1/24/2022 BCSC School Board Meeting

001well good evening and i welcome everyone here to the regular school board meeting for the bartholomew consolidated school corporation we're here in the administration building on central avenue and we also welcome those who are watching us live stream so we do begin each of our meetings with reflections from one of our colleagues and this evening i'll turn to miss kathy day hofdwyer thank you as i wing this this evening because procrastination got me a little bit this week i started reflecting on the way in uh thinking about a couple of things because one i brought my daughter with me elizabeth she's in her third year at iupui to be a secondary history and special ed teacher so since she's going into history then we have a number of discussions about history and why it's important

002and she comes home and tells me the things that she is learning from from school and it brings back you know interesting conversations because you know we often time reflect back on history to see the things that we've done in the past and why it didn't maybe work or why we do certain things and so one of the things i know we often talk about is you know our mental health of the community and looking at pandemics from the spanish flu to you know even this covet that's going around and i've been watching some of the things on social media that speaks about parents are burned out and over the covet they're over the kids coming down from contact trace or being sent home from school with contact tracing we're tired you know and now

003i think you know in a way i guess thankfully you know last year we didn't have flu this year we have not only influenza a but we have influenza b so now you have three that you get to fight with on top of a stomach virus that has been going around as well so i think you know as we all move forward and we know that people have survived many challenges and many health issues and you know to think about our mental health that we all need to take time to kind of reflect on what we do have and the time that we do have with each other and the things we do and making decisions and i think one of the things i think about is that you know when in 2001 actually the

004year that elizabeth was born 9 11 hit and particularly that was you know a huge piece of our history and the fact that she sees it in her history books and she knows more about it because with her dad being a firefighter and myself you know in public safety you know she kind of knew about that but to sit and read about it but i remember that day particularly that there was a a quiet and people were going to church to pray and everybody all of a sudden it became everybody was being kind and i think you know for a small four-letter word and being kind i think we should all look at you know we all walk in in different areas and in different shoes and we deal with different things that a lot

005of people don't deal with but i think the one thing we all can do is just be kind to one another and even if you don't know them so so i think you know looking back and hopefully looking forward we can all be together and everybody be a little kinder and nicer to each other and even our kids if we do it to our kids at school and our friends usually that will just tend to spread so the other thing is elizabeth will be 21 on wednesday so i get to wish her a happy birthday tonight too so and that's all i have thank you thank you thank you and we'll save ourselves happy birthday celebrations for a little bit later if you are able if you please stand and join me for the pledge

006of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for our own all right i'm all settled in seven uh six of our members are here this evening so indeed we do have a quorum so i'll call our meeting to order so you know we do this but i never know all of them can we start with just so what are we celebrating in these pictures this at the first one josh i don't know if you have a microphone but josh helps put these together so i believe i'm going to go top top left and then go clockwise part of the maverick challenge through the chamber of commerce that group will represent us i

007believe they are from columbus east and will represent us in the regional finals coming up right we have columbus north gymnastics we have then mr yetin from south side climbing mount kilimanjaro and then we have just a picture of our kids with uh that was posted on martin luther king jr day intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education that was again a social media post we put out last monday when we were out of school all right thank you i know we always do it and we should highlight what you've put together for us thank you for doing that yes all right also just to share with everyone as as reminders listed here and listed behind us are our mission and our vision and also there we have our high expectation objectives

008all of which put together help guide our decisions that we may be making this evening so it's fun to start with presentations so our first one is from columbus signature academy at lincoln and i will turn to mr findlay i'm a little nervous is that it is that a three-minute timer right there all right well thank you uh to the school board dr roberts and the cabinet for having myself i'm the principal at csa lincoln i also have one of my fantastic educators in delaney george and so we're going to present to you a little bit about how things are going at csa lincoln at this time so so our agenda today is pretty simple it's four four pieces we're gonna go over a best practice we're gonna talk about our journey and how we've

009gotten there i'm gonna give you some real examples of what that looks like on the ground floor at lincoln and then we're going to do a dive if you will into a specific example and that's where mrs george is going to come into play and one of those specific pieces she's going to kind of detail it down for us okay so the best way to encompass what we're focusing on is we're trying to a continuous improvement or a continuous pursuit of effective teaching in every classroom that's what we're trying to achieve at csa lincoln and we're doing that through an investment in people relationships culture and accountability i know that some seems like very overarching but i'm going to dig into some of the research behind that here in a second but what that's taken

010over time is it's been a multi-year professional growth process it's been five years in the making really it's this what we're talking about has really been five years of really hard work on their part our team our support staff and parents as well and it's involved some action research projects that have happened through some professional development learning opportunities as well and again just want to kind of reinforce we talk about that continuous improvement and i put this picture up here because uh one year we got all of the kids and the and our students and our parents and our teachers shirts that i am lincoln and we talked about you know when you walk out to the community we want everyone to know that you represent us and then at the same time they always

011represent or always represent yourself your family and your school in the best way possible and so to do that you know it takes on a little bit of an ownership piece if well so that's kind of the big piece of the overarching piece now i'm gonna i have a handout i probably should have done this beforehand hey thank you mrs george so this guy right here this is john hattie i'll give you the you know thank you and john hattie is for uh director of melbourne education he's an educationist for many and he uh he has studied over 95 000 case studies of over 30 million students worldwide and he has come up with a list what she's giving you is 255 pieces that impact student achievement a variety of things as you can see

012everything there's from home to thank you there's from home there's two teachers classrooms and he's quantified that which is super cool in my opinion because you know when you think about as educators i think it's sometimes hard to kind of get wrapped into things we necessarily can't always control so let's tackle the ones that we can and see what we can do so i'm a i'm a happy fan i'm not a hatty fanatic so i won't know everything on there and what's really neat about that research is it's changed over time i mean they went from 195 when you first published this to 255. now there were things on there there's a couple columns on there that didn't exist when we started this five years ago and so if you can look up here what

013he says is that he's got this barometer of influence and this point four so he's quantified everything and he said if you can focus your energy on those that are at point four or above you're going to be able to maximize student achievement and so i kind of want to kind of put that number out there for you is point four is like the hinge point okay and so we have uh really focused on four over the past five years is these are the four things that we're going to focus on and try to be really good at those and the number one is collective teacher efficacy this is the number one this is number one overall um if you look on this sheet i've highlighted them for you so you can find out where

014they're at and efficacy is defined as the ability to produce a desired or intended result so i'll dig into each one of these as well so that's 1.39 teacher estimates of student achievement it's always that's kind of been our bread and butter for many many years student self-efficacy and then teacher credibility so you can kind of see how those ranked at one time those were all in the top 10 and then it's kind of changed over time as we've learned more but they all as you can see if 0.4 is the hinge point fall well above and over time teacher credibility when we first started this was at 0.91 it is now up to 1.09 so teachers you know the importance of students trusting and knowing their teachers continues to increase so to kind of

015step back here for a second to see well how do we get involved with hattie and all of this this is kind of our journey and it started with dr hack took the principles uh to san francisco to the learning and the brain conference back in 2017 uh john hattie spoke at that and i got to see him in person and join his fan club and that kind of has really branched off from there dr hack also got me involved with the indiana principal leadership institute ipli and this is it that's a two-year program where i spent summer at indiana state for a couple days and then every month had a mentor and that also involved delaney and mrs white also joined me for two days in the summer as well back indiana state the

016second year and that was some action research projects and we really dug into during that time the the trying to be effective teachers in every classroom so that started in february ipli i joined it i got into it and then in 20 the year of 2017 2018 we as as as teachers dug into all of these and said okay which ones make the most sense for our school which ones can we have the biggest impact and then that started a whole year professional development teachers led staff teachers in professional development on teacher credibility there was we had a kindergarten teacher do one on coaching and we had a third through sixth grade teacher do one as well as like just practicing how do you practice for tests all of those areas kind of came into

017play and that is just continued and continued to a point that um we got involved with the marzano uh high reliability process and so in spring of 2019 we were certified as a safe and collaborative culture in 2020 we were i guess licensed as effective teaching in every classroom and then in the fall of 2020 was a guaranteed and viable curriculum which is as much bcs as anything because we all have the same curriculum and then that's gotten us to a point today we're really moving in a very positive direction all in one so to drill down on these a little bit so collective teacher efficacy it's not just saying okay we want to be great we want to be good for our kids we're going to do this there's really specifics and and hattie

018also says faculty efficacy uh dictates teacher efficacy so we think about it as a whole group so when you talk about teachers it's about using professional learning communities and realigning we spent a whole couple years realigning them from just grade levels to now our language arts teachers all meet together for third through sixth grade and the same for our math we talked about our kids we have high expectations for faculty our support staff at the near end of the year when we do end of year evaluations they come to me with goals right mr finley this year i'm going to run my own math facts group and here are the resources i'm going to look up these are the things i'm going to do and when covid when we had to change our entire morning

019process of hey listen we're going to have to change our kids come to our school because they used to all come to the gym and we had you know we couldn't fit everybody in there and i said support stuff i said we got to start the morning and they're like i'm in 100 in and we have parents and uh we have grandparents that come in and these are this is a picture i took just last week of small groups of our tas working with students on a regular basis a couple years ago we presented about our reading challenge um we're up to this since september we're still doing it 3 800 books have been read since september by our students out of choice just wanting to read and get better and it's also about our

020parents as well these are this is our pto president those were two tas but also parents at the time and they went through the developmental asset training on their own we started pep nights parent education programs and what these are free programs for all parents and it was in the evenings and it was by parents or community members and providing because we know when our parents know more and our parents are more educated they'll be better at home and they'll be better for our kids uh briny and nick gave our first one it was about safe technology we've had a financial advisor meet with parents to talk about planning for college and 529s we've had an attorney talk about wills for young people we've had meal prep and healthy families uh we've had poison control

021and safety talk from a registered nurse we've had a literacy our special education teacher talked to parents about how to handle literacy at home and so all those pieces come into play and we look at hey these are our kids not just her kids in her classroom has really had a huge impact for our school the other piece of this is the relationship piece and also it's not just about having good relationships but it's about knowing your kids and i want to three three things that we do well is we have we do camp experiences we take our sixth graders to an overnight camping trip we know that's a tough age for kids no and relationships and they go overnight with us and we stay in cabins and thankfully they're air-conditioned now and but you

022know they get muddy they get messy and it's it's to get a chance to see kids in a different way and dr hack pushed us a couple years ago to try it with fifth grade and we do now we have fifth graders going on overnight camping trips and uh that's always a blast as well another piece of it is what we do is called move up day in the spring you know when we set rosters for next year just gonna give you three examples when we set rosters for the next year it's not just a random list our current grade level teachers meet with our next year grade level teachers we have a whole form that they fill out and they sit down and they talk about this child would be best with this teacher

023and we talk about classmates and we talk about how we're going to get them in the right setting to be successful the next year and the second to last day of school we actually take them and they get to go up and meet their next year teacher and classmates um before we go to the summer so there's not that summer angst and and wondering like oh who am i going to be in the class with next year and all those types of things and we bring our kindergartners in four times before school even starts they're in the building so they have that relationship and know their people and know who's going to be there and obviously it's about knowing what each child needs to be successful with universal design for learning spending time saying okay

