you heard in the video there was um a leadership innovation team this year which we'll talk about in a little bit but a few of our team members represented today. Ashley Richie gift and talented coordinator of course Alicia Whitmer um elementary assistant principal Ashley Chaken fourth grade teacher also on our team um and they'll talk about in a bit um some other people who are on our team and work done this year. Um, but first let me keep this for us and let do that so we can look back to kind of just remember how we got here really quickly. First of all, even with the strategic
020plan, everything feeds from the Beachwood way. I think it's really important to say things these things aren't separate these different initiatives. It always goes back to the Beachwood way. Um, designing teaching and learning focused on students of course being number one. Um, but also that number two, building resilient learners and leaders. Um, so again, it all connects. Um from there we um the strategic plan this summer those five pillars. Again we're talking about leadership tonight. Um and in the strategic plan there were three goals for leadership. I forgot about those. Thank you. Um three goals for leadership. So you'll see they're providing all students um with instruction in leadership development. So not just opportunities but how are we teaching them what it means to be a leader? How are we building those skills? Um creating
021student voice and leadership opportunities for all students. Um that was a big one. Not just those in NHS, not just those who are officers of clubs, but how do we um provide leadership opportunities for all students? Uh and then number three, offer meaningful leadership development and growth opportunities for staff. Um and so these we have three years to do um all of this work. And there's some specific examples there. You've seen this before, but just a reminder of where we came from. Um, and so looking at year one, we decided to focus on staff um, and use kind of that staff group that's interested in leadership to then feed into the student leadership opportunities. So for year one, we focused on staff leadership. And I'll turn it over to Alicia to talk about that. So
022this is our innovation team. Uh, not just our four, but one of the great things about the innovation team is any of the staff can sign up certified or classified. And so there are a few people missing from that picture of our awesome group. It's been so fun >> um to get to learn together and then take that and apply it to what we do. So one of the first things we did was we looked at what are the staff leadership opportunities already that already exist whether it's something that has a formal title whether you're department chair g a grade level team or things that you're involved in. What what's kind of our baseline from here? and we created our mid-year survey that went out to the community. Uh looked at questions from that survey
023uh that we wanted to put on there both for staff and student leadership knowing that that was something we wanted to focus on in year two. And then we took the results from that and made some steps. >> Did you want to go through this one? >> They've seen it. I figured um looked at that data. It's on the leadership uh portion of our site. And then we took that and we asked our group, what do you what do you want to do for the rest of the year? Um, and they really wanted to pour into themselves for a little bit as far as leadership, do some leadership instruction. So, we mentioned that in the plan, we want to do specific instruction for students. Well, we need to do the same thing with our staff.
024Uh, we used our strategic plan for that, but then also took time um to learn. And so, we did things like StrengthFinder. Michelle Stamper took her knowledge from her previous career in the business world and ran Strengthfinder with our group which was awesome and went through a session together for that. Uh Ashley and Sarah had gone to a training on Cubbies for essential roles of leadership and so they brought that our last meeting did some teaching on that and then just building trust together as a group. We have people from both buildings coming together and so kind of forming that bond which is awesome because it's flowed into other things. um we've been able to see some evidence of that trust that was built which is great in such a short amount of time. We
025also looked at as a group um and then us together as leading that group what is staff leadership within Beachwood. So we have we talk a lot about our edge certified staff. These are staff members that have gone through a district creative certified process um in edge and they've taken on the role of being leaders and then once you're certified you also then lead other people through that certification. So it's dominoing to so many other things. Out of that has come Idea Lab 2.0 which I think most of us can agree is more than we could have imagined out of that space. It is awesome. There's been grant writing and then just huge partnerships that have come in um through this edge certified process. We had list two examples. The second grade change makers which
026is an ongoing project right now. Uh the panel had some portion in that video. So awesome. Um and then the tiger throwback shop that you saw was a huge success and just came out of diving into what is edge and what does that mean here and leadership uh staff taking leadership on and let allowing that to grow. We have a lot of staff that present at conferences. They attend conferences, learning days. We're very much a yes place. Um, and if you want to step up, let's find a way to make that happen. Our English learners, so Tiffany Rudy has created this EL celebration night at the end of the year, which we just scheduled for the end of this year, as well as at the beginning of the year, a family night. These are things
