001order our um Beachwood Board of Education October 13th meeting. Welcome everyone. Lori, would you like to >> Sure. Mrs. Burgerer here. >> Mr. Burns here. Mrs. Sleek >> here. Mrs. Wood here. >> Okay. On to our favorite part of our meeting, our recognition of guests. And we have one. He's going to hide back there. But I'm super excited about it. It's new. It's a what is it? The superintendent award for October. And with that being said, I'll let >> Yeah, Mr. Fazer take it over. >> So, being here for a while, I've always I guess worn people out with my three Ps, professional, positive, progressive. So, if you were in the high school for as many years as I was, you heard that a lot. Uh, elementary, they've heard it for a good three or
002four months now. Um, but those are kind of the I guess my core values of how I try to operate um in any type of role that I've had here. Being professional, being positive, being progressive. I thought it fitting to create a monthly award around u staff member whether it be classified or certified staff member that could that demonstrates that that particular month. And so, um, put it out there a few weeks ago and had over, I think, 10 or 11 nominations of fellow staff members by staff members to nominate. And, um, through looking through those, I read uh, a nomination that said, that's walking around the Beachwood Coington Catholic game. I was taken I was taking extra notice of our facilities and the appearance of everything. Though we didn't pull out the W, I
003know those colonels were impressed by 54 Beachwood Road. The man behind behind all of this is Jay Hubard. I came up this weekend to grab my laptop. I forgot to do work this weekend and there he was picking up and straightening up the front yard as usual. Being that my classroom is in the front of the school, I've seen the sprinklers and Jay working overtime the past few weeks during this drought. Jay does all of this extra work with a smile on his face and offers a wave as he endures these duties during this never- ending summer heat. He wears many hats and I know he does more than any of us even know because of Jay. Beachwood's facilities lead visitors in awe of a beautiful campus. Jay is Beachwood and we are sure blessed
004to have him. So reading that and then watching Jay, not just this year, but every year since he's been hired is just um he's the glue of what keeps this place on the outside looking like um uh like it should. as uh this board over the past 10 years has invested in the facilities um more more than I can remember when I was here. And so uh this place looks awesome and it's not just because of the decisions that have been made because Jake keeps this place looking nice. Um and uh he doesn't do it by the hours he's assigned either. He's here more than he should be. Um and uh and it's in opportune times where uh we need him here, but he but he doesn't have to be. And so whether it be
005weekends or nights or uh any time of the day, uh he's here. He's working. Um and he's always thinking ahead. So much appreciated. Um I know we gave you a certificate for I guess positivity. Uh always looking to lend a helping hand. But you had this you have the certificate. We had an award for you. It's being made by the Idea Lab students. Um, so it's a cool trophy that you'll receive or little glass award that you'll receive uh when they're done making it. Um, but just wanted to recognize you. Um, guess I can give you the certificate again when you get a picture. [Music] [Applause] >> Congratulations. >> Even when I mention 20,000 tulips. >> Yeah. 2020. >> Yeah. >> You sit on the track. Yes. um have any public comment? >> Okay, we'll
006go um on to our discussion and action agenda. Um item A, um a motion to approve the hiring of the Adams law firm as schoolboard attorneys. Take a motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second [Music] discussion. You want to add anything else or >> No, it was just a great interview process. Uh from the uh request for proposals to the selection of the candidates for interview down to the interviews themselves, everything ran very smoothly. Thanks for the board for coordinating and putting all that together. Um uh I'd like to introduce our our new firm, but the kind of the specific person we'll be working with is Aaron Mihan from from Adam's Law. >> Um I'll throw it over to to Aaron to say a few words about >> Sure. Um first and foremost, thanks
007for having me and also thank you for extending the contract to my law for Adam Adams Law. Um I have been practicing education law for over a decade. I've represented a lot of different school districts. Um uh but I'm very excited to be a part of the Beachwood School District. First and foremost, I was born and raised in Fort Wright, Kentucky. I live in Cresty Hills, Kentucky, and I go to Blessed Sacrament Church. So, um I'm very grateful and thankful for the opportunity. I know that my firm can provide a lot of expertise and the work of this board and the work of the district employees has taken this community to such great places and I know that our support will help them even further their goals. So, thank you again and I'm very happy
