3/6/23 School Board Meeting

001uh to have this opportunity to continue in this path here in bcsc and thank Dr hack for also bringing me here six years ago this has been an incredible journey for our family UCS is an incredible School Corporation being in four other school corporations I can tell you this is a unique and beautiful School Corporation and so the blessing has been here for the last six years for me and my family has been wonderful and and decided for many years to come as well and the blessing that it will hold before I progress any further though um I do want to thank my staff and my family my students at Clifton Creek and there's a lot of them here today and uh my heart will always be with them they are incredible people and if

002you've never been in Clifton Creek it's an incredible building full of wonderful students and wonderful staff who love to be there and I will always have a special for hi Clifty and for those people and what I say to USA it's a Columbus East community I know I may be a bit unknown but I look forward to getting known very soon with all of you um I'm committed to relentlessly serving Columbus and school life I'm excited I'm joyful and I am ready my family is ready I'm excited and thankful that night you all made me an Olympian thank you and there's quite the fan club out there also great to see everybody great next on the agenda I believe we have recognitions for Columbus's State wrestling finalists yes we do and Mr Hughes the athletic

003director at Columbus East is coming forward good evening Dr Roberts board members and cabinet members again very special time for Columbus East to recognize just another outstanding individual I know that Dr Parson is leaving right now but if if he is to know what a true Olympian is and somebody that represents what we believe in and what we want Tommy Morrill is that person so I mean everything that that that I would love for for the community to know what we stand for stands before you and Tommy moral just to tell you what a little bit of a team player he is I can remember especially his sophomore year and even his junior year wrestling at 220 pounds is one of the toughest weight classes in the state and and you are truly meeting some

004very talented strong athletic individuals and for most of his career he wrestled light in terms of having to make whether it's chugging a jug of water before Wayans or whatever to get it to where he could wrestle at 220. so he certainly paid his dues and it's just amazing to see how that he he stuck with it and was just a solid person for us for our community again coach Cooper I don't want to steal a lot of his Thunder because I'm sure he has a lot of good things to say but that the recipe stays the same with young men like him hard worker every day at practice does all the traveling stuff in club wrestling has an outstanding family his grades are just solid grades I mean he is truly a unique individual

005we're very proud of him but at this time I will turn it over to coach Cooper to talk more about Tommy good evening uh I I could talk about a lot of our guys pretty much all day long but you know Tommy is uh is is quite the unique individual uh you look at Tommy and you're like that's the guy I don't want to wrestle at weigh-ins like that like I want to stay away from that guy but uh there are several times we were driving up to practices uh at Franklin or Perry Meridian last year in the spring and I'm driving the van and I'm listening to the conversations behind me between Tommy and my sixth grade son and they're talking about Pokemon and Minecraft and if you didn't look at Tommy you would

006think it was two like third graders back there just talking about video games like his his personality is nothing like what you get on the wrestling mat um so I you know having known Tommy uh for the way he is and just a fantastic human being we're putting together our stats and stuff for our uh our banquet coming up tomorrow and you know you got your top 10 lists of takedowns and and pins and just career wins and all of this stuff and I'm sliding Tommy into these spots and uh just realizing like I need one that's just great human beings I mean because Tommy is a hundred percent of of all the Fantastic kids I've had the privilege to coach he's on the top 10 list of great human beings that's for certain so

007um it went uh 11 to 3 11-3 loss versus the state champ mid-season and in wrestling in the semifinals and got it within two points I mean we came up a little bit short but he plays third in the state but uh there's no doubt in my mind I mean State metal is cool but uh the time that I've been able to spend with Tommy and just just be around him as a human being is what all cherish forever so uh you know I really appreciate uh recognizing Tommy Morrow and just having the chance to to speak about so thank you [Laughter] laughs hey all right next I believe we have a special presentation we do Mrs wooden so I'd like to ask Mr debmer from Rock Creek Elementary School principal Rock Creek Elementary School

008to come forward uh we are going to get some information about officially dedicating The Rock Creek Elementary gymnasium floor in honor of Mr Gary Barker thank you for having me this evening very excited to be here with Gary's wife daughter and a close family friend as well with me this evening for consideration to rename the Rock Creek gymnasium floor to the Gary Barker Memorial floor Gary Barker was a significant stakeholder in our community and a member of The Rock Creek Family he not only contributed countless hours to our basketball program both boys and girls but he also played a significant role in the Athletics program our students social and emotional development and academics for all players Gary Barker attended Rock Creek as a student and continued his passion for the Rock Creek community as a

009coach for 18 years while coaching students at Rock Creek Gary made it his mission to build strong relationships with students and Families and he promoted the program within our community if you've ever attended a Rock Creek basketball game it is a standing room only event I believe the continuity of coaching and development of the Rock Creek program by Gary Barker is a factor in our community's engagement with The Rock Creek Athletics program Gary believed we needed to mentor and work with all students in the school not only our top athletes he held camps for students as young as first grade to promote the fundamentals of the sport Gary allowed students to learn and explore if this was a pathway that they enjoyed and felt successful with Rock Creek was more than a basketball team for

010Gary it was truly a home and a passion for helping students succeed I was fortunate enough to work with Gary for eight of the 10 years I have been at Rock Creek Elementary I've always been impressed and encouraged by How Gary worked with the students and families of record he expressed and showed that academics were important to being a successful student athlete he truly cared for the whole child Gary was well respected by students other coaches community members and officials for his passion for helping students improve we all like to have a victory at the end of the game but Gary showed a victory with something that could be obtained by growth and not just the win at the end of the game please help me honor a man that gave so much of himself

011for Rock Creek students families and Community by considering my request to rename the gymnasium floor at Rock Creek to the Gary Barker Memorial floor thank you thank you Mrs Detmer so on school board members if you notice under the approval piece of our packet tonight there was approval of the official naming of the Rock Creek gymnasium floor I would I would request that I'd be allowed to make a recommendation at this point to have that vote with Mr Barker's wife and and daughter here so if you would entertain that Mrs Wilden I would I would like to make that recommendation and just as an FYI before starting a formal process a reminder that policy um uh 72.50 uh bcsc policy 7250 does give you the authority to to name um a facility in this case

012the gymnasium floor after an individual and we we ask that uh when that is done it's because of the significant contribution to the enhancement of Education generally or the corporation in particular or to the well-being of the corporation Community State or nation and I think that Mrs dubmer has argued well that Mr Barker's contribution to this community has been extreme and so would recommend that The Rock Creek Elementary gymnasium floor be named in honor of Mr Gary Barker Dr Roberts do I have a motion to name the Rock Creek Elementary gymnasium floor for Mr Gary Barker I move that we officially dedicate the Rock Creek elementary gym floor to Mr Barker thank you Mr Grimes to have a second thank you Mr bright and Mr Schultz any questions or comments from the team I just

013have one question I don't know because we don't do this very often I don't know if it would be possible to see if there are any Rock Creek Elementary former students in C4 that are part of the graphic arts department that might be willing to do the design work for whatever the design looks like I think it'd be a just a cool gesture for those kids to be able to give back to somebody they gave to them that's very good idea good suggestion okay thank you all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed thank you it's approved all right very good uh Mike Gary's wife and daughter please stand so we can recognize oh okay next I believe we have a senior project presentation we do some really cool stuff Happening Here uh

014at the beginning of this meeting important stuff and I failed to as you're coming up you just let me we're talking through everything with um in regards to Mr Barker there are some photos up here that we have in the presentation this presentation we put on our website as well for people to to check these out and see um the need inaction stuff over the years so all right so we have a special presentation tonight everybody I think in this room is aware of senior projects and the importance of those to the path to graduation for the students in each of our high schools here at Bartholomew Consolidated Schools and we had an opportunity to talk about solar a few times Utica over the last few months I think and so we looked at this

015as an opportunity to present very publicly into this school board her ideas about solar panel and specifically looking at Columbus East High School since that's where she is a student so I want to turn things over to you and that that clicker I think should work you want to test that real quick and make sure got it so I'm ritika Savant a senior at Columbus East High School and this is a part of my senior project about spreading awareness regarding solar in Columbus Indiana so the topics that will be discussed in today's presentation are what is solar energy the benefits of solar PV my experience with solar why do we need solar case study on Columbus East High School and my petition with comments so solar energy is basically the energy from the Sun but

016it is the most abundant source of energy on our planet Earth it can be harvested in multiple ways such as solar photovoltaics solar PV is a type of technology which uses solar panels to generate electricity directly from sunlight it has multiple benefits such as it is renewable unlike fossil fuels which will run out in 50 to 100 years renewable energy is here to stay the sun will remain for millions of years for us to continue to use its energy it is also cheap in the long run as it requires a one-time investment after which you don't have to pay any electric bills it is also clean as it requires as it has negligible carbon footprint and it is long lasting as one solar panels are installed they have a lifespan of about 25 to 30

017years my personal experience with solar so I've seen firsthand what solar can do in India in 2021 we installed a solar system with battery storage on our remote Farm since our farm is not connected to any power grid all our electricity is supplied by solar panels after the initial installation cost we had to pay absolutely no money in terms of electric bills or maintenance costs my family is glad to have chosen solar why do we need solar on our schools the first most important point is that it will reduce electric costs in the long run can free up funds which can be used for other school resources and supplies it will also help us reduce our carbon footprint as you all know that climate change is a real crisis and we need to fight it

018it will also help us become more energy resilient solar power but battery storage will help prevent grid disruptions and interruptions to Student Learning Community activism solar panels will help the school become a leader in the community by engaging and motivating others to take steps to be sustainable work first Workforce Development solar installer is projected to be one of the fastest growing occupations over the next decade schools all over the country are already training their students with the skills and knowledge to succeed in this Dynamic sector stem education schools are also training their students with Hands-On learning opportunities with the solar panels in science technology engineering and math I have a case study of Columbus East High School here so our school building alone uses about 4 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually and that is