027that are completely new this year. New clubs. Uh we have a new Lego club that's coming on on the elementary side that's completely staff initiated coming to a site base and saying hey I want to do these things and then eth ethics bowl um not just on the high school side as well but we've brought that in on the elementary side and what does that look like for first graders which is mindblowing uh but the staff has really taken that on. We had our first gifted and talented family night here. Uh we had a group of writing teachers that came to us and said, "Hey, we really want to tackle this in our classes. We want to go to this training. We want to have some time together during the day if you would allow
028that." And it's it's really um poured into other people because they've taken that leadership. We had a staff wellness day. Uh Lauren and Christie took that on. Um and staff were able to go on planning or lunch and hear from our benefits department. Um, oh gosh, all of the things, healthc care places, >> better blends for lunch, which is always great. Um, and then just an increase in collaboration between all of the buildings. Um, if you get to see pictures of Brad Bentley going to pick up all the bikes today and deliver them to Guardian Angel. Um, earlier in the day, they were test riding them around the parking lot and all of that started because our staff had an idea and wanted to bring it here. Uh, real quick on um staff leadership too,
029a goal we've had for a while is for it not to just be um, you know, relying on a couple people or relying on admin, but for the teachers, for the staff, anyone to feel empowered to step up, to get involved, to come with a new idea where it's not, we've said for a long time us going like, could you do this, but people coming to us and saying can we do this? That is happening more than ever. Um, these are just a few examples. We could be here all night talking about things that are happening by teachers and staff stepping up >> just from the school year. >> From the school year. Correct. >> These are just new things from this school year. >> Yeah. And I think it shows too when um people
030have those opportunities and and learn more about, you know, their skills, their gifts. Um they're they're willing to to step up and and be ready to lead. Um and so for example even that group that innovation team where we did some leadership learning together from that there was like text after that going around to the group where people would find a video or an article on leadership and share it out with others. And so I think people are craving that um it's more work it's more time you know but they're taking it on um because they're finding it valuable um and that's only more investment in Beachwood. So really proud of um the staff leadership which was the focus of year one. Um, now student leadership will be our focus for year two and to
031tackle going back to our items here. We'll have a group an innovation team next year to start tackling some of those student items. But we can never do a year without student focus as well. Um, so even though it wasn't the main focus for the innovation team this year, there's still a ton of new things going on with student leadership this year that we couldn't um, go the evening without going over. So, um, these are just some examples from this school year, which is, I think, really important to note um, because we have done a lot of things in the past couple years. But, um, the first one is, um, the Young Investor Society. Um that's a group of high school students who um pitched to the foundation that they wanted um some money to
032invest and so they were um given $25,000 and they're investing this money. They're working with a partner Jim E to you know figure out what funds it should go in and they're paying attention to that and they're communicating with staff. Um Michelle Stamper who's on our leadership innovation team is kind of guiding them um through that process. So it's a really awesome thing to see them doing. Um, we also have been working this year to develop a leadership curriculum in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. Um, and kind of having that build, um, and then giving them an opportunity, um, to then, you know, apply to, we're talking about a leadership certificate. Um, coming, you know, GT leadership opportunities. Um, so Nicole Dirks has been doing a sixth grade leadership group with students. Um, we did,
033um, Amanda Claire's working on an eighth grade leadership unit with some of the cubby stuff that Sarah and I learned. Um so just a lot of really great things happening um in that seminar um class classes um with leadership. Then we also have our interns who are out in the community working um our peer mentors who are in school um working with our students. So there's just really great collaboration between elementary and high school and you know those leadership opportunities. Um we also started broadcasting this year which I'm sure you've seen some of those videos has been awesome. The sixth graders have taken that on on the elementary side with um Mrs. Ray Buck working through that and the broadcasting class on the high school side with Zach Wells and Stephanie Leighton have been working.
