001Mhm. I would say between 30 and I know, isn't that right? She came around and she was Hopefully, I just never had to drive. I'll check it. All right, before we start the meeting tonight, um I wish to have a moment of silence for Justin family. And after that, participate in Pledge of Allegiance to the flag as we said this time. Thank you. 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. I will speak in the order at to be heard yet? I have an action needed item, the recommendation to remove the shuttle portion for the patent transport S31 from the patent contract 2019-2023 with Sarah Peyton per her request effective January 3rd,
0022022. Do I have a move? Do I have a motion to accept the modifications as presented? I so move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Carol? Yes. Amy? Yes. Vicki? Yes. Stephanie? Yes. Pete? Yes. It is. I see it. Hello. Okay. Most can be votes. Yes, I had a second here. Motion carried. Yes, thank you. Our next is recognition of visitors and comments from the audience that are welcome if they sign in on anything not already on the agenda. All right. We do We do have a presentation today. Miss Christine Ryken and Jay Myers for the Connected Learning Initiative. Thank you everything everyone. Just a moment here to transfer to our screen. Is it going to be on the screen? Yes. Okay. I'll be right back. The first screen. Well, good evening everyone. Thank you for
003giving us a little bit of your time this evening to give you an update on the Connected Learning Initiative within Broad High School. Um I'm going to talk just a little bit to give a little bit of background on e-learning and then I'm going to have our master teacher from Brown County High School go ahead and really give you the update from across the state, region, and locally what's occurring with current connected learning. Of course, our vision and mission statement is up here for Brown County Schools. With every initiative that we do here at Brown County Schools, we connect it directly back to our mission and our vision both always important to show and make sure that everyone understands what we're working towards every day. Everyone feeling okay with the mask? So, as many of
004you know, our target for students when they walk through our PK to your adult system is that at the end of their graduation, whatever that might be, maybe that's high school, maybe that's at the end of their adult learning here at the Career Resource Center, this is our target, our graduate profile. And our students work across our system to obtain the competencies that you've seen listed here. We want to make sure that all of our students are socially, emotionally well, that they are they are communicating, great communicators, that they are engaged in our schools and our community, that they are innovators, and that they show their strong work ethic. And underneath each of these competencies, you will see the definitions associated with those. So, this is a good reminder as well as to what we're
005what we're working towards each and every day with our mission and the vision. What I want to share with you some of the state influences that brought us to career connected learning in this district. You can see some of the statistics listed up here. About 40% of our high school students in Indiana have no plan for life after graduation. And here in Brown County Schools, we just don't think that's acceptable. And career connected learning is one of the ways in which we are working to change that. Of the students who graduate who do pursue post-secondary education after high school, fewer than half complete a diploma program on time. And then, a final statistic to share with you is that as more employers require those post-secondary credentials for entry-level jobs, it's just 25% of our Indiana
006students that secure a post-secondary credential in the 4 years following high school, and only 33% are uh securing that credential within 6 years. So, um we we do have these state influences that are coming to us and that we have known about for quite a while that uh lead us to want to have this career connected learning initiative. There were also regional influences that I want to make sure that we remember it well. You all recall that we um adopted the Ready Schools core principles back when we accepted the $500,000 Ready Schools grant, and we've been working ever since then uh to make sure that we are meeting these principles that have been outlined by the Indiana Department of Education that we are in. So, this is a slide to show you our very specific
007career connected learning initiative. It's written out here for you to remind us that we have a career connected learning initiative in this district so that every student will learn about themselves and learn about career opportunities as they're planning for whatever education or training they may pursue beyond high school. And this is a preschool through adult pathway system that's going to provide a more relevant and personalized um education system for them uh relates to their interests and career options. So, the last time I was here to give an update to our team, I think it was May. And um since then we have quite a team in place across our high schools. And our team is listed out here. We have of course our administrative staff at both the district level. Thank you for for this
008position, and then of course the building levels as well with our principals and assistant principals. We also have our master and mentor teachers who are known as our instructional leadership team. And our academy leaders. So our academy leaders are listed out there. We have three academy leaders, Rebecca Bryant, Dennis Ball, and Chris Sampson. And of course our guidance counselors, Donna Allman and Brad Harmon. So tonight though, I get to introduce you to The marketing of the academy leaders are I mean I know that this guy is in charge of the marketing. Yes, so he is overseeing that particular academy and leading the development and the work along with career connected learning. So he and his colleagues, Jim and Chris, they work to create the career connected learning lessons that are given every Tuesday during SRT.