019equivalent of over 6 million pounds of carbon dioxide per year and this usage equals to over four hundred thousand dollars in electric bills per year what I propose is a thousand kilowatt solar area system and according to my projections the estimated install costs will be 2.5 million dollars with a payback time of 24 years but I have not taken inflation into account According to which the electrics electricity cost from power grid will keep on increasing over the years um which means that the payback time will decrease and I understand that this is a very huge sum but there are multiple financing options available such as the latest inflation reduction act which mentions that for the next 10 years schools can receive 30 direct payment for solar energy and battery storage projects and other than this

020there are multiple direct and third-party ownership options available you can find them in the appendix so here is a slide of my petition the education sector in the United States plays a very important role in progressing our country towards a clean future bcsc has already put panels on two of out of 18 schools and putting panels on Columbus East High School is only going to increase that ratio so I created a petition to put solar panels on Columbus East High School and I was greeted with positive responses as you can see I have received about 201 signatures from students parents and teachers and most of them are students over here I have compiled a few of the comments which I received some of them say that Columbus is a place for great ideas and this

021is one of such great ideas cehs has a large flat roof which is ideal for installing solar panels reducing our carbon footprint is a good idea it's an awesome idea to make use of renewable energy it will save the energy and our world it would be awesome and make me so proud of our school install them do it let's evolve together thank you I would like to thank you for your time and thank you for letting for giving me the opportunity to present here I would like to take your questions if you have any any questions you talked about the one thousand kilowatt system is what you recommended out of how much of the four million usage kilowatts does that cover so is it collect I don't know their system so that will cover about

022a quarter of the electricity different options for funding it that you talked about can you tell us what your preferable way would be and how you might how you would suggest going about that so back in India we use direct ownership and we installed them all at once without taking any loan so I think that is the best option to just install them at once with without taking any loans could you tell us a little bit about yourself what what you're studying at East and whether or not you think this project might relate to your career plans um so right now I'm I'm going to Purdue next this year and I'll be studying in applied physics and I think that this project will help me in the future because I want to do something insustainably

023for our environment so yes I think that will help me in the future does the costs include the 2.5 million does that include the 30 office no that does not include the 30 cost and this cost can also change so because of inflation right now the costs are high but it can't and then I have a question probably more for the general public that Dr Bozeman's probably best position but like what percentage of bcsc's power is powered by solar if any question Dr Bozeman sorry you're over there I think he he thought he might get a question or two with this topic before we do that I'd like to ask permission to create a a solar position here in bcsc because I have a candidate to my direct right that I'd like to have a

024conversation with foreign yeah we have we have uh solar panel systems currently on North Side Middle School and Taylorsville Elementary we've had a lot of success she and I have met and discussed this a couple times we've had a lot of success with those systems and generally speaking they reduce about 40 percent um of the um the cost that we have for those buildings so far and Dr bismo and you're making considerations on Taylorsville and Northside can you talk about The Balancing Act that you go through to decide which school gets solar sure generally speaking it's good practice and we've adopted this to the extent possible when we replace a roof on a building buildings that are good candidates East is a good candidate it's got a flat roof when we replace a roof on

025a school building then we as I said if it's a good candidate add some funding to put solar panels on that so East in this case as we're discussing is probably a candidate for a roof replacement in the next handful of years I'd say five or six years or so and and we have a pretty exhaustive list of our other buildings so when those opportunities come up we do consider putting a panel on panels on as we can thank you I don't have another question but I just want to say I've I've seen a lot of senior project presentations but your presentation along with the appendix and everything was was one of the one of the top ones that I've seen and I appreciate all the work that you put into it thank you so

026much yeah really nice job really nice job thank you thank you so much I'll just add to that with Mr nellons comment about the appendices there were many many slides and if our board thought that those were also going to be shown tonight they were probably thinking we're going to be here for a few extra minutes but uh just a lot a lot of information in addition provided so thank you is that your family in the audience yeah yes they must be very proud congratulations we're gonna bring you four deer to shake your hand is that okay oh okay next on the agenda we have best practice sharing from Central Middle School all right thank you yeah Blake's gonna share some things that we used over the last couple months with our staff and students

027so uh thank you for this opportunity to share some things that have been going on at Central Middle School so see if we can get to the first light just a little background again uh Central Middle School started in really in 1956 when the Columbus High School switched over and they opened that building as the Central Junior High and so in 2007 bcsc took the opportunity to invest into that Community into that school and to keep the school downtown and to create you know one of the state of our state-of-the-art schools that is around so a couple of things about our building obviously it was the architecture of Ralph Johnson and Perkins and will of Chicago it opened in 2007. hard to believe it's been 15 years that we've been in that building now so

028time seems to be flying obviously we have two gyms that are outstanding for our athletic programs in our uh our PE programs state of our gray box if you've never been to our building to see our gray box I'm not sure there's another Middle School anywhere who has a theater like that it is a tremendous place for not only for our theater group but for our teams to meet and have Team meetings for us to meet with our students and for presenters to come in so it's a it's a great place for that we have obviously have a large Commons area with lots of glass and natural light which was the design of the building which makes it really enjoyable for our students and staff to work there probably the thing I enjoy the most

029about the building is one of the pieces that they took some of the old pieces from the Central Middle School or the old Columbus High School and Incorporated it into the new architecture so we have the light post out front that are from that older building we also have the hope of our country to our children and Central School are all incorporated into the design so it's really nice to see that historical stuff still be a part of our school if you're not aware obviously we have about 845 students that we service we have about 100 staff when you add in custodians and cafeteria and classified staff that serve those we do teaming at the middle school level and we have seven different teams we do have two Pathways that we kind of talk about

030a lot it's our high ability or Team adventure and that is for students who are working on above grade level curriculum and so you've probably seen them here a few times they do a tremendous job with academic contests Mindy Summers it does a great job with that as a lot of her team and they do a lot of competitions also in um writing stories for newspapers and for articles and magazines so they do a great job there and in our project-based learning is the CSA and again that's been 15 years and they do a lot for our community over the last two years our CSA 8th graders have put on a carnival for a cause and have raised over three thousand dollars each year for the United Way so they are very invested in the

031community and we do a lot of things along that way so kind of so to get to the wall we were going to talk about tonight is uh we do the uh staff engagement survey every year we do it twice a year we do it in the fall and in the spring and when we did that we came across some areas that we needed to work on and that was kind of one area that was like meaning and role Clarity and utilization so we got to our staff we started talking to them about what does that mean what does that mean to you what what where are we where are we coming up short here and the one thing that kept coming up was purpose it's like what is our purpose and it's not that

032my staff doesn't know their purpose but over the last few years things have changed a lot in schools it's not just about teaching your content area it's about working with kids on their social and emotional and their families and and all the behaviors and different things like that so the job has really gotten spread out so it was about refocusing about okay what is our purpose we know what we our content but we got so many other things so we started talking about that and we started talking about how do we align that with the CSC Mission about developing expert Learners partnering with our community investing in people so we kind of looked at that along with our Central expectations for PBIS which is Central Chargers will be academically personally and socially responsible so our

033students know that tremendously well so what we did as a as a staff is we got together and started talking with our cic teams and really try to figure out how this all fit together to kind of help guide us with our future work and what we really realized was that when we talk about kids being academically responsible every day we're really wanting them to be expert Learners and so we really started blending in what those qualities are of an expert learner and really it's it's about teaching those kids how to use their mind well you know how do we help them use their mind well so that kind of is the academic responsibility piece so we talked about being personally responsible and we really started trying to find language that we could use consistent

034ability that aligned with the bcsd mission it was about investing in themselves that everything that they do in our building is about investing in themselves the work that they turn in the behaviors that they improve on those things are all investments in them and so it really tried to help them change their framework and their mindset about okay this is something I'm doing for myself and then we talk about being social responsible and invested in their Community what can they do to make their community and their community may be their four friends that they hang out with at lunch it may be their team it may be a classroom and so and it may be the bigger community at large so we really used that developmental asset or the engagement survey to help guide that

035and then this kind of helped guide some of the work that we've done over the last couple of months so again this is what we've been doing for the last few months but I'm going to highlight that in like two minutes for you so what we started with was we started with our staff so we went to one of our staff meetings and and we we talked about this idea of what is our purpose what are we what are we trying to do as a staff what are we trying to do as Educators and helping our students and and we gave our staff members these different puzzle pieces so you guys can see those and and we broke into groups and we and we dissected and kind of dove into what does it mean to

036develop expert Learners what does it mean to partner with our community what does it mean to invest in people when we started with our staff and identifying what those things look like and we had such Rich conversations with our staff and and saw so much passion of just getting excited again and seeing this is what we're doing here this is why we're here working with our kids and then we were able to carry that into the students so we kind of kept with this puzzle piece theme as we're kind of putting all these pieces together so to support students and to invest in our community so then we went to our students and at Central we have a class period called caps time it's a 15-minute class period that we have every single day where

037our students are with a team teacher and every day has a different Focus we use that to show our student ran TV show on Mondays we use that for academic responsibility and checking our grades and and the work that we need to do there we have tough conversations in the classrooms and we use that caps time and so we built that around caps time of bringing these different ideas and about each week focused on a different topic and we spent a lot of time doing Reflections we did a lot of time having the students really think for themselves what does it mean to be an expert learner and for our students who are 7th and 8th graders we ask the question what does it look like to be a successful high school student and those