008to be here. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Are you ready? >> Yep. >> Um, Mrs. Burgerer? >> Yes. >> Mr. Burns? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Slate? >> Yes. Mrs. Wood? >> Yes. >> Okay. Motion carries onto our consent agenda. Make a motion to approve as written. >> I will make a motion to approve as written. >> Second. anything you want to point out or add for >> just going down uh just joint session uh September 15th that was a a great experience with both um SVDMs you know we haven't met since then so just uh both having both SVMs with the board to be able to do some work around the three uh the three-year strategic plan uh the five pillars to do some learning some some collaborative work together uh was a good experience
009uh we have our next one that will come up in January so just appreciative of all the people spending the time that evening uh being able to work through uh the strategic plan, what the goals are, how we're going to work to towards those goals with some actionable items. So, um that was a great experience. Again, our next one will be in January. Um if you look at superintendent reimbursement, just clear on that. I have to go to like Frankfurt and I have to go to Lexington and I have to go to these trainings. It's required by the state. So, I drive a lot back and forth. stuff. You see those reimbursements on there? That is because of all the times they require me to go down there to do that professional learning, which is
010great. It's just a lot being out of the building. I'd like I'd rather be here, but it is some really good learning with other new superintendents in the state. Um, field trips are as normal. Uh, the technology activity report, that's something we submit in order to get our KTS funding. And so, that's been submitted. And so, we'll get that KS funding. We'll have a report on that KS funding in November. >> Yeah, there'll be there's an offer out there. I just got it today. So, we'll approve that next week or next month. >> Next month. >> Um, uh, change orders. The change orders you can see there. Um, the the the Atlas change order was for the countertop in the collaboration space up on the second floor. Uh, the Conley painting was all the painting,
011the touch-ups from when they opened in January to over the summer. They went around and touched a lot of things up um that they had painted earlier um that needed touchup. And then the OKI interiors was all the fire code. So when the inspector went downstairs near the dressing rooms, they said, "You need to drywall this and put up some fireproofing." So Aai AK Interiors went down and did that work. So those are those four change orders for that. >> Is that um stairwell open now to down there? >> No, not yet. Not yet. >> Not yet. Uh we're waiting for you can see there's part I is certificates of sub substantial completion. >> There's a list of those contractors who have completed their work. >> Yeah, >> there's still three or so that still
012need to complete their work. Once they get that, >> then we have the inspector come in and sign off on that air that final area and then we're full occupancy. >> Okay. >> So, that's the consent agenda. >> All right. Anybody have any questions about consent agenda? Mrs. Burgerer. Yes. >> Mr. Burns. Yes. Mrs. Slate. Yes. Mrs. Wood. >> Yes. >> Okay. On to superintendent report. >> Okay. I'll try to be brief. >> I like I sometimes worry. >> Don't worry, you'll be getting a lot. >> Um, first thing I want to do is and I know every month we're going to try to incorporate some some sort of program that goes on here. so not just internally but externally is aware of the great things that are going on here and the people that
013do the great work here are recognized. Uh and so I will turn it over to Stephanie Leon and Janelle Halls to talk about not just our internship program but all that comes with internship here. >> No, we're good. Okay. Yeah, thanks for giving us an opportunity to talk about this. We love what we do and hopefully you've gotten a chance to look at some of the amazing photos of our current seniors. Oops, jumped ahead. So, we'll start with kind of why internship. Um, and we share these goals actually with um with our students as well as parents that come to an a pre-interrenship meeting. And I'm gonna let um Janelle talk about this because these are some of the things that she's been super passionate about through the process. >> We've just kind of expanded
014since um internship started when it was like pre us like four or five years ago. Um it was really just about career exploration. Um and so as we went through things, we really found that students need employable skills and networking. And so those things are just as important if not more important than um than their career exploration. Um >> yep. Okay. And then I want to make sure um so the employable skills network connections as well as as um building that edge um program or it's edge is kind of a way of life for us here from kindergarten all the way to capstone. So, with the capstone, it can be the internship, it can be a dual credit, it can be um, you know, AP research, it can be a lot of different things to