024so and so needs carter here needs to step out and do versatiles on his own or so-and-so needs a flexible seating or we're going to you know spend more time on our older students they can branch off they're ready to do something different that's a big piece of it is getting our kids confident enough and so that they know that they're going to have high expectations this can't talk can't not talk about students and this one's all about the students it's about them believing in themselves they know that they're going to be successful they know that they're going to have the right people there that they're going to have mrs george and people that are going to sit in those positive behavior supports and say hey here's how you can be successful one of the

025professional development things we did was we created a whole recognition level so students know okay if i can do this this is what i can achieve as a group we used to just have athletic things up in the gym we're like no we need to recognize our academics as well math bowl spell bowl hey you do well in the classroom that's great we have our special education teacher she takes her kids to dairy queen uh you know they get treats when they meet their goals project-based learning we really challenge the kids this is actually a fifth grade project it's called columbus young apprentice project it just wrapped up in december we have someone that comes in and teaches the fifth graders how to write resumes i talk through interview strategies with them and then they

026have 20 to 25 businesses will come into the gym and the kids actually compete for a job they're evaluated they're rated and they come in dressed up and you know sam here he was he was ready to go and he was interviewing for a fire you know a spot at the fire department and they actually go spend part of the day at that business that's a really neat and then self-directed learning you know i lean here i was working with the math group and luckily this is sixth grade map and luckily mrs white gives me the the key to the answers but you know i had to have eileen lead it but they can do that and they're spending time working with each other and saying hey here's how you do this math problem and

027i don't know if you've seen sixth grade math recently but it is not what it was when i did it that's for sure teacher credibility um you know students know they can trust their teacher and you know three things here we started five years four years ago a student climate survey so we go in i go and the teacher leaves i go into the classroom and i ask i ask kids two questions do you like your teacher and well the segments are prompt my teacher wants me to be successful or for k for two it's k three two it's my teacher cares about me and this was something our cic and our teachers said yes we want to know this this is how we know if we're being if our kids know that they that

028we love them and over four years we've had a 99.11 average and we first started that first year we're like well we'll set it for 97 we have no idea and we we hit it so every year we set it for 100 because that's obviously the goal you want to have 100 and so that's like two kids on one random given day that aren't answering yes on that and that's a pretty cool thing that we're excited about and my favorite part is when we go over with the teachers they're mad and frustrated if one kid misses it and that's what we want that's what we want out of our teachers is that they're committed to all immediacy you know during coven having our pe teacher find different ways to connect with our kids and then

029you know here's a fantastic teacher as well miss moore finding ways this that was this year lily was doing a uh i think a lemonade stand and mrs miss moore found time on around to go over there and make sure that uh she could see that she supported her not just in the classroom but outside as well all right i've talked enough i'm going to turn it over to um so one of the the last piece i talked about with teacher credibility is that kids know that their teachers are invested in the content and so one of the things that delaney has done mrs george has done very well is classroom transformations and so she's going to dig into that a little bit and talk about how that's really branched off in our school hi

030as you said i'm delaney george i teach fifth grade at lincoln so when i first started teaching my teaching partner she came to me and she was like i have this big idea it's classroom transformation let me know what your thoughts are and it was really scary at first and starbucks we write a latte was the first one i actually put together and it still is my favorite and we transform our classrooms to in this case look like a starbucks and it becomes a week-long process of digging into some of those harder topics that kids don't really enjoy and so i do argumentative writing with this one and so we read sources on caffeine and it tells the kids pros and cons and whether or not kids should be able to have caffeine um and

031then in small groups we talk about what pros and cons are we talk about what a claim is they state claims um for both a pro and a con and then they have to choose a side and from there we fill out a graphic organizer and they end up writing their argumentative essay which while they're writing they get cookies and hot cocoa because they're in starbucks and they go into starbucks writing mode where they get to listen to instrumental music and sit wherever they want in the classroom and it just makes that big scary topic of argumentative writing into something that they enjoy coming to school and are excited about doing in that four years ago um started and when we now last year a lot of these have happened um a lot of the

032other teachers in the building have taken off with this as well and we've had everything from mario brothers to under the sea ms moore set up a target in her classroom hoosier hysteria there's a circus harry potter secret agent jurassic park and that's not even all of them so it just really helps our kids want to come to school and love learning and being excited because usually they have no idea that this is coming and they walk in and it's just like it's kind of similar to like the magic of christmas morning where they walk in and it's totally different and so yeah this is classroom transformations and it's how we make learning fun are there any questions for me or for mr finley colleagues are there questions dr pills i do i love the

033classroom transformations i saw some of the pictures out here in the hallway to the of some of those so thanks for thank you making that uh a fun classroom and learning um so i'm really interested in these influences on student achievement i've seen some of these before and other places and schools that use them and maybe i missed this when you talked about it in the beginning so i know that i was looking at some of the scores the es and there are some that you know are around the same i guess percentage or number or score than the ones you chose so what what did you what was your thinking process when you chose the four that you did um great question you know like i mentioned there are 250 plus now at the

034time there was 195 the this teaching student learning strategies wasn't even a column you know when this first started um it was basically i think student home classroom you know five years ago i get what we really wanted to do was what you know we're a passionate group of people so um and i love the the whole idea of like you know if you love your kids and if we we wrap our arms around and they know that we're going to be caring about them that's kind of it was kind of looking around the room and saying who do i have here who's with us and so figuring out what makes the most sense you know like what what pairs well with who we are as people so when we looked at the teacher pieces

035you know i mean teacher estimates the student achievements we're all we're going to have high expectations that's going to be it you know we're going to work hard we're going to play hard i think teacher credibility you know i think it's another piece you know i think always think about hey if i wouldn't put my child in your classroom i wouldn't put anybody in your classroom and i you know that's another big component as well we obviously wanted to have something involved with students because we're with students you know and that's that's the biggest piece i always say you know we can teach them anything but if they don't want to run through the wall with you run through the wall at the end of the year you know that's all about those relationships and

036then obviously you have to pick the number one the collective teacher efficacy you know right at the top and that's where we can bring in we talk about it's not just the csa lincoln teachers of the staff it's the csa lincoln community it's our support staff it's the custodian it's our parents it's the volunteers it's the book buddies it's everybody they come in they they all come in together and so i just feel like that brings a real community mindset does that answer your question it does thank you very much and thank you for the passion and enthusiasm you've shown in this presentation are there other questions that you all have i'll i'll ask one i was gonna also say your energy is awesome okay so both of you are really excited about that in

037that show so thank you for that on on student self-efficacy i was thinking about what um miss day hof dwyer i call you kathy normally i'm sorry i had to pronounce that said about just you know where our headspace is right now over the last few years and how that's impacting kids and i was wondering if you've made any adjustments or how you thought about that in terms of student self-efficacy and any changes you may suggest in that category right that's another great question um you know i think if i think more so than anything with our kids these days is i talk to um you know i think something you know what we can't necessarily control what's at home and i once had a grandfather came in and he's like mr finley you know

038what we did i said 7 17 man you know like i guess i can for seven years for 17 we're going to work together we're going to make the most of it so we talk a lot about you know we're going to make the most of our time you know it's we get them for seven hours it's gonna be it's gonna be amazing and that's part of that udl piece as well as no who know who know who the kids are know what they need to that kid needs this this kid needs that it's having the right support staff people that are gonna walk in and say i don't know they most of my support staff can leave it to 2 30 or something like that and they're there well after because they've got a

039small group or something else that they want to get done and i think i've always just felt like if we can invest in people i think that's the most important thing i think you have to find time to make sure that those people that you have around your kids feel valued um and as far as our kids are concerned it's just um you know i just we kind of talk about you know high having high expectations no matter what and every once in a while i think you know if we're going to do something like no one likes to take tests right but if we're going to do it we might as well just do the best we can and we talk about that as well as a as a mindset and we have in

040our wall in the gym and i have to thank dr bozeman for this one because he helped me get this one done but i've got we've got meet the person that represents and it has these mirrors and it says you the next one is like your family and your school and so you know every time the kids walk through the gym they're looking at that and they're thinking about you know like when you're here all that's other stuff you can't control but you're in charge of you and you can be here and you can be the best you can be and you can control your destiny in many ways and so we just talk about that positive self-image and keep fighting and you know it's there's no other choice right you have to you just

041have to keep going after it every day instagram i guess i i have a comment more than a question i guess but um and certainly not to downplay or discredit any of the other schools in the district that are doing great things but you know after hearing your presentation it's obviously not a mistake why lincoln is a national blue ribbon school so congratulations again on that and as sitting here as an educator myself it's refreshing to hear you know your very well-intentioned outlined articulate approach and emphasis on relationships with kids and how well can we get to know our kids as opposed to what can we do to boost standardized test scores or how many how much can we pile up the homework or you know how how long can we put a screen in

042front of a kid's face and so that just uh so yes i just wanted to mention that say thank you and congratulations on your award earlier this year yeah thank you we we've had great mentors along the way and what's good for csa lincoln's great for pcsc and bcsc and we've and dr hacker they played a big role in us getting to where we are today so that's don't want this credit they've done a phenomenal job and we appreciate that it's it's been it's been a great year and i'm lucky to work at uh with some awesome people like mrs george thank you very much did you have a question mr tim okay thank you so much it was great thank you thank you all right i'll now turn to our stem presentation and dr

043hatt and mrs hardin you get to follow that but i know you can thank you so hello i am davita hardin i am the curriculum specialist for the stem initiatives for k-6 and i have the pleasure the opportunity of going to all 11 elementary schools and be in support and seeing the amazing work that's taking place in our stem labs so the first thing that i wanted to share with you this evening is where we started and where we are going um our journey began in 2015 when cummins approached us with an opportunity to pilot a stem lab in one of our elementary schools which is schmidt elementary that went phenomenal and because of that work being there at schmidt elementary we ended up going into taylorsville in 2017 and then it was at mount

044healthy parkside richards rock creek and smith in 2018 19 school year and then clifty fadria lincoln and two stem labs in south side for the 1920 school year so that next puzzle piece there throughout this time the stem labs have been funded through grants various grants that we've gotten through the community our staffing has been from the 2015 to the present from paraprofessionals delivering that instructions and i have to give out a shout out to every single one of them because of the amazing work and foundational work that they have done has gotten us to the point to what we have today so it's just i love working with each and every one of them each week there is approximately six thousand k to six students that have an opportunity to go into the stem

045lab and see just a whole new world open up to them and have that opportunity to know that they can go in there and if i fail at something you know what it's okay stem's a safe place i can try out new ideas and there's all kinds of pathways that i can see myself going into and then the next puzzle piece that we have is in 2223 the exciting news is that that the labs are going certified teachers we are going with a college and career readiness pathway and our current paraprofessionals are will be placed within the bcsc so we still get to keep those amazing people and see what they can do in other areas working still with those kiddos that they have built those important relationships with so looking at our curriculum focus

