001[music] Okay, it's six o'clock. We'll go ahead and get our meeting started with our roll call. >> Rachel >> here. >> Katie >> here. >> Sarah >> here. >> Doug >> here. >> Lorie >> here. >> Carrie >> here. Jeff >> here. Okay, we'll stand for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence after for armed services uh personnel and first responders. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Are there any items to be added or changed to the agenda? Okay. Correspondence and accommodations. A thank you letter to Image Factory for the donations of plaques to Gayler Community Schools for the Tom Johnson GHS gym floor dedication. And
002then also to Mrs. Croft is here with the culinary art students um for board appreciation month. Did you want to give us a little spiel? >> Sure. >> So this evening I have three students with me. Um they are all part of our blot class which is a two-hour class filled with students who are second, third, and fourth year students. I believe this year I do have an additional one first year student. So um but they're the students that made your appetizers for this evening. um they're they've been in the program for quite a few years. Some of them some of them are dedicated enough to continue on as a career choice in the restaurant and hospitality industry. Um but the students that I have here with me tonight are all working in the industry
003in our local restaurants as well as have desires to be part of the industry. I think at least two of them, right? So I have Hudrey Maxarowski [laughter] and I have Autumn Gillespie and I have [applause] and we just like to say thank you for all that you do for our our students and our program and keeping us doing what we're doing. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you for your help. Do you have any big trips planned for the year like Disney? >> Um our ProStart competition is March 2nd and 3rd. That will be in Battle Creek, Michigan. >> Oh yeah. >> So we'll leave on a Sunday and come back on a Tuesday evening. And um two of the students here are on the culinary team. And then Kale is also in a
004pasta competition. >> And so um we look forward to doing that like we did. Last year we took second place the culinary competition which is the highest we've ever gotten. Um, and so I think they're bound and determined to try and get that, right? So, we'll see. [clears throat] >> We look forward to seeing I'm sorry. Look forward to seeing your first place trophy. >> Um, that would be nice. No, we this that last year didn't qualify us for this year. Every year it's new. >> Okay. So, >> so does this competition coming up qual like you could qualify for the national? >> Yes, we could qualify for national. So, only the first place teams go to national. >> Oh. And I think this year it's in Baltimore >> and that [clears throat] would be
005in May. >> Not as fun as Disney, right? >> No, >> but I am taking tour of students and parents last two weeks of June to Italy to do a a culinary tour. >> Wow, that'd be amazing. >> Do you need chap rooms? >> Yeah, [laughter] >> you're welcome to come. >> The register is February 26th. [laughter] >> Awesome. >> Thank you guys. Everything was really good. We make we make you come up here and shake all of our hands. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank [laughter] you so much. It's okay. >> It's okay. We're all good. Thank you so much. So good. Thank you so much. Good luck on your pasta. It's exciting. Great job. >> Thanks so much. >> You guys are welcome to leave. Thank you. [applause]
006>> All righty. And next up, we'll do uh building updates. Uh Carla, >> so just quickly on I'd like to say something about board appreciation. So get back. First of all, I'd like to say board appreciation actually started last Tuesday. John Gallas did an excellent job. If you remember the food we had last week, thank you to John uh his food service department for doing that. But I want to say thank you because you don't get told thank you very often. I mean the the real thank you your job comes 5 10 years down the road when you see students graduate from here and be successful. But immediately we don't do as much to thank the board. It's a tough job. Um you get paid very little to do it. Um but your reward are
007those students that walk across the stage and get a reward. And quite honestly programs like this couldn't happen without a quality board. you know, [snorts] we have not, you know, programs, vocational programs that are very strong. We have an early college uh that's strong. We have a lot of AP classes. We have a lot of support for a student that needs it. Um we're very fortunate as school system to have all we have. And we couldn't have that without a board that's dedicated to having policy that supports it and allocating funds and resources in an area where we can be successful. So, thank you for the job that you did that there's a small uh token of appreciation for you that you're going to take with you when you go. Um, but we hope what
008what really motivates you to do it is our students, our 2,700 students. >> ABSOLUTELY. [applause] >> OKAY, we'll move on with Carla. If you'd like to give us a building update, please. >> Good evening. We do appreciate you all very much. Um, in preschool, we are very blessed to have multiple partnerships with various organizations in the community. Um, one of them is with the Atgo Community Foundation. And we have a grant and received a grant from them in order to supply scholarships for some of our afterchool program students that are Alice families [clears throat] that might need some extra help, you know, to pay for that after school program. So that's one of the supports for our students. It's really special and meaningful. We also received a gift uh from Toys for Toxis last Christmas,