034Um so that's been really cool to see our students taking ownership of that. Um we have our first ever studentled dance class for GT students on our new stage. Um a high school senior led up planned led did the music all of it um for a group of GT dance kids we have on the elementary side. So that was really awesome. Um, and then we had our edge minor rush, which was a really cool event we just hosted out in the atrium where the high school students who are in those edge miners put on almost like a rush event so that the seventh and eighth graders could walk around and learn about all of the different minors. And we're kind of doing almost like a scavenger hunt as they were walking around to learn which
035was a great way for them to get introduced to that and for the high school kids to, you know, lead about what they're doing. Um, we did student lots of student panels this year when um, Mr. Fletcher came to visit. We had a group of kids who talked to him about what we're doing at Beachwood. Um to the point that he still remembered one of our students when um he met a Beachwood teacher a couple weeks ago. I remember when I was there. Um so that's really cool. Our students are making impressions on the people that they're working with and talking to. And then we also have um high school students. They were in the video um leading a PD session for teachers uh who are part of advising. So they were like what do
036teachers need? And so they led an afterchool PD for teachers. And then we have a current group leading um PDU um through um Move Alpha Theta. They're doing like a math book workshop type thing for students and staff. So just lots of really great examples of students leading um before we've ever really started to focus on that piece. It's pretty cool. Um so leading um students, leading staff um very important, but then we went to kind of reflect too on how we're leading as a district. Um, you know, always Beachwood has a good reputation. Um, but are we using that to lead within the region, um, lead within the state? And so, just wanted to go over a couple of those items, too. Um, this is something to even narrow down. Um, we were kind
037of going through and like, geez, there could be a lot. What are we going to really kind of qualify to put on here? So, these are kind of some new major regional, state, or national items um, since July 1st. So, as you all know, it was on the board by annual report too. The Aurora Institute case study, but to be featured in a national case study like that, um is definitely leading um KDE Spotlight School, Beachwood High School chosen as a KDE spotlight school um not many were. And so to have that and be chosen as a leader for others to visit um is pretty great. Um Edge featured in the news. So, Local 12 um did a video. They're also coming to the Edge Showcase night uh on the 19th as well as the
038Lake Northern Kentucky article. Um we were selected to present at the Learning Forward conference um at least since I've been here nine years. That's the first time um we've been um selected to present at a national conference. Um so that's pretty wonderful to get to share our story um on that stage, learn from others, but also get to share Beachwood's story. Um we've had 13 districts or groups visit Beachwood this year. Um, and sure, we have the the new building, which some, you know, they're amazed by when they they come. Um, but also some come for the math program, uh, just a couple weeks ago. Some come because they've heard about how we're balancing academics and edge and they didn't even know about the new building. So, um, for that many to come and want
039to see what Beachwood is doing and want to replicate that um, is really impressive. And we always learn from any group uh, that we talk with as well. So, Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania had people come. Um then we kind of looked at, okay, what about in the region or the state? Do we have people leading um who are from Beachwood? And so Justin's been nominated, as you all know, for uh the ENKCS, the co-op um board president. Um I do our assessment coordinator regional group. I'm the lead for that. And then I was just elected to the Kentucky Association of Assessment Coordinators um board. Ashley is the ENCAGE president. That's the gifted group in the region. Um Stephanie has presented to the college and career network group and she's also the lead for the talent
040pipeline day for uh leadership northern Kentucky. Uh Lauren is organizing um two things called roundts where we would host and other um teachers from the region would come here and collaborate to learn from one another. Um but she's the one working with the region to lead that for our MSD uh special education teachers and then our English learners. Um often in districts they're the only people or very few people in that district doing those roles and so providing an opportunity for them to come and learn together. Um but these are all things that Beachwood doesn't have to do. Um these are opportunities for us to lead and so um as you see it's not one or two people. We have a lot of people leading. Then of course the innovation teams that's something else that
