001[Music] I'm like ready all right um all right so it is 6 32 according to my um official clock here and we'll start the meeting let's start with the Pledge of 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 all all right I will pause meeting to order 33 and we will begin [Music] do we have any modifications to the agenda no right and we have an opportunity for recognition of visitors and comments from the audience and we have some more pieces of paper over here for people to tell us who you are and what you uh what you say or get the opportunity to speak is there anybody here who wishes to
002do that nope okay we'll move on um we have a presentation tonight from this caterpillar and I'm just going to talk to us about be able and the world of work yes I'll go right ahead okay hey all right so um I think I believe it's a k to eight program so middle school has it as well Elementary aspect of it but it's really exciting um so the kids go in and it's it's computerized and they go in and they learn their riospet code and so I'm going to teach you about writers real quick so um write that code um it's a widely adopted career interest framework and it's based on the work of John Holly so some of you may have heard of the Holland code before it's based off of that and so
003every letter stands for something so R is realistic I investigated a is Artistic as the social he is enterprising and C is conventional when you get your when you start looking at the code so are the realistic those people are the ghost kids or adults are the doers they like to use their hands they like to um build things they like to work with animals operate Machinery there's a whole list of um activities that you can that a realistic person likes to do investigated those are your thinkers um the science the math the research the why I think very deeply the artistic they like to sketch draw paint um play musical instruments um like to write um culinary kids now that we're going to be um s is social and it's funny I told the
004kids at school they were asking my clothes and they're like oh social yeah it was so funny um these are people though that it's not like social talk all the time it's more like helping people volunteer work teaching and training taking care of others um then we have e the enterprising that's your persuaders they like to debate persuade people start businesses Market um sell things and we have to speak conventional they're the organizers they like to find patterns in data to Texas and County and County at all um follow us that plan that I've done so when the kids go into vehicle they take their code so kindergarten first grade are not online second group to group eight are online so um in kindergarten and first grade the teachers do it with them um what
005I want here to get the coach so they've all they go through this the exact same test it's just read to them oh so what it is it's an inventory it's a list of activities there are 30 activities you rate each activity on a five-point scale ranging from strongly you strongly like it to you strongly dislike it there's no right or wrong answers you've just already checked out based on how much you think you'd like doing it and at the end you get a coat of two or three things some of my kids I think had four because they tied on some of the things so it looks like this and then you're gonna have a little bit um so when you go in and take take this um take this test the inventory It'll
006ask you things like do you like to build build kitchen cabinets like I said yes because I like to work with my hands and I love doing things outside so you know when we talk to the kids you like to do these things so they could agree disagree um what's the next one develop a new medicine choose what they how they feel about that right books in place so it goes through a list of listen don't even find this online and do it on your own you don't have to be in this program because I found it online because I've been having my kids do it so my community um so anyway you can do it online and it's really cool to see to see where you come out um there's a read aloud tool
007in it what I love about this program not only are they learning about careers but they're reading and they get to read at their level it's an Adaptive program so it adapts to the reader so they're struggling it comes down if they're doing well it goes up but it's all about that career so it doesn't matter if they vote if the career they chose was a if you chose the chef and I told you chef and my let's ship and My Lexile is really low and yours is really high we're still gonna read about that but at our own level I I love it um there's also a dictionary so if you're not sure what a word is you can use the dictionary on the page um there's a translation tool if we needed it
008this is what it looks like do you guys have yeah okay so the interest inventory will come up and it'll show um where you where you ranked and then it's going to give it so it gives you a summary of your results in the areas and then when you're finished you tap explore careers and find careers that match your interests this is also something that you don't just take one time one time because I have a little girl saying I really like to do because I have a big bulletin board and choose point to the orange like I really like to do that's okay you can still do that just because of code and you don't have an R it doesn't mean you can't do it it's just that that's what the majority of those
009people that have that interest like to do I'm just like oh and I said and your code's Gonna Change it's not going to stay the same for the most part um from there they build out a list of careers much code interest to you and this then they start the career exploration part of it so they learn more about each career by clicking on learn more button and then they can select three and then they start tracking their Lexile growth so their Lexile is their reading level so the Brown County we use autism panel to Benchmark for kids and so is one letter A to Z Lexile matches to it so I we have a conversion chart that shows the Lexile and also the letter so that we can see that and check in for
010the most part what we found is it's it's on it's on track just to give it a little bit off but not too bad so there's so there's where we get our interest inventory find out what we want to do and we're going to go to Reynolds yeah I'll show you mine um sorry the cool thing the cool thing the kids will have is they have an avatar and I get to build an avatar so they're in this little world they build their Avatar and they get in order to change their Avatar like to give it a new shirt or cool sunglasses or a hatch or whatever it might be just that kids do on their video games the more you read the more viewable bucks you get so then you use your vehicle bucks
