001That's better. It's going to be your fault. >> A lot of things on Good morning everyone. I'd like to call the meeting to order at 9:16 a.m. Uh we're so pleased to be in Avon High School this morning. If you will please stand and join me 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. You may be seated. Uh we will start out with um with some applause. [Music] >> Board members care to join me in a dance. >> Turn it off. This will be probably about 40 more. [Music] >> Is it this song every day? >> Um, it is our one minute signal to
002give class in Halloween music as we head into fall break. So, >> so who chooses that? You or Carol? >> No. No. Definitely >> one of our technology personnel takes care of all our music. So >> very appropo. Thank you. Uh we will go on to item number two which is the vision and strategic goals of the Avon Community School Board of uh trustees. And we'll see some up here who see our vision our strategic goals but we prefer to have students um talk about our strategic goals. So we will hear them do that now. I think we actually >> actually staff. That's even better. >> In cooperation with our community, we will become a professional learning community, >> improving student achievement by providing equitable experiences and opportunities for all students. In cooperation with our
003community, we will create systemic and purposeful innovation opportunities to develop critical thinkers. In cooperation with our community, we will support student well-being, mental wellness, and the whole child. We will be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. I like that we do have students periodically that are recorded to uh go over our strategic goals, but it's really a nice change to have some of our um our great staff do that. Okay, we'll move on to item number three, which is celebrating Orioles. And today we're going to celebrate academic success here at Avon High School. Dr. Windham. >> Thank you, Mrs. Woodward. So, uh, we each month try to highlight different students from all of our schools over the course of the school year. And of course, since we're here at the high school, we wanted to
004highlight some Avon High School students. And, uh, one of our amazing teachers, Aubrey Spaith, and Mr. Shak, do you need to introduce I can just real quick. Um, uh, Mrs. Spaith and and the students are going to be talking about our early childhood education program. Uh, that, uh, when Aubrey, is this what year is this? Three. year three. >> Year three, uh as a kindergarten teacher uh in the school district and she has really um she has a huge passion and energy uh for early childhood education and she is really um driving the development of our program here and expanding it. So I'm excited to have Aubrey here to talk about it and also some of her students to talk about it as well. So Aubrey Thank you so much. Um, yes, I appreciate my
005thought for inviting me to come and talk to you guys a little bit about our program. Um, I truly appreciate the appro the opportunity to kind of highlight um, our experiences, our successes, and our future vision of this pathway. So, I love that we started off with vision and purpose because that's kind of where we're headed. Um, thank you. Um, I wanted to start off today to talk about our mission with the early childhood program. >> Um, our mission here is to prepare all children, high schoolers to become skilled, confident, and compassionate early childhood educators. This program that we are building, and I say yes, building because it's not finished yet, um is going to help children gain knowledge, skills, and hands-on experiences they need to succeed in this field. Students get meaningful opportunities to
006work directly with young children and can earn an industry recognized credential like the CDA, the Child Development Associate, open doors to careers in early childhood education. Um so let's talk about what do they gain? What kind of experiences are they gaining um each day? Well the first thing is we have our little orals preschools learning lab. Um this has been a program that has been around for a little while quite a while. Um but we have kind of um put some new breath into it. Um so we have now um given it a name and a face. So now we have little orals preschools learning lab. Um during that program, during this time, our high schoolers get to have hands-on experience in real life preschool and early childhood education settings. Um they get to set
007up lesson plans, guide play, read to children, and support classroom routines all under the guidance of me. Um this allows them to put their learning into practice in meaningful real world ways. Another opportunity is through our CT courses. Um all of the courses that we'll be highlighting here in just a moment um like our child development and principles of early childhood educations provide academic credit while building the knowledge and skills needed for career readiness. Workplace readiness is another key component of our program. Students are going to develop important skills like communication, teamwork, professionalism and time management. Um they practice everything from writing resumeumés. Um uh they will also be working on job shattering experiences later in um we will also be working on getting a uh CPR first aid certification all the things necessary to
008work with children. Then finally we have the CDA portfolio development. This is an ongoing project that they'll be working on starting from the very first class. The portfolio positions them to apply for the CDA credential um giving them a head start on the professional careers. So the why why is this needed? Um although we have this program um one thing that I wanted to highlight is the need for it. Um just in Indiana alone we have 2400 child care or early childare jobs going unfilled each year. And when we look at those numbers and that 85% of our four-year-olds and 91% of our three-year-olds they lack access to quality prek services. And we highlight that word quality. Um we know that from from scientific studies that the 90% of the child's brain develops between age
009five. And this is a very critical time for our young children. So these numbers show just how urgent it is to prepare skilled professionals in this field to provide quality care for these children that we will be servicing and moving on into our kindergarten, elementary schools and so on and so forth. So if we start early, it will roll into our community involvement. So let's talk about aligning with Avon's mission, which we started off at the very beginning. At Avon, our mission is all belong, all learn, and all grow, which makes Avon special is how our program alignment and collaboration allows students to thrive and truly live out this mission. So I wanted to kind of start off with Junior Day of Caring. Um, this was a when I first moved to Avon, um, five
010years ago when I started in kindergarten, um, I had a group of high schoolers come into my kindergarten room and I just fell in love with the the interaction that they shared with those littles. Um, so I that was like an eye openener. I came to shock shockly within like the next few weeks. I was like, what can I do to help bridge this gap? Um, Sorry, forget what you guys are here. Um, so I wanted to connect early education with preparing and inspiring young adults to become effective early childhood educators. This insight led me to move to the high school and help strengthen our um, our ECE program. Annayia, a senior currently, she not only has participating junior day of caring, she also is one of our first um, children that started off in
011the preschool program long ago. So now she gets to do a full circle moment. So I thought that was incredible. Um, another collaboration support that we have really leaned in on is our AEF. Um, each year we have been able to help provide um, high engaging um, pro activities for our program um, to allow for rich learning experience. Jasmine has seen firsthand the last few years um, being part of our program. she has got to see the joy um of being able to use those resources to enhance the learning for children. Then our partnership with White Oak uh White Oak Early Learning Center um it has been really great working with Kerry Mines in helping us find placement for our high school students. Um particularly those interested in working with children with special needs. Um
012that is a huge positive. Um Macy here um is job shouting currently at White Oak every week. Um, and so she's able to not only get to see early childhood education, but gets to see the growth um, and the impact that we can make on children even early on. All right, Dr. Wendon put it perfectly when talking about our district strategic plan. Success is achieving our mission will not happen by chance. It takes intentionality and even when we do achieve success, continued success is never guaranteed. sustaining it requires a plan. So if you see very briefly, this is kind of my strategic plan that we've put in place for our ECE pathway. This is exactly the kind of intentional plan in action. It guides students through a sequence of courses designed to build the knowledge,
013the skills, and the hands-on experience they need to work effectively with young children while preparing for credentiing and future for college coursework. Um and in your handout that the ladies have um graciously um went around um I do have some literature for all of you. So um as you leave you have a little bit more information about some of these courses um what is the CBA and also some literature that I give to our preschool parents to kind of shed light on our program itself. All right. So let's talk about timeline and where we started and where we're headed. Um I started in 2023 here at the high school and um I was really surprised um I didn't realize that we didn't have that many um high schoolers that were as interested in our preschool
014program and primarily is I felt like it was kind of like a lost art. So we started off with 40 high schoolers and um over the time I started to really dive in and talk to children and realize that we do have a need. So um whenever you look at uh currently we have 106 students um who are actively participating in our preschool program and this growth reflects our dedication and impact to the program. What really surprised me was um as I was looking at my numbers and one of the things that has really kind of um helped me make this charge to add more children is my first year whenever I was helping some children with their area 31 um application and some of them came back and said they had been denied. um
015they had only taken six of my students that were excited about going into the field of early childhood education and that was it. So they had nothing else to look uh that they can continue on. So I felt that was kind of a problem that we had and so I wanted to fix that problem. So when we talk about all the long learn and grow, we want to make sure that we are being inclusive and offering for as many students instead of excluding those children that are really really in wanting to um go into this field. So this sparked a mission for me to kind of move into a higher population. Um so in my vision um my my vision um and I hope Avon shares my vision is to grow this enrollment. I'm hearing
016and seeing that we have a need. You see the numbers in Indiana and that we need highquality preschool teachers. We need high quality care and it starts with them. So, one of the things that we're going to be looking forward to um we have a couple courses that we had just had approved by you guys. Thank you so much. Um and we will be transitioning into making those dual credits so that way they can get crosscurricular and get um some uh college experience as well. Um, my personal mission is to keep charging forward. I'm very tenacious and um want to ensure that we can make this a as as impactful as possible. I've been to several schools um in the neighboring district um Ben Davis and I'm seeing I'm seeing the quality of preschool that
017they are having there at their campus. Um so that is kind of my vision is one day hopefully we can have a standalone preschool to offer for all of our children here. um bigs and littles um and so we can and bridge that gap. All right. Um so thank you for taking the time to learn a little bit about ECE pathway. Um we appreciate your interest and your support and participating in the next generation of our early childhood educators. Um Annayia, Macy, and Jasmine are also here to kind of share a little bit about their experiences. Um and so you feel free to ask them any questions that you have. Um, so like Miss Faith said, it's kind of full circle for me because I was in this program when I was in preschool and
018now I actually get to help with it. So it's just kind of amazing to see how I've grown as a person and how I can actually help other kids do that. And kids have always been my passion. I want to go into pediatrics. So this is just fueling my love for taking care of them, teaching them, and helping them because I want them to experience the same growth that I experienced in the activities we do. like I had an amazing time while I was here, but it's grown so much since I was here and it's just amazing to see the smiles on their faces just brighten my day and I can be a part of that is just the light of my life. So, I enjoy it so much. Um, I have taken all of
019the preschool programs with Miss Faith. Um, and it truly has helped me. I also want to go into pediatrics. Um, I love kids. They bring so much life into me. Um, Miss Faith has also put her all into this. Um, I remember also when the preschool program first started, when I first um took her class, it was a little class. Um, I think Macy was in the class with me. We had like 10 kids in there. And now we have she has first, second, third, and fourth period, and they all want to work with preschoolers. So, for her to put her all into that, it means so much to me. I really do love her. Um it in the pres working with the preschoolers um I wasn't so sure if I wanted to work with