038students had those questions they used you know this figure to start writing out all the different characteristics they used one with somebody walking with a backpack to really start answering and having discussions within their classes and within their teachers what does that mean to be a successful high school student so then what do they need to start doing now as a seventh and eighth grader and then we built that throughout each week so we spent time talking about investing in yourself hearing from teachers and getting that input we spent time talking about what does it mean to invest in your community and you know we're a central school downtown what does it mean to really go out and impact others and so we just really use that caps time to focus on that and you

039could see some of the different work we did so that's you know five qualities of a successful high school student a lot of time reflecting on you know what does it mean to achieve your dreams and reach for those and just a lot of times just really letting students kind of voice their own thoughts and share those things out but then we knew that we needed to walk the walk as a school and we needed to model this for our students so we were trying to find ways to incorporate these different ideas of developing expert Learners of investing in yourself investing in the community as a building and so we started doing some different things so on February 2nd we had our first ever CMS parent night where we invited parents of our current students

040to come in and we offered support we provided Pizza we raffled a 55-inch TV we had San Souci donated shoes where we were able to provide shoes for parents we had grandparents asking if they could take pairs of shoes as well and we were able to support that but then we also had a number of different topics that parents and Guardians could go explore that so we had a presentation on 21st century Scholars we had a presentation on the dangers of teen vaping from crh we had a presentation about different parent Communications and parent square and it's learning and how we incorporate those things and we had about 70 families show up to our first one but the other big thing we did was on February 8th we had a thing what we call passion

041day and that was kind of the culmination of all these different ideas and so I just want to show a quick video of what that passion day looked like my students got to explore different things that they were passionate about and our teachers got to share out what they were passionate about as well thank you [Applause] [Music] hi my name is Mrs seastrom and I teach Health at Central Middle School recently Central Middle School teachers were asked to come up with a project that they were passionate about I wanted to make Valentine's Day cards for residents of our local nursing homes I thought maybe our residents here and our local nursing homes didn't have people to come and visit them and would appreciate a kind gesture from our students at school I was really excited

042with a group of students that I had and they made great Valentine's Day cards they were very thoughtful they were very colorful I think our fashion day was a great success this year [Music] I'm Harsha then for passion day I did the Arts and Crafts activity with Mr singer it was really fun because I got to learn how to make new origami objects [Music] thank you I'm Diana and for passion day I did relaxation and pet art therapy and what I really enjoyed about it was like working with the dogs and stuff [Music] foreign so our next steps is obviously the passion day we did a survey afterwards it was a huge success uh teachers and students really wanted to do it more the nice thing about it is our teachers they had kids from

043all across this building so they were teachers who had maybe 18 kids that they'd never had in their class before so when you're developing that relationship across the building that was a huge piece of that and those kids still go talk to them about that passion day like catching up with them like we had one with crochet so those kids go in and talk to that person about what they're making next so it was a huge piece for us so we're planning on doing that each quarter we're gonna do one more this year after I learn testing and then we're going to do one each quarter the parent night we're going to do one at the beginning of the year to help our parents understand canvas that new tool that we're going to be using

044PowerSchool and helping them determine you know look at grades and really try to do some things like that to help our parents at the beginning of the year and then we'll do another one probably second semester kind of like what we did this so again our caps time will continue to work on that expert learner invest in yourself investing community so thank you so much any questions questions um I have a couple on caps first of all since it's all caps I'm assuming it stands for something yes uh if you take the first word central or the central Chargers and then academic personally and socially responsible so it kind of helps our kids remember those things yeah um and the samples we saw and the lessons you talked about are they like for one week

045is is it school-wide or grade level wide so this was school-wide because it's something that we have not done so we basically we spent three weeks on Expert learner okay that was right when we came back from Christmas break and really wanted to get into that deep and so then we spent another week on investing in themselves investing views so it was really a little over a month at the end we did a dream big week and that was the week in which we did the passion day and they did their big dreams so we kind of ended with that piece and now we've kind of been doing other mini lessons for different things since then but I guess my question is so that it sounds like the teachers are given the material and the

046ideas yes they're not creating them on their own correct yeah we wanted to make it a school-wide and everybody was hearing the same message and covering the same thing so yeah so yeah awesome yeah I want to give a shout out to the parent night idea the the first time I heard about this the the closest thing I could come to in my head was the open house that happens before a student enters the school but this is so much more than that and it's really uh aimed at it sounds to me like aimed at creating a community the parents the students and the folks at the school I really appreciate it commend it and hope you keep it up and grow it thank you thank you yeah it was you know we spent so

047many years that they couldn't come in the building and I was like all right you're allowed to come back in now let's get this started and giving away a 55-inch color TV we'll get them in the door giving away food we'll get them in the door so what was the video that we saw made by the student group that does the weekly videos no that was actually Mr manual he's my video guy yes I first of all I appreciate the um the variety in the in the examples you gave it went all the way from factory work to hairdresser to spinal surgeon in terms of the dream so just YouTuber two there was a YouTuber a YouTube yeah I forgot that yeah stand in line my son's on that path too Pat passion day a

048little bit so how many different passions were represented and then did the students get to pick which one they participated in yeah so we asked our staff we kind of did it that way we asked our staff some things that they were passionate about that they would like to share and we ended up having right around 40 different staff members running passion rooms and then it kind of just took off from there some brought in board games the owner of that came over and did a game with our kids a new game with them which they absolutely loved we had the wildlife Utopia out at Hope came in and brought in wild animals so we it was a learning experience because we let them pick their top four but they had never really seen them

049so they didn't know necessarily what each one was so we've learned the lesson is now we're going to do a slideshow and tell them what each thing really is and so that way they have a better better understanding of what they're choosing and they got one of their top four picks was there anything surprising in what was chosen or was maybe most popular yeah crocheting I was like I said okay what's your second option because I'm not really sure and she had an entire classroom oh entire classroom of kids learning some were doing their own thing and some were just learning so that was a pretty interesting one yeah we kind of learned is that we had a person who Friends the TV show Friends and she did like Cafe perk and all this stuff

050the kids that showed up thought they were just gonna get to hang out with their friends so she had trivia she had trivia and all this stuff and they had no idea what the show was so lesson learned about the doing the slideshow so they know what they're getting into but if she they made it work and again they all had a really really positive experience I hope there's no coffee involved that would have no very good thank you any other questions I don't excuse me excuse me I don't have a question but I will say several of the students came over to the library and was talking about it so yeah it's still been a conversation piece and they were asking when are we going to do it again and they've we asked them

051for their ideas this time so that like they like Pokemon and different things like that so now we're going to try to get teachers to do some of the ones that they prefer and and try to blend those in with what we're already doing so so we're excited to try to do that again here's your puzzles oh hey and next on the agenda we have elementary math curriculum adoption welcome as they're getting ready to go just a reminder to our school board we have this presentation tonight as kind of a first reading similar to how we might do policies there's a lot of information to try to gather here and you might have several questions Etc but we will not ask for formal approval until the next meeting April 3rd if you're ready to do

052that so just a presentation and information sharing this evening good evening distinguished board members Dr Roberts Dr Blake Mr Phillips other important participants thank you for the opportunity to stand before you this evening we're glad to be here I am Gail course I've been with BC SC almost 35 years and with Decatur County Schools prior to that so I've been a participant in a lot of math adoptions and I might just share the last math adoption that happened we were in a meeting in this very room with Mr Dale mcnallyn as the facilitator and I ask a particular question about the longevity of a math adoption decision and he answered in in his expert way and then added and Gail you know the next time there's an adoption neither of us will be here and

053yet Mr now and here we both are in different roles uh but still striving to do what's best for kids so thank you again for allowing us to be here I'd like to introduce to you my partner in this process another long time bcsc teacher Amy Ellsbury I'm Amy Ellsbury I have been in bcsc for about 32 years the last 29 I've been at Rock Creek and so I've taught many different grade levels I've taught fifth grade for the last 10 years so we're here tonight to talk about our hopes for the next elementary math program so first of all just a reminder the bcsc the vision is that bcsc is the choice to learn work and play and our mission is that we develop expert Learners by partnering with our community to invest in

054people so our goal is to present the bcsc elementary math adoption committee's recommendation for great minds em squared as the next adopted math curriculum beginning with the 2023-2024 school year and so I want to talk a little bit about how this process started back in the spring before the last school year was over Gail approached me about co-chairing this with her and so the first thing we did was to develop a leadership team so we started researching um to have a team reaching out to people it's the leadership team consists of various levels of classroom Educators we have parent Representatives we have special education ESL education technology administrator so we thought we had a very well-rounded team and then we reached out after that point to an additional review team who would actually review the

055materials so these are various classroom teachers that go from kindergarten through sixth grade as well as veteran teachers like myself all the way down to first and second year teachers we wanted a wide variety of input there individually people have volunteered as much as 26 hours collectively for the whole group about 428 hours have been volunteered toward this process oh if we have any members here from our committee tonight which I think we just have Mr backmire yeah if you will both stand please and be recognized as helping us out with this we appreciate you all right so here's our compelling challenge which research-based math curriculum will provide a conceptual foundation with instructional practices that promote student learning within the udl framework and so um to expand on that a little bit we want to

056adopt a math curriculum that will fit in with our udl framework and will provide the instructional framework for students to develop the conceptual Foundation we want to use materials and instructional practices that are going to help develop though not just the how of math education but the why an example would be in my classroom anytime we're working on on math we always end with what's our compelling question does my answer make sense we can compute you know we we know how to follow an algorithm but can you choose the correct one can you justify your answer so we want a program that's going to help develop that this is our timeline Cross of the process you can see that we started last year we last school year we had a math team together that pretty

057much was volunteer that we worked with the number sense we were developing in fact I was here a year ago at this March meeting with Mrs uh Detmer talking about math talks which is something that we've implemented at Rock Creek to try to help develop numbers since in our students the Summer Conference we brought in a speaker the keynote speaker was a person who is promoting that through their work and then we developed our teams you can see that we brought in we've had book discussions we brought our top three publisher representatives in our review team spent time here going through the materials they filled out rubrics and then the leadership team compiled those and collaborated to come up with our recommendation and then our goal would be in the spring of this year to

