001okay I'm going to call this regular board meeting for Thursday August 15 2024 uh to order and we will first start with Mr Kelly is going to introduce Mason garst for our Pledge of Allegiance yes hey thank you um I'm TR Kelly I'm the principal at pleas Grove Elementary Mason if you want to come on up here uh we're going to ask you guys to stand and join us in saying the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge of 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 Mason can I have you step up front here too thank you thank you okay next I have the adoption of the agenda do I have a motion Madam president
002I move that we adop the agenda thank you Mr Daniels do I have a second second thank you thank you Mr Alexander all right all those in favor signify by saying I I any opposed okay motion passes 4 Z currently um and we have we are going to do the execution of the qualifying oath of office for our newly appointed board members so Jane join me out front un the [Applause] all right up next we have Mr Kelly to come up and talk about Pleasant Grove Elementary School first of all I'd like to say thank you for this opportunity um at pleas Grove we take pride in our our climate and culture and we have we have great people that do a great service and we have amazing students uh first I'd like to invite
003up uh is Dana Thompson Dana if you could come up so Dana is our enl teacher at Pleasant Grove our enl population has just um gone through the roof we three years ago or this is our third year so it had been two years ago I hired her uh she she lived nearby her kids went to my school uh just an amazing teacher uh she has our our population has grown to around 60 kids uh initially around 28 and and we're still growing so that's great job security um she has 27 years of experience I found out this evening uh she's here with her family her mom her dad and her husband her kids uh mom was a teacher and guided her into a great profession so Dana is the she's the total package as
004an enl teacher she goes above and beyond for her students delivering highquality instruction making sure each student feels loved and supported and she gets results our school rate of students graduating from the enl program is out of this world it's all because of her hard work you could tell that she takes pride in her work and we take pride knowing that she's on our team Dana Thompson [Applause] next I'd like to invite up Miss Amanda Peterson um yeah very welld deserved right so Amanda right now she is our lead essential skills teacher she's um been an assistant in the essential skills room for the last two years and this year she's taking over the lead um she's going going to she's actually teaching in the classroom she's going to school to finish up her degree
005as well as being a mom helping with homework at night she's probably exhausted but you can't tell she brings positive energy every single day uh this is Amanda's thirdd year at pleas grow she has served as an essential skills assistant for the first two and is currently the Lead Teacher while she was in the process of getting her license she embodies our school mission which is safe and loved she is a natural in the classroom and is best known for her humor her grace her love and the compassion she CH she shares with the kids and her staff daily join me in recognizing Amanda Peterson thank you that was and last but not least you guys met Mar Mason Mason come on up here [Applause] bud uh you're lucky that they said three or four
006sentences only because I could write a book on this guy uh I knew I was going to recognize Mason when he was in second grade I knew when it was his fifth grade year it was going to be him uh I I've never met a Kinder individual he makes me want to be kinder um and and I I tell you he personifies kindness he models positive character traits and reaches for personal Excellence every single day he gives his best and his classmates will tell you that I experienced that last year in fourth grade I went to his class didn't I and they weren't doing too well and I said can you think of anybody that would make the right choice all the time and everyone said Mason the best way to describe Mason is he's
007an old soul he's self he's got a selfless personality he's the kind of kid that would give the shirt off his back to help someone else he is kind he is considerate he's compassionate and his heart is absolutely beautiful join me in recognizing Mason [Applause] gar come on up Madam president if I may I I would just like to recognize we have some situations here where parents were involved and that is is one of the backbones of our community uh these kids don't get to be the way they are on their own the parents are a big reason why they are the way they are so kudos to you and kudos to back there leave before all okay up next we have the safety and discipline report and I think Dr long and chief Jackson
008are going to help us out Chief Jackson's going to start start it we're going to add Mr Bron and then I'll bring up the end okay sounds great it's a tough act to follow right there um thanks for having me tonight and I'm going to go over a few of these uh kind of boring stats but uh they're very interesting for last year um so we talk about runs and arrests so I'll just give you a definition of what a run is that's a call that we either generate or um Johnson County generates and so with some of the new technology that we have um last year with cix um cix is the reason why these numbers are a little bit higher than they have been in the past and so 707 calls um just
009to take that into consideration when I first started about 14 years ago we averaged probably about 250 calls and so that was with um a department of two and so now that we have uh seven foreign officers um more technology which gives the teachers uh more capabilities of of alerting us when when there's a situation so not to say that every situation deems an arrest um but it it allows our our guys to get there um in a in an orderly fashion so the 707 number is is relatively high but it's a good thing um because it gives our teachers the um the assurance and and to know that if they push that button we're there and so um with that being said 72 um arrest and so not every single one of these 72
010are U is going to jail so we have two separate type so we have a we have one that we can forward to the prosecutor and then we have an outright arrest where depending on um the next page that I show you guys depending on the the actual crime dictates whether or not they go to jail or not so we try not to um take kids to jail um sometimes it's out of our hands based off of their actions but um 72 um obviously it's a whole lot higher than um than in the past um 84 from from last year but um there's a lot of other data that can explain that so um see here's some of these the Rest by types I won't mention them all you guys can kind of see them
011on the graph but you can see that a majority of our arrests uh are batteries so a battery could be a fight um an argument a push um anything uh verbal um and so majority of the time it's it's student on student but you can see that in some cases we've had students that's lashed out on to um parents us as a as a staff as police officers um some of the um teachers and and admin uh theft strangulation sounds uh a little crazy but that's just um more so of just uh victim stating X Y and Z so um we have a batter uh battery with bodily injury uh typically those are the ones that are deem us to take those kids in and outright them right then and there so anytime that there's
012there's a a you know a black eye um blood anything like that that's that's when we're we're taking those kids to jail so some of the other numbers that are relatively high is our possession of marijuana um those numbers can fluctuate a little bit just for the simple fact of all of the devices that they have now to smoke marijuana or to carry marijuana so you have the Vape pins um sometimes uh a THC sometimes they have small fractions of it um sometimes they're they're not in our possession so we we really do a good job of explaining to the of students that before they search a bag to make sure they were present so that it's it's in our presence so that we can then take it to the next level so if they
013search that bag without us there that just goes as a as an infraction for us and then we're we're sending those that information to the parents and up to the prosecutor so that's why those numbers um can go up or down based off of of how we see and what's in our presence so um we've uh we've had three K9s we've retired we've retired two um we're we're down to one I don't know if uh if I want to have any more because they're a lot of work but they do a great job and so Aussie has had um 12 deployments last year now deployments are are anything that we need him out so if we if if we see um uh if we're doing Locker searches uh searches in the High School uh for
014the cars that that would be a deployment that doesn't mean that he was only out in the schools 12 times and so he's he's out and about in the schools all the time the kids really love him um we didn't generate any arrests from from his deployments or searches which is always a good thing um he's done nine school presentations in 72 hours of training um and he has a double blind certification completed this year for Narcotics and Firearms which just means that he's a little bit better than he was last year and um and hopefully we we keep continuing use him um we keep those numbers of arrests at zero but um he's he's doing his job and um the kids love them and our Handler does an exceptional job of taking care of
