4/4/2022 School Board Meeting

001are we ready all right good evening it is wonderful to see so many people here tonight so i welcome all of you to the regular school board meeting of the bartholomew consolidated school corporation and we're very very glad to see all of you here we start each of our meetings with reflections from one of our board colleagues and tonight we will hear from nikki wheeldon hello nick am i sounding okay all right good um hello so i am going my reflections stem from a sermon that i heard from my pastor a couple of weeks ago okay and there was a story in here that i thought was pretty moving um so the the sermon was focused around a man named dashrath manji who lived in india dashra's wife had grown ill he was in a

002small town in india and he needed to get her medical attention the nearest medical facilities were 44 miles away sadly the medical attention did not reach him in time and his wife died um there are many things that he could have done in that moment he could have been angry he could have become overcome with grief and instead he decided to do something different the reason it was a 44 mile journey was because he had to go around a mountain okay and so he stood there and looked at this mountain and said well i can fix that mountain over the next 22 years he worked by hand not with equipment not with government resources not with crews of laborers but he worked with his bare hands to carve a path through the mountain the the

003path ended up being 360 foot long which doesn't sound like a very great distance but at its tallest peak it was 20 foot 25 foot deep okay so imagine you're in the middle of a mountain and you look up it's 25 foot high and you've carved that by yourself by hand over the last 22 years in remembrance of your wife oh by the time he was done this i think took from 1960 to 1982 by the time he was done the path that you needed to take to reach medical attention had shortened from 44 miles to less than one mile so one man significantly changed the outcome of that one village so i thought where is my pastor going to take this there's lots of things the love of a man to his wife hard

004work okay and he closed with a with a quote by reverend william bucker i'm probably not saying that right who was an american religious leader and public speaker the individual activity of one man with a backbone will do more than a thousand men carrying a wishbone [Music] so the sermon is done i immediately look over to my kids and say were they paying any attention to this whatsoever okay there's some powerful stuff in here am i going to have to repeat all this which is why i wrote it down because i'm assuming i will have to do that over the years the second thing my own self-reflection is do i have enough backbone in my life you know guys i make lists of things like we all make lists of things that we want to

005do and am i focusing on enough of them that i'm going to make a real impact and and see a 360 foot path someday as i look as i look behind in my life and then am i a good enough role model for the people around me both my children my family my friends etc so um in in closing um i will say it also made me think about the work that our teachers do so our teachers teach math and they teach social studies and they teach all of these things but they're also teaching our kids how to do something with that parents have a role in that coaches have a role in that but there's there's a huge amount of work um that our school corporation does to help kids um find their backbone

006thank you very much as you are able if you'd please stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance [Music] indivisible all right not only is the house full our board is full we are all here so we officially have a quorum and we will begin tonight for those who come here regularly our space is looking very new and actually quite fair it's like there's nothing behind me but please note that we have made a point of going through an important strategic planning process and have come with a new vision and mission which still uh direct and guide the decisions that we make here each evening and in addition to our vision and mission we also have a core beliefs and they have been modified again reflective of the work that we have done in

007our strategic planning so with that there are several reasons why we have wonderful people here and the first is um addressing special approval of a new appointment so i'll turn to dr roberts thank you doctor so there is a slight change in the originally published agenda because we've been able to make it higher at least a recommendation to you to accept this higher back about a month ago we did you did approve evan burton as principal at northside middle school and since that time we have had a a team hard at work trying to determine uh who the assistant principal might be at northside middle school since evan was moving from that position to the principal and we had a vacated position and so with a team of individuals reviewing several candidates we did have

008a nice pool of candidates available highly qualified individuals that were interested in that position and through the interview process we do have a recommendation ready for you here this evening so i'm going to ask mr burton to come forward and make his first formal take take a formal act in front of the board which is to make a recommendation uh to you for his assistant principal at northside middle school mr murder good evening everybody lots of firsts already in this month so here's another one mrs monica note sign is a product of bartholomew consolidated school corporation she attended parkside elementary northside middle school and graduated from columbus north high school in 2006. monica obtained her bachelor's degree from the university of indianapolis in elementary education and special education she received her master's degree from ball

009state university in educational administration and supervision she has 12 years of experience in the field of education she began her teaching career at mount healthy elementary school in the classroom setting before excuse me in 2010 in the classroom setting before moving into the role as a special education teacher for this 2021-2022 school year she served as the assistant principal at the seymour 6th grade center i would like to thank the staff from northside that assisted me in the interview process and we are excited to have monica return to bcsc and serve as the next assistant principal at northside middle school thank you all right thank you mr burden so with mr burton's recommendation i would ask for your approval of miss notestein as assistant principal at northside middle school okay so officially i have to

010have a motion to approve miss notice stein thank you miss dayhofdwyer is there a second thank you dr bills are there particular questions that anyone has all right with that i'll ask those who approve this new appointment of miss noticed of our assistant principal at northside middle school if you signify by saying i i those opposed congratulations there you are very good thank you monica is here so monica i would ask you to come forward good evening good evening good evening bcsc school board and community i am monica not stein and i wanted to thank you for this opportunity i am so excited um and enthusiastic to be returning to bcsc i look forward to um serving the students and staff and families at northside middle school to the north side interview community thank you

011for believing in me bcsc has and always will be a part of who i am and i cannot wait to get started so thank you once again and as always go spartans we're good about all right very exciting and next we have the opportunity for some special recognition of teachers here in our school corporation so i'll turn to doctor yeah and dr blake we're just going to change the order just a tad to to make sure it's okay we just turned things around because we have the video and other things tied to that teacher of the year recognition so we are going to recognize the columbus north gymnastics team but an individual in particular so mr clark if i could have you come to the podium thanks mr clark thank you on it's always it's

012exciting for me to be able to come up here and to be able to share with you that we've had another state champion at columbus north high school high school i i um gonna turn the time over to our coaches and let them talk to you about some of the accomplishments but just i do want to thank the board for taking the time to recognize our students for their excellence and the things that they do so i would like for the coaches to join me at this time caitlin bob and sandy come on up all of you emily coming up now i told emily not to do any somersaults or or anything she's coming up here so she's so far so good i'm going to turn time over to caitlin rediker she has been with

013us for two years is that correct and first year as an assistant and this is a first year as her head coach so she gets to have a state champion in her first year as a head coach it's pretty amazing so i'll turn microphone over to caitlyn thank you school board and bcsc for having us out here um it's a privilege to honor emily moore tonight for all of her accomplishments not only this year but in all of her four years she was all conference all four years all state all four years and then she had the honor of this year achieving her final goals her one goal was to place first place and all around this year she came close last year by achieving second place but she finally achieved it this year and

014got first place she was also first on floor and beam for the second year in a row and then she tied for fifth on vault and then unfortunately mars wasn't her best this year but we're proud of her and all of her accomplishments um she was all-conference indiana this year and she had the honor of being allstate this year again we're so proud of you emily emily says thank you [Music] [Laughter] [Music] i would just say that this this little gal doesn't look so tall even though she's got heels on but for four years every single meet every single event this she trucked it in and just was a rock star for our team so it has been awesome she carried her shoulders may not be that wide but they are super super strong because

015she carried our team for four years so it's been a pleasure and she's off to indiana state to do great things next year thank you guys so much all right thank you congratulations [Music] yes now is the time all right so we're looking forward to recognizing the teacher of the year nominations from each of our school buildings [Music] do [Music] yes good evening it's wonderful to see all these smiling faces and wonderful educators in the room this evening at a board meeting this is the part of my job as assistant superintendent for human resources to be able to acknowledge our amazing teachers they are we are going to recognize 20 of them this evening and they're representative over the 760 amazing educators that come in each and every day to do the best for all