058start the rollout so that teachers are having not just you know the summer to get prepared but they'll know what curriculum we've adopted and they can start making those plans so you can see from that timeline that we did have opportunity for that leadership and that review team to come together thinking through the udl framework and having some opportunity for PD themselves so a few of the topics that we worked on were the eight principles of teaching mathematics by the National Council of teachers of mathematics meeting the conceptual needs of all Learners so back to that conceptual piece that Amy was speaking to building mathematical Community three aspects of rigor and math discourse which is that students talking about the mathematics so some important pieces there that we spent some time on we also then

059worked through those udl principles and formed a rubric around those principles that would be used in that review of the resources so every member used the rubric for each publisher and here you can see the results with the criteria on the left and the responses with blue being the highest rating yellow middle and red the lowest ranking on those criteria points so I'll give you just a second take a look at that scores just for a quick a question as we look at that remind us how many about how many people would have scored that to then tabulate was it on that it was about 40 people total that won't slide at about 40. yes thank you quick on this too are the so the one that's all blue is the one being proposed but

060the other two where where is our current system ranked is it on the right actually the current we use GO Math which is an hmh published but this one they looked at was really a new program from that same publisher okay thank you and then you can see the bottom uh criteria there the projected pricing of materials which leads us into the next piece where we introduced the spend Bridge representative Charles Wright to the Publishers and he then did the negotiating representing us so the timeline with spin Bridge there worked closely with him throughout that and then received those final quotes and their hairs where you see as Landing with that work with that great mind Eureka math squared right there in the middle Eureka math squared helps students establish a foundational understanding of mathematics

061the why rather than only relying on the procedural skills the how to better prepare them for College and Career teachers will see students strengthening reasoning and critical thinking skills that students can apply to solve real world problems and that can be applied to many real world situations I think in the fast-paced society that we live in and students are Technologies at their fingertips but we need to help them dig deeper into the why this is the correct answer why I choose this procedure this program has the has three parts that we're going to talk about the great minds digital platform and that's a great resource for teachers it has lesson facilitation along with the teaching manual which is very detailed um let's see the structure of urethra Mass squared follows the model of fluency launch

062learn and land using the Learned book and so the math talks that I spoke about a minute ago that's the fluency piece that's built into every lesson where now I'm supplementing that and then there's a launch to get the students excited about the lesson that's about 15 minutes between the two of those things and then you move into the actual lesson that they use the learn book with and then the land at the end that is an exit ticket or some type of formative type of assessment that you can use to just kind of gauge how the students are understanding the skill and then there's also the apply book which could be used as homework and that's just the additional practice and the great thing about the apply book as well it has parent notes

063and so there's a lot of resources in there for a parent who is supporting the child at home with the things that they need so you can see on this slide some data the the top table is from the Indiana graduates prepared to succeed site the GPS the new data site and you can see for the last two years on iLearn here all in all in district grades um three through eight we're at 40.4 percent Proficiency in math so in the last two years not much change you can see but even more decrease in proficiency than from 2019 the bottom table is from our nwea which the students complete three times a year and the the numbers there are quite similar to what we see on the iLearn so in Winter we're seeing still in

064the different grade levels these percents of students below Proficiency in the math with these and showing proficiency so very similar to our 40.4 percent so we do see a vital need for a focus on math instruction do you have a question yeah I do have a question and I was looking at on here trying to unpack it but I'm seeing all the arrows green does that mean it's trending better or it's it's a yes and it's also I want to point out we are still above the state Trend there but 40.4 is not okay in my book I would just add to that so yes it is yeah the GPS is a new system so for anyone uh wanting to maybe check that out the Department of Education would release the graduates prepare to succeed

065and there's still a lot of iterations being done and trying to understand what so that that green arrow wouldn't mean an increase but have from a perspective standpoint what does that really mean so um yeah each of those have gone up but still opportunities exist so they're working on actually changing that there's there's conversations that Doe to to change that Arrow piece to reflect something a little bit differently and then kind of a rookie question what's winter is that we take it second nine weeks uh yes December it was right before uh winter break um and the fall is taken the window is from August to early September and then we'll do again in Spring okay some research around this program Ed reports is a a site that does research on on curriculums and so

066they are showing that em squared I call it em squared Eureka math squared meets expectations in in those categories curate is another such site and then uh Indiana learning textbook review which was done many districts adopted last year it was the actual year for math adoption we have in the past delayed along the way so we with some other districts around the state are looking this year so this was the rating from the Indiana learning textbook review for Eureka math squared so to go to to that a few places in Indiana that are currently using Eureka math squared and then a couple that are in a pilot this year we did speak with teachers and curriculum directors from Washington Township and Wayne Township so got some interesting feedback there and how they were very very

067pleased with the increase in student math discourse that was something they could see right away so some high points there yeah real real quick oh since you've got that slide up I had some questions here if you don't mind me oh absolutely now it's fine um one of the concerns I had with this was bcsc according to Niche which is a good website to try and look and compare different School corporations in iche bcsc's number 42 in the state with uh 49 math proficiency when I looked at these schools Goshen Burma Northern Wells Green Castle Marion all of them were worse in the state so Goshen was 97 Bremen 112 Northern Wells 116 Green Castle 124 and Marion 139 and they all had um except for one worse math proficiency and they're using this system

068what I would ask for when you guys come back with the final proposal could you maybe possibly look at some of the schools the school corporations that are better than us so I just picked up a few here just looking through Tippecanoe is number 31. 50 percent math proficiency New Albany and Floyd 29 50 percent Mass proficiency both of those are over 10 000 students so that's probably a comparable School Corporation Batesville uh Batesville is number 22 at 57 percent Math Center Grove 14 66 percent math Monroe County 12 is ranked 12 in the state as overall Corporation they are 10 000 students and 57 percent math and West Lafayette school corporations rank the number one Public School Corporation in the state there are 72 percent math you would please could you um when you

069have the next kind of final proposal could you maybe look at those School corporations and and kind of compare and see what systems they use um to me I'm looking at the cost the cost is it's a lot of money to an average person but when we consider the life of this is seven years right and so when we're looking at seven year decision six year actually I believe it would be a six year so it's a it's a six-year decision which will impact a lot of kids right absolutely and um we're at 49 math proficiency so maybe Target over the next six years how can we move that to 55 to 60 percent and so that my biggest concern with this as I saw it was our Benchmark was was not as good as

070us and so I want to see what we could do to get even better than us so I I appreciate that and appreciate your work in finding those numbers one thing I might mention is that this these people have only adopted this last year so they are just using it this year so we might not see any results yet another thing that we ran into many districts are K-5 and then a six eight and when you start to look for math materials there are some highly rated that are K5 only so then we have to start to think what what is that for our sixth grade students in our elementary schools does that mean two total different adoptions but then it might be different than the seven eight so that that raised a a challenge

071for us in finding those so I would be interested to look into those those districts and see how many of them also are K-5 or six eight or are we looking at case six so you know are we really looking at Apples to Apples or not but thank you for that 100 percent agree um we we get this information on Wednesday Thursday and oh we have to understand absolutely so sometimes it's hard for us to do all the research to be that you guys have done over many months so so I appreciate what you guys have done I'm hopeful that you guys can take a look at that with us and help make sure just double double triple check that this is going to be the best solution for our kids moving forward absolutely thank

072you yeah I think this is what you're saying but I think I we need to save and stronger they adopted last year this is the first year they're using them and they haven't taken a state test yet so there would not be data to support that yet so you're going by anecdotal data of their reaction to the program yes it might I don't know but it might be interesting to see if any of them use the nwea and have that data for this year because we can't wait until the state test well they they could possibly too Dale I don't know if it would be possible if you went you don't have to go back a couple of slides but where you showed the difference between fall and winter for this year if at all

073possible one of those schools could help share some of that just to build some confidence right that this is helping them because that's the other thing too I guess we don't maybe an asterisk at the bottom that said been using this one year no scores of it right that would help too with just understanding is this moving the Right Way Marion County Marion schools at 27 percent math proficiency this is really helpful for them they should be able to show at least that internal to the year Improvement and we can check on that many schools do use nwea I I don't know which ones but we can sure check on that you mentioned and am I bringing this up from a strategic lens of six-year planning Cycles here and I'm assuming there's a parallel six

074seven eighth grade curriculum as well how what percentage has bundled their package into K5 and are we in a better position long term I understood I guess if you make this decision right you're gonna have another decision and probably I'm assuming it's some offset of three or so years and like it feels like we may be just making the decision out of a situation that we've grouped ourselves K to six but if most of the Publishers are moving K to five are we I you mentioned this I don't know what percentage it was yeah and I'm not sure I'm understanding your questions so just let me respond uh sometimes there are programs that only provide materials for grades K through five so they they would adopt but they still adopt on a six-year cycle um

075we would be adopting k-68 I mean seven and eight are adopting as well as well as the high school so I'm not sure I don't understand your offset of adoption there you mentioned that you know there's a there's a lot of Publishers out there and a lot of them offer really just k25 yes and the other ones are they group their next curriculum six through eight what I'm wondering is if is that a majority of the Publishers I wouldn't say a majority but I would say we were hearing great things about a one particular program that we might have really been interested to look at and it was a K5 only so that was kind of restrictive that that kind of restricted us um we we have in the past at one point in vcsc

