001uh [Music] thank you please let me know every day just barely thank you yeah I understand foreign you have a motion to accept a recommendation to amend the pay rate of Amanda we're up to 90 per day retroactive 14 2022 as a modification to the agenda okay so the second any discussion um she's teaching two periods a day when we initially hired her um she was only teaching one period And so this is the same rate that we agreed to pay for John Elmore to teach a periods for theater so we thought it was fair to do this any other discussion welcome Carol yes yes Steve yes motion carries thank you at this time we have recognition of visitors and comments from the audience on anything that is not already on the agenda um and
002with that David you're up thank you in each other um I am the technology director here at American schools um so tonight I'm really just going to try to show you what we do I know that's kind of a mystery to a lot of people um we're going to come into the rooms and then disappear so I think the scope of the technology it's kind of missed something so um we set a vision uh this here so vision of the technology department is to provide to improve instruction communication and business practices through the creative use of Technology so you know our goal is really to to do things that are different and try to think of different ways to accomplish uh something that maybe we've done forever a certain way and hopefully save money save
003time and just say so we all know these stats a little bit um just check on you probably does cover nine different buildings so five schools the TSC admin maintenance transportation and uh that's we also cover not just places but we talk people so over 250 staff members that's everybody from bus drivers custodians teachers board members so we really see everyone at one time um and over 1500 students this is the interesting part because prior to going one to one prior to having some of the Chromebooks in classrooms the portion didn't really exist you might have some level of effect on students but it was fairly limited now that that reached into you know actually affects students on the day-to-day has really increased quite a bit over the past 10 years so what are we
004responsible for that's a big list that is not a comprehensive list basically if it plugs in we will probably have something to do with it so that's what I always like to tell people so it's not just computers um it's not just the back end of that the servers that nobody ever um all your peripherals and printers and anything that really puts into a computer you got projectors in all the classrooms and phones in every room we can do the security cameras and the key cards so there's there's quite a scope when we do and uh we really see we don't just see every stack member we see all the Departments so there's a lot of overlap between technology and transportation and technology and maintenance and so you know everything now is computerized in one
005way or another building temperature controls or computerized so different servers and make sure that they have connections and that they can they can access things from home uh emergency arises so we have a lot of things that we do that people don't always oh and then the software portion software's everywhere eating the things that aren't physical right the software is used in every system uh and I'm mostly made uh manage the connection between so we all know we have Skyward the Skyward connects to a dozen or more other programs so my team um for four of us in the technology department myself type of development has been here Pat is in charge of service and infrastructure and I'll kind of get to that in a second um Samantha Walker who is this is her second
006whole year and Jacksonville he just started in August so but Jackson was a student of ours if it's a little later too Samantha was also one of our students um so you see the the titles under here originally the technology department was pretty kind of pretty basic structure and you had a director and you've had technicians and there wasn't a lot of um differentiation of roles and so you know we talked about that different kind of thinking we wanted to make it so we could actually allow someone to know more about so Pat took over servers and infrastructure quite a while ago and he I will go to him there are things that he can do that I don't need to learn myself because I had somebody that I could come up to so I
007know a little bit of everybody's job um probably more than I really should know but uh but if there's something a little bit deeper um go to Pat to be able to kind of control certain things on servers and create things and run backups and all of that it's kind of extra layer uh Sam does users and security so so she's in charge of all the security cameras she's in charge of the door locks the key cards and she's already doing this she just transitioned to this role this past year so she is still learning on the Fly we're still relying on some Consultants to kind of help us teach her I'm trying to teach you what I know our our former employee in this role is still a good resource for us and he's
008helping quite a bit it's okay separate out those roles uh Jackson is in charge of the help desk so see across the hall here our student help desk there's also in charge of the ticket system his role really is to prioritize things so he should be the first one that seed spins and then if you sign something to me and I don't do it so you know he's the expeditor so he's the one that should be on top of everyone aircraft um I think that's really important so can we talk about creative thinking how to how to do things a little differently this gives us opportunities to to know more about a given subject to have somebody that you can go to you know that stand is out from the better building runs into an