016of our students um so i am going to call them up one at a time if we could hold our applause till the very end we'll recognize them and then teachers of the year at the very end after all are recognized and we shake hands with board members we will ask you to go outside to take a group photo so let's see just to give you a little bit of information we opened up the teacher of the year process this year january 24th until february 25th and we share the google form on all our social media outlets principles shared with their newsletters and ease and on the radio everywhere we could we shared the information we had over 500 nominations this year now some of those are teachers being nominated more than once the same

017teacher but they could be nominated by staff colleagues parents students and community members and at this time really excited for the 20. their next phase has been to apply for district teacher of the year bcsc teacher of the year they have until may 20th to submit their application will decide over the summer and recognize at the august school board meeting so again these are they will all tell you they are representatives of their amazing colleagues each and every day that it is my pleasure to recognize all of them so as i call your name please come on up and we'll make a line let's fill this room up here let's fill this space c4 teacher of the year jeff metz graphic design clifty creek hayley bush first grade central stacey horner life skills csa fadria

018stephanie keel first grade csa lincoln dean wright third grade csa new tech veronica buckler english columbus virtual pathway cvp allison stidl grades three through six columbus east suzanne ramansky lrc pre-k early childhood jennifer morlock pre-k teacher at parkside mcdowell don michael thompson restart mount healthy jennifer justice 4th grade columbus north david spencer english northside middle school christa reardon life skills parkside elementary edie logsdon ac richards elementary cassidy duel 5th grade rock creek elementary angie gender 6th grade schmidt elementary kim bock over lrc dr please let's have the next one start coming up to here come up come try to fill in and not be blinded by the light so we're up by me you come by me come on okay yeah there we go smith element yes leave they'll follow look at you that's why

019you got teacher of the year right there perfect example smith elementary alicia johnson third grade yeah we can have two rows we're all right we're flexible here we have options southside elementary mandy kill ac taylorsville elementary carrie tyree grace123 school board members board of trustees these are 20 amazing teachers that have been selected as the building department winners for bcsc for 2022. everyone in the crowd everyone on the board cabinet members let's all join an applause to celebrate these amazing educators and they also get a some new bcsc swag with our new motto together we learn so pretty excited for that thank you so much i always look for these opportunities let's keep them coming thank you congratulations [Music] thank you congratulations yes all right how fun and exciting so our next presentation is to

020learn more about best practice at columbus north high school and we'll speak with you mr clark thank you again uh always uh wonderful to be able to come up and speak to the board and share some of the things that we feel like our best practices at columbus north high school we start with our school slide i i didn't really get much but i'm assuming we still cover some things about the school right and i had a slide that i put together and uh mrs hester's really jazzed it up for us a little bit um just tell us a little bit about columbus north high school and what we're all about so as you can see there's try to we try to hit all the the pillars of bcsc we talk about udl we talk

021about pbis we talk about being respectful and responsible and building positive relationships this year i guess i'll point out a couple differences from the last slide other than the jazziness to it a couple differences would be that uh that our language is 32 different languages spoken at columbus north high school and that constitutes about a quarter of our population so our demographics have changed i remember when i first came to columbus in 2003 wasn't near that and so we are an evolving community and it has i would say personally to you it has enhanced and enriched our lives here in columbus and i'm very proud to be a part of that the other thing i'd point out is since that time we have also picked up a i think another state championship this year with

022our girls cross country so we're going to make sure 39 third most state championships and of all the high schools in the state of indiana so that's a little bit about columbus north high school we move now to our best practice i i want to say that's that's um for us this year we were really excited when the board approved a professional development time for us it's something we have needed it's something we have longed for and and just we've had some fabulous days with that so we wanted to say thank you to the board by showing you that that is we feel like was one of our best practices this year that we were able to take that time that you allowed us and put that into in into get that ball rolling and

023put into work and we'll have a staff member and a student here to share with you as well the takeaways that came from that almost immediately so i'm going to turn the time over to mrs hester and let her talk to you a little bit about those this best practice thank you i'm a pretty honest person so in full disclosure i had help with from our udl facilitator corey williams on that fancy slide i cannot take all the credit she's much better than i am at slides so the first thing we wanted to do is just show you we're working really hard to put together a database for our teachers and so in that database it has all of the professional development we've done in different places throughout the course of the school year and

024it's linked so that they can go back to those professional development sessions or even if it's one they weren't able to do or they didn't choose as an option they can revisit it there so we're collecting everything in one place the second slide basically shows where we came up with our professional development goals so basically we looked at universal design for learning is kind of the roof the framework of the house that columbus north is hoping to build and then we have positive behavioral instructional supports social and emotional learning school-wide learning outcomes we use habits of mind and then culturally response responsive practices so we surveyed our teachers to see what they needed in terms of professional development how could we best help and support our staff in these areas and so this is our

025reaction this is also a quarry slide so i can't take credit but um i did do the other slides i promise but this this slide is how we really felt with the addition of the days that you gave us because it's so rare that we can give professional development on a day when teachers don't have to worry about how their classroom is performing and get away for a quick quick lunch or stay after school when they might be helping students so we're just really grateful for the opportunity in terms of planning the day the district plans the morning and then in the buildings we plan the afternoon so we had a chance for all of our staff to be made familiar with the strategic plan which was really great and then we also had some

026udl mpbis videos and also discussions in different groups with our staff and then we had the lunch break and then we came back and did our building pd and this is how we broke ours down we did three sessions and so in session one and two there were six different options much as universal design for learning gives options so we had six staff members present in session one and six different staff members present in session two and then we used our udl facilitator corey williams to do a great keynote on cultural responsiveness for all our entire building we did have to find the experts which we decided we could find many experts within our building as dr pleek said we're blessed with amazing staff so we wanted to really draw on the talents we had

027and share those with all the teachers in our building and we were able to have seven sessions regarding udl two with pbis two with school-wide learning outcomes and social and emotional learning and then three that kind of talked about cultural responsiveness and we're lucky to have here tonight a teacher example and a student example so our teacher example is andy keifer and his um title was focused on creating authentic conversations between students to encourage inclusiveness in connection to class content andy thank you jen um looking at my topic i that's a mouthful those words there i can't believe i put all this together um so the the professional development day on february 21st gave me the opportunity to present to my peers my teaching goal this year focused on improving student discussions focused on current

028breakthroughs in biology and zoology as you can imagine uh student discussions and the climate we've had the last two years is a challenge and so this was a very valuable day for me to kind of formulate some things i could share with my colleagues and it was in a supportive environment and i was able to share an application that i've used for years called flipboard that i assumed everybody knew about but surprise to me it was very very beneficial to all my colleagues that came and that meant a lot to me and this is used to guide discussions and to support inclusiveness so i combined that application with some methods i learned from other teachers especially brad branham who also presented later that day my teaching skills did improve this day because i had time

029to share ideas with with teachers and from many different subjects so you can imagine with the size of our ability and the number of teachers that i don't get to have those conversations outside of my department very often so that was very valuable to me and i appreciate it thank you i'm going to introduce claire edwards she's an outstanding student i'm i'm really excited that she's going to be able to speak to you for a little bit and she's a student in my zoology class so this is claire hi as mr keith faber mentioned i'm a student in his zoology class and his zoology class is one of my favorite classes and that is because of all the lab work we do we each work with a lab partner and i really appreciate having a

030lab partner because it gives me someone to bounce my ideas off of and it also makes our dissections go quite a lot smoother and what mr key favor worked on over his professional development day is he implemented a new activity for us to do we've been learning about anthropomorphism which is giving animals human characteristics and he organized for us to watch a movie and to take notes and he also organized an incredible discussion for us to participate in and what was really nice about this discussion is we were able to do it in a small group which we haven't really been able to do because of covid and this was really nice to hear from people that you don't usually get to talk to maybe because they're on the other side of the classroom or