009And then they also will be working to establish partnerships and councils and all the work that goes into um that, you know, implementing programs of study and the pathways. So just so you know, I did not know I was going to be speaking. Yes, since the beginning. You have five years ago, right? And and our guidance counselors, uh Donna Allman and Brad Harmon, but tonight um Jay Myers is our career connected learning master teacher at Bryant Career and Technical School. And um he's going to share with you where we are right now, what's happening across the state, regionally, and locally, and may share with you also a little bit about um giving some insight into what he's been working on specifically at the high school. Thanks. I'm good. All right, so good morning Jay Myers
010and I am CTE Master Teacher at the high school. Um so, basically what we've we've taken N I E T and the leadership structure set up through N I E T and then kind of crossed that with uh what Christie's uh has worked with with career connected learning. That's kind of how my position uh came about. Formerly, I am a US History and Psychology teacher here at the high school. Uh this is my first year here in this role. And so, what I wanted to do is just kind of give you guys a little bit uh some information on some changes from the state and how my team with the Academy leaders has uh proposed some different programs of study um that we're looking here to offer at the high school here next year and
011how that's going to meet some of the uh the new requirements from the state. Uh so, the way I've got this set up here is looking at the state. They've got a new GPS dashboard, which is a data tracking system that's going to be used for like accountability. We've also got the next level programs of study, graduation pathways. We'll give you a little information on the Regional Opportunity Initiative or ROI, um which I've taken part in here over the last several months. And then just just a local update as far as what my position entails and what my team has been working on here um at the high school. So, the first thing here is the Indiana GPS dashboard. And what this is is to try and create a more holistic approach to the accountability
012system of the state, where it's not just solely focused on test scores and growth um and and things like that. They're trying to incorporate other elements such as career and post-secondary readiness, communication, collaboration, work ethic, and then also civic, financial, and digital literacy. And the goal is to try and find ways to measure each one of these elements all the way from kindergarten all the way up to high school and to track those indicators to make sure that there's growth occurring in these areas not just on standardized test scores. And what's really awesome about this is from what Christie presented with our graduate profile, you're going to see a lot of commonalities here with communication and definitely work ethic are are through the key factors that are right off of our our graduate profile. So,
013things that we're going to be keeping track of in the district anyways are now going to be tracked um to at the state level. And there's some different um I know this is a little harder to see if this is on the state's website or you can also possibly send out the presentation at some point as well. But, there's some proposed ways that schools are going to be able to track um these different parts of the GPS dashboard. Some of them are still in the works. As you can see down here at the bottom, it has some just aspirational indicators that the state is still kind of deciding on how they are going to be able to track track and measure those things um such as like uh extracurricular participation and career exploration at the
014elementary level, right? So, I guess I was going to point here, too. At the high school level, a lot of the same kind of things they keep track of. High school graduation on track rate. Got AP course enrollment. They are now moving to standardized test at the high school um from the ISTEP uh to the SAT. And attendance is going to be a factor there as well. Some of the new things that are starting that they're going to be keeping track of here is the graduation pathways completion, right? And that's going to involve programs of study um that will be presented here um over the next couple of weeks. Got strength of diploma, fast track completion rate is going to be one of the factors that they're going to be using to um assess schools.
