001All right. Roll call for Mrs. Burgerer >> here. >> Mr. Burns >> here. >> Mr. Hood >> here. >> Mrs. Sleep >> here. >> Mrs. Wood >> here. >> All right. >> Welcome to the February 9th board meeting. Um we have any >> anybody signed up >> recognition of guest? >> First thing up we have uh our February superintendent award winner Miss Tap HOUSE was uh nominated for exemplifying a progressive mindset. She was nominated by Jennifer Gasser in assistance with Amanda Claire. Uh they all three work in the middle grades for the the seminar program that we have here with the edge program. Um they they said about uh Amy, Amy hits all the P's. She's always willing to go above and beyond to help her teammates and co-workers. She has stepped up to be
002a leader at the idea lab and helps both myself and Connor Campbell with ideas that we can all complete or with our kids. She's willing to take the time to listen to my projects and help me come up with ideas to better it as well as ideas of how to incorporate business partners. She has organized the idea lab and keeps the place ready for students. She is just the epitome of a great leader. Always professional, always positive and truly progressive with her ideas and projects. That was Jeff. Amanda Claire says that Amy Tap House is one of those teachers who does so much beyond the expectation. You can find her alternating between her classroom in the idea lab space because she is always going 100 miles an hour working on something with students or to
003help a co-orker. Her seminar edge projects always have an authentic purpose that have students engaged and excited. She is one of the best colleagues to everyone because she is always willing to help others grow and learn from her. So congratulations Amy. you want to come on up AND I know the science department would also say the same. >> So picture over here. I do this one. >> Congratulations. >> I like those spots. There's more. >> Yeah. >> I know what I'm saying. You feel a little better. >> Yeah. Do we have any public comments? >> No public comment. >> All right. Before we move on to the discussion and action agenda, we're um I'd like to make a motion to amend the agenda to remove item 2D, playground equipment. On the action agenda, >> it
004makes sense for us to talk through discussion now. We'll be good to go. It's up to you guys. >> I think it probably makes sense just to state. Yeah. So, we've gotten a couple of bids for the playground equipment. Um, and we feel like it's a lot of money to spend. Um, and so we just want to make sure that we're doing our due diligence and so we're collecting a little bit more information on a couple of other um schools to compare prices, potentially different options. So, we are looking to make that decision next month. >> And Aaron, I have a question. procedurally do we need to remove from the agenda if it stays on we have to vote or are we able to discuss and table it to a future agenda >> my preference
005and best practice is to remove it um I think tableabling becomes confusing when you get seek into the minutes so I was just going to say at the conclusion of this then let's place a vote for the record removing it because we had a first a second >> okay so your recommendation would be to remove it rather than just leave it open and pass it on >> correct Okay. >> What's the difference? >> She said, "That's a great question." And selfishly, it's my preference. So, if I'm ever having to review if we took action or did not take action, I know if it's removed from the agenda, we never took action. >> I think that's cleaner. That makes sense. >> Any other further discussion? Are we ready to vote? >> So, remove. >> Yes, that's
006all. >> Yeah. >> Great. Since we don't have Lori, >> do you want me to call names or are you calling names? I'm just writing who did it. >> I can >> Mr. Burns. >> Yes. >> Miss Burger. >> Miss Lee. >> Yes. Um, Mr. Hood. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Miss Wooten. Sorry. >> Okay. So, we're back. Now we can move on to the discussion and action agenda. And the first item is the creation of a budget committee. I'd like to take a motion to create the budget committee. >> I'll make that. >> I'll second. We need to read the rationale of the budget committee. >> I think that's helpful. >> Okay. Okay. Glasses. Yes. Okay. The rale the purpose of the budget committee. The budget committee will review the budget and report back
007to the board with input at the board's request. This will be a staining committee that will complete assigned task to report to the board as charged. The second is the committee may be terminated at any time by a majority vote of the membership of the board. Third, the committee will be compromised of two board members. The superintendent, the assistant superintendent, the finance director and the elementary and the Beachwood High School principles. I like make a motion to create the budget committee or I need to ask for a motion. >> I'll make it. >> Any discussion? >> Discuss idea and >> provides input from >> gather information the school the buildings um allows for them to be educated and learn about the budget process. uh Christy being a part of that it's vital uh all the
008work that she does but to be able to share that with a broader audience and allow people to get input on um use of of finances is great >> and it was just us in our working meeting but I feel like we covered it pretty thoroughly >> we did right >> great >> I'll call roll Mr. Burns >> yes >> Miss Burgerer >> yes >> Miss Sleet >> yes >> Miss Wen >> yes >> Mr. hood. >> Yes. >> Just FYI, Lori's at home watch. She's taking the minutes as we >> from home. >> Okay. B of the um action agenda is to amend the policy 09.12. This is the first reading. The first reading was on um the January 12th. This is the second reading. >> I'll make the motion. I'll second. Any discussion?