031because you don't know them very well but it really helped us write our analysis that we had to write after the movie and after the discussions thank you claire and we just have a few testimonials i think i forgot to start i this is not i'll just admit this i forgot to start my stopwatch and i used to coach track so that's really that's really sad but i'm just going to flip through a couple testimonials for you to see from teachers i will read the one that was regarding mr key faber since he's here it was refreshing to hear from a current teacher who understands the experiences taking place in the classroom on a daily basis and the helpful tips they are actually applicable in any class and then we just have some pictures you

032can enjoy and our teachers as you can see we're just really appreciative of this time as we are so our biggest take home is a thank you to the school board and that we have amazing teachers and we feel really blessed at columbus north oh i think i'm supposed to say are there any questions is that right mr clark thank you very much that was very helpful to learn about are there questions individuals have yeah sure go ahead mr grimes so please forgive me for not remembering this um is this year two or three for block schedule you're second here yes okay so in um well i guess my question is and we kind of tie it into this is how things been going with the block schedule at north well probably better i mean

033as an administrator i feel like things overall are going well there have been some adjustments there have been teachers have had to learn to chunk their time better and so we've spent some time with that there have been some teachers who have appreciated the ability to take a little bit longer on a you know topic or a subject and to be able to allow students to actually dig into that while they're still there and get their questions answered but there's there's a i'd say overall it's been good so far we're still working out some things uh that need to be tended to as always we said when we went into this that it would be an evolution and that we wanted to if there were any changes we wanted them to be organic so we're

034getting feedback and we're talking about things that might need to happen as we move forward thank you other questions tell me a little bit about how you use flipboard in the classroom you mentioned that uh yes i've been using flipboard for probably um 15 years i read a lot i'm reading articles all the time what i like about it is it's high level academic articles that you get which is kind of counter to a lot of what our kids look at and so it's hard to get them excited when there's also a really exciting tick tock video so um trying to get those in front of them as much as i can and and i read all the time and i'll see something i really like but i it's an easy way for me to

035throw it into a folder that i can pull it up and have it for the kids access the next day thank you nice other questions thank you thank you very much for sharing about the first professional development day and you're ready for another one next week we're ready we're excited awesome great thank you very much you all right next is our team who'll be talking about our secondary social studies resource adoption and i'll ask you all to introduce yourself as you take turns hello i'm laura oozley i'm the udl facilitator at northside central and mcdowell i'm corey williams the udl facilitator for north east and mcdowell we share and i'm brandi coomer and i'm the coordinator of instructional technology greg lewis social studies department chair at columbus east and central middle school lori martin uh

036social studies department chair at columbus north high school and northside middle school okay so corey britty and i were the facilitators of the social studies adoption this year and when we first started thinking about who we wanted to include on our committee we know that we needed to reach out to greg and lori the department chairs and so we met with them and we wanted to and be sure to include a representative from cea and that we had good representation from all secondary schools so we have a variety of teachers teaching a multitude of classes at different levels and then also we had some parent representatives on our community this year as well so we had a couple of goals going into the year so we knew that we needed to provide some professional development

037making sure that we connected udl and cultural responsiveness so that we kind of leveled the playing field and made sure that everyone on the committee had a good background knowledge to move forward so we used udl guidelines the windows mirrors and doors article to accomplish that goal and then obviously the big goal was to make sure that we evaluated and selected the best materials for our 7th through 12th grades in social studies so we spent some time looking over the rubric and actually refined it a bit and then had a variety of vendor sessions which we'll be showing you in just a minute so corey's going to tell you a little bit about our timeline so this all started last school year last may is when we first met with the department chairs to begin

038the process and then the beginning of this school year we got started with two half-day professional developments with the whole team and so first one we established norms reflected on our current resources that they've been using for the last six years and how those aligned with udl and maybe some points of strength but then some areas where we could grow in new resources some shared learning experiences like laura said around cultural responsiveness and windows mirrors and doors and then started working on our shared understanding of the rubric and the rubric's been around for a few kind of cycles but it's always constantly kind of changing and tweaking to best fit whatever subject we're adopting that year and kind of new current updated practices our second day we worked on a futures protocol so where did

039we see the social studies departments and our secondary buildings five ten years down the road um technology and integrations information from brittany which we also had the challenge of thinking about changing lms's after we have adopted this uh material this year we'll use it for one year with its learning and then it also has to work with whatever new lms we have the following year and then also some continued shared learning around cultural responsiveness from there we were ready um after we had asked the teachers what vendors they wanted to see and hear from um we started after school sessions we had 17 sessions and heard from 13 different companies and so all of those committee members that you saw on the first slide there all of these sessions were held after school hours so

040they were giving their their personal time to really um dig into this work to find the best resources that they could for their kids and so then december and january they had time to kind of look at the samples that were sent watch the recordings and get online access to really dig into and use the rubrics to pick out their best favorite sources and so in january they had the top two to three per each course due we worked with spinbridge this year our company to do our negotiations um and so they were really easy to work with we had a representative that did all of the negotiations for us and then after he got all of those final quotes um our student services coordinator was able to calculate the potential course fees the department

041chairs took those back to their teachers and march 11th right before we left for spring break we had our final selections these were the 13 vendors that our teachers had asked to look into and so we had presentations from all 13 of those all right so i did want to share this as someone who's on both the elementary resource adoption and also the secondary so last time we all saw each other jeanne long gave an awesome presentation about how social social studies at the elementary level really was recommending studies weekly and that one rose to the top and discovery education at the elementary level wasn't quite at the same resource level as studies weekly so we did pick discovery for some of our grade levels and i did want to share that it's a totally

042different experience between discovery at the k-6 versus high school and middle school the elementary version of discovery education is a little bit more of a viewing for a video platform you search videos there's not a whole lot of structured content for teachers there whereas at the secondary level and i tried to scroll through this so you could see a little bit of the difference there there's chapters there's resources there's the ability to translate content into multiple languages there's assistive technologies for text-to-speech dictionaries there's resources there for the teachers to use for assignments for students so a little bit more robust in the elementary version so before we go into all those resources i wanted to share that little bit of pertinent information and help clarify that so now we'll get into the actual selections all

043right so this was my fifth adoption overall my fourth as department chair and i'll be perfectly honest with you i don't consider it to be among my favorite things that i did in my job and i mentioned that just because uh i want to give special thanks to laura and corey and to briny for making this by far the best uh of the process and it was uh really just seemed so much less painful this year so um so that being said so after our two pd days after our two professional development days we we got all our materials we got access to the digital um trials uh i set up subcommittees with the teachers that either currently teach that and or have certification in those areas around each of those classes then they began

044reviewing the materials using the rubric looking at state standards they had access to the presentations yielded uh the two to three top picks what's really interesting and unique about this round for me of the four that i've led uh this is the only time that we uh came across came the results were uh quite uniform actually so um at both the seventh and eighth grade level at central uh it doesn't indicate it here but both my world uh texts uh and uh resource packages are by savas and then also one way then at east the four core classes in addition to ap psychology all selected savas now this was there was a little bit of overlap by teachers maybe on maybe teaching world history and us history but there was no concerted effort to say

045hey let's do savas this was really organic in the way that it occurred and i think it speaks uh pretty loudly to the quality of the sabas program overall i just find that noteworthy um interestingly also um savas was the selection of world languages and english at the middle school level at central yeah and so kind of consistent with that as well uh last year so um all of the other courses are based on uh teacher preference uh looking especially the ap courses looking at what the ap uh curriculum from ap central has um um and so it's a not the same uniformity as the core classes but um they're all there for you to um see i don't really need i don't think i need to go into a great deal of detail on

046them but i will take your questions after we're done if you have any specific questions about those so with that here comes laurie martin my colleague at north i have not been through as many uh book adoptions as greg this is my third book adoption too as a teacher and this is my first one as the department chair so i put um i made a slide for the process that we used so we well first of all last may i did a survey for my teachers and i asked them to think about what they liked about their resources what they thought the strengths were what they thought they wanted to improve uh what are you looking for in new resources so we kind of started thinking about this last year then we utilized our department