009issue that she doesn't quite understand she especially if it's something phone related server-related that's going to be the one she goes to doesn't really matter foreign that was very purposeful very intentional probabilities have changed the world over the years based on who lives closest usually um but it gives the elementary schools we're all housed here so they don't see us all the time so it's nice for them to have a single form of contact speaking of my own contact just for whatever happens so Pastor if uh teacher helmsford as a mission with the projector um tickets that are assigned to a building automatically assigned to that person and then if it's something great comes in and happens to be a camera security camera other people turn around so it gives you kind of this overlapping
010UH responsibilities where you have someone to count on no matter where you go [Music] this has been really really useful specifically just so you have it's hard to keep track of almost but when you are only in charge of building it makes it a lot easier to keep on top of it so that you have your role and then you have the middle name take care of those without really having to write Netflix and go back and look at it without having to confirmative updates so there is a trade-off for instance uh this week I've been with myself in Jacksonville so there's a bit of a trade-off um we do regular runs to the elementary school uh Tuesdays every Tuesday they will go regardless if they have any known issues out there or not if
011they wanted they have presence there and there's something from themselves this week I made extra runs you see how mine is titled wherever I need it I'm going to go so uh I went out to helmsbury and experica on Tuesday and you know we just make two and sometimes we can communicate messaging app so somebody's sick at home they might respond too that you should respond so they're very helpful you know we just try to cover for each other and that idea of overlapping responsibilities you know if it's not your building makes most of those issues so you should be able to get to it David said uh creating the tickets um when someone creates a ticket you get an estimate time to you know turn around to have that down or how do you
012prioritize sure so um it really depends on the issue um so we have some automatic filtering that happens when a ticket was put in based on the ticket topic um so I think we'll get a priority level based on that now we all recently always want people to put in tickets Blue Mail call which is football is a text message I mean those things can get lost I've gotten a text message on my ladder actually instead of the back of my pocket and continue doing what I'm doing but forget all about so um when somebody puts in a ticket he get emails all so every single one of us have been alert but there's a ticket in whether it's assigned to us or not and then leave and you know we're always kind of monitoring
013them always read it first it's something that you can think of right then in there just for the response we'll do that if it's something that pays up until tomorrow as far as how long to resolve there's a saying in technology whenever you say something to somebody you always use the word um because it doesn't always work the way you want to so you always kind of qualify everything so I should be able to get that tomorrow right um sometimes so yeah it just really depends so projectors for instance printers depending on what it is it may just wait until next Tuesday at the time Elementary yeah it just it really just depends on how we uh um so it's created the creative work so one-to-one comes and we have 1500 plus students to take
014care of those middle school and high school students have them in their hands taking home every day a lot happens things have broken things have lost um it's just don't work so so what we've developed is as a help desk that is run by students now Jackson oversees it and he's the one making sure that the students are untasked but really a combined effort in fact this this trimester we're trying something new we have four grading categories in our class separated out so each of us each other one of those grading categories so we make sure that we have plenty of grades in for students knowledge everything um originally this was created just as a kind of a Class A mentoring class um and then the team we actually added it to the official course
015guide CTE course so not only do we get if students get credit we also get reversed with so we've got and I'll just put one okay technology now those are available for students to take I think up to six semesters each so we'll cover we can we technically have a student center which is really fantastic let me ask somebody's data that was Jackson so Jackson we had from freshman year all the way to senior year he goes off to college he wants to slow things down in college and get stuck here fit right in because he already knew how so um like I said they do provide preparers to all this for all the student devices we evolve all the time um I just made a change yesterday um to how we how we're repairing
016things it's a constant evolution of trying to figure out what water slope doesn't but when we first started and I'll show you this until so we have three really three categories that we really want to make sure that they cover technical just the computer knowledge part honestly that is the part we focus on the least um while it's important um it's the easiest one to construct and then be done they will learn how to fix things we have a requirement for every student no matter what their job is they know how to replace the screen because the two most common things and the two easiest things to do learn how to do those two things customer service is big we actually do demonstrations they're actually doing demonstrations today where one of the staff members will
017come up to the window posing as a student with a computer and that student on the help desk side has to go through the issue that they're supposed to do how they're supposed to talk they're supposed to greet someone who's supposed to figure out ask questions if we have the problem we're supposed to make sure to actually say goodbye which is a funny thing for us to say right but sometimes students will awkwardly stand there just staring at you waiting for you to say something to know that the conversation is over so um so all those kinds of things are really important for us to teach we've been pretty intentional about that portion especially we even had every year so far we've had Chick-fil-A come in to actually do like a quick demonstration for customer