009This is just about the credit card and the definition of children in the policy. >> All right. I'll call roll. Mr. Burns. >> Yes. >> Miss Burgerer. >> Yes. >> Miss Fleet. >> Yes. >> Miss Wooten. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hood. >> Yes. >> Okay. The second is just a first reading. Um C. The amend the policy of 10.5 visitors to the school. The first reading. Does it need a vote on that? >> Yes, you do. Well, we do. >> No, not on the first. Yeah. Uh, this is just a first read of a policy recommended by the attorney to look at our policy to make sure that the virtual meetings um align with the inerson meetings where um in an attempt to record, the recorder would notify the the group in an ARC meeting.
010uh since we do them and offer them virtually sometimes it just aligns the virtual meeting to what we would do in a standard inerson meeting. Just changes the language >> on here. Do we need a motion before? >> No, it's just the first reading. Okay, we are moving on to the consent agenda. Take a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll make it. >> I'll second it. >> Anything we need to discuss inside there? Uh you got the use of facility. Those are typical. Tiger trail race at camp, Santa Fest, torch prep. Uh torch prep, just you know that SAT is uh tonight as well. It's in the cafeteria tonight because we're weren't here, but um next couple Mondays uh torch prep's here uh by way of the education foundations supporting offsetting a lot
011of the cost. So we have all of our juniors in um cafeteria. I think 70 plus juniors right now getting that that torch prep for the SAT since it's a new test this year versus the ACT last year. Um so just wanted to make note of that. That's one of the use of facility requests. Um if you look at snow days uh so we have three snow days used as of now. Um the December date will be um teachers will have the ability to uh have the flexibility to get those hours from that day. They could get those by coming up to school or getting some professional learning on uh the 16th, the day that we're off school. It could be over spring break. Could be on the weekend. It could be in the evening.
012They go through their principles to get that approved and and enter in those hours to make up that day in December. That falls in line with what a lot of the times will be done always with making up the debt. But then in the working meeting last week talking with the board, the board was gracious and generous enough to think, what about the other two days? Could we just wave those days, count those as work days? Well, we all know that teachers on those days um they they aren't at home relaxing. They are getting grades done. their lesson planning because they have just two days taken out of their week. They've got now scramble to squeeze the rest in for the next three. They're checking emails. They're working. And so the board coming together and
013and bringing that up and and saying let's let's let's wave those as work days um was awesome. So that's uh as part of the consent agenda is to wave the two uh days of January 26th and 27th to count as work days for the staff. So, okay, >> we'll follow up with some details to the staff uh tonight and tomorrow through an email to clarify how that works, but uh definitely appreciation to the board to allow that to happen. Absolutely. Agreed. >> Well deserved for sure. >> Um that is all I have for consent to the >> Okay, we ready for a vote? >> Mr. Burns? >> Yes. >> Miss Burgerer? >> Yes. >> Miss Lee? >> Yes. >> Miss Wooten? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hood? >> Yes. Moving on to information section of the
014meeting. Um superintendent report. >> First thing we have up here is the wellness presentation. It's the first of of five pillars or five pillars that exist within the um strategic plan. Uh we're going to highlight a pillar each of the next five months. Um this month being wellness, next month will be leadership, so on and so forth. As part of that, we're going to highlight um some of the wellness uh activities and experience that occur for our students that occur for our staff in conjunction with the wellness innovation team and our counseling team. Um both groups have put together some information tonight to share with you guys. uh the counselors really dove into all the stuff that they provide our kids and put together a really clean presentation to be able to say, "Okay, if
015your kid's a fourth grader or a 10th grader or simple, look at all that they're going to get this year, look what they're going to get next year." So our families through this document can then see, oh, by the time my kid goes through the next three years or 10 years or 12 years, look at all the stuff that they're getting in regards to wellness. It really paints a clear picture to our families. It's a great document to share out. Um, so appreciative to them, appreciative to Lauren. Uh, but they're going to come up now, I think, uh, as representatives of the counseling team. I know they're all here. I know that Michael and Nicole are going to come up and present on the wellness as it comes from the counseling department and then Lauren
016will follow. Sure. >> And I think we're going to do a video the video first. >> Okay, great. >> Yeah, I think >> Yeah, we're going to do the video. So this video put together by uh the whole team, all the cabinet, buildings, students, staff. Um this was put together in conjunction with Zach Wells. Uh each one of the each time we highlight one of the pillars, we're going to have a video associated with it. This video will be shared out with our community so they can see a glimpse not just the piece of paper that shows what we're doing. This kind of gets to the essence of of what we offer in regards to wellness for students and staff at Beachwood. You want to make sure that you're breathing. Remember, in taking that deep
017breath in. At Beachwood, we prioritize our tiger's wellness. >> I believe that the only way you can take care of others is take care of yourself first. >> Doing a little bit of a detox from like the doom scrolling that we get into can be really powerful. So, >> we know lifetime activities are extremely important because it keeps our keeps us healthy for an entire lifetime. >> All right, guys. This is about having fun and getting exercise with your buddies. All right. >> Getting to be charged with the responsibility of of making sure that we are all well in this space is really exciting. It's a lot of responsibility, but it's really exciting. >> At Beachwood, we love when the counselors come to our class. >> When you're anxious or worried or whatever, we have