047meeting time at both north and northside northside has a curriculum planning time every other thursday they also used that time all of my teachers participated in book and resource adoption selection just like greg we had subcommittees and we looked at all of the content from different resources based on what teachers taught all of the teachers had access to vendor presentations and recordings thanks to the efforts of brittany corey and laura so they could watch those and i attended i think 11 of the presentations so i could tell my teachers this one looked really good i think you should really watch that so i felt like it kind of helped them to narrow the scope a little bit the teachers used the committee uh the rubric that the committee developed to help narrow the choices their

048top choices were based on the rubric scores but also on the cost and each teacher wrote a justification like a rationale for the resource that they chose and we talked about them we collaborated with the english department we talked about what worked really well for them what did not work well for them my teachers almost all of them are involved in some type of facebook group for their curricular area and they had a lot of conversations with teachers all across the country about the resources that were being used especially in ap because ap teachers are kind of of like mind so they felt like it was really important to have those conversations and they got a lot of good information from that so i um for both 7th and 8th grade northside my teachers they

049love discovery they love all of the resources that it offered all of the things that bernie talked about the immersive reader in discovery is better than anything that we could find outside it levels the reading depending on lexile score it can do different languages it has a lot of interactive activities so my teachers had discovery previously and after going through all of the other resources they chose to stick with it my middle school teacher said if we can get both discovery and newsela for social studies this would be my dream world every single one of the six told me that so because of the genius of charles at spinbridge he was able to we actually got discovery in new zela both at the seventh grade level for three dollars and 36 cents less than we

050paid uh in the last six years uh eighth grade went up just a little bit we tried to stay within a ten dollar budget not going anywhere above ten dollars for each semester for each course so we were able to do that with the middle school my high school teachers for geography world history and united states history also chose discovery for very much the same reasons i think corey linked their rationales to your presentation so you can read them if you would like again because of spinbridge and charles we were able to actually save 2.86 over what we had been paying previously so government economic and our standards economic courses are listed here both government and econ went up a little bit econ standard actually went down um most of the choices that we went

051with were like really well like looked into it was kind of even when i went back and i looked nine of the resources for courses were the same that we have used previously and nine of them were were brand new uh same thing psychology and sociology uh i actually myself teach sociology and had a course um worked at iu on course development for sociology and my group recommended this uh book a down-to-earth approach and i loved it could totally understand why so we are changing sociology same with psychology those are two new we are adding a course in social studies called latin american studies this was the brainchild of one of our world language teachers who really wanted to focus on the cultural aspects of the spanish language that they didn't have time to fit

052into their regular spanish class so she chose this book so this is a new course indiana studies ethnic studies and humanities do not require any text that's completely teacher created for the ap courses we did a pretty good job of staying within our budget nothing above ten dollars vfw i kind of want to point out ap us history has used bfw uh for the last six years and because of that my ap gov teacher and my ap us teacher talked about the benefits of bfw and they decided that if they adopted the same text which they were different before that students who normally take apush would also take ap gov and that way they would have kind of continuity they would know how to use the text and that has also worked really well for

053discovery because my seventh through eleventh graders basically use the same resource so they're very good by the time they're even eighth graders at navigating it um ap econ this is the same text that she's used before ap euro switched um this was her first year teaching it and she really did a lot of research and talked to her facebook group and found that this cengage text was better oh i think that's it oh no ap psych sorry um ap psych ap human geography um also stayed within the budget ap world history modern is going to be a new course in two years um at columbus north so that's why that text is a little bit above our budget is because we've not we didn't have a cost before and then i'm going to share a

054new tech's selection they don't have a true department chair we worked with uh veronica buckler who was their teacher of the year who was just up here a little bit ago to make their selections for ela last year and then because she taught yale last year and she's teaching social studies this year so we got to work with her again um and they selected this resource called actively learn and so their social studies and english classes are co-taught and so this resource is a perfect fit for them because it's a lot of current event text so they'll be able to tie in ela standards um while hitting the social studies content um it has immersive reader accessibility tools fully embedded in the platform it'll integrate with both our current and any future lms we select

055um and you'll see the cost um info there um for this resource they are very excited to get started using this it was pretty kind of uniform decision there and cut and dry for them so the google doc that's linked there in your presentation contains all of the online access vendor recordings website links for any of the resources that were selected so that you can go in and look at any of those and then it also as laurie mentioned has the teacher kind of rationales for why they selected those programs so if you want to see why the teacher selected those certain programs those are linked there as well um or if you have trouble with any of those or want more information about any of the resources that we presented to you tonight um

056you can contact any of us up here and we're happy to get you hooked up with those those resources questions for us wow that was a lot of work so i deeply appreciate that are there questions individuals have i could tell that you did mister he is a social studies teacher well i was i guess i still am i don't know um so [Laughter] um a couple questions so i understand the importance of uh taking into consideration uh individual teacher preferences teacher styles and things but central northside northeast why why the differences and is it so a why the difference and b has been typical over the years that books have been resources have been significantly different try so um well the two schools are very different um obviously and uh so i don't know

057the last time around we we adopted discovery and uh and my teachers at both central and at east for the two the seventh and eighth grade at central and the um the uh four cores we're really uh very much wanting class sets um under uh action and expression uh on the udl rubric one of the uh one of the items is that you know students have options for accessing materials and uh if you've ever been in a classroom and uh if a teacher in a digital platform in a with a digital text a lot of teachers also provide paper copies and tons of kids take those paper copies and so we just thought it was the best of both worlds the digital platforms for savas were very very strong um and uh so that's why

058we did that but getting back to your question about why the difference um i think that we were given the freedom to go the path that we wanted to go um i mean i'm sure that if we had gone a single route that uh we probably could have had some additional economies but i think as uh lori mentioned we stayed we tried wherever possible to stay within the financial parameters that were laid out for us i don't know how did i do that all right you want to add anything i agree with everything that greg said the cultures of the schools are different our teachers have different teaching styles and there was very much consensus between our teachers in the curricular areas my teachers felt like the digital platform on discovery which was important to

059them uh was very good the interactive activities were good the immersive reader was good speech to text was good being able to adjust lexile level they felt that newsela added a lot to discovery and that they could use primary sources it connects primary sources to current sources so that students can make connections that are authentic and relevant so they can kind of see how this old history that they would think is connected to present day so new zealand does a really good job of that and they thought by combining those two resources and they have the ability to print pdfs if they need it my kids at the middle school found a little bit differently because our demographics are a little different that they preferred the digital so i think it's just different cultures different

060demographics and i think we we both tried really hard as department chairs in those departments to do what we felt was best for our particular set of students yeah i would especially echo that last comment that she just made i would just also share that even though they chose different resources they're still teaching the same curriculum the same standards it's just different resources to use with the students and all of the resources they chose still aligned with the udl framework and still scored well on the rubric and had the accessibility features and the translation and kind of all those key pieces that we really need to have so it's just two different sets of resources to teach the same curriculum um and even within you know at least two teachers next door to each other

061that have the same materials they're gonna teach it in different ways and use those resources in different ways to best fit their students so really having that choice as close to the teacher level as possible um has kind of been the philosophy that we've taken great do you have enough yeah and i have one more um and this is certainly not intended even though it may appear as if it's certainly not intended to put anybody um make anybody uncomfortable put anybody on the hot spot but of course you know the the political climate in which we now live um you know a lot of the hot button topics center around the social studies and so was there ever any consideration or thought given to um perhaps and i've seen other corporations do this and that's

062why i kind of thought of this thought or consideration to kind of a public open house once the materials were selected to invite the public in for just to give them the opportunity to see those materials i would say that like i would say that as well also all of our materials are linked to its learning so parents can also log on with their children's help can log on and see the resources um i feel very strongly we had a lot of conversations about the political climate and cultural responsiveness and multiple perspectives however we also decided as we talked that our these resources are just that they're resources teachers can pick and choose the best things that they think they should use from those resources it is not the primary way that my teachers teach

