001already all right let's start the meeting with the pledge a 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 world all right let's see it is all right um do we have any modifications to the agenda we just have one consent and then the item and it's for the modification on the separation to change the effective date of Nicole Sebastian February 20th is there a motion to approve the modification also is there any discussion um adding the modification all right welcome Amy yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes all right um next we have recognition of visitors and comments from the audience here to do that tonight um moving on we have a presentation um this
002is the way of the eagle from Mark Bruner and he's brought some students and staff with them today um thank you for having us um this is the athletic director um and Ava Sanders is here um and Carly is here we kind of started a club based off of Ava's idea and as we started implementing we found we wanted to group it with student council it just allowed for more student involvement but they're going to present tonight of the kind of how it how it's set up so basically you have three tiers is what is what it's going to boil down to and it all basically ties back to students and quite a bit of Athletics and so I'm going to let Chase come up come up he's going to start and kind of just
003this introduction and then as we go along I just really want you to kind of pay attention to how he just involves all 100 students and Athletics and it's kind of growing as we speak so Jason you guys all right and our sponsors are Mr Adams Salisbury communication um the student council our goal is to create a positive competitive and engaging culture for all Brown County students and athletes and just to create create the change that we want to see in our Athletic program and in our schools so next uh London is going to tell us more about Student Life aspects of student council so our goal is to lead and Implement initiatives that increase students pride in and enjoying and coming to school at school at dchs and some things that we've done to
004do that is like we started on Fridays last year and that's where students select activities that they want to do once a month and that like has included dodgeball tournaments um school-wide party which is kind of like each classroom has its own activity and kids can just go around the school and you think what they want to do and then there's also been teachers versus student games another thing is spirit days and that's what we do during homecoming we dress up for certain themes that we set so there's been like pajama day and like Country Club versus country and things like that and that's just to hit a little more excited for homecoming and then also touch sessions happens the day of homecoming and that's something that we do indivisible day to show support for
005us so here's some pictures from fun Friday so the most recently we have is on Valentine's Day so we had everything kind of focused on Valentine's Day so there we had like arts and crafts so they made like hats and then here we have Just Dance and here's pictures from shop sessions so on the floor there is the teacher versus student basketball game we can have students sign up to play the teachers and then here is the cheerleader with the teacher where they perform their own dance that they came up with and then um and then here is one of our dress-up days for homecoming and that was amazing foot backpack so the kids brought whatever they can put their school stuff in but it couldn't be a backpack foreign all people are invited so
006it shows that we're involving the whole community so it's for people in high school but also for incoming students um so I'm Ava and I'm like the leader of wave the eagle and I started this because I noticed that as an athlete there's just this mindset that we're just from County but we should be saying we are around kind of being proud of that and also something that really bothered me so I mean I was just a freshman but I really wanted the Implement change so and you know with some of these ideas along with these people and obviously um one thing is the student booth and what we do for the student Booth is we have just different things like fun little things to support the theme of the night so for like Hawaiian
007or Beach day like we had lays and like sunglasses and just little things that are affordable but like just trying to get everyone to feel included and welcomed um and then also we do is a highlight board which if you ever go through the high school you can see it in the hallways and we just like you can send in pictures from games or just sub athletes and we try to post it just to get students or like athlete recognition and just make everyone feel important position um and then something that we're looking for in the future is a fan Buzz trying to get students to you know big games obsessionals or like rival games and just really having a positive fan base for our athletes um this is some of the pictures that are
008on the Highlight board so like this was the kid that won the um hiding contest and then some there's basketball and some of the cheerleaders and coaches and stuff um and then this was this is our student section which is you know I'm proud of we got like an eagle's nest banner and like you can see like the sunglasses and stuff that's from student food and like we put on the color War as student council and and have some fun stuff for everybody hi I'm Heather and I'm the vice president of communications so what I do mostly is focus on the video announcements that's something new that we started this year because there are a lot of students requesting for it so basically it's just a group of students going and filming all the announcements