018to breathe. She teaches us how to take deep breaths and other stuff. We work on >> calming ourselves down. Like if we teach them when they're little, like how to deal with obstacles or when things don't go the way we want them to go and it makes for a better life. It prepares them to be more successful. Maybe you could make your lines really long and then short. Right. In the elementary school, we've had a second step curriculum being implemented since 2018. Uh, every week, every student sees a counselor. >> At Beachwood, we want all of our employees to feel empowered to prioritize their wellness. >> I love the things that they offer here at school. Sometimes they bring in people to give us a 5minute massage. It's amazing. Every teacher in the building uh
019gets an hour and a half extended lunch uh at least one time per the school year and that's been very well received. >> I think it's just the time that you get to spend with other teachers and faculty outside of the classroom that builds the bonds that make it stronger. So when we're here together, we know that we have each other and we have each other's backs. >> Two right, two left, two right. At Beachwood, wellness for everybody is one of our top priorities. What we do from a counseling standpoint is we have three pillars that nationally we're supposed to address with students as part of our role. So that's academic wellness, college and career preparation and all the wellness that goes along with that and also of course social emotional wellness. When we talk
020about wellness, we're giving students skills I mean not only to succeed in school now um but also to succeed in life and any of the challenges really that are thrown at them. And another thing you can do, I mean you've heard it probably since you were in elementary school, but those like positive like self-affirmations, positive selft talk a little bit, right? >> I think the classroom guidance is a big piece of us working um with each individual as a whole student, not just somebody in the academic sense or the athletic sense, but the whole person. >> Hello, my name is Molly Crims and along with my friends, we started the wellness club at Beachwood. We have always thought that mental health was really important, but we realized that we didn't really have a club or
021a space that could like emphasize that. And so we wanted to be able to have our friends, but also anyone from any grade to be able to come and just like relax. Wellness is, I think, one of the most exciting and important things that we can talk about. All right. So, um, as they mentioned, my name is Michael Brinkman. This is Nicole Dirks, and we're presenting on the counseling department component of wellness. So, along with the two of us, we have Darra Styles, Megan Mitten, Kristen Hzel representing both buildings. Um what this is is um our department along with support from our principles and district staff, we um developed a continuum focusing on mainly on our wellness um objectives and some of the activities we do in that. Um I'm going to let Miss Dirk
022kind of explain the first page. >> Yeah. So there we have like all the different areas and if you go all the way down through 13, you can see how they're colorcoded. So you can kind of if you have like a third grader and a ninth grader, see if they're kind of learning the same skills. I wanted to specifically highlight well the second step and then the little uh logo that's right there. That's the family nurturing center and we're fortunate enough to partner with them. They start in um preschool doing two different programs, their child abuse program and their anti-bullying program. And they start with like a puppet show that goes all the way through third grade. And then in fourth, fifth, and sixth, when we're trying to meet the needs of the intermediate students,
023puppets don't really get it anymore. So, they have two great programs. Our sixth grade just finished. It's a four-week program taught by a counselor at the family nurturing center. They come in every week. Um, they get all the students and that is called teen safety matters. And then the fourth and fifth have child safety matters. And these are new programs this year and they do the same um the same discussion but they also talk talk a lot about digital safety which is so important how to report if you think your friend is struggling or something's going on online that they you know are worried about things like that. So we're really um fortunate to have them as a partner. And I also, we don't have their logos up here, but we also have school-based counseling,
024which has been amazing for the overall wellness of our students. We have Me and Associates who serves our Medicaid um students. And then we have One Quest Health, which used to be Chunk and they come in and they do our early intervention program. She's already seen 23 students to date. And um they've gone through eight sessions with her, just 20 minutes. So we try to pull not out of instructional time alone to recess sometimes arts and humanities and then um if they need more at the end she'll recommend to the parents hey I feel like they need further therapy she also provides schoolbased she has 10 schoolbased students who are seen weekly here um for about 35 to 40 minutes so we're able to offer that kind of continuum of services with them as well
025and then our last one is St. Elizabeth Hospice. They come in if we have students who have experienced a death. When we had a student who had passed away, they did some groups. They did individual counseling. We have their interns come in this year and do emotional regulation with our kindergarten and our first grade. They taught them how to breathe. They read a story. It was great. And they're going to come in in the spring and work with our second graders. So, just like bringing in that community partnership has been so great to offer those services here at school because it is hard to get your your your kids outside of school to places a lot. So, we're really really thankful that we're able to do that. >> And that's just elementary. Is that what
026you >> So, that is all the way through. So, kindergarten through 12th grade can take advantage of any of those services. >> Yeah. >> And when you refer to the amount of students, that is K through 12. >> Yeah, that's K through 12. Yeah. So she can only have about 10 on her case load by the time she sees them throughout the day at once. But um so far right now she has seen 23 students. So that's pretty good. >> What's the breakdown on kids who kind of pursue it for themselves versus a staff member recognizes the need and matches them up? Um this the the early intervention is mostly parents reach out to us and say my students are struggling with anxiety or something's going on at home and then we we kind of