020the children even though I love them so much but being able to be hands-on and being able to work with them live every single Friday morning it means so much to me and now I like know what I want to be in life and I'm so thankful for this today. >> Hi um I'm Macy Nent and I'm kind of starting my story a little differently. So, I am all around a generally busy person. I am in march and here at the high school. I have a lot going on and with the help of Mr. Nelson, I was able to enroll in actually two placements this year. So, I have the honor of being at White Oak on Wednesdays every week and then being at Maple where I shadow um Miss Craig who's an amazing kindergarten
021teacher. But throughout that, I always look back and I think, if I didn't have my child development class, if I didn't have early childhood education, if I didn't have this preschool, I never would have had drive. I never would have had passion. I never would have been able to see what it's like working hands-on with kids and being able to leave a classroom and understand children on a different level. It goes all the way from babysitting to taking care of these kids. And we learn lesson plans and you learn how to be a true teacher. But I also learned that a student doesn't care how much you know until you know their care. So when I am in this preschool and I am working with these children and I'm watching the light that Miss Faith
022is showing her older students on how to connect with her littles, it's inspiring being in a preschool with new kids every year and making new connections. and I get to go home and tell some of the most amazing stories of these students who have left little pieces of light in my heart. And watching that these kids are going to go on someday and hopefully say, "Oh, I was at the high school and I had these high school students teaching me is amazing." And so I have taken every class that she has had to offer. I have been in her class every year since sophomore year and she may be sick of me, but I am so blessed and so honored to be able to be in a room with students and the struggles that we
023had to go through just to get my schedule to align because I am a student who wants to be an extracurriculars and I want to exceed um expectations in high school. To have a program that is willing to work with me and willing to teach me my passion is so important. I want to go into elementary education and I plan on getting my master's degree. I am very excited to be working with children, but I think most of my passion started in the classroom with this week. >> Um, these ladies have been amazing and this is just three of them. Um, so it's been wonderful working with so many students and it really inspires me every day that I want to inspire as many students as I can. Um, my preschoolers and my high schoolers
024made you a little gift. Um, they made a puzzle and each of you have a little puzzle piece. So, thank you for being a piece of our puzzle. Appreciate you. [Applause] >> Well, thank you. That's a way to start our day, isn't it? Um, Miss Faith, when you say you're tenacious, I believe that. I think, um, this program clearly has grown and flourished under your toutelage and your passion for it. Um, the fact that you started yourself and saw the interaction between high school students and uh, littles and thought there's a place for this really speaks to um, just what Avon's about. Um, and I love the fact that it's called Little Orioles because or little Orioles [Music] uh because that's what um Annayia Jasmine and uh Macy uh that's what you're doing. You are
025building our little orioles for the next generation. We're seeing that over and over in some of the things that are happening. We um we see that all of the investment in our Avon pride and our Avon all belong belong learn and grow that that's really currently coming to roost in the next generation of building Avon excellence. And so thank you for your passion. Thank you for the three of you at this young age knowing your direction in life. Um, Macy, I'd like to give you an application for employment so that when you finish, uh, we would love to have you come back and teach in Avon. It would be an honor and a privilege to do that. Uh, board members, do you have questions of our guests? >> Mrs. Spaith, I'm going to age myself
026a little bit. Do they offer endorsements like way back ago in preschool and early childhood? >> Um, as far as endorsements, I think they just have the prek. >> Okay. >> But I would say the difference between early childhood education and going through CPA pathway compared to a traditional teaching is the is the standards have it. It really is very different, but you can get a CDA to help you get started in a preschool program that you can get your um experience and continue working for your prek through third grade. >> Oh, it's third grade now. Okay. Well, I somehow have an endorsement in early childhood preschool and uh after student teaching fourth grade and then teaching preschool, it was quite different. Uh I enjoyed it. A couple of weeks ago at Indiana State, they
027honored one of my professors that is now 95 years old. And I was honored enough to be invited and they showed uh videos of way back when and now ISU has their own early childhood department. It was just overwhelming because we used to be in the what they call the laboratory school there, the lab school. And um what a great program there. And I'm sure you're aware of what all was going there. But uh thank you girls. I could see the smiles. I could see your heart in it. It's just great. And you have to be that special person to work. And um just love those little kids and I'm sure they love you back. I did learn something. Thank you. that 90% of their brain is ready to go or trying to get ready
028to go by the age of five. I did not realize that. So, thank you for sharing that information. Uh, Mrs. Spay, thank you girls. Keep up the good work. Thank you. >> Couple of first a couple of comments and then a question if you don't mind. So, Mrs. Faith and Jasmine and and Macy and Anniah, thank you for joining. Um, I can tell how much from the smiles and from the way you you shared with us how much you are enjoying your school day and therefore I bet the littles that you're working with are as well. Um, we all know and so many educators in this room who know more on this subject than I even do, but I've done a fair amount of reading about the importance of early childhood development. And I know
029that many of the educators in this room probably wish that our state would devote more resources for the twos and the threes and the four-year-olds because we know how important that is study after study. So, I'm curious, what's the youngest uh child that you have in your program? >> Currently, um, three. have a couple of twos um because they're about to turn three. Um I say that because they're also Avon parents. The reason we do not have younger is number one I am one teacher and you should have two if you're providing care for younger plus you have to have different certifications like potty training, nap time, sizz, a lot of those other requirements in order to do that. So we keep it 3 to five primarily for that reason. Um if we wanted to
030expand and have longer hours or um offer for those younger age, we would need to expand the certification process for that and offer more training. So it does become a lot more difficult, not difficult, um the word, it just there's a lot more that goes into it. It's for the protection of our children. >> So, if you had the resources, would that make sense to expand in the way that you just mentioned? >> It would. And I'll be completely honest. I've actually talked to several of our teachers in our district of how many we have so many are trying to use childcare centers around here and I they have either failed to find child care or um there isn't any programs available that the same hours and so a lot of our teachers are that
031our new parents are either trying to dis they can come back to work or not. So it would be so wonderful if we can expand that and provide care for our even our teachers especially those early years that would be great. >> Thank you. >> Mr. Langford read my mind when he mentioned about you know the discussion that at the state level about early intervention when it comes to preschool and funding. So that brings me to just wanting to say thank you because when you saw that vision that need and you planned this out and you are pouring into the big littles as well as the littles. Um I'm thankful that you're here in Avon to do that. Um, I also like that you touched on quality early childhood. Um, that that need as we
032see the stories in the news, it it's scary and as you talk about parent, new parents that are looking for quality, not only just that works with their schedule, but that's a huge trust factor. And so I can tell the amount of work that you're pouring into just these three um that you're producing quality um students and then also just the early intervention partnership with the White Oak Early Learning Center. I love hearing that um why not use that and really pour into those kids and the mentioning of the special needs population is any training that we can give to your students to help because it's just increasing greatly. So, thank you so much and thank you ladies for being here. >> Okay. Well, we would keep you here asking more questions, but there's some
033little orioles down there that want you to get back to them. So, thank you again so much. Um, and thank you for our gift that will keep um that in our hearts and our minds all the time. that's going directly on my refrigerator. So, thank you so much. >> Uh we'll move on to the next item, which is the comments from the board president. I just want to um thank our Avon High School um administration for allowing us to be here today. Um, you know, I'm in the high school frequently, but always in the afternoon. So, it was fun to come in this morning and feel the energy uh in Ivon High School in the morning. Um and I just appreciate that um our students um like these students that there's always uh new and
034um pioneering kinds of activities that Avon High School is involved in that really bring out the best uh in our students and their passion. So thank you um Mr. Shockley for having us here today. Thank you Carol for arranging this. Um and we will move on to the next item on our on our agenda which is public comments uh to the board. This is the point in our meeting where um our public can make comments to us. Please keep your comments to three minutes or less and uh refrain from using um student or faculty names. Do we have any comments? Okay, we will move on to item six, which is the uh update on strategic goal number two. Uh Mr. Shockley and Mr. Nelson will be addressing us. >> IC. Well, good morning uh board
035members and community members. Matt Shockley, principal here at the high school. And uh I was uh excited to have the opportunity today to kind of give you an update on where we are at uh in regards to the Indiana College Corps. And today I'm going to talk to you a little bit about what that is, maybe a reminder. We maybe have mentioned it in the past and uh how it is uh become becoming an important part of the new diploma uh roll out across the state of Indiana. Um so again back to to um what Dr. Windham talked about uh was our strategic goal and um number two um and this particular initiative of the Indiana College Corps uh lines right up with the uh new diploma uh that is uh occurring and part of
036our objectives to take care of this year. um but also with the Indiana College Corps and then meeting the requirements to be able to offer that uh for the class of 2029. So aligns well uh with that particular goal. Uh a brief history um on the Indiana College Corps and what it is. Um the uh it kind of started its forerunner uh was back in a bill in 2012 and it was uh it established the state transfer general education core and this was kind of the forerunner uh to the Indiana college corps kind of built the framework for it. Um you'll see here in a minute what uh some of the competencies are for the Indiana College Corps. Uh and then obviously colleges and universities, public colleges, universities were were aligning courses to that. Um
037and then it really uh the the 2020 bill uh really erased the challenges the barriers of transferring these 30 credits across public institutions. So that is what happened in 2012. And then what happened just recently uh is around the Indiana College Corps. And uh really probably the the major difference here is that it is requiring all Indiana high schools to offer the Indiana College CP. That's the main requirement. Uh you're going to see some dates and deadlines there listed and we have met all of those deadlines. Uh we are not offering it right now. We will offer it next year as uh stated in the plan and we did submit our plan to do so um over a year ago, two years ago now in regards to what our plan was going to be to
038get this instituted. So we are right in line with the requirements of Senate Bill 8. Um also to just talk a little bit about this is the uh part of the new Indiana diploma. Um there is the uh Indiana uh the honors plus seals and the why I put those up there uh is because under the enroll enrollment honors plus seal and the employment honors plus seal um the Indiana College CPS is one of the things that can be used in order to satisfy part of the requirements of the new diploma for the honors plus seal. Okay. Uh it's just one of those. There's a couple other bullets there that exist, but that is a part of these that the state will use the term you've probably heard it at conferences or coming from my
039mouth or other individuals about these credentials of value. Uh and the Indiana College Corps is considered a credential of value. So, the Indiana College Corps uh has some various components of it and we're going to try Emily, can we try the video here? Uh, this gives a quick overview of what the Indiana College Corps is all about. It's about a minute and a half long. Here we go. Education beyond high school is critical for the social and economic mobility of today's students. But collegegoing rates have been steadily declining since 2015, with only 59% of Indiana high school graduates pursuing education beyond high school in 2019. We know that when students take college courses in high school, they're more likely to continue into higher education, all while saving time and money toward their credential or degree.