009a gift for every single one of our 90 preschool students, which was really nice. We were really thankful for that partnership. Um also the first congregational church here in town has been giving us after school and for during the school too for preschool um school supplies every year which is outside of the academics but it's wonderful because the students really appreciate the crayons and markers and paper and all the extra things that they give us. We also of course work very closely with COP DSD members like Rebecca Higs, Julie Stoer, and Nikki Ormsby who help us provide special services for our students um like physical therapy or occupational therapy if they need it and also speech therapy for our students. And so we do also have some behavior interventions that happen through COP. So that's
010a wonderful and important important partnership for our program in preschool. And uh then we also just are re are in the process right now of partnering up with the United Way the food pantry and they will be providing our students with food bags like they do at some of the other elementary schools. So that will be something that would be really helpful for some of our families that could use some extra help. So thank you. >> Thanks Carlo. Uh, we will move on to South Maple with Mrs. Parker. >> Hi guys. Someone was giving some grief, so I'll try to go fast. Hi. Um, [clears throat] kind of just a springboard on what Carlo was saying this month, we've tried to highlight ways that we support students to grow, not just academically, but you know,
011as a whole child. Um, one thing that's going really well at South Maple is Frankie Fridays, which Friday afternoons our therapy dog comes to school and gets to hang with kids. they they themselves have taken it upon themselves to um use Frankie as a a lunch buddy. So students are working hard to earn lunch with Frankie and that's been a really motivating thing for students. Um our health department, we partner with them. Our we just got a contract with the new therapist to start one-on-one counseling with students um just after break. So she's going to start seeing students soon one-on-one to meet their specific needs. And then this, if you if you have ever been at an elementary building, you know that recess is always a hot bed of action, behavior, referrals, everything. Um, and
012then this month, our counseling team had a great idea to try to incentivize whole classes together to work together as a team um to do good things on the playground. And if you made it a whole week without having a referral, your class earned a reward. So, we started with third grade and most of them made it. And then we decided to expand it to the whole school. And last week, I think we made history. We had zero RTC referrals for the whole building during bunch recess time. So, mic drop everybody. I don't know if you can. [laughter] That is amazing. >> Yeah. [applause] >> Thanks, Diane. And then we'll go to North Ohio with Celeste. >> All righty. So, all of the things that I'm going to share are also happening at South Maple.
013So, it's really a K3 component. um we just didn't think that you would want to hear the same thing two times in a row. So um one of the positive things that we're doing at North Ohio and Maple um we have some volunteer literacy tutors and so they're coming in. Um we've it's been something that Maple had done previously. We're new to it this year. Um but Mr. Cox worked with us on that, our literacy um coaches within the building. And so we're excited to have that um happening on a limited basis. Um also a huge shout out to our maintenance staff. We are having growing pains um in all of the buildings and just trying to find a space that's appropriate for everybody. And so, um, in particular, we have our health department person,
014we have, um, our counselor, we have our communities and schools person. And so, as we're finding appropriate and private spaces for them to have office space, we're rearranging lots of things. One thing that we were able to do um, was carve out some spaces. And if you've ever been in the elementary buildings, we call them these like pod spaces. And so you'll have three kindergartens for instance and then there's this pod space where a lot of the staff were doing things like um small groups. They were doing some assessing. There were materials stored in there. So we just used maintenance repurposed those areas for us. They have been fabulous. We began putting staff other staff in there right away. And so it opened up some other spaces within our buildings um to house some other
015things that are needed for our kids. And so it's just been a it's a beautiful space and if you're around any of the buildings, we'd love to show you that newly transformed area. Um we also at North Ohio and Maple do peer-to-peer. Um this program intentionally connects students uh with disabilities and students without disabilities. It provides awareness. It provides friendships. Um and what it does is really increase a sense of belonging for everybody within the school. both, like I said, Maple and North Ohio have pretty strong peer-to-peer programs. In fact, um, last year, I think we had students come and do the pledge at one point, and so you were able to meet some of those, uh, students as well as the staff that work with those programs. Um, and then we have something that