015them as well it's a full-time job uh sorry to interrupt but we are able to borrow Sheriff's dogs if we need to right yes sir so when we do large searches which we usually do at least once a year at the high school um we'll borrow other dogs from Clark Pleasant from yes yep and we'll usually shut the school not shut the school down but we'll go on a soft lockdown we'll go into multiple classrooms and so we usually don't give the kids or the the staff ah heads up so they don't really know what's going and and we kind of get in so we don't we don't take away from um from their learning so here are some of the uh citations you're going to see the the 436 which is crazy because this
016is the first year that we've done this and so we met with the high school last year and we were noticing we had a significant amount of um parking issues and so kids that were uh falsifying documents saying that they had a parking pass um parking in spots they weren't supposed to park in parking in places where the fire trucks are supposed to be or the police officers and so we they really wanted to crack down on that so we developed a software that allowed our officers the ability to write citations based off of um our admin and mostly our Deans and so the Deans would go out with us we would walk the the parking lot um and whoever was parked in spots they weren't supposed to got a citation so those numbers were
017were relatively High um and that money it's the I think the citation is somewhere like around $5 or something like that it's not very very expensive for the most part I think everyone paid it um there's a few seniors that waited till the last second and then when they were told they weren't they weren't going to walk for graduation all of a sudden their pocketbooks came out and the five bucks came out they might have went up to 10 but um and so it it generates a little bit of extra cash flow for the for the high school and for our Police Department so with the high school with the money that they they made I think they bought two brand new cameras this year and so usually that's out of our budget or the
018corporation's budget so that came out of their safety safety plan um so saved us a little bit of money and got two really nice cameras that they really really needed and so um the citations uh we write those are all within the school district and so a long time ago when I first started we had some officers that were writing tickets on 135 on 69 and it's not a good look um and we we kind of got reprimanded um at that time and so our guys know that if they're going to write citations it's all within the the you know their their daily activities and so if they're going from the high school to North Grove or or to Maple Grove wherever they're at and they see something that happens in front of them they
019obviously have to to act but um we'll do traffic um and speed speed details in the neighborhoods surrounding our schools um and or in the areas out front of of our elementary schools and so um and you can see out of the 87 33 were warnings and so warnings are always good everyone has an excuse why they're speeding um so kind of show them a little bit of Grace that goes a long way so all right so training um we are um mandated to have at least 24 hours of training so that that is with if you can see in this small writing some of them are our state mandates and so our state mandates will have some of our mental health um it has our Firearms it has our Evo which is our driving
020and then um it also has uh little things like domestic violence and autism awareness but we always like to go above and beyond Dr Long asked me every single year to make sure that our guys are some of the highly trained officers in in the county and we we usually are and so this year kind of shows just based off of our hours um Cooper obviously has 123 hours but um I sent him to a lot of conferences um and within those conferences are some of these so Alzheimer's the second uh two big words that pretty much is Just Naran training um and then um autism is is huge because we have a a pretty big population of that and we deal with kids uh on a daily basis and then all of our our
021officers have gone to basic SRO training um bias-based um policing the big one this year three of us went to the seped so seped is just um a way for us to come back and do assessments of our buildings and so we did um Dr long how long was that ago about five six years ago when we called Safe Haven in and um we paid a pretty penny for that um which is what we needed at the time to get grants and stuff that we've been continuing to get but um we're now trained um and able to do those those um that that training and those assessments on our own so our goal this year is to have each building um assessed and so with that being said that would be uh probably a 133-page
022document um a video pictures um that shows some of the things that we need to do to be better um and some of the things that we do well so we're going to take that uh upon ourselves to meet with each um building administrator and go over that and so some of it are things that they can fix some of it is things that we can fix but um and then it just puts us up to par on all the things that we need to do in order to get some of the grants that we continue to get um and going through that some of the things that I I think are the most important is is the mental health piece every every conference that we go to um they have great speakers and so
023we're in there 40 hours out of those 40 hours we're probably getting 16 hours of extra um training in in those categories and so um use of force obviously we don't have any of that so that that that as well so we're obviously with the the way the charts set up we're above the hours that we're supposed to be at um and that's something that we'll continue to do in in the future um assistant police chief um Cooper he just got promoted um he's done his 32 hours of of supervisor and management which is what the the nasro class puts on so all of our our officers have the basic 40 hours and then every single one of them has an additional 40 hours with an advanced and now we have a supervisor which Cooper
024and I both have and then seped is through nasro as well and so Cooper just submitted his um his documents um to be a it just slipped my mind I I had it last year but it's just an accolate that I've already forgot um thank you put the pressure on you so it's just pretty much just saying that over the course of of of his career that he's he's gotten over 200 or so hours that are all documented that give us another um uh High uh certification so I'll get that here and I'll share that with you guys too so Cooper and myself will be the two officers Dr Long asked that all of our officers eventually have that so with that being said it takes time you know I I've got 23 24 years
025of experience Cooper's almost at 15 we've have another officer that's at 10 or 12 he'll be the next one so it takes around five to eight five to eight years to accumulate those hours in order to to reach that certification so hopefully by the end of this year we'll have um we'll have another our contacts so contacts meaning um what we usually do on a on a normal basis and so this shows that wow you know sro's are doing traffic more than they're doing anything that that's not true um but it is a big piece of of what we do so in the morning you guys obviously know that logistically speaking this is an absolute nightmare uh from 7 to 7:30 with uh three schools merging and starting school so we're out there with the
026help of the the new light um hopefully that in itself will take care of it take care of itself and will allow the officer that usually sits there to be inside the school so that's my goal of hopefully getting more people in the schools from 700 to 7:30 where we have thousands of students in limited um um supervision so um those are the hours that that we that we go per month in um in traffic control um this also is football games basketball games anything else that that we have going on at the high school and in the summertime when we have all kinds of uh large events um at the bottom um the guest speaking uh guest speaking is always a little bit higher in the beginning of the year just that's when teachers
027are are more apt to ask us to come in and talk to their classes and for whatever reason we send out every single year to all the teachers hey please use us if there's a topic you want us to come in and talk about um and we only get we probably get three to four responses um and I don't know I don't know why but we offer it every single year our guys do a good job of when they're in the building going in the classrooms talking to to kids and so some of these hours aren't fully documented but um our our guys do a really good job of of of talking to kids we're in there talking to separate different teams um and so that's pretty much based off of whether or not a
028teacher is willing to reach out and ask for help um or ask for our assistance and so um student uh student mentoring um I don't think you can put an hour these are um all documented so if we have a student that comes in um and requests to talk to a police officer or an SRO that's what those excuse me that's what those numbers are that doesn't mean every time that we stop and talk to a kid in the hallway or we ask a kid how their day is or if they're crying and they want to talk because they don't feel comfortable talking to their um to their counselor or to their teacher or any other adult for that matter um we we have uh multiple hours in a day that we're we're constantly talking
029to kids playing um kickball dodgeball whatever the case may be and it just builds that that Rapport and bridges that Gap um but un un fortunately those are statistics that are are tough to put a number on and so I don't want you guys to think like oh man that's that's that's pretty small especially in the month of April and March but those are always tough because it's it's spring break and kids are a little bit Rowdy and they're ready to go home um rather than talk to the police yes sir it's National Practitioner National that's it right there um and so I'll get you guys the definition of what that entitles and what those hours are so you kind of see like what what it is that I was talking about but it's kind