018service and they'll share videos and kind of explain how they like to do things and we've done tabletop exercises they'll make up real things discuss and then share so it's really interesting for them to kind of get that Real World experience and I tell you we throw weird things with them because we see them sometimes students aren't so happy see us some of our students will get that scenario so they get a little bit of everything from forgetfulness to anger um so to intentional damage they'll have to really figure out how the work environment um we I encourage you to come visit us and see what what a day looks like um what it looks like 20 minutes in there we try to simulate it is and we should simulate certain things but it's because
019we need to um there we focus on processes and policies you have to do things a certain way because we want things finished a certain way at the end that that product matters and that device has to go back to somebody so we just see our little ticket our little paper tickets everybody's supposed to follow certain procedures check certain things they get quizzed on that you know all of our grading is Mastery based so we don't we don't care if you know it the first time we want to make sure you continue to learn and every trimester even if you take it year after year there are certain things that we will test you on it'll be the exact same but you need to know it every single time you know it's a constant reminder
020that this is how we do things we want to make sure you follow some things might drink a little but we figured it out and let kids know ahead of time hey you might want to read that one a little more carefully because so the evolution of it's really really interesting we started out in kind of the normal repair class that you'd see in any school would be an actual class we'd have 15 20 kids come in we'll have all the devices that came in whenever fix things it's class it's not how we use these um we have other things to do we have other buildings cover we can't sit and dedicate an hour of time to just bear with class every day because for instance today I had something come up and took all
021my time and I just had to figure it out I couldn't go and spend time with the students so instead we we split this up around over over the entire school day we have two to three kids every period because we end up with the same amount of kids overall um but they're only there with us for um so like I said technical part is important but it's not required Focus so the really the only people that really have a high technical Focus will be the repair test um we have a lot of students this trimester so we have an abnormally large amount of repair techs right now which is actually extremely helpful but typically you'd have three or four they're the ones dedicated to longer repairs so if something's going to take longer than
022an hour um that's your job if any of some other board will switch a battery problem something in an unknown you're you're responsibility you have your own dedicated space that you don't have to worry that somebody else is going to go mess with it so that makes something that's the State Overnight who needs an hour battery test sometimes something needs to stay overnight when you get back the next day it's there it's yours we know where it was and you can complete it the lead tech is actually in charge of re repairs we do a quality control process so when devices are finished the repair Tech signs off on it they're supposed to go through a checklist of things that work um a customer service rep or an office manager will sign off on it
023just go through that same checks and then one of the four staff members will do if at any point in that it doesn't work instead of sending it back to the original repair Tech who may have already started on the next thing back to the lead tech that's not the exact same thing so it's really important because we have a dedicated personification when we first started this we just had every kid trying to learn every step of the process and what we found out is you miss one step and it's a domino effect and everything else after that is completely destroyed in The View with one device and then you just do it on a different step on the next device things get out exactly the best so instead we separated out another drivers so
024you have a very specific part of the process and that way you just have to know your parts if you do your part well then the next person can take over from there and do the next version parts manager they're in charge of making sure you have enough Parts they do part counts weekly uh send them off to the parts company new parts come in one touches them except the device manager they come in advance parts manager Parts managers teachers job to inventory show put them on the shelf and make sure that everything's in the right place responsibility the inventory manager in charge of our loaners so making sure that we always have owners ready that's a larger task that it sounds like uh to make sure they're clean we have to know that they're
025charged ready to go um so uh we usually have one one to see students just depending on how everything works out um sales manager I don't have one right now um eBay stuff gets working a Tech student who gets to create the sales posts to monitor Communications with people who are wanting to buy something so it's a really it's kind of it's Unique position and it takes a an interesting student that was really excited about that kind of side of things something I can do if I need to but if we have a student that's excited about it shouldn't be receiving we do send things out and their job is really similar every day they make a round they go to the office check statement packages they go to the admin building they are in
026charge of making sure that things are constantly moving that if something's going out but it's like it takes so many years depending on if you can have something consistently so then actually doing the communication with FedEx or UPS just kind of depends on the student right and you can really yeah rely on them to get done correctly so um customer service reps they are the ones as soon as that device is fixed they're the ones communicating with students they send out an email they have a process they have a board direct names on them she was there for two years um but she was a phenomenal customer service she was very good at writing things down making sure things got out I was talking to students and things back to them connected and done properly