063it's definitely a resource that they use to align to the curriculum and align to the standards and if the materials don't align to the standards they find other ways to teach echo that i don't have a single teacher that i would call a textbook teacher last year when we were here presenting to the board corey and i to about the ela we received a question about if we had parents on our committee so we took that back and that is a big reason why we did want to include parents this year hoping to get a little bit of more feeling like the community is welcome in decision making yeah so we had two parents who had access to all of the resources all the communication everything that went on throughout this um but i would

064also say any of the resources that we had listed on there all of their websites have information that the community could see or if anybody um wanted more information they can we can share that same document that we have linked in the slides thank you mr stenner thank you great work and please express our appreciation to all the committee members i'm curious about the interplay between indiana state standards and and the ability abilities of these vendors so i'm imagining in your rubric one of the lines has something to do with state standards and you know the box that describes the worst they didn't even think about indiana state standards and the box that describes the best you know it was a great uh great setup to address all the necessary state standards are there vendors

065that aren't at that top level today i mean i can't imagine so a business model where they wouldn't be but all of the vendors will say we are aligned to indiana standards would you i'll not agree with that we know that that's not true so what my teachers did is they looked at the standards and they looked at like for example in discovery there's an essential question for each little section in the chapters and so if those essential questions did not align to the state standards they didn't use that section so again i kind of go back to what i said to mr grimes is that it's a resource and my teachers know that and we i mean we're fully aware that texas california new york they textbooks are made for them they're not necessarily

066made for us so we as a staff it's our responsibility and i think greg would agree it's our responsibility to make sure that we are utilizing the resources the best we can and making sure that we're teaching the standards based on the standards and not on the resources we chose i would say one of the main ways that stands out is the seventh grade standards for indiana are not like the seventh grade social studies standards pretty much anywhere else in the country so that's one way we can see right away if they have things that will align for seventh grade for indiana because that has to be tailored to our state standards because hardly anybody else has the same seventh grade so that's one of our quick ways we can look and see if they

067have things specifically for indiana a couple other points i appreciated the distinction about uh the discovery materials that we talked about at the last board meeting that that was very helpful the difference between the secondary and the elementary materials and then the other thing that uh i'm curious about uh is somebody mentioned charles at spend a bridge and the ability of that third party to kind of step between us i'm assuming what are the arrangements between bcsc and spinbridge that allow us to take advantage of this check can you hear me okay um so last year um we were approached by a vendor that uh spinbridge came in and said we we do procurement across all kinds of sectors and they mentioned textbooks when i met with them initially and it struck a chord with

068me immediately as an area that at least at the elementary level the negotiations happen between the administrative assistant to dr hack and these textbook companies these textbook companies that have an incredible amount of clout experience in negotiating um and whereas on bcsc side almost nobody has that somebody who does it every day versus somebody who does it once exactly and so spin bridge takes the original quote that they get for what we receive from the textbook companies they negotiate all throughout the process so they just get that list of all those 17 or 19 vendors and they go while in parallel these folks work on what is the best choice for us from a teaching and learning standpoint once these folks select their vendors they hand it back to spin bridge and say here's your

069task now go finalize the price spin bridge takes 15 of the difference between the original quote and the the final price that they negotiate uh it's so far this is the first textbook document we've used them for and the the feedback that i've gotten from both the elementary and secondary has been very positive in their experience with them so we um as long as all the financials work out we may move forward with with further textbook adoptions with the same company so we're uh parties to or members of other purchasing groups but this is the first time we've used the expertise of the purchasing group for textbook adoption resource material adoption correct in in textbooks as far as i know there aren't any purchasing cooperatives that do textbooks they do everything else from computers to

070water bottles and microphones but as far as i know i don't know one that does textbooks that's great thank you and a question for keep that mic mr phillips so i'm i'm glad that on top of making sure we have the right resources to teach our kids there was a mention of budget which is also helpful i wondered where the ten the ten dollars that was referenced how do we how do we identify that that one didn't come from my office from a financial standpoint it's probably more thinking about parents and the impact on families but that's an assumption mr jensen thank you mr johnson very good thank you other questions so i was wondering about the rubric that you use for that is that in the google doc that you sent us it might

071not be but i can check that and add a link to it thank you all right thank you all very very much for this work and please thank your colleagues i know it's a lot just listening to that many vendors makes me twitch so may i say one more thing absolutely i want to absolutely praise laura cory and bernie because as greg said they made this process amazingly simple um i think i said maybe to greg i don't know how you and libby did this before they were here um they were phenomenal i also want to give a shout out to my amazing department who put their hearts and souls into choosing these resources and making sure that they were doing the best for their students so i just wanted to give a huge shout

072out to them as well they made my job very easy yeah i'd say the same thing about my my folks and uh i would also say in terms of the process i can remember some years where we had upwards of 10 10 days that we met on the process and so to get out of this thing with two days it's immeasurable thank you thank you all very very much so just a reminder to the board that would serve as the first reading of what is something you will then look at to potentially approve at our april 25th meeting right and we'll have the opportunity they've given us the google doc that we can go look at any and all of this as we wish all right now is the opportunity for our annual food service

073update from dr bozeman and miss mill spa i jumped in front of nancy because she won't let me speak highly of her she tries to grab the microphone before i do so i'll introduce uh nancy millsbaugh director of food services for bcsc just want to mention uh publicly and thank her and her department for leading the district and the community through some challenging times with the pandemic and supply issues and a few of those things she'll mention but um we've mentioned that before but just appreciate her leadership during this time and i'll let nancy take over her annual presentation for you this evening thank you dr roseman and thank you to dr uh roberts and to the board for inviting us tonight to update you on our department i'm going to start first this evening

074just with our meal participation data from august through december you can see we have had a huge increase in meals since this time last year excuse me what part of that is is we are currently providing through a waiver through the usda free meals to all students regardless of their income guidelines at this time so that's i think the big jump in this last year also at this time compared to last year our kids are in the building so we're thrilled about that and that you can see has made a big difference in participation for us um these are some photos of some of the current offerings that we have put on this year to kind of increase our participation with the kids the first one on the top left is one of my favorites

075is the cuban sandwich with spicy garlic mustard it's really good if you haven't tried it come in and eat with us there's also a southwestern chicken wrap which has been very popular with the students we have added a hummus bowl for some vegetable protein for the kids and then we have a new pot sticker dumpling that's going to be probably in the next couple weeks which i like it i hope the kids like it and we've done a little testing with them and they seem to our summer feeding program you can see we did have a huge amount of children and families eating with us in 2020 with the pandemic this last summer it did cut back a little bit i think again because things opened up and people had a little more access to

076food in the community so that's that's wonderful our summer meal program speaking of that we actually won an award recently it's called the turn up the beat award so it's kind of fun uh and nationally it was from the usda 84 sponsors across the united states qualified for gold silver or bronze and bcsc was one of three schools in the corporation and we did win a silver um currently we're still under usda waivers these are just a number of the ones that are working under another one is that from to actually january through uh june of this year the usda is offering an additional 25 or 25 cents per reimbursable meal given purchased by the students and also we are under the the universal meals at this time these were not included in the most

077recent budget past it's at the national level and the waivers are set to expire june 30th for us what this means for bcsc is the universal free meals will end at this at that time we are expecting a decreased participation because of that and then we project a 40 decrease in reimbursement per meal because of the decreased participation and the loss of the 25 cents additional to each meal the kids are receiving that's going to cause less flexibility for us to deal with the supply chain issues which are continuing to plague us we've never seen anything like this this year i thought last year was bad as far as that this year was a nightmare but it's going to be better next year so i'm always a plan for the worst and hope for the