015build that senior year, but they're starting in kindergarten to to build those skills, >> which we really see that with their employable skills because they have they're gaining so many um so many skills throughout all all the years before 12th grade. >> Exactly. So, by the time they get to our standard high school years, 9th and 10th grades, um we're doing um things with them like you science, which is an aptitude assessment, not just interest. They're looking at their aptitudes, working on presentation skills that goes on again kindergarten all the way up. Um the it's your reality program. It used to be called reality store, but that's something where students are really getting an idea of what life costs if they're going to take on this career. What is, you know, what does it cost
016to have a home? what does it cost to have um a car? All of those things. They also start working on their resume drafts. We may not we know it's it's maybe just bullet points at this point, but let's get a start on that. By 11th grade, they're doing mock interviews. They're prepping for internship. They're prepping for jobs. Um we're having pre-intership meetings with every student who is even thinking they might want to do internship and refining that resume so that by 12th grade they have those options that I just talked about. And with the mock interviews, we're bringing people in from the outside. So it's not they're doing it with peers or with the teachers that they're comfortable with. These are business partners and community people that are coming in and doing these interviews
017with the students. >> Yes. And we've got defensive learning coming up in a month from now. So you'll all get an invitation also to um to be judges for that if you are able. >> So did you talk about the numbers for us like how we progressed? >> Okay. So 2021 school year that was um the first year um when I had taken when I was uh coordinating it students were already placed at that point. So um um after that year Michelle Klein and I took it to the juniors and said because we're like why isn't everybody doing this? So we took it to the juniors and um told them about it and said we would help them find internships and so that's when we went to 65. Um so we've continually grown. Um like
018the class of 23 24 um there were 65 there but there were only 105 students that year when in like in 20 class of 20 uh 22 there were closer to 120. So our percentages um um last year we had 110 interns. I think our uh the class was about 145. Um and then this year I think we're closer to like 115 or 20 students and and we're at 90 um at 94 interns. Um and then >> again we have like this we have 71 partners currently. >> Um and things change every year. We have there's 150 companies we have in our database that we work with. Um but students change their interests um things like that. So every year we're looking for new partners. Um so this year alone we have 26 new companies
019that have joined us just for this school year so What's been great too is a lot of these partners are coming to us or we're having students take a little bit more um ownership in it and they're finding they're looking starting their junior year starting to look for some of their own internships and they have brought us some of our new partners this year which is amazing. >> So internship logistics um you can jump into it 5 to 10 hours per week depending on the internship that they're doing. Our firefighter um interns and our um St. and Elizabeth interns are doing 10 hours a week. Um they do ear earn internship credit for that so that that they are not paid at their internship. Um they do track time um and the mentor approves that.
020I'll show you that in a on the next slide. Um and Janelle also assigns um journal assignments for them. In fact, some of these great photos that you see are part of a journal assignment. >> We try to make that like we're doing LinkedIn with them. Make sure everybody has a robust LinkedIn page. um make them really kind of try to think about some things when they're going into their internship. It's not just like a journal of what did you do today? Yes. >> Um really kind of thinking about those experiences um um you know making connections, networking um as part of that as well. >> I have a question about the hours. How are most kids structuring that? Are they most of them doing a couple hours every afternoon or some doing bigger chunks
021a couple days a week? Just curious how they're fitting that in. It's such a personalized experience. Um, so we do have a little bit of all of those things. Um, most of them have afternoon hours and so they have to get those five hours in. So they might go two or three times a week to get those hours in. But we can we have some flexibility. Our um our principles and assistant principles have been great working with us on um making some modifications to make sure the kids get the best experience. >> Okay. >> Yeah. No, no one does. Rarely does anyone do it like an hour a day. Usually like two and a half hours, maybe like twice a week >> and probably even rarer a sixh hour day, right? Because they've got other