015And then after high school, looking at employed and listed in this role, median income, labor participation rate, and then sustained employment. So, keeping track of graduates even after leaving school. Yes. Remind me which class is the first one that graduates and is a good class of So, this is I think going to be finalized at the end of the year, and they're going to start keeping track of the GPS dashboard leading 2024. So, the current The graduating class of 25. I think that would be Our grads and our friends and our sophomores actually are on the graduation path. Okay, that's what I was trying I was trying to remember what year that was transitioning. Sophomores and then this is for um what will be our seventh graders will be the first ones. Who will experience
016it first? Who will experience the GPS dashboard of the grads. Yeah, okay. Yes. That's obviously those are positive But what is career mean? And all this stuff, it's all the state is kind of outlined and it's still kind of a work in progress. You understand? I even like if you see down here like the aspirational indicators, they have the civic, financial, digital literacy competency. So, it's something that the state is wanting to measure, but they have not actually like quite determined how they're going to go about doing that. What is career Career credential is skill trades, other things other than two or four-year college. Yes, that's correct. But actually some form of post-secondary education. Yes. Okay. The things you're obtaining prior to high high school and in high school or maybe if you see one
017two of the outcomes post high school. First, that's what I'm So, they're kind of wanting to subtract things afterwards. No, that's Absolutely. Absolutely. That is a huge new thing. Um it it is has been a goal for a lot of districts, I think for a while. Um it is a it's definitely a very large feat. Yes, to be able to do Cuz even colleges have really struggled with that. So, I'm trying to imagine doing that at a high school level. A lot of data. Yes, we're able to do that to some extent because we have the resources to do that. We can track how many that are on track, we can track how many high school students are on track, and some of them are not. And then we can also track our CCMA credential,
018our CNA, our electrical. And we know which students were on track or not on track. You know the number of students on track. Great, but to like what is every kid doing when you're out of high school? Like, you know, that is a really tough thing. It's a setting in colleges have much stronger connections with the students, I think, as far as their career. It's really tough to do. And that's a lot of data, you know, that's a lot of person to write that data, right? That is a great job for Our data different than some of them, but I think it can be very useful for the schools if they know where their graduates are going and what their graduates are doing. Well, I I think it's great, but it's just really cool. So.
019How much data do you collect into this program? On this, uh currently this year at the high school we've been keeping track of students that are on track. So, just as far as credits Or let me let me rephrase my question. This is new today, correct? These things are new. Some of these things exist and some of them haven't existed. So, the question I'm asking is what data do you have to this point? What things have you been tracking? We've been tracking the high school graduation updates. We have been tracking AP and dual credit. We've been tracking SAT performance and we've been tracking attendance. We've also been just we we can't track graduation pathway completion yet because those students are sophomores right now. We have college and career credentials. We have not been We have
020tracked that through our career technical education like a student that might go for culinary arts certifications. But, the ONC CTE hasn't tracked that yet. Strength of diploma, we have tracked that. That means do they get a general education diploma? Do they get a 40? Do they get an academic honors diploma or a technical honors diploma? We do track that. Pathway completion, we do have rates of that as well. Um So, I guess if you look at Latino, employed, enlisted, and enrolled, that's a little harder to track. We do have some data around that. Um median income, we did not have that specific information. We did not have that data collected as well. Um labor participation rate, all the way to employment rate, is um from the US labor, you know, statistics Bureau of Labor Statistics.