046that's in the stem labs currently and will continue we we have this educational pathway that we prepare for them and it's that stem career exploration and exposure we have project lead the way computer science because in june of 2021 you know as a district we have to expose our students to computer science and we have done that and we continue to do that digital literacy the engineering challenges and then those important employability skills there's 18 of those and there's four competencies and each and every one of them fall under a lot of the things that here in the district we are already doing we're thinking about the growth mindset we're thinking about work ethic we're thinking about those learning strategies that our students need and then social and emotional skills because we want to prepare

047even a kindergartner for the workforce whenever once he or she you know graduates high school and then also our classroom standards connections each and every lesson that is taught in our stem labs has a connection back to the classroom whether it be science whether it be math or whether it be ela we bring every bit of that into the stem lab so that whenever the students go back into their normal classrooms it's like oh we learned this in stem lab and then i already have this background knowledge and i can connect that there so it's just a constant communication piece and a connection there for our students all of this work is based on our udl framework here in the district each and every lesson is prepared and intentionally planned with the framework and then

048the really cool part about this is the engineering design process we know that it's a step process but each and every part of that the students can see themselves in that udl framework you look at defining the problem it's engagement and representation it gives them an opportunity when they're generating ideas they have a way to represent that they have action and expression and it is just amazing to see the ideas that the kids have sharing out it's that action and expression so each and every opportunity that the kids have in the stem lab they see and we see as the educators how they're representing themselves through that udl framework the next key piece is our community partnerships this is the bridge where the kids can make even more of a connection what i'm learning in

049class can actually i can see in my community so currently in our stem labs we have these partners it is the columbus airport columbus robotics cummins c4 the rotary club and then toyota so we're super excited about these actual partnerships for instance cummins is the one who supports our technovation curriculum the airport just recently this year the kids and some of our other classes in the district did a lesson on flight and then they got to go to the airport and experience that c4 we have all kinds of classes there and then we have the girl up opportunity toyota we are in the process they are making stem kits so it will be an electrical thing for the kids to be able to learn and then the rotary club they also support us with the

050grow up so not only do the kids have an opportunity to learn about these things but they have that real world connection so why is stem important for students i know that you've had an opportunity to read through the quotes that we have here but i did want to highlight one and this is from jamie bumbleo she's one of our amazing teachers here in the district but it says stem strengthens their skills and core concepts like math and language arts through curriculum connections that they will use throughout their life so she is not only teaching stem in her classroom but yet we in the lab when the kids get to come to us and see that as well those connections it's just continuously throughout their day they're making the connection so stem just continues just

051to strengthen that there so looking at our timeline for this year in the fall of 2021 we did secure the funding to make the next uh step of that puzzle piece and then the winter of 2022 is what we are doing currently right now with the communication the bcsc strategy plan our strategic plan the school board presentation this spring we are looking at staffing posting the positions and then identifying the space in the elementary schools if something needs to be changed and in the summer we will have the professional development of the project lead the way and then i will lead the stem and udl connection to make sure that the certified staff has the information and the just the the resources that they need to start in the fall of 2022. so do we

052have any questions are there questions that individuals have for ms harden no i got to see this one already so it was fun to hear it again it looks like after the questions there might be a couple more slides maybe a summary about the finance funding the project there is yeah yes thank you mr stenner this is uh first time in and we don't know how long we were just discussing this morning we're adding a special into the rotation and so looking at our average cost for the current three specials that elementary students have art music and pe totals of about 800 thousand dollars per year and so the funding for this at least for the next several years will come half from tif funds that we received from the city of columbus and the

053redevelopment commission we did um request they you know they've given us 750 000 for the last five or six years and then this most recent year we requested an additional 250 000 and so the tif funds will fund half of the cost and then um operating referendum dollars will be a request for for the board to approve at the next board meeting because it'll be an additional appropriation on the operating referendum so you all approved the budget for the operating representative calendar year we will post a public notice this week of a hearing because an additional appropriation requires a hearing we'll post that notification this week and at the next board meeting conduct that hearing and then ask you for approval for to use operating referendum funds to pay for the other half this is

054these operating referendum funds are [Music] revenue collections in excess of the budgeted amount that we that we have projected for the last for the eight years of the referendum and that's due to an increase in assessed value and so we were able to apply the 15.6 rate but collect more than what we have budgeted to spend for this calendar year so half from the referendum operating referendum and half from tiff funds could you clarify two for me uh the the years were you so used to seeing things in academic years this is kind of set up in calendar years for us yes we always transition to calendar year when we talk about budget so yeah the reason i put 2023 on there is just so you can see a full calendar year of a budget

055and that's where the 800 000 number comes from since we won't actually start paying these teacher salaries until the beginning of august of calendar year 2022 the budget up there basically just reflects those uh payrolls that we run between the beginning of august and the end of december so that's this calendar year and that's the request that referendum fund column would actually be a request for 160 000 additional appropriation for calendar year 2022 then as part of the 2023 budget process we'll include it on the front end for a full year for 23. thank you and i especially also want to commend the program for the community involvement the list of sponsoring and partnering organizations is really impressive and i think that's that's key to any kind of success thank you thank you awesome other

056questions [Music] one more thing and that has to do with the certification of the uh stem teachers is that i mean we're moving to people who have a teaching license is there some other endorsement or certification that comes with this college and career readiness pathway sort of certified teacher status no it will be under the elementary certified teaching okay great thank you but then professional development opportunities to enhance that particular aspect of it will be available yes we'll be available i will still be support thank you thank you all right was there more you wanted to say or you just was listening to make sure and yeah david got it so you're good okay yeah awesome okay your turn my turn so the third presentation today we have a lot of presentations um for this

057board meeting and even under cabinet reports we have a couple of presentations that'll release some slides for those reports that will happen so a lot of information being shared with you tonight this is a typical one i've been doing this one for quite a while so just updating you on where we stand with covet 19. since you're mentioning pictures we did have 100th school day recently so we were celebrating that and you can see some kids are dressed up like they're 100 years old so it's neat that is [Laughter] so that that map for the cdc has not changed for a long time the department of health one has it's went back and forth with the various colors but that's the way it looks right now so all 92 counties are in the red i

058think 19 counties having percent positive rates uh of 30 or more and we are one of those those 19. the task force standpoint i think this is the most up-to-date information that we have right now so it does go back to january the 19th which would be last wednesday reported on thursday so new positive cases we were at 290 on the 19th coveted hospitalizations at 65 i know the hospital did hit 70 at least a day somewhere sometime early last week so we always try to give you the the national and the state and the local information overall but then drill down into our own numbers and so a reminder that first semester we had 960 positive test cases of those uh first nine weeks was 514 second nine weeks 446 and we had a

059peak week right after thanksgiving of 112 cases as we look at second semester we have positive test cases thus far so again 960 first semester last year and 18 weeks of school plus the weeks of fall break and whatnot so that amount of time uh second semester we've been at it a couple of weeks um i think today was maybe day number 12. and we have 642 positive test cases 518 students 124 staff it's been interesting the number of students versus staff that ratio if you look back here to 453 61 we at the beginning of the school year around seven and a half seven to one students to staff and then that balanced out the second semester we came about four and a half to one students to staff and and then we were

060to start off with about four to one but uh you can see those the the the staff ratio just can the proportion of staff members also testing positive has increased tuesday january the 18th just call that date out specifically because that was 99 cases in one day if you think about that our biggest week and first semester of 100 112 cases and then a week of 115 through 121 which is just last week that was 262 cases 234 students and 28 staff members so as you as you know and see whether it's in your own businesses or entities in which you work or play the communities in which you we live and so forth we know the numbers are are higher and all those other numbers that i showed prior to our school demonstrated that

061too and we as always our microcosm of our society and our numbers reflect what's happening within the greater community so positive cases this is just a bar graph we've uh you've become accustomed to and so that goes back to the beginning of the school year and shows our positive cases for a week again that one blip there 11 27 to 12 3 right for thanksgiving and we almost approached that the first week of january and have easily eclipsed that the last two and then the students out just continues to to grow or increase too so you see the the students that we have out of the buildings i don't have a slide for it but um we'll mention go to the right direction here there we go um that from a staff standpoint as well

062and and i think that you are all uh aware and those who are on the board at that time can remember uh closing school for a period of time to go to e-learning and that was more about the operational abilities that we did or didn't have at that time versus a number of students out but we certainly tracked the student numbers there is guidance in terms of when ill kids 20 of students are out of the building because they are ill sick then the the health department gets involved in that conversation and so from a student spread or illness standpoint there are numbers in place throughout the state and counties that might trip something there um and it doesn't have to be that percentage i throw that one out in terms of a number that's

063recorded in and available for us to pay close attention to but it's a staff thing that we continue to monitor even more closely each day just in terms of how that's impacting our ability to keep the buses running classrooms open food food being provided buildings clean and ready to go for the next day and i have to credit every single staff member we have because staff members again might be ill have to be out they might be close contacts have to be out somebody that has to cover that there aren't many positions that we have in our world where you can just uh stay home sick or not and do that that job somebody has to fill in to do that job and so we have been able to to manage that in in one

064way or another from a teacher's standpoint if we think about classrooms for example all last week we were around 25 unfilled positions as we started the day so with the number of subs we might need we still might end up with about 25 that weren't covered our building administrators teachers assistants other other support staff classroom teachers sacrificing prep time to go and cover a class during their time whatever that has been our administrators have become creative and and have a great staff members to work with and through to get those classes covered as we then go through the day so when i fill out that number just remember that a number of of 25 or 20 and i think the number this morning when we started was um 17 unfilled jobs to start this morning

065and we have 18 school buildings so if that's evenly spread out among the buildings that it might be one or two you know in in a building that you have to have to try to fill the issue becomes when it's a a building that has of those 17 or 25 where that number is one building might have seven or six or whatever that larger number is we have to try to cover that and so that's where we have to try to allocate the human resources we have throughout the district to then focus on that building and try to cover if we can and help that building out so a lot of work from anybody who's in this room who works for us as well as anybody and everybody who's underemployed in one way or another

066for our school corporation we appreciate greatly the job that's being done i don't know that of anybody in our in our corporation that right now is is just following their job description for the day whatever the job description says uh they are doing that and then well beyond just to get things uh done and i see aj and dr bozeman of course here every morning they're trying to figure out um how many bus routes aren't covered today and how do we get that situation taken care of and how do we communicate to maybe a family the bus is going to be running a little bit late as we circle back pick you up and maybe deliver you to school but right now we are working that out and it is our goal it is our

067um very much driving us to keep our students in school because we know of the challenges that we face they face when they have to be at home now there will be reasons to to go to e-learning and other things and it might be something that trips us and goes to that whether it be continued spread or or operationally but our mission our goal what we're trying to accomplish is just to keep our students in school to the best of our ability again i just thank everybody who's been involved in that process the last thing i would mention on this update is that there is again changes in the works at the department of health level that we are analyzing and kelly's paying close attention to again surprised by this one a little bit that

068announcement that came out right after christmas about going from ten days to five days surprised us the most recent surprises is uh the the suggestion of of no club close contact tracing or if you do it there's a way of communicating that and so it just maybe looks different and so we are trying to understand from the department of health's standpoint what that means in terms of does it really mean no close contact tracing or we don't have to report it but we still have to quarantine for a certain number of days and all those kinds of things i think kelly became aware of of the information on thursday we thought that this thursday we would get kind of the detailed information and then in our superintendent notes from the department of education on friday