041doesn't happen everywhere. Um whereas you said before any staff um not just teachers, not just admin can come to the table and be part of the work um and setting goals and um developing a action steps for how we can improve. Um so super proud of all the leadership that's gone on um this year and it's only March. Um, this sounds like a lot of positive. Um, which it is, but I also want to say, um, this is a group. This is a staff that is, um, kind of always hungry, never satisfied, but I mean that positively, um, never satisfied where they're always looking at how can we get better. Um, we even have people on our team talking about like 1% better every day. So, it's really good, but I don't think we ever
042feel like we've arrived. It's always how can we get better? And so, we will continue um, this work and continue to get better. Ashley, you want to share anything from a teacher perspective on the team? >> Um, I think No, I'm good. I would like for you to leave, would you? Yeah. Uh, so from my end, being a on the team is is not it makes me feel valued. It makes me feel like leadership is important here. And so having that team to support and to talk through and we take the time like I think that we're not rushed through these meetings that we've had. And that's been really helpful too because usually when you have it after school you're like, "Oh my god, I want to leave." But this has been something that is
043obviously valued because we take the time to work through the things and we talk and everybody's opinion matters and we can all we can agree or we can disagree and it's just a nice way to work through learning about leadership, how to implement leadership and so I appreciate it very much. And then just from a teach from from being in the classroom, it's helping me reach out to other teachers plus the kids. So as if I can develop more as a leader, then I can make that evident in my students too. So I can pull that out of them as well. So I think it's developing me helping teachers be leaders and also in my classroom as well with the kids. So it's >> it's really good work and I do appreciate the time. So,
044um I think that's all I got, but I do appreciate that. >> That was beautiful. >> We didn't prep that. That was all >> That's right off the cuff. >> But I do mean that. So, um thanks for that. And so, that's that actually I do mean that a lot. >> Great. >> We're big about leadership is not a title. We want our kids to know that, too. It's not about a title. It's not about a position. Um everybody has ideas to bring to the table. Questions? I don't have a question. Well, that's a marvelous presentation. I mean, I really enjoyed it. That's really great. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I will follow with you talk about Ashley kind of hit upon it a little bit. Um, leadership has trust embedded into it.
045Like we could trust our people to do whatever they want to just trust. Can I do this? Can I try this? Whether it be students or teachers, but that's only half of it. You can trust people, which we do. Anybody walks in any door and says, can I try this? We we encourage them to do so. But it's not just that. The other half of that is what are we trusting them to do at what level? >> So that trust comes with a very big price tag of high expectations >> of excellence. So, it's not like just try anything. No, if you're going to try something, you're going to try this and you're going to do it the best it could possibly be at Beachwood. I think those two things and that tone, as Ashley
046had referenced, starts somewhere. It starts with Sarah, that innovation team, cabinet, the district level that we all trust each other to do a really good job and we hold each other to high expectations. Guess what? teachers see that and they see, okay, when I want to try something, I know I got to do it really good because they're going to do it really well and they trust me to do it. Those two things in combination are really we're really powerful and eventually all that word is it all. Where do we all want that to bleed down to? Just as Ashley said to kids, we want kids to see us trust each other and try new things and to lead so that they feel confident to do the same thing. but they can't see it if
047our teachers don't feel it and our teachers can't see it if our cabinet doesn't feel it. So, it's really intentional. I think the work we've done as a group of 12 or 13 people this year starting this summer to have a baseline level of trust, baseline level of high expectations. From there, you see something a presentation like this. So, it's been really cool to see and so I thank the work of the innovation team and what they've done. So, awesome. >> Incredible. All right. Next up, we have some just some items from from myself. Um go through um budget committee meets tomorrow. It's a second meeting for the budget committee that was appointed uh tomorrow at 1:30 with their follow-up meeting. Um construction update. Uh baseball press box and bleachers are complete. They're starting the