027so pulling her when she she got out of high school I was looking for a place it was an easy fit um an office manager office managers well for some reason students see that office made your title and they covet it but um it's really really all their job is to make sure that things are still in place so there are overlapping responsibilities but you know you should be in charge of your world sometimes things get set down in one place sometimes things get a little streamed out okay let's get from weird places and you have a random keyboard just sitting on the table so the office manager shop is really just kind of opens in the office and make sure things are where they're supposed to be they do quality control checks when they're
028available for it so we've had one during covid when we were doing a lot of phone interaction couldn't say enough about this student who was just so excited that she didn't want to make phone calls thank you so she was calling parents making sure they knew how to do things and taking all the that information passing it on to us when we had to do repairs and how to collect things and I mean I was calling people organizing times to come in to direct their devices so so just kind of a quick hopefully quick uh overview of how we kind of lay things out and trying to be creative let's hear some RC games this is actually the last uh last at the end of last year these are all new devices um that they're
029prepping for this school year um and I think so so we get a lot of interesting we get an interesting mixed students we have some that are very interested in computers and that's where they they live they want to be involved in that we have some students that have no interest in computers I recruited a soccer player because she liked to boss people around so you're perfect you're gonna be perfect you're going to keep everybody organized and and be able to kind of keep everything um and Skyler down here and she is our disassembler so when we have a a laptop or Chromebook that's no longer functional and we're not going to be able to it's not worth putting in working condition uh the parts to replace it would be too expensive um then she
030is the one that takes everything apart takes all the working parts and provides a new 10 parts so she's she loves it she she has some a unique uh and unique need uh her memory isn't great soap trying to get a really simple task too but she she's absolutely a joy in her classroom um I look forward to her every every day I'm just always interacting so it's really it's really fun I think when we see is kids come back they enjoy it they do learn something uh even though they won't stay available um but we really do have a good time so this is actually taken last week two weeks ago and I told these two to make it look like they were helping um these these two were actually working on a device
031and he was actually working they were actually working on their own set um but this is the repair side right so the other part they were just prepping Chromebooks it was a new tax for them it only happened once a year um but we pull them in we teach them how to do something and actually had to do that just a couple weeks ago with the manufacturing laptops um these this is adorable advice to prepare this is something that would bother me you see this blue line right here that's nothing should be on that blue line and there should be stuck on one side or the other so it haven't bothered me but uh sort it out uh we also had an interesting part where we have some students in our class that are actually
032in class they are Cadet teaching students so they've opted to not want credit for it they just want a place to be to help out and to learn things but they don't want to go through a great Union just fine in fact we had a student classes it was probably our most reliable student it was not so and this was this has actually been doing the demo today I want to make sure to make sure that so Jackson is presenting uh Jacob here with a with the fictional issue Jackson has this little collection of two or three Chromebooks that actually have problems that we're not going to try to fix and so he beats those up for his demos and because it's every student thanks um are there any other questions on the class well
033I have a question if do you ever talk about the value of knowing how to fix things that like the monetary value of what they their knowledge can get them something as far as a job or yeah I think I think what's really what's really interesting is we have a lot of conversations with with students um especially those that are really questioning what they want to do next yeah and just tell them this is something that's possible for him you may think you don't know we're actually doing and if you understand that's why we're really focusing on those policies procedures doing things in certain ways you can learn a lot as long as you can follow those methods trying to focus on just knowing how to do this one thing is it going to help
034you later on so and we really do focus on that and we actually got a new opportunity for I.T certification which hopefully we'll be able to start instituting maybe later this year so we need to make sure I hope where our Tech 2 students okay will have the opportunity to get a intro I.T certification so they could actually leave school certified and ready to start coming so then my next question is I'm sure you know that there are some habitual offenders too oh yeah sure do you communicate to them what it costs to fix those so okay so there are a couple categories of students the students we don't see very often that's that's good that means they're taking care of things um therapy students that we see frequently um those that cause malicious damage
