001thank you better get honest ly oh thank you sometimes all right thank you this is the parent canceling headphones is foreign [Music] let's check the messages United States one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all um [Music] for the determination of Springfield Elementary School paraprofessionals Michelle hadland effective October 21st 2022. you have a motion to accept the separation with determination as SES parent professional Michelle Hamlin effective October 21st 2022 and so it is any discussion roll call Carol yes Amy yes Vicky yes Stephanie yes motion carries we're zero um next we have recognition of visitors and comments from the audience this is your opportunity okay just check it I know a good job and with that presentation uh master kiligence okay so this evening and I'm not gonna stand so this evening
002uh Emily Tracy invited me to the board and wanted us wanted me to talk about student outcomes and one of our student outcomes that we're very excited about even though our scores are not very good is our Irish course and our goal this year is our I read would be 80 and a lot of people say oh 80 that's that's not a hold well I will explain to you why that is a high goal so uh we pulled some data uh two years before covet if you can tell in 2018 kids hit it out of the park really good class State average is 86 percent we were 96 following year uh we do that last pad a lot more at-risk students a lot of IEPs and we had a little bit of a dip the
003state still stayed at 86. 2020 you know what happened I mean the world shut down we didn't have I I read and welcome come on so 2021 let me think about this for a second those kiddos were in second grade when the world shut down and you notice we had a little bit of a dip and 83 from that a couple years ago they were still above the state average 2022 those were our first graders who missed you know a lot of work and our scores dropped to 70 percent and we knew that going into this year the next coming class has more kids that are at risk they were The Kindergartners you know you can read every article under the sun about the kids missing a lot of their basic things I mean we've
004been you know pumping them working with them but we figured we had to up our game to help them because we want to get back up to that 80 percent so some of the things that we have put in place luckily we uh have a grant and I always forget the name of student learning recovery Grant thank you Mrs Harmon and we started you got that Grant last year we unbelievably for strategy had five tutors last year that signed up after spring break after school tutoring kiddos and we had uh one tutor for each grade level one through five groups of four and it was amazing and we saw some nice gains well this year she said we still have the money get busy start tutoring so before the end of August we already had
005six tutors in place this year which is activate but we kind of changed our game plan fifth grade has one group these are kids that are at risk the four kiddos fourth grade is for students that did not pass I read and they have to set forward again this March but we doubled down on third grade second grade and we have two tutors third grade two tutors in second grade and our thought with that was third grade group and the second grade group really really need that intensiveness of funds that's where our kids are really College shortly so that's how we based it and down here what data did we use for a second I read we used our already scores our ID IEP goals and our reading levels now kind of a little twist
006our tutoring program our students that are not do not have IEPs so you're saying well why did we put that down there well for our IEP students we have two third grade groups that started out I think second we could smooth we identified four class four students in each class and they have four thirty minute intensive language arts getting ready for Irene so out of our third graders we have 16 kids either during the day in Tennessee or after school out of our 37. so we are pushing all day trying to help them get ready so what are your class sizes out there so we have 37 in third grade so if I'd like to do yeah that's about our average our fifth grade is a little larger it's our largest spots if our smallest
007is first divided into two groups yes and when do they use it roll outs with uh the intensity so that comes out of some of their social studies and I know the social studies people in the room are not going to like that but social studies at that levels a lot of reading and we think that they need to have those skills in order to be successful in social studies later yeah together and then four days four days yeah the tutoring is two days a week so tutoring is two days a week after school so we have tutoring Monday Tuesday and Wednesday and we also actually have some tutoring on Thursday but it's not part of the screen we have Publishers that are that are volunteering like do kids get to switch in and out
008yeah in our intensive group we have a young lady who's getting ready to graduate out of it because she is getting ready to go up before reading level s because the phonics skills are starting to click and that every day where she sees it she hears it she does it and you know she's seeing these words and she's getting them and it's just so yeah we're hoping so so it is a combination of finance and sight reading yes and knowing the red words you know it's just that whole combination Doe Grant from Lily to focus on um the science of reading um which all of this is based on so this is a Statewide initiative of gold specifically foreign in a matter of three to six months my mom that both of us actually immediately
009so I I'm glad the other thing uh thank you to Mrs Harmon uh we had all of our k1c teachers and our special ed teachers trained in OG this summer and that is an intense isn't it like five days they approach that we call it that's right and then we also use our my plane or I ready and then the last thing one of our goals we have multiple goals with nics one of our goals is we know that our vocabulary needs to improve so we are embedding that into our plcs on learning how to construct vocabulary which goes hand in all all areas and your tutors are they outside tutors and other teachers they're teachers who are just being paid this day late yes we've got the tutor from 3 30 to 4 30.