040That's why the state of Indiana created the Indiana College Corps. The College CP allows students to earn 30 credit hours, equivalent to a full year of general education credit that transfers as a block to any public college or university in Indiana, as well as some private institutions. Earning the core in high school costs students and families $750 or less, saving them thousands. By completing the College Core in high school, students can get a head start in their college credits, enabling them to graduate early, add a minor, study abroad, and more. The Indiana College Corps is awarded based on how well a student demonstrates the following six core competencies. Your school offers courses that align with these competencies. All Indiana public colleges and universities participate in the Indiana College Corps as well as some private colleges
041and universities. Students will have multiple journeys towards earning the Indiana College Corps. Fortunately, Learn more Indiana and your school's counselors are here to help students take advantage of this opportunity. Visit learnmoreind indiana.org or today to learn more. Go back to the PowerPoint here. So you can see there um the there it is the uh core kind of those competencies and a couple uh of general domains. Um but uh Ian and I will hit this in the next slide is that uh at the minimum uh there has to be at least three credit hours in each one of those six uh domains to make up 18 credit hours and then the remaining 12 credit hours uh are really uh up to the school and the partner to determine uh what those might be. So um uh
042regarding that as I just said students must earn at least three credits in those six core areas. So that uh 80 credit hours total. And I wanted to let you know that um we do meet well excuse me that we have a number of courses that we already offer in those various uh areas that are mentioned uh back here. So like quantitative reasoning, speaking and listening, written communication. um just to give you some examples. Um uh so and I say this because it it's not a huge lift other than um uh changing our dual credit partner here in just a moment that I'll talk about. But for example, in written communications, we have uh already VU courses that meet that. Uh in speaking and listening, we have a VU speech course that we offer. In
043quantitative reasoning, we have three VU math courses that we currently offer. Uh under humanistic and artistic uh we have an IU art appreciation course. Um in science uh we don't have any courses yet but there is a potential with a teacher um who just receive earned their master's degree that we will be able to offer an AP science dual credit course. Um in social and behavioral um we have two VU history uh courses that already exist. So we have a large number of dual credit courses again looking for all those to transfer to IVTech that we talk we'll talk about here in just a minute but um uh the as I said the institution and partner can determine the distribution of those remaining 12 credit hours but the key piece and this is for every
044high school whoever the institutional partner is that you are working with at least 15 of those hours have to be with the same partner. Okay. So you have to have an agreement with one of those. Okay. So for uh and what else did I want to say about that? Also um yeah with all those courses that we offer, we could potentially have at least 24 credit hours available to our kids. Okay. Potentially uh based upon the ones that we already offer and maybe an additional one uh that I talked about with science. Um, the other thing I want to mention as well is that, uh, to get the Indiana College Core, um, you've got those 15 cores that you have to get with the partner institution, but advanced placement courses can also be used. So,
045Avon High School has a rich uh, offering of courses, at least 26 different courses. So if you get a qualifying score and that may be different, you know, for different courses and so forth and uh getting a different score on an AP exam may qualify for one course or multiple courses. Um that also can be used to earn the Indiana College course. So it's not like uh the advanced placement courses are no use and they're kind of pushed off to the side. they are available and can be used in part in part to earn the Indiana College Corp. So, um, our two main choices that we really focused on were IvyTech and Vincens. Vincens has been a longtime partner of ours for years at Avon way before Matt Sher was at Avon High School. uh
046we had meetings and multiple conversations and emails and so forth with both of those uh institutions to make our decision and we landed with IvyTech. We are going to be making a change and just some things in the considerations uh uh to to make that decision. Uh right now our VU teachers uh through uh project XL, they all earn a stipen through VU to teach those courses. Uh we do have some teachers uh that um teach IvyTech courses already, but there is not a stipen from the institution for those. The district does have a small stipen that dual credit teachers get if they're not a part of VU. However, if we went with VU, um it would be under their early college umbrella and there would not be any stipens anymore for our VU teachers.
047uh there's a liaison that would come into play that would take care of some of the responsibilities that high school teachers have to do right now through VU. Uh IV Tech does not charge for courses uh where VU does and again VU is minimal. Uh it's very a great a great deal but IvyTech does not charge. Um of our students going to postsecary institutions IvyTech is the number two school that we send places to. IU is number one IU2 IU Bloomington. Uh but IvyTech is number two. So uh thought that that was also some good rationale. We've got a lot of kids who will go to IvyTech for a couple years and then they will move on to uh IU Bloomington or someplace else. Um more flexible criteria for student taking those courses. So the
048requirements uh prerequisites maybe in order to get into those a little bit more flexible than what exists for IvyTech. Um and then assessing students who don't meet that initial criteria. Um that's a lift on our part to make those things happen. Um for kids right now it's the ACUPPLACER that kids have to take for BEu. Uh it's knowledge assessment uh if I remember correctly for IvyTech and uh but it's just easier to navigate on our side. So it's not as heavy as a lift. Still a lift but not as heavy. Um, and then, uh, this gives us the opportunity to streamline our partnerships, uh, to to really have practically all of our courses through, uh, IvyTech, uh, for the most part. Uh, so right now what is happening is that our teachers are going through
049a credentiing process. Um, Emily Garrett, one of my assistant principles, is uh, working to collect that information from our teachers that are currently teaching Vincen's University courses and are credentialed to do so. Um, we're seeing if those transfer and IvyTech will will will uh take those credentials to teach the courses at IvyTech. And then if we have any other uh teachers, there's uh the one science teacher um there's a potential maybe with uh Caitlyn Steck who has her doctorate actually um who could possibly help us out with some uh courses as well to meet the ICC. Um and you know the the whole process with approving those is really in the hands of the department chairs and the faculty at IvyTech. Um I think at every higher level institution there's kind of fdoms and you
050know even though Vincens may say hey you're good to teach this course IvyTech may say you're not good to teach this course. So we're at their mercy a little bit but we are working through that. Um uh that's going to take you know a good month to figure out things. I've asked uh my staff to have things in this week so that we can maybe get some answers off after fall break. And then there will be an agreement uh between the school district and IvyTech um as that primary partner offering those 15 credit hours which I said is required as a part of the IC. So, um that is just kind of an overview of the um Indiana College CPS and our implementation of it. Um we will know here again within the next month
051about what courses are going to be able to be offered uh by our staff and uh uh again this applies the ICC applies to our freshmen which is the class of 2029. The class of 2029. um we probably are not really set up and in schools that I've talked to um set up to to be issuing um ICC's or uh the Indiana College CPS before the freshman class. But there's a potential there's a potential we might be able to do that for some kids, but really this is designed for the class of 2029 and that new diploma, the freshman uh that are coming out. So we will be educating our uh class of 2029. We've we talked to them about it as eighth graders. Um we gave them so much information that there's no way
052that they probably fully have comprehended the changes that are happening with the diploma. Uh, I am looking to maybe have another meeting just with the families of incoming freshmen again in January before we begin the scheduling process to re review everything again, especially with the Indiana College Corps and the opportunity there for our families to save significant dollars um in going to uh going to college and maybe have a credential of value. Um and that will also uh help from the uh school accountability standpoint. Uh that is we don't know what that looks like, but credentials of value in earning these seals will no doubt be a part of the high school accountability uh requirement when that is finalized here by the end of the year. So again, just an overview of the ICC. I
053wanted you to know where we were at with that, the decision that we made, why we made it, and uh we're very excited about our partnership with IvyTech moving forward. Happy to answer any questions now. >> Thank you. Uh my favorite tidbit is that um the majority of uh students go to IU. I thought that was awesome. Um so I do have a couple of questions. Um you had mentioned that the Indiana core track is primarily going to be focused on the class of 2029 incoming freshmen next year. But you did say it's possible for a student that is in um Avon High School already to achieve Indiana core. Will there be um methods to help them achieve that or are we really going to put most of our effort into that incoming freshman class?