048work for the softball this week to finish up the concrete over there. Um, baseball still has some code work to do to get completely signed off, but they were be able to be signed off uh to get their weekend tournament in. Um, and I will recognize the group of uh Kodell Toadvine Brier to have that done 21 days ahead of schedule. Like that place was open with fans in the bleachers. 21 days before it was supposed to be open and ready to roll. Couple other items they have to complete, but but that's that's awesome with the snow, with the rain to still get that done. The urgency they had, that's pretty awesome. So, public uh uh compliments to those three. um other construction items. Uh I think they'll they'll start demo on the Kroger shed
049next week at some point. Um where they'll bring in and start to bring in up there as well or the lights for the tennis courts should start in the next week or two. Um, you know, they're going to come in over spring break once the the um Kroger shed is is down. And having those lights come in over spring break will allow that crane to come in and set the lights without morning traffic, afternoon traffic, parking up there for kids, so it'll be clear up there for them to do that work. Um, it's pretty much it. Everything else is just starting to get underway. Um but yeah, >> it is. >> It's going to be nice. >> They go in there every day. It's really >> Yeah, I mean they they they work hard. Bro
050Meyer has been really great. Tovine has been really great. Very responsive. Um those are the two primary contractors right now because it's Pressbox, Bleachers, and uh just general contract work. Um Delta has been great with getting stuff ready for uh to vine. So really good coordination from from the start. Um, next up on the list, uh, Frankfurt. Did a visit to Frankfurt with Dr. Web and Brian Robinson from from Fort Thomas. Um, some seek funding has increased just a little bit, but nothing dramatic. Uh, the the House Bill 289 around tuition has subsided in regards to the changes that would have impacted us. House Bill number one is an interesting one. Uh, House Bill One is around a $1,700 tax credit that any family if they were to donate to a scholarship granting organization, um,
051that that that donation could then be a tax write off for them. What impact does that do to all schools, private schools, any school? We'll see how that develops over the next uh year and a half because that won't go into effect until 2027. Um, but that'll be interesting with the details and the regulations that come with it, which they have not written the rags for it yet. It's only the the passing of the bill. Um, so was able to visit with nine different uh legislators down there just to build a relationship. No asks from a beachwood, more of what can Beachwood do for you. Um, and just to build relationships with those those legislators. So, a good visit down there. Um, something for everyone. This is more of a district thing, but uh Huddle
052uh we're switching from Event Link on ticketing to Huddle. It's easy. You show up for an event, you have to pay for tickets, you scan the QR code, and it goes through Huddle instead of Event Link. So, nothing major, just a a small change on that. Uh both buildings received their impact data back. They've reviewed the impact data with their staff. They've done a follow-up survey with their staff on the impact survey. That's the working condition survey. And from that follow-up survey to de dive a little deeper, then they're creating an action plan to say, "All right, here's what we're going to do with that information." Both buildings have done that work. Um, board 2 by two, Brad came over on the 27th, was able to walk the building. Uh, he got a good walkthrough
053because I had, I think, construction, some type of meeting, and he was able to walk around with Sarah. He preferred that, I think. Uh, but he was able to walk through. Great recap. Um, the next one is March 25th. Um, it's a Wednesday. If anybody's interested, let me know. Um, excellence in education. It's Golden Apple with Amy Tap House received the Golden Apple Award and U Solomon Pangello. Uh, received the CTE award. Um, we're waiting on the St. E internship awards. Once we get those, then we'll send that out to everyone. Uh, talking with Swim Club. I'm going to attend their next board meeting to talk about the potential for us to be able to use swim club with daily overflow parking. They allow us to use event parking right now. We're going to see