030of a big deal in the nasro world um and um hopefully we'll have at least three of our seven officers that have that um the the information is based off right here just traffic control takes up a majority of that hopefully this year we can go ahead and start um kind of diving into that and lowering that number so we can get our officers in the building uh more so uh before and after school and next on the agenda one question yes sir didn't you guys have some kind of training in this past year at one of our elementaries yes thank you for bringing that up so that is goes back to our our slide of um of active shooter and so uh our active shooter training we have uh um a class that we
031take there is an online class that we take so it's about 16 hours and then this year U myself and U and chief price from Clark Pleasant decided to get together and um we've been doing it for the last this is our third year where we kind of collaborated together and this year we brought it to Center Grove and so we had it um in early June and we used uh Maple Grove and so we had the whole building and we brought in fire um several different agencies um from Greenwood to Johnson County to Bargersville um you name it everyone in Johnson County was there and we also had several other school districts um that are within our you know 30 mile radius and so it was a a very big training it was three
032Mike three days or it was three days it was one day of inclass training two of of training and then third day was scenario based and so we were able ble to run that scenario base with all the police officers and with fire so um very successful um and what I'm learning is the more that we do this the more that um we're a lot different than other other places because a um and Mike can contested this fire and police don't usually get together um and with and and not only that they don't communicate very well so when all when they get on the scene fire does one thing police does the other then all of a sudden we're sitting talking Monday Morning Quarterback and wondering how we can do things better well we've already
033eliminated all that my relationship with with Mike with Chief pel and and uh Chief Funkhouser um we go above and beyond we meet several times a year um our training is with police and fire and so we knock this one out of the park and next year uh other people are starting to get on board and wanting it at their school so I think next year it's going to be at Franklin selfishly we want it at our school again because it's it's good publicity but um we actually enjoy like um working with with our fire and other police departments and so it's not like that in other parts of the country so thanks for bringing that up but that that was a huge piece that took probably six months to to coordinate and yeah I'm
034forced to work with this guy though but he's you know he's not bad yeah and you see it on in football games and and everything everything that we do it's always police and fire and so that's one thing that Chief pel and I really wanted to work on when we first met and so um we have the same vision and with him being a reserved police officer he sees our lens um and we see theirs as well they just get to kind of hang out on a lazy boy chair a little bit more than we do but I had to throw that in mic so that relationship you were building yeah yeah it's just right here I we we excuse me we yeah yeah we share we share a building right so uh they're great
035they're great cooks and um so yeah it's it's fun we we all get along very well so we kind of throw a couple Jabs here and there oh from yeah that that will continue so um with our partnership with with Motorola and ERS um Motorola brings in um a lot of different clientele which is good for us but we've got I think another one coming with the f FBI we have a few downtown um in Indie um impd is coming and um I think Purdue is coming back as well so um go bers is that 247 yet no sir it's it's still what's the fire department's 247 yes but but police we we shut down around 10 is when our last uh Sr or SSO leaves and he's only there for pretty much monitoring the
036buildings in taking phone calls in case of um burglary alarms or or fire alarms so uh yeah lind's usually in the building around 6:45 so we'll have to give you a tour as well if you haven't been oh there you go then it well come on K your husband's been there yes that is there might be a game or two Sor Oh no you're good any other questions so Joe and I um had the opportunity to um go to a uh a Safety and Security um Forum um in Texas um ncs4 and so uh pretty much what they are I and I actually went to the conference uh this this summer in Phoenix and there was about a thousand people at this conference is one of the largest Safety and Security conferences and I got
037to meet a lot of people that are way above my pay grade and the things that they do so for instance I met with at my table um I had a um chief of police for Michigan State I had um director of Safety and Security for for Wisconsin and I had a gentleman that was from um from Europe and he was from Denmark and he was in charge of all of the the soccer Fifa uh games and so I didn't realize how crazy that was but to coordinate security and safety for all of the the venues that they have for FIFA and I don't know if you've ever been over in Europe and been to uh a game in Europe it's absolutely chaos like the things that they're allowed to bring into the stadium the
038noise that they're allowed to make um and the things that they say and do um is absolutely crazy and so to have the the security background that he had the stories that he was sharing with us was unbelievable so we we made friends and and exchanged information just so we can do a better job at what we do but um in a nutshell just um the it's the best practice is what what we're at right now just trying to figure out what other universities are doing what other school districts are doing um and what what other large venues are doing like the Pacers and the Colts and so um again it takes takes away people's freedom um it's a little bit inconvenient but it also allows the safety of of the players the coaches um
039and then the people that are in the building watching the game and paying the the top dollar that they're paying to to watch a game without having some crazy person threatening them with a knife or a gun or anything like that so um and and so we both had a opportunity to go to the one earlier in the year in Texas and Joe and I kind of um just came back and figured out what can we do bring away from that that would help us um do a better job at what we do and make it a safer environment for for our football games and our basketball games so we're going to start a little slow and then eventually start building up in and adding them to other other events but I'll let Joe kind
040of take over from here thanks yeah no problem so some of the things that we talked about when we were at The Forum which not only did best practice for other districts in in the United States but also they did improvements and we were part of that process of giving our giving our improvements of what they want to do as best practice so on that you know we looked at what's our biggest concern our biggest event time up yeah I think the HDMI y so I guess evacuation play right now on us a we just wanted you to get up see if you still have it so uh some of the things we talked about at the safety Forum was if we had an emergency whether that be weather related or weapon related we got
041to evacuate quickly so our biggest event that we have right now is football so that's kind of been more of an emphasis especially with us walking in football season at home next week so if we had to evacuate the field with something and it could be something like a extreme storm what do what what's the safest way to do that without getting chaos more than what's already happening and um so one of the things we look at are where's everybody sitting where's the mapping of this where's our restrictions where's the lack of restrictions and so we we have a later slide revamping that uh large bags coming in what's coming in those large bags what's going out in those large bags what are the people bringing that was a huge emphasis amongst many districts in
042the United States and you know when we go to other places there are bag restrictions when we go to state championships there are bag restrictions so what are do they have what do we have and we want to try and make it um reasonable based on what we see and some of the some of the information we have We Gather from other districts we go to on a regular basis as well and then uh there's a lack of supervision not necessarily by our staff members or our workers but if you've been to some of our events there there can be a chaotic number of young people running around not just having fun but just everywhere and horse playing that can cause possible issues as well I remember last year we had a pretty hot game
043week two and we had multiple security runs while some of those kids were getting in the way of our medical personnel trying to treat people that have collapsed or whatever may have happened due to these heat concerns so one of the things we we upgraded the map a little bit and we wanted to put a focus on where are people coming in because if someone sees an open gate they like to just come in no matter if there's a ticket taker there or not if there's security there or not and they try to walk through so when we send out this information to our opponents we're going to reemphasize where our parking is our general parking which is still in the north lot as well as the East lot for our general population but one