054Mo >> most of our effort will be freshman. um our some of our sophomores uh could uh given that we're moving to IvyTech this coming year as our primary partner. Again, it hinges on the primary partner. Okay. So, a lot of our dual credit for uh whether it's um our US uh BU US history courses, our courses are BEu, well, they aren't our primary partner. So the sophomores are going to have more time. Yeah. >> To potentially take those courses. >> Maybe maybe sophomore not as likely, but definitely junior and senior year to potentially do that as well as with advanced placement courses that they can take in order to earn uh the the ICC. So it could be a combination of both. We will not be able to complete the entire uh most likely
055the entire ICC with only IvyTech dual credit classes. That's it. It will be our kids will have to have a combination of the IvyTech courses. Uh possibly dual credit from elsewhere. Could be that I art history course or it could be another uh course that we have maybe a theater course if we're able to offer that. Uh and advanced placement courses and that's not uncommon uh for schools across the state. It's a multiple variety of ways that kids are getting the Indiana College. And there's actually there will be a site on um um either Indiana Learn more or on the IvyTech website where kids will be able to go they'll hit Avon High School and it will drop down and it will show you the road the options for kids. I can take this course,
056this course, this course, this course, or AP courses, and here's the exam score that I have to get on the AP exam in order to get credit for this course that will move toward the Indiana College. So, all of that will be there very easy for kids as well as families. And then school counselors will be having individual appointments obviously with uh with kids to help walk through this and explain this as well. Thank you. That was a thorough explanation. Do you um at this time have an estimate on what percentage of our student body will um be eligible to achieve the ICC? >> I I I don't at this point in time because of uh the requirements of maybe prerequisites or assessments you have to take to get into those. I just couldn't I
057I can't answer that right now. Um we have a lot of kids that are taking dual credit courses here. Yes. Um I mean we have uh for example with Vincent's University and our U VU American history course we have uh Mr. Dera teaching six sections of that and every single section is filled with at least 30 students. So we got 180 kids taking actually two VU courses. One VU course first semester, another VU course second semester. That's six hours right there. So, um once kids know about this, I think that could really grow in regards to the number of students wanting to take these various dual credit courses in order to sat satisfy the ICC as well as AP courses. And we've got lots of kids that are doing dual credit courses right now and
058taking AP courses as well. They're already combining courses. So, uh, not combining courses, but they're taking in in from both pots that would help them to be able to earn the ICC. >> Okay. Um, and then just two other questions, not actually directly related to this topic, but on the seals under the new grad pathways, do do you have to achieve all of those? There were five bullet points under um I believe under employment. Yeah. So, let's do the employ employment seal as as an example. There's some obviously some just like with the core 40 there there was some core 40 base courses that everyone has to take. Um uh so there's the same thing with with the uh the new Indiana diploma. But with this they have to get one of these >> one
059of those. But then they have to do this and they have to do this. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> My question was really about the top one. Did they have to do all or No. And so do we in both enrollment and employment are is Avon High School able to offer all of those under >> um not necessarily. We do not offer the IB program. Okay. Here um uh associates degree. We do not offer an associates degree. There's the potential for some of that to happen. >> We've had that for a while under dual credit. But um but you know Indiana College CP there could be some technical certificates that kids could get but Indiana College Core obviously the AP scholar Cambridge we do not offer. Um so those are the ones that we do
060offer here. Now over here with the advanced industry cert certifications um the CDA that uh Mrs. Spaith was talking about could potentially meet that. Um a lot of our kids there are going to area 31. um they may end up getting some sort of industry certification or credential at the end. So that would help to qualify for that. There is a big list I know Mr. Hines and I and Mrs. Alde have looked at this uh a big list of credentials that the state has approved um uh to be able to meet uh maybe one of those credentials of value. Um, so we do have opportunities in some of our programs to get that credential of value on top of the Indiana College CPS that we're going to be offering. So yeah, we are suited
061to be able to help kids bottom line to get the enrollment. >> Yes. >> And the employment. Now, it may not be every single one like I was saying of these bullets, but we are set. >> There's a path on there. Okay. >> There is a path. Um my last question is about and forgive me for not knowing this but maid in Planefield one of their affiliates is IvyTech. Y >> um so is there a possibility that Avon students could take advantage of programming at maid that would especially under the advanced industry certificate >> uh would be able to be transferable to this program. Yeah, we we could um no doubt a flexible program where kids could leave the building. >> Yes. >> Um and actually take courses over there. I would almost uh liken
062it to, you know, we have kids leaving the building now for a workbased learning program uh for half the day. Uh we could structure the same thing or um there's always the possibility where if we have enough kids here that they may send someone here and we have to pay for that. We have to pay for that. Oh yeah, >> but they could send someone here. Um there's also online possibilities that would be options um that could work maybe for some kids. But uh but no doubt we could release kids uh in specific scenarios to go take advantage of naked playing field or if it's even the Ivy Techch campus downtown. >> Right. Yes. Okay. Thank you. I as always I appreciate the thoroughess of what we're doing at Avon High School uh to help
063our students succeed with these ever changing requirements. But um that's awesome. Let's dance. [Music] I I have some a couple questions. Thank you, Mr. Shockley. It's always a very thorough presentation. Staff credential. So my understanding is that IU and VU and some of our other partners have different credentiing than does IvyTech. And so my question may be a little premature because if I understood your remarks, you're about a month away from finding out how IvyTech evaluates our staff. >> Exactly. >> That that is accurate. >> So here here's my question, albeit maybe one month premature because we'll have to find out how this plays out. If IvyTech decides that certain members of our staff are not credentialed for whatever other reason given their credential status, do we lose those classes or is there an alternative?
064>> That's a that's a great question. And what we could do as long as we are figuring out um what those 15 courses are if just like the the IU um art history course. Okay. um uh we could still go back to IvyTech or IU and say, "Hey, can we offer this course because we can't get credentiing for a particular uh IvyTech course? We can go over and offer this one." So, so yes, there is an an opportunity still to go outside of IvyTech. Again, you got to take care of those core 15 credit hours, but beyond that, yes, we could so pluck from another institution to offer that course if we can get somebody credential. >> I I have heard from some of my colleagues at other schools that one thing that sometimes happen,
065whether it's VU or IvyTech, is that if there's not credentiing inside the school, there's a bit of a push by those schools to bring in liaison staff. Um, and you may have all kinds of thoughts about that. I have all kinds of thoughts about, but what are have you gotten to that point of even thinking through that? >> Well, I I would prefer that Avon High School staff is teaching hard dual credit courses. We've had great success with that and very wellqualified individuals to do so. So, that would be a last resort in my vote. Okay. >> Thank you. Hi, Mr. Shockley. Thank you for sharing your knowledge of all this new stuff going on. I had a couple questions. It's caught my interest on the new Indiana diploma on the uh honor seals plus
066all three of them really. It says complete at less 75 hours of work-based learning and then 650 hours and then um 100 hours. How does that work? Does the Avon schools help them find this employment? Yeah, I mean we right now we currently have a work-based learning program and actually one of the um new course proposals that that you have seen if you've been able to look through those we have a threehour course but then we're also creating a two-hour course to really create flexibility for kids because some students with all the courses that they're taking the three hours to give up but they've got two hours two periods that they could give up. So it's creating flexibility. So yes, um uh we've got the ability with the workbased learning. And again, the one thing
067to notice there is that it can take different shapes and forms. It can be paid, unpaid, simulated, on-site. It also can be in the summer, outside of school. I mean, the state has really opened up the opportunities that could be workbased learning. Now, tracking is a whole other situation that we have to figure out how to how to take care of. um these um workbased like under the employment seal or uh employment honors plus seal the 650 hours. Now that is through an apprenticeship program. We don't have an apprenticeship program. There may be something through um uh area 31 as an example. Um but we are not in position to to to to do that right now and that this would be a challenge for most schools. Um there is maybe the possibility with our
068um building trades program that something over time could happen there, but um uh and maybe even with the um early childhood program maybe over time. Uh but we're not there right yet. Uh that that is a steep that's a high bar. >> That is a high bar to me. Uh so not something inside that we can do right now but but through partners outside we could potentially do. Um I could see that also being uh Miss Simmons an example of maybe leaving Avon High School just like if we are leaving to go to um >> May thank you in playing field um an opportunity there. So can we work with kids to maybe go off site to get uh the apprenticip program taken care of? So >> I have another question and thank you for
069answering that. >> Um are I know a lot of students are half day and are they allowed to then go to this uh 75 hours and they are allowed to do that >> right? That would be a part of their academic schedule that they have. Um uh Adam Clark um is our workbased learning coordinator and uh he runs that program and he would work with them uh to find employment opportunities and then there's various requirements associated with it. >> Well, I know u I'm over at the academy a lot and the kids will tell me I'm done at blah blah time and now I go to work. Correct. >> And I thought that was pretty cool. Now does that fall under that? >> That would be cool. >> That's what I thought. >> Yeah. >>
070Okay. Thank you so much. >> Yes. >> Board members, other questions for Mr. Shockley? >> Thank you. Thank you so much. Um I'd like to um invite Mr. Nelson to come and talk to us now about the um foreign language certification. >> And I just want to uh give high praise uh to Kyle Nelson on the work that is being done here. uh this is uh through his background and expertise. Uh he was a former world language teacher here at Avon High School and uh now an assistant principal and just uh he saw this as an area to really help kids and he'll tell you about who's what kids were talking about here. Um but he has owned it and it has grown under his leadership. So very appreciative of uh Mr. Nelson for what
071he has did to do to help uh all kids at AOT High School. So, thank you, Mr. Charles. >> Thank you guys. Uh, first appreciate you giving me the opportunity to really brag on what our kids are able to accomplish here. Um, as Mr. Shy mentioned, I'm a former Spanish teacher. I taught Spanish here at Neon High School for about eight years. Um, I've also had the opportunity to teach English at Barack as well as English language arts at Pennsylvania. Uh, and maybe for some of them that was also foreign language. So, background for me is just uh language. Uh, my passion about that. And so when I say language as a superpower, I really believe that uh students language abilities are really what's going to make them successful in life. And so um just
072want to share again some of the the ways that we're celebrating all voices here at HS. And so using our mission to frame um what I want to share with you guys um all belong, learn, and grow. Uh when we say all, we really mean all. And so I want to share with you just some of the celebrations of our current language programs, but specifically um some of the initiatives that I've been able to to bring here to Avon High School, which include our stamp test, uh which is a testing for language credits and the implementation of the department of education certificate of multilingual proficiency. And so I want to start off by sharing some just uh some brief demographics of our current multilingual learners. Um I I share this because this is a population
073that really benefits from from these programs. um our general uh uh population also can benefit but primarily it's our ML students. Um and I share this for for multiple reasons. One to share just about uh to share just how diverse our student body is. Uh but also just to share um just the different languages and again um that language is a superpower and it's celebrating all voices. We currently have roughly 50 plus different languages spoken by AHS students. Um as you can see here in the graph our top five are Spanish, Punjabi, Haitian Creole, Norba and Tigrinia. Um within those 50 different languages, we have 512 ML students. Um in the chart here, the active LEPs, uh LEP stands for limited English proficiency. And so we have 454 students that are currently learning English as
074a new language in some capacity. Um if you're familiar with ML programming, they can be a level one, meaning they are brand new to English, all the way up to a level five, meaning that they have some uh English fluency. Once they get past the level five, they become our monitored students. So we currently have 57 monitored students. those students have achieved uh functional proficiency with English and they just monitored to make sure if there are any any additional supports needed that we can support those students as well. And so uh I share this because um one of the needs that we saw for for students coming into Avon High School um especially with our ML uh population was that they sometimes will come in credit deficient. Uh one of the the largest populations that