016we hadn't done previously, um, but I'm pretty excited about it. we have um a opportunity for some of our IIA staff uh our instructional assistants to attend a uh TBRRI session to a series. So there's two dates and what TBRRI stands for is trustbased relational intervention. So lots of our teaching staff, a lot of our professional staff has been trained in this um approach and so we wanted to extend that to our IAS because what they do in our buildings is incredibly valuable in supporting students as well. So we have two um sessions. Um we have the trainers from the ISD coming. That first session is this week um and it's an evening session and those staff are choosing to come extend their workday and be part of some additional learning. So um if you
017hear TBRRI, it's trustbased relational intervention. It's a traumainformed approach developed to help caregivers support children who have experienced trauma, abuse, or neglect. TBRRI focuses on building a secure, trusting relationship with a child by addressing physical, emotional, and developmental needs. And it's based on three core principles, which are connecting, empowering, and then correcting. So, we're hoping that staff gain some new knowledge and appreciate the opportunity. >> Perfect. >> Thank you, >> Carla. So, I'm excited to share that we had five successful auditions with Blue Lake F, excuse me, fine arts camp. And it was so successful they want to come back this Friday and do additional um sessions because our students really um excited, they were very excited with our student auditions. One of our students transposed her own um song and sang it. And so,
018they're saying our student scholarship will be very high when we think about how many kids will go. So, we're excited about that. So, Mrs. Olsen um helped us with that. Um Mr. Gu also we were struggling finding some training times um having teachers leaving um the building, not leaving the building so often. So Sean Groo um did the training um and he is now able to train districtwide staff on how to support our students when they struggle a little bit and keeping that crisis intervention piece in place. So we're excited to have um an in-house trainer um our sixth grade leadership team. We've talked a lot about leadership with the announcements and now they're doing a food drive for the animal shelters for both cats and dogs. They're very excited about that. So, you'll be
019seeing some information on that. And then they also decided they wanted to start a crochet club. So, we now have a sixth grade crochet club that everybody's very excited about. [laughter] Um, and then finally, we have um forget one. Um, oh, our PTO's, our PTO, um, has primarily been teacherbased at GIS, and we have, um, I talked about in a different meeting, a board that now took over, and we keep adding more things each month. And this month we have our very first, um, popcorn Friday, kind of brought it back old school. The whole school got popcorn. Um, and now kids can buy popcorn for a quarter or a family could sponsor a classroom. So, the kids are really excited about that. and everyone will be getting a GIS um uh logo t-shirt um at
020our next assembly. So, we're excited about that as well. >> Thank you. >> Corey. >> All righty. Um so, I just want [clears throat] to highlight a couple things. I always like to highlight our extracurriculars. So, girls basketball has just kicked off and uh wrestling, which is exciting. Um I also always like to honor a staff member every month. Um, so, uh, Chantel Fenell, our art teacher, she's actually retiring after this Friday. So, we wanted to honor her as our staff member of the month. And then we always ask a couple students, uh, you know, what they think about, uh, the teacher and say a couple nice things. So, here's what some students have to say about Mrs. Finel. We had one anonymous student. They wanted to be anonymous, and that's okay. Um, kind of
021write a short letter to Mrs. Finel says, "Dear Mrs. Now, there are a lot of things I love about uh classes. Uh like the art that you do, uh how much work you put into making uh kids great at art. Uh but one thing I love most about your class is how amazing of a person you are. You treat kids so nicely and you're a great teacher. I hope you have a great retirement. I wish you the best and thank you for all you've done. Uh I had another student who has said, "Mrs. Fina always cares about students and what we are doing. We're always doing fun stuff in class. her ideas never disappoint and she's always so kind and patient with all of us learning new things and it's great uh it's a great
022time in her class and that was Payton Pierce. Um so to piggyback on what everybody else uh has talked about with some of those non-academic supports that we provide for students. Um in the middle school we have something called our high- five program. Um, so if a teacher notices a student is doing something kind of above and beyond what is expected, um, or maybe it's just one of those little wins for students that may be struggling, uh, they get a little blue slip that's a high five and then it goes into a bin and then every Friday or every other Friday we draw some of those and they can come down to the office and get a prize whether it be a t-shirt, uh, some sort of sometimes we do a pizza party with them
