001This business meeting of the board of education of the Cleveland Municipal School District will come to order. Mr. Stockdale, will you please call the role? Miss Elicott, here. Mr. Phillips, here. Mr. Briggs. Miss Jones, here. Pastor Jones, here. Mrs. Lebron, here. Mrs. Peak here. Dr. Shrear here. Mrs. Welchow here. There are eight members present. Thank you. I ask everyone who wishes to rise and participate in the pledge of allegiance. 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. Thank you. The chair will now entertain a motion to approve the minutes of the board work session of June 10th, 2025 and the board leadership development session of June 14th, 2025. So move second. Thank
002you. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? The eyes have it. The minutes are approved. Next, I'm pleased to introduce Dr. Warren Morgan for his CEO report. Thank you, Chair Elicott. And good evening everyone and welcome to our final board meeting of the 2425 school year. That feels uh uh crazy to be saying that we're at the very end and gearing up to start up another year. But uh uh one of the things you'll be seeing in my report this evening is just how uh proud we are of the progress, but we still have a long way uh to go as we think about the goals that we're trying to do for our our scholars, but then also the work we're doing uh to make our system even better. Uh yep, there
003we go. All right, and with that, we'll dive in. So, first want to uh share some commencement highlights. Uh our commencements wrapped up last Tuesday, I believe. I think that was our last graduation that we had. Um and it was definitely a great season starting all the way from May 19th uh to up until last week. And here's some highlights of our graduating class of 2025. So, altogether we had just a little shy of 2,000 uh graduates. We had 1,959 graduates. Uh and that's overall uh right now with our uh of the graduates that just graduated. Uh that will not include graduates that will be coming in. Uh we'll we'll have a summer graduation and then we'll also have a winter graduation as well. Um some other highlights of our graduating class, we had three
004students from Davis Aerospace and Maritime School that earned their pilots's license. So we're very proud of them. Uh 96% of the students at Bard earned their associates degree while also getting their high school diploma. We also know we had several students who are part of the uh high-tech academy. Uh that is a partnership that we have with TRIC that also earned um uh their associates as well. So we're we're proud of those students as well. Uh we had 116 graduates from Roads College and Career Academy. That was our high our largest graduating class. So uh Roads was our largest graduating class. JFK was our second largest graduating class. And our third um was a uh was between Garrett Morgan uh school of leadership and um uh a school of one. I think those were the
005the the two that were tied for third place. But speaking of our largest graduating class, thanks to a generous donation from uh Mark Steawoy, uh our graduates from Col Roads College and Career Academy all received a $1,000 check. Uh so when I was doing my opening remarks at commencement and I said, "Stand up if you received a scholarship." That was all of them because all of them received a $1,000 check. Uh and it was amazing seeing that uh they were getting that at their senior banquet and seeing that video. So we're very proud of our graduates and we told them to invest it well. Uh so very proud of those highlights. Now on to uh say Yes. We are very proud of our our sponsorship uh of the work that we do and with say
006yes and say yes has been just a great support to the work that we do here in CMSD. uh we had 1,251 seniors that not only are eligible for the SAS uh program but applied for the scholarship. So um the majority of our seniors of this graduating class are say yes eligible. Of that group 4,338 applied uh to college. Well those are not unique students but those are just college applications submitted totally in total. 498 students indicated a college that they intend to enroll after high school, which is 65% that plan to attend a 4-year institution and 35% that plan to attend a 2-year institution. Now, we still have work to to go to increase these numbers. Uh if we don't have 100% of students with a post-secary plan, it doesn't mean that they're all
007going to go to college, but we do want 100% of our students with a post-secondary plan. And you heard Dr. Florence and her team last week present data on the importance of college uh and career readiness and also workforce and military readiness. So, we need to make sure all of our kids have a plan, but we're proud of this progress. Um, and you can see from our say yes uh scholars, these are the top five institutions that they are enrolling in. Uh we have TRIC, Cleveland State, Kent State, Ohio State, and University of Akran. So, very proud of our scholars. This isn't inclusive of all of our commencement highlights. Uh there were uh of course more students that uh applied to college will be going to college uh students that received scholarships. We uh do
008not have this information presented here but that is also uh some of the celebrations that are part of our class of 2025 and we're really proud of our graduates. So now I want to talk about progress that has been made in the 2425 school year. uh a lot can take place in a year and last year was a very busy year and I'm very proud of the progress that has been made um by the entire district uh collectively working together. So this slide is categorized by us doing the work and the results that we're we're getting. So first uh this was the first year of us implementing an online gradebook. Uh we had that we did that in collaboration with our our teachers union and parents continue to sign up for the online gradebook to
009be partners in this work with our teachers and with our administrators and making sure all kids are successful in the classroom. We adopted and implemented our ELA curriculum and it was also our first year with the cell phone policy. Uh this was also uh we you know it's hard to believe because it feels like a forever ago but in the fall we passed a combined operating and bond levy at the highest rate and this was the first time we did an operating and bond levy together. Um we also implemented and refreshed our studentbased budgeting system per school in terms of how our schools are funded. Uh this dramatically changed the way we're doing our work with uh how schools are funded and also helped with our financial forecast. Uh and there hasn't been a dramatic
010change in the way schools have been funded since about 2014 or 2015. Um our board has adopted goals and guardrails which you'll hear us talk a little bit about in a moment. And then uh we publicly launched uh our uh building brighter futures plan. Um the results uh as we mentioned before we achieved a three-star rating for the first time. Uh we're very proud of that. We talked last week about uh anticipating and seeing where we will be uh this upcoming year, especially with the new change in the state report card, but very proud of that rating from last year. Uh we were upgraded in terms of our credit rating um by S&P and Fitch. Um and that just shows the continued work that we do to be great stewards of our dollars uh and
011also do the work of cutting our budget. We improved our five-year forecast from May of 2024 to May of 2025. um when thinking about fiscal year end 2028 uh we improved that by $196 million. So the work that we've been doing to make cuts to propose different uh proposals and policies that will help us make cuts um have uh led to an improved 5-year forecast. We also in uh decrease the rate of serious incidents from 24 to 25 um from 3.5% to 2.9%. And then we have some preliminary OST results. So, our teachers and our students are working really hard and I'm really excited to share with you some of the preliminary results. Now, I want to give you a caveat before I turn this slide to share what this caveat is. When we say
012preliminary, these are the raw uh the raw data that we have. It doesn't include our charter partners because our charter partners are inclusive of our data. Um that could either help or uh in some cases change the the the data. It also doesn't include the untested rate, but as you heard us uh present a few board meetings ago, this is the highest uh test uh rate that we've had in terms of students sitting for the OST um ever. Um and that's at 96%. So, we only have a very small percentage of students that are untested and those untested rates uh change. But I'm very proud of the progress that we've made. Let's look at the progress that we've made. So if you look at the far uh right column that shows the growth from 24