044thing that was uh really happening a lot more was down that Southeast corner by the tennis courts people would park there or by the baseball diamonds and fans would walk in while when fans walk in that way they get into the track and field area because there's no entrance to the visor bleachers there and to get to our home bleachers you have to walk through the field to get to the home bleachers so we want to really make that a lot more secure and really emphasize don't don't come into that area we have uh attendants at everywhere on the North side on the northeast Northwest we also have them on the southwest corner so pushing out that information through multiple sources which we'll talk about in a little bit too will help them know where
045to go in and eliminate that Southeast fan access so another thing we have when we talk about the inside of the football inside the fence and we have an evacuation route so let's say um we have a storm or we have a gunman or we have a weapon or or emergency in evacuation piece well we want to make sure that our participants our coaches and our staff members are getting to the appropriate area and their appropriate area for safety is the locker room so the way it was and if you've been to our field you've seen some of the movement already occurring the way it was you would have to go through a South set of bleachers which um can cause people to have to detour or other people are in that area so this
046year we're going to seclude those South set of bleachers we pulled one outside of the fence the other one stayed inside and we're going to continue to allow our ninth grade football team who's part of the event to be inside there and then a lot of the people that were staff members and coaches families that were in that South area were going to reserve the north side for them so they still have a great view of the field like they were they'll still be in the same location and they'll actually be next to the band supporting some of our other student athlete or students that are part of our event um if there's an overflow issue there's a bleacher section by the Duke Pavilion um but what that does it allows all those other people
047that are were inside of our parameters of the field to now have Evac evacuation routes through the Northeast Northwest and through the southwest corners to get them safely out so when we're trying to run those players down the Southside we're not also trying to Coral other people that who we don't know we separating kids from parents and so forth also we'll have uh if you see on there we have a home home visitor passes areas designated we're going to do more of a pass safety which I believe happened a lot more during covid or obviously in state tournaments when we go to Lucas Oil we can't have everybody that was on the sideline so we're going to mimic a lot of that which is very common a lot of our opponents do already it's not
048something new it's just a little bit more inconvenient for us to tidy that up these are some of the policies that we've already had in place and we're going to continue to display those and continue to promote you know no tobacco no alcohol outside food or drink uh the pets and then also out outdoor sports equipment was something new for us last year I don't know how many times anyone that has been a fan that was either in the bleachers or standing by a fence watching a game and you almost get hit by that random football or that random baseball or whatever it may tennis ball that is that the kids are playing with I don't want to discourage kids from being active in playing but I also want a safe atmosphere for our fans
049we don't want someone randomly getting hit in the head with a ball then we have to go um treat them in the middle of something else going on so last year we had that up we had signage up we had information out and it it reduced very quickly there's not a lot of complaints people understand we want a safe environment and and the kids still have places to move around and do things at the game before just without that I assume we put this out that this also holds true for parking lots we uh this is inside the Gate of what we have so the parking lots we've have gone out to if there's an issue with something if someone reports we had some issue haven't we uh I Mee as far as fights or
050liquor um that's a good question I I we haven't had any arrest um I think we've had some some people that have been unruly that we've asked to go away but we um yeah we we haven't had any like alcohol bottles left or anything like that from the tailgating and so they do they usually do a fairly good job of that but um to be honest most of our guys not most but all of our guys are already inside the venue so it's the the parking lot is more of a reactionary thing just because we're usually um we have probably five or six officers that are working and because of the amount of people that are coming in focus our focus is inside I guess my question then re asking is are we sending this
051out to the community that that's not acceptable yeah I I would assume that this information is going out on social media parent squ can answer or not you're ahead of our slides yeah yeah can I ask a clarifying question is this appable to Outdoor sporting events Talking Football the well these are what we try to enforce at all over outdoor events I know that some of them are not restricted by the gates that people are exposed a little bit differently but yeah if we see at a tennis match kids are over there throwing a ball around guilty of bringing my dog to the ten matches so I want to be and that's that's a little bit diff that's a little bit different though you know because you're still technically like that's like walking your dog
052along the the path right so I mean and I I see people doing that in the evenings right so if you just happen to be walking your dog and you're watching the tennis game from outside that's that's a little bit different inside correct yeah more like service yeah service pet yeah yeah you have to have your item identification and um your certification too the next slide is something that's a little bit newer well is newer to us at home not new to us on the road is clear bags so this is where uh examples were given from multiple venues we go to and then also discussed when we went to our Forum with the clear bag procedures 12 in x 12 in by 6 inches deep is what is very very common we do have
053the small clutches which are not clear those are I don't know if anyone here has one today but it's yep right there so small clutches those are acceptable those are allowed it's more the big cluttery giant bags that people bring in um and then there's also plastic storage bags many of the places yeah like that many of the places we have even put on there like plastic Ziploc bags because they're clear bags and they still fit what the people need in there so this will be something that's new that you know the officers are already well versed at the gates to help educate the people as they come in we are sending out information which we'll cover in a slide here in a moment of how to get this information to everyone as well as
054sending it out to our opponents when they come with their fans I don't know if there's you so it would be a few upset people at first of either a they didn't see the email or any of the um the information that went out which we've been putting that out so um and we'll just ask them to go back to their car and place their their bag and come in so it's a game you know for the first three home games it's going to be warm and then the last three will be cold so you're going to have someone bringing in water uh in the first part and then bringing in the blanket in the second part so if it's in your your bag and we're not going to go and search through every single
055bag but if it looks suspicious or if it looks like there's a little bit too much stuff we'll ask them to to empty the contents and so we don't want to hold up the line um but we just want to make sure that people understand that hey safety is is a is a big issue um and there's certain things you shouldn't be bringing into a football game so that's our main goal so how are we getting this communication out so I have an athletic newsletter that goes out every Monday for the last two weeks weeks the clear bag I know has been in it and last week had the other reminder slides with everything else not to bring to an event or prohibited we also I sent out a staff email to the high school
056staff on Tuesday of this week letting them know some of the new things going on so they're aware and they can prepare for it also letting them know about the seating areas if they wanted to attend the first football game just so that they can plan ahead on on where to come in what what the policy is making sure that they have their tags or their staff back badges that's how they're going to be able to get access and then Mrs Conrad has gone through with the district employee newsletter and she's sending out the information as well to all the District employees but we have districtwide flyers and then I will be posting continually on social media and adding that as we get closer to our game you know when we do those game day
057announcements or weekly reminders of games that's a good time to start putting that because people are looking like oh who's playing on this day well then after that I can throw on that other slide and do reminders all the way through the week you know the biggest the big one and I I don't want to single out football as an only sport it's just our biggest event so football is something that is going to be a little bit more popular people watching next week so next week will be very impactful on adding more and more communication out to this the first time ever I don't have kid schools okay so all of a sudden allun proba lot of people hopefully they're following my social media and they'll see my Graphics that's a way to reach