010um an average tutoring night kind of would follow this schedule they come in they do an OG an intense drill and then they go on to their I ready account and have their staff while they're doing their i-Ready the teachers are enrolling one student at a time to read with them then they'll have a mini lesson and they will do the mini Lesson by that time the hour is up and then they started some things this year recently where they're pushing out more work for them to take home but they're getting a reward when they bring back to the next session so just trying to challenge the support yeah we have all of our teachers and then parents didn't have to pick up oh yeah tutoring that kids that don't go home on the bus
011are they is that is that a barrier for some you know what so we have 24 kids tutoring I think I had an order to that said you know we just wait this turns down but they never said anything about transportation I think they after school helps some parents are doing that anyway any other questions do you think it's gonna work I don't believe in it yeah no but I I think we can get it um do we would the nice thing about the way they're doing the scores now is that they're combining so if you have to take the spring and then you can take it to Summer they combine behind those for your and I used to not do that from everything I look at the schools so that's nice so you have
012those kids to take it March you can still work with them for another two months what's the new state average they want it to be to 98. yeah so the test is in marches and yeah Irene is in March and then I learned start seeing people and it's three mornings I guess okay thank you well welcome to the Middle School cool um we're going to talk a little bit about some uh about what we're doing at the middle school uh we've kind of sat down this year when we started talking about the roles we actually taught about what we're going to talk about tonight before we talked about it in our administrative team meetings and that is just trying to bring some some positivity for our students back to school uh you know we saw
013it at the elementary level when I was at Van Buren you hear Educators talking about just that you know we were we loved staying home which is a good thing and then kind of that fight to come back and get back into school and get back into a rhythm and and have some motivation and have some desire to that workout they could want to uh have a challenge so that was one of the things we wanted to focus on this year as as we started uh pushing through so in one week we're taking a look at is Happy staff happy students so even before we go into looking at all these other things that we're doing what are some things that we can do to keep our people in this building happy right we're happy
014we can learn and we don't want to be here it's really hard to to set in that chair and listen to what your teachers have and say so talking with the staff trying to figure out things that we can do the first thing we talked about is our vocabulary and just how we talk and how we address how I send my emails to the staff how we interact with each other so we have about 377 students in the building we have 48 staff members but we talk about one there so we talked about right there's a lot of us there's a lot of you but we truly are in this together and we you'll hear us just the way we interact with each other having that conversation and not just that conversation and let them
015know that we're here let them know that they're human and would you care what's going on both here at school and outside and really driving home that family component so you know this just a few pictures of some things that we've we've done just a short time that we've been here uh you know greeting the students with some music and Bubbles and uh being super obnoxious but you know I thought it was important that you know you throw in some pictures of the teachers coming in too where it's not just the kids that are smiling when they they see this going on so if you happen to drive by tomorrow morning you'll you'll see this going on we'll be set up on the on the steps out here playing music again just to kind of
016surprise and Delight students uh in this picture you know we ran in a prompt to assembly on the first day of school I said you know what we've been in class long enough like let's all just go meet in the gym and go do some fun things for a little bit and then I called out all of our new teachers they had no clue what was going on uh as you can tell about the big Sears she's terrified this is not her thing especially when they found out that they involved basketball uh so we started working on I gave the teachers a challenge on what they had to do and they completely failed at it and so we just talked to the kids about that there's going to be times this year that we're going
017to fail but I think it's it's going to happen and so you just saw the people who are going to be teaching you fail we are not all going to be great at everything and so I gave them uh it was like two minutes to actually come up with a plan for the challenge that they had they still fail just not as bad um so we couldn't talk through that right like we can get better at things it doesn't mean we're still going to be perfect but we just keep trying and keep going back at it so those were kind of the first couple days of school and then it was like who doesn't do donuts so I want donuts for the entire building uh kids came in off the buses they came straight into
018the gym this was our first Friday here just kind of a surprising Delight I've lost the bet to them during that prep session which is why um so anybody who likes Square Donuts you can order 25 dozen donuts the morning they said anything over 25 dozen they need like a couple hours heads up but they said they can crank them out fast enough that or 25 dozen they can have them done by the time you get in it's a little plus four square Donuts they were on it um so as the kids came in off the bus right we're just creating Smiles creating that environment where where kids want to be where did you get this great evidence from Bloomington okay my daughter used to wear that um this was a first for us uh