013to 25 uh when we're looking at ELA and K8 uh relatively flat here in terms of uh where we are but as you can see uh high schools uh in ELA the progress that we have here in math algebra 1 12.6% 6% uh gains in terms of proficiency in one year. Double digit gains. Geometry last year where we lost ground or were relatively flat, 8.3 percentage gains. Um and in total when you're looking at both elementary and high school, ELA being flat, but high school uh I mean for both EL for both math at the high school and elementary level, almost six percentage points gains. This is more growth than what we saw even last year. So achieving that three star rating last year with the growth that we had and this year we have
014even more growth. Uh we're very proud of that. Like I said we had the caveat that the report card has changed and then this is also not inclusive of our charter partners and also the untested rate. We've done some some math to say what could we predict if we did include our untested rate. And these are just predictions. Uh this is not based on any number that we have. Uh and this is also not inclusive of our charters. Um, but as you can see, if we did make some adjustments here based on the untested rate, um, you're still seeing the growth. ELA is still holding flat. Um, and, uh, math grow, uh, growing significantly. So, we're very proud of this growth. This is just an attribute to the work of our scholars, um, but our
015teachers that work really hard every day to provide a quality education for our scholars. We're proud of the growth, but we're not where we need to be. So, let's keep it going. And as I've been telling the team, it's a time for us to level up. We want to continue to see the growth. We want to continue to see the momentum. With that said, let's talk about board goals and guardrails. Um, we're so uh grateful to our board for charging us with making sure that we have board goals and guardrails that are aligned to what students know and are able to do and are charging us as a system, charging me as the CEO with making sure that we are living into this. Um this has been a long process uh that the board has
016been going uh through for a couple of years now and uh the we've been in back and forths of just really making sure we had the right goals. The board did community engagement uh and then the team has been working really hard to make sure we put together interims and tonight we're uh uh happy to present to you some of the goals and guard rails that we have uh that the board approved back in uh March or April. I think it was April that the board approved. Uh but then the interims that go along with it. So these are the goals and guardrails. You have probably seen these before. These are what are approved. We have three goals. One is a early literacy goal. Another one is a math proficiency goal. Uh another one's a
017college readiness goal. I want to note when we were doing community engagement, there was some questions around are these goals too ambitious? Can our kids do this in five years time? And even just looking at our math growth, uh just in one year, we're almost close to our math goal for five years. So if we continue that growth where we're going, we may be coming back to the board asking for us to adj adjust the goal up. But it just shows when we have high expectations for our scholars, our scholars can and will achieve at high levels. So let's just remember that our kids can do it. Um and then also our guardrails. uh we we have a guardrail of safety, making sure we have opportunity and access, and then also that we're engaging the
018community. In a moment, uh in this board meeting, you'll uh we'll have a presenter from the Council of Great City Schools who's been working alongside of our team uh to talk about this process and specifically the interims and what they mean. Uh but at a very high level, the goals and guard rails that you saw, those are our five-year topline goals. What the interims are, they are things underneath each goal that are predictive of us hitting the goals, but they are also making sure that uh we live into uh that we as a team are living into the work that we can do around our goals and guard rails. And so um you'll hear that presenter talk about this in a moment, but just wanting to to know that you to know that we will
019be presenting at our board meetings next year on our interims uh both for goals and guard rails. It will be the way uh the board uh is charging us to spend the majority of our time and the way chair elicott will be charging uh this board uh for doing meetings and you'll be seeing that coming up. So for our interims for goal one uh these are this is the literacy goal that the early literacy goal that you see at the top and you see three interims underneath. Um, one is focusing on uh, K3 students being on track in reading as measured by the fall I Ready assessment. Uh, that is our um, benchmark assessment that we'll that students will be taking to make sure that they're on track. Uh, we have another interim that is
020inc about increasing the percent of third grade students that are predicted to be proficient in reading. Um, this will be measured by the winter I already um, and it shows the baseline of where we are. Uh, and then we have a interim related to chronic absenteeism. Even though chronic absenteeism alone isn't a predictor of students being able to achieve their goal, if students aren't in school, they're not going to be able to learn. So, we want to make sure that we're focusing in on chronic absenteeism. We've set three-year interim targets um mainly because we want to see where we are and that allows us to predict where we are for uh the first couple of years or three years and if there needs to be any adjustments those are things that with the board's approval
021uh and direction to uh us and to me as a CEO those may be changes that will be made. You could see something similar for math proficiency specifically thinking about students that are proficient in algebra 1. Uh the first one is really focused on those firsttime test takers in algebra 1. So as we increase the uh more students that are taking algebra 1 in eighth grade, that's measuring algebra 1 proficiency in eighth grade. The majority of students take it in nth grade, but anytime they're the first time test takers, really looking at those uh first-time test takers uh and looking at the interim measure of the winter NWA map, uh which still will be a measure that we'll use at the high school level for the benchmark assessment. Uh the next interim is looking specifically
022at a specific cohort. So the cohort uh 2031 uh those are students who uh will be in the nth grade by 2031. And so it's really looking at them now currently uh which I believe these may be third or fourth graders right now and just seeing their proficiency rates um as measured um by I Ready um in preparation for them getting prepared for 9th grade algebra. And then also we have a chronic absenteeism goal here for math but specifically looking at ninth graders. And we had a big problem with chronic absenteeism for 9th grade last year. Our baseline was 71% chronic absenteeism in nth grade. That is a call to action of something we have to do. That means we had 71% of our scholars in nth grade that were not showing up. That is
023a call to action and we're working on this. We've set a year target. Um, but we want to really make sure that we continue to live into this. I'll move through the rest of these pretty quickly. You can see our college readiness goal. You've heard Chair Elod. You've heard uh me say before that this goal is not saying that all kids will go to college, but we want all kids ready for college by the time they leave us. And so making sure that students are college ready uh is a part of making sure we have a rigorous college and career ready curriculum. We have three interims connected to that. The first one is really around the uh percent of first and second year uh high schoolers that are predicted to be college ready as measured