058some of the others that don't because there's a lot of people come to our games that don't have kids in our schools and I want more of them to come but um we I just don't know another way of reaching it other than the newsletters and the social media posts and this sitting out told the athletic boosters to buy some CG bredle bags sell it may have been mentioned at some point but I don't think that's I heard I heard that tennis may need a fundraiser I think it might beis while you two are standing there I would like to give kudos to both of you you know I've been here long enough uh to see how the police department has grown from where we started with one officer to where you have taken it
059now uh and children feeling safer and the community feeling safer heaven forbid anything ever happens and Joe uh boy what you've done for the athletic department with the challenges you've had has been pretty fantastic the the sports app makes it so much easier especially loading when the games are onto our calendar uh now that it's working um but the communication that you have and I'm hearing good things from parents in the different sports areas and so forth so kudos to both of you yes and Katie and Janie they without them we would be where we are get I know got to give them their their pce too is there any other questions you guys have thank you comments keep it up guys thanks all right appreciate it thank you Mr Russell I thought you were
060gonna say it's the first time we've had our athletic director and our chief of police work on Game Day safety and I think that's something that's really important too to show that you know this isn't just one person's idea this is a an effort and we intentionally sent them to a really an extracurricular activity safety because feel like we do a pretty good job during the school day inside the school and one of the areas that we wanted to improve on was the um was the extracurricular after school stuff and they came back and I told them when if I if we send you you got to come back and make a presentation make a recommendation so they did that it's starting to recognize what department you probably ought to have working together sure instead
061of as indivual departments doing their reports they ought to be getting together because they do have conjoined situations so or we just real quick too um before it was just football games where we had security right and then it kind of leaked over to basketball and we would have one officer and those were and those were just having to be two boy sports right so when Joe came over we we were trying to work and figure out how we could get more security at other events right like baseball girls soccer softball and I think this this past year we've had a security officer not at every single game but at a majority of of the games um prior to them going into sectionals and so our guys have done a really good job of of
062um just there's a list and they'll work a few games here or there um and we saved money uh the a money for the way that Dr long has allowed us to do it so um so I think parents are starting to see that presence bad thing is is now it's expected right so those are things that we have to continue to work on um and make sure that it's it's it's always there that there is a presence because people do feel safe that way but that that's that's all on this guy right here so we U oh yeah yeah parents are crazy thank you thank you all right I have the next part um we'll go through some of the discipline reports that that uh that we make uh go ahead so you'll see
063the incidents by type and level and if you'll notice again our Deans and and Lind dver did a great job to make sure that we don't have um everybody's favorite other uh as a as a yeah so um we've taken care of that I went through Lynn tallied all this I went through just so you have an idea of what went up or what what's gone down from last year uh so that's what the arrows are um I think one one of the notes that I'd like to make is we've seen an increase in aggressive behavior at the high school disruptive behavior and inappropriate acts uh those have have increased by by quite a few at the middle school we've seen an increase in fighting and verbal aggression profanity Defiance and in the elementary um
064uh in in really just Defiance and if you look at the elementary numbers the the the discipline has gone down in almost every other category than than the three that have the red arrows and I think I we can attribute that to our uh assistant principles and our counselors and our social workers that have worked really hard uh with our kids we we talk about restorative practices and um and our teachers and administrators have bought into that in the elementary and I think it's really showing off uh showing u based on the information that we have here so was really pleased with that our attendance numbers if you notice that were were down at every level both I mean at the elementary middle and high school so we're really proud of that and again that's
065due to the hard work of the APS uh at the elementaries and our Deans and at the middle school and high school they do a nice job um I think we still have some ways to go we're we're going to talk a little bit about um our climate you know we heard when we were interviewing uh board candidates and most of the people talked about one of the things they'd like to see us improve was the climate in the buildings and we've made that a point with our principles and uh we'll continue to work on that and see if we can't get better uh there go ahead so our in school suspensions um those really stayed roughly the same uh not a big increase for any of those areas um we did increase in ISS
066a little bit um uh in OSS we increased just a little bit in high school and middle school and decreased in uh the elementary schools we've tried really hard to find alternatives to an out of school suspension we know that kids don't learn when they're not in school and so uh again the the work that the counselors and social workers are doing with restorative practices and trying to find a way to keep our kids in school and hopefully we'll continue to see these numbers go down but um sometimes you just have you know we have to suspend a student but you know our our first objective is to try to keep them in school this just breaks it out in a different chart I I won't go through all those you you saw that earlier
067it's just a different way to look at that go ahead there's Middle School go ahead Elementary is again um you know Defiance is is is big and you know we're we really need to continue to work on that and I think this is good data uh Christy Berger and I talked today this is great data to take to our counselors and data to take to our uh APS and Deans and say here are our numbers what what do you think are the reasons why we're doing this and we have several years uh worth of numbers and it'll give them data to to chew on and then to come up with a plan to to try to help eliminate these or at least reduce them we're not going to eliminate them but go ahead so expulsions
068um we've done a nice job I think of trying to keep kids in again you know if you look you can see the first column on for each level is where we were last year um we did 29 expulsions last year at the High school and we were 26 uh this year and you can see the the big number of increase in alternatives to expulsion uh and I think that's a a credit to again to the Deans who have tried to figure out ways to keep kids in a lot of times the expulsions out of the 26 that you see um are sometimes kids that we put back in as an alternative to expulsion under a behavior contract and they violate that and so um you know we understand sometime we at least have given
069the the kids and the parents an opportunity to to come back to school and try to follow the rules and do what we expect them to do and and sometimes they they just can't do that and we end up expelling them but our elementary numbers are good you know our our goal is to never suspend I mean expel an elementary student sometimes that's hard also depending on what they've done but um you can see we we've reduced that go ahead so you know we have the anonymous reporting uh it's funny these numbers almost stayed identical um we had a few more in safety than we've had in the past but most of them are are General tips I think that that means we're getting the word out uh we we've gotten some really good valuable
070information from the information that has been submitted anonymously and um our principls do a good job you know they get the re they get the the notification that a report's been made if they don't respond within so much time I get that that notification too and I think chrisy does now but if they don't respond in so much time they get a reminder notification that you got an anonymous report you need to take action on it and then once they take action on it I get another notification and chrisy gets one that says they've taken action and we can see what that action is so this has been really good for us and I think you know we'll continue to see that grow I think that was it for me that's any questions I like
071that you're getting notices there's a time frame that they need to report back sure and I you know sometimes it just it comes through on their email and they may not not be checking it and what I'll do and I know chrisy does too is like hey you might want to check your email you got a got an alert and and then they get right on it and so they' they've done a pretty good job how the communication right and Christie will be giv this report next year I'm [Laughter] just okay thank you okay we have student performance data and I believe Dr simmers is going to talk to us about that yes so can you hear me I think I had this on correctly right okay so Madame President and members of the board
072I appreciate um being given the opportunity to kind of give you a highlevel overview of the District student performance data for 2024 so um this evening I really want to uh talk with you about this several things on the slides here I want to talk to you about academic goals that we have for Center Grove uh give you a little bit of an update of what testing is going to look like in our schools over the next couple of years look at some comparative data um including I read I learn and SAT scores I also threw in some graduation rates for you to take a look at and then um follow up or uh finalize with some peer School data um in Johnson County and then um looking at some comparative data of districts that