054if they can open it up for next school year for a handful of our kids that might want to park there. Um other than that, there's accolades. A lot has happened since the February board meeting. Um the high school has run the scheduling nights and the college nights and all those great events around preparing kids for next school year. Um the really cool thing with with uh Miss Gasser's grant that she wrote that we approved a little while ago. That grant brought in bikes. The kids bought the bikes. Those bikes were put together. Uh they were just delivered today to DCCH. So all those kiddos over at DCCH received a new bike today and a helmet. Compliments of Brad. He helped us out with the helmets. But um just a really great project, a great
055collaboration between our sixth graders and DCCH with Brad Bentley over there. Um just another example of an edge challenge, the results that it provides our community. Uh Bella Sloan, high schooler, won the state competition for Poetry Out Loud. She's now competing at the national level in Washington DC. Uh congrats to four members. with Beachwood ties to the Northern Kentucky Hall of Fames. Brandon Slusher, who's our assistant AD, Chris Curley, who helps coach uh Rob Hart, who's the dad of Ross Hart. Um, and a former basketball coach, Eric Gats, that got a lot of wins here. Uh, those four were inducted into the Hall of Fame, our North Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame, which is pretty cool. A lot of Beachwood. It's like a Beachwood theme for that one. Uh, Legacy Magazine went out, thanks to
056Carol Burn. Good job putting that together. And then board byan annual report I believe started to go out Friday. Uh so it should have been delivered or shown up on doorsteps Friday if not today. So that board by annual report is out. Hopefully you get to read that. Uh KSBA occurred. Uh the the board was able to go down to Louisville to attend kind of a continued education continued learning getting getting their credits that they need to earn each year at that conference. um FBLA uh run by Michelle Stampford had multiple first place finishes and two students who qualified to compete at the state level. Bear with me. This is just in the past month. So, this is the whole year. Uh ninth grade girl or varsity girls basketball won the ninth region the entire
057region sportsmanship award. Shrek the musical went off without a hitch. I think the only issue might have been like a piece of a curtain kind of dropped a little bit. That was it. So, kudos to Amanda Borchers, Taylor Ross, all the kiddos, all the people that go in to do the fundraising and everything. To the people who made sure that the from Allen to Tim and Ryan uh and maintenance and everybody that made sure that the lights worked, the HVAC was good, the sound system was good. There's a lot that goes into make sure the first time you use an a space like that with that many things that could go wrong and hardly anything went wrong. That's pretty that's pretty impressive and that's uh a testament to them planning, prepping, double triple checking everything
058to make sure it was good. So, thank you for them. Uh Corbin visited, we talked about Sarah mentioned the visits. Corbin was here to visit to learn about um some of our curriculum and how we use that. Burell, Pennsylvania is coming in next month or so in April to just see our district as a whole. Um, partnerships between Drees and Clementine and Xavier University and the Change Makers with Hannah Burns. Just all those partners, they're constantly in our building. Just it's great to see um the elementary academic team won the whole region. That's as far as you can go. The biggest championship you can get in elementary academic team. Toby Parton and his kiddos won that this this past weekend. Not this Saturday, but the Saturday before, I believe. Uh, state track boys indoor wins
059the team event for the first time ever. Uh, seven golds or seven first place finishes among both boys and girls. Um, I I feel like Fryman won like 23 first places. Um, but pretty cool to see. Um, for indoor track, we'll have them come next month. Uh, we'll have Bellis when she's done competing for the the national level come in. We'll recognize her. So, we'll get some of these these folks in here to recognize. Uh, middle school forensics had five kiddos placed in the state finals. Um, Rachel Rachel Sharp earned her national board certification. um Anna Hatridge with Ed Rising. She won first place in the uh state competition. Um and so that was really cool. So that was this last week. So a lot of great things, a lot of great accolades, a lot
060of great people doing great stuff. There's more than that, but those are kind of the top of the list stuff. So, uh very excited about March. Can't wait to see or excited about February. Can't wait to see what March holds for everyone. That's all I got in regards to my report. >> That's it. That's it. >> That's one more. else. >> Okay. Well, we can take a motion to make the agenda a part of official board minutes. >> I'll make a motion. >> I'll second. >> Uh, Mrs. Burgerer, Mr. Burns. Yes. >> Mr. H. >> Yes. >> And I make a motion. >> You know what's happening? Yes. Motion to >> I just made the motion. >> Good. Thank you. Everyone agree with that? >> Yes. Yes. >> Email. Find somewhere.