024by the NWA MAP assessment. There is a measure that is indicated as college ready uh that will tell us uh it's a predictor of how the student would do on the SAT, ACT and also if they will be uh successful in college. We have another interim measure around uh freshmen on track, the percent of students that are on track uh to graduate. Once again, this is another call to action. We had our baseline a little bit at 70%, but there's work we could do to really make sure all students are passing their classes. So, uh, this is around credit accumulation, and we're going to be tracking now with things like our online gradebook and other measures. It allows us to intervene early and fast to make sure students are on track. And then um we
025also have a goal around the percent of third-year high school students that are on track to earn either 12 college credit uh uh college credits through uh CCP uh and or pass their AP or IB exam. Our guardrails are really similar. So there are topline goals around uh what the board is charging us to do while reaching our goals to make sure that we have our guard rails but then the interims that go underneath each of those. The first one is looking at uh the amount of serious incidents that are reported. You've already seen that we've made progress in this uh area but we have more work to do. Uh the next interim is really thinking about how students are reporting their safety and well-being in school. We're going to have a new measure called
026the panorama assessment which is a 360 measure that allows us to measure culture and climate in schools and we're going to get our baseline when we take the panorama assessment for the first time and we'll be measuring it in years out. Uh we also have another one that is also closely connected to the panorama. We received a lot of feedback from the community around student well-being and mental health and there is an indicator where students can self-report uh emotional wellness. The next guard rail is on opportunity and access. Really making sure that as we're hitting those goals, we don't sacrifice um extracurriculars, the arts, we don't sacrifice athletics. Uh and so one of the areas Oh, and career readiness. Uh one of the interims is focused on students that that are passing the career technical
027assessment. Uh that is an assessment that uh students take every year. We have a very low baseline right now. It's at 17.8% 8% and we want to see that grow over the next three years. The next one is the percent of school high schools that are offering um at least two uh art courses. So that could be in the visual arts, it could be in the performance arts. Um and we want to make sure that's in the scheduling. And then we also want to make sure the amount of schools that qualify for the Senate League, and that means that they're offering two qualifying Senate League sports. Our baseline right now is 13%. So when we think about high schools that are offering this right now, it's 13%. And we have work to do. We have
028not set a goal for uh we have not set a goal yet due to the work that we're going to be doing with building brighter futures. Uh and we need to know what programs will be offered and what will be the configuration of programs, but stay tuned for that. And then also the amount of students that are um in summer internships. Uh it was hard to get a baseline because there are many students that are doing summer internships, but there's a specific way we track that and we want that to grow over time. And then finally, the way we're engaging the community. This will be a big year with building brighter futures. And so, a big part of this is really making sure that we're engaging 100% of our schools um and our communities and
029different groups around the building brighter futures plan. And so, we have a goal set for next year um uh for the 2526 school year that we'll be measuring to make sure that those stakeholder groups are are being uh engaged. Um but this is the work that our team has been doing. Our board has done the work to set the goals and guard rails for us. Our team has been working on the interims and making sure that they are both um ambitious, feasible, but then also that it aligns to the work that's predictive of the goals. Uh we've also shared this information uh with the board. Uh and we'll continue to be on this journey and as you'll see a little bit later in this meeting um more of the development that we're going to be
030doing as uh a school community as a district community to make sure we're living into our board goals and guardrails. And that's all. Uh Dr. Morgan, I have a comment and then a question and I'll um invite others to comment as well. Um first, this isn't the first time we've discussed the interim guard rails. So we have um previously as a board along with you worked through these interims um I believe it was in a meeting a special meeting in May. Um so this is the juncture at which you've been able you and your team have been able to review the baseline scores of our students and where we stand on most of these um as of the end of the the school year. Um my question is about let me just find it. Um
031the math proficiency goal interim 2.2 when we last discussed it we had the class of 2032. What why did that change or am I missing something? Uh this cohort is the cohort that in 2030. These are the the group that will be uh in 9th grade. I I I'll make sure we clarify this, but it's supposed to be the group since it's a 5-year measure and we're looking at this this algebra proficiency is the group that will be ninth graders in uh 2030. And so actually I think that even that graduating cohort, we may need to update that that language there. But I I I see Dr. Florence on her way up in in case she has some uh something to add there. Good evening. The the way we were looking at it, 2032 would
032been would have been leaving 9th grade as opposed to 2031 which is entering 9th grade. So that's the group we wanted to focus on preparing that group that would align with the specific end goal of 2030. Okay. Thank you. And we made one one thing for just the the language of it. It's not the gra uh yeah it is the graduating cohort. So the language isn't that they're graduating in 2031. It's just that they're that cohort that is graduating in 2031. But chair cut just on that on that clarifying. So when the word graduating there is referring to graduating from 8th grade because the I Ready assessment is one that's that pertains to middle school students. Is that not right? The I Ready is it's for elementary and middle and actually when they take the
033algebra assessment it's NWA which is why the first one is NWA. NWA is specifically for algebra but we would measure them in I ready. So it could be that they their their eighth grade year. I'll make sure that we we have the cohorts aligned. I I understand that. I'm just trying to clarify my um what Dr. Florence just said in my head that it is it is in fact the same cohort we're talking about because the 2032 cohort is the the 2032 number which is which the chair pointed out is the right number that we used the last time we discussed it as the as the students that will be in 9th grade in the 203132 year. That is the right cohort. But this number that that you're talking about um that 2.2 2 measure
034is a is a measure that's assessed as that's assessing students who are still in 8th grade. And so this 2031 graduating cohort pertains to 2031 8th grade graduation. I'm just you know like ju that's that's my understanding but you know can clarify that. Yeah I'll make sure we get uh clarifying of it and also just the way graduating is cuz if it is graduating eighth grade cohort we should have that on there. Um, I remember at one point we were looking at it, it was since this the the the topline goal is making sure five years, it's a five-year goal for 2030 that this was the group that would be uh either ready for algebra or would have just been finishing algebra. And so I just want to make sure that we have the the
035the the year right and we we may need to bring that that back to you. Yeah, let's check on that because typically we refer to graduating cohorts by their high school graduation. So if we need to shift that number, I just want to make sure we're all really clear. Let's be clear on that. Yeah. Um is there any other discussion? I do have a couple more questions. Um so so first of all, um on the OSD, actually, let's stay on this one because I have two questions. One on the goals and guardrails and one on the um OSD tests. Um the um the on on this on the goals and guardrails we go to the the third goal. Um so yeah um the we did have we do have a baseline of 8.2%. This is