078best so um with the supply chain i mean the main centers of play things for the kids that we just expect like pizza and chicken patties and hamburgers we haven't had we haven't had hamburgers in our district probably since november um so it's been tough and but we have been very pleased with one of the waivers that um the usda allowed people to do is to to not provide all the the requirements for a kid's meal which offer five components of the food groups and we have not taken advantage of that we have continued to provide all the requirements that the kids do it might be a little bit different that's what's on the menu that day but they they have not received any less nutrition from us this year the meal service regulation changes

079will significantly affect our meal service options that just being said because you can't give um you know food to the parents off of a bus you can't do feeding in areas that are uh like might have required to be able to qualify because of their income those will go away with the the loss of the waivers um some new procurement changes for us this year we are planning to join the southern indiana commodity co-op this is going to allow us to join 11 other school districts and purchasing in group of our groceries and things like that for food service and we're projecting a savings to all of those divisions for our program the healthy hunger free kids act did not go away with any of this it's still in effect and it just means that

080schools are federally mandated to raise the price of lunches if they're charging less than the national average determined yearly we haven't had to worry about that this year with the universal free meals these are the last few years of the national paid equity again this year we're on the universal free meals they have not released that lunch equity for next year however if you look at school year 2020 21 at 3 and 90 cents our school district is still currently not even at that so this just gives you an example some other school districts currently they will face the same situation because they will still follow the meal price regulations and so uh proposed meal changes would follow the recommendation where they raised about 10 cents as is the cap on those each year and

081on the last slide the school nutrition association they do have an award each year for the food service employee of the year bcsc has nominated cynthia dilling and she works at mcdowell education center i don't know if you've ever met cynthia i highly recommend you go and meet her she's a fabulous person and one of the things we did is we talked to some people and if you would allow me to describe her from the words of the staff at the school and also you know staff in the district that know her and different students the words to describe cynthia are positive kind welcoming respectful loyal committed fun gracious humble and she treats everyone as if they were part of her family cynthia to me displays what it really means to take pride in a

082job well done and she does it showing kindness and love to all this award has not yet been determined by sna we're still waiting on that but i i honestly feel that bcsc is already the winner by having someone like cynthia dilling on her in our school family so um this ends my presentation for this evening short and quick and if are there any questions i'd be happy to answer those you're itching do you have questions so i i just can't fathom all the changes and and i'm assuming still some unknowns yes so so can you elaborate a little bit more on the choice of going to a cooperative and what that's like so i remember these really long lists of things that we have approved and you've gotten you know competitive bids and i

083look at all that bread and go oh my goodness so so explain what we'll see differently and how how you've come to that choice our our bid price um our bits actually were out um already and with the competitive bid and then actually what is happening with the climate with the all the production and manufacturing and the supply chain issues there are i've been a number of companies i'll give you an example uh a current food bread company that we're using they're dropping different states for for bread because they're having so much trouble with drivers and things like that so part of that was the main deciding factor in trying to get a group of people to be able to jump onto basically their bid process as well we could all work together to make

084the bid process work for all of us and to be able to purchase in a larger amount from some of these vendors we have a limited amount of vendors south of indianapolis for our our food service and so um joining some of the others where we maybe hadn't used some of their products before and things like that it seemed to make sense for us with um with going to this i i think they're basically they use like a lot of the same small companies that we do like the dairy because there's not a lot of dairies out they use some of the same breads that we've used in the past um but to us one of the things i thought was a big benefit was the chemical portion of it um they have a really

085good surface program that they have already put into their uh rfp and there's ghosts for five years and so i would be our group would be tagging on to the the fifth year of that but with our bids out which the currently we're opening them tomorrow we can still we just won't be doing line item bids in the process where we have to go through everything it's more like an overall who's the best you know group and then you go with the group price for the the different categories of the foods whereas before we've done line item bits right that's the one i remember so is this making your work any easier for you i don't know yet it's this this is very new yeah we've already got our bits out i i think it

086it's in in a sense yes but also in a sense you i will take a portion of making the rfsps for 11 other groups and you kind of all divvy that up or you will take um you know we will be the the representative area leaders at different times and we will have to go to the meetings and things like that for that so a little more meetings but a little less hands-on paperwork i think is what the trade-off will be but again like i said with the projected savings it's at least we're thinking about 170 000 savings to to do this for the district all right thank you other questions mr grimes i don't have a a question but i do have a comment while you're up there i just uh congratulate you again

087for uh the turn up the beat recognition one of three in indiana one of 84 in the nation uh that's great and just say uh thank you very much for going above and beyond the minimum and uh you know taking care of kids over the uh over the summer months thank you very much it i'll i'll say something as well i have a student at northside middle school and then i have two young ones at saint peter's and and we're not sure the oldest he's in fifth grade he's not sure where he wants to go in middle school and then my daughter brags about your food okay and they come back and they they talk about what they eat for lunch she goes we get ice cream sometimes and we get this and she's gonna

088love those pot stickers okay that's her favorite thing in noodles and companies so so anyway the food seems to be it's a boy so the fifth grader the food seems to be a determining factor and you might have just swayed him into uh north side middle school thank you to you appeal to the heart of a wielding in the stomach of a whale we do want to invite you all on earth day we're celebrating we try to have special meals for the kids every now and then and one of the ones we're doing is earth day we are serving all protein-based uh entrees for that day so we're having a plant-based chicken nuggets and then we're also having like veggie burgers and of course there's always peanut butter and jelly and those kind of options

089for the kids but trying to get them to try a little since since we can't get hamburgers anywhere else we're going to try to get cheaper but they're very good so i hope they'll like them awesome thank you i appreciate the commitment that they're still getting the nutrition even though we had those flexibility so thank you for taking care of the best for our kids great yeah thank you for persistence about our focus on the whole child so thank you all right we have an opportunity for board commendations if you'd like to start i know you just well i don't have to start i've got i've got some but i don't have to start okay so i've whittled my list down from 48 to 5. um so i'll i'll say i'll make an effort to

090spread but i'm just kidding i have fiddled it though um so just uh got a handful here so just a little over a week ago um the north track team had a lot of success at the hoosier state relays indoor track meet in bloomington um tucker smith last year's state champion in the shotput who we recognized um threw a state relays record and uh won the event by nearly nine feet so as uh tucker made public i think last spring you know the secret to his success he's he's fueled by chef boyardee so i assume that trend continues and then also uh the 4x800 relay team ran a hoosier state relay record as well so just good luck to track at north and all the other spring sports teams across all across the district as

091their seasons get underway accommodations congratulations to the bcsc winter guard and all their hard work who recently placed fifth in the state at center grove and that is their first time in making it to the state competition in six years so congratulations good job to the combined bcsc winter guard um a couple items from new tech one their teacher of the year veronica butler shared with me a project that they are doing in their class and sounds exceptional and this is from veronica we just finished a great project around the american dream we had several community members to be panelists for our juniors presentations each group identified an obstacle to the american dream in columbus and proposed a solution of some kind to the panel we plan to be able to continue a few of

092these ideas through the help of heather carson it's council for youth development and our best presentation will be presented at cyd's open meeting on april 20th so you know cool stuff going on um higher level thinking stuff going on at new tech and the other one that i wanted to share from new tech and this has already gotten a fair share of a press deservedly so and i just wanted to share a couple things that that i got from two people directly involved and so um it deals with piper parks and her um screenplay blue being selected uh by project pegasus and so just to share a little bit of what i had in a discussion from mr with mr steele english teacher at new tech so he says mr gaylord saw an article about

093project pegasus over winter break informed mr steele from there mr steele adjusted on the fly designed a screenplay unit students assignments were due i believe in early february and uh mr steele decided to hey you know anybody that wants to put their words out there to project pegasus for national consideration there will be some extra credit in there for you and so mr steele says piper screenplay blue is beautiful dealing with loneliness and the effects of the pandemic yet ends in optimism and a call to recognize the beauty around us including the beauty columbus has created for its residents as a teacher i could not have manufactured a better project nor could i have chosen a better human being to be recognized in piper parks she is kind patient and understands the human condition deeply