022classes in their schedule type thing. >> It's rare and sometimes it happens, but sometimes it does happen where kids go once. >> I didn't know if there's ever anything particularly cool in their focus at that company going on that day. If we're good about letting them out, >> and we we this year we're just had a conversation with the student today. Um we reach out to teachers. student today said they had an opportunity and I said, "Email all your teachers, copy me on it, let them know what you're doing. If if you're able to miss, >> then um they give that um okay, then then we'll do that cuz we definitely want them to facilitate." Yes, we want them. And again, like Stephanie said, >> since since we did this and started doing it differently
023in 20 2021, um the administration has been so supportive to be flexible >> about what happens. Yeah, we have a um HVAC intern for instance this year doing a longer time because that a lot of times the trades will ask for that. So um students do have an option to intern one semester too and then do something else the next semester do a dual credit. So we're trying to make this again a little bit more personalized for each students learning. Um I want to show you I just mentioned that the um the interns complete a time tracker and then and the um mentor approves that. I just want to give you kind of an example of what we've built. Um so this is one student um and she has filled out you know within her
024within her each um day that she has worked that is in military time by the way it kind of converts to that. Um so each time the student is in there they can mark their times and then this goes to an approval page which the um mentor has access to. So he or she can go in and approve those hours to confirm um that they were um they were there at the time. So that helps us um keep track of again the internship time. We know they're doing great things there, but we do want them to have some accountability as well that they've that they are there. Um so based on that, we did something fun this year, right Sarah? We like fun spreadsheets. Um, I wanted to kind of get us um get us
025kind of tracking not just each student, but I'm just going to scroll down. Sorry for the whiplash there, but um this is the amount of hours of that our interns have have logged. We have some kids that maybe haven't logged all their hours yet, but we h our interns this semester so far have been out 3,000 hours into the community. >> That's just today. >> That's just to date. This semester. This semester. So, I built this because sometimes we do have some students who will come back to us after they've graduated, especially in a healthcare setting, and they say, "Hey, I how many hours did I work for that?" Because that might count. So, that this will we will be able to have um sorry again for the whiplash. Keep track of both first semester,
026second semester, and those total hours that those each student has accumulated. So then, so yeah, just our communication piece. So we do have an internship Google Classroom. Uh we post a weekly kind of update, just think about what's going on. Here's what you need to think about for the week. Um and then uh so obviously we use that as communication. We have um some of our assignments within there. um email. Um we're also big part of the email piece is we are trying to teach them that they must check their email and they must answer email and they must answer it in a professional manner. So we do um a lot of emailing and then um and then the sports you as well um sometimes the sports you might say check your email >> to
027a student. Yes. So, >> so, and this just lets you know, I'm not going to go dig into this, but we do have an internship handbook that you all voted on or um are approved. Um, but every year we kind of make sure that everything is up to date on um that's the um the school district signs it, we sign it, the student signs it, the parent signs it, and the internship mentor signs it too, so that everybody's on the same page. That link is there if any of you would like to see that. Um, and then looking ahead. Um, so again, we like to reflect and grow and our from our end too. And every single year, we look for improvements and every single year we've made improvements. Some of that comes from the
028end ofear surveys that we give both our students and our mentors. Of course, we appreciate feedback also from the teachers whose classes might be impacted by a student leaving during um for an experience or something like that. We love that feedback. Um, one big thing we're working on this year is internship timeline. um we're like cranking toward the end of the summer trying to get everybody placed. We want to make sure um that's you know a little bit more structured um so that there's some peace of mind um for all involved. Um and then again communication that is a that is a focus area of the entire district um and so we want to continue to do that and find improvements for students and um every all the stakeholders within internship. So any other questions?