069here were some notes but but still not a lot there so we're waiting for further information but i think that's where way the way things are going as we try to work through the 19 in these numbers and keeping people in school how does it go with the quarantine's isolation periods so still being weighed considered and we will keep you informed and updated on that and i did try to send some information out to you just for to read and be aware of heading into this meeting of what was afoot at the state level so that's something that is on our mind and being carefully considered and weighed currently i'll take any questions that you might have okay so yes one has our has our internal um spread rate changed significantly during this most recent

070week it is not ms william thank you for asking that question i should have covered that so you know i reported to you first semester that last year it was less than one percent of our close contacts that we would see seeing that test later positive and then this year it did jump so we were seeing increased um spread but but five percent you know so 95 percent of our close contact still not uh later testing positive we're not seeing a large if any increase in that still the majority of of um close contacts are coming from the home the majority of the positive test cases seem to be coming from i say home from outside of the school building from into the community so that that seems to still be the case and i

071think the last one is there are several local schools that are closed i think saint b's open today but jennings county closed today is my understanding and so you know as we've made changes to our protocols we've tended to implement those across the whole district and and if you got into a situation where one school in particular was struggling operationally would the team consider different outcomes for different schools or or how does the how's the administration think through that yeah it's a good question again and always is a possibility yeah i'd never say never and in terms of something tripping us and and causing us to go that direction but our intent is to not to have to to do that you know and sometimes i'm asked about uh setting a number if we get

072to this number then um we were going to go to e-learning the problem with setting that number is then we stopped trying to solve the problem when we get to that or close to that number so and i don't even know what that number would be operationally in terms of saying this percent this number of people in this this building and we might get there but at this point with what we've seen what we've had which are our largest challenges in terms of a number of unfilled positions whether it be teaching or anything else i know dr bozeman had a situation here not too long ago where it seemed like most of his lead custodians uh were out at that time but somehow some way we picked that up and and got through that so

073we're trying to stay on the um let's do what we can and and there may be a situation where we simply can't cover but we prefer to do it by building versus by corporations so look at look at a wing a grade level a building first before we shut down the entire corporation with 11 500 students and impact every one of their parents in making that that determination thank you i was going to ask about the obviously the core of the day is is what happens in the classroom but we've got latch key programs we've got lots of extracurricular activities and all our buildings right what's been the impact in in those areas and and how are we able to tie any of these numbers if if any of them are tied to what's happening

074to our students trying to understand the question mr cena so with with our extracurricular stuff i care and whatnot what's the impact on those those programs and being able to and and students out of the building in other words do we look at extracurriculars the same way as the classroom when it comes to contact racing and is it still yeah you know the five percent number that you mentioned i see sure so yes everything is lumped together for us in terms of if there are students and identified as close contacts regardless of the setting so let me change that if we have five kids hanging out at kroger we don't necessarily look at it that way because that's not our setting that we're in our controlled environment but if it's our basketball team at one

075of our schools or or you know choir at one of our schools or or the eye care program or bright beginnings or any of those others those numbers are here those students out are here they are positive cases they are closed contacts we are counting those and they are they are part of the calculation about percent of close contacts then later testing testing positive now with that being said i don't have a breakdown for you then of the close contacts from basketball testing positive versus classroom testing possible i understand that and then kind of to follow up on ms wieldon's question how do the extracurriculars fit into that overall safety i mean like one building versus another or one program versus our core academic day so how does how does the extracurricular of that is

076it easier to stop an extracurricular activity or yes a latchkey program yes and our focus would be on keeping the academic years intact yes yeah so so an extracurricular event or any activity outside of the school day we are more apt to shut that down or stop it if there again is a reason than we are the school day because that's a chosen situation um they're gonna be another opportunity hopefully tomorrow or a few days to play that game or do that thing um and it's not impacting that full day of of time academically or again from our our parents situation and the care they have to then find for their for their child and i didn't mention it but the other piece in regards to just having school is we saw um over the

077last two years and and i think doctor said you said in the business advisory meeting the other day that talked about the mental health of our students and the data and statistics we have seen the dramatic change in numbers of services we are needing to provide after the last couple of years of of covert 19 our kids being home but we also have seen the the great inequities uh that exist academically when all of our students are home that they're just simply more resources in some places there and there are in the other whether that's things to to to use and do while in class or even the internet access or device that might be available although we provided the data devices uh the the the ability to just log in and participate so all

078of that information continues to drive us and not that we we didn't know that there were challenges with being at home before but we have now very concrete data of the need to try the best we can to manage the circumstances and i'm proud of the team that we have thus far for being able to to accomplish that yeah and i would just add real quick to ms williams point about the schools around us closing i i don't know of any that have closed because of the the number or percentage of kids that are out i don't if they have a number besides the 20 percent i cited earlier i don't know what it is it is they've gotten to a place they just have determined that school can't happen tomorrow because operationally we've gotten

079to that place and then they've made that decision the um i don't i don't i don't know that the word surprise means anything anymore but the sharp increase among our elementary students is i don't know what the adjective is but but that it is in many respects the reason the is is gives me pause yep yeah the blue bar is jumping um more significantly than the other increases yes yes since we've gone back to school yeah and that's both positive cases in in kids yeah i i do draw attention to just again our quarantine practices right now that although that's a heck of a lot of kids out you take the last two weeks and compare it to the you know weeks three four and five at the beginning of the year it's more but

080but um we had a heck of a lot less cases positive cases then so when you combine positive cases and close contacts then to positive cases in close contacts that are having to be out of school now it's much different different situation if we were using the exact same quarantine protocols now as we were on august the 12th or 21st for example that week of august 21st or the week of august 28th 1500 or more probably phil at least the updated quarantine protocols are helping us keep more kids in school with the number of cases that we're seeing and again don't believe that that's adding to our at least seeing the close contacts testing positive to your question earlier don't see that being a major impact all right thank you thanks for your questions okay

081an opportunity for board commendations i actually only foreshadowed that before if i could just make a comment here uh doctor said as board members give the accommodations we have changed this on the agenda uh actually a suggestion from dr biltz that like her last officer's meeting i think it was intended we talked about how often times at the beginning of meetings we have recognitions and we might have the columbus north cross country team who want to say championship and we have a presentation so forth and then we go through things and then later on we come back to board commendations we thought it might be good to kind of just tag along uh to the recognitions that we formally have at a board meeting with then the board commendations that sometimes are similar in terms

082of what we're celebrating and talking about so we have moved the board accommodations up on our agenda that will now be attached to the beginning of the meeting so just wanted to clarify that change and an agenda for you thank you you're welcome go ahead mr grant okay so yeah i guess it's probably no secret i you know i'm particularly fond of this portion of each board meeting and yeah i would applaud the the move in where it takes place now you know i think it's always positive you know it's always good to be as positive hopeful and optimistic as possible and i think coming right after the discussion of the misery and turmoil that is coveted i think is uh that's good so bear with me here i have a i have a few

083and just let me start by saying you know these are just a drop in the bucket of all the you know great things that are happening in bcsc and it would be impossible for any of us to to get through all but i i think it is you know extremely important to mention you know as many as we can as often as we can um first one uh i think that was the first slide we saw um the trio of girls from columbus east so recently five teams from both east and north participated in the local maverick challenge by through the chamber of commerce where students pitched their business plans for a chance at winning cash prizes and the columbus east team of sarah hawker smith sophia myers and morgan olsen who placed first with

084their idea of the hippie hot high excuse me highway hippie which allows plant lovers to take their plants with them on the go in a thermodynamic container which is equipped with a water alert system and custom decorations pretty cool and so they will represent bartholomew county at the maverick challenge regional competition february 19th so good luck to that trio of girls from east congratulations to columbus north girls cross country coach rick slooter who was recently selected by the u.s track and field coaches and and cross country coaches association as the 2021 girls high school cross country coach of the year for the state of indiana a wonderful program there and coach schluter obviously is keeping that ball rolling congratulations to another coach long time columbus north tennis coach kendall hamill been in north for 27

085years and will be inducted into indiana high school tennis hall of fame on february 4th congratulations to coach hamill congratulations also to columbus north senior uh basketball player and unified track team member carson dibble who recently was awarded with a gifts of the game scholarship by the indiana basketball coaches association carson's one of only three winners from across the state and the scholarship is awarded based on the criteria of scholarship leadership extracurricular activities and i asked coach ferguson to share a couple comments about about carson um he says he's i am so excited for carson to receive this award he's the type of player and person who does not seek the limelight but continually does the little things behind the scenes to make the team successful he is a humble hard-working player who is beloved

086by his teammates and coaches for his team first attitude his selfless attitude continues off the court as well and then coach ferguson went on to mention his many community activities volunteer activities and concluded by saying carson is an outstanding student athlete and an excellent role model for young people in our community and then i'd also like to applaud a current csa central student who was in the republic front page not long ago ethan reynolds for his establishment of ethan's table two years ago to help those in need and as an elementary student at smith he inspired the school to start its own food pantry which is now called ethan's pantry and ethan's table which has grown considerably over the last two years all started with ethan taking 10 of his own money to buy food

087and give it to those in need and so you know particular uh you know it's great to see and hear kids being a great role model for others and doing what they can for their community and to help make the world a better place so thank you very much to carson and ethan and then lastly congratulations to the nine bcsc teachers three at each level from five different schools that were recently recognized in the republic's reader's choice contest that was launched in december so you know i'm sure those nine teachers it's always nice to be recognized for your efforts and and so congratulations to them and on top of that i would just like to say a big thank you [Music] to all the teachers in the corporation that continue to stay the course this

088last one and a half two years been very tough and continues to be incredibly challenging for a number of reasons you know in a time when a lot of teachers are retiring early leaving the profession after just a short time fewer going into the profession and arguably stress anxiety tension at all-time highs for teachers students staff members just a big thank you to them for all they've done and continue to do in these unprecedented challenging times thank you very much mr grimes are there others yes dr bills thank you dr shed i have a few commendations i had the opportunity to serve as an evaluator at columbus north high school for senior projects that was in december and a mid-year evaluation i wanted to create and i told i told the students and their parents

089i would give them a shout out at a board meeting so first of all i'd like to recognize lucia signorino she did an awesome job she showed us a mural that they had painted was on a garage near the people's trail up north by the airport i believe and so she did a really nice job carmen rice created a pet starter box for animal care services so people who adopt pets from care services get a starter box with all kinds of fun you know collars and toys for their for their new fur baby and then olivia steinkenig she created a jenga block kits for families and children who are provided services through love chapel so it's a a kit of just called them jenga kits with i think games and some other supplies in those

090kits so i wanted to yes give a commendation to those three amazing seniors i also wanted to give accommodation to csa new tech i also had the opportunity to run over there for their open house last week and the whole team to the students they had students manning some of the club booths and to the teachers who are helping i got a chance to walk around i learned a lot about the environmental science club and the students were just at the booths just telling people all about their clubs they were kind of in charge and it was a great show of leadership on the students part and so i also wanted to encourage everybody if you haven't and sherry encouraged me to do this earlier there are some great pictures in the hallway of csa