009for the upcoming week and then they'll be shown during SRT to all the classrooms and it's just a better way to get people involved in it while actually listening to the nonsense instead of just hearing them over the speaker this is fun to watch another thing we do is social media so we have an Instagram page and it has a lot of followers on it it's just so we can match home games and things like that and it just helps get people involved gets people thinking about school from all sorts of platforms and stuff and it's just something cool that we do foreign so here's the social media page London actually is a big help with that mostly but it has almost 500 followers it's a really big thing here um it helps to involve
010future students there's a lot of middle schoolers that follow it and he's so excited for high school and there's a lot of former students that follow it too so it's still a good way for them to be involved and there's all the features we also not only feature sports but we have like theater and the Arts on that show and here's one of the video announcers [Music] good morning Eagles and happy homecoming welcome to today's morning announcements now please join us [Music] sorry foreign [Music] okay so um it's our recommendation to other schools that they Implement a system more like ours when it comes to student council to a lot of the others who especially the middle school to be on student council you have to be elected that position even just to be on
011student council in general and so when the kids come to high school they're surprised when anybody can join student council and we find they have a lot less um involvement because of that they feel like they have to be elected that position and really um four of us are ones that are actually electing a position everybody else just comes to just be a part of it and um we would like to see that more in the other schools that once they get here they feel like they can be a part of it as well and be part of that change um today so um thank you for your time today to learn more about students have any questions for us Yeah question so when the students do they win or do the teachers win all
012the time at the very end there's one student that did not get a chance to have the ball and she was being heavily guarded in her wheelchair by our teachers and they the teachers would not let her get the shot in and so had they let off their guard she might have made it they're relentless question I love that I've seen it trickle down in front of this so every Friday sprinkle has some type of theme like I think Friday was mustache day um have you guys considered doing like pep rallies or fishings as like going into the play the weekend of the play doing like something to kind of help promote that for like big arts competitions or choir or bands for our next fun Friday actually we we plan on having like a
013basketball tournament throughout the week but before like on that Friday we'll have like show choir and Winter Garden bands they'll have their performances before like the championship game so that's something that we do for like the artists but then also for the play we said that they should have their own separate day so like one day during us our team they'll have a preview scene for the school to go down and watch so it gets cool exciting and then knowing that the three of you are seniors are you senior as well sophomore do you see the other classes carrying on with what you guys have started I think so yeah [Music] well congratulations very cool I am incredible incredibly proud of all four of you um and Nicole's and just to take that step in
014leadership to see and make change just like you said Chase and I couldn't be more proud of the three of you for elevating them um to do what they want to do so thank you I know we were having uh kind of low numbers at like basketball games and football games have you seen that this is working like that more people are excited and becoming games and participating and yeah I feel like like so from the beginning of like my freshman year I played volleyball and I was like nobody was coming and once we started doing student Booth especially for football games so many more people have been coming because it's fun and I mean I feel like if you're gonna come to a game you want it to be fun especially like so I'm
015just getting even the little kids like at we did a face painting for football and there were so many elementary school kids movies it was so cute but it was awesome because they're gonna remember that when they come up here and they're going to want to be a part of that and then our freshman year there was a big student section and I think Cody kind of had a deal with like a lot of people not coming after that and I think we kind of and are we doing things for you know we typically think of football basketball but volleyball soccer track wrestling all of those sports are there any thing that's incorporating those um our best students from here to Eagle Park so that's one of our bigger problems right now but we're working
016on one of our just to chime in for that is student Booth will be set up at senior nights for spring Sports and actually our biggest population of athletes they play at Sprint store everybody it's student result is either in the play um or in a Sprint store I I can't meet one person so and then to get them there and especially since this track starts at 4:30 they all start early yeah so they're already interactive they're still a practice trying to Hype up a game okay I got fall Sports too that sounded tennis volleyball and a play usually all happening at the same time and make confidence same cross country and so they're all you're all the same kids and that's always been us Alicia could you pull in the student council from the
017middle school and then the elementaries to potentially help with those who are totally reading into their next year we're going on trying to get the schedule no and you all know more than I do about schedule to Mark match our day up better with the Middle School so that and it's been our goal to take our student leaders down to the middle so we're up to the middle school and then then down here do a Global Campus with it to be able to train them up and get them there and that's and just get them involved you know and again I think one of the biggest things here is that anybody and I know that the middle the middle school you know that they don't have that it's not a democracy it's a group of