021So, out of all the data that you collect today, what things have you done to adjust the plan? It's a really good question. I mean, I don't know if you want to be a part of it or not, but I think the first step was really creating an initiative to recognize the needs of the students and then adjust the personnel. Um and then we have the elementary schools versus middle schools versus high schools versus college and career ready schools. The counselors explore not only colleges, but career opportunities. Um in addition to that, in the bar teachers such as our math teacher, our science teacher, physics and chemistry in the classroom, um they often have um employers, businesses, partnerships, things like that come in and talk to our students so that they can ask them what
022they're doing. Um there's really multiple layers of this. Um probably don't want to hear me talk about all the things, but it is definitely it is definitely what we're talking about. My question is is that how often is this data collected? How often is it shared? How often is it reviewed? So, I think it's probably fair to say that we've always collected the data that I talked to you about in the past. And we have um shared that out in pockets or within our schools, but I really think we're drawing the end of the state that we need to share that out more more with our community, which is why last May, we gave the first Community meeting, round table or community meeting with students who are giving the district. So, but I think our
023community would be that we probably need to share this information out after the board meetings like this. It's with our state and names. We would need to share that out maybe through the newspaper and our articles about what we're doing. And that we are also be sharing with the state because of the GPS system. So, now it will be required after the 2024. So, that way Yeah, it's shared with the state. We also we also would be sharing it with our education workforce advisory team, which is our very large state workforce. We meet twice a year. Um this would also be information that we would share out in our new um ambassador program that will um roll out in August in the fall. So, we have we have a lot of uh platforms that we
024want to be able to collaborate and communicate of things that we are trying to do um to to meet the needs of of all the So I I guess if we're if we're going to break this down and looking at it because you can collect data through your implementation. What metrics are you using to measure the success of the things you're doing? I can't say what they are. So to date what's been collected from the state is not the same as what is being suggested in the future. So the state the state that we state report information that the state by law requires us to report through a state reporting portal, right? And then if you look at our website, there are state report cards that we're required to publish on the front end of
025our website. There's also a link to our data portal called In View which allows you to look at any data. But there is a published report card that we have a link to which is a PDF and it has a page for the district, has a page for every school, and it talks about about our test scores, talks about our suspension and expulsion rates, talks about all that. That's what we state reporting because that's how we've been evaluated by the state. Right. So But my question Stop talking. Cuz you asked me the same question over and I stopped. It is an evolving process. High school graduation on track. That is being checked on a regular basis because if it's not being checked on a regular basis, it's not going Keep it checked. graduation on track.
026So therefore, there are processes in place to make sure students graduate So what's the question? Listen till I finish, sir. There are processes in place to make sure those students stay on track to get the credit they need to graduate even in December of their senior to graduate early or by that following May. So the some of these are things that end of the year some of the things are things that are constantly going on. There is not something you can walk up and put your finger on there and go see that it's a long process multiple departments multiple people and just get set some of it is beyond our control is required by the state. You want to go argue with the state you can go argue with it. No I don't want to
027argue with the state but I want to understand how it's how it's measured using this program what targets are they setting and how are they measuring it so it sounds like you're being measured by the state but not. Yeah yeah I will I'll tell you what I don't know that if we will be able to answer that in very succinct manner right now I would love and I'll follow up with you tomorrow and we can set up a time and if maybe we can get some some other people in so we can discuss that if that would be okay. The other question I have is how long has this program been in place? It was started last year. This so this so this one hasn't been funded before. That's what I said a pilot 2025
028is the first class that will be subject to this pilot. I I what I'm not this is something that existed before that. No no no and in fact what I wanted to point out too is that the state is having terrible problems they say these are our goals but even they can't decide on the definition of what is hard work right what is communication skills like they're still grappling with how are they going to collect data that meets these these words and these goals and so you they haven't even told us yet in some of these cases how that's going to be measured. So things that is in existence in that first block. Right things that you kind of have in place for. Right which everybody has right now. It was not my understanding that