091lincoln but there's also a really cool chair project out there that from csa new tech they design different chairs so if you all haven't been back in the hallway to see those you need to go see those so shout out to lincoln and csa new time thank you all right thank you i'll offer just one and we recently learned of a certificate of recognition from the indiana department of workforce development for mcdowell our mcdowell education center so they were approached to be a part of operation allies to teach english to our afghan refugees who were stationed who were living at the time at camp atterbury so in just two to three weeks they put together an over five-week program for teaching english to those afghan refugees so recognition to megan schaff the director at mcdowell

092nikki nolting our coordinator of adult education and also mayra rodriguez and debbie pogue who were teachers in that program and they received that recognition from the indiana department of workforce development all right it is now our opportunity for public comments and i have two listed miss lindsey holden kaye he's coming here thank you lindsay holden k my address 7730 north 100 west columbus indiana i come to you tonight i saw i learned on the agenda one of the items was going to be the school bus stop arm camera initiative and in seeing that i felt compelled to come and speak in support of this initiative i come to you tonight as a bcsc parent i have two children who attend bcsc schools but perhaps more relevant to this issue i come to you as a

093prosecutor i spent my entirely well not my entire minus one year i've spent my entire legal career as a deputy prosecuting attorney first in marion county and then in bartholomew county and then this past year i switched into a judicial role and was a juvenile court magistrate for a year before stepping down to run for elected prosecutor so in my four years at the bartholomew county prosecutor's office i kind of by necessity became the resident expert on trying crashes that resulted in fatalities and i come to you because i don't think people realize how difficult these cases are to prosecute and why does this matter because the cameras they serve two functions from my perspective the first and perhaps the most important is the deterrence aspect right we don't have the resources to put a

094law enforcement officer behind every bus um in the school system and so the alternative to that is some sort of deterrent these cameras provide that deterrent when someone who is rushing to work and is running late knows that these cameras are back there i think they're far less likely to pass that stop arm so that's on the front end on the back end we have the holding people accountable when they do when they fail to be deterred right and that's i can't tell you how difficult these cases are to prosecute especially most of the ones i have prosecuted have dealt with intoxication and those are a little easier you prove someone is intoxicated and they cause a horrific crash when you take out that intoxication element these cases become very tough to prosecute we have

095to show that that new stop-arm law fairly new was violated we have to show that there's some element of criminal negligence which to the general public might seem easy but it's not easy to do and these stop arms will truly help us to take the guesswork out of that and again both deter when we can and hold people accountable when we can't i want to commend bcsc for the efforts you've made in this but i also want to note this is not solely a bcsc issue this is a community issue and as such other community leaders should be stepping to the plate to help with this because this initiative really affects all of us so thank you very much for your time i don't want to go over but i appreciate the opportunity to speak

096tonight thank you thank you miss holden kay i appreciate it mr eric grow i don't know what you're talking about policy manual tonight a subject subject titled matters regarding instructional materials step by step on how to have a specific library by the very little indications you have given you're using that by law of your justification really see inappropriate about this situation is that you know something happening is wrong you see something wrong it's at the very pain heart move and shape the world around you in the proper direction that is human purpose most sacred sense this is what gives us meaning in life this is the meaning underlying the same do what is right always do you're still accountable for your non-action now compare that to the opposing argument it would be inappropriate for you

097to act without a form because this procedure trumps your functional purpose has come to me i think we're really missing the big picture here the books are not the problem the books are the result of the problem i am trying to bring your attention to the fact that there's a serious breakdown in our school systems policies and procedures that allow this to happen if we remove books from your attention the problem still exists there are most definitely other inappropriates currently around libraries and more inappropriate books should be added [Music] justified murder or a famous school shooter's manifesto do you still feel your principle stance would it still be inappropriate for you to act to prevent our children's continued explosions or is it inappropriate that you know something is wrong you can't do something about it

098and you continue not to maybe you're happy with those products or at least okay with it let's talk about that if that's the case but so far the only response i've gotten back from you is that it would be inappropriate to use an address and this kind of goes back to my main thing which i've been talking about for months let's fix the communication so why is this appropriate to bring to this body you are a sole democratically elected representation directly into a government institution your peers voted you into this position for the characteristics you exhibit that you can represent the best of our community you represent a hero architect in that sense your community looks to you when there is trouble and you have the power and its position to do you have the

099means to make a difference and i just laid out an argument that undermines the current position i'm hitting for you guys and all i'm asking all i've ever been asking is having conversations i bring my truth to the table so you guys can focus on it unravel it i'm asking you to bring your truth to the table so we can do the same and then we can reconcile those two so we can find other truths and you know that's all i've been asking through all of this don't forget i always appreciate considering your responses even when it's not what i hope to hear but choosing not to respond is a responsibility so as always thank you for your year thank you mr grow all right school board member reports mr grimes the uh the school

100foundation met a couple of weeks ago the school foundation is ups you know a little bit disappointed to uh report that the virtual trivia scheduled for february 12 is canceled and we hope to get that back to a live event at some point once the misery and chaos and turmoil concludes at some point uh but so the school foundation's uh focus is turned now to sunday march 6th the harlem wizards at columbus north still need team members volunteers to man souvenir stands uh so anybody that would like to volunteer please let the new executive director nicole or angie emmett no if you're willing to volunteer and then the outgoing president of the board wanted me to share some statistics mr jamerson wanted me to share statistics about the impact that the foundation's relationship with donors

101choose has had since september of 2020 192 projects have been funded with the bulk of those projects impacting students in pre-k through fifth grade most of those projects have come from the categories of either applied learning and also literacy and language 57 different teachers have submitted projects and uh in in total nearly a hundred thousand dollars has been contributed to projects thus far with just about half of that coming from donors and the other half coming from the school foundation and so certainly the school foundation looks forward to uh you know a growing number of teachers in the corporation submitting projects proposals and uh look forward to uh you know uh as those you know projects continue to positively impact student learning in in bcsc and hopefully those numbers will grow as people become more

102familiar and you know word continues to spread awesome thank you are there others from the redevelopment committee i wanted to highlight there's a project 1821 trail expansion so the groundbreaking was in december the trail will go along first street from lafayette to water street i believe and then that will almost complete the full loop downtown there's another riverfront section that will be added in the future the the theme is common ground to go along with kind of our bicentennial celebration last year there's some really great art planned along there i think it's meant to be in construction this year with bricks and such with landscaping going into november i want to put in a little bit of a plug bricks are for sale so if you've ever walked downtown okay and you've seen those bricks

103and you thought i want one of those i missed my opportunity here is your opportunity they are a hundred dollars you can dedicate them to anyone they are great gifts okay that's my low plug if you go onto the redevelopment commission website you can find out how to do that i think the campaign is open from now until probably april or may okay and um i was also really excited to see stem work and how the redevelopment commission has worked with fifth dollars to help fund that i'd like to bring that feedback back to them that's really important work great yes miss day hoftwire the end of november the education hall of fame met and we have a 2022 education hall of fame new inductee and the reception will be february 7th here at the

104terrace room and it will the reception will start at 5 30. we can probably go ahead and give that name kenwood mrs steph dwyer given that everybody has been informed correct sherry and while the reception will want to make sure that people know that we'll work on the reception we're not sure exactly how things as we went back to talking about events and stuff earlier we'll see how that plays out but making sure that people know about it and want to attend the meeting if we have thanks so who is uh you could do that you you do a great job of running that committee who is our uh educational family yeah okay linda that's right yeah dickley dr dukley so this this year's education hall of fame award winner is dr linda de clue

105uh who uh served many roles for us uh at bcsc her most recent one or the one that she was in when she retired was as assistant superintendent for human resource sources and with dr quick so congratulations to dr de clue i know she's very excited about receiving that award and we look forward to recognizing her at the next board meeting which again is on monday february the 7th and we will figure out whether or not we can have a reception for that so thanks for your work on that kathy thank you awesome do you have any sure i'll go okay the council for youth development hosts professional development opportunities for those folks that work with the youth in our community and coming up in february they have one that's focused on parental engagement and

106parental involvement i have a learned ceo and founder of the center for empowering education dr brian dinkins is going to come to columbus on the 16th and speak at the youth worker forum here about techniques and plans and ways to increase parental involvement in the development of our youth awesome all right well it seems like committees are cranking up again at the first of the year so i will be shorter the corporation cic met on wednesday we received a lot of great information there was information about our employee engagement survey highlights is an amazing participation rate for a survey 78 percent learning about our staff's perceptions of strengths of our school corporation as well as areas for improvement and there this will be a continuous effort in the school corporation in our efforts to always

107be better we heard i got to i got my preview of the stem presentation there was also a great conversation from the diversity council and equity works they're working on their mission and their strategic plan and one of the items that really stuck with me about what was shared is an effort to not think just about diversity because that just is an is and to work on inclusion that it's an integration of many different perspectives and persons and so i appreciated that there's conversation about focusing on that versus so if you think of diversity equity inclusion the equity and inclusion rather than just the is if you will those are my words we learned more about the professional development days that will be coming up and that we all approved being added into the calendar

108and an interesting and a wonderful part about all of that is that the building level cics will be a part of planning the training in the afternoon for all of the staff in their respective buildings that was that one and then on friday morning the business advisory council met and we got what i always love to listen to is the covet update we talked a little bit about our graduation rates the focus of the presentation was from counseling counts as was alluded to earlier by dr roberts some of the data that were shared are quite sobering there have been new references for counseling services just this fall semester that is there were 592 in all of 2021 so just to give you a context of the impact of all that's going on for our learners

109we heard presentations from partners in the community from family services and center stone talking about the issues that our learners are are facing and what are being brought before our counselors uh someone asked so what were the top ones um there's never just one but issues that were raised were anxious behavior depressive moods suicidal ideation i think one of the things that was sobering for me is the largest jump is among our elementary learners if they looked at the entire population with which they're working i find that sobering one of the issues that they are facing in addition to identifying the needs of our learners is having parents follow up because we do have to have parental approval to offer the services that are available i appreciated someone offered the high notes after listening to

110this presentation and it's really a shout out to our community and to the school corporation that from family services and centerstone's perspective it is relatively unique that we have the level of community services and support for mental health and for our learners that we do in this corporation and in this community and also that it is very positive that we have worked towards destigmatizing conversations about mental health issues so that was the high note from that presentation i will briefly mention third house our first one for this short session was this morning senator greg walker was there as well as representative ryan lauer from my perspective there were several from the school corporation that were in attendance two issues from a school corporation perspective that i picked up on was the there's any number of

111bills try wanting to know whether we should be having political party denotation on on ballots both senate senator walker actually has what he referred to as a compromise bill about that that it would be an issue that would be determined at the local level be it the local school board or a local referendum whether they wanted that among their candidates for school board representative lauer didn't have that on his top ten list of things that they need to be working on or that he has a passion about those are probably my words but he wasn't he didn't have a lot of energy behind this one and the other one was relative to the bills associated with library books and the a bill proposing that librarians and or others who would be sharing books that individuals

112would find what's the word i want to say not inappropriate i think it's a stronger word than that but inappropriate um senator walker's perspective on that was again that that should be a local issue rather than state legislation and doing a shout out to our own library that jason hatton our director of our library knows our community best and would be in the better position to be making decisions about what books are available and or distributed so it would because the bill would propose that it might be a felony for providing books to learners okay i'm done were there other things from third house people who were there those are only two that focus on case for me yes all right it's cabinet report time so next on our agenda is the technology department annual