076the sixth grade did adopt differently than K-5 and and that didn't prove to be greatly successful was that part of the discussion for the committee about how to do sixth grade and they decided early on to do okay six great questions great discussion I appreciate it so upon any recommendation being approved we would move forward we have an April 6th PD day coming up that might offer an opportunity just for some general overview um possible Summer Conference breakout session we are looking at what we like to call them power-ups when we get grade level teachers together and we might be able to go into the buildings and offer some opportunity for actual PD there is PD involved as well with from the publishers um professional days in the future great opportunities for that grade level

077drop-in sessions so after school perhaps third grades meeting at Richards this this month and fourth grades meeting at Parkside this month just for some collaboration and PD around that there is um a systematic intentional plan to develop an implementation and support plan so what does that mean within the building is there a go-to person is there what exactly does that mean so that's part of our plan as well so with all these things being said we are excited to recommend this as the adoption great minds em squared Eureka math squared hoping that this can be adopted and begin the 2023-24 school year other questions of course I might ask if if there's an interest to look at the materials between now and April the 3rd when this is going to come back and we we

078did even think about providing some samples but um it's a it's a lot there's a teacher book there are student books there so yes we do have samples if you are interested simply letting me know and I can make those available to you you can just email me gilp course G bcsc I was I was going to ask a similar question but for the cliff notes version so so there's yes we do have a publisher packet that might be the cliff no version again to just compare and contrast between what you have today and what people can expect to see in the future right so I I had a quick question it was a nice summary of how the the different solutions were ranked but did you see any significant difference in the different stakeholder

079groups and how they ranked it like did teachers see it differently than parents for example or or was everybody pretty aligned on the same solution rubric I would say on the days that we had people in reviewing it comments I could hear but not actually addressing what you're saying I might have heard a first or second or kindergarten or first grade teacher so excited about the apply book because it would be easy for parents to use so the teacher actually remarking from the perspective of parent and results of the rubric I I don't really think it's still it's stuck out okay thank you anything else so as a retired teacher there are a lot of things I miss about teaching but textbook adoption is not one of them oh because I know how much work

080goes into that and I appreciate how much work you've done and how thorough it is and I also commend you for including first and second year teachers because um it's a great way to get them involved early on and they do have a different perspective and many people would have overlooked them because they don't have the experience so I think that's great my question is so my Mantra is the research about cognitive demand during a lesson so to rephrase it in not non-math lingo we always ask who's doing the math is it kids doing the math or is it kids watching teachers do the math so can you talk about this program from that perspective a little bit in fact just the anecdotal remarks from Washington Township that was one of the people that we

081talked to there was a curriculum director and she specifically mentioned that the math has moved from the teacher's hands to the mat to the students hands so I think that addresses what you were speaking of and I you had me on the Y a sinner did you have a question yes thanks so at the very beginning of the process I realized that we narrowed it down to three vendors with names that sound kind of like craft beers to me and what I'm wondering is I'm used to names like Pearson and McGraw-Hill and Harcourt brace somebody else um were they in at the beginning or do they not offer these things anymore okay so it's really their products and they've just rebranded a lot of what you see is that people are merging and buying each

082other out so hmh is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt so there's a emerging um Pearson is now mostly by another name it's called Savas or Savas um when the when the whole process started how many different sets of curriculum were you looking for and at what point did you narrow it down to these three so we started I don't know there were probably 12 Jeff you had 12 2015 Genie I and we were looking mostly at that point online uh at the resources that way because it was not manageable to have that many we also looked a lot at um I was looking for this we also looked a lot at the um again the research the reports what we were what we were hearing so that leadership team then narrowed it down again that was when

083that discussion about K5 or k6 happened and so that um eliminated a couple and so that leadership team is the team then that narrowed it down to these three and then do we need to worry did your team worry about meeting State Standards oh absolutely and and that was part of the rubric uh the last thing um the apply book the parent materials it sounded like that was a physical book yes and I know that the times are changing but that seemed to me to be a really good idea to have a physical book that could go back and forth the parents and the students could work on together so I really like that idea I will 100 Echo that it's really hard to I had to double check but you have my daughter at

084Richard's so I that's why I texted earlier but I have struggled a little bit I'm an engineer so math is not the hardest thing it can be difficult um but for me it was relatively easy I was trying to teach my daughter some of the stuff that they're doing in high school and and it was it didn't it didn't look familiar to me the way I was taught right so in trying to help her I struggled immensely because I didn't have a book and I think that's that for me that's one of the struggles I've had with trying to help out so I appreciate asking for a book that that to me I think can help parents it can help the students because they can carry that resource with them everywhere at some point we

085have to get our kids heads out of these things and back into books and understanding how to how to take that knowledge and and absorb it yeah sure so you mentioned 20 plus Azure Publishers and this core team narrowed it down to three with K5 being won a limit could you just tell us like what's your top two criterias were that remove the majority of them just so we could understand things like Community State Standards math discourse so they can hear you oh well yeah we had a list of things that that were essential that had to be there we want to make sure the math this course was built in we wanted to make sure that the Hands-On was built and we wanted to make sure that obviously that met State Standards um learners

086right at that one slide that you had that had the different oh back the other way somebody am I sorry the one before that there you go where we were talking about the conceptual needs of Learners those types of things aspects of rigor we had different things like that but we were looking for and then we were able to eliminate programs that way can I add just a little historical perspective you said schools don't all adopt math the same year um and that's that's the way that happened was I think it was two adoptions ago in the middle of adoption the state changed Mass standards and so we as a system decided to wait until they got the new standards before we adopted some schools went ahead and adopted yeah thanks man thank you hey

087thank you very much um next on the agenda we have board commendations Mr now do you want to start no you're okay um yes I have accommodations to Beth flamian at Central Middle School and Brad Branham from Northside Middle School for their students performance at the math counts District competition on February 18th The District covers from Seymour in Jackson County up through Center Grove in Johnson County and both Central and North Side had students advance to the final round for the top eight students Brian y from Central finished 8th Northside won first place as a team and first place individual was Northside student and I apologize up front Arjun vajap Zula he went first place individual and it was on the first place team also on the first place team from North Side were Viva

088govindarajan Andrew Huang and Wendy Zhang seven students Advanced to the state including the first place team from Northside along with sanvi predip and Randy Zhang from Northside so of the seven students going to the state six of them are from Northside awesome thank you Logan yeah this past month Jason and I visited Taylorsville Elementary School which holds a special place as my elementary school as well and while we were there um Miss Gantt showed us the food pantry that they have inside that elementary school now which happens to be my old first grade classroom and uh it was I just want to give commendations to the teachers Carrie Tyree and Brenda Frady that partnered with local organizations to secure this in-school food pantry that's now serving hundreds of children and their families each day for

089those that aren't aware Taylorsville to the north of the county has a population that's approximately 70 to 80 percent free in reduced lunch and this pantry is ensuring that these children are not only being fed but their families are being fed too as this food is going home on a regular basis thank you the first one I have here for Mrs summers at Central out of over a thousand letters submitted this year the Indiana center for the book competition about well about literature competition five Central Middle Schools students receive special recognition a little bit about C4 it seems like there's nearly cost at least something great coming out as 4 program but recently put together a successful career week with a lot of community involvement 26 companies involved just under 100 different individuals from the

090community taking place or taking part hosting workshops leading a variety of talks on different topics so on Etc so good job to C4 there accommodations to those that put together the highlight video for the elementary basketball league Super Saturday and commendations particularly for making it at s-o-u-p-e-r Super first time collaboration between ebl and love chapel and they acquired 323 pounds of canned goods for love chapel and then in combination with that commendations particularly to the 33 student athletes from the 11 elementary schools boys and girls basketball representative and cheerleading were selected from each Elementary School for above and beyond that was not they were students were nominated by their coaches and teachers based on character and grade so excellent job to those 33 kids and um let's see and lastly um I wanted to mention

091a couple of teachers that were recently awarded Lily teacher creativity grants these were created many years ago for Teacher renewal kind of a refreshing time and hopefully gather some ideas that they can bring back to kids but Columbus East library media specialist Emily Cordova heard the title of her Grant is my own infinite adventure and she plans to experience self-renewal while camping exploring and journaling through throughout the Alaskan Wilderness and then also Smith principal Casey volts the triangle of Life embracing life habits in Thailand Malaysia and Sri Lanka and she plans to explore and draw inspiration from the cultures and wellness throughout those those three countries and that's it thank you um mine will be brief I really enjoyed the Wizards game on Sunday so for bcsf and for all of the teachers that participated

092that was a lot of fun I've been to a lot of sports things with my family and that was a family favorite so really really well done I'd like to send out commendations to the parents teachers adult volunteers that are part of the Columbus robotics program tomorrow night at six at the Reeves building they're going to unveil their robots for this year and that'll be a fun event but keeping a program like that going takes a lot of hard work and I really appreciate what the adults are doing in particular to help make sure that our students have the opportunity for that kind of an experience so so I apologize in advance for trying to be Mr Grimes tonight but I tested the thing I'm trying to propose for future commendations where I sent a

093request out to two different principles and assistant principles this last time asking for accommodations from their school for student Athletics academics and staff and so I only had one response but that one response was a full page so I'll try not to read it all um but uh I got this from Clifty Creek so Mr Parsons has already left unfortunately so he didn't get to enjoy um hearing what he wrote so um at the elementary basketball league above and beyond Wards Clifty Creek had three winners so Carla Hernandez for chair jakayla Smith for girls basketball and Tristan gramer for boys basketball Sophia Lawrence a fourth grader this is not um both her and Lily are not necessarily School athletics but this will translate long term into potentially high school at some point they both work

094with Columbus power elite Sophia on her Junior Team the charm currently holds a number five spot nationally out of 200 teams in that division her many team dream has consistently held the number one spot in the national rankings out of 220 teams teams so that's a big deal Sophia is invited to go to All-Star worlds competition in Orlando Florida So that obviously is not a school thing but we'll potentially translate when she gets into High School Lily broadviewer also participates with Victory gymnastics and is a place the first all-around in second grade at the five different gymnastics meets the last one for student Athletics is Caleb Parsons Caleb Parsons is the first fourth grader in Clifty Creek history to start every basketball game and led the team in scoring from an academic's perspective according to