073would be similar to our demographics and size so obviously our goal here in Center Grove is to focus on supporting and enhancing an effective system for learning to meet all students academic needs I don't think any of us would argue that that that's the overarching PRI priority that we have for our students um when we think about offering them excellent um educational experiences when we think about how are we going to measure that we talk a lot about success criteria or key performance indicators so what is the data that we're going to track over time to ensure that we are actually making progress towards that goal so some of the things we look at are I learn passing percentages obviously we're taking a look at our I three data we're looking at our graduation rates
074our SAT scores um something that we're really taking a look at are those essential learning Mastery percentages so we've identified standards or essential learning um skills at every grade level and we have Assessments in place to measure progress and Mastery of those skills so it's important for us to take a look at those as well um and obviously we're also looking at achievement Gap data so when we think about the overall uh performance of our students how our subgroups of students performing and are there gaps in areas we really need to hone in and focus on those gaps include special education our high ability students we need to make sure that we're growing all Learners um our English language Learners that's a population of students that has grown dramatically in the district over the last
075few years and then we're taking a look at our students who are economically disadvantaged so those students um with high poverty rates we have three schools that we've identified as tital one schools for this year so just to give you a brief overview of Some Testing changes in Indiana that will impact our students moving forward uh with I learn in grades three through eight we do have new academic standards that were revised in 2020 um and then there was the legislative reduction of those Indiana academic standards in 2023 where um we were given information um from the Department of Education about those essential skills that would be um found on I learn and that we would want to ensure that our students were mastering those essential learnings or those essential skills within those grade levels
076content areas um we are expected to be um implementing those standards as part of our curriculum so when we bring our curriculum collaborators together and we take a look at what our curriculum looks like that scope and sequence as students transition from one grade level to the next we're using these standards in that blueprint to really map out our curriculum and ensure that our resources are aligned to that in 2024 uh we have the I learn summi of is going to reflect those um Indiana academic standards um we will be here in Center Grove piloting what is referred to as the checkpoints in grades four six seven and eight so that is something that um Shannon is um spearheading for the district as we prepare to um have our students take those checkpoints this year
077then in 2025 we'll have the redesign of the through through the year format where all students in grades 3 through eight we will be participating in those three checkpoints plus the summative at the end run the spring in grades 3 through eight so that's just a little bit of what to expect we will be communicating with families of students in grades four and at the middle school that your students will be participating in the checkpoint pilot with I three the district did opt in 23 and 24 to have second grade students um participate in I3 um testing so we have some of that data just know moving forward in 2025 it is an exp expectation that all students across the state in second grade will be taking um the I read so just a little
078bit of what to expect when we think about those State tests again just to share with you here's some comparative data I'm going to share with you um these are the areas that I'm going to focus in on here on the next few slides so taking a look at our IE data lots of celebrations here I want to make sure that taking a look at my notes and I'm trying to hit the highlights here um obviously overall we did see an increase in the percentage of students um successfully passing I from 23 to 24 uh we did have two schools that reached our goal of 95% um we also had five of the six elementary schools achieve passing percentages that were at or above 90% so those are some things to celebrate um you can
079see that and looking at our second grade scores we aren't satisfied with that dip from 66 to 58 we'll need to take to dive in and really take a look at that data to have a better picture of why we think that might have occurred um when we compare that data to the state data obviously we're um satisfied that we're performing above those State averages however it will be interesting to see what this data looks like a year from now knowing that all students in the state will be taking I at the second grade um what I would share with you and looking at this data having been here for about 45 days is that um we know that there's still work to be done to improve um The Learning experiences and opportunities of our
080students um so we are really honing in on taking a look at um who these students are those subgroups of students looking at remediation looking at interventions making sure that we have solid interv research-based interventions in place and that we're progress monitoring to move those students along Based on data um some other things that we are do yeah thir sure when I look at at the second grade 2023 we had 66% pass correct and then they third graders 2024 it's 92.5 the 66 doesn't take it again right that's correct the 66 who pass do not have to take it in third grade so when we look at the number of students that were uh ad we administered the test to in 2024 we were looking at that 34% getting them over the bar25 yeah for
081those that most most the goal would be all correct but we're going to keep working at it that's correct you are correct so when we look at that 58% those 58 that 50% 58% will not take the test in third grade correct correct no worries St hasain there is legislation that is specific to that that is correct it h it has passed it did pass so we've had some long strong talks with the state superintend sure told you can't do that to us without giv us money in Heth starting in preschool at least kindergarten first grade I think you're hitting you're hitting the target early intervention versus waiting until third grade to say oh we've got a we've got some challenges here missed all those have done correct so we're fting we'll see where it
082in looking at this data also to answer some of your questions about how are we addressing some of those learning challenges um for the past couple of years we have implemented the University of Florida literacy initiative which is a research evidence-based program to address phonics instruction it's very explicit um and systemic and when we look at that transition to the science of reading we need to ensure that we are instructing in the five components of reading in a very structured explicit manner so those will be areas that our principles and our instructional coaches and our teachers will be focusing on at the elementary level um some other things will be targeting that instruction for those third grade students who didn't pass the second graders again making sure that they're receiving intentional instruction um in those
083five components and I would also um Advocate that utilizing our PLC model and ensuring that we are having high quality conversations of uh with the use of data about student learning will help us Target and be purposeful and intentional about that instruction so moving on to some I learn data what you're taking a look at here are the passing percentages of students at that grade level this includes both English language arts and math so um as I review this data or we start to dive in and dig dig into this data I think a word that comes to mind is in it's inconsistent so if we look at The District's performance and I learn it's just inconsistent over time so while there are pockets of successes um we also recognize that there's room for improvement
084um um highlights include that the district does consistently perform above or well above the state average and and all grade levels um we see growth in passing percentages at some grade levels while we also see others drop over time um I'm going to show you in the next slide um I'll go ahead and let you cross over a good um measure of looking at data is looking at cohort data so I wanted to highlight that when when we're looking at iearn data what we would hope to see is that cohorts of students um increase or grow from year to year and so when I go back to that word of inconsistent you can see that our third grade students in 2021 had a passing percentage of 51.8 those same students in fourth grade were at
08557.4 so we celebrate that but look what happens in fifth grade now we're at 51.5 and in sixth grade we recover a little bit at 52.5 so looking at cohort data uh or groups of students is also extremely important and and while this is English language arts combined um I would also Advocate that we need to be looking at cohort data by um specific content Area English language arts and math and we also need to be looking at that cohort data specific to those subgroups of students so this is a high level overview just giving you that 20,000 foot view knowing that our work is really in digging and and diving into the data so that we can take a look at where we're needing to improve instruction to help our students be successful um