113update and we have our tech team here all right good evening i am really excited to be here tonight as we haven't been able to bring our team for two years so it's been a while for them i'm sure they enjoy being here i wanted to thank you guys for all of your support and dr bozeman as well for your continued support for bcsc technology so tonight we're going to give you some updates and then talk about some specifics that we're working on so this is i believe one of the best teams in the state eva caglin down here is in charge of operations and she is in her 25th year in the district so she really holds us all together brian trivitt is in charge of overseeing 60 different systems including skyward powerschool and

114he is actually the during the pandemic he's the second person from bcsc to earn his certified education technology leader certification which was a huge accomplishment and then brenny is our instructional tech coordinator and she just received her master's in educational technology from arkansas so again fantastic team that's going to talk to you a little bit tonight our infrastructure and what we support is one of the largest in the county if you think about how many buildings we have how many how far and how much space that we have to support in all of the devices it is quite expansive some things that have changed or will change is that we received a close to a million dollar grant from the fcc to help fund devices this year and also that'll allow us to move kindergarten

115to one to one kindergarten technology use has increased with the new resource adoptions and just kind of the expanded e-learning initiative so we're very excited about that and then i think kind of how we continue to innovate to keep on the cutting edge is that we are all very collaborative inside bcsc we are probably part of about every committee one of us at least we lean on our vendors heavily who have really gotten us through this pandemic learn from them about what's coming and also just kind of the current status of orders at this point and then also our team is highly involved within within the county within the state and really nationally with peers that we're learning from all the time all right so the topic that dr bozeman asked us to talk about

116almost a year ago at this point is our training so why it's so important to us is really to maximize all of the investment that we make in technology so that any user in our district is able to effectively use technology and we always look at it through the lens of universal design for learning and we know that some some people are really good with tech and some people need some extra supports and that's why we put so much effort into training and we are extremely excited about the pd days that are coming up to have more time with our staff some of the unique tools that we're able to use are screen so there's just a ability to capture about any image on computers and do step by step and then we also invest

117in screen recording mechanisms and our teachers have access to this as well so we're able to make universally designed pd for all of our staff that's accessible really anytime all right so we're going to talk specifically each person is about their their areas here's brittney all right hello my name is brittany coomer and my focus is on the technology that we provide to teachers and i say teachers but honestly all of this professional development that's on the screen right now is open to anyone and it's really heavily attended also by those who are teachers but our teacher assistants media assistants all those different roles so like mr williams had said we try to implement universal design for learning in a lot of what we do and like our students we know that our teachers and

118our staff need options and how they get training so these are some of the different examples that we have provided over the pandemic before the pandemic and have learned that we want to continue to provide those while we're in this phase that we're still kind of in the pandemic as well so we like to provide different options like we have virtual workshops those are offered monthly we have self-paced technology challenges that i offer a few times during the year usually they have a focus we've done them on new tools we've adopted or ones that our teachers have requested a lot of these options are driven by teacher feedback any time that we design new pd we ask the teachers who attended for their input and we even now cert we even send out surveys to

119those who didn't attend in person to get some information on why couldn't you attend or what else would you like to see we have an exciting one on there on the virtual side as well that we got through a grant from the indiana department of education we have a fully virtual option now that's the opportunity for teachers to earn micro credentials in google and e-learning and universal design for learning and virtual environments we have blended options that include podcasts book studies again providing different choices to teachers and trying to keep things fresh and engaging we have also some opportunities here for in-person workshops as well because while we know that virtual is something that we've had to use we also like to provide that option for teachers to come and get some in-person training as

120well and some of those are working with teachers one-on-one giving them step-by-step instructions and tips but then also using some of our teacher technology leaders in buildings as well there's a committee that i work with i meet with them every grading period and usually sometimes in between then as well and there are teacher technology leaders our little fun name for them is tech titans it used to just be the instructional technology team but that was way too many words and difficult to say so we changed it to that and i meet with them to give them updates as it relates to instructional technology they're really good sounding board for us to also learn what other pd we want and then they take some of the information that i share and train teachers in their buildings

121as well so here are some different images that showcase some examples i just talked about some of our and that picture is pre-covered time so that's why everyone's kind of close together and not wearing a mask i wanted to make sure that i said that so we have some examples on there of newsletters that we send out some of the different um technology self-paced challenges there in the bottom left corner are workshops we offer those virtually over zoom but we also record every single session so that if a teacher couldn't attend live they can always go back and watch it and still get those professional development growth points for re-licensing and then we also have just some different of the other options on here which include podcast studies and then our credential pathway that we

122got through that grant from the state thank you bernie hi my name again is brian trivitt and i'm over administrative systems and we have kind of two ways that we break down our trainings and communications and we strive as we have new things come up or there's changes according to state rules and regulations that we stay on top of that so kind of the first part is maybe more of our sit and gets we have meetings that start the year for power school updates that also includes updates with the state you can see i've got a bunch of link initiative data exchange that's been a huge topic across the state and that's kind of the bear we've been wrestling with this year trying to make sure we stay on top of that as things change

123and sometimes they change week to week so as that's happening we have our monthly state report updates that's a group that we've kind of focused on with the administrative assistants at the buildings and the district level and kind of tell them as things come up as things change what's going on and how to kind of report data correctly and if there's something needed to do maybe we were told something that's changed we tell them these means hey we gotta stop this and redo it and and fix things for the state reporting another thing we've been doing is bi-weekly secondary counselors meetings so as students are coming up to graduation or their scheduling that has to be done we're meeting with the counselors at the high schools and middle schools on a bi-weekly basis just to

124make sure we're on the same path we all know what's going on and then if they have some stuff they can bounce ideas off each other that maybe it doesn't exactly need to be involved in but we're there with the conversation and they're getting some ideas out and that's just a great environment to be in to get some things out and so there's more gelling between the schools across our district so the other thing is as we've had some new systems come out we've had more individualized sessions or maybe small group sessions skyward true time is our digital time keeping and tracking software so we've had small group meetings we've had one-on-ones how do people approve time or submit time or time off and all that fun stuff we've also developed trainings to send out

125video wise and instruction sheets parent square is going to be a new communications tool that we have we've been working with groups kind of more one-on-one and small group in that instance we have a reoccurring meeting right now with the five schools that are going to be piling that here in the next few weeks and then power school online registration that is a what sounds like online registration that puts data directly into powerschool so parents can use that as opposed to writing it down a piece of paper give it to an admin assistant now they have to re-input that data so that is something as well that we will do one-on-one with people as they come into the district or a new school setting we'll walk them through that we answer questions and at the

126launch of that we did have kind of some small group two or three times that we went through step by step how to approve how to verify and how to send that data to powerschool and get everybody ready for what they need to do for the school year well in addition to focusing our training on particular groups or systems we do train everybody here at bcsc and we added to our tools this school year a knowledge base so we have the bcsc help juice knowledge base and this is a very powerful tool for us to create store and access help articles the help articles are very rich they have text pictures videos appealing to all learning styles it has a very powerful search engine that's easy to use it scales well for mobile devices so

127it has another support not just anytime anywhere access but every device it looks good on and this is available right now it is our goal to make it available to all users that would include students and parents in addition to the staff that have it available right now but we are continuing to add materials to make it more useful to them so that's been a real ad for the department and for our users this year so in addition to the knowledge base we do offer specialized trainings and that's usually when we make a an upgrade to a system or add a new system and many of you were here for the group wise to gmail so you experience that and that requires us to really offer trainings that really take in the wide variety of

128of technology comfort and knowledge that we see across the district with all of our staff so we really meet them where they are that may be in some cases one-on-one training small group training and it ranges all the way to self-help so those are always available here at bcsc and will continue to be available here at bcsc hi do you guys have any questions that we can answer for you yes mr standard i'm curious about a couple of like participation rates how many teachers i think we've got around 700 certified staff how many teachers take advantage of the opportunities for some of the training that you were talking about this corner i would say it varies on the type of training so our micro-credential pathway that's fairly new this year we've had over 125 credentials

129awarded now some people have gone out and gotten even more than one but we've had pretty good participation in that program because it's something new that's been fresh some of our other options are self-paced we did a challenge not that long ago when it was learned all these different google tools and teachers were having more and more chromebooks in the classroom and we had over 334 participation rate on that and that also included some of our support staff we had several tas and some of our parent engagement interpreters participate in that as well so it kind of varies i would say that if we look at our district workshops we have more teachers who are tuning in to the recorded session afterwards right now than the live session just because things are a little crazy

130but we always get people who attend who have positive comments and then ask can we do this topic next time and we build that into our schedule and then for mr trivit the parent system power school the parent square i'm sorry parent square and both parent square and power school what are the participation rates how do we measure is power school something that parents use it is um so the power school is really for the parents access they can see students grades and attendance and stuff like that so in every student's family do we have somebody that has the access or we can set it up but not everybody reaches out to get it usually they go to a school to get the credentials some schools distribute those to the students so i don't know

131exactly we create an account for every parent but i don't know exactly what the utilization is for parents accessing a parent portal through powerschool thank you i'm sorry my assumption would be that if we could increase that rate we could increase the some of the things that mr finley was talking about student efficacy and the belief that students and parents have that they can shape their own child's education yes and i will say that every school at open house has usually an area where you can sign up for this and it it almost doubled in participation since the beginning of the pandemic as parents were checking grades online and making sure that their students were keeping up so we did see a big uptick uh the past year and a half and they've got their

132phones right there with them they can go ahead and do everything that's needed right thank you awesome are there other questions impressive thank you very very much all right we're going to learn more about our school bus stop arm cameras good evening everyone thank you for hanging in there with us i i agree with nick they have the best tech team in the state and we're very fortunate to have them appreciate eve 25 years eve i listened to a newscast this morning of a bus driver that's retiring after 55 years so you're almost halfway there eva thank you for your service and keep up the good work i have aj mckean with me today our director of transportation and julie quinsenberry your school resource officer to give an overview of our our plans to deploy

133stop arm cameras on school buses i'm here at bcsc we do have a handful that are in place already i'd like to kind of talk that through with you here here in just a bit there's there's one particular day across the state of maine where the department asks for a they call it a count day to where each district reports how many stop violations they have and typically over the history of however many years they've done that more than 10 there's around 3 000 events per day and you can see them out there what that would equate to across the course of a of a school year there have been communities that have experienced tragedy with this we're not excluded from that as you well know and i have up there that this happens nearly

134every day in bcsc and it is it is every day a matter of fact i think of mr jensen i were in a conversation his office about three weeks ago and and uh there's a bus stopped right here on central avenue and i said bill watch this and there were four cars that went through that stop arm and it's difficult to watch we have very strong partnerships with the prosecutor's office here in bartholomew county and the sheriff's department and the local police cpd but as it was previous mentioned they're just not capacity we drive 8 000 miles a day with our school buses we have several hundred bus stops despite our strong partnerships with our law enforcement partners there it's just not feasible for for law enforcement to chase around our school buses morning afternoon