095Indiana GPS Clifty Creek is trending upwards with the Green Arrow and every single iLearn growth and iLearn proficiency category so just a note about Mr Parsons and the staff and all the teachers the families there and the students that does speak very highly of Clifty Creek uh the fifth grade teachers I I think this is Teachers uh Dunvale Pearson tatlock looped the fourth grade students from last year to fifth grade this year and results have been outstanding according to nwea only 5 of the fifth grade students fall in the low achievement low growth category I don't have where that hopefully moved up from last year and we've got a smaller group there and the last thing for staff Kayla liffer the music teacher has done a lot with the students from taking them to music

096concerts to staying after school for the Clifty rocks rock band club to an upcoming second annual Battle of the Bands concert for Clifty Creek School building Susan Pena is the first grade Legato teacher she's in her fifth year she's doing a great job she came here from the Dominican Republic and is outstandard outstanding teacher in every respect she was the first hire for Legato it has been a great blessing to the school students and to Mr Parsons as well Melissa strevel for kindergarten attended a 40-hour course on her own accord to grow our abilities to implement new techniques into our classroom and Raven Chandler for third grade has a unique ability to take the class with a wide range of learning abilities and integrate each student into the class at an exceptional level so those

097are all the accommodations from Clifty Creek the last thing I have is again Logan and I traveled this last month went to Taylorsville and to Northside we met with Mr Burton and Mrs and miss notestine the principal and assistant principal we got to spend a lot of time walking through the building I've only been in north side one time so it was nice to go back and to see it from a different perspective it was also kind of interesting Logan's father had some design input on that building too previously is well as Taylorsville too so um there's about 875 students and teams of about 150 they all are engaged with the resource officer which is to me a pretty awesome thing we want we want students to not be afraid of police we want them

098to understand that they are a good resource and that they're safe people to talk to we were able to witness choir practice and we got a nice nice listen there to some good music which for me was much better than being at work listening to machines run Mr loxton is working to improve the computer lab they've done a lot of things there to make things more Hands-On previously they had a lot of modules that were spread out through the room but they've Consolidated those to different workstations so that you can do everything in one place he said that in his experience this year it's made them a lot more efficient and effective uh we went through the family and consumer science area they were making California sushi rolls we did not partake but it looked

099like there was probably about 20 to 25 kids in there having a lot of fun they look like they were enjoying their time and they've done some other things too with the courtyard that they have where they have many planter boxes out in the sun teaching them a little bit about how to grow plants and then go from garden to plate with that family and consumer science so I wanted to just make sure I know that's very long-winded there's a lot of stuff there to take in but a lot of good stuff happening at boat Clifty Creek in north side mmm Mr Ryan do anything tonight I have to uh you know this Mr standard reference and Robotics my grandson was in when he was uh it's great and now we will talk about him

100now that's it okay thank you okay next we have a school board member report so we do have a list up here however I think Dr Robertson might have missed one sure yeah so we just put together a list of meetings that we knew had happened since the last meeting and there might be other things that we've missed so we can maybe follow this to begin with and then add any on there to perfect for Mr standard you want to start sure thanks uh district districting and Facilities it just rolls right off the tongue isn't it February meeting covered four major topics we talked about Parkside we talked about high school baseball and softball Diamond work talked about Renovations at Schmidt and then we talked about a really interesting project that Mrs Keel from the

101Columbus Educators Association is helping us work on at Parkside you may remember we're doing uh significant Renovations we got updates on that project they're working on so I don't know exactly how they do all this but they're working on PODS of eight classrooms at a time and then when they get eight new classrooms ready they relocate people into those rooms and they begin work on the ones that they've just emptied so by the time the Project's completed I think they said there will be more than 30 classroom moves that will have occurred and then this summer when the building's empty things will really get underway also asphalt and concrete work this is in in between 15 and 20 million dollars total project to Parkside and I believe there are five different funding sources for that

102one the the baseball and softball projects are ongoing we got good updates on those projects and Schmidt there's just to the work that's going to be going on there General renovation in the classrooms in the building but then also specific renovation in terms of the HVAC at that building work is progressing and then um we were reminded as a committee that the last time bcsc built a an elementary school building was in the 1980s so we had to slide up with the new Central Middle School that came online in 2007 which is now how many years ago is that 16 16 years ago and again the last time there was a new Elementary School it was a different century um so one of the things that Mrs Keel is helping us with is going on

103listening tours at the elementary schools and um as we're able to share ideas based on what's Happening best practices all across the United States but then also specifically what's happening with the design at Parkside and the way that teachers and staff in the building had the ability to provide input into the renovations we're trying to collect and gather as much information and input and ideas as we can in advance of additional Elementary School renovation projects um not not on there but I did want to also give and this might be a good time for it a quick update on the subcommittee work the public engagement subcommittee met in February on a Monday night we had a good I think hour and a half two hours together probably about two dozen people in the room all

104together topics touched on ranged just across the board there were some traffic concerns about picks up pickups and drop-offs conversation healthy conversation about what would it be like to have cameras in the classrooms that people could access on the internet um there was a fair amount of frustration expressed to the school board which I think we've all got a sense of we've all felt about the inability of the public to meaningfully engage with school board members we haven't quite gotten to the next steps which I think will be um redesign going forward to help us achieve some of those goals the next subcommittee meeting is set for Monday March 27th School Board I'm sorry after after a strategic planning but also after spring break thank you after spring break and then I'll touch on the

105second bullet on the list there the business advisory committee there were two main topics one was an effort to um engage students more in civics and how the government works and how citizens participate in the work of government this in particular is designed to fit well with our new sixth grade State Standards on Civics and government it's designed for students between 5th and 9th grades and it may look like a summer camp that's been piloted in some other parts of the country again all focused on helping students learn more about our government the United States and about Civic engagement second half of the meeting was an introduction for everyone on the committee to Ms Angie Kirkham who's the new Multicultural coordinator for bscsc we got a chance to catch up on the work that she's

106doing and kind of like Mrs Keel Ms Kirkham is actively engaged in listening to students listening to parents and before she begins a lot of new work initiatives she wanted to purposefully take time to listen to the constituents in the corporation so that was the business advisory committee you Mr Stenner so I attended the diversity leadership council meeting at Mr Edwards leads there is just a lot going on so they asked me to give my thoughts at the end of the meeting and I said I need to listen at least one more meeting before I feel like I can comment because there was so so much activity a really broad group of people coming together all very eager to help and support but definitely a lot a lot going on there they also talked about

107that Civic engagement Workshop opportunity for students and I was super excited about that so the concept is you bring kids together you help them understand like what's important to them what in the community is important to them and then they work with the kids to try to help them figure out like how do I engage how do I actually make an appreciable difference in whatever that cause is so so it's not just them learning about a topic but but working to make our communities better which is a great skill obviously for our kids to learn so that was pretty exciting um so that's it for me Mr Grimes from the school Foundation yesterday lunatic Space Jam Skywalker and the other members of the Harlem Wizards put on a very entertaining show the executive director Nicole

108Cunningham of the school Foundation estimated the crowd at about 2 000 people so very good turnout a little over twenty four thousand dollars was made for the school foundation in ticket sales souvenir sales and sponsorships and this might have better fit in commendations but I would like to make quick mention of the combined choir of all the elementary schools that that sang the national anthem prior to the game was excellent and they didn't rehearse together until till the morning of and then the next event for the school Foundation is a 5K at Southside Elementary School uh the good better best Saturday April 29th at 8 30. um and I'll move a transition into my role as the legislative liaison on Tuesday February 21st I was able to attend Indiana School Board Association State House day

109as a good opportunity to network with a lot of other board members across the state we heard from caucus leaders education committee members from the Senate and the house and I would like to say special thanks to representative Lauer who took the time to have lunch with me and engage in good conversation and then Senator Walker who came out of the floor of the Senate to to talk for a few minutes with me as well recently attended the virtual third house session again with representative Lauer and Senator Walker it was just this past Saturday on March 4th hosted by CIA with c c Haya oh my gosh that was it uh Freudian slip perhaps cea I'm sorry oh my goodness oh boy and so some things learned from that and and this the this legislative

110session is now halfway through so bills have either either made their way to the other chamber or they have died or rolled into the budget at this point and the isba tracking list is now down to 68 bills which means approximately 70 percent of the bills that were tracked from the beginning dealing with K-12 education are now dead uh some of the bills that got most of the attention um in the third house session on on Saturday uh Senate Bill 12 about material that's harmful to minors uh Senate Bill 486 that covers a variety of topics with arguably the biggest topic being what the discussions might look like between school employers and certificated employees moving forward House Bill 1177 about providing handgun training for teachers and then lastly arguably the biggie House Bill 1001 regarding

111regarding the budget and so it's it's so full of stuff I won't even um get started with that but it has moved on to the Senate where I'm sure it will receive some amendments and I believe that concludes mine hey next homeless Mr major yeah so I actually had two this time um Health Trust only meets quarterly so that one's probably a little easier to forget but it did meet um so I'll talk about it first we met on the 15th uh it's a it's a very interesting committee most of us don't understand Finance or Insurance very well so I am going to be challenged to learn a lot in between meetings it was interesting to look at the 2022 year in review there was a lot of information that was shared from sciho from

112Dr Klein and from ja benefits there's a lot of discussion for the future about how we can work and try and cut costs improve access and ensure customer satisfaction lots of surveys going on lots of material there to understand things a little bit better and one I think one of the biggest examples of improvements is community health is added to the network and so that's going to help give a lot more opportunity to people to see some doctors that they might not have been able to see in the past from a city Redevelopment perspective we met on the 27th uh this this I'm not a voting member in that so it's more observational and just kind of understand a little bit about what their dreams are for Columbus it so one thing that they have