036the number that the board used as um as the baseline when we were talking about this goal and determining this. The reason that you say TBA under 2425 is based on the the changes that the state report card is making. Is that correct? Yes. The the the the 8.2 is based on the cohort. It is based on 20 the 2024 graduating class. We don't have the information yet for how 25 did because it's it's a lagging indicator and we will have that soon. Great. Thank you for that clarification. um on the OST results. Um first of all um uh you know um for for the public, we the board at our um at our um special meeting um in our retreat a couple of weeks ago did have a chance to see this. So So
037you know, so if you don't see us um overtly congratulating the CEO on this, it's because we already did that uh in in in that meeting, but we're doing it again. I I will point out that this is um significant improvement in outcomes outcome measures and that's fantastic. So congratulations to you and your team Dr. Morgan. The one clarifying question um so when you say this is CMSD only data the the data for 23 and 24 are also only CMSD right we're not including the charter numbers in those I believe and I'm I'm looking back there Dr. Demo I think that does include the charter numbers. I think that was final that was like official final numbers. Okay. And then what we're showing in the final column for 24 25 is only inclusive of because
038we don't have our charter data and we don't have the untested yet. So so so this so so when the 23 and 24 are final numbers as reported including charters the 25 data is the only column that is that is exclusive of charters. Exactly. Yep. Okay. Got it. question and then my second question on this is when we talk about the untested rates. So in the next slide we say assuming identical untested rates um but then you made a comment in your presentation that um this year we have the lowest untested number of students. What so so that was 4%. What was the percent of untested students in 23 24? Yeah we had we had did some work and I don't know if we if we have it uh specifically on we had improved it
039last year. I don't quite know if it was at uh it was at 96% um in terms of our average rate, but as my my my team is looking for that uh that that number. We'll get that for you. But it has this was the the higher one that we had and the year prior it was it was much more significant. I think we um yeah, the testing rate may have been in the the 80s, maybe even in the the high 70s. Great. Thank you. Any other discussion or questions? All right. Thank you, Dr. Morgan. Is that all? All right. Next, we will have public participation. During this segment of the business meeting, we will hear all public comment on either agenda or non-aggenda items other than the other than the school calendar, which we
040previously discussed. Um, this public participation period will be for persons who previously submitted the online request to speak form to address the board for up to three minutes each. As usual, we will limit each speaker to three minutes. We ask that you respect this time limit and the time will be um visible on each screen for you so that you can follow along on where you are. All right. Um, we'll go ahead and get started with Martha Lockidge. Hello, Mr. Kurtzlaf was kind enough. Sis, can you hear me? Just one moment and we'll get that turned on. I just say what's printed in front of you is a little different than what I'm going to say. No problem. I reordered it. So, the important stuff I can fit in my few minutes. Thank you. If
041you could just hold on until we actually start. Thank you. You ready? Okay. Can you hear me now? The microphone is not on now. Now, now. Is there something I need to switch? try again. Is there Oh, there we go. There we go. All right. Go ahead and get started. Finally. Good evening, members of the school board, Dr. Morgan, CMSD educators, and members of the community. My name is Martha Lockidge and I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you tonight about the imple implementation of Monasuri the Monasuri model at Stone Brook White Monasuri campus and Tmont Monasuri the first public elementary Monasuri school in Ohio to earn accreditation from the Monasuri American Monasuri Society. I'm here representing two partner organizations that are proud to collaborate with district and school leaders to support the Monasuri model
042in CMSD. Monatory Development Partnerships, MDP for short, and the Monasuri Advisory Council, formerly known as the Monasuri Campus Advisory Board. On behalf of these organizations, I'd like to thank you for committing to and investing in the Monasuri model. Over 600 students attend CMSD's monatory schools, including approximately 125 preschoolers who are three and four years old. Without these public monastery schools, they most likely would not have access to a monastery education because of the barriers of cost and distance to a private monator school. As you plan for the future of CMSD with building brighter futures, we encourage the board members, we encourage board members to remain committed to sustaining the monatory model and its unique robust curriculum. We urge the board to hold central office staff and school-based leadership accountable for five core the five core
043components of the monatory model. We request that the board safeguard the integrity of the monatory model by ensuring that CMSD's academic team supports school-based efforts to align district curriculum with monastery instead of supplanting it. In other words, we request the monatory curriculum is treated as primary and central to the model, not supplemental or superficial. The students in Cleveland deserve highfidelity monasuri, highfidelity montasuri, not monasuri inspired schools. Trimmont Monatory's AMS accreditation demonstrates that it's possible. Prior to the formation of Stone Brook White Monastery Campus, MDP had invested over 11 million from foundations and individual donors to purchase and renovate the Ames Stone House furnishings, monastery learning materials, outdoor nature play areas, and operations for Stone Brook Monastery as a charter school. MDP now leases the building, grounds, and classroom contents to CMSD for a dollar a
044year. You're going to vote on that tonight. Since the merger of the school with CMSD, MDP has raised over $ 1.5 million that have supported a number of endeavors, including a customized Monasuri credentiing program for elementary teachers, monatory coaching for emerging and new Monasuri teachers, Nautilus PD for Monasuri classroom paras to support a constructivist-based adult response to student behavior, Tmont Monatory's AMS accreditation and application application and site visit, Monasuri learning materials, a bio retention basin and new parking lot at Stockwork White Monastery and conceptual drawings for a new monastery building for the Stonework White Monatory campus. Thank you, Miss Lockidge. So, I just want to say MDP and the Monatory Advisory Council are committed long-term partners in this work and when the board's ready to sign theou, it's ready for you. Thanks so much. Next,
045Dr. Vincent E. Stokes II. [Music] Good evening. In the black community, the same goes when America catches a cold, black folks get pneumonia. It means that when crisis or downturn strikes this country, be it economic, social, or political, black communities bear the harshest and most disproportionate impacts. It captures the reality of systemic racism and inequality. how struggles that affect the whole nation land hardest upon black Americans due to long-standing discrimination and unequal access to resources. For over a decade, the portfolio model of schools in Cleveland created two school systems within one. A system of halves and have nots. Certain darling schools had cart blanch authority and favorable status, making room for privileged students um from zip codes far beyond Cleveland because someone knew someone. Meanwhile, the very people asked to pass levies were seemingly barred