035um they're very very well aware of cost um those that have recurring issues we have after depending on the time period right if two things happen in a week we're gonna have a conversation two things happened over two three months it's a little different story but which means if we see a kid repeatedly uh yeah we'll sit and have conversations with them first we'll communicate with the principle usually if we do complete that there's maybe something that is so yeah I was just curious yeah it gets it gets interesting I had to have a couple of conversations with students like you don't understand anything I tried to recruit one one that was trying to get around stuff I tried I tried to recruit him in we actually had a really nice culture where um students
036start to open up to us about things um because they have this level of responsibility they also take it as a level of accountability so if they see another student doing something that they don't think is appropriate on the device or they see a student damage or they heard that assume damages that something word will get back to us and so we know pretty quickly if something's a little fishy I was going to ask about the certification I was about to mention that because I know that other high schools offer that that because I think that this I don't know what it was called but if you had the certification then Best Buy well how do you think Geek Squad like immediate yeah so we originally today plus certification and some interesting things we're looking
037at a partnership maybe about five six years ago with Ivy Tech and things just really never materialized the a plus certification itself went through a transition as well it went from one test to two and the course became very very structured and foreign more challenging so it really just didn't work out well now the standard is starting is starting to shift from pig plus which was the the standard for a long time entry level computer store to uh Google provide providers the structure is completely different it's months to months so you can finish it in two months and be done typically it's a six month process kind of go kind of um yeah oh no no no certification now this is a an I.T Google I.T certification partnership with Roi he reached out to us
038potential funding funding about we're kind of looking forward to seeing you it's something that I have a couple past students that will be disappointed that they must be listening yeah so I understand you go out to audit out of the day that they take in this broken material or does that get communicate I know you can talk about doing tickets I'm just trying to understand the Dynamics that I feel I could be broken you're not going to be into my building until next Tuesday right so it depends so um with the elementaries with student devices in particular they have more for their classroom than they have students so if one goes down they have one that they can they can use until we can get out there so that priority is right we talk about
039prioritizing things if the teacher's laptop goes down just because we make a run every Tuesday doesn't exclude us from making a run out there on any other day so something something happens we figured how to happen where we have to go back up on Tuesday because they tend to make the runs at 9 10 in the morning so if something happens in the afternoon and it's by laptop stop working we will find a way to to take care of it so just didn't really just depend on the issue okay so that's actually one of our one of our goals so you see responsiveness it's the standard that we live by right so like that's that's what everybody in staff member has an issue or something they're always judging us by how fast we can get
040to them so so we want to make sure we can get to it quickly um one of our one of our working goals is really to just start working more on our training resources these focuses upon this a lot which shifted and changed so many things that all that didn't sell out of date so um trying to kind of refocus on making sure that every new step Member knows here's how you do this um here's the things we have if you don't know how to use it so we've got to make sure that we inform people how to use things that are what I would add the each building has like a type of record yes so you know that was the person in the building or I remember when even providing that group with
041resources that they can take it's not about us doing the training but having resources collected in a way that's easy to access um that they can go into and you know Tech leader in that building can actually go find it and use it to teach someone else uh communicating the same thing we have guidelines we also want to work on feedback so we want to hear about how we're doing so that's going to be at the end of year um kind of survey and just let might be perfectly honest and that's okay we'll see how it goes um and you know we just kind of want some feedback and understand where we can improve and then setting guidelines there's a lot of things that run into English copyright issues things that kind of just people
042kind of over like sometimes in the course of teaching a class and and we want to make sure that um people are well informed of what the community can do but they have available to you we have some things I don't even know especially with our movie watching we had it for two years and then you know when staff turns over they don't always get there's so many things you can always get everything so we'll make sure and then surprises um so one of my goals is to make sure I leave enough room to surprise some people and do some things that are just little things really um this actually would be an example of a little thing right um okay does the rest of your department want one yes okay I'm gonna get one
043for everyone for all the people in your apartment it's a little thing it's a little surprise so trying to find ways to surprise people to be able to to do things that are different so you're going to look at virtual future so you want to look at 3D printers and you're going to be able to kind of provide things that a big deal of the experience thank you any other questions are the phones fixed no that's what you did all day interesting I know seriously though please come come visit us that goes out to football just come visit us um that you see here that they have the different components and stuff the expectations have customer service it's made huge difference you know like I said same as a former student Jackson was a former