023and a couple of friends or or something like that. Um, we also, uh, have been doing student of the month, uh, which you may have seen some of those posts that go on Facebook where, um, there's a theme every single month and then teachers nominate students and then they vote upon those students that were nominated um, and we pick, uh, two students per grade. They get a cool t-shirt that says student of the month on it. And then also, um, Mr. Smith and I have begun doing a quarterly academic lunchon. So every quarter if a student has all A's or A minuses, they get a fancy lunch in um every quarter. And then we also do a quarterly attendance raffle. Um so all students that have perfect attendance for the quarter, all of them automatically
024get a free Taco Bell taco gift certificate, but then they also get a chance to be entered into a larger raffle in which they can win a $50 Visa gift card. Um which they get super excited about. Um, we also, similar to the elementarymentaries, do peer-to-peer, uh, which is a great program. Um, so they kind of recruit the right students and they mix them with those students that struggle with, uh, maybe building some social relationships and things like that. Um, and then also something that we like to do, uh, we've really revamped our student council this year. Um, it's got 18 students on it and they really go, you know, all out for trying to create a strong morale in our building. But one of the great things that we also do is when they
025come up with some ideas for like spirit weeks or different things like that, uh we allow for our staff to do dress down days if they participate in the themes and the kids really really enjoy that and we've had some fun interactions with that. Um but yeah, that's what we're been that's what's been going on and all the things we've been doing at at the [cough] >> Great. [clears throat] Thank you, >> Mr. Bum. [clears throat] My glasses today. Um, first and foremost, a lot of the things that we're talking about today, if you notice, there's a lot of incentives and swag that we're like providing students. So, like one of the thing that all the buildings would probably echo is our community partnerships is what allows us to be able to provide a lot
026of those things. So, it's huge that we have so many folks in town that provide us a lot of opportunities to provide incentives to kids. So, that's that that goes a long way. Um, the other things that I wanted to share was this is this is kind of our this is our Blue Devil value agreement, okay? And it's the big thing is everything encompasses what we try to do every day by living these three pillars. And I'm a big believer that if we keep it to three, it's easier to remember. Um and so to to honor the working as a team, speaking up and being safe, I just wanted to share some some information. So one of the things to build our positive atmosphere is is um we've increased assemblies. We've increased opportunities for student
027feedback. So I'd like to one our last assembly, the admin team won the tugof-war. So, not that it's bragging, but we took we took all our competition down. Teachers gave us the hardest, but then they fell. So, we we were able to to get it. And then the big seniors came in. We were a little nervous, but we were able to overcome. So, that was that was big win number one. Um the other pieces that we have is uh I just wanted to share a number of feedback survey pieces from our students. So the biggest thing um from a speak up standpoint is that um 75% of the students who completed our survey say that they're utilizing ARC and want to continue it. So what we're going to do um second semester is we're expanding
028ARC and we're allowing uh a number of our students to do some peer-to-peer modeling. So we have roughly um 18 students. Six of those are going to be going into our COP classrooms to support um students with cognitive impairments um to get in those classrooms. and a lot those six kids have all said that they want a future in that industry. So that that's big. Um the other students in that 18 will be coming down into the commons and and supporting students in math. That could be through credit recovery or prepping them to uh be able to accomplish the the math problems or the math that they're facing right now. So that's our expansion on ARC. The other pieces that I have for you um from the student body survey is from the being safe
029component. Um the good news is is that 99% of our student body feels safe. That 1% we want to meet with those students and figure that out. But of that 99% 76% of those students said I feel very safe and it was on a scale of 1 to5. So big number and that that's huge and a testament to all the teachers and the staff u making our building good. um 92% of our students felt that they had at least one or more adults in the building that were supporting them, more importantly um helping them through either academic or social struggles. So again, that's that's quality feedback that we're we're meeting kids where they're at because that's our that's our big piece. Um and then the last um two stats I want to share with you
030is through that survey um 98% of our students have said that they see that we're making strides in trying to build a a more positive culture. Um and most of the feedback was continue doing what you're doing. We see it. We like it. You're giving us a voice. So all all good things um that we're we're basically trying to model this expectation and and we're living it and and the students are seeing it. Um, and then the last piece is just kind of a a FASA update. We set a goal to increase uh FASA completions this year. Um, and at this time last year we only had 30 FASAs completed and um right now we have 65 FASA completed and we have roughly 20 that are like in the process. So that's like 117% increase.