046from attending these elite institutions built with their tax dollars. It was a tale of two worlds. Selected schools with every resources and traditional neighborhood schools like Newton D. Baker, which went 71 years without air conditioning or dyke, which had to be relocated due to crumbling infrastructure or case which eventually closed. Today, as a pastor, a prophet and a community advocate, I stand to thank this board and to thank Dr. Morgan who has taken the helm as CMSD CMO CEO. Thank you for making hard decisions when no one else would. Not too many people will say that, but I can. I work for God, not for man. Thank you for working to level the playing field, making sure that the children at Alfa A. Bendage have the same opportunities as those at Almyra. Thank you for
047making sure that the scholars at Charles Dickens have access to the same curricular extracurricular activities and resources as those at Campus International. Thank you for honoring black boys as more than athletes, making sure that they can access and excel in AP, calculus, English, and every rigorous academic opportunity when given the opportunity. We understand that schools will be closing. But as you make those decision, I ask one thing. Do not decimate the black community in the process. Schools are more than buildings. They are anchors of neighborhoods, the traditional neighborhoods, school connections, generations of families, churches, businesses, and heritage. The portfolio model weakened that bond. We've already dealt with enough as a people. COINTEL pro, redlinining, busing, the crack epidemic, systemic disinvestment, wife, light, and community blight. Do not add another chapter of trauma while trying to
048build better futures. I went to Fisk University and every day in the eras Milo Creath Library, I looked upon the greatness of Aaron Douglas's mural, building more stately mansions in the same space where gi giants like Drs. Web Dub Boys, John Hope Franklin, and Nikki Giovani drew strength. The mural reminds us that when you build with righteousness and integrity, something truly grand can arise from it. As you build brighter futures for this district, I pray you also build brighter futures for my community. Making sure your legacy doesn't destroy, which is what has been done historically, but rather lift us all to higher heights. When America catches a cold, black folks get pneumonia. Give us a chance to thrive. In the words of legendary freedom fighter Ella Baker, "We who believe in freedom cannot rest until
049it comes." Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Stokes. Next, Christopher Schwab. Good evening. Um, lost my notes here. My name is Chris Schwab and I'm here today to speak about Campus International High School and CMSD's responsibilities for it. I've had three children attend the school and I've helped organize a pack this year to better advocate for the school. Over a year ago, one parent came to this school board with concerns about the future of the school. Dr. Morgan, you wrote to tell her that the board was committed to quote a rigorous IB model at Campus International. Unfortunately, we have not seen that commitment. One of the IB learner profiles is to be a communicator. From both the school administration and from CMSD, communication about CIHS has been variously untimely, untruthful, misleading, unprofessional, and entirely absent. This
050has not been a frequent problem. It is the normative way communication has taken place. Let me address each. Communication is untimely. Perhaps every single communication since Miss Kite Neil became principal was uh late sent later than appropriate, sometimes just one to two days before an important event, leading to extremely low family participation. As just one example, a year-end parent engagement meeting was announced less than two days before the event. Two parents showed up. Communication is untruthful or misleading. We have been repeatedly told things that have proved not to be true. It's difficult to see how some of these instances were not deliberate. Last year, uh, Ms. Kite Neil told us that she would receive the required training for IB by July. It never happened. CMSD and building personnel have promised that our concerns about the
051lack of communication were being remedied, but nothing has changed. Communication is unprofessional. Emails have gone out with prolific spelling and grammar errors, without necessary attachments, or with directions to click on things that can't be clicked. Communication has often been non-existent. In trying to organize a pack despite repeated requests, both CMSD and CIS failed to make parents aware of the pack or how to become involved. Almost 3 weeks ago, we reached out to the administration about engaging the pack during the summer to prepare for fall. We've heard nothing. And there are rumors now that principles have informed parents that athletics are being cut from their schools and that CIHS is among them. But we have heard nothing about this. If it's true, it also reflects that CMSD has not engaged the necessary communication to assess the
052school's needs. I could go on. With your permission, I'd like to prepare a whsome list of the specific examples of communication at the school and the steps we have tried to take in vain to remedy it. In addition, I have two requests. one, a pathway for regular, clear, direct, and truthful communication from CMSD about how they plan to support CIHS in building that rigorous IB model at Campus International that was promised. And two, a transparent accountability system for ensuring that the principal and administration are prioritizing timely, professional, and accurate communication. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Schwab. Next, Janelle Chappelle. Good evening. Good evening. My name is Dell Chappelle. Um, I'm a pair professional uh at Luis M Elcott. I am the self-proclaimed we have McDonald's at home of programming. Um, my fellow uh co-workers uh
053told me to step up to this board meeting because they're tired of hearing my mouth and all of my emails on ideas. So, uh, what I'm here to say is you guys have done a wonderful job, very hard work over the past year. I've seen it. I follow the mores extensively and as we go through this new period, I know there's going to be uh, a lot of things going on. Uh I just want to give some suggestions and maybe offer services to maybe help us out as we roll out uh PBIS over uh other announcements that are happening and maybe uh some ideas to maybe help us give opportunities for some places that don't don't necessarily have them. Um, and these four ideas surround of Hour of Code, um, Generation Masterpiece Program, which is
054Legos's program, um, Minecraft, and maybe a junior esports tournament. One, the Hour of Code, uh, as one of the, um, things that Building Body Futures is, uh, reporting out is to get uh, computer technology in the classrooms and more opportunities for that. Hour of Code is like a program where you can at least get some exploration of it and it's uh, and it's a low mileage. Code.org or uh does a lot of the work and for teachers who are overwhelmed. Uh two years ago I did do an event where several schools got together and I just coordinated it so it took a lot off their backs and they came together and did the event and there was a lot of kids who did not code um got an opportunity to do that but you give
055them a chance to get a sample of what you're talking about tomorrow uh for low cost. uh generation masterpiece was a program that uh was uh gave an opportunity by the get more grant uh two years ago and I just have excess capacity uh uh generation masterpiece was about uh having kids get in the physical world and building things right we don't want to wait till 9th and 10th grade for kids to get physical around building things and things like that so I have excess capacity with um Legos about 20 sets and they also can be computerized and programmed to computer robots that can make the computers they can make the Legos drive and everything like that. I have extra 20 sets. So, anybody uh any school that needs um extra things, incentives on PBIS
056systems or anything like that, hey, you know, they can email me. We can coordinate it out. They can have it zero cost. They get to explore Minecraft Education. We have it for free. It takes a lot to get it up and running, but once you do, the kids love it. You never have to yell at them about getting on Minecraft. You have to yell at them about getting off. Um, but there are m uh Minecraft education worlds um that go into computer science, English, uh social studies, geometry, uh uh a ton of different things. And once you get that set up, um those are things low cost. You can get up and running tomorrow. And esports tournament, you got a few switches. They can they don't have to go on the internet. They cheat each