019you've heard Shane talking about you know Debbie usually comes with Grant in the same sentence uh I worked with Daddy and found somebody and we were able to for the first time uh take our kids out to camp so it was it was amazing uh they so these are just some pictures of our sixth graders uh we went down to Happy Hollow we took sixth grade down for two days we took seventh grade down Tuesdays we ticked off the eighth graders for taking them down for one day uh so they were all bombed and I suck edits I know you guys don't get any anything extra so that is why I'm going to let sixth and seventh grade come to your eighth grade yeah they were like actually no it's fine okay one day it's
020great like we'll keep our formal to us so yeah so this is sixth grade we took them down uh on Monday and Tuesday uh we we tried to take away any barriers right so Happy Hollow for the is a camp down just around the corner from native urine um in the first time I don't know do we stay overnight and I would love to get to a point where we offer that but talking with the team you know our goal was to get every kid there and our fear was the minute we said we were staying overnight we're going to lose some kids so worked with Dennis Mills our director of Transportation um every morning that week kids came in we got a breakfast we got him into the gym we got them on buses
021and we bust them so we were down at camp like 9 A.M each morning and we were at Camp all day long we packed up at uh just after two we were here at 2 30 inside the federal buses home we did everything rock climbing team building uh archery uh challenge courses and it's it's pictures you know like this one up here in the top right right where these kids are just put into these random groups and again this is sixth grade right so this is the first time these kids have ever been together you know we used to get kids coming from the Intermediate School that have been together for a couple years uh so they're meeting new friends they're right they're getting forced into these groups where they don't know everybody in their
022group because they're not with their Elementary groups anymore and so you're part of the stations we're just kind of activities to get to know each other um then we have okay so we did zap lining uh so all the groups got to do all the activities um zap Lane what step between zap line and zipline right that's the first question you took OG you would know what's up um no so ziplining is starting from an elevated position and going like through a forest to another platform or something that's elevated um that's zip lighting zap lining is starting on the ground and finishing on the ground so we started on one side of a valley it took off running and then zap lined across and land it on the other side of the back so it
023wasn't we were not elevated when we started or stopped so we are just going across kind of a Gorge and then little stories from the sixth and seventh graders and it was all like I don't know if I want to go and then right you gotta kind of too cool right you got to kind of set that stage to do the whole response to the building and then they get down there and they turn into like the biggest kids and they're all over the place and it's just a day full of smiles you know we we had some students who were terrified to both that line or Rock fly or the wall climb and just hearing students start to kind of hey just you can do it just go up a little bit and if
024you have to come down it's fine and convincing students to take risks and take challenges in a safe environment but they knew that it was going to be okay um is what we were wanting to build right in seeing the staff do some of these activities the kids loved every minute of it so then what are we doing you know these are just activities and some things that we wanted to do anyways but what are we going to be intentional about and what we really wanted to do was make sure that every student had a connection that they had some club or something that they could participate in that they can feel connected to so we started off saying you know we want to establish three new clubs this year that are just different than
025anything we're doing to try to connect more students so this is our current list that we have going on right now so we have uh radio club robotics a-lit club which is a literature club we have spoken word Poetry Club who is presenting tomorrow night at 5 30 over the High School auditorium uh anime club we have people we have eaglet names actually this type of uh we have book club music lab all of these things our newest editions though is a modding Club I'm going to pretend like I know a whole lot about this club but they just got started and it is working uh technology they're working with Mr Phelps he's been getting them some computers that they can use and it's all about modding games so you can do it with Minecraft
026you can take it and you can start modding it on the back end you're kind of messing with it and making some changes to it it's a whole they love it they're all about it and so it's a whole different group than any of the other groups that we have going on uh we have a small engine Club that's getting ready to start taking off in a juggling Club out there unique and we'll see who are you leading guy or not you know uh Dr bird chair and then the small engine Club is who's doing that one uh Tim Reeves so the Middle School thing our Focus has been so far this year kind of putting smile on people's faces from what we say what we do what we offer and you know we hope
027that it's carrying over to the kids and when you have conversations with the kids just you know that simple question like how school go or you know are you liking School this year if we can get kids to start saying yes yeah it's absolutely I like I like being in that building then we can start taking care of some of these other pieces it's fighting this covered day you know and some other things that were going on and we just need to get that environment back so that then we can get on contractors questions okay I do have uh just a question about the club so it sounds like teachers again and are we paying this most of these clubs are volunteer uh my friendly Like We the People obviously was up there that's a
028class um art was up there some of these art classes you know these are by no means you know we don't have National Junior out of society we don't have student care so we don't have Medicals but like all of those schools these are kind of these extra ones that kids don't often think about um and this is we just started creating this you know this document that we'll hang up around the building so there's already changes that we need to make to it and really it's just trying to find a connection whatever and if there's not one there if you have an interest then we get your sponsored in the technology no I'm right I'm done I'll leave our school Insurance what's that and are they going to be like short-term clubs like six