044student I made another former student who was also in the same customer service rep she started working at the Apple workers and and they can just kind of thank you okay thanks we do not have any discussion items so the next thing is approval of public session minutes from November 14th and December 1st 2022 do I have a motion I shall move do I have a second awesome okay any discussion [Music] welcome Carol yes Amy yes Vicky yes Stephanie and the recommendation to approve the donation of 300 from Fruitdale Volunteer Fire for Spirit ECA Student Activities do you have a motion to accept the permission of 300 showers from the freedom volunteer fire department for Securitas PCA activities any discussion thank you appreciate it thank you yes Amy yes Vicki came to Stephanie yes thank
045you as a recommendation to improve the conflict of interest disclosure statement for Indiana statute for Stephen Douglas Payne do you have a motion to accept the recommendation to improve the conflict of interest exclusion statements as per Indiana statute for Stephen Douglas family any discussion welcome Carol yes Amy yes Vicki and Stephanie yes yes thank you and the recommendation to come St Joseph Denison be the auditorium manager for the winter concerts listed with a stipend of 500. promotion to accept the recommendation to compensate Joseph Dennison Choir concerts this week a second any discussion yeah I I just want to reiterate Joseph Dennison is a senior here at Brown County High School um this is um there is a another staff member or student that knows that Auditorium better than Joey Dennison or more qualified so I
046am incredibly proud um that this was his idea he came and negotiated and they did the whole adult thing to do this so um just incredibly proud that he's been only one of our kiddos but he can provide this service for us as well I think we got a deal okay yes thank you yes Stephanie yes Steve yes question Perry thank you and their recommendation to approve the donation of a color printer to helsberg elementary school from an anonymous donor do you have a motion to accept the recommendation of the donation of color printers any discussion I just want to say that a color printer seems like such a small thing but as a teacher it is huge the biggest thing in the whole world so everything you see and everything you want to do
047you want to do is really really make this donor for seeing how important that is okay Carol yes Amy yes Vicki yes Stephanie yes oh she carries thank you and the recommendation to approve the donations to helmsburg elementary school for children in need from an anonymous donor do you have a motion to accept the recommendation the donation of twelve hundred dollars to numbers for he doesn't need them at the amount of stuff the second indiscretion thank you thank you very much yes Amy yes thank you and Stephanie again yes thank you and the recommendation to approve the donation of one thousand two hundred fifty dollars to burn County High School Brown County Middle School holmesburg Elementary School Spring Elementary School and Van Buren Elementary School to do staff morale from the Brown County Community Foundation
048if you have a motion to accept the recommendation to improve the donation up to 150 to all school buildings for our teachers a second any discussion appreciate this from the foundation should we have lots of ideas yes Amy yes thank you yes Stephanie yes yes and the recommendation of two 250 donations to Winter Guard to be used as needed we are from moonshine leather and Paula tagger do the motion to accept the two 250 dollars donations per minute cards to be used as needed discussion I'm sure kids appreciate that um yeah Amy yes Vicki yes stubby yes yes thank you I have the recommendation to amend the pay rate of Amanda Webb to 90 per day retroactive to November 14 2022. do I have a motion to accept the recommendation to attend the pay rate
049of Amanda went to 90 per day and Summit a discussion welcome Carol yes hey yes Vicky and Stephanie yes yes and consent agenda items beginning with the separation of Brown County Middle School teacher Caitlin Christie effective December 21st 2022 through the appointment at Brown County Middle School assistant track coach Timothy Reeves 1241 statement affected March 20th 2022. the Middle School assistant track appointment at two of degrees with the 1235 now stipended March 20th we'll see any discussion I appreciate Mr Elmore coming in this is something else Amy yes Vicky and Stephanie yes and yes pleasure Gary thank you thank you first I want to say congratulations to Joey Dennison he is our Lily recipient um for this year so again um incredible kiddo that that's got the world ahead of him and excited to see
050his journey unfold um I wanted to be able to report out symptomatic percentages across our district um up to this point they have been less than one percent and they are starting to rise and just want to remind everybody that symptoms are not covet specific but rather flu and strep throat and all of these symptoms in compass many different illnesses we only have four positive covet cases across the district at this time but are symptomatic percentages have risen to um as high as 9.5 percent if we here by someone the writing a favor if you've got a clock you don't feel good with the nutritions of don't go away don't go to school don't take care of yourself and that's about everybody um I also wanted to write an update um as you know School
051Safety and Security is one of our five priorities at Brown County Schools we are working relentlessly to empower and equip our teams with necessary training our leadership this week took a few hours to be trained and stop the bleed training by Bill Callahan bill is a Brown County Schools parent who's a lead fire chief in Indianapolis he truly believes in in this specific training and helping as many people as possible and whether there'd be an accident or a Potential Threat to our school um this training specifically enables us to use three techniques to help save a life it is how to use our hands to apply pressure to a wound it's how to pack a wound and then it's how to correctly apply a tourniquet so I just want to be able to thank Liz