018leaders making decisions and that works for them but I think we get more Super buy-in when they feel like they can come to any meeting that they want and express their excitement or maybe discontent with what's been happening and if they are upset the easiest answers come to a meeting come have your voice heard and that usually silences a lot of amazing that was one of what she's kind of hit on at the end of the slide is that this way we were kind of trying to put some viewers out there while we have the stage of can the Middle School adopt a three-tiered system like we have can the element trees do that as well so when we have all these spring athletes for example so then our hands are tied to only do
019student booth on senior nights well if the middle school had that same branch of the way the eagle then we could hold Middle School way of the eagle kids to work that student move potentially so we just share we share everyone across the board and how are you funding all of the Raffles and the giveaways so um partr truth Big Woods they've been our number one donor for those days like they designed you saw a little snippet of the Eagle's Nest sign they do a lot a lot for us we are still kind of working out in the community to try and have more sponsors or donations for that because obviously as we grow we would like to have a bigger budget but our student Booth is fully sponsored through Brown Street Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
020in Columbus action so we have not hurt or sponsors in funding but as we grow we would like to have to have more tickets and for like the fun Friday stuff that comes out of student council's budget which has been primarily in the last year funded experience they're primarily funded kind of ice donations Kona Ice the truck they donate 20 of all sales back to the school which is enough to hand out crowns at homecoming and sashes it's enough to buy beach balls for a beach themed day um about no so I don't even know I so yeah the arts and crafts that we saw the cookies first time we did it they were bad cookies the second time I may have oversold it the cookies were going to be good it worked in the
021hour period they were gone in about eight minutes left foreign all right moving on um we have number five is discussion and we have none there number six is approval of the public session mids from February 16 2023 I think the board has had an opportunity to review those um is there a motion to approve those minutes I'll second any discussion welcome Amy yes Carol yes yes yes number seven is action needed items we have a recommendation to approve an anonymous donation of a thousand dollars for its unpaid lunch balances so thank you to whoever that is um is there a motion to approve them one particular building and for the district it didn't specify much appreciated all right uh is there any other discussion uh let's do roll call maybe yes Carol yes Vicky
022yes Stephanie yes that yes and honestly we have another recommendation to approve an anonymous donation a thousand dollars for unpaid lunch balances is there a motion to approve this one any discussion again incredibly grateful for those donations to come through so it's great negotiation and I think I want to thank the Democrat because I think that's been one of the sources I've had more people ask me about unpaid lunch balances in the past month than almost any other topic so I appreciate that that you know we're talking about it it's being in the paper brings some you know Community awareness so I appreciate that um any other discussion uh welcome Amy yes Vicky yes yes and number three is recommendation to recruit the following staff members to approve the world of work conference in San
023Diego on March 22nd and 25th 2023 and we have Emily Tracy Christie wrightson Debbie Harmon Gavin Steele Wendy Gordon Hebert Kelly Bruner Teresa Foltz radically Shane pillinger Alyssa I'm sorry Allison Haynes um Erica East Greg Bernard Annette fields and Michelle Wagers conference is being paid for through eight through three E Grant supported work based learning is there a motion to approve that trip and so I'll move all second is there any discussions we got it under control I I wanted to thank the board for again allowing us this opportunity um as you know that three grants through the Indiana Department of Education um is a huge amount of money that we have been able to support our Pre-K to Adult Career connected learning Continuum um we've got a pretty big investment through that Grant through
024the world of work which was the presentation that Kelly Brunner and her kids had a couple meetings ago and this opportunity is to go visit those schools that that are on the foundation of that work and attend that so it's it's difficult if you don't ever get outside the county just to see really Innovative incredible things going on in the world of public education and this right here is one of them and I I just can't thank you enough for supporting our team to get out there and learn yes all right number four is recommendation to hire these olds as a speech language pathologist should be contracted beginning March 1st through July 1st of this year for a maximum of 175 hours at a rate of 60 an hour and she will be providing speech
025language pathology Services Under the direction of the Brown County Schools director of student support discussion how many students are going to be served um I mean in that amount of time but I mean I knew how yeah I mean they can't spoke that she has about 60 kids um and then we have another 40th vernica that right now we're short to mess up so these two they deserved gonna be here for the rest of the year to try to have conferences and touch Facebook goals are updated and um you know trying to make up some lost time yeah because I recognize one out of two names yeah yeah Lisa used to work for us she's currently working um in two other school corporations right if he's gonna work some magic all right we'll try any