075is growing at Avon High School are our Haitian Creole students. uh for what's going on in Haiti right now. Uh we have a lot of students coming in that don't have transcripts. Their schools are shut down. There's no way to contact the schools and they're coming in as juniors with maybe five credits. And so um as Mr. Shiy said, this was something that um I kind of uh looked into when I was a dean here uh back in 2022. Um and one of the ways that I found a way to kind of help those students was through um stamp testing. Uh the stamp test is a um a national recognized proficiency exam uh that is a um external exam recognized by the department of education and uh we are able to use those exams to
076allow students to earn credit based off their language proficiency. And so the stand uses actual world language guidelines and those guidelines are the same guidelines that our Indiana world language uh standards are based off of. Um and we use it here for two different purposes. The first one being the world language credits and the second one being a uh an approved exam for the Indiana certificate of multilingual proficiency. Um in the uh initial stage of this um offering this the first time back in the spring of 2022 we had five students take the STAM test. Um not many students want to sit for two hours taking an exam. So I can understand maybe only five students really want to take advantage of that. Uh, but I'm really proud to share that this past year in
077the 24-25 school year, we had 52 students test in 11 different languages. And those 52 students earn 235 world language credits and that is just in the course of one academic year. And many of those students will be able to use that exam uh again to qualify for the certificate of multilingual proficiency. And so just a a quick uh data snapshot of of last year students. So of those 52 students uh in those 235 credits uh here is just a breakdown by graduating class. Um so uh as we can see a lot of different languages being represented there. Um but really what excites me about this is this is celebrating the assets that our ML students are bringing. Um and allowing them to also see that just being um having limited English proficiency is not
078a deficit. they come with with uh with skills that we can celebrate and we can leverage those skills again as their own superpower to be uh bilingual citizens here in Indiana. Uh I want to share a little bit more about the certificate of multilingual proficiency and what that is. Um the comp or the certificate of multilingual proficiency is a state award that again recognizes students who are proficient in English in another world language. Um it leverages students languages abilities for college and career um readiness after high school and offers them a credential uh to uh to share with u potential employers if they are proficient in a language other than English. Uh to earn the comp students must uh meet the four requirements over here on the side. They must have eight English credits uh
079so English classes every year. They must receive a qualifying um score on an English exam. Currently, the exams that are um approved for that are the SAT, uh the WEDA test, which is a a test that our ML students take to assess their English proficiency, and then actually the ASVAB as well with their English uh part of the ASAP. Um the other part of the comp requirements are to receive six world language credits and also a qualifying world uh language exam score. Uh currently we have two opportunities for students to to uh qualify for that. Uh one being in the stamp test and the other one being our AP exams. Uh currently here at the high school we offer AP Spanish, French, German, and Japanese. Um and so uh just some some data over the
080last couple years of the awards we've been able to give. Uh these awards have mostly come from our AP credits. Um so back in 2022, the first year we implemented this, we had uh 18 students achieve the requirements for that primarily in German and Spanish. Um and up until last year, uh it was pretty consistent. uh but we had some Japanese uh students excuse me AP Japanese students also achieve proficiency. Um what excites me about this current year in 2026 when we look at our current AP enrollment and also the st the stamp test students have taken over the past year um I'm really excited to potentially see some growth in that program and outside of our AP exam scores. Uh many students um let's see here I believe we have students who have uh
081qualified so far uh for Punjabi Haitian Pred and Yorba uh for this coming year. So excited to see that. Hopefully see more than just 26 we've awarded this past year. And so, uh, looking ahead, uh, I just, uh, I'm really excited to see the growth of this program. Um, we've been working with counselors as we get new students coming in to kind of screen for those students who could benefit from this. U, one thing I did forget to mention is the reason why we chose the stamp test is the stamp test offers, I believe, uh, 16 different languages that they can test in. And when looking at our demographics here at the high school, uh the STEM test covers, I would say probably 95% of the languages our students speak. Um and so, uh it's
082been a a great resource for them. Um and just continuously thankful for the support of our school and also our central office staff, Matt Hines and Angel Razer, for allowing us to do this and also providing us with the funds to do this. Uh and so students can take these exams and earn this credential at no cost to them. So, um I appreciate your time and I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. Well, thank you. Um, it it is astounding uh the number of languages that are spoken in our school. Um, and to walk down the hall and hear those languages being spoken is um, uh, truly cosmopolitan. you feel very um connected on a world basis when you walk through the um the halls of Avon High School. So, is there anything
083that would prevent a student from gaining the Indiana certification of multilingual proficiency on more than just two languages? >> No, it's a great question. Um I will say we have especially specifically with our our students from India, they will speak multiple languages. Yes. So they may speak um Punjabi, Hindi um and once uh actually Punjabi was just added this past year and so I had some students take the Hindi exam a couple years ago and once they found out that Punjabi was offered I think I'd have like 10 more students that want to come down and test in that now. And so uh for the certificate um it's English and then what other language and so they can have um multiple languages as well. I think last year we had one student that was a
084German heritage speaker, meaning that they learned it at home and so they took the uh the stamp test for that, but they actually took AP Spanish and so they got a certificate for both and so it could be multiple languages as long as they received the qualifying scores. >> That's awesome. Thank you. >> You me you mentioned that the test is two hours in duration. That's one seated session. >> Um great question. So there's four sections on the exam. It's a listening, speaking, reading and writing. And so students can come down and sit for one section at a time. And it, uh, once they complete one section, it opens up the next section. And so, um, when students were coming down initially, um, the initial phase, we wanted to try to get them done in
085one sitting because they said it would take roughly two hours. Um, but, um, one of the students, I know the first time, uh, speaks at heart and they have a very unique writing system. And so, um, at that point in time, uh, we had to print off a a keyboard on paper and had to figure out how to transcribe onto a a t a keyboard here. Um, and it definitely took her a lot longer than two hours because it was kind of like looking to see which keys were which. Um, I will say, is Jason still here? >> Shout out to Jason this year. Uh, he was able to get us some iPads to be able to really change the keyboard easy. And so a lot of our students that are multilingual are so used
086to texting that on on Apple iPads there's a really easy way to to uh just change the keyboard and so hopefully being able to cut down uh on that testing time and so we've had a couple students so far take it for Punjabi um I know it's been a uh a great resource for them to be able to use that as well. So thank you Jason for that. >> Thanks. >> Um I'm going to ask a question here about how many languages total are offered here. >> Okay. Uh so language classes. >> Yes. >> So language classes we offer Spanish, German, um uh Japanese and French. >> Okay. Thank you. Um when I graduated here back in like 70s, we offered two languages and that was Latin. >> Oh yeah. >> And German. >> And
087um interesting. So uh I can see you're very adamant about this. I can see it. You're you know what you're talking. and um you're very knowledgeable. So, thank you for that. Much appreciated. >> Okay. Um final question is the stamp test can be taken at any grade level. >> Uh yes. So, it can be taken at any point in time. And so one of the things that I've been trying to work with our ML teachers um are kind of screening some of the the current eighth graders coming up to um to kind of uh see if they qualify and possibly test them at the middle school if they're coming in just so that way when they are choosing classes especially for students that maybe have uh a lower level of English. we can kind of
088take out those components of the required language courses by allowing them to take more English language development courses. Yes. To benefit them with their language acquisition as it'll be that for their other courses here at the high school to be able to graduate on time. And so they can take it at any point during um during the high school career, possibly even 8th grade or below. >> Okay. Awesome. Well, thank you. But thank you, Mr. Ross. >> We'll move on to uh item number seven on our agenda, unfinished business. Item eight underneath that is the enrollment report. Mrs. Salv, good morning. Um, the month of October is an important month with student enrollment. That is when we're looking at with this date of our our true student count, which as you know, um, has huge
089impact to our funding. Um, so October one is our fall count day and then there's another count day again in February. And as a reminder, those two are then average um with the state. And so we are in the midst of that right now. So October one was count day. At the end of the day, we were right around that 10,531 students. Now we're at the part right now of certification. So certification there's that a week which is ends tomorrow where um schools we're looking at if there's any errors in our enrollment data. Um and then the other piece is if If kids are counted for more than one school at one school district, then those schools have to collaborate to determine who will ultimately count those students. Um so we should know um in
090the next couple weeks what's our official count for the fall. Um but we know how important that is with counting. And if you do look last year we were at 10530. So, as you know, the demographer kind of started to show, we were going to start leveling off. And so, we um are leveling off. But again, I just want to compliment the board for your foresight. If we um did not do open enrollment this year, which that gave us about 50 students, we would be in a really rough place right now going into this year financially. So, any questions? >> I noticed the Avon Academy not of significance when you look back, but I was just curious what that um how that came about. >> Well, I mean, I think that's always a rolling number
091as kids complete their courses and we accept new ones. Um and I think is looking at the need at Avon High School and who qualify. So, I think it's something we always are looking at. Um we will we do even add students at um quarter if other students completed. >> What is our ME? Do we have a max for? >> Yeah, I mean really where we're at is our max. I mean I we always hit our max and but I think it just es and flows based on some individual student needs. >> Thank you. >> Um have we uh scrubbed out now all of the unaccounted for students? I know that last month we were still working on that, but that's all been completed now. >> Yeah, that that has been completed. Um really the
092part we're working at now of cleaning our data or just in small things like one thing that's for whatever reason is coming up an issue right now is like and like for some of our multilingual students when they entered into the United States we really haven't had that issue before with some data but we're getting um lots of errors in that right now. So our registars are working very um tirelessly today um to get our data clean um for a final count. >> Okay. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is item B, cost savings and efficiencies. Mrs. Glass, Mrs. Woodward, thank you. >> Good morning, board members. We are excited to share that in partnership with Mr. Warner from PSI. Avon schools has secured energy rebates totaling $99,695.93 from Duke Energy for the recent
093construction here at Avon High School, Avon Middle School South, Willow, and Evergreen. These rebates not only demonstrate our commitment for energy efficiencies but also provide support for our operations fund. Thank you, Mrs. Glass. Thank you for our PSI partners. I always measure our savings in terms of uh fully loaded uh entrylevel teachers. So, you just save us one and a half teachers. I appreciate that. Next item is the consent agenda. Uh the consent agenda includes items for approval of minutes, uh claims, transfer memo, personnel report, disposal of equipment, the donation report, ECA funds and purchases and account changes as well as the approval of the amended referral bonus for bus driver recruitment that was um uh given. information about that was given to us in our most recent board walk. Um, so I will entertain
094a motion to approve the consent agenda. I move that the board of school trustees approve the regular session minutes of September 8, 2025, the working session minutes on September 24, 2025. the payrolls for September 12 and 26 of 2025. The mini payroll for August 31, 2025, the September and October claims, the September transfer memo, the personnel report, the disposal of equipment, the donation report, the new ECA funds, the new ECA purchases, the ECA changes, and the amended referral B, the amended referral bonus for bus driver recruitment as presented. Second >> motion by Mike, seconded by Cindy. Is there any discussion? All those in favor? That motion passes 40. Thank you. We'll move on to uh new business. Item A is the Avon High School course proposal for 2026 27. We'll hear from Mr. Shockley again.