029this was something that was just starting it was my understanding that this is this is way that this is starting. No and that's why we're talking about like here this is why we have folks who are in this not who are getting us ready to to be ready for these things. That's It's a It's a whole new But then again, you always get to look at, you know, "Where are your test scores?" And you know, a lot of all of us move beyond that. But then when you move beyond that, how do you exactly compare it to this district to this district to this metric or something like that. And that's really difficult. So, what's No, so it's not just us. We're not coming up with those standards. Right. So, what's what's the metric that
030you feed back to the state to make adjustments? Is that sort of it? Is I think this gentleman's right. You know, I think he's going to answer some of our questions. No, no, no. I'm just saying at least that you're the key. It's all going to be posted on like the state's website so you can keep track of these indicators and see how successful your school is. The goal is to get to see how successful your school is in real time. Is the goal. And part of the whole this is the completion of the graduation pathway. So, graduation requirements have changed uh just slightly. And so, you can see there's three different buckets. You got the You got your diploma type. So, you're you're accomplishing um enough credits to receive a diploma, whether that's for
03140 academic honors, technical honors, or general diploma. There is now a measure for employability skills that you have proof that you've completed some sort of project-based learning, service-based learning, or work-based learning, and then produce some sort of product that shows that, whether that's a portfolio or artifacts from those different experiences. And then the last thing is the post-secondary ready competency. So, you got an SAT score or an ACT score or an honors diploma will check off the box for that post-secondary ready competency. But the one I wanted to focus on here, which is the new part, is the CTE concentrators. So, if a child doesn't have a high enough SAT score, doesn't receive an honors diploma, or high enough ACT score, there's an option here for class of 2023, and then class of 2025 and
032beyond to be able to complete certain what they call CTE concentrators, which I'll explain in a little bit more detail here in just a second. That would be their means to achieving that box along with their diploma and then their honors display of consumer skills. All right, so this is called the next level program of study. And ultimately, what the next level program of study would be is that a child would take three different courses, a principles course, then what they call a concentrator A course, and then a concentrator B course. So, whether that's take a course their freshman year, their sophomore year, or their junior in one program of study. All right, so if they decide to take uh biomedical pathway, all right, they would take principles of biomedical science as their principles course,
033and then they would take the next two courses in that sequence. If they get a C or higher in those three courses, that would then be their means to graduate outside of an SAT score or an honors diploma. Right? They do have a capstone course there, which is anybody that is completing it for four years. So, maybe they want to go to the fourth year biomed program. I know he has a couple students in that fourth year biomed program, and it's almost a uh it's a capstone course where you have to do some independent study, some research, and they have to come up with a presentation. Um in the class. So. The state has authorized certain uh programs of study, um that schools can offer, and my team has been working to try and determine
034which programs of study we are going to be able to offer in-house at our county high school. And to try and determine which ones we would offer, we've taken several things into account, and one of those is just the needs of the region. All right. So, Regional Opportunity Initiative, I've had the opportunity to take part in a career coaching uh fellowship over the last couple months. We meet once a month, and they've kind of given us some insight. We've had a crane, and we met over at IU at the uh the biomedical the life sciences center. Um And also over at Ivy Tech um at the the bio technical center there. And so, they talked to us a lot about the jobs available in our region. After conducting a regional uh needs assessment, they determined
035that there's more life sciences jobs in this region that can potentially be filled. There's like hundreds of bio technical jobs. National Security and Defense um down at Crane have tons of jobs available. Advanced Manufacturing There's a lot of It's just been It blew my mind when I went to ROI how many jobs are available with just the main just an hour's drive over here. And these jobs were available before the pandemic. Yes. So, we really kept that in mind when we were trying to figure out the programs of study that we would be offering here at the high school. Also, keeping in mind uh just some of the the local values and the local needs um as far as the arts, entrepreneurship, hospitality and tourism, and then also just sustainability of the community. All right.