011to buy those items which is so cool because kids are reading like crazy and the growth we've seen in them is amazing so here's my so I go to my profile all right it's it's not showing your screen it's a different but I do have a video so did you just unplug the port and plug it back into your computer maybe that'll reset it is perfect okay I want that video and then I'll talk about so the Avatar so like I said the kids are reading they're reading a lot more they're reading about different careers I have kids and you'll see in this video that are talking about jobs that I never like when I was a kid and you're little you know I want to be a teacher I want to be a doctor
012I want to be a vet like those are the main you know jobs and careers that kids talk about now they want to be I want to be a chef I want to be an aeronautical engineer I want to be um oh gosh what if I had I've had a waitress I have a singer I have um so many doctors veterinarians still paleontologists policemen somebody wants to work for the SWAT team because you've read about it um and I'll show you guys these um it's ready okay so this is a video that we made of the kids talk [Music] hello my name is Jackson and I'm a fifth grade student at elmsbury elementary it stands for realistic social conventional one thing I love about vehicle is that if you read articles it actually gives you
013rewards like evil bucks and PowerPoints for reading articles instead of websites there's courses to read and you can also choose your careers attention [Music] foreign is that you can't like you get there's like the main menu in this city yeah I think that that may be made me a little cool and I like how yeah like how you can get jobs [Music] thank you hi my name is um and conventional [Music] when I write about people is that you can read about animals that you have never seen before and you can change your avatar my earnings and answering questions activities myself hi my name is [Music] because I get to use um [Music] technology 3.5 requested oh doctors Ias investigating artists artistic and social one thing I like about being able is that tonight we
014could just have it my favorite you know I love that they're learning from all kinds of different careers making memories um anyway lots of different careers they're reading a ton because they can get the vehicle box and um work on their Avatar um so everybody's doing the same same thing and it's just even the degree level's not the same so every kid in our building has um I'm passing this around it's a little interest um display it displays the child it tells their code so when you walk into the building outside everybody's classroom you will see these so you can look at a child and say look at the full child like what are the what are their grows what are their blows what do they want to be when they grow up um what
015do they what do they love to do and um what else I think that's it it's just really it's really a great program I love that the kids are um excited about it and using them so yeah I've done it like have they done it just one time this year I mean they just don't know they're gonna test one time or or do they do it once a year or what's the Frequency they've only done it once so far I'm not sure I'm I'm just now learning because we started I think when we did it in November Maybe and so we're really just hitting it hard since we got back I'm not sure I know they take it again and I know there's a Time language there but I honestly don't know I just wanted
016because I think about kids changing like I I you know I I know so many people who say you know when they're six years old I'm gonna do this and then they change all right so I'm gonna get stuck in that and like I guess I'd really curious to see how it changes by the time eighth grade in high school it will be fun to track that like we have so we're keeping we're keeping track of their codes and we have a sheet that's also that we're all using it's a goal setting sheet we're putting in our portfolios that talks about their code and um what their career is now their Lexile is and so we're going to keep these to move along with it so it will be interesting I just found that the
017phone yeah what's your code all right which is really exciting because in s one of the job categories is going therapy all right all three of them all three of them said Health Services so it's kind of funny I remember mine in the seventh grade so we we did the same time and it reminds me a lot of Myers-Briggs um which has the same you know for letters that you get yeah it's been really fun so any other questions yes please because I'm sure I no they did such a great job um I will add that this this work really came along in alignment with that 3E Grant um if you remember um Chrissy and the team worked really really hard to get um and that Grant is all about work-based learning and career exposure
018and um trying to align that Continuum of career connected learning across the entire PK to adult system um we realized that Brown County schools that um quite a bit of Engagement and experience within the middle school and the high school and what we were really missing was this Elementary piece and um it's just been really exciting to see a platform for for young kids to be able to be exposed to these careers like that kiddo said like they learned the pay they learn skills required to do this job um and it's beyond the I want to be a teacher I want to be a doctor um so and we're talking to kids when we go on like if you want to go on a field trip great but how are you going to connect that
019to a career like I want to know you know if you go to Wagner prom what are all the jobs at wagglers so kids can see all of that and so if you go to the children's museum curator exactly yes it really is moving the needle Beyond defining personality and it really is allowing kids to become aware of what their strengths and their interests are so they can learn about it so so like you said that they can take this survey as many times throughout any and it could change and you know what it's a thousand percent okay because it's just going to open up more exposure to careers for them so yeah we're good about telling kids like that doesn't Define you like you can do anything in any of these things thank you