027try to figure out at that point do you need just early intervention and we can try and see because those are free >> for the eight sessions or do you think your child you know has maybe been in and out and their counselor didn't work outside do you want to try the schoolbased so that's kind of how we um I mean we you know sometimes teachers will say this student struggling But usually one of us counselors will get to them first before we recommend that tier 2 or tier three, you know, level of care. >> If you see they need outside counseling after the eight sessions, are we able to help? >> Yes. So then they can move into her school base and they can get on that list with her where she would see
028them every week. >> Okay. >> Yeah. For a little bit longer and at that point their insurance would pay for the services >> and they're in it. There's not some kind of weight list. That's great. A weight list. Sometimes we will have like a one to two week wait list on the early >> intervention six months like some places. >> Yeah. Which has been really great. And then we have meds too. So if they do have a med medical card then they can go into that program which has been awesome too. And she has 14 students right now I think >> for here. >> Yep. She's here on Tuesdays and Thursdays. >> Yep. So it's been great. >> So um thank you. So, one of the things we're lucky to do is outside of our
029individual admin team meetings um the five counselors meet um once twice a year um to to really understand how's that continuum go all 13 grades. So, um for example, she brought up the teen safety matters which does a lot with digital safety. We really carry that through the seventh grade year, again, the eighth grade year, because middle schoolers, they're just able to handle things in a very different way than your seniors. So, we over the years decide that really needs to be a targeted intervention, a very targeted discussion that continues on in the later years, but we have those as standalone lessons, for example. Um, working backwards, um, as many of you know, the state requires a suicide prevention lesson twice a year. Um and so that starts in sixth grade all the way through
030seniors. Um that's an example of you know we are very much in support of that prevention lesson but we work really hard to make sure it's not the same lesson each time so it's not becoming white noise to the students where oh I've already seen this. Um, so for example, this most recent one, Miss Hessel kind of developed a really cool, for lack of a better term, animated cartoon that incorporated our specific services. Um, prior to that, we have an agreement with one in Five, a local group um that works with suicide prevention, works with families who have lost somebody to suicide. Um, so they'll come in and give us anything from materials to they'll meet with us on how to best deliver those lessons. Last year, Miss Mittton was able to um find a
031service they offer where they will offer a suicide prevention in Spanish. So, we work with Miss Rudy and we go into her English language learner study skills course. So, that's one more barrier we're trying to break down that that lesson is delivered in their native language. So, we really work hard to try to do that. Um one and five has been an incredible partner for us. Um, as you notice as you go to the higher grade grades, um, some of the more defined lessons start to change a little bit because their needs change. We're really looking at that forward thinking. So, as it was put in the video, you know, that college and career planning, wellness, we do everything from the nuts and bolts of here's when you start looking at next steps to what
032might that mean? We know that's overwhelming. How can we support you? Um, things along that nature. Um, our department has also um worked really hard the last two years and we're going to hit our goal this year of every student is getting a one-on-one meeting with their counselor. Um, so they're quick meetings, usually 5 to 10 minutes tops, but it's really important to us that they're getting a touch point each year with their counselor face to face. And that's something we we're excited we've hit that goal this year and we're going to continue with that um further on. Um, and that's in large part because our ratio is very close to what the American School Counseling Association suggested be. So that's a big part of the reason we're able to make those meetings work. Um,
033so anyway, that's kind of an overview on the latter half of the continuum. >> Yeah, Miss Bramley in a moment is going to speak a little bit on the bullying prevention specifically. Um before we turn over, do you guys have any more questions for Miss Dirks or myself or the department as a whole? >> You might cover this a little bit later, but first of all, this is super helpful. So, thank you. >> Are there clear sort of what's being done at that top level, like the counselor level? Are there ways that you're weaving these messages into day-to-day like classroom instruction across, you know, all grades? It looks like the elementary school kids get like if I'm just looking at right like they're getting almost more programming versus the the high school students that >>
034of course I've got two high schoolers so I'm like oh my gosh they're so stressed out that you know um so I'm just curious if there is um you know there's intention behind kind of weaving that into all of their day versus like you know just those specific programs. >> Sure. So yeah, the big difference is in the elementary they're going in weekly whereas the high school it's not as appropriate for a lot of reasons. The instruction becomes much more focused that um I think as far as you put it is weaving it dayto-day. Large part of that is the culture particularly set by Mr. Y in Miss Bramley of in the PLC's is a very deliberate revisiting of the Beachwood way expectations. How does that work? Particularly in the areas of um respectfulness, that
035sort of thing. Um you know, I think they work hard. So last month the student of the month was based on we are safe. You know, when Miss Bramley called them down, there's a very short announcement. Hey, these students have been recognized because they're making they're safe. They're making good decisions, that sort of thing. So we I I I think it occurs a lot in that sense. Um, next week we'll have grade level meetings and the whole purpose is scheduling, but we never have a meeting like that where then we don't rec cover at least at some level here's the classroom expectations. Here's how to respectful be respectful um in different situations without the building. We always share again like the tiger tip line things of that nature. >> So that's really helpful. >> Y