052Hill who our Corporation nurse Gavin Steele leads our district and our safety initiatives for getting our starting with our admin team and our next steps are to be able to work to equip every classroom with a stoppable lead kit and then finalize training for everybody um just really proud to be a part of that this week um I want to thank all of our buildings across the district writing incredible winter programs for our kids and our families every single night this week our students are getting the opportunity to perform in some way for their families in the High School auditorium um it has felt really good to see our families fill those seats this is the first time I will leave since the pre-pandemic that the elementaries have been able to bring programs back to
053the auditorium so it was just a really good feeling to to see everybody here and this evening we got to hear the kiddos and the families right outside these these windows these doors because they have their event tonight um and then tomorrow I believe we wrap up with the Middle School Memorial concert and that starts at 5 30 if you want to come um I want to thank David Phelps for his um very informative press presentation the work that you're doing for kids in our entire Community is commendable um technology is absolutely a challenge in this County and um I just appreciate you trying to remove the barriers opportunities and our families I want to thank Don Heimer who is in the back at Paula Waterman for being able to provide some sweets and some
054snacks and some juice water um because we want to be able to celebrate Steve so lastly Steve I just want to take a minute to thank you um I personally want to thank you for your dedicated your continued service to the school corporation um I will forever be grateful for your support keep your positive coaching and your commitment to serve all kids above everything else it will hold a special piece in my heart because you showed me what it was like to have that quintessential role model board member to serve you have shown me you have proven to me that in just 18 months of my very first superintendency what I will forever expect a reward member moving forward in my career preparation patience and praise you helped me remember why we must be prepared
055for every meeting every question and every opportunity because that preparation has and will continue to open doors for our kids our families and our staff you have helped me remember patience when things get just a bit challenging boys your grades and even your voice has a pause and a reflective tone that has always related to be patient and your praise will always stay close to my heart sometimes the job gets hard sometimes it gets heavy and somehow we recognize all of it and your praise has helped me to stand a little taller speak a little clearer and return to my Relentless Pursuit I am hopeful you will still be in touch along the way and please know for me you will forever have a seat at the table now with that said I welcome Doug
056Payne to the board of school trustees beginning January 1st I am very excited to get to work although you have a mighty journey ahead of you I have no doubt that I will say these very things to you someday just a little bit of pressure thank you I'm changing cats thank you Emily thank you and that's how I feel because I've been with you for the last 10 years and you have like as she said you would die from wonderful things in the board I also appreciate your trust in me as an individual difficult time to do pad nothing I said 10 years and I appreciate you trusting me that very much um that's what I do and that's the way I am and you're just looking for that it's been fun working with you
057and you still have my number so I expect you to contact me anytime you need or any questions you can have and there you go this is a golden eagle and we've been born again for the last 10 years of his time with us [Music] we lost John Mills which was a very very big shoes to build actually I got lucky I got my first two years I got to sit by John the school board professor and we served with my dad so John was just fantastic so I got to learn from John you know should I talk now you talk when you need to yeah John Mills is a great mentor to us and stuff so yeah it was good thank you this is wonderful oh yeah thank you very much I've enjoyed my
058time serving serving the community and wonderful people that have served with um started with David Shaffer and Lauren and we made a fantastic decision with Emily she's just going to be super doing a super job and during high schools are in good hands with wonderful board members smart people who care and we've got fantastic teachers I've always wanted to try to keep small class sizes and and uh you know so the teachers could have did a better job with classes and it was when we started the teachers didn't they were aged for what it was incredible and so you know we've worked hard I think to do that I just wish we had 100 new kids in a row um we're in good shape and then just thank everybody for um all to do for
059Brent high schools thank you darling thank you Steve and I both are voracious readers I have learned and so we trade a lot of articles about what's happening out in the broader education Community I really appreciate being able to share that with you and um you know we're always looking at you know what's happening in Indiana state house and uh in other schools around and I think that's really important perspective for us to bring um you know how we feel about larger goal but I you have worked very hard in this job and I don't think people do realize how it's all behind the scenes and I think it's really important to know that 10 years of the board is really significant thank you for your time thank you that's the first thing I did
060is read the star every morning do you have emotions accept the claims that's presented I so move any discussion last roll call for Steve Carol yes Amy yes Mickey yes Stephanie yes and Steve no motion here it is you want to adjourn us you want to make a motion to a journal all right make a motion we adjourned so moved all in favor say aye aye motion carries thank you much