031So that's huge. Um, and so the more kids that we can get on boarding completing those FASAs, the more opportunities they have for the next level of education. So, those are the big pieces I wanted to shift. >> I have one last question. Does that make me look smarter when I'm wearing these? >> Yeah. [laughter] No. Creeping Parker out. It's like Ben Franklin. Keep going. >> All right. Public input. [clears throat] No public input. Moving on to the consent agenda. The board uh meeting minutes are in here from January 6 for the committee um of the whole and then treasurer reports [clears throat] uh general fund and the athletic fund bills in the amount of 3.4 million cafeteria fund bills in the amount of 75,000 sinking fund bills in the amount of 179,000 and then
032prior period adjustments uh is zero. Um, moving on to new hires. Um, there's a new hire, Emma Payton, K3 art teacher, and then we'll do some introductions with those after a little bit later on into the agenda. So, we need a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I will make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Okay. Have time. >> I will second it. Any questions, discussion? Rachel, >> yes. >> Katie, >> yes. >> Sarah, >> yes. >> Doug, >> yes. >> Lori, >> yes. >> Carrie, >> yes. >> Jack, >> yes. >> Motion carries. 70. >> Okay. New and unfinished business, it is recommended that the board approve the reinstatement of a Gaylord High School student as presented. And just so that the public knows, this was um a closed session reinstatement with
033a student to keep her information in that private. So, we can't release that. I'll make a motion to approve the reinstatement of GHS 4.20242025 student as presented. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> Okay. >> Rachel, >> yes. >> Katie, >> yes. >> Sarah, >> yes. >> Doug, >> yes. >> Lorie, >> yes. >> Carrie, >> yes. >> Jeff, >> yes. >> Motion carry 70. >> Okay. It is recommended that the board approve the business services support specialist HR contract for Emily Schwarz Cart as presented. >> I'll make a motion to approve uh the business services sport specialist. >> I will second it. >> Any questions or discussion? >> Rachel, >> yes. >> Katie, >> yes. >> Sarah, >> yes. >> Doug, >> yes. Lori, >> yes. >> Carrie, >> yes. >> Jeff, >> yes. >>
034Motion carries 70. >> Okay. And then new staff introductions. >> Oh, it's >> I have Emma Payton here. >> Perfect. >> Um, and I am excited to introduce Emma. Uh, she is our new art teacher at the K3 level. Um and the timing is such that what happens with both elementaryaries is uh South Maple Head music for a year and the year runs at this time. So music is coming to North Ohio and art is heading to South Maple for a year, right? So we'll have this half a year and then we'll have the next beginning half. Um and so Emma is brand new to us in this role. Uh she graduated from Grand Valley State. She's got a bachelor's in art education. Um and one of the benefits to having Emma join our team
035is she had been a daily sub. And so she was in our buildings um regularly every single day. If it wasn't North Ohio, it was South Maple. She really worked hard to connect with the students as a daily stop prior to this even being her position. So, um, she worked hard with connections and at this point, uh, she's been very eager to learn from, uh, Miss Mack, who from Steph Mack, who is leaving that role. Um, and so Emma's going to be able to slide in pretty prepared and already knowing lots of our kids and their faces. Um, she will officially be starting her role on Monday. Um, and then of course seeing students at South Maple on Tuesday. So, >> perfect. Congratulations, Emma. >> Thank you. >> Welcome. >> Yes. Congratulations. >> Welcome. So
036glad you're here. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> She's so cute. >> All right, there's no public input, so we just need a meeting to adjurnn. I will motion to adjurnn. I will second it. >> All in favor? >> I >> [music]