036>> that's great. >> Thank you. want to look at the kind of strategic middle grades of bully prevention. >> Yes. So back on that on their presentation there's a link um on the top top right second page top right hand corner where it says bullying prevention. >> So um our counselors do an awesome job. Um, one thing that has kind of like one foot in counseling and one foot in in like discipline principal type stuff is bullying. And sometimes we get asked about how we're handling that at Beachwood. So, I wanted to make sure that um I share that with you um and that you have some information on that. Just like anything um when we go to look at how things are going, we we want to start with data. Okay. So, these are
037some data points that were taken from the Kentucky Summit of Assessment. When kids go to take their state testing in the spring, the very first thing that they do is take a survey. It's about 20 minutes long. A lot of questions about the culture of the school and the climate of the school. Um, and they answer all kinds of things and some of those things are highlighted here and are tied to bullying. Okay. So, we feel really good about our data overall. Um, MS stands for middle school and HS stands for high school. So, you're kind of getting a difference between what the seventh and eighth graders are reporting versus the 9th through 12. Well, really 10 through 12 because 9th graders don't take state tests. So, um, we feel really good about students being
038able to have a really good avenue for reporting bullying when they see it. We have the tiger tip line. Um, they have really great relationships with our counselors. So, a lot of those one-on-one meetings establish that comfort level where they are not scared to go to their counselor and say, "Hey, I'm seeing something I'm not feeling good about. Is there something you can do about that?" um not just reporting it but um we're taught ways to help and what to do when we see it. Um we feel really good about that data um up in the 80s and 90 percentile. So that's really positive. Um something that we saw that we wanted to look a little bit more into was right here bullying is not a problem for this school um middle school and high
039school 72 71%. I think a lot of schools would feel really good about that number but um it's you know pretty far away from 100%. So, I wanted to look into that a little bit more. And so, um, to gather some more data, we looked at the needs assessment that our counselors gave our students in the fall of 2025. In that needs assessment, and this is kind of you got to make sure you look at the pie chart correctly um because this is good. Um, these tiny little slivers here of red and blue um are the kids who identify that yes, I need a I need some help with being teased and bullied. um by and large all the rest of the piraphph um identified that they did not need help with being teased or
040bullied. In my mind, what that says is there's maybe a perception that there's uh some bullying going on, but as far as kids actually needing the help, um it's not there quite as much. I think that's totally normal for high school kids. There's going to be peer conflict. Um kids are going to argue and they're going to have to be taught very overtly how to get along and that's something that we do. Um, is that bullying? No, not always. Um, and a lot of times I have to go through with students, with parents, you know, what happened. All right. And why is that bullying or is that not bullying? Is it repetitive? Is there a victim? Is there a power imbalance? Are there some of those things going on? A lot of times it's it's
041it's normal high school social conflict and it's coachable. You know, we talk them through it. What's okay, what's not okay? Do you need to apologize? Do we need to figure out how to say things in a better way? So, um I just want to share that data with you. Um and then there's a lot of points. I won't go through all of them because there's a lot here, but as far as just intentionally handling, um bullying that's happening or could potentially be happening and um both preventing it and dealing with it when it does, we have a lot of things that that happen on a lot of different layers. So, the counseling department just shared a lot of the things that they do and a lot of what they do is from a preventative standpoint,
042making sure students feel a sense of belonging and feel like they love it here and they feel safe to talk to someone if they're having a a peer issue. Um, from the administrative standpoint, u Mr. Yankee and I have talked to our leadership groups this year. What is bullying? Can you define bullying? What do you do as a leader if you see it? Do you feel safe enough to jump in there? are you going to be strong enough to jump in there and say, "Hey, don't talk to him like that or don't talk to her like that. That's not okay." And kind of squash it before it gets out of hand. And so we've talked to the principal advisory group, the Tiger Ambassadors, um NJHS, and then in specific situations where we're having some peer
043problems. Um sometimes we talk to other kids that are in that class and say, "I need you to step up as a defender and make sure that you are looking out for this kid who's not been treated very well recently." Um so lock one behind the scenes. Um and then to I think it was Laura's question about you know how things are that are embedded kind of daytoday. Um the teachers have a lot of ways that they embed some some health and wellness things and some of it you saw in the video but um through health and PE and seminar wellness Wednesdays and um doing some anti-bullying lessons in seventh grade um PE and health class um and then just regular check-ins with nth grade English in particular because nth grade tends to be nationally
044a place where you see some of these things. So if you have any questions for me, happy to answer also happy to answer after if you think of anything else later on. >> Thank you. >> My turn. >> Okay. So I think everybody knows knows me here on the board. Um the wellness innovation team. So the the a district team focused on wellness is not new this year. It's been in place for several several years and so um we have these particular staff members who are committed to the work this year but I don't want it to go missed that there's been a lot of staff members over the last several years from different capacities different you know district admin administration building level counseling that have participated in this work and it's been an ongoing