094and then he goes on to say you know what's going to happen next the next step is to solidify three day weekend for filming there are pegasus pictures bringing their full hollywood production team you're going to let new tech students apprentice every job and participate in 8 to 12 hour days alongside the professionals and then next falls class will help edit the film and once it's complete they want to take piper on the film festival circuit including the heartland film festival and her film will be played before all pegasus pictures and then finally made available on multiple streaming services including amazon prime and so as mr steele says this is a huge deal for piper her classmates and columbus this will garner national attention and at the heart of it is an amazing kid and

095her gorgeous screenplay all highlighting what is wonderful about our community and then just um a little bit from piper herself um piper piper wrote i'm grateful for all the support that i've gotten this means the world to me the past few years have been tough with many people suffering from heavy losses and intense loneliness from isolation due to the pandemic the screenplay shows how i handled these intense feelings of emptiness and hopelessness during this time i hope once released many will find comfort in its message opening up is hard i know it is but with a little help you can see the color in your life again i know i have this is because of the help i got and looking at my beautiful surroundings i mean why make things harder on myself when there

096is such a colorful world around me such a diverse one the future is bright and so that's that's yeah exceptional stuff from the senior piper at uh at new tech so congratulations to her best wishes you know as they move forward with um the production process um and then um lastly i being a teacher i guess you know i have kind of a soft spot for teachers maybe but uh just to recognize the the 20 of the district's teachers for being there in their building and programs teacher of the year and so i've received a lot of feedback from nearly all of them regarding the good things going on not only in their own classrooms but in the buildings and programs in which they which they teach and a few things i thought were particularly

097impressive in their responses you know one of the common themes in all their responses it was obvious their enthusiasm for the profession is they were eager to share so much about what's going on in their classrooms and so um some of those stories i plan to save and probably share at future uh at future board meetings they're just um you know very uh enthusiastic full of optimism and so their dedication was also evident um angie ginder has been in the same exact classroom at rock creek for the last 20 last 22 years and that just being one of the many examples of their dedication and then you know lastly the one thing that was incredibly impressive i thought with so many of them were real quick to deflect their personal accomplishment and credit to their

098colleagues support systems and most importantly the students carrie tyree taylorsville said that she was privileged to be part of the taylorsville team and put team in all caps bold triple exclamation points at the end and mrs morlock jennifer morlock in the pre-k early childhood program at parkside says i truly won this award on the backs of my super capable and amazingly kind teaching assistants who make my job really doable and so i close commendations by just saying you know their their their collective responses really reminded me of the new bcsc tagline together we learn together being capitalized with a particular emphasis on the together and so and most of their responses as well included examples of the symbolic four stripes on the check mark family students staff members and communities working to get working together

099to deliver the highest quality education possible for kids in in bcsc and i'll conclude there thank you thank you very much are there others yes go ahead doctor shed commendations to the uh special commendations let me say it that way to the staff members and parent chaperones who safely got the sound and spirit of columbus down to disney world and back over spring break i know that the students all had a great time and were involved in a parade down the main street at disney during the week so wow fun the commendations all around there fun fun any others all right i've got my list it will never be as great as mr grimes um i just so i'm going to start with one of our students so accommodations to chatna raj yadav she's a

100seventh grader at central and she won the american legion auxiliary americanism essay contest and her essay was about how can we support families who provide care to their veterans i will not read it but if you would love to see it i have it and it is it is quite dear so uh congratulations to shetna yadav we have three of ours uh teachers here in bcsc that earned um lilly creativity fellowships and i'd love to highlight them i would like to go on all of them but the board president wasn't invited first accommodations to michael walls at columbus east high school his uh event will be re reef visitation for revivication i got it um he's going to be scuba diving the great barrier reef and sample some of the biodiversity of that australia offers

101below and above the sea at level five courtney foreman at mount healthy and also at smith her opportunity is entitled make mine mediterranean exploring the greek islands and their unique and unspoiled landscape learn their traditional diet and carry this healthy lifestyle back home to achieve and maintain wellness and lastly anne freeman at northside middle school her project is indiana anne crosses the pond to uncover geologic gems traveling both to the lake district in england and the grand canyon in the u.s to experience the magnificence of earth's 4.6 billion year history so we have a great theme of fabulous teachers here in bcsc and i would also like to offer congratulations to benny coomer she was named the outstanding educational technology student of the year at from the university of arkansas where she earned her master's

102so congratulations to you as well others alrighty it is the opportunity for public comments and mr grow i see that you've signed up to speak about curriculum on all right my name is eric grow i'm here as a civic minded citizen of our community and father of three i've been raising the issue of inappropriate materials in our school library since late last year um i want to thank the two of you that have been engaging on this uh for your contention it's been invaluable allowed me to kind of push past my previous understandings um and i hope it's done the same for you guys um i think it would be boundlessly productive if that contention could happen amongst all of the board and administration from the feedback i have received i've come to understand a

103few positions of the members of this board i have great contentions to those stances and many others if you would only take the time to discuss them with me if i'm wrong in them i would be grateful to have my understanding bettered so i plead with you let's talk among many glaring issues i have yet to hear any contention to are that no one has given any any viable argument to the defense of the content itself in these books and parents in our community are just simply unaware of the content so i'm going to address that the best way i can given the situation that our schools have turned down the idea to inform parents of this content and we in the community have no other outlet to publicly engage with this board another thing

104that i've been calling for attention to for about six months now and something that seems counter to bcsc's mission statement and at least one of the core beliefs all these books are available within bcsc the book blankets has multiple drawings of underage teenagers masturbating and having sex the graphic novel flamer for middle schoolers includes a scene where several young teenagers masturbate ejaculating into the same jar with the intent that one of the kids is going to drink it a parent doesn't begin to justify these books if i handed that material out around town to underage children i would be arrested and likely go to prison and rightly so a court of silver flames is in both of our high schools um i don't see any little ears in here but to those listening at home

105i encourage you to pause now and make sure you don't have any eavesdroppers skipping over several full pages of descriptive erotic content we start here quote exquisite punishing thrust slammed so deep he hit her innermost wall and her eyes rolled back into her head at the sheer bliss of it cashin's fingers dug into her hips so hard nesta knew she bruised loved that she'd bruise he shifted his stance and his plunged even deeper rubbing against that spot with a savage thrust do i feel good to you i like it when you ride me hard every time i move and my body is sore i think of you of your cashion came with a roar and at the first pulse of his burning deep into her she climaxed until his seed was again running down her

106thighs until he slid his fingers through a stream of it and brought it up to that spot the apex of her sex rubbing into her sensitive flesh with idle circles and she came again i'm gonna have to go home and shower that one off um i failed to see any literary value that justifies these contents i'm just about there i'm not sure why you believe you cannot address this issue without the process of a form being submitted i'm working on those forms but as i feared the list has grown to the second page with books like these in our libraries but more importantly the books are just the result of the problem addressing these books on an individual basis will not do anything to solve the real problem currently in our schools so i ask

107you know why are we okay with these books why can't we at least have the discussion of the issue um you know all of the positivity you guys bring to these meetings is awesome you know i'm not up here just trying to be a puritan i mean this is extreme content um you know so i with that i thank you for your time and i look forward to having discussions over this content thank you thank you all right the opportunity for school board member reports go ahead mr grimes uh yeah i'll just go ahead and uh take a second here to promote so um good better best 5k coming up saturday april 30th at uh at south side to recognize uh again an outstanding educator in bcsc that's going above and beyond outside the box

108um you know incredibly dedicated to uh students um the the winner will be announced at 8 15. we presented a big check and we'll probably jump up in the air with it and then uh 8 30 the uh the run walk will will follow um 16 people have been nominated i you know they're they they look to be great and i'm sure the committee will have a tough tough choice with the winner being announced on friday so registration for that either on bcsefstars.org or if you were prefer old school i have some paper copy registrations uh here with me tonight as well and then just to kind of keep in the back of your mind another bcsf fundraiser august 13th to kind of celebrate the beginning of next year i know that's a ways off