036So, that's one thing that my team has been working on. Um other things involved with the Career Connected Learning Initiative um really revolves around We've got 20 goals that were set. Christie is above. Um 20 goals for the district. I just put four up here that I feel are personally relevant to my role at the high school and my team. And so, part of our work this year has revolved around helping to develop a corporation education workforce advisory board um and then eventually, academy councils um for each academy out of that educational workforce advisory board. And we had our first meeting reconvening meeting. That was back in December where we got a group of local stakeholders together um to learn about the different opportunities that they could serve on the education workforce advisory team. One
037of the biggest things I spend my time doing is aligning our professional development to career connected learning in our PLC meetings that we have weekly here at the high school. As I said, I'm a master teacher, so I help lead those. And I'm kind of the guy that puts the career connected learning spin on there. Um because leading professional development at the high school can be a little tricky because you got departments and teachers teaching different things. We found common language when we talk about employability skills, right? It's something that all the teachers can get behind and find ways to implement in their classroom because it's not math specific or English specific or science specific All right. So, that's just the lens that I've been helping to kind of develop um during our professional development
038in our PLCs at the high school. Uh we've developed a schedule that has our academy leaders meeting in academy planning time. So, during SRTs, um 38 minutes every day that we have uh I meet with our team members and we are working to develop and implement uh CCL lessons for all students um that they have at that time. So, the whole goal is that we're working to intentionally develop a career learning system that meets the requirements and needs of the state, region, and the county, right? This is ongoing work. This is just my first year um in the position. But, what I'm trying to say is that the state is kind of taking notice of some of these bigger picture items, right? Some of these career um connections, the ideas of work ethic, communication, those
039kinds of things. And so, we're proactively trying to give teachers the resources um and capacity to be able to implement and intentionally teach those things, right? Rather than you know, okay, I had my students gave a speech as far as that checks the communication box, but how do you intentionally teach those students how to communicate effectively? And I just sat in a lesson the other day where one of our other master teachers led a lesson to a freshman on just how to the art of small talk. Right? How do you start a conversation? How do you ask follow-up questions? Different things like that. So, that is some of the things that are going on um with the career connected learning initiative there at the high school. And also, we have been working to tie this
040all together with developing programs of study, which is now a requirement by the state that can help some of our students graduate and ultimately can help our region, help our community, and help students graduate to be able to be prepared to go into one of these fields And so, these are the ones that we kind of laid out laid out here with advanced manufacturing, life sciences, national security defense, arts, hospitality, entrepreneurship, and also as far as sustainability of the community, we've got construction, early childhood development. Those are the ones that we have outlined so far. And Mr. Austin is what we present to next week. You guys will have the pleasure of hearing Mr. Austin give you the rundown of the different programs of study and the courses that go into these programs of study
041that students will be able to take next year in the high school. If you're interested, come back next week and you'll learn more. It's all pressure. I'm I'm wondering if we need to add um under sustainability the I mean, think care of what you're There is one. thing after that. Yes, our team did talk about there is an education professions, but there are some constraints to be able to offer people in the future. And that's how the day care and that that will be against brain will be a one sport and want to be a therapist and want to be a social worker and want to be a teacher. It is a lot. All right, we're going to talk about something. We need to overlap too with some part of the study. I think that
042we can as well as the capacity of the early childhood education courses can also serve as some of the principal courses in other areas of business and the arts. I have two questions. Thank you, Mr. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Bird. Sure. Very good. Yes. We do not have any discussion items. Uh next we have approval of public session minutes from January 20th, 2022. Do I have a motion? I so move we approve the public session minutes from January 20, 2022. Do I have a second? Any discussion? Roll call. Carol? Yes. Amy? Yes. Vicky? Yes. Stephanie? Yes. Steve? Yes. Mr. Harris. Uh next is action items. I have a recommendation to approve the donation of $1,000 from Hall Oil to the Brown County High School Winter Guard. Do I have a motion to approve the donation