020all right um moving on um discussion number six approval of the session minutes for January 19 2023 is there a motion to approve those minutes it's been moving second in any discussion all right let's vote Yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes yes all right that's just actually needed items uh we have a recommendation to approve the following students to attend an out-of-state conference they are going to present at the National superintendence Conference which is very exciting February 16 to 19 2023 in San Antonio Texas and those staff members are Emily Tracy Trent Austin Chris Townsend Dean kefaber and Joey Dennis sorry Joseph Dennis um is there a recommendation um to approve that so a discussion you said students yeah yes um who love the other names I recognized about it yeah um this is
021this this event has turned out um gosh I think last spring they always call for the proposals for the national superintendent's conference and um I thought you know what we're just gonna put this out there for a whim and it's something that would be really incredible to put on a national stage if we can do it um sure enough we wrote a good enough proposal that they accepted it um and we got a good conference day it's not like the last day of the conference on a Saturday at 9 00 a.m so um I'm so proud of the work um I'm proud of this team I'm proud of the expansion that is almost complete um and then to it's one thing when teachers get to go be on a national stage but when we get
022to put a kiddo out there and and so he could share his experiences and his outcomes as he's back from this program um that really is moving the needle and in public education so I um am grateful for support from the board to be able to take this team out there and and do it so that's great but I'm glad we're sharing Eco Manufacturing as a as a model one of the places that's great any other discussion comments all right let's go ahead and vote Amy yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes and uh yes all right um number two there is a recommendation to improve an anonymous donation of 202.36 to go towards open lunch balances myself sick it's or any discussion thank you you are I greatly appreciate this as well I think
023we are over um since lunch is not um free anymore um to every kid if we are about seven thousand dollars um in debt with unpaid student lunches so any donations that are received is greatly appreciated I know I've had people ask me how can I help the school and that's the first thing go to any of the elementary high schools the junior high and donate money for lunches yep yeah I don't know if people know that for two years right all lunches for all kids regardless of them come free and then we've now gone back to painting and I expensively oh God and we don't turn away from from any kids so um it's not a local decision to free or not um that is governed by by the state of Indiana or federal
024however it is up to a local decision if a kiddo is x amount of dollars in the hole and they come up for a lunch we have the choice to give bread and peanut butter to a kiss and not a regular hot lunch like every other student gets and we have made that local decision to not do that to any student no matter what the deficit is in the account so um kids get to eat and it seems to me has it been more restrictive on the free and reduced lunch um I can't speak to being more restricted it's really really challenging to get families to fill out the application it has to be done online and it has to be filled out um so it's no matter how many phone calls we make or
025visits or emails or whatever different ways we try to contact families for whatever reason that piece has been really really challenging for us so we think some of these families then are wouldn't have they used to reinforce the fact that this information is not public information right so a lot of times have families don't want to do that because they don't want to acknowledged in that way but it's not it's just like other in student information that I wouldn't say hit but it's not it's thank you so anyway yeah so I mean you know like you said we get out there and try to reach to him but and being called let me make sure I'm right about this you qualify for real and reduced lunch it also affects things that happen here at the
026school including or fees and other things so it really could be a substantial sentence I'm sorry professional relations to spend with check and how how can the information they can either go to contact the building principal um or secretary in any one of the buildings or they can come to central office phone me email me I'll get into the right spot the right way and it's not directed to any students so this just oh yeah goes towards the balance right um district-wide yes sends it then my other question is uh if there are enough families that qualify for free and produce lunch would that put us at a federal level where we could get free lunches again right now I think we're under just under 50 for the district um is that right yeah um
027so that does not qualify for us to be able to get it we have free breakfast for every kiddo in the district and there's some there was some red tape we had to cut through to be able to get that everywhere but we did get that um underway this year but the lunch is um we're not quite close we get more families to fill out those forms to fill out that free and reduced yeah um That's the Silver Bullet right um we'll we'll take Solutions on that I mean we make personal phone calls at registration um we invite them in we'll do it for them if they're standing right there with us um we've offered all of that out so again it's um can't do it for them foreign approached it where that message is
028coming from Food Service that message has been coming from the building principal secretary teacher superintendent like we've tried messaging each of those Avenues also so it's definitely an obstacle for us I think it always has been but it's just an annual because it has to be a new day every year yes it's not a one right so folks have to fill it out every year all right any other discussion all right yes Carol yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes yes and number three is also a recommendation to approve a second Anonymous donation in the amount of 200 to high school um any uh um a recommendation to approve them I'll second any discussion yes all right moving on to a consent agenda items um we have no separations okay um and we have two appointments um