135to to catch those that are that are negating the law on this so we'll bring a an additional appropriation for funding of this project here soon to you mr phillips will help us with that as a cash draw down from our operations budget to help pay for this and we'll speak to this a little bit more but we we recognize that this is a problem but we think we have a solution to help at least with some of the enforcement and then also education to our community anytime we get a chance to speak to this topic we we do try to educate folks a little bit there for one reason or another there is a little bit of confusion it feels like at least to us the three examples i'll go through briefly here on

136the left is a simple two-lane road which is pretty straightforward the the vehicle coming towards the bus and following the bus are both required to stop when the stop arm is deployed the middle image there that's a four lane road that's one that we we see i mentioned central avenue here earlier and then us 31 is another hot spot that we have the blue car in that example may or may not realize that he or she is required to stop and they are so that's that's one that's a common a common violation that we see the example on the right that's a divided highway or divided you know four-lane road that has a meeting in between you may see that obviously on an interstate or divided four lane road also like in tipton lakes there

137are medians in between there so in that example the opposite traveling traffic on that example they are not required but a lot of our a lot of our trouble really comes from that that middle image here so aj's with us yes sir while this graphic is up i love the graphic can you talk about the students boarding the buses in these three scenarios where my students be coming from we and why it's important that the traffic stops sure yeah great great question so state law changed a couple of years ago after the rochester incident that anytime students board on the state highway they are required to load doorside which would be the door side on the right side of the bus here for the safety we have done that on state highways and bcsc for

138many years typically what we do now is unfortunately as much as we would like to if we were to board every student doorside throughout the entire district our students will be on buses for hours a day just because of routing and efficiencies so what we typically do now is if the driver or the department has identified that area as a troubled zone they will load door side and change the route in the middle example we would not have a child walk from in this case the left across three lanes of traffic to get to the bus we don't have bus bus routes set up that way in some cases on the example on the left hand side especially in city streets we do have that on occasion but we do try to load students on

139door side as much as possible as i said i'm going to introduce aj mckean our director of transportation he's going to talk about uh what we have in place already with our some of our buses and kind of whatever our planes are here moving ahead good evening i'm going to touch a little bit on that that slide that he had just up there a second ago one of the things when an incident happens with a fatality or whatnot when somebody runs a stop arm a lot of the uneducated responses are why is that bus not physically blocking the road well it is against the law for one for a bus has to be in the lane of travel with the stop arm extended and the lights on in order for it to be a legal

140bus stop if the if you think about it if a bus is blocking the road two-lane highway which people look at as a sitting sideways in the road if you're approaching that bus you may not be able to see the stop arms because the bus sitting at an angle not in that road has obstructed the view of you coming or in front of or behind that vehicle so instantly i've had many people when when stuff like that happens why isn't that why is the bus driver just physically blocking the road totally well it's against the law they have to physically stop as far to the right-hand side of the road in their lane of travel to to do appropriate bus stop so as we move forward we're wanting to install stop arm cameras on every

141routed bus we have found that with the 12 buses that we currently have in service that it is a viable tool for us to help slow down that process and hopefully with some help from other people in our community that we can get the people that are not paying attention while driving down the road to maybe pay a little bit more attention as i stated we have it on 12 buses um the the cameras on the buses are recording at all times this is attached to the internal recording system that records the interior of the bus as well when the ignition is on the bus all the cameras are running there is also a event marker inside the bus that the drivers all drivers are currently using to utilize if an incident happens inside the

142bus they can hit the button on the inside of the bus and it'll state to my office staff when they have to pull the video that an incident has happened this same system will work with stop arm cameras if they witness a vehicle run their stop on camera they could hit the button located on the left hand side it will mark the camera so when we pull the hard drive on the bus it will be easy to recognize the time that the event has taken place as you can see here the the far picture on the left if you can see the very top is actually a windshield mounted camera that's part of the upgrade that we will be doing as well the two on the side of the bus is a forward and rear-facing

143stop-arm cameras if you pass one of these buses you'll see little red lights glowing on the side of the bus that's that's what you're seeing is the the infrareds for the night vision for the stop arm cameras here are a few pictures of the availability of the pictures from the stop arm camera as you can tell you get several pictures coming and going we have blacked out obviously the plate but you can see in the picture in the middle here in that night vision you can actually still read the plate in the dark on the bus it also gives us the gps location of the incident and the time stamp and all the the bus information the bus number the time gps location is all recorded on this video as well so the the system

144what we're doing obviously is not just the stop arm cameras as i said it's the the dash camera where also part of the system is needing to upgrade the interior cameras from 720 pixel to 1080p that way our stop arm cameras on the outside can be the high quality cameras so it's it's a full upgrade from from front to back and exterior as well and the forward-facing camera is in addition to that we did have uh we are meeting with 24 7 we have entered into a maintenance agreement with them they will be the system installed on the bus which is what we currently have upgrading to the price of the system for the upgrade is around three hundred thousand dollars and like dr bozeman said a chat will be putting in requests for the

145funding here at a future day and i'd like to pass the mic on to officer q for her part so my process and this is pretty simple so the image that you just saw before on the 24 7 camera the image that you saw i get the version where the plate is not white out i get the version with the plate so i'll run it and then i issue the citation now i use the registered owner's information because according to indiana code the burden of proof is on the registered owner and so i mail that citation to the residence following that the prosecutor's office gets a copy of the citation that i issued which is very standard any citation that we issue that's what happens so it goes directly to them and then after that

146it's a standard standard process it for any other citation where the person that was issued the citation either pays it out or challenges it in this instance if it's challenged the only instance that we have encountered so far is the person said they didn't get the citation which would mean that their address was incorrect on the registration which is also a violation of indiana code that is that is on the owner of the vehicle so the process is fairly simple when it comes to getting that to law enforcement making sure that those instances are documented i'm going to be the contact for that at least initially especially as the expansion occurs so that those citations can be documented and we can communicate directly with the prosecutor's office to ensure i guess to better track what

147it is that happens with those happy to answer any questions you may have all right and yes dr bills uh thank you for this presentation um i was looking at the process again and maybe you mentioned this so the camera is running all the time on the bus right and how does okay so i think i missed the part where it says three still shots are taken how did i mean how is that marked like so so the cameras run full time they're on the same system as the interior cameras do what what the driver does is they just they just mark the tape so to speak so when they go in to have a sudden request with the video specialist in the office to pull it she can pull and say okay i know

148it's at 7 11 because that's what time it's it's indicated and then we actually have video we have full video of the car moving through the and we'll we'll take three um we'll create those three images from the video um send that to officer quisenberry for uh processing we'll retain the video for six months in case it needed to go to court or be challenged whatever but those images are pulled from from our side from the video so i guess when the driver is marking it that's not during while they're driving it's just aft like they remember it's at seven o'clock and they mark that later go mark it right when it happens they'll be at a stop obviously the air brake is pulled because they're loading children and then you know our drivers notice

149when somebody drops when they violate the stop arm and they get grumpy about it so so they'll just hit the button mark it right there and then when they come in the office they'll be pulled and just the button they hit then okay i just didn't wasn't sure what that meant thank you what's the volume of citations that you think you'll get if this if this moves forward versus today we anticipated that question and i don't have a good answer for you there there is a little bit we aj can answer this i'll speak a little bit he can he can tell you better than i can we oftentimes hear of drivers being frustrated with with stop arm violations sometimes we have to educate our drivers also a little bit on on what constitutes a

150violation versus the yellow you know morning lights and the red stop arms that come out i don't know if we have an estimate of how many we'll have we've that's a question the prosecutor's office has asked us as well and and we've kind of talked that through a little bit and said well for now and unless volume gets really heavy then officer quisenberry is going to handle filing this for those for us i hope not many i probably think several um you know per my example earlier with outside of mr johnson's office but we'll have to have to wait and see if you have anything yeah yeah the process of filing is quick it's the i think your question is the quantity of how many violations we expect to see and um yeah we're not

151exactly sure yet we'll and what's the fine what's the citation fine for an offense and then is there a is there a repeat offender escalation process what would that find the fine itself or the offense is relatively small however the court costs are not so it ends up being approximately 150 dollars that's for the first time the second time is a is a i believe it's a misdemeanor offense correct me if i'm wrong we had this conversation if it's a misdemeanor offense it goes up significantly so not just in fine but in possible jail time as well i think we should take this picture the two-lane multi-lane and just plaster it everywhere because i don't think people know they're supposed to stop i mean i'm not saying all people i don't think some people know

152they're supposed to stop if they're on the other side of the multi i've seen them do it i've seen them not stop with the bus i really think it's a matter of education too i really do i really think people don't know they're supposed to stop in that situation that's just my opinion because i've seen it we we agree let's plaster these everywhere yeah each each start of the school year i said we have great partnerships with with law enforcement and also the republican local newspapers they do publish this type of information when it's get back to school you know hey buses are out there be aware all that type of stuff so um but yes i agree that there is certainly some opportunity with the middle image there i had a question i think

153about the roll out of the program so the the newest buses i think there were 10 or 12 of the newest style that already have this equipment on them and adding equipment to the other buses in the fleet do we wait to roll the program out until all the buses are equipped or do we use the 12 sets of cameras that we have now to start the program we've we've actually started it for a few months now okay the image the images you've seen with the reports those have been filed and cited and those folks have paid so yes as as and there'll be a third party vendor that will install these as they finish the installation the bus will be active and off you go so we think probably what all 120 buses by

154the first of august is that what we're thinking so yeah the program is is in place it's just it's just moving from those factory installs we get them as our new 12 buses now into a retrofit of all the remaining buses over the next six or eight months great thank you all right thank you very much i appreciate the commitment to the safety of our students thank you in the community as they are sitting down here thank you for the presentation on that so there is a senate bill number 121 um that was introduced by senator niemeyer it has a hearing tomorrow that's attempting to add additional things to school bus stop arm violations and the enforcement of it and specifically it is going after i guess that's the right way to put it the

155registered owner of a vehicle so sometimes it may be somebody different driving the vehicle who goes through the stop arm but this bill would actually the registered owner of a vehicle used to pass a school bus stopped on a roadway or private road et cetera commits a class b infraction so it's not only in this case the person driving through it but also the owner there are some defenses for the owner if it was stolen or you know some other things in there but being used as a rental or or something like that but that that is being added um there was a question about the the the type of citation that can be issued it is a class a misdemeanor but if the offense is a level six the offense is a level six

156felony if it causes bodily injury to a person a level five felony if he causes the death of a person so it does rise to that so again just adding some things and i bring that up dr bozeman and i will be in indianapolis at the state house tomorrow to testify in support of the addition of items to that particular piece of legislation all right thank you for that i think that's a segue to you dr robert yes thank you so we will jump into the many items i have for your consideration and approval and start with the minutes of the regular school board meeting of january 10th so this is the tonight is the second meeting of january so we're going back to the first one and asking for your approval for those minutes

157supplemental contracts we have claims and payroll so we have claims dated just today because we had a lot of claims for you uh back on january um the 10th this total is approaching a million dollars still over 900 thousand dollars again no pre-run report we have that the first meeting of january we do have payroll uh about 2.8 million dollars is the january 14th payroll it covers the work dates of december 20th through january the 2nd just to note that this is a payroll that is only a three-day pay for nine-month staff because we came out of a break so they just not have did not have a lot of work days there but it is a normal payroll for our year-round and certified staff members we have the neola policies and we'll just hit