043of $1,000 from Mr. Buell to the Brown County High School Winter Guard. I so move that we have a Winter Guard. Um, that's I I believe part of the band program. I find it yeah. It's very Right. Right. Her granddaughter was in it. Yeah. I hadn't heard anything. They were They were practicing today. Oh, they were? That's neat. Yes. I I'll second that and I want to thank Roll call. Carol? Yes. Amy? Yes. Vicky? Yes. Stephanie? Yes. Yes. Thank you very much. Hey Davis, you there? He did tell me finally to turn his camera back on. He needs to be seen. All right. Mr. Harris, next. I have the recommendation to approve the maternity leave of absence for Van Buren Elementary School teacher Alyssa Daffron, beginning approximately April 5th, 2022 through the conclusion of the
0442021-2022 school year. You have a motion, I so move. I'll second. Roll call. Carol? Yes. Amy? Yes. Vicky? Yes. Stephanie? Yes. Dean? Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Thank you. Yes. I have the recommendation to approve Emily Tracy to attend the AASA School Superintendent Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, February 17th 2022. Do I have a motion to approve the I so move. I'll second. Any discussion? I just want to say I'm really glad that you're going to get to attend the national conference. I think that's really important. Thank you. Glad you're going to get to go. All right. Roll call. Carol? Yes. Amy? Yes. Vicky? Yes. Stephanie? Yes. Steve? Yes. Thank you. Who is she carries next? I have the recommendation to approve the following teachers to attend the NAIT national conference in Dallas, Texas, March 9th through
04511th, 2022. Uh the following teachers listed. Do I have a motion to accept the uh that the administrators NAIT national conference in Dallas in March 9th through 11th, 2022. I so move. I'll second. Any discussion? Um I just want to clarify that's paid for out of the NAIT uh grant money, correct? For them to go do the training with that organization, right? So that's not out of our normal budget. Nope, they they pay for flight, they pay for hotel, um and they pay for registration to the conference. Excellent. All right. Roll call. Carol? Yes. Amy? Yes. Vicky? Yes. Stephanie? Yes. Steve? Yes. Who is she carries? Thank you. Next? I have the recommendation to remove the shuttle portion for Peyton Transport bus 31 from the fleet contract 2019-2023 with Sarah Peyton per her request effective
046January 3rd, 2022. Do you have a motion? I move to accept the recommendation and approve the Michelle portion of that plus 31 contract contract of 2019 to 2020 waiver. I'll second it. Second. I'll second. Any discussion? Do we have somebody taking it over that or we not need that no more or Yeah, it's not needed and um transportation director has uh figured out a a way to make it happen where we don't we don't need to do that. So, we got it all worked out. It helps both parties. All right. Vote all. Here. Yes. Maybe? Yes. Vicky? Yes. Accept the lease? Vicky? Yes. Michelle Harris? And next is consent agenda items. We have the separation for Rock Quarry Middle School assistant track coach Calvin Gay effective January 26, 2022 through the transfer of Rock Quarry
047High School health assistant Cara Haywood to Sprunica Elementary School head secretary effective January 31st, 2022. This is a replacement for Jennifer Webb. Do you have a motion to accept the consent agenda items and the beginning of separation of two middle schools assistant track coach Calvin Gay Haywood and the transfer of high school health assistant Cara Haywood to Sprunica head secretary. I'll second it. Second. I'll second. Any discussion? Michelle A. Yes. Vote all. All right. Carol? Yes. Amy? Yes. Vicky? Yes. Stephanie? Yes. Steve? Yes. Mrs. Harris, next superintendent's report. Um I wanted to give a a brief update um on COVID-19. Um our county is at level red. Um the the last board meeting that took place uh from January 21st through today, February 10th, we had a total of 33 students um with positive cases
048and six staff members. But at same time, I also um am am elated to highlight that this week um only five positive cases and we've now had two days in a row with zero positive cases. So, that's first yet this year. Um that's incredible for us. Um and then I the symptomatic percentage as of the end of today, February 10th, um is is ranging from 2.6% to 0.7. So, um those are considerably less than than what they were when we came back from winter break. So, um again, excited to see those numbers and hope that is the trend um moving forward. And then lastly, um I just wanted to take a a moment to to state um a few thoughts. Our county has uh this district have been heartbroken um with the tragic loss of
049one of our students last Friday, February 4th. Um our hearts, thoughts, prayers go out to the family, um our friends, the entire community here. Um I want to take the opportunity to thank the board, um the the leadership team, um the community supports that have rallied behind everybody here to be able to provide support and resources for all of our kids, our staff members, and again our just our entire school community. So, um Thank you. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Mr. Carey, thank you very much. We'll see you next week.