057other live. You earn the PBS points. You you attach it to attendance, academics, and behavior. And then those students can do that. Hey, come and have a tournament at the end and low cost. Boom. Thank you, Mr. Chappelle. [Applause] All right, that concludes our public participation period. And now, um I am going to shift the agenda a little bit today. So on our agenda for today, um the next item is uh as Dr. Morgan mentioned, the training with AJ Crayel from the Council of the Great City Schools. um he is delayed um he's traveling and he was going to join us via uh Zoom. However, he's not able to join at this time. So, we'll shift that to the end of the resolution period. Um so, we'll go ahead and jump into the resolutions for
058consideration for the evening. Next, the board will adopt consider the adoption of 46 resolutions in the areas of board of education, finance, operations, academics, and equity and culture. The board discussed all but two of these at our June 10th board work session. First, the chair will entertain a motion to adopt resolution 7.01 making an appointment to the Cleveland Public Library Board of Trustees. So moved. Thank you. Uh the board did not discuss this resolution at our work session, but as the appointing and taxing authority of the Cleveland Public Library, the CMSD Board of Education is charged with making appointments to the libraryies board of trustees. With this resolution, the board will be reappointing Marissa Rodriguez to another term on the library board. Ohio House Bill 96, the state bianial budget, which is currently being debated
059and negotiated in the Ohio legislature, would reduce the length of terms of library trustees from the current seven years to four years. I want to note that should that bill pass the legislature, be signed by the governor, and take effect prior to the start of Miss Rodriguez's new term on July 2nd, then her new term would be for four years instead of seven years. And I want to note that uh Miss Rodriguez is with us this evening. I'll ask you to come up in a little bit. Not yet. Uh sorry. Um but first I'd like to turn it over to Miss Walsh Howell who is the chair of the ad hoc library appointments committee to share a little bit about the nomination. Thank you, Chair Elott. Excited to share more about Miss Rodriguez and our
060process for this nomination. So Miss Rodriguez is a graduate of Jane Adams High School and Sawyer College of Business. Uh she's retired from a career as a supervisor with the Kayahaga County Office of Child Support Services. Um she was first appointed to an unexpired term on the board in 2005 and was reappointed to a full 7-year term in both 2011 and again in 2018. And so as the committee considers these nominations, we look at several things. We look at the candidates's why. Miss Rodriguez was very passionate about the library system, about her work with the library board, um, and that she has a lot more work to do as she sort of goes into this next term to build on um, all of the great work that her and her colleagues have done. We look
061at how much the candidate understands the role and responsibilities of the board of trustees, their vision for the Cleveland Public Library, as well as their understanding of how the CPL board of trustees works with uh the CMSD board as well as the district in general. And then we'd love to understand how the candidate thinks about engaging with the community. And so as we talked with Miss Rodriguez, she made it um very clear that across all of those factors, she still has that passion and that engagement to continue uh to grow uh help to grow the CPL system. So uh the current board of trustees also strongly recommended Miss Rodriguez, which I think speaks to her her leadership and how much her colleagues um trust her leadership um and have really sort of seen the benefits
062and the fruits of of her work. So, uh, the library board committee is confident that Miss Rodriguez can continue to build on this progress. Um, and we are very excited to see, uh, how she can continue to grow over the next seven years. Thank you, Miss Walchow. And I'd like to recognize that we have another trustee, Melanie Shakarian, here as well as director Felton Thomas. Thank you for joining us. And Marissa Rodriguez, would you like to speak for a couple of minutes? Thank you. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. And thank you for uh the reappoint of another seven years. Um we have a lot of work to do. When I was asked why I wanted to do this uh take on the role as a trustee again, I said I wasn't done yet.
063There was a lot that we did. We helped pass a levy in 2017 which Clevelanders supported us. We are rebuilding, re-imagining and renovating a lot of our libraries. We are almost done with phase one. We are now working on phase two of that. Also, um I don't want to take up too much time, but one of our biggest challenges that we're yet to have is a lot of the budget cuts that are taking place at the state level. We are the biggest advocates for our libraries and we have to get out there, talk with our legislators and everyone to make sure that they keep the funding where it needs to be. So, that is something I'm very uh strong with and so is some of our other board members. We're all trying to get out
064there to make sure everybody understands where we at and what we stand for. But, uh, another one of our big challenges coming up, our fearless leader, Director Thomas, is on his last cycle of his contract. So, we He's not leaving yet, but he has a couple years, but we know he has very big shoes to fill and it's going to take a couple more years. So I want to be a big part of that to make sure that that will be a easy and a good transition for CPL. So I I do thank you again. I don't know if any of you have any questions about me. But I'm going to do one correction to the resolution because I have to. I graduated from Jane Adams Vocational High School. We were the last school year
065to ever be an all girls school back then in 1980. and it was a vocational high school. So, I'll apologize for that. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Rodriguez. All right. Is there any comment from board members on this one? All right. Hearing no discussion, Mr. Stockdale, would you please call the role? Yes. Yes. Your microphone is not working. Miss, yes. Yes. Mrs. Lebron, yes. Mrs. Peak, yes. Dr. Shrear, yes. Mrs. Welch, yes. Motion passes with eight votes. Thank you. The resolution is adopted. Congratulations, Miss Rodriguez. The chair will now entertain a motion to adopt resolution 7.02 adopting the Cleveland Public Library tax budget for fiscal year 2026 and transmitting it to the county budget commission. So second. Thank you. The board did discuss this resolution at our June work session. As the taxing authority of
066the Cleveland Public Library, it is our board of education's responsibility to adopt the library's tax budget each year. The adoption of the this tax budget is not a discretionary act by the board of education but rather is specifically required by the Ohio Revised Code section 5705.28B. Is there any discussion additional discussion from board members hearing? No further discussion. Mr. Stockdale, would you please call the role? Miss Alakod, yes. Mr. Bilips, yes. Miss Jones, yes. Pastor Jones, yes. Mrs. Leone, yes. Mrs. Peak. Yes. Dr. Shredar. Yes. Mrs. Welchow. Yes. The motion passes with eight votes. The resolution passes and is adopted. The chair will now entertain a motion to adopt resolution 7.03 adopting a policy on promoting parental involvement. So moved. Second. Thank you. The board discussed this at our June work session. Ohio House Bill
0678, which was adopted by the state legislature in December 2024 and signed by the governor in January 25, requires boards of education to adopt a policy to promote parental involvement in the school system. This policy must be adopted by July 1st. Is there any additional discussion? Mr. Stockdale, will you please Oh, did you have a comment, Dr. Morgan? Okay. Mr. Stockdale, will you please call the role? Miss Elicott? Yes. Mr. Bips? Yes. Miss Jones, yes. Pastor Jones, yes. Mrs. Lebron, yes. Mrs. Peak, yes. Dr. Shrear, yes. Mrs. Welchow. Motion passes with eight votes. The resolution is adopted. The chair will now entertain a motion to adopt resolution 7.04, adopting a policy on virtual board meetings. So move. Second. Thank you. The board did not discuss this resolution at our work session. With this resolution, the