029weeks or eight weeks or are they intending it's not been going all year so as long as there's an interest ing if folks willing to do it so for those of you who may not know right this manufacturing that we're setting in this is our student-ran business two periods a day before you leave if you want to kind of take a look on this table or some projects and things that they are [Music] worth tennis team you know they do some work for our basketball team um some things that they can do in here this is one of those areas that I can see really taking off yes I love your happy staff happy students what other things are you doing for the staff to make them happy yeah so you know it's that kind
030of surprising the life thing right right where it's simple things is you know we had a staff meeting this morning so we brought in Panera don't tell them it's about me just maybe put a little smile on their face uh to make it through the day checking in with them having conversations is a big thing uh using our ilt to have those conversations uh getting feedback on things that they want to see done in the building you know there was a desire to get a conference room back in the middle of the school sometimes it's just these little things that we can make happen okay right so we're not coming all the way down to this end of the building to eat blood you should wasting time so you know we were able to do
031that and so they you know it's it's interesting because what you do for kids puts my it's the teachers are these kids taking kids to can the teachers have as much fun if not more fun uh donut day did you bring the line for that too uh so you know that's that's kind of kind of is when you think about it as one family right it's not necessarily that we're doing it for kids or for adults it's for this building so that we can continue to unify together foreign having someone any discussion um yes Amy yes yes yes question guys for zero next is the action figures and the recommendation to approve the 2022-2023 budget adoption I have a motion to approve ment on the 22-22 budget adoptions okay all right I have a discussion
032part right now I'm just going to read the headings of all the documents that are related to this first one is the resolution for Appropriations and tax rates we've covered that the last time which facilitates a lot of times this one is a resolution to transfer amounts from the education funds and operation Department that is something that happens on the end of the year basis every year present year budget reduction resolution so that is another question that happens every year on a particular form transfer resolution appropriate balances where the different funds a resolution to adopt the school bus placement plan so we plan to read any resolution to adopt the capital purchase uh yes Amy yes yes definitely yes board recording secretary this is a replacement for Renaissance exception I still made 10 seconds in
033discussion have fun today we're getting there yes I am beginning with the separation of Hillsborough Elementary School teacher Anna Harris effective October 28 2022 through the transfer of Brown County High School registrar Christine Pruitt to transfer to the brown Pines School of funeral specialist effective October 21st 2022. this is a replacement for Renee ccat also okay discussion foreign but also happy for them so it's been a great week back um I just want to thank Shane and Gavin for being able to come and present tonight on some of our priorities at broadbanding schools um between student outcomes and happy staff and happy kids um and another piece that we've been able to put in and speak across kindergarten through eighth grade is our vehicle and world of work training and if you remember that that's
034training to allow kids to have that career exploration so it's one of those founding pieces that that we were able to get through a grant that helps us get that exploration engagement experience across the entire page 12 Continuum so um you know when we we talked last summer about happy staff and happy kids there's a little bit of pushback that our admin Retreats about that term happy and um you know it it's what are we striving for kids to be skipping down the hallway with smiles on their face doing what they want when they want how they want and um that you know kids and staff are going to have to face challenges and frustrations and they're not always going to be happy per se um but I think we've really evolved into What happiness
035um truly is defined and um that's being able to give people purpose and what they do every day whether you're an adult whether you're a kiddo and that purpose helps gives confidence and truly determines the difference between engaged just going through the motions and actively disengaged so um this week was a really cool week to see all of this kind of evolve together and um it's been something very dear to my heart for quite some time so excited about that Journey I want to thank Dennis Mills our transportation director last night we were able to do the opening of the bids for the contracts the new contracts for the transportation department and everybody came out and had smiles and the process just went really well and I want to thank our contractors that the common
036support sponsor Dennis for walking through that process with all of us um and then I want to thank um Debbie Harmon Christy reisman tonight they they let our second broad-based curriculum meeting um that is a meeting where we have stakeholders between parents and teachers and administrators uh all around the table to to do just that review curriculum and we have math and we have social studies that's up for review this year and I'm just grateful for the process that you're able to take everybody through so thank you and then finally Renee I thank you for sitting beside me for a year and what three months and um teaching me everything there is to know about this process and um wish you the absolute best thank you that's all I have um do you have a
037motion to accept the claims as a percentage I think the discussion Carol yes yes thank you so very much