029Well, I just want to say thank you for all the work that you I mean I've watched this program grow. So it's been um I mean I've had three interns I think and they and every year I see you know like the program growing and you know just even from logging in I remember the the newspaper thing that they would bring me like okay and allowing the flexibility because you know in my business like evenings weekends and they were all willing to go and do it and so it's been a pleasure to watch it grow and appreciate all that you do. >> Thank you. That's great. >> Not to reiterate what Genie said, but I can't thank you both enough. I It's grown exponentially. Um, again, I've had three grow through the internship progress process
030and all three of them learned. One I thought he was crazy when he told me what he wanted to do for his internship and now he's, you know, about to graduate from college. >> Loves it. So, it and it's because of that internship program. it was he was kind of dabbling in the interest and now it's an extreme passion. So >> that's awesome. >> It's an amazing program >> and that's the stuff that keeps us like just plugging away because those stories are amazing. >> Well, and you allowed one of mine to do two different types of internships because they weren't he wasn't sure what he wanted to do and it helped him secure >> one direction. So those are just personal stories. But thank you. >> You're welcome. I think the the strengths of
031your guys, it's it's not just an it's a program >> and it's not just placing kids in a place they want to go get out of school for a few hours each day. It's not it's >> it's all the stuff that surrounds the actual going to a place. It's all the prep work to create a more prepared employee. >> Um it's the alignment to potentially what they might have may have minored in in high school. Um it's an opportunity for them to experience something as you said where they could have potential career or place in college. Um it's personalized to each kid. Those things are the hard things about this. That's why it's a two person team but multiple people from from the high school as well. it it's a it's a group effort and
032you guys are leading that and it's just beyond what you think of a traditional internship and you guys have made it that way because you're constantly thinking how can we get it better >> and so I thank you for that. >> Yes. >> The partnerships too that you all have you know that has been wonderful because it does take some time on those partners to you know teach these kids and and it it takes it takes some time. I mean, I can personally say that, you know, you do set aside, you don't just continue your workday. You really because you want them to bring them in to like really get to learn. So, um, and it takes time. So, I know that the partners appreciate the work that you do, too. >> Well, they are
033very extraordinarily valuable what they bring to the table. >> Yes, I agree. It's >> it's been good on my end, too. So that's, you know, I get to learn what they're learning about and I get to still feel like I'm, you know, connected to the high school at at somewhat because, you know, they come in and they'll tell me all about their day and probably you probably got Miss Cenie um doing it over the years, how the kids are more prepared due to the our edge program, how the kids are more and more, you know, their employable skills, communication, all the things that they're doing and Yes. because of what's going on in all of those grades. >> Yes, I agree. I think it's really enhanced a little bit. Yes, I agree. >> That's anecdotal
034data. That's real data that is that's from from an accountability standpoint. That's not a test score. You know, there's real people out there saying, "Yes, you what you guys are doing is is great work." I think the state is starting to recognize that from that local accountability model. us having that and having that prepared to share with the community is going to be it's going to set us kind of ahead of the game when when that comes down the pipe from KDE. So, uh we've been doing it for a while now and you guys have made it that way. >> How how often do we have a student that, you know, thinks they're interested in the area and then they they get there and find out they hate it and they don't, you know, they
035they think they want to go into nursing and then they see blood for the first time. They're like, "This is not for me." >> How often does that happen? And when it does, do we encourage them and try to coach them to stick it out or do we pivot and try to place them somewhere else? >> U feel free to jump in. We t we want them to finish the semester. Okay. Um just like a sports team finish the season. >> Finish what you started. >> You start you don't quit, right? >> Um but we absolutely work with them. We also have started really putting some of that emphasis on okay, let's sit down together and look at what could be another option for you. Let's look at you know the current list of partners.