045um you know focus for the district so I don't um this is a great group of people, but it it it doesn't necessarily um encapsulate all the work that has led up to what we're we have in place um right now. So um but anyway, we do we do meet a couple times a year throughout the year and we analyze what's in place, get feedback and try to develop what we can add that's already already in place or do something new. That's part of the work that we focus on uh with innovation team. So again, we're looking at the three stakeholder groups, right? Our students, um our staff, and our community. Um and when we got the feedback from surveys that we did over the summer when we did our um board, or not board
046retreat, but our district retreat, um I just want the board to know that the wellness feedback was extremely positive. not just from the staff um but I'll go into why I think that's been so positive but also from parents and community members that it is being noted and recognized that wellness is definitely something that we prioritize um and and go above and beyond. Um, and so, uh, one of the ways we do that, I'm going to highlight a little bit later, is our partnerships with community, um, people that own businesses who have worked with us to bring some of these really cool opportunities to staff and and students specifically. Um, so we talked, you guys kind of asked a little bit about embedding these wellness initiatives into the everyday classroom, and I heard wellness Wednesday,
047and I I love it. Um cuz I I know a lot about that as a classroom teacher. That was something that I implemented here and in in uh previous districts. Um so the the different teachers have an opportunity to bring in all kinds of different it's more about the intentionality not that it's already there but just the focus on it. So this year this is a work in progress. It has not uh been launched off just yet, but the innovation team, we came up with kind of like a wellness menu board challenge idea. It would be district-wide and it would be, like I said, we're we're still working on it. Uh Nicole and I are getting back together to look at it, but maybe like a two week or four week time frame where uh
048any teacher, if they choose to do so, would try to embed one of these wellness activities. Doesn't mean a whole lesson. Um it could be a 10 or 15 minute um activity that they document in different ways and it's like a challenge on how many staff members choose to participate with some kind of uh recognition and reward of of we're doing what we do every single day with all of our our students and it's great work, but we're going to go a little above and beyond and have a little focus on on wellness. Um, I think it's something that I'm excited about uh doing this spring and I think it's something that could be like a little challenge that's floated in in the fall and then we have the spring challenge with different activities embedded.
049Um, I think there's a lot of potential with it and I'm I'm really excited about uh implementing that this spring. And then this is kind of like a welloiled machine. And I will also say I do not know of any other local district yet who has um implemented something on this level with its consistency. We are very very lucky here. When um when we pull up the staff activity guide, I just want to make sure this has been in place since 2020. It has changed. It has evolved. It has involved teachers providing um uh walking club workout classes after school on site um multiple community members and their businesses. I'm going to highlight better blend not because they're here giving better blend an actual lesson on why is better blend the better blend like the
050nutritional information behind it. Um Embra Yoga Studio worked with us a couple years ago to provide private hot yoga lessons. um right now if you want to pull it up um and click on it. Pure Bar in Fort Wright reached out to me the words getting out. They are coming here in a couple of weeks and providing a free popup class to any staff member. Um totally free to staff. That's another thing I'd like to just um compliment our our district on. There is a small fund um that Mr. Kaiser has continued to support so that most of these activities for our staff are either 100% free or at a very minimal cost. Um I can tell you the one that's 100% free and maybe the number one uh that everybody loves is the um
051is the 10-minute chair massages. We, like I said, we've partner with Lifestyle Resumption. There's another community business partner. Um, and in the video, just funny note, my aunt's a licensed u massage therapist. That was her. Um, she came in in the fall and and we were able to pay those service providers for that um option. And we do it multiple times throughout the year in smaller chunks so that as many staff members depending on when their planning period is and their lunch period is has an opportunity to capitalize on that. Not just, you know, one pocket. And this is open to all staff, not just teachers, open to any person um here at on Beachwood's campus. Um so these are just examples. We've done different all kinds of different um activities. Uh Lindley Christine, she
052owns her business. She has been with us the last two years. This year she's coming in the spring to do like a paint a cake uh activity. Really cool. So, it's just been honestly just I can speak to just participating with this group. It's been incredible how many people are willing to come um bring their area of expertise to our staff um and really work with us so it's affordable and accessible. Um I'm really proud of this work. I don't see it going anywhere anytime soon. Um and I can tell you that the staff are so um grateful and expressed that openly to us. Uh this year specifically feedback we got from the staff was the gift of time was a big one and how do we gift you know the gift of time and
053it came up in a conversation and we were like what if we were able to extend like a you know from lunch over another period. It was like having an additional planning period and the elementary took it um you know took the idea came up with what's going to work best for the elementary side so that every grade level at and this is covered by district admin and building admin so this is no cost to the district we're not bringing in subs we are doing that work um and I think that speaks volumes about the leadership here in the room um but elementary came up with their plan every grade level the students go to lunch the teachers have the regular lunch and then the the students are covered for the next hour, hour and