109but that race last year i think was on the single coldest day of the year in november it could be the single hottest day of the year this year on august 13th but that will be out at the bcsc soccer complex up and down the people trail nice thank you are there others i would say for the latest extension of the people trail bricks are still for sale people brickster's still for sale i think until about may okay thank you i'll just share that the business advisory council met on march 11th that seemed so long ago and we had the opportunity to go over the demographic study that the corporation has done providing really in-depth information about the end where the growth in our community and in our school corporation service area if you will

110is expected to be and that is a part is we've had the conversations about looking at our elementary buildings looking at our investments informing that whole process so it was a very very good meeting i know that some of this material will also be shared at our strategic planning meeting that we will get scheduled all right cabinet reports yay all right all right it is the opportunity for items for approval dr roberts all right thank you dr shedd and we will run through a number of items here starting with the minutes of the regular school board meeting from march 7th so about a month ago you have a list of supplemental contracts in your package packets as well as a list of field trips and professional leads school fundraisers you also have some claims and

111payroll items claims for april 4th so dated today a little over one and a half million dollars you also have a couple of payrolls that cover the time frame between february 26 and march 25th the first one the normal payroll did include the winter c stipends from our contract they cover the work days of february 14th the 27th and the march 25th uh payroll was a normal one they covered the work dates of february 28th to march 13th total was over just about 6.6 million dollars at the last meeting you heard the elementary social studies resource adoption recommendation we're asking for your approval this evening we also are asking for your approval to declare some school school buses as surplus and if doing so that allows or gives us permission to donate or trade them

112we're also asking for approval of policy 8310 that policy is the one for about requests for records from a commercial vendor that's asking for specific information and how to adjust or address that so you have that in in your places because it did not make in the packet is that same item that was shared with you from last time so you do have a hard copy here um there's the resolution uh that is in there uh was the recommendation of legal counsel is to have a resolution that we're changing that policy to include that very specific language we also have a recommendation uh to purchase some school buses and we're also asking for permission to approve a contract for hvac filter exchanges and preventative maintenances um we have various names that are attached to those

113recommendations so let's really entertain any questions you have after uh hopefully a recommendation or a motion in a second thank you thank you so i'll entertain a motion to approve items through a three a through j so moved thank you miss wielden sarah's second okay thank you mr bryant are there questions individuals have about any items on the list so really the change on the 8310 is the in the red it is dr biltz and so um it's indiana code uh we we have not included that previously but it just indicates a person who requests information pursuant to the indian access to public records act may not use such information for commercial purposes and it goes into some additional information there but that's basically we will from time to time get you know a request

114for records from somebody in california vendor who's trying to then use that for commercial reasons and so based upon how that request comes forward we we then review that and if it falls under this uh particular indiana code citation we would not provide that that information okay thank you all right other questions all right hearing none i'll ask those of you who approve items three a through j as they've been presented to us if you signify by saying i i those opposed all right dr roberts we unanimously approve those items thank you dr please i request approval of the hr recommendations as presented this evening all right thank you sarah motion to approve those items so move thank you miss is dayhoftwire a second second mr grimes thank you any questions of dr pleek i

115i did i noticed we're continuing to bring on stem professionals and i was wondering is there a just generally are there differences between the folks that we hire for those positions and the folks that we would hire full-time teaching in a classroom the stem teachers that we are hiring will be full-time certified staff members beginning in the fall of 2022 and they are all classroom teachers with the expectation of elementary education and for several of those that we have hired a lot of them are internal transfers from teachers uh requesting the opportunity to teach stem thank you right any other questions just real quickly yeah so the resignations i was looking at they're all effective may 23rd most of them yes except for one yes it was i guess i'm just asking is may 23rd

116the end of the yes that is the last day of contract and then so if there was somebody that was effective the 25th then that would be what would that be was that march okay marcia i read it wrong march 20th yeah it's a different month yeah got it thank you all right if i'm without any other questions all those in favor of approving the human resource recommendations as presented to us if you'd signify by saying i i was opposed they've been approved unanimously dr pleat thank you thank you all right lastly board input comments that individuals would like to make yes nothing all righty miss wielding i just say it's pretty exciting that the north chose their teacher development day for best practice so when i haul all my people in for employee development

117they don't usually talk about how excited they are and so i'm doing it wrong and i took some notes but i thought that was that was pretty positive that was exciting to see so i'm glad we made the change thanks for the recommendation great okay mr hoffman uh congrats to the 2022 teachers and to emily moore and i just want to announce that columbus north unified track team this year will be going to the first meet this wednesday down at seymour at five o'clock it's the quad um so it'll be interesting because they have a new coach which uh hopefully she'll she'll do just fine but a lot of jitters um and then i would like to kind of announce that the last two years we weren't able to the first responders in bartholomew county

118and the city of columbus were not able to do operation safe prom at the high schools and this year i'm really excited that we're able to as we call it get the train back on the track and uh we'll be doing operation safe prom this year it will be at columbus east high school it will be may 5th and also thanks to both the high schools very much for allowing us to do this uh alan trissler is always the emcee which he's certainly irreplaceable uh and myself i take care of a lot of the moulage and such and between us we tag team with all our public safety and it's a group effort so you know we feel you know we're just kind of that piece just to get everybody rolling and everybody else takes

119care of the big stuff for us so but um he and i decided that next year is going to be our our last years of doing operations safe prom we'll be at north next year and i have a replacement for myself which we'll be mentoring this year next year although they've been toward the last three or four years and lived with this for over 30 years so i think she's kind of got it figured out alan on the other hand is a pretty critical piece and we're working with the sros which we feel that's where it should be i have playbooks binders for both high schools because they're very very different in what resources we use and so um you know so you have two opportunities this year next year to listen to alan as

120he does our cadence uh because depending on how fast the guys extricate people out of the car depends on how we get them slowed back down and vice versa so um it's been an honor to be able to do this for such a long time and we couldn't do it without the administration and the high schools allowing us to come in and wreak havoc in chaos before prom just so we get a message out to our kids to be safe at prom thank you for that very much pat no dr bills so i really enjoyed the presentations tonight i was just telling it's just such a textbook adoption such a thoughtful process i just really was impressed with my dad i have been impressed by that tonight a few times that i've seen it i

121also want to welcome our school attorney for his first official meeting i guess [Music] macgyver so he's back here being really quiet yes welcome thank you mr graham oh real quick just uh congrats again to emily moore uh you know to to be a state champion i just you know the amount of hard work dedication long hours spent uh you know that's huge and so congrats again to emily uh thanks to mr clark and the other uh three members of the north team here this evening to share their best practices um thanks to the second members of the secondary social studies adoption team and uh again thank you to mrs milspal for sharing the update on food services and you know kind of hard to imagine there's too many school systems out there that offer

122pot sticker dumplings to their kids it could be wrong but then you know yeah so thank you me too veggie burgers thank you it was just a wonderful night of celebration for all of our teachers for professional development i appreciate we have to remember back on the work that the administration had to do to make the application to make those professional development days possible so i do appreciate that foresight and and it is interesting i appreciated your questions mr grimes about why do we have different books well because we have fabulous different high schools i mean and and that is what's very special about bcsc that we do offer the great diversity and the great opportunities for our students great teachers and for our community so it was just a lovely exciting evening we have

123meetings coming up and i know you all pulling out your your phones to be sure they're on your calendar we will have an executive session this wednesday on the 6th at 5 also a strategic planning session at 6 and that will be upstairs in the boardroom our next regular school board meeting is april 25th at 6 30. here in the lovely but a little bear terrace room i'm guessing we'll take care of that someday we're working on that i'm sure i am sure you are all right and with that thank you all very much for a very nice school board meeting