029including Colton samples for assistant varsity boys track coach and they can Kincaid as a UCS athletic trainer and no transfers is there a motion to approve those percent agenda items I'll second yeah well uh any discussion I really really glad that we were able to they can do on board as the athletic trainer since her company decided to stop providing services for our kids yeah so we contracted those Services out for a number of years um I believe Brown County schools has been dropped by every hospital that is surrounding us um probably for a couple different reasons they have to come into the county to be able to service and and it's it's more money more worth the value when they've got Columbus about new schools Bloomington and Brown County Schools just hasn't been worth
030it for them to keep so we recently were contacting through ATI they contacted us um just before Christmas I believe and and said that they were going to up the price for that um by 90 000 um and that even when we were paying 60 and the trainer was not receiving even half of that as salary and no benefits so um our trainer Megan is absolutely incredible with all of our kids kids and our staff and our families and she wants to be in Brown County Schools we want to have Megan in Brown County Schools our kids deserve to have an athletic trainer take care of them and to me this is a win-win for the corporation and this is less than we were Contracting out paying to a company um so very very proud
031that we were able to do this as well and she I thought her resume was very impressive she has done a lot of that but various aspects so that's great so any other comments all right let's go maybe yes Carol yes Vicky yes definitely yes and uh yes all right superintendent support thank you um I just want to reiterate um and thank Kelly Bruner and her entire team at Helmsworth for their hard work and commitment to the world of work for our students um be able literally translate to being able and and that's what we're trying to bring awareness and teach our kids um it is absolutely incredible work that I have been able to be a part of um for the previous five years um and Incredibly proud to now be in a position
032that I can help Empower it here at Brown County Schools it it is great work they are leading our students on a path to happy gainful employment um and they're learning about their strengths and interests and in being exposed to so many of different careers at such a young age for what it's worth my code is enterprising artistic and social which fits me to achieve so and thank everybody for that work there at home sport we held our first e-learning day last week um after speaking with the teachers and the staff at most of the buildings it's evident that our students and families knew what to do even when we had Technologies and Technology challenges across the county that they were able to communicate those and get credit I just wanted to be able to
033remind everybody that we only have two e-learning days remaining for the school year and we have two more built-in weather makeup days before we have to tap on at the very very end leading up to graduation and those two built-in days are Monday February 20th and Friday April 7th I want to congratulate freshman Jackson Reed for advancing to the wrestling regional um he gets to wrestle this Saturday morning in Jeffersonville I think last year we had four wrestlers um and this year our wrestling coach Justice Herrera has been able to more than double our wrestling team and it's very exciting for us to get to have to have freshman Advanced imagination so um I want to congratulate him and excited for that I also want to congratulate our girls varsity basketball team they're advancing the
034second round of sectional play meeting South Vermillion last week our girls played tomorrow night against Northfield we reached Schindler's while they're playing Northview but the game is played at a window uh We've successfully reached the 100th day of school last Tuesday which is always a big deal in our Elementary's um it was really cool to see our little uh Dressed a little older talking a little wiser and at being absolutely adorable so if you haven't gotten to see the pictures from the 100th day of school you need to go check out the elementary schools um world read-aloud day was yesterday and so grateful I got the opportunity to read one of my favorite books to Mrs Thomas's kindergarten class um they were great listeners and uh even asked if they could have schools on Mondays
035and Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Thursdays and Fridays one of my favorite book um band viewer and Wildcats Science World team they ended up winning State runner-up in the science Bowl competition last week so very proud of the team and the kids and their hard work there and then finally um our quarterly magazine called The Eagle Eye I have a copy for each of the board members it's in print um take one you may pass it down um this is our first prototype um our vision for this is to be able to publish a magazine like this quarterly throughout the year um to be able to have a few copies at each of our facilities so our visitors can browse through it um of course website parent Square social media um the visitors bureau is going
036to push it out on on their access list um hope to have it at maybe the Democrat or Community Foundation or YMCA to have public front desk just so people can can view it it's just one of our pieces towards our goals of school family and Community engagement um and just really excited to be able to highlight and tell our stories so it's great I love it nice very nice so those are your copies they will get published there's a few things we have to change sometimes you have to see it in actual print um to catch a few things but tomorrow it will get published digitally everywhere and then we should have copies so by next week and then we'll start working on our our summer issue so if people have story ideas you
037can they send them to you absolutely um um no it is definitely a collaborative effort so it comedy Lewis um has helped incredibly with the design and putting it together um our entire District leadership team helps with the content that goes um yeah and it's it's just a very collaborative effort across we also um by next week should have our building um blogs that are up on the website so the the principles of each of the building are working on putting a communication needs together that will house on the website and then we'll have a monthly District blog that that looks like it too so trying to get stuff out weekly monthly and then quarterly out to the community so that's all I know anything else um all those in favor say hi hi I
038lost them already