158those here in a second but volume 34 number one a number of those policies that i uh reviewed with you the last time we met we'd also like to acquire permission from you to receive food service bids so we'll put that out and and get bids for our food service items you were provided a lengthy construction manager as constructor contract we have a reappointment to the bartholomew county public library board we didn't have that in our packet the last time received that request for for it after our last board meeting so monte frazier who's at south side we'd just like to reappoint to that position and then we have a final 2021 education fund to operations fund transfer that happens this time of year as we conclude one budget year and get into the next

159in regards to the policies just bringing you up to speed again with those so one was public participation at board meeting it's been revised to make sure we have a clear process of approval for any person or group who wants to place an item on the board agenda there is is a way to go about that further the revision provides clear delineation between speaking as a part of the agenda or speaking about an agenda item under the terms per the requirement of public comments so just clarifying those pieces of information additionally we have employment of the superintendent and employment of administrators in addition to this superintendent these policies revised pursuant to a enrolled act from a year ago sca 55 and it's in regards to school referendums and making sure that you're not allowed to

160provide an incentive to administrators to get a result as a result of a favorable outcome of a referendum latchkey programs would provide policy 2262 just two new options in that these options are available when the corporation provides a school-aged child care or utilizes a non-profit or a for-profit organization so make sure it covers any of those entities or situations if we would have them policy 2370.03 is the indiana course access program it just gives information about our students requesting to use the course access program through the doe we also have the school performance internet dashboard policy policy 2603 is new that may change again just as it continues to go through various iterations but it was based upon house bill 1514 that was approved last year policies 31 20.08 41 20.08 and 8455 into the

161employment of personnel for extracurricular activities as well as coaching trainings and that adds specifically marching band leaders or a sponsor of an activity which is student has an increased risk of studying of sudden cardiac arrest to participate in the same training as our athletic coaches that is from ata 1040. we also have policy 3120.11 which is a public hearing before commencement of collective body we've been doing this they're just adding it to policy again it is now legislation policy 32 14 and 4214 get into staffed gifts and making sure when it's okay to kind of accept a gift there are holidays where that might be offered to staff members this policy about staff gifts was put into place to not have a gift being given to try to impact or influence a decision that's not

162the same as when a teacher might be given a gift for a holiday and so is trying to reflect those circumstances staff evaluations is based upon some changes where the spring of 2019 and 20 the statewide assessments could not be used to impact a certificated employees performance evaluation unless uh those would improve it so it's just making sure that that was delineated clearly school transfer options are uh just outlined a little more clearly clearly in 51 13.02 to make sure to follow both federal and state guidelines and if there is an unsafe school choice option where might a student go 5340.01 student concussions and sudden cardiac arrest is revision but is similar to what i several policies i mentioned earlier and specifically calls out or names band directors and others who might be in a

163situation where students are more at risk and they would need some training similar to what our coaches have been required to participate in graduation requirements that's revised where there will if if there's some situation where a student doesn't have the graduation plan in place the corporation's not going to have not going to withhold a diploma even though the graduation plan is a part of the department of education's requirements policy 5540 the schools and governmental agencies it's revised to again another indiana co-pro provision and gives criteria for when dcs may be granted permission to interview a student alone at school and so that was a policy from last year in the process to allow for that if it's necessary policy 6105 is authorization to accept and distribute electronic records and to use electronic signatures so just

164making sure we adhere to the state board of accounts ways of doing that 6114 is cost principles of spending federal funds a lot of federal funds being spent so making sure our policy aligns with the american rescue plan or esser funds that we have available to us in our spending policy 60 20 is budget preparation and this just gets into striking through certain areas that were still a policy that shouldn't be there anymore given changes in the number of budgets or funds that we now have 6230 gets into the budget hearing and make sure that if there is a referendum which we have that we make sure and enlist the estimate of expenditures in funds based upon those referendums we have been doing that chad's been doing a great job of being very transparent with

165our use of funds and we have that budget set as well as targets that are on our website policy 7300 is a disposition of real property so just provisions made when we have the sell or lease of unused or vacant property we also have 7310 disposition of surplus property in the process we go through when we have surplus items and for example the plan has to be posted to our website and available for public inspection uh property inventory is 7450 another revision where we are adding the federal threshold of five thousand dollars to differentiate between supplies materials and a capital expenditure these two policies 75 40.03 and .04 are student technology acceptable use and then staff technology acceptable use and they've been revised to include language reflecting state law requirements that specifically prohibit the sending

166receiving viewing or downloading of material is harmful to minors policy 8305 information security includes policy language the school work to protect our data from attack vectors and gets into all the efforts that nick and his team are doing to protect us against cyber security challenges policy 8600 is transportation revision there and it just gives us the opportunity if we choose to enter to fleet contracts with the contractor and gives other details about that process and i think that exhausts the policies that i have now had in front of you for several weeks and i think that exhausts my items let me check yes so we have then those items which are letters a through j under number three on the agenda for approval all right thank you for that summary so i opened for a

167motion to approve items three a through j as they're presented to us so moved thank you miss day hoftwire is there a second back in thank you miss wilden are there questions individuals have about any of the items we received a lot of information information overload on you this time yes it was any particular questions so the information was very thorough so thank you all all right i do have a question for dr bozeman i know this is our first time through the the process with a construction manager as constructor contract and i'm just uh looking i guess for some reassurance about we had council help us draft this or somebody reviewed it and made sure it you know the modifications from a standard aia contract are all appropriate yes no yes dr boseman is

168approaching modifications were made with the legal counsel's involvement and it is why it's it's tonight you're approving that versus maybe a board meeting or two ago it's just to make sure our first time through this we had all of that legal stuff perfected i guess and and that took some time to make sure it was ready for yes yes steve jones from mice miller uh worked with us for several weeks on um on revising that to make sure it was appropriate especially since it's our first time with the cmc process mr center and it'll get easier and quicker probably shorter thank you for that question i appreciate it all right if there are no more i'll ask for approval those who approve items three a through j as they've been presented to us if you'd

169signify by saying i i those opposed all right thank you very much those have been approved unanimously dr roberts thank you dr pleak it's your turn good evening i request approval of the hr recommendations as presented thank you very much is there a motion to approve our human resources recommendations as we have them so moved thank you miss day off dwyer is there a second thank you dr bills any particular questions for dr pleek how many open spots do you have right now dr blake wow you're beating me by the way you're winning okay all right hearing no specific questions all of those who approve our human resources recommendations as they've been presented to us if you signify by saying i i any opposition all right there you go dr pleek thank you we have

170learned a lot tonight um so this is an opportunity for board import and review i'll turn to you mr grimes um oh gosh um yes lots and lots of information uh first off thanks to mr findlay mrs george from um lincoln for coming and sharing uh all the great stuff that's going on at lincoln it's it's quite obvious that uh you know it's it's a place where kids want to be and consequently learn so thank you for all the creative uh and conscientious work going on there thanks mrs hardin for sharing about all the exciting innovative stem things related things going on in the 11 elementaries and i think you know to hear about the future of stem in bcsc i think you know there's a lot of good things that go on in bcsc

171that a lot of community people just kind of take for granted because they know no different and and you know aren't exposed to what you know compare us to other corporations and i think that's just one of the things that um you know the innovative things going on here so very excellent uh thanks mr williams and the tech team for all they do behind the scenes to help keep bcsc going and all the training they provide to teachers that so positively impact student learning dr bozeman mr mckean officer quisenberry for all the work hugely important work in regards to school bus safety and the cameras good luck to all 11 elementary schools as the elementary basketball league's attorney starts tonight i believe fadria richards was the first game tonight that tournament wraps goes on for

172the next two weeks you know one of bcsc's wonderful program c4 open house at columbus north uh wednesday night five to eight and uh lastly um i would just say it's it's good that that everything is being done everything possible is being done to keep kids in session in person and i think you know the lincoln uh presentation really speaks to that that the real learning um takes place with with relationships between teachers and students and when kids aren't uh at school um that makes that uh incredibly challenging to establish those relationships so in spite of all uh the challenges that the last year and a half two years have created um you know it's great to to do whatever it takes to keep kids in school as much as possible thank you yes indeed

173dr bills so i agree with everything mr grimes said um i just want to thank our community members for speaking ms k and mr grow for speaking tonight and our hall of fame recipient mr clue all right mr huffman well they pretty well summed it up however i will just make a comment i think the fine for running a stop sign is way too low i was thinking like 500 bucks that gets somebody's attention so that's all i'm going to say all right miss wielding so i'll jump on the open house bandwagon i went to east because my daughter is probably going to go to east and i left there super excited about learning and she did too she's been staring through all the c4 opportunities we're gonna go there on wednesday um i didn't

174know we have a lab of hospital beds with little dummies in it that people do stuff too i guess and there was a dentist chair with little floating heads that have teeth in it that i'm assuming they pick things out like i had no idea and there's this powerhouse science teacher couple that they were using propane and fire and sand and it was it was remarkable like i left excited she left excited like you got people excited about learning that was that was really cool and that's from a person i came from a small town to mr grimes point small town great teachers great teachers i feel like i'm successful partly because of what they invest in me but i'm like my daughter's gonna kick my butt right she's gonna be way better than i

175am having access to all this so it's really neat thank you awesome thanks for sharing this is better i think we call them medical mannequins not dummies we don't like the word dummies it's the goner yeah i have been impressed with all the presenters and speakers that we've had this evening i thank them all for what they're doing day in and day out i thank them for caring about education here in bartholomew county in our part of the county um all right thank you very much it was a lot but i do appreciate that all the presentations reflect the priorities of our school corporation that it's learning that it's our individual learners it's our staff it's their health and safety and and there are so many who don't understand and appreciate what a cutting-edge school

176corporation we are i know way too many of them in the state of indiana and i do know that so i'm very proud and it's very exciting i hope everybody who is listening on our live stream that they're very proud and excited for the great that work that we're doing here and as dr robert said earlier just thank you everyone i know you're doing things that aren't in your job description it's that tiny little stuff that says other duties as assigned but that you're pitching in and taking care of our learners and being sure that we're in school that means a lot means a lot to each and every one of us and throughout the community so thank you very much dr roberts i'd just like to add one thing as we talk about some

177of the great things that are going on it is an opportunity for people to nominate for teachers of the year now we are starting that window so actually started today dr fleet so we have a window of time between now and february 25th that uh teacher of the year nominations can start coming in so information will be going out on social media through the school sites newsletters etc and a reminder we do select one teacher of the year for each building and then we end up with a teacher of the year for the school corporation and you've heard some of those names here in recent times for various things that those teachers of the year that have the opportunity to do so that process process has begun awesome awesome all right so we've mentioned it

178several times we have a great next meeting coming up along with a celebration and recognition of our hall of fame recipient dr linda de clue our meeting is february 7th the reception we hope is at 5 30. the meeting starts at 6 30 we'll be here in the administration building terrace room with that thank you all very much and this meeting is adjourned you