054a half. Um, you know, while the district admin is covering those classes for the high school was a little bit of a different puzzle that we put together, but we got it worked out. We actually have round two. Any staff member that chose to participate because we do want to recognize that, you know, some teachers that might be the the best way to give time. um some that's you know they they chose not to but we had a large percentage of high school staff members you know asked to participate. So round two of that um district I'm in we go and cover the class and um again it's just been really really wellreceived and then the last thing I'm going to say and then I'll be done is um feedback about the collaboration between the
055the two buildings and how do we connect a little bit better. we've got this opportunity here at Beachwood like no other to connect these buildings and they they want that. The staff expressed they want that. So I don't know what year it was um Mr. Kaiser and Dr. Shel might remember but we did the amazing race and the staff loved it and so it came back up like what if we did that again and I've already had multiple staff members reach out like we are doing it right like it is happening. Um, but you know, on top of all the other things that we do, I just I think this is I think it's great that this that so many staff members want it, you know, and so we can we're bringing that together. So
056anyway, this is awesome. Um, and it is it's really it's been great. Like I said, this is just this year. I wasn't going to if you if you wanted to see what we've done the last few years, I've got the links for the different ones, but it's a a very wide variety of opportunities that we provided for staff and um I think any questions for the >> feedback seems to be good. >> Feedback is very positive. Very. Yes. That's amazing. So, >> thank you to organizing. >> Of course, you're doing very well. >> I love it. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you all. uh from the counseling team. Another thing that needs to be said is like that's like onethird of what they do. They put all that stuff up there. There's a whole
057another world of of things that they work with with with each building. So the counseling team is they're stretched thin. Um the five of them work together very closely. I know to not just put them together, but on a daily basis because high schoolers, high school counselors eventually get those little ones that that Nicole and Darl work with. So um just proud to be able to work with them and the team. they they do a really good job. Uh Lauren speaks for itself. She's she's passionate about it and she always leads that work from the innovation team to do something different each year so it's not redundant. Um and then Jane with the bully prevention and just looking at that data to show okay we are pretty dang good but what can we do to
058make it a little bit better and address those those pockets in the areas. So just great work. Love to see it. Uh the video was great. Um, I hope it gives a clear picture, not just to the board, but to the community of like all the things that are going on that are just like academic and athletic in the arts at Beachwood. This is a whole another layer that exists um to support all kiddos. So, it's I think it's really cool. >> Mr. Brown, I had a quick question just because it was your section. Um, the KSA survey that we got the 70% from, do they do anything equivalent for elementary test takers? Is that deemed like not age appropriate at that level? >> Yeah, it's it's all the way through. So they would take
059it through grade on up. >> Okay. Do you remember what our numbers were like elementary was? >> I I really just looked at our middle school and high school just because that's just closed. >> No worries. I was just curious cuz I saw middle school and high school if they even do that at the elementary level. >> There's a different survey for third through fifth. >> Okay. >> Um to make it a little more age appropriate. There's not a huge difference. Um we also go over the survey with them ahead of time. third grade comes into KSA very nervous because it's the first time they and then they have to encounter the survey as their first thing. Um and there are some double negatives on there that are like this is not a problem strongly
060agree it's >> we filter through that. So we sit down and we go through um the data. Um one of the beautiful things about here is we can roughly estimate how many kids are in each category so we can gauge where we need to focus. Um, and then sixth grade up takes those specific questions that Okay. You saw briefly. >> All right. >> You can look up the survey online, too. It's not a It's not like a locking key thing. Anybody can see that information. >> Gotcha. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> How about not anybody can see it. >> Um, other updates. Um there is well we'll go on to the finance report Christie. >> Okay. So on the finance report as I mentioned last month we're pretty much collected most of the of the
061property taxes for the year. I mean there's still some little ones trickling in but with all that in our revenue has increased 6% over last year and that is due to the tax increase and the increase in seek um sorry the seek assessment or a seek base. Um the expenses like payroll and benefits were right in line with last year and that is with the 2% in the dollar increase we did because of some reorganization we did within or in the um district and also with retirements and things like that. So again we expect that to be less than last year honestly when it when we all finish out the year but right now it's it's it's pretty even. Um, and then you know our operating expenses, the big things which we talk about all
062the time is property insurance is one of our big ticket items that jumps every year. And um, this year um there we've had some reorganization of like where we're coding things. So we had some people who were being paid through payroll but now are being paid as consultants. So our outside services a little bit higher. It's 11,000. But it's not like anything major. Nothing unexpected. Again, we're back to this. There's nothing unexpected in these numbers. We see the movement moving along as we expected. So, >> thank you, Christie. >> I'm sorry. What didn't you say about property services? I see there's a jump. That's the insurance. >> The insurance? >> Yeah, that's the insurance. That's what the big because they're typically placed with outside services and property services and property is the insurance. And the