095Hello again board members. Um no official presentation PowerPoint for this one, but I'm just going to talk about um I'm not going to talk about every course and every change obviously, but I'm going to hit some highlights. Um so when looking at specifically the new course proposals, um for example, with business uh uh tech and engineering um workbased learning, we're talking about creating flexibility for students to fit the workbased learning experience into their schedules. Uh when we look at the the uh offerings by the English department, uh this is really to create a variety of options for seniors in that senior year um versus it just being English 12 and then a dual credit um English course or an advanced placement uh course. Again, if um if if you do remember back with all of
096the diploma changes, they are really wanting to create flexibility for kids in regards to courses that they can take. So that is uh uh these courses that we are offering will satisfy English requirements um specifically at that senior year uh in order to graduate. So some more choice in that senior year. The family consumer science one is again to build out the early child education program that Mrs. Spaith did a great job talking about uh in mathematics just providing a uh another option there for seniors to take uh during that fourth year uh for English in performing arts um specifically about jazz band 2 with Mr. uh Basso now be being at the high school we knew this was going to happen and that's one reason why Mr. Basset was hired two years ago, I
097think, and now is at the high school is that he has a passion for jazz. And jazz is a portion of our, uh, instrumental music program that, uh, needed an extra boost boost and enhancement and it's going to be incredible. So, uh, Mr. Basso has has offered that course. Uh, social studies, um, uh, is just changing with how how we do AP economics. We used to offer both of the AP economic courses uh now or and then we didn't for a while. Now we're back to offering them and they're just going to each be a semester uh the kids that have. And then the visual arts examples there uh are really just new electives to um um uh create some interest uh new interest from kids to take some of our uh visual arts uh
098courses. Um sports photography. There's lots of kids that are very interested in photography, especially to be on the sidelines, a soccer game, football game. Uh I can think of one of our graduates who I follow on Instagram. He is on the IU sidelines for soccer football taking pictures. Um so, uh we think that would be a highinterest course. So, that's the new course proposals. And then I know you received a a spreadsheet of lots of corrections and revisions to the programs of studies. And again, those are all reflecting changes in the new diploma. Um, policy changes at the high school level that need to happen as a result of action being taken at the state level. Um, which changes our policies. Uh, some of them are because of changing our dual credit partners, um, which
099again to be uh, announced uh, in regards to what those courses will be. And then uh that new CTE pathway um again building out the early college head early not early college early childhood program but also there's an interior design pathway uh that we're getting started here as well. Um so that reflects a lot of the things in here or the reasons behind those uh changes. So if there are specific questions, happy to answer those, but just wanted to highlight what's happening both in the new course proposals and then changes to the programs of study. >> Thank you. >> I have a question as soon as I figure this out. Mr. Sher, uh, are students aware of these classes for next year? >> Uh, they will be. Um, we're waiting on approval uh here today.
100Uh we begin actually meeting with our uh current uh sophomores uh as soon as we get back from fall break. We start the scheduling process. >> Okay. >> Um so they will have these courses in front of them um beforehand to make those choices. >> Thank you. Yep. Um I'd like to add a little tidbit. Back in the 70s again, Avon did have a jazz band. Now we but we did have a jazz band and something to I saw two classes >> that I would like to enroll in as a senior citizen. >> Senior citizen. >> Yeah. And the one that really caught me was the Indiana literature. >> That's what I figured it would be. It's a catchy title, isn't it? I love it. >> Yes. And teaching fourth grade Indiana history. And then
101the other one I really like was the genres of literature. So if you have an extra chair, let me know. Thank you. >> One thing I would add to what Mr. Shockley shared and just in full transparency, um, you know, we keep moving forward with our traditional process of the board considering these new course proposals so that Mr. Mr. Shockley and his team can get working on the program of studies and ultimately as he talked about our counselors start having conversations with students about their course selection for next year. But we I do need to remind you um our referendum funds 39 positions at Avon High School. Uh as the board knows, we have 142 positions, teaching positions total in the school district that are paid out of the referendum. 39 of those are here
102at Avon High School. So, um, these courses, these expanded offerings that we, uh, hope to offer in the 26 27th school year are contingent on having the funds available to continue to employ the the number of staff that we have here at Avon High School. So, we did not feel it was appropriate to hold up the process. Um, but ultimately, just because you approved these courses does not mean that we will have the staff to offer them. that's contingent on uh the referendum renewal that will happen in November. >> Dr. Windham, if there's one more thing not related to what you said specifically, but um uh there is a course currently at the state level um um or currently a course that we offer at Avon High School. Uh it's a college and career uh
103or college math readiness uh bridge course it's called. Uh that course may be uh phased out by the state. We just heard about it here in the last couple weeks. So, uh if you hear us coming back uh with a new course that the state is uh um uh offering in replacement of it, just know we're waiting to hear what that response is going to be so that we know how to how to act. But our department chair and one of my assistant principles is um well aware and on top of what's happening with this specific course. So, there could be one more coming along uh here at a later date. Thank you. Thank you. Uh board members contemplating the Avon High School course proposals. I'll entertain a motion. >> I move that the board
104of school trustees approve the Avon High School 2026 27 course proposals as presented. >> Second. >> Motion by Sarah, seconded by Mike. Is there any discussion? All those in favor? Motion passes 40. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Next item on the agenda is the step one report for the cedar chiller replacement and authorization of design build contract. Dr. Finley. >> So in our last meeting, you approved the purchase of materials for the cedar chiller replacement. And as a reminder, the cedar chiller at the air conditioning unit air conditioning unit at Cedar Elementary is at the end of its life cycle. So we're recommending replacement and performance services has completed the bidding process for that work and will present a step one report. So we will be um requesting approval of a design build contract
105to move forward with PSI to complete this work. So we're going to present this. Thank you. For those of you that don't know me, my name is Rich Warner and I'm the engineering manager for performance services. We originally intended to be in front of you in December with the step one report with the Avon Knock Center relocation and that still is the plan. It just won't be called a step one report. When I got the call from Mike Rollinsson about a month and a half ago in August, uh he told me that the cedar chiller had failed. 50% of it had failed and we knew we had to act pretty quickly. So we consulted with some vendors to find out some lead times and with Dr. Windham and made a decision that we could include
106this uh in this current DB project and come to you with the step one report in October. So that's the purpose for me being here today. I think we'll have some slides. >> Oh, okay. There we go. Uh, that's an overhead shot of Cedar Elementary School. The chiller is in the yellow box uh at the bottom. If you'll advance that slide one, please. Couple of photos of the existing chiller. Um, you have so many buildings that I can't keep track of exactly when each of of these buildings was built. Cedar was built in the early 2000s. I want to say 2008, but I >> seven. I was close. Uh, so that chiller is approaching its uh 20-y year life uh cycle. And so uh the district made a decision to replace that. Uh we scrambled,
107put together some drawings, went out to bid uh advance it, please. Um with the intent of the following replacement schedule, uh you of course authorized the equipment authorization uh at your last meeting. Uh the intent would be that we would have that chiller on site in early February. uh begin mobilizing uh for construction, remove the existing chiller in late February, installing the new chiller in March with a chiller startup planned for the end of March. Uh commission the chiller in early April and chiller complete by April 15th. Now, we will need uh some warm weather at the end of March or early April to be able to start that chiller. And so, we hope that we'll have that. If we don't, we'll wait until it warms up a little bit and then we'll start the
108children. Next slide. So, that children replacement uh cost of that project is $546,214. Uh it involves removing the existing 240 ton capacity chiller uh and the associated refrigerant monitoring system, providing and installing a new 250 ton capacity chiller uh a new refrigerant monitoring system and a remote barrel for freeze protection. And we do that with most of the chillers in your district that we that we install so that you don't have to drain that chiller in the winter. The newer chillers do have a higher water flow requirement than the older chillers. So, we do have to replace a couple of chilled water valves on air handling units within Cedar. That's also included. And then, of course, uh controls for the new chiller and the new air handling units. So, all total $546,214 and we did
109bid that to multiple uh contractors and multiple vendors. And so those numbers compiled and are represented uh as the lowest bids here today. So with that, we would ask your approval of the step one report for the Cedar Chiller replacement. >> Thank you, Rich. Um I only have two quick questions. One is you mentioned that the current chiller is at 50% capacity um and this has been an extraordinarily um warm October September. Um what temperatures are we able to maintain in Cedar Elementary now with that 50% of capacity? >> Um not sufficient would be my answer. I would say that that 50% capacity is taking you from an unbearable position to a miserable position. And depending on the humidity outside, that's the the real key is if if it gets really warm and humid, then
110the temperatures in the building are in the upper 70s and maybe even lower 80s in some areas. But the bigger issue is you can't remove any of the humidity because you can't get your chilled water temp down to the point where you can condense moisture out of the air. So, those of you that have uh students andor staff that are working in that building, they've probably been pretty miserable for the last couple of weeks. And as Murphy's law would have it, u it's been one of the warmest falls that we've had on record, if not the warmest. So I I could pull temperatures, but they would be probably startling starting to leak high uh to everyone. >> Yeah. Well, thank you to our Cedar staff and students for enduring that. Um the only other question