113coming up on April 6th is the grand opening of the 1821 Trail they talked a lot about the downtown grocer and apartments they talked about the planning for the downtown Conference Center Riverfront project is still very early and then there's also some early planning for Second Street so there's a lot of good things there that I think when you look at will be helpful to make Columbus more attractive to people to want to move here and if we can couple what the City offers with what we offer is going to be hard to beat so that's all I have thank you thank you Mr Schultz so welcome Dr Roberts to this update as well because this was given to me about one week before they met and I had a conflict but I do have

114the notes so and I did review the results but the cic did meet on February 8th reviewed the resilience through strength survey which was approximately 5 800 students and opportunities to connect better with those students were provided to the review overall there's a review of the structure of the or the council in general which we'll be discussed in the next meeting and then we talked they talked a lot about the professional development days setting the agenda for the one that was on February 20th and discussing the plans ahead of the one coming up on April 6th and then there is also a discussion around models uh to improve our high schools and which there was an opportunity to go uh Benchmark as High School in our area just to understand that model and how it

115could be applicable to bcsc and the next meeting is not scheduled till May 10th okay Mr and Ellen I think we missed maybe one of yours The iupuc Advisory Board met on February 8th and just three highlights from that meeting that I want to share their inquiries and applications are up for this time of year over the last several years so they hope that will result in higher enrollments for next fall and many many of those are are our students going on from bcsc they are continuing to expand Athletics really for two reasons it it increases campus identity and it also the students who go there a chance to participate in athletics at iup you see which they also said is sometime in the near future we'll be changing to Indiana University Columbus instead of

116IUPAC along with the change at IUPUI and the final thing is it was they have a very lengthy strategic plan which they have put together in the last six months but out of all that the one thing I will pull out is they have several several initiatives to increase their output of Educators and that's certainly important to us okay good thank you very much okay next on the agenda I believe we have cabinet report Mr Edwards thanks I'm going to spend just a few minutes talking about what I've got written down here on this paper um I'm pretty confident that I know exactly what it says but as soon as I try to do it without looking at the paper I'll leave out something huge and meaningful so I'm gonna work from paper if everybody's

117okay with that um back in January Mike Reed principle of CSA came in here and he made a presentation to the school board about best practices occurring at his school and in that presentation he made a statement that our students benefit from small schools the CSA graduation rate has consistently been over 90 percent for at least the last five years um I said a couple things there that I want to go back and point out our students benefit from small schools and CSA averages over 90 percent consistently that's outpacing the state um in in their graduation rate is is um is pretty solid so I'd like to add a third thing there it's because of the size of the school that CSA is able to place an emphasis on building relationships and getting to know

118their students well so in terms of graduation rates Norse graduation rate hit a high water mark of 91.1 percent in 2014 and East hit a high water mark of 90.6 in 2018. since then the graduation rates that both schools have declined and what we know is that demographically CSA is a magnet so that means it's north students and it's e-students and the reason that's I point that out is because if we can achieve a 90 graduation rate with north and east students at CSA that means there's a path for us to do the same thing at North High School and at East High School on February 28th I had the opportunity to visit Brownsburg High School along with nine other Educators from bcsc we went to ask questions and we wanted to hear directly from

119people working in the schools about their teaming model the reason we chose Brownsburg is because when we began benchmarking our performance against other school districts in the state with High graduation rates Brownsburg stood out and the reason they stood out is because they have one of the highest graduation rates in the state and they face some of the same educational headwinds that we do in terms of the socioeconomics they don't have single digit free and reduced percentage-wise it's somewhere in the 30s for us at the corporation level we're pushing about 45 percent but we have some of the same hurdles the other thing that we liked about Brownsburg is that they've been doing this for 12 or 13 years so they have implemented it for a while now so there's a lot of data there

120for us to be able to to kind of learn from and they do it well so during our visit we heard from assistant principals we heard from the building principal counselors academic coaches assistant superintendent the superintendent and we heard from kids everyone we spoke to spoke of the power of teaming and the team structure but the students spoke the loudest they had very powerful stories and selfishly I want those stories for our students one of the questions we asked Brownsburg was why why did you go to a teaming structure and the answer was twofold they wanted to make growing they wanted to make their growing High School Community feel small again and they thought they could do a better job of getting kids to graduate those were their goals 10 years ago looking back they

121did it they effectively hit two birds with one stone they made their three thousand plus student High School feels smaller and they increased their graduation rates they're consistently above 90 and they're competitive with some of the best in the state now when people hear teaming in in the educational field they think of academic teaming they think of placing teachers on teams but that's not what we're talking about since we've been studying Brownsburg I'll describe their structure it consists of an assistant principle a guidance counselor an academic coach and an administrative assistant that is the structure of their Student Success teams and we are extremely interested in the concept but we also know that whatever the reconfiguration it will have to work for us here in bcsc what we want to do is put into place

122a team of people responsible for the success of our students and we want to arrange that by cohort which means we want a team of people in place for the freshmen a team in place for the sophomores the Juniors and the seniors so if I'm on a team if I'm working on a team when my freshman becomes sophomores I move up with them when the sophomores become Juniors I move up with them when they become seniors I move up with them and it is my job to get them across the stage of note the cohorts are always arranged by graduation class so this cohort would be team 2023 and the reason they do that is because it increases the focus that we have on this particular set of students we know that we got to

123move them through in four years we know that 2023 is the deadline and it keeps it in front of everybody and it keeps everybody focused so if I'm part of the team I really only have three goals or three aspects of my job I need to get to know my students well I need to get to know their parents well and I need to get them across the stage so implementing a team structure helps with all three of these things by increasing the accountability it reduces the ratio of students to adults within the team structure and it increases the ownership of the team which increases the likelihood of success I spoke to a former Brownsburg assistant principal who has been in a different role for the past four or five years but he could still

124tell me the size of his last cohort how many kids graduated and what that graduation rate was this is four or five years on to me that was powerful there are weekly team meetings to discuss students absences tardies discipline grades Etc then the team can make a plan to figure out who is going to be responsible for addressing or following up on each of the things that they talk about in those meetings and these conversations are about students they're not about numbers they're not about percentages they're about students so having seen the power of teaming on our visit to Brownsburg bcsc's goal would be to give all students the experience of a small school and to increase our graduation rates thank you questions any questions from the team yeah as I've been thinking about this

125I wonder about and I'm sure you've thought about the ability to to marry this with maybe some existing programs that are already out in the community do you have a vision for how this might work with a program like igrad absolutely yeah so we are studying what that might look like but one possible thing is that igrad could provide a layer of support that's what they do now they provide a layer of support so um that's what we would look to do with igrad use the folks that we're bringing in in the academic sense to marry with that program but there are also other things that we're thinking about doing with igrad so for me to say that we have complete plans on how that's exactly going to work we're not there yet but that's

126just one possibility foreign [Music] this is a good example of benchmarking so this is the based on this the number four school corporation in the state with a 76 percent rating and 77 percent math proficiency level so being that they've been doing this for a while that seems like a like it's probably working pretty well in their favor this says average SAT scores just under 1200. so that to me is probably pretty excellent so I think the big thing for me is is understanding again how we can use this here what's the cost difference between where we're at today and where we need to get to do we need additional teachers administrators how will this look from a uh I guess Staffing perspective to be able to attract the right people to be those coaches

127so to speak to work those kids through the system that's uh that's a big question um and so I'll address pieces of it and if I leave anything out please come back and and uh get that for me so when we think about what it looks like here um we're thinking about implementing the same team structure uh so what we see working for Brownsburg is um something that's tried and true they started and then they've made adjustments over the period of many years and so again when you're studying somebody that's been doing it for 12 or 13 years there's a lot to learn for us it would just be we need to figure out what we need to to get started and so that would be those teams at both of our high schools Columbus

128East and Columbus North we know that there's a size difference between Columbus North and Columbus East and so we're looking at how would we implement the team structure there are the number of teams at Columbus Northrop in Columbus East what would that look like so really we know what the structure would look like what we're trying to decide is what does it look like from a numbers perspective so how many teams are going to be at each place with respect to cost I'm going to have to phone a friend um and I kind of toss it to Chad Phillips because I know that we've looked at some models but again uh the dollars and cents part is that's not my strength yeah and we're not it's not like we're voting on this tonight exactly exactly

129something to just think about for the future to just help us understand you know if you told us it was going to cost 30 million dollars to do this we would think about it if you tell us it's going to cost you know five to ten more teachers in each school that's obviously we can start to do some math you can see clearly there you know putting trust in Niche right there's a huge difference in their performance versus here they're 25 to 30 percent better with their reading and math proficiency levels so that translates at some point um you know so the the one thing that I I kind of glossed over in my um report here is that our our demographics aren't exactly the same um demographically they're um well they're different than us

130and so we didn't find a district that mirrors our demographics exactly that was doing something that we wanted to study this this came close enough and again based on performance it was well what are they doing that we could learn from but they are a different District thank you let me just add real quick to Jason's questions there it may help without getting into dollar amounts at least next steps Jason so on Wednesday of this week hoping that Dr Parsons would be approved we set up a meeting to to bring Dr Parsons into that conversation as well as the the other principles in the corporation High School principles and the corporation and then our Teachers Association president um and Chad and Gina uh to to review all of those questions that you're talking about make