068board would be adopting a new board policy on virtual board meetings. Ohio House Bill 7, which was passed by the Ohio legislature late last year and signed by the governor in January, allows public bodies whose members are not elected and not compensated the option to hold virtual public meetings after adopting a policy for providing providing for such virtual meetings. The adoption of this policy would give our board the option to hold virtual meetings under certain circumstances, including virtual committee meetings. I do want to note that our intention um with this policy and folks can review it on board docs is certainly not to shift to virtual meetings as a matter of course, but it does give us the option especially for board committee meetings which can be particularly difficult to schedule in person. um especially
069when we're doing things like interviewing candidates for board uh for the library board where we also have to consider their schedules um gives us the option to do those virtually as well as in certain circumstances where that need comes up. Um our intention is also to avoid having business meetings as virtual so that we can have public comment in person as much as possible. Although if we did hold a business meeting virtually, we would ensure that there was public comment um just like we did when we were all virtual during the time of the pandemic. Is there any discussion from board members? All right. Hearing no discussion, Mr. Stockdale, would you please call the role? Miss Elicott, yes. Mr. Phillips, yes. Miss Jones, yes. Pastor Jones, yes. Mrs. Lebron, yes. Mrs. Peak, yes. Dr. Shrear,
070yes. Mrs. Welchow, yes. The motion passes with eight votes. Thank you. The resolution is adopted. The chair will now entertain a motion to adopt resolution 7.05 authorizing a professional services agreement between Julian and Grub and the board of education of the Cleveland Municipal School District for internal audit services. So move. Thank you. The board discussed this resolution at our work session. Is there any additional discussion? Hearing no further discussion, Mr. Stockdale, will you please call the role? Miss Elod, yes. Mr. Phillips, yes. Miss Jones, yes. Pastor Jones, yes. Mrs. Leone, yes. Mrs. Peak, yes. Dr. Shrear, yes. Mrs. Welchow, yes. Motion passes with eight votes. Thank you. The resolution is adopted. The chair will now entertain a motion to adopt resolutions 8.0 01 through 8.15. The full titles of which are set forth on the
071board meeting agenda. So move second. Thank you. These 15 resolutions are our finance resolutions which we did discuss at our work session. Dr. Morgan, any additional information or comment on these resolutions that was not presented to the board already? No, these are unchanged since the work session. Thank you. Any discussion from board members? Hearing no discussion, Mr. Stockdale, would you please call the role? Miss Alakod, yes. Mr. Phillips, yes. Miss Jones, yes. Pastor Jones, yes. Mrs. Lebron, yes. Mrs. Peak, yes. Dr. Shrear, yes. Mrs. Welch, yes. Motion passes with eight votes. Thank you. These 15 resolutions are adopted. The chair will now entertain a motion to adopt resolutions 9.01 through 9.10, the full titles of which are set forth in the board meeting agenda. So moved. Thank you. These 10 resolutions are our operations resolutions
072which the board discussed at our work session this month. Dr. Morgan, is there any additional information or comment that was not previously presented to the board? No, these are unchanged. Any additional discussion? Hearing no further discussion. Mr. Stockdale, would you please call the role? Miss Elod, yes. Mr. Bilips, yes. Miss Jones, yes. Pastor Jones, yes. Mrs. Lebron, yes. Mrs. Peak, yes. Dr. Shrear, yes. Mrs. Welchow, yes. Motion passes with eight votes. Thank you. These 10 resolutions are adopted. The chair will now entertain a motion to adopt resolution 9.11 authorizing the chief executive officer or designate to issue a purchase order to Innovative Solutions Group, Inc. for the purchase and associated professional development of FFSP pack food service sanitation and and safety program to be conducted in various Cleveland municipal school buildings in an amount not
073to exceed $132,775 and declare that innovative solutions group are pro proprietary and soul sourced. Thank you. This is an operations resolution that the board discussed at our June 10th work session. The board will be voting on this resolution separately because pursuant to Ohio revised code sections 3311.75 and 3313.46 with the adoption of this resolution, the board must determine and declare by a twothirds vote of all its members that the supplies and services purchased by purchased from Innovative Solutions Group are available and can be acquired only from a single source. Is there any discussion from board members? Dr. Morgan, is there any additional information or comment not previously presented? No, just the addition that you mentioned there that uh we added the the language of the two-thirds vote. Okay. Mr. Stockdale hearing. No further discussion. Would
074you please call the role for this motion which will require at least six votes to be adopted? Miss Alicod? Yes. Mr. Bilips? Yes. Miss Jones? Yes. Pastor Jones? Yes. Mrs. Lebron, yes. Mrs. Peak, yes. Dr. Shrear, yes. Mrs. Walchow, yes. Motion passes with eight votes. Thank you. This resolution is adopted. The chair will now entertain a motion to adopt resolutions 10.01 through 10.06, the full titles of which are set forth on the board meeting agenda. So moved. Thank you. These six are academic resolutions which we discussed at our work session. Dr. Dr. Morgan, is there any additional information that was not previously presented to the board? No, these are unchanged. Any discussion? All right. Hearing no additional discussion, would you please call the role? Mr. Stockdale. Miss Alakod? Yes. Mr. Phillips? Yes. Miss Jones? Yes.
075Pastor Jones? Yes. Mrs. Lebron? Yes. Mrs. Peak? Yes. Dr. Shar? Yes. Mrs. Walchow? Yes. Motion passes with eight votes. These six resolutions are adopted. The chair will now entertain a motion to adopt resolutions 11.01 through 11.03. The full titles of which are set forth on the board meeting agenda. So move. Second. Thank you. These three are information technology resolutions which we discussed at our board work session this month. Dr. Morgan, any additional comment that was not previously presented? No, these are unchanged. Thank you. Any additional discussion from board members? All right. Hearing no further discussion, Mr. Stockdale, would you please call the role? Miss Alakod, yes. Mr. Phillips, yes. Miss Jones, yes. Pastor Jones, yes. Mrs. Lebron, yes. Mrs. Peak, yes. Dr. Trear, yes. Mrs. Welchow, yes. Motion passes with eight votes. Thank you. These
076three resolutions are adopted. The chair will now entertain a motion to adopt resolutions 12.01 through 12.06, 06 the full titles of which are set forth on the board meeting agenda. So move second. Thank you. These six are excellence and culture, excellence and talent resolutions which the board discussed at our June 10th board work session. Dr. Morgan, is there any additional information that was not previously presented to the board? Some of the uh names uh they have either been added or deleted um that are in the attached exhibits. Uh but uh largely these are unchanged since the work session. Is there any additional discussion? Mr. Stockdale, would you please call the role? Miss Elod, yes. Mr. Phillips, yes. Miss Jones, yes. Pastor Jones, yes. Mrs. Lebron, yes. Mrs. Peak, yes. Dr. Shrear, yes. Mrs. Welchow, yes.
077Motion passes with eight votes. Thank you. These six resolutions are adopted. That concludes our regular resolutions. Uh, Mr. Mr. Bzoff or Mr. Tominson, can I get a status update on our visitor via Zoom? Okay. Session. All right. Um, in that case, we'll go ahead and move move for executive session and then come back for the training with Mr. AJ Crayel. The chair will now entertain a motion that the board enter into executive session for the purpose of considering the appointment and employment of public employees and officials, preparing for negotiations with public employees concerning their compensation or the terms and conditions of their employment, and conferring with attorneys concerning disputes involving the board of education that are the subject of pending or imminent court action. So moved. Second. Thank you. Mr. Stockdale, please call the role.