036Let's see what we can do. Um, but that we always want them to be able to explore to Amy's point, you know, there we may be looking at um two different um options where they're like, "Oh my gosh, that's it." Um, and I will say forever the one that didn't work, that's still a win. >> Oh, yeah. What's eliminated now? Not $30,000. >> I think we should I think we should celebrate that. So, my son's in an internship now. He is undecided between engineering and finance. He's doing engineering. >> Doesn't want to do engineering. And that was it, right? He's like, "Yeah, this is pretty boring." I'm like, "Yeah, >> okay. Now you know. I'm glad you didn't spend four years and $100,000, right?" Like, >> learning that. >> So, yes, we have said that
037from the get-go. It's it's a huge win. And I think it's also great for the students that realize they're not doing something that they love. Um, that they stick it out for the semester. Um, we've had some really great stories of students who learned some like really great employable skills when the mentor was even kind of like, I don't know what to do with this. And then a month later, they're like, wow, they're not doing what we thought they were going to do, but they've learned so much. So, um, I think, you know, having them stick it out that semester. Um, and what a relationship they could build with a mentor that they the students not their passion, but they still do a great job. and that person they build that relationship with that with
038their mentor um their mentor knows a lot of other people in a lot of other industries. >> That was the other thing I was I was gonna say. So kudos on the like LinkedIn the email. I got a LinkedIn request from my sons ago and I was like yeah that's my life. Um but yeah I mean those things are just invaluable and they're table stakes but I don't know that they're plot everywhere. So, >> as one final note, um the seniors are working on their defensive learning. I got to meet with your son today on his and it's cool for them for me to see where they're putting their um their internship experiences on their defensive learning and talking about what they've learned from it, talking about um what what they want to do next
039or how they how it impacted them. So, it's great. That's great. >> Awesome. Thank you for sharing again. >> I mean, I said this last time. This is I'm going to sound like a >> broken record. >> Yeah, bro. Record. Thank you. Um because it's only this is through September, so it's only like a month ahead of real meet of what's happening here. So, we're still early in. So, we're kind of pacing as we expected. Nothing really nothing really major. Um, I think it'll it some things that have kind of popped maybe comparatively last year, it'll all even out within the next month or two again because it's just a matter of timing of some things that happen. So, I feel like it just it's going according to plan right now. So, um I don't
040even know what I would highlight honestly. >> You know, our seek the seek base increased from the state from it increased by $260 per child. Um, so from last year to this year, the base of seek funding you get per kid went up by 260. >> But the be interesting about Beachwood, >> it's not 260 for us, it's 177. >> Yeah, we only get like we still >> So it's an increase in funding per kid and it's an and we've also seen an increase in enrollment. >> Yeah, we've gone which is driving some it's going to drive it up a little >> which will increase a little bit of revenue for us. So just know that we'll see some some increase in revenue there. But I want do want to mention like this increase in
041seek that happened is like one of the first significant seeks in or increases in seek um since I looked at this recently but like before co before co it was very flat you know and this was one of the biggest ones they've done in years so keep that in mind seek you're not going to find the money in seek necessarily. Can you help me understand 170 whatever dollars per student? What is that total number per student? Like I I want to know how big of a jump is the 175. >> So what did I look at this morning? So it's like 3,900 where 4586 I think is what it was if I remember right. >> Yeah, >> I have to look it up. I you know I didn't bring that with somewhere around but I
042know it's 68% >> 600 roughly. Well, I was I was curious how 461 is what that is. The number of students >> per what it was per student. And so then how big of a jump is the 175 per student? Is that like a >> 10% increase? Is that Oh, that was about it was like $250,000 year over year is what I can recall from the budgeting when I did that, but I'd have to actually look at that again. >> Um yes, >> about 250. But the student headcount's the one thing I didn't have built into the budget. We had about I think 20 more students or like ADA. They based it on average daily attendance. >> It was 20. It was 20. It ended up being 20 more than what I had predicted projected.
043So that's going to give us a bump too. So it'll be a little more than 250 year. >> That's good news. >> It is. Uh in superintendent report uh I talked about the joint session of phase C construction. Um the the pre-bid meeting will be on uh Wednesday Thursday. So pre- bid where all the contractors will show up and get more information about what's what's going to be asked for. That's on the 16th of October. Then on the 28th they'll have from the 16th to the 28th to submit their bids. And then the bids will be open on the 28th in here. Uh that's where Kodell and Joe Hayes will be here. Uh then on the 28th through between the 28th and the 2nd of November, Kodell will review all those as our construction manager
044and they will put together a recommendation to the board. And then on the third, we'll have a special meeting in here the board to accept whatever recommendation or whatever bids that we want to accept. >> Does everyone have that on their calendars? By the way, >> Monday, November 3rd check >> at 6 p.m. >> Uh I mean the earlier the better. But we can do it when I mean >> we had talked about if we do the acceptance of the bid that day on the 3 a little earlier then we could get outside and maybe do like the ground breaking >> at 4. Yeah. 4:00. Yeah. >> Then we had the groundbreaking at 4:30 >> if we could do that. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Coell. >> So at 4 and everyone do 4. >> Yep.