026other discussion questions yes and number five is recommendation to hire Becky Maroney Maroney speech language pathologist again contracted uh March 1st through July 1st of 2023 for a maximum 175 hours at the rate of 60 per hour and she will also be providing a speech language pathology services school that vacation any uh emotions try something I do and any other discussion just want to thank Debbie all of the hard work it has gone into trying to find Qualified individuals to be able to come in and provide these Services um it's been an incredibly challenging Journey so kudos to you for making that happen this is actually a much less expensive route for us to just about 90 an hour to pay contract agency so this is um too I've spent with both ways printed out
027with their schedules and so on so they'll do a good job for us and Lisa brought Becky along so they they sort of take it back please terrific any other discussion or questions all right vocal Amy yes okay yes yeah all right we have a consent agenda for personnel we have separations appointments and transfers starting with Jim McFall as fifth grade was basketball coach through Cassandra Pontius as the Middle School head boys track coach is there emotion they're so rude any discussion and these people for stepping up for track and um I know it's hard and I know it can be hard to find part-time coaches um welcome baby yes Carol yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes yes all right superintendent report I just have a couple things um the save me one again I want
028to thank Mark Alicia Carly and Emily for all the work that they have done with the high school student council in the way of the eagle um Chase Hadley London and Ava did an awesome job as they always do and um this is a direct effort in the goals that we're trying to move forward increasing engagement across the board and I think it's pretty easy to see tonight the power that our kids hold when we just give the opportunity to listen to them to take the risk and and let them leave so I I'm just incredibly proud of that um February 16th we took a team um do you keep offer Chris Johnson Trent Austin and high school senior Joseph Dennis in the San Antonio to present on the National Conference of Education um and
029presented our student-based Enterprise of Eagle manufacturing I was a little worried our session was a 8 A.M on a Friday morning and I was a little worried we would get many people to show up at our session but and then whoever did show up would were just my Indiana superintendent friends but we had old reported people in the room um I could count on one hand how many were from Indiana actually so um they knocked it out of the park Joey our student stole the show as he should could not be more proud of that team I heard um that student talk about his transformation um his how from being coming in as a freshman to now him getting ready to graduate and the comment that he made to a room full of superintendents was
030I finally got to get into a program in a class where it wasn't figuring out how to get the next day it was to do something really cool and and I will forever hold in my heart that these kids will always remember those A's they are going to remember those experiences and those opportunities they get uh the Monday morning after graduation so again thank you for supporting allowing our team to go out there um we put Brown County High School Brown County schools on the national stage we have um people from New York New Hampshire um Arkansas Ohio and Kentucky now reaching out to come visit Brampton high school so um it was really cool thing um I wanted to give an update we I met with our Baker Tilly which are financial advisors um
031Jane Herndon and Ice Miller who's our bond Council and the team of Architects at Performance Services to begin the process of completing facility studies across the district I believe in 2018 we had a physical facility study done on all of our buildings which would include anything mechanical um like HVAC and and those types of things and we're able to to get a lot of those things done um it's it's now time to take a second look at that and see what else across the district will become a priority down the road um at the same time I don't believe that we've ever done an educational facility study which means looking at our classrooms and um really how do we want to design our classrooms um moving forward and and look at how we could do
032school um differently so the same time we'll get to look at our physical facilities but also how how we do school and how we provide that education environment for our kids so it is exciting um to The Architects will be here to meet with our district leadership team next week and then they schedule individual meetings with each of the building principals and the directors um so they can get some honest feedback in in what what they would like to see um in the future so excited to be able to start that process and then lastly we have spring break the week after next our next board meeting will be March 23rd that is um not a regular third Thursday of the month so I want to make note that it the next regular board meeting
033is March 23rd and with that um I just want to thank everybody for being here all right [Music] um next we can go to our agenda we're calling board updates and um during the legislative session um I wanted to be I'm the legislative liaison for the board and so I wanted to be able to do a legislative update and then I'll go to the board members and see if they have anything else they want to add um we are so I did go up to the state house I guess it was last Tuesday the 21st um and we Indiana State for School Board Association has a day in which they invite everyone up uh we get to hear from the education leaders probably my part is the head of each of the house and the