086any questions about that I appreciate the fact that you're looking at that data based on cohorts on a year-over-year basis that is I think key to maybe unlocking some of the issues that that we see back in the back in the third grade and again utilizing our PLC process will be critical because this is where our teachers and our administrators and we as Leaders need to be diving into the data um and looking at the story that it's telling us so that we can improve teaching and learning and ensure that there's effective teaching happening in every classroom we have some sat data here um again you can see that the district's passing percentages are well above the state's average however you can see also see that we fell a few percentage points in math so
087again trying to dig into that data to determine what happened there from 23 to 24 will be important um also know that the SAT is only one option of meeting graduation require graduation requirements as they currently stand obviously we will be getting further guidance um from the Department of Education reflective of the new GPS diploma and what that means for our students moving forward so again just giving you a 20,000 foot view here of our SAT data when do we expect guidance on on the new diploma I saw a clip on the news yesterday where it sounds like they're sending it back to a study group so the second draft was released yesterday um from the State Board of Education uh the communication that Dr long and I have received unless you've received anything differently
088is that there will be public input and comment again um before they finalize it does look like they landed on one diploma track is that what they were one Bas one base diploma and then there will be diploma seals not exactly sure what that looks and sounds like for us just yet do do we understand I I don't know this maybe this is a question for everybody at the table do we understand the problem they were trying to solve Workforce Workforce Workforce so yes correct chrh sorry well thank you I should told me that before she has a voice I know I am kind of loud but um so cicp is tied in with a lot of that through Ascend and through bio Crossroads and so we've been looking that there is a big Workforce
089shortage coming in all different areas and one of the ways they want to try to address that is have people at a younger age that are Workforce ready so one of the things that they're looking at across all these different groups and Richard and Fairbanks Foundation has put a lot of money behind it is to think about how there could be work-based learning and how students could get credit like high school credit for those work-based experiences versus Maybe taking like I don't know European art history or something like that so that's what they're trying to solve as as I understand it that's what I've been told you are correct yeah it's yeah it is kind of companies wishing a lot of things were taught at school high school level so they're not having to do
090it at at the companies I mean that's that's kind of the bottom line thing there we're still getting lot one side we're still getting a lot of feedback about the soft skills that students are lacking so that is intended to address some of those pieces and components too when you think about the portrait of a graduate I just had a a presidents meeting with isba presidents and uh board presidents uh a lot of them we all kind of came to conclusion one of the things I think we're seeing is you're not having as many students working like used to now what the data is I can't recite that but we know in our own Community you don't have as many students working because we have young adults needing those jobs now and doing those so
091they are you got kids that get all the way through high school all the way through college with hardly a work experience and then they go to this important interview yeah so that's one side of why they're kind of pushing for some of this you know start happening sooner uh it's kind of going back to what we used to do so to speak it's just got to be worked out on how because we are a community where we could do a lot of those paths those work you know we could find if you know somebody who wants to be a dancer we'll be able to find their pathway for in the Center Grove Community one of the presidents I talked with the other day his entire school is 1,113 Ka through 12 they are not
092going to have the availability of Pathways in that type of area so it that's what's battling right now is how are we gonna you know how's it going to be Equitable across the state I'll move on to some graduation data so just to share with you um again over a period of about five years you can see that um Center Grove High School has worked diligently to um increase their graduation rate so that's something to celebrate and we'll continue to keep our eye on that um data point as well and then just to share with you some comparative data of Johnson County you can see here uh in comparison 23 to 24 how Center Grove is performing relative to other districts in the county and then the last bit of comparative data I wanted to
093share with you is our peer ranking so there's really a couple of things on the slide here on the right hand side you will see the percentage of proficiency for like districts so when I talk about like districts talking about districts where whose demographics and size would be similar to ours um that's their percentage of ela and math in grades three through eight so it's a combined percentage so you can see that we are performing extremely well in comparison again still room for improvement I think we would all argue there's room for improvement um that percentage or that data and information then is used to rank schools so when I look at the left hand side what you're seeing there are those comparative school districts relative to their ranking we are the dotted red line
094so when I look at this graph what stands out to me well I see that blue line at the top that goes clear across at the top at number one so that's Brownsburg and we can see their their data and they're passing percentage um I can see a green line there that shows they've moved from what appears to be down in the 75th let me pull up some data here I don't have this committed to memory I see a green line that's moved from about 76 and then has jumped in about five years to eight if you can see that green line that I'm referring to I'm interested to know what's taking place there right they've moved from 75th to 8th that's dunland I was going to ask you that question so yeah that's dunland
095I can't speak to what's happening there but then I also noticed the B the one at the bottom that looks like it's at about 105 which is actually a 102 dips down even further and then is all the way back up to 35 I can speak to that District because that's a district that I worked in for 10 years so I know the work that happened from 21 to 24 and that's the work that I hope to bring here to Center Grove as we look to improve improve the teaching and learning opportunities that we've have for students we have our ranking has been 19 for the last three years I'm sorry 19 for the last three years other questions for me I I think I don't know so much as a question as it is
096I think it's the same comment I make about this slide every year um that I see it while we are doing well and those are those are things to celebrate we we don't seem to be moving that red dotted line from comparative to the schools that have been consistently above us so I think we need to begin to move that needle however however that looks or however that is but we need to begin to move that needle we've been pretty stagnant for several years compared to the other schools so that's your challenge perfect no surprises ex I agree with you the lines that jump up is because of the work that gets done it is I'm just going to say it out loud I'm suspect to Brownsburg straight line I'm just suspect to that fair
097enough I think you throw I think you throw that outlier out because I think we all know yeah how that's how that's achieved I think we've all agreed that that's not the necessarily the route for us but but we can improve our line with the right work being done schools that are showing growth those are the schools that we need to find a way to show growth because we've not we right like we said we've been really Flatline but not like straight yeah we are we are about the entire student whether it's work the consistency is also important given the shift in demographics so we are we are remaining consistent as subgroups of students have increased over time but to your point then how do we grow them more so that we have greater numbers
098of students passing I can tell you with our I data just real quickly that our English as a lang second language students or elll learn Learners are doing well we're not seeing that same growth in IE data with our special education subgroup so I know that those are conversations that we're having right now and then I'm not discounting scores absolutely because we have to have some absolutely accountability but we have to also remember that we're more some kids that are never going to do that but we still have to figure out a way to get those kids ready to leave here have successful lives of whatever they do I had one of those terrible test taker yep went to college for two years wasn't bad just wasn't for him and is succeeding in life I
099wish that there you know maybe was something else for him I do think as we look at success criteria it will be important to not only look at these standardized measures of scores but what are some other key performance indicators when we talk about the whole experience of an education here in Center Grove how else can we track that that gives some sort of dat data over time that speaks to to the experiences of our students as well yeah I have one of those students as well y challeng absolutely totally understood challenge is still there I understood it for what it was thank you thank you you can't go as far up to Southwest that's right we'll be very work on it okay up next we have public comment we do have one charity Flores