078Miss Elod, yes. Mr. Phillips. Yes. Miss Jones, yes. Pastor Jones, yes. Mrs. Peak, yes. Dr. Shrear, yes. Mrs. Walchow, yes. Motion passes with seven votes. Thank you. The board will now move into executive session. Following executive session, the board will return to this room to hopefully um have our training with the council of the great city schools and then conduct some brief further business after that. [Music] Your lettuce is popping. [Music] Come right here. But the good thing about growing like that [Music] Hi, I'm Dariel Snipes and I'm here at Orchard Steam School and today we'll be taking a look at the ribbon dancing team as they prepare to perform at a schoolwide event. [Music] And we are here with Felicia Kelly who is the 5C's coordinator and the ribbon dancers coach. And behind us
079we have the ribbon dancers. So just tell me how did you get this program started here at Orchard Stem? Well, I did a praise dance for my mom for Mother's Day and I used a ribbon uh and I brought the ribbon in to demonstrate um part of what we call demonstration of learning and I brought it in to the ribbon dance uh to the school and the ribbon dancers that are now ribbon dancers loved it then and asked me can we do the same thing and I said of course and so I brought um brought some ribbons and we started practicing and the team was created. But you have told me that it it has exploded. So many kids want to be a part of it now. So what is the age range of your
080ribbon dancers? So we have first grade all the way up to sixth grade. Nice. And so while dancing is beautiful, but you are here to instill life lessons into these kings and queens. Can you tell me about it? Yes, absolutely. And they will tell you my first my first rule of thumb is positive energy. I have it all over the media center here and they know that we are about uplifting each other, about encouraging each other, about helping each other. So those are kind of the life lessons that I'm trying to instill so that they don't just incorporate it here in the first grade, second grade, middle school, high school. These are lessons that I try to teach them for life. Mhm. How to be kind to each other, how to treat each other, how
081to be sensitive to different situations that that might come up. So, this is a steam school. Yes. So, and even though you're doing dance, which is arts, which is part of steam, um you're also incorporating some other things. Can you talk about uh some of the things that you're trying to teach them as well when it comes to steam and dancing? Okay. So, um the t-shirts that they're wearing today, they actually help make. We have um Cricut machines. We have silhouette machines and transfer heat transfer paper to actually make the t-shirts so that the t-shirts that they're wearing they're they made them and also 3D machines. We have laser cutters. We have actually if I you don't mind me stepping off camera a little bit. Um we have the capability of making mugs and they
082help to design their own um character on my mug and it says I love my ribbon dancers. Then each ribbon dancer picked out their design and we made this mug for me. Wonderful. I'm joined now with Nila and Paige. What grade are you in, Paige? Third. And what grade are you in? Six. And tell me, why did you guys want to join the ribbon dancers? So I can learn new things. What about you? Um, because I always wanted to dance in a in a group. So I always found passion for Miss Kelly's moves and that's why I joined Ruben Dance. So besides dancing, what else have you learned? I know she talks about, you know, life lessons. So tell me what life lessons you have learned. I've learned to work with a team, not by
083yourself. And sometimes you just have to work together so you can make things happen, right? You're right. And what about you? What what what lesson have you learned? I learned how to collaborate with my team and um have teamwork and um when somebody's doing something to have to encourage them, right? And some of the collaboration you guys have done is you had the some art students paint this for you guys for your performance. Just talk about how you like performing in front of others and showing uh your other students what you've learned and show the beautiful dances that you've learned. I enjoyed a lot because it's got me like not to be scared when people are watching. So I'm not shy anymore like I used to. And now I talk loud. I'm just loud all
084vibes. And when we perform it makes me feel great because I show myself. [Music] We are here for our first middle school CTE fair. So, these students are engaging with STEM ideas. They're doing some design work with 3D printing. They're doing a lot of building with uh Legos and with wood. Um, and today they're here to show off those projects that they've designed. And they're also here to learn about all of the CTE pathways that we offer at the high school level. Middle schoolers that come in here is way more easy and really really beneficial because they could see their options. So it open their mind and open their perspective. So they could they could decide what they're going to choose. There's that initial attention getter. We're going to get you over to our booth
085because we have a fun or exciting game and something that you can do, but ultimately we're going to show you how you actually get to do that every single day at our school. And here's what you also get with it, a certification that's going to make you money after you graduate. So, it's really, really exciting. I went to the uh veterinarian place and I saw the chinchilla and I was like, "Oh, she's so adorable." Like, I find animals very intriguing. I wanted to go to the architecture one because I'm figuring out what I'm going to do when I'm growing up and I think I'm going to be an architect. The career pathways that are available in a variety of our high schools in the Cleveland area are outstanding. And so getting a firsthand uh chance
086to look at what some of those opportunities and work environments lead to are beneficial when you get to see them in a place like this. Reading. Who loves to read? Raise your hand. I love to read, too. Okay, let's go. Let's go. Heat. Heat. [Music] I see pair of professionals making a difference every single day. The minute they walk in the door with smiles on their face, they're the first people here greeting our scholars, always offering a friendly hello. Um, hands-on work with these kids all day long and they just want want all of our students to succeed and enjoy school. My talent is observing and then applying. So, a lot of times in the beginning of the school year, I would observe more, see what they like, see what interests them or seeing what
087methods help them calm down or get them to actually learn like whether it's um occupational learning or academically learning. Listening, being patient, being focused on what the children have to say and responding back to them. Um, we are making an adjustment to our meeting. We will not have a training with the council of the great city school tonight. We will be rescheduling that. The chair will now entertain a motion to adopt a resolution authorizing the 5-day suspension of a non-eing employee. So move. Dr. Dr. Morgan, any explanation on This resolution is to authorize the 5-day suspension of a non-eing employee for violation of district policies, procedures, and rules. Thank you. Any discussion from board members? Mr. Stockdale, hearing no further discussion, please call the role. Miss Elicott, yes. Mr. Phillips, yes. Miss Jones, yes. Pastor
088Jones, yes. Mrs. Lebron, yes. Mrs. Peak, yes. Dr. Treat. Yes. Mrs. Walsh How? Yes. Motion passes with eight votes. Thank you. The resolution passes. Is there any old business? Is there any new business? All right. The chair will now entertain a motion to adjourn this board business meeting. So second. All right. The hearing no objection. The meeting is adjourned. Have a good night and stay cool.