034Senate education committees come and speak to us and say hear their legislative initiatives and ask questions and then we also have an opportunity so um oftentimes some people will say to me why do you do this this way and we do a lot of local control of schools in Indiana we also are highly regulated by the Indiana education and the things that the legislature passes so education is a huge part of the Indiana budget and so there's just a lot of bills I think they said there's an increase but 50 in the number of bills that affect education that were introduced this year so it's a lot going on in a very fast period of time we're in a love this week if you're paying attention to what's happening up there all of the bills
035that needed to go out of the house or senate had to go through by Monday or Tuesday they take a couple days off and then starting next week any house that passed any bill that passed the house will go to the Senate anyhow bill that pass the Senate will go to the house we do another two months of committee hearings readings and then um any bill that passes both houses uh will either go to the governor for Signature or we'll have to have a conference committee at which they can put anything in there that they want so it's all the way up we say oh that bill is dead but there are actually no bills that are actually dead so it does really require a large degree of monetary um this is something I really
036like to do I really like to follow what's going on and I'd probably get three or four different newsletters from different organizations so it also means my head is swimming with stuff so I just wanted to um come in on a couple of things that again the School Board Association is following um ISTA is usually following bills as well they're usually the same bills um and you know those are things that you know you might say oh that's happening in Indianapolis but I really want to emphasize it affects absolutely everything we do number one it affects our funding so when we talk about how much money do we have absolutely determined by what the state budget is um so that's always House Bill 1001 that is the Senate bill or that house bill it has
037now passed over to the Senate and I'm not even really going to use Bill numbers because they all change at the halfway to be a Senate bill I don't know what the numbers are right now but number one budget is Big there is an increase in proposed for Education um but we don't really know what that would be for Broadcasting um because there is a lot of money that is proposed I think is like 50 or 70 increase to Charter Schools um that means there's just less money so if you're interested in those things I encourage you to do your own reading I'm not here to be partisan one way or the other but what they do in that budget very much affects what happened um one of the big bills that we were following
038was partisan School Board elections or something and then and it appears that that is one bill that is dead that was three or four bills bills and none of them pass through the house or the Senate so it appears that everything is going to remain status quo so that is um that's about the only thing that that will sort of we know at this point the other thing is is that there are fewer bills to follow at this point because a whole bunch of bills die if they don't grow the committee and they don't get heard and through readings and go away so the other nice part about the second half of the session is that there are fewer bills to follow and they'll be more intense discussion about those fewer issues rather than lots
039of discussion on yeah so that's that's something to pay attention to um there are a number of bills that to affect us again the funding is that um and I would encourage you to go ahead and take a look as I said we're kind of in between so we don't really want to say that much as far as what those are but if you ever have questions or you know are interested in those things let me know and we can make sure that you um you know get on those listserves that really kind of every Friday comes out of this or here's what happened in the legislature business so that's amazing anyone else have uh comments about that or anything else okay I'm sorry yeah I email Miss Tracy this afternoon so she probably didn't
040have a chance um I'm just introducing another a field trip opportunity for Brown County school and actually you have to get approval it was Tracy but like we took the Middle School in high school kids to IU last year for Korean night and that was pretty successful so I probably uh Miss Tracy would be asking you to get to approve of transportation and the IU East stages studies will sponsor the school bus again this year so it's gonna be a fun trip thank you yeah and after she's a pro I'm going to share with the rest of thank you Clara I do approve yeah it does not have to go through the board so okay okay but it's I was like we don't just just feel free it is open to everyone so any of
041you can control well Claire and I took a group of kids a few years ago and we had a fabulous time I really encourage everyone to go to Korean ideas think about it it was probably a few days before the pandemic yeah so um anybody else do you have the dates for the day I have it on my calendar I think it's the second weekend from April I know that I know it is it is the weekend uh Thursday Friday Saturday of um March 13 14 15. I'm sorry in April April okay April 13th to the 16th okay yeah and that is Shrek so we're excited about that it anything else we did notice when we were in the parking lot the academic competition is going on right now and that's one of the events
042I think we we often just kind of comes and goes but we have I don't know there's usually like 10 to 15 schools that come and bring an academic team to Brown County uh for the academic competition so anything else all right well thank you all very much uh is there a motion to adjourn can