111I have is is there anything that could have been done preventatively to make this um chiller or our our other chillers that are in our school system um come to their maximum life expectancy? >> Probably not. You're you have a maintenance staff that is on the higher end of all the districts that we work with. And and what I mean by that is they do a lot of routine maintenance and take care of things and they get nearly the life expectancy out of all equipment that you have in the district. In fact, in some some buildings, you're way past that life expectancy. U but the rule number one with mechanical equipment is it fails. And rule number two is you can't change rule number one. So, um, it it just reached the point where I
112think you you the cost of repairing and replacing the chiller or fixing the chiller that you had, it doesn't make any sense to do that anymore. And it it's unfortunate because the long lead time of the chiller is what leaves you in a situation where you have, you know, 60 days here without air conditioning. If you could buy these things and get them off the shelf, this would have been done, you know, a week and a half after you knew that it was had failed. But you can't do that. It's the lead time that hurts the most. >> Yes. Thank you. >> I appreciate the explanation of the lead time because I think that is a question that the public would have of, you know, why is that far out? Just a clarification on the
113slide in case it is public. Um I think the years may be there might be some typos on slide four. First one shows 2026, the rest say 2025. >> Okay. Um, are all the buildings, the schools, are they about the same size as a chiller or do does the chiller go by the size of the building? >> The chiller is sized by the building itself. It just so happens, and we bumped this chiller up slightly because the size of the chillers that we put at Middle School West are this exact same chiller. So, we could have gotten by with a maybe a 240 ton chiller at Cedar. That's what it really needs. But the consistency with your staff, your maintenance staff, having the exact same model number was advantageous and that and the cost is
114minimal to do that. So, yeah, the size of the chiller is driven by the capacity of the building or size of the building, student population, etc. This one just so happens to match half the chillers at the middle school. So, we have two chillers at Middle School West. We only have one cedar 50 times. >> A building that has been renovated or additions made, does that make a difference on the chiller, gotten bigger with an older building? >> Not usually. Uh typically 75 to 85% of the chiller sizing is due to the students internal load outside air. Uh it's not exterior skin loss uh in the building. That's only about 15 to 20%. Okay. >> Uh in central Indiana. So it it typically doesn't change much if it's an older building versus a new. Obviously
115the newer buildings that have better insulation are slightly better, but it's it's on the small end of what what the chiller size for. >> Thank you so much. Um board members, I will entertain a motion on the uh cedar chiller replacement. >> I move that the board of school trustees accept the step one report as presented. Approve the design build contract as presented. Approve contract price amendment number one and authorize the assistant superintendent to execute the necessary documents pending legal review. >> Second motion by Mike, seconded by Cindy. Is there any discussion? All those in favor. Motion passes 40. Thank you so much. Next item on the agenda is the first reading of board policy updates. Dr. Windham. >> Thank you, Mrs. Woodward. You have uh six policies uh in your packet to review. Um
116three of these are recommendations from the Indiana School Boards Association based off of uh their quarterly updates to keep us in compliance uh with state law. So policy 1200 is a suggested revision for the organizational meeting that happens in January that changed as a result of state law that made some changes in the dates date requirements uh in your first meeting of the calendar year. Then there are two repealed policies uh 2740 the uh for stop the bleed program and 4305 um that are no longer required policies and we didn't feel that we needed to keep them if they were no longer required by state law. Um then there are three revi revisions that we are recommending that are more just us and doing an internal review um to make sure that our student residence
117verification process, our transfer students process and then our student attendance guidelines um it this was a good chance for us to review policies and and uh based off of feedback from our registars, from our administrators um and uh our process particularly this past summer with transfer students uh having lived that for the first time in a few years, making some changes to that uh as well. So, we recommend your approval on first reading and then we would bring them back for second reading in November. >> I'm sorry. I move that the board of school trustees approve res revised policies and 4320 and repealed policies 2740 and 4305 as presented on the first reading. Second >> motion by Cindy, seconded by Sarah because she's closer and I heard her more. >> Is there any discussion? All
118those in favor? Motion passes 40. Thank you. Next item is the approval of fourth and fifth grade social health puberty curricular materials. Mrs. Sal. Good morning again. Um, so the next two items are going to be around curriculum adoption. And this is a unusual time of the year to be talking about curriculum adoption, but this is really to be um in line with Senate Enrolled Act 442 that was passed this last legislative session. Um, materials we we're bringing to you are not new, though. We've used them before, but part of this law was they had to be board approved and they have to be on our website. And so we want to go through our formal review process. um just to bring that to you and then to put on our our website. So the
119first area is fourth and fifth grade if we're calling it social health. It's really the puberty um instruction and we partner with Hendricks Regional Health for this. Um so the videos are the same videos. We there's a a female fourth grade video, there's a male fourth grade video and then there's the at fifth grade it goes to co-ed. Um we do all the parent notification ahead of time. Um, parents do have the opportunity to opt their children out if they so choose. Um, as part of this process, we sent these all of these videos, fourth and fifth grade, um, to all our of our current fourth and fifth grade parents, um, and gave them a link that they could complete. We did have I just want to tell you the right number, 17 people submit
120feedback. um and 60 people, you know, when you're on um parents square like you give a thumbs up like we got a thumbs up that they were aware of it. I mean really the feedback was they appreciated that straightforwardness of the information. There was some uh I mean it was really about just it was co it was friendly, casual, you know, not scaring kids but was giving facts and age appropriate um for fourth and fifth grade. Um, in addition, we usually do for curriculum open houses. We do an open house at our central office. It felt like since everything was virtual that we had that we should make it more easy for our families. So, um, we worked with Mr. Carr and he sent out a message with our conference um, reminder where every um,
121family in the district, anyone who has parents square that we send to could review these materials. And so, we did have another 13 responses from there. Um, and again the feedback was very supportive of the fourth and fifth grade videos. Uh, we did also do a live option where people wanted to talk to us live. No one showed up, but we did a we did a Zoom or a Teams meeting for that. So, I feel like we really, um, we got the message out there and people were able to give us feedback if they wanted to. Um, and then ultimately after this is board approved, this will be on our website. Um, and this instruction in fourth and fifth grade happens right before spring break. So, it's a little time before it happens. Um, but
122we just wanted to be fully compliant with the new legislation. >> Thank you. Thank you for sending it to the board members as well for our review. >> I thought the uh the curriculum was well done. I'm curious corporationwide. Uh about how many uh parents opt out their students from receiving the materials? >> Very handful of >> a handful. Couple of old time questions. Does the school nurse have anything to do with these? Are they in there when they're presented or >> in majority of the schools? Yes. But in some of the schools, a teacher will do it also. >> The teacher leads it. Okay. >> The majority it is our nurse. >> Okay. Well, I thought the videos after, you know, being in the classroom 40 years, fourth grade, I remember the kids got
123kind of squirly. But then when they comfortable Yeah. And I'm glad to see, maybe I'm oldfashioned, the boys and the girls separate um because it told a lot of different things, but the the students that presented it were great. So, thank you for that. >> Other questions? If not, then I'll entertain a motion. I move the board of school trustees approve the fourth and fifth grade social health pub puberty curricular material for adoption as presented. >> Second >> motion by Sarah, seconded by Cindy. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor? That motion passes 4. Thank you. We'll keep with Mrs. all day to discuss the approval of the 9th through 12th grade health and human sexuality curricular materials. Mrs. Sal, so there were a couple enhancements we did have to make to this
124unit um to be in line with sea 442. Um the one thing um you might be you might remember from last legislative session there was a real specific video that we have to show. It's like it has to be a three minute video. Um it has to have ultra like ultrasound. I mean there was very about the about brain development different development pieces which we would have loved if the state if they had all those expectations just give us the video but we really had to go find a video. Um we uh collaborated with other um local central Indiana school districts and to find out what other districts are using. So um the video is a new piece. the majority of the other information we really just brought it concisely together and sometimes with different
125units but with a parent we wanted parents to know this was all happening during this one unit. Um so I think you also saw the PowerPoint that really comes from our health textbook which you have previously approved but we just wanted to bring everything together. Another component um with this work is we do um collaborate with and I'm totally forgetting the name right >> shelter and wings thank you to do a healthy relationships component and we um included that and for their resources in with this adoption also um again Dr. Hines helped lead this process with our um our high high school health department Mr. Blue is our new department chair here at the high school and in some of his health teachers. And so the same transparency, this information was sent out to all
126current health students in grades 9 through 12, which ended up being about 1,800 messages that we sent out that they could review all this. Um, we received 17 pieces of feedback um through that and then again you like that whole like you know what they can appreciate to another 22 there. We did offer also uh imper not an in person but a live one and again no one showed up but we offered it. Um in addition like I said before when we sent out that parent um conference message we included you know all grades in there um this does have to go up on our website also once it's approved. This will happen um the second semester because um and health I'm sorry towards the end of this semester um of health. So again, the
127timing is pertinent. You know, we received um a wide array of feedback. Some who agreed it was right what it should be and they appreciated that the focus was on that was all factual, that it was on the the big piece of consent um and monogamy and marriage. And there was some that were concerned that that's not as real world and that um with marriage, you know, just different people's opinions. Uh but we were we just need to stay aligned to what the law said. So again um we felt like it was a good process that we went through and we were transparent to get as much feedback as possible and this is one unit within our health curtain at the high school which majority of the kids now will take in that freshman year.