063outside service was just how we're classifying. And actually if you look at that you have like several years on that line itum for outside services that's why I mentioned this >> two years ago I think it was it was like 300 and some odd thousand it went down to two something last year and this year it's still around two something um so we have made you know we have made cost adjustments in there through over the over the years some >> right >> yeah so it's still pretty it's very manageable >> back to Kristen >> uh personnel report uh just two items of medically hired Allison Fina as our school nurse. She's been doing a great job so far. Stacy was able to work with her, transition her over, now she's she's rolling. So, she's
064been doing really well and uh the high school hired a golf head coach and so those are two prominent hires in the past month. Um construction update, we've had a total of nine weather days where they were not able to get on campus to work. Um, with that said, that obviously hits timelines, but they still feel confident that they can get the press boxes and softball and baseball ready by April 1st. Toadvine is the primary on that. They do the bleachers and the press boxes, while Briller does the general contractor work. Those are the two primary people working on that. They've done a really good job and they've worked well. They communicate well. Um, we have a meeting awaiting on the balcony to see uh how that's going to get fixed. And that would be
065a summertime project. Uh we're waiting on Kodell to get with the commissioning agent who's Ian Holton to see, all right, when are all the punch list items going to be done with HVAC and electric and lighting. Um that's all phase B punch list items. For phase C, this this current phase, uh we're waiting on a permit for the lower field press box. Uh concession stand demo should happen this week and in the next. baseball bleachers and the press box. That work should start this week. Softball, the prep work, the ground work, the the concrete work is happening this week. Um, so definite movement. They've done a good job to try to keep on pace even with the amount of snow that we've had and then that snow doesn't melt. So it's not just like a
066bad weather day, it's like a bad weather week because they can't get in there and work around it. Um, so hopefully this week thaws it out, melts it, and we'll be back on track. Another item, superintendent advisory. I had that last week or two weeks ago. Um, we had a whopping one person show up. So, if anybody's watching the board, we can come up and come to the superintendent advisory. It's very exciting stuff. Um, but we did a mid-year recap. We we went over the survey data. Um and that survey data was a mid-year survey that we sent out to uh students, parents, community members, and our staff uh to give us good kind of action items going forward on what they want to see more of and hear more of on our local accountability.
067Uh those are all associated kind of our five pillars as well. Um the next one, superintendent advisory is April 30th. Uh we've also at the working meeting we started a the work towards a mid-year publication from the board of education and where they go dive a little bit deeper into what they've done with the facilities, what they've done with finances and what uh some of the kind of the accolades that we've received over the year kind of just a midyear report on here's a here's a message from the board and so we're working on that. Uh we started that last the last working session. So I expect that to come out soon. Uh the board will be attending the KSBA conference on February 19th, 20th, and 21st. That's down in Louisville. It's where they get
068some of their learning hours that are required each year. Uh they're able to see what other education trends are going on sessions. So, a learning opportunity for the board members to go down to that. Um some things from Frankfurt. House Bill 75 is around property taxes. I know everybody's kind of worried about that one a little bit on property tax and what that might impact certain age you don't pay property tax or something like that. It's it's an interesting bill. Uh Senate Bill 46 is around the van use like a nine or a 10 person van and then once they approve the nine or 10 and who is able to drive them and what requirements are needed for a staff member to drive said uh vehicle for district vehicle. PreK for all is on there.
069Um the question on that one was how do they pay for it? Where's that coming from? Uh Senate Bill 181 was around all those communications things. That's going to be walked back a little bit. I think we'll see. >> Um Senate Bill 3, that's around financial transparency. I talked with Christie. We pretty much do everything they're going to be asking us to do. So there's nothing major there. Um House Bill 257 is around local accountability and assessment. So, that could be some changes there, but we're prepped and ready to deal with anything there. Senate Bill 71 uh is for you guys that they proposed six hours of financial training um every two years. So, I just saw that one today. Still working through them. Every day they seem to change and seem to add something
070and take something out. And so, um, I've got a call scheduled with Ken Bant this week to dive into some of those a little bit more and see if there's any impact to Beachwood. Um, other items, winter formal was this past weekend success. Uh, band did their all state this past weekend. Forensics high school high school team was a runner up in the region. Middle school was the champions of the region for forensics. Um, the secret was the coach of the year. Uh you have this Thursday I believe uh the senior scheduling night, the big college fair where 15 plus colleges will be here on site um uh for for all of our students. Then February 18th, we have the scheduling night for all the rising seventh through rising 11th graders. Uh the swim team
071is in the state second round of the finals uh at the state championships. That's down in Louisville. >> Uh UK, >> is it UK? Okay. Um and then uh volleyball received their rings uh as purchased by the board. They received their rings Saturday, I believe. >> Friday night at the Holy Cross game. >> Um >> and then the uh musical is March 5th through 8th, I believe. And new auditorium, Shrek. Uh so that should be fun. >> Yeah, a lot of things going on. Busy time of year. That's it for superintendent report. >> Um the next section is we um take a motion to enter close session for KRS 6 >> 61.8. I'm >> still going to read it all 6.1. >> I gave you a way out. >> Pending litigation. >> I still make
072the motion. Second, >> Mr. Burns. >> Yes. >> Miss Burger. >> Miss Lee. Yes. Miss Wooten. Yes.