045>> 4 on the 3. 4:30. [Music] I know the timing change by then though. You know that it changes that weekend a little darker. Maybe you don't get out there early enough. >> So that's phase C. And then once we accept that bid and that gets approved on the 3rd, then they can start on the fourth, which they won't start officially on the fourth, but hopefully within the next week or two after that, that's when they get they actually start to get to work. And then they'll start their work on the upper fields, softball, baseball, press boxes. And that'll be the November through December and then December. Um that's when they'll begin the >> So you think they'll be on premise by like no >> hopefully November. >> That's what we're asking for November to
046get over there. >> Uh start to get those press boxes, start taking them down, start demoing as soon as possible. And they won't do any work until early early December on the football side of it, the track and all that like this side. >> Okay. >> Because of the season not being over hopefully. >> And any update on the lawn, front lawn as far as like sprinklers and >> Yeah, >> front lawn. Uh >> right now sprinkler systems going in. You can see the >> Yeah, you can see the the tractor out there. So that that uh sprinkler system will go in after the sprinkler system is in or while the sprinkler system's in. Um the largest trees that I've found are they're between 3 and a half and 4 in base. They're about 20
047feet 18 to 20 feet tall. Red oaks um to to plant. Um they said the bigger you get them, the more volatile they become a movement. And so I've reached out as far as Dayton, Ohio, to try to find trees that are larger >> and have not been able to find. They've always everyone's redirected me back to Ammon's Farm, which is down at River Road. That's where I drove down and I I took pictures and showed you the four >> four uniform red oaks. They look great. Um, comparatively speaking, relatively speaking to what we had, they won't look >> substantial. The lighting will be there. So we do the sprinkler system >> and the landscaping around the >> sprinkler system then trees then for trees uh landscaping then after landscaping seating uh and then everything
048should be in place with the lighting as well. >> Are they going to do they do the seating or >> I think I recommend the lighting to not disrupt probably till spring um because they're not going to have leaves on them. I know, but won't they I'm talking about the like the lawn itself. Won't they have to go underground anyway? So, should that be done before or No, >> I think the lighting is already there. Those >> it bases are there. >> They're still there. >> So, I don't know if they need to dig anything. I think they just need to >> in front of the tiger. >> Uh I don't know if there is diving still in front of the tiger. We once had that, but I can I can ask we to get
049Seco in here or Delta to take a look at that and see. Okay. >> Um, so that's the the front lawn. Uh, good feedback from the trees. I mean, people understood the safety component to that. And so it was people were sad, but they understood. >> It would be my that would be my summary of the >> trees. Uh, new teacher update. Uh, we just met as a district with the new teachers. The counselors have met with the new teachers. The admin has met with the new teachers. They have a mentor. Just like there's a year-long plan. We're in the midst of that plan ending in the first quarter. Uh those new teachers have seemed to uh adapt and assimilate very quickly. Uh great feedback so far from them. We just met with them about
050two weeks ago. So that continues on throughout the course of the year. We have a whole plan that's calendar based. Um innovation teams have started. Uh so we have the five innovation teams. the AI innovation team that's in the personalized learning pillar, the wellness team innovation team that's in within the wellness pillar, the communications team which is in the community engagement pillar, the exceptional populations team which is in the personalized learning pillar and then the leadership team which is in the leadership pillar. So each one of those pillars has its own innovation team that's going to guide improvement work within each one of those parts of the strategic plan that was embedded in the strategic plan. So that's actionable items that are occurring uh as a result. So those have started uh site visits. Uh
051two weeks ago we had Dr. Poe here who is the um North Kentucky Education Council. He brought I think six or so superintendent level uh administrators from Pennsylvania and they did a site visit on experiential vibrant learning, what the edge program was and what it's all about here at Beachwood. Uh we have Dr. uh Robbie Fletcher here on this Friday. He's the commissioner at the Kentucky Department of Education. Um he's doing uh he's he's trying to learn more about what the state's doing in regards to his not just his initiative, but KD's initiative over the past several years on vibrant learning. Um so he wanted to see what the edge program was all about so that he could share that with the rest of the state. Uh he said he's heard good things. He wants
052to come see it in person. So he'll be here all day on Friday. Uh my mentor Matt Baker, the superintendent of Walton Von will also be here that day. He wanted to come look at it as well along with Tim Hanner, former superintendent of Kent County Schools and now he's the former president of Educate MKY. He will be here as well. So have a good team of people that will learn more about the edge. They'll do some tours. >> That's this Friday. uh SAT is official. So, it's it's it's official. We will give the SAT, I believe, on March 10th. Um with those juniors who have to take the SAT, we're also going to offer and pay for the ACT for all of them as well. They preparing been preparing their whole lives for ACT.