131sure we understand where we are what the what is that that model look like what's the ratio of adults to kids in in that cohort to try to provide that support and then you have a strategic planning session on Friday on May March 24th and so we would like to get some more specifics in front of you at that that meeting so sure no I think you answered my question it's just in terms of timing and and the goal I think is that we would try something for next school year is that right to just to make sure we're all progressing towards that nurse sure is yes yes I think the only the only feedback in 100 loved the idea and love the benchmarking here is not necessarily focusing on working through the system but

132kind of referencing what Mr Payton and Mr Manuel presented is that purpose so as a recent I mean relatively recent it's been a while now on the BCS graduate side I can still remember going through North side and knowing my team name and that was my sense of belonging to seventh grade voyagers and eighth grade North Stars and knowing I belong to those teams and so I would challenge this team as they work through look at that branding because then that can create that sense of belonging and also almost inter-team competition situations which I think was if I recall the CSA fadre's best practice some time ago so yep any other questions sure so I was actually teaching at Central when they Transit when we transitioned from department-based system to team-based system and it was

133the best thing that happened to Middle Schools ever and I've often thought about how does that look in a high school because high schools are more complicated I mean I I never had a class that had students of all one grade level but the two things I see here that they're bringing over are that it's a team of adults focusing on a group of kids together and and it helps with relationships and those are two things that come from the teams in middle school so so I I applaud your efforts my only question is so we're looking at implementation this fall is that a 9 through 12 implementation or are we considering a rolling implementation or do we know yet my answer would be it's a we're jumping in like it's everybody it's full go

134so not not rolling it's 9 12. okay please so Brownsburg being a bigger School are there cohorts approximately 750 yes okay yeah and then 700 plus and do they break down the teams any more than that or are they simply teams of so they're simply teams of 750 um they're uh what they found was when they grew Beyond five 600 it was hard for the counselor to do his or her job within the team so what they have done is they've added counselors rolling so when you graduate a class and you come back and pick up your next one they have started adding an extra class or I'm sorry counselor in her team and So within the team the counselors will break up by alphabet um but that's really it in terms of breaking down

135the team thank you thank you Mr Edwards okay um next we will move on to public comments I believe we have one person who has signed up Mr Eric Rowe speak on curriculum I think we have three minutes and I don't know how to work this weekend the evening board and admin are we on my name is Eric grow and I come to you as always as a Civic minded citizen of our community and a father of three you know I just saw a a new curriculum on the agenda tonight with no information alongside it and granted the presentation and your questions were very insightful I just want to take the opportunity to to ask you the board and administration to provide the information regarding that curriculum publicly so that any and every member of

136our community would be afforded the opportunity to know if they might have questions or input for their board members I think even with the presentation in our community wouldn't even know what it is that they don't know that has the potential to raise a question or input and I know this one's you know it's math and math is math and then you know there's different ways to do that same math but you know the point being I think it would be pretty straightforward for our community but you know this is still a very important decision and I'm thinking more along the lines of you know best practices for future curriculum adoptions you know from the perspective of transparency and Community involvement um you know providing as much information as possible as early as we can

137so you guys can kit input from your constituents but yeah I just wanted to bring that up and I thank you guys for your time and consideration thanks okay I guess it's me yeah all right so I will I have just a few items comparatively to what I've had in the past for your approval this evening I'll start with the minutes of the regular school board meeting from our last one which was a month ago February the 6th and then we did have an executive session that evening too we have supplemental contracts in your packet as well as field trips and professional leaves and then a list of school fundraisers uh we have claims in payroll with the claims dated today about 1.1 million dollars in a pre-run for February 1st through February 28th that

138was about 4.4 million dollars uh we had payroll for February 10th to February 24th a total about 6.9 million dollars and that did Cover the checks of February 10th and February 24th that cover the work periods from January 16th through February 12th so a couple of pays in there and then we've already done letter F so we can leave that off in the recommendation and the last one is approval the adoption of Edmonton as the vendor for CVP specifically for grades 6 through 12 which we're considering secondary with the way at our Columbus virtual pathway is we had Edge annuity and you had information in your packet about Edmonton for that so I am asking for approval for letters a through e and G given that we've already taken care of f good okay do

139I have a motion to approve items a through e and item G I move that we approve the consent agenda items as presented by Dr Roberts a through e and G thank you Mr Grimes do I have a second second thank you Mr major all those in favor say aye question um what what I would ask seems like a pretty simple thing um field trips would it be possible to get the cost of the field trips right now it's just this field trip may be paid for by students or clubs or maybe paid by the corporation most of these that I saw are not very expensive it's just one of those things where when I I when I say yes to something I'd like to have just at least a little bit of understanding what

140that is thank you okay all those in favor say aye aye aye oh there's a post motion approved Dr Blake I request to Prevail the HR recommendations as presented this evening do I have a motion to approve the HR recommendations as presented I move that we approve the HR recommendations as presented by Dr pleek thank you Mr Grimes to have a second thank you all those in favor say aye I want to catch you a lot I'm going to catch you a lot we had talked in the past about maybe sharing you know a little bit about what some of these things are just so the public is aware is that something that we could do in the future I think that's part of our committee subcommittee focused on agenda so I think that's enough

141I have to wait till then to do that I think we're working towards grouping a lot of improvements together so we can look at that separately in that committee meeting and and we could approve separately one of the key things with Ellen Jason is trying to figure out legally how to to couch that in a way that doesn't compromise it and we've been working we've had some questions for Mr McIver to figure that out so once we can get that figured out we can give the the proper information that does go beyond because I know what you're saying here is how do we go beyond what is up there and still um be appropriate from a Personnel standpoint so okay I'm good now okay thank you all those in favor of approving HR recommendations say

142aye all right oh there's a post they are approved after please okay word input does anybody have anything they'd like to add tonight very quickly I'd appreciate Mr Edwards presentation and I am really looking forward to seeing this move forward two areas of questions um one just given the public comment is there Clarity is there any process already defined within our policies to share curriculum ahead of a vote by the sport with the public nothing in policy none again not that that's right or wrong but nothing in policy that indicates that yeah and I think the other the other feedback was is the original agenda for tonight's meeting did include the second reading of the proposed policies however that has since been moved and after learning about my role in this board that's one of

143the most important functions is that we set policy and I want to again reinstate restate that I wanted the public to be able to see these before we have a second reading vote and from my recollection I think first reading was January 23rd yes and I believe this will probably come up in the next regularly scheduled meeting we had our like Mr Center said we had our subcommittee hearing on the 20th of February I was talked to by at least a dozen folks after that meeting asking about these policies wanting to understand these policies and as they're elected official it's very frustrating not to be able to share what we're talking about and so I guess and I had asked about them being posted two weeks ahead of this meeting clearly had the topic has

144been removed from the agenda I do want to motion this board to post these by March 17th to give us two weeks to the public ahead of the next regularly scheduled meeting for the public to properly read digest and ask questions in the public comment opportunity well I could comment on that before going any further so uh in regards to um those policies I have Rewritten uh all 20 um into a format that I've shared more publicly than had been in the past more easily digested to to be clear as to what previous policy was and what the exact changes being proposed are so each have been Rewritten final reviews are being done and then Sherry Mrs Crispin will take those 20 documents put them into a single one and make sure that that PDF

145is is made available so it should be out I would hope by the end of this week this is Chris been given what we reviewed today so then the next time we review those would those then be considered a first reading since they are new it that they aren't new in terms of revisions they are new in terms of I'm okay either way Jason but the changes aren't there are no new changes from what you saw before but it may be easier for you to digest the changes than before so I I'm good either way with how we choose to handle that I'm not in a rush to make sure that those get get through we want to make sure they are as transparent as possible so however the board choose to choose to do

146that but they will be on the agenda the next time again April the 3rd anything else Mr Schultz okay Mr Grimes uh congratulations again to Dr Parsons for uh being named the new principal at a East for next school year thanks to the many presenters here this evening uh Mr Grow for sharing his thoughts and a special thanks and congratulations to the two students here this evening uh Utica her very thorough presentation of solar energy and a real example of the power that senior projects and the impact that they can have and then also Tommy Morrell's recognition for his accomplishments um and wrestling but it's also even greater to hear what a great human being he is and that's that's what it's all about thank you nothing but it's a great agenda tonight there are

147lots of uplifting news so thank you to the administrative team for putting see how full one can be when we have just one meeting in a month right that is true before we move on if I could just add something that I don't think we brought up tonight and as a a kid going up around here playing a lot of basketball it was nice to see Columbus North cutting down their own Nets on uh on Saturday night so congratulations to Paul Ferguson and the Columbus stomach bulldogs for a sectional Championship yeah yeah they're kind of nice to be able to recognize and honor Mr Barker for his contributions at Rock Creek right at Rock Creek and then also a shout out to the family of Dr Parsons of whom found something orange to wear tonight

148and did notice a lot of orange at the very beginning of the meeting this time I think Amazon can deliver pretty fast so real quick speaking of Dr Parsons Dr Parsons Dr plake and I share a mutual friend and in the process as we were leading up to this and Dr Parsons was recommended I reached out to this individual just to get some feedback on the person's character and what kind of person he is this friend of mine led a leadership event last fall with a bunch of students probably about five to ten students and what was really telling to me about Mr Parsons character and what kind of sold me on him after a long conversation of course was when those kids those students were asked who they could identify was a leader they

149mentioned him and so that told me a lot about how the students felt about him and about what kind of person he could be and we need good leaders in front of these students so that they can have somebody to look up to so thank you Dr Parsons I think tonight is over all right make sure we uh let's see I'm going backwards sorry about that so we'll miss that extra slide there we go okay just make sure that we mention these strategic planning session March 24th in this building probably in this room I'm assuming at nine o'clock and then the next board meeting is on April 3rd oh the 27th should we quit the 24th meeting will be in the boardroom which is upstairs okay Tara's room here for April 3rd and then subcommittees

150are up here March 27th I'll be the same rooms that they were in before perfect perfect okay