128It can be taken anywhere from 9th through 12th grade majority of freshmen. And just as a reminder, it used to be a lot of our students took this in the summer through Indiana Online Academy, but we're funneling this more to be taken in person now at our high school. >> Thank you. One question, are the academy students included in this video? >> Well, they would take it when they were here probably because most academy students still are at Avon High School their freshman year. They don't come over till about junior academy. So, yes. Other questions? I'll entertain a motion. >> I move the board of school trustees approved the high school healthcurricular materials for teaching the human sexuality unit in grades 9 to 12 health class as presented. >> Second. >> Motion by Mike, seconded
129by Cindy. Any further discussion? All those in favor? That motion passes 4 Z. Thank you, Mrs. Salv. Uh, we will go on to item G. I'm sorry, item F, which is the resolution to approve insurance agreements. Mrs. Williams, >> good morning. Good morning, board. Um, uh, this time of year, Sheila and I put a lot of work into reviewing our insurance for the, um, upcoming, uh, effective one 2026 year. Um, as a reminder, we are a self-insured plan and so Mrs. Glass and I work with an insurance committee that has representatives from both our teachers union as well as our support staff. Um, and they provide different info on our various insurance offerings. So, we are recommending switching back to Anthem as our insurance carrier from United. Uh, we've been with we were with Anthem
130for years and switched uh 111 2019 um to UMAR. However, with um after shopping, our plans for competitive pricing, Anthem's offerings are more competitive and by making this switch, we are able to keep our insurance premium increase for 2026 to just 1%. Um so, we are excited and thankful for that. And so, I am um able to take any questions that recommend that the board of school trustees approve the resolution to approve insurance agreeing agreements as presented. Okay. >> You think we'd have to stop? >> Well, it's it's a different process. Okay. Thank you so much for that. Uh board members, I'll entertain a motion on the resolution to approve insurance agreements. >> I move that the board of school trustees approve the resolution to approve insurance agreements as presented. >> Second. >> Motion by
131Sarah, seconded by Mike. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor? Motion passes 40. Thank you. Um and now we'll get to some exciting news on resolution to approve creation and administration of premium holiday. Again, Mrs. Glass and Mrs. Williams. We are excited to get to stand up here for one more motion. This one is exciting because we are self-insured. Uh we do monitor the um plan regularly and look at our fund balance and our health insurance to ensure we have appropriate um amounts to pay our claims and maintain a healthy fund balance. Um if you'll remember in 2024 um we had a healthy fund balance and we're able to do a premium holiday for the month of December which in essence means um both the corporation and the employee do not pay the
132premiums for that month. And so again, in 2025, our balance exceeds the target range and we're recommending a premium holiday for December 2025. Um, I recommend the board of trustees approve resolution to Nope, did that wrong. I recommend that the board of trustees approve the premium holiday for December 2025. This meeting would have been shorter without these microphones. Um, I'll entertain a motion. >> I move that the board of school trustees approve the resolution to approve creation administration of a premium holiday as presented. >> Second. >> Motion by Mike, seconded by Sarah. Any discussion? I think our teachers and our administrative staff and our uh support staff will really appreciate that. So, thank you for your hard work. Um, all those in favor? Motion passes 4 zero. Thank you. Um the donation agreement between Town
133of Avon and Avon Community School Corporation. Dr. Windham. Thank you. We've been uh talking about this for probably going on three years now. uh when we started the conversations about how to expand our school facilities um and determined that we were going to do K5 elementarymentaries, we were going to convert East and West to become elementary schools going back three years. And we were having those conversations at that time. We decided we didn't didn't need the tennis courts that were a part really for middle school south going back years that have not been used in years. Uh but they have made for a great staging ground for our construction project uh with the PSI team. Um and so now that the construction projects are wrapping up, we no longer need those old tennis courts to
134be a staging ground for materials. So we have been uh in conversations with the town of Avon about them taking over that property and converting those old tennis courts to be pickle ball. Um for us, this is a a win. Uh it really is a bit of an eyesore along a prominent road, Avon Avenue. Um and it means that we do not have to spend any dollars to u try to enhance that property really when we have no use for it for uh the elementary school right there. So we've been in conversations with Ryan Cannon at the town of Avon. Um they gave us an initial proposal. We reviewed that worked with our school safety team uh made some recommended changes uh that the town was uh more than willing to accommodate uh just as
135we think about having the potential for more uh people in close proximity to our schools. And so they were uh more than willing to make some adjustments in what you're seeing here. But essentially it would be eight pickle ball courts. Um and their goal should the board approve this and the town council approve this uh would be to do this work uh in the spring and have uh them completed for the summer uh of 2026. So certainly glad to answer any questions, but it is a great uh example of community collaboration um and the school board um taking yet another action to support our town, you know, with through the civic center, through the pickle ball uh courts, and this would be a donation of this land to the town, not selling the land. Uh
136so this is this is a a neat example of our community taxing entities working together to enhance the what our our community is able to have access to. >> Thank you. >> I I also think it's a complete win-win for our community and our school corporation. I I I love the way that this has come through and so kudos to those who had the vision to make it happen both from the town and the school corporation. And I have a sneaky suspicion that maybe starting as soon as next fall, we could have a new club added to the high school and that could be a typical club. So I see it coming back full circle. Yeah. So this is terrific. >> Yes. I want to uh underscore the the significance of the collaboration between not
137just the town of Avon and uh the school corporation, but really all of the taxing entities. um and the fact that Avon Community School Corporation continues to find ways to increase our community's value um through donations such as this. I think that that's um amazing. And I also thought it was amazing that spooky music was playing behind you as you were talking >> just as I >> really wild. Okay. Um so board members, I will entertain a motion on this donation agreement. I move that the board of school trustees approve the donation agreement between the town of Avon and Avon Community School Corporation as presented and authorize the superintendent to execute necessary documents pending legal review. >> Second >> motion by Mike, seconded by Cindy. Is there any other discussion? All those in favor? Motion
138passes 40. Thank you. Uh we'll move on to board member items. Mr. Lifford. >> It's a long meeting, so I will be efficient with my comments um and so many different things going on as we are in the heart of the school year. Uh thank you um once again to performance services for being here as you often are to explain the intricacies of our infrastructure. It's it's ever so important. And thanks for jumping on very important project with these chillers. uh 100 years ago uh the citizens of the community may not have believed how important something like that is but we all understand. Um also um uh I I'm really pleased to hear that the impact that our decision making as a school corporation and board on open enrollment has helped with our numbers. Um
139it's important for many reasons. First of all, I'm a proponent of providing public education choice. If we're going to be a school choice state, then it's important that our public schools also provide those same opportunities. And number two, we understand the impact from a funding standpoint. Um, ever so important. Um and last and finally one comment that I will make and ever so brief on the point that there are so many things going on and there are so many whether it's the curricular issues, the enrollment issues um we understand the impact that our staff has um and our ECAs have on making all of this come together and therefore the importance of the referendum on November 4 is once again punctuated by much of what we do here as a school corporation and the various
140policies that we pass as a school board. So November 4 is an important day for so many in our community. Thank you. Thank you. Uh I'd like to start off with thanking that donors for donations. There were several sever several that were uh made this past month. So thank you for um doing that for the donors. um love the uh proposals for the new high school classes. Um I could tell Mr. Shockley knew what he was talking about with the diploma and the courses. So I know a lot of people have kind of questioned that and kind of had some wonder what's going on with this. So thank you for that. Um pickle ball. I'm sure that's going to be a a popular place with all ages. Do the little guys play too pickle ball?
141>> Yeah. >> Okay. Um I'm pleased that the school system made this happen and thank you. I know there's a lot of traffic going in through the school and I see performance and I think one of these days this is going to be a pickle ball court. Um make my short and sweet. Thank you staff members, administrators, board members, Emily, Kevin, and students, and parents for making Avon schools a success. And I wanted to add this too to close my talk. Uh I didn't realize this was National Teachers Day and I found a little saying. We see you. We thank you. Happy World Teachers Day. Enjoy fall break. just have one item. Today is your last day to register to vote or to check your registration. So, just a little plug there. It's super easy
142to do on I think it's Indiana voters.in Google it. It's easy. Thank you. >> Thank you. Appreciate the hospitality of Avon High School hosting us here today. Um this LGI room is really spectacular. I thought it was a great place to have a school board meeting. Um, and we really just appreciate getting the opportunity to hear from our passionate students about the um the care and concern they have for our little Orioles. I love that. Um, I can't remember a group of Avon High School students presenting with such passion for a while. Um, and so that tells you it's the real thing. and um that they have found even in high school uh their path forward in life which is astounding. Um also appreciated all of the information about the Indiana core um and what
143that represents to complexity uh for our guidance counselors and our um administrative staff in the high school to prepare our students for that. Um, and finally, I know that kids are probably ready for fall break and I know teachers are ready for fall break. So, um, we wish everyone a really safe and happy fall break and, um, thank you all for being here. Dr. Windham. No, >> thank you. Lots covered. Thanks for your time. >> All right, we'll adjourn the meeting at whatever time it is. Uh, 11:18. Thank you.