053We're not going to say, "Sorry, you're doing taking the SAT." We're going to give them both. um students who take the SAT and say, "I don't like that. I want to go take the ACT." That'll be offered to them. We're going to do test prep in both of those areas as well. So, um we will we'll offer test prep for SAT and test prep for ACT. They will be two weeks apart and we'll allow students to decide if they want to take the ACT again or take the ACT after the SAT. >> What was the reason that the state gave as to switching to SAT? They said it was a two committee team. Uh one committee reviewed the financial component and the other committee uh reviewed the academic component, the test component. And they said
054both committees after getting together uh after that review were both on board with SAT. >> I wasn't part of that. >> Yeah. I was going to say who was on their committee like could they have >> made out of teachers or any college? >> Don't know. >> Okay. >> Um regardless of what they decided, my my only request was I wish they would have rolled that out over the course of maybe two years or three years to say prepare for this. Get your freshman to prepare >> and be ready to take this when they are juniors. Not hey you're juniors this year taking this. So, um, that's why, uh, we've talked with with high school administration on making sure that students feel comfortable taking the test that they want to take and we'll prepare them
055for for both. But if they want to lean into one, they can lean into one. They want to lean into both of them, they can. And so, that's that's our philosophy to make sure they feel comfortable and not stressed or overwhelmed >> because that is kind of stressful like all of a sudden, okay, guess what? We're switching to SAT. I mean, for every district, I'm sure it's the same. Uh the next 2 by 2 will be October 23rd, Brad and Amy. Uh for the 2 by two to come next that'll be a Thursday. Uh superintendent town hall on October 28th and that's where we'll go over we'll do kind of like a rounding thing like we did with the SBVM uh board joint session where it's a learning experience around the three-year strategic plan and
056the five pillars. So those people that show up to that will learn a little bit more about what the goals are and what our actions are towards those goals so they understand what's going on in regards to school improvement. >> Are we advertising for that >> for the super? >> So we didn't want to do it too early where it becomes white noise and we'll be starting um next week the week ahead of time we'll do social media we'll do part of newsletters. It'll be part of everything we send out will be, "Hey, as a reminder, yeah, superintendent town hall on October 28th, 6 p.m. That'll be in here." >> I've been trying to encourage >> Yeah. >> community members to to attend. >> Love to um That's it. We've got uh first quarter ends
057Friday. Um soccer tonight. Boys are at Highlands at 7. Girls are at Dixie at 6. >> They're down two to nothing. girls are Dixie. >> Uh and then know we have volleyball districts next week here. >> Correct. >> Tuesday and Thursday. >> Thursday senior night I think right this >> this week for volleyball. And then just an FYI uh not Halloween is a Friday. Thursday Night Football, Campbell County home game Thursday night, October 30th instead of that Friday of Halloween. >> Senior night football >> on the 30th. >> Several things are senior night that night, I think. >> Yeah. Football, marching band, and cheer. >> Marching band will be at state >> uh on the 25th. That's at Western Kentucky University. >> A lot going on. >> Lot going on. That's fall. >> Okay. Thank
058you. Okay. Take a uh I will need to make a motion for to make the agenda part of the official board minutes. >> I'll make a motion. I will second. >> Um Mrs. Burgerer. >> Yes. >> Mr. Burns, Mrs. Slate, Mrs. Wood. >> Yes. Thank you. >> And there's nothing else. We'll take a motion to adjourn. Brad's not here to