100and we just ask that you state your name and your address group affiliation if any and limit your comments to three minutes please um I'm Dr Charity Flores and my address you need okay 2927 Coventry Lane in Greenwood good evening board I'm Dr Charity Flores parent of two Center growth Sons an educator and researcher I have commments about two topics this evening student performance and the employability skills survey in regards to iearn data as you were all just speaking about I am concerned that specific student populations are unfortunately slipping through the cracks and not receiving the targeted conversations about support that are needed for example when looking at Center Grove's recent 2024 data that's publicly available only 23% of special education students are proficient in math for ELA this is even more dire only 17.6%
101of students are passing let me say again 17.6% of special education students are passing compared with 66% % of their general education peers this should be an alarm and a call to action a time to reflect and ask what we can do better to support our students and educator serving them we cannot be silent and accept that this is okay I've also heard antidotal stories from community members about the lack of supports and challenges with due process for some of this some of the student population these students are part of our Center grow family and I feel that they cannot be left behind secondly as a researcher it is not clear the purpose and use of the employability skills survey student surveys have been a volatile Topic in our community where several families opt out
102and some go so far as to remove their children from Center Grove based on some stories that I've received in recent conversations employability skills and secl are sometimes used interchangeably butal is a small portion of the grand scheme of those employability standards parents should clearly understand how student data will be used and protected from these surveys the key principle in research is ultimately to do no harm I welcome the board to thoughtfully consider the breadth of all of the employability standards and the protocol for research and next steps prior to approval previous information from the Attorney General's office cited discrepancies about prior survey use and some students being singled out also remember if fewer students participate then reliability of that data is also impacted and if the content doesn't reflect all of the standards then
103validity of that measurement tool is also impacted any activity for a student should be a valuable use of their time thank you thank you okay um up next we have consent items does anybody have any comment or discussion with any of the consent items on the agenda no do I have a motion Madam president I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented thank you Mr Alexander do I have a second I'll second thank you Mr Russell all those in favor signify by saying I I I any opposed motion passes 5 z um next up I believe is it chrisy burer is going to talk about the employability survey all right good evening we've been together a long time so I am here today to ask for a oh what I know nothing is
104what you're saying I know nothing of your past experience when I was last oh okay appreciate that it's been a busy day yeah I I like it yeah I appreciate it well I'm here today to request the approval of the employability skills assessment surveys for all of our students in grades K through 12 we did this last school year um we had shift previously we used Panorama which was a company that was some concerns with our um community so we switched to keep that internally we use a Google Document um for our students in grades 3 through 12 and in K2 our teachers do that assessment but we use this for a variety of things and I think um some of the information that was shared tonight is a perfect example why Dr Long talking
105about our discipline and our attendance data that is one data point that our team uses um when looking at the supports that we're providing for our students Dr simmer sharing about the soft skills the employability skills that are lacking um that our work force and business partners are asking us for in addition to um the GPS dashboard and knowing that um on that there are several um employability skills that we are to teach but within um the GPS specifically communication collaboration and work ethic and those are all a part of the questions that um we ask our students this is one opportunity that our students in grades three through 12 have student voice so we can guess how they're feeling we can guess if they're M mastering these skills or not um but we don't
106know until we ask them so this is one of those data points that we do have we do allow an opt out so um looking future istically we will send a message to all of our families in August at the end of August saying there's an opportunity to opt out here are the questions that we'll show in a second um and if you would like to opt your child out please let us know when we used Panorama that was around 400 to 500 students and that has dropped to under 100 since we've used our internal document so I think families felt a little bit more safe with that data so you can see here uh Tracy will pull up the different questions that are asked so again K2 um this is the teachers will assess
107on these three questions and so this really ties into um what we were talking about aggressive behavior that Defiance really being able to support so where is your student in the fall what are the supports that the counseling team our teachers our assistant principles our Deans can provide to support we know that our students need to be able to regulate their motions before they can learn and develop those employability skills the only change to this was uh teacher feedback last year we had the rating scale that 80% of the time 50% of the time and 20% of the time and they wanted us to add 60 and 40 they felt like 50 to 80 was a big jump and so they really wanted to make sure that they were um looking at that appropriately in
108grades three through five they do that during theal special rotation so it's during that time with their counselor we asked the questions below uh that really focus in on regulation and peer connection middle schools is a bit lengthier we do this during home room or connect and that's because it ties specifically to our um employability skills curriculum that we use called rville that was approved a couple years ago and we have crosswalked all of these questions to the employability skills that it supports so that's an internal document that our team uses to make sure when we're looking at this data if we're slow or if we're low in the area of seventh grade and collaboration what lessons can our counselors come in and provide to all students to support that and then High school isn't
109as lengthy um but is a little bit longer obviously than Elementary and they answer those questions as well again we allow that opportunity um for opt out for families who do not want to participate and the ways that we use this data um we use it as a tier one kind of uh what I'm trying to say schoolwide supports and so some data from last year that I can give you some examples was um for students in grades three through five one of the questions is I can use strategies to calm down when I'm upset which ties into um a lot of the things that Dr long was sharing 34% of our students said no that they can't do that and so we looked at that data as a counseling team we were intentional which
110grade levels was it third grade was it fifth grade we went in presented some additional lessons and when we did that again in the spring we saw that that dropped to 32% so 2% doesn't sound like a huge jump but that's about 50 kids so that is Improvement for our counseling team um middle school with using the rville curriculum in the fall they were asked I know how to regulate my emotions and 61% said that they could in the fall in the spring 63% said that they could so that's great 14% in the fall said they could not and in the spring 12% said that they could not so again we saw some improvement um but one of the things that I think is our highlights is when um for high school when you get
111upset do you use a healthy coping strategy so we know that we have seen an increase in substance use we've seen an increase in aggression and um violence towards other and we at the beginning of the year 23% of our students did not know healthy cop coping strategy so then our counseling team through star provides some opportunities to learn different coping strategies and we saw that drop to 20% um so that's kind of our tier one that's how we use that information we'll also use that information whatever the diplomas show how we need to show those specific skills um but deeper than that just like academics for our students who are not on track the counseling team the principal and parents if we see any kids that are not on track we look to see
112what kind of interventions they might need from our counseling team we get parent permission to do that so that might be one-on-one that might be small groups that might be some reteaching um but that really helps us to provide our instruction to them around data so that's all I have any questions for the surveys I just this may seem like a simplistic thing and you did uh mentioned it two or three times but we did have an issue with parents who opted out but yet students still got surveys how are we suring that the teachers will know who not to pass out so that was the fall of my first year three years are these surveys online or is it a piece of paper sure so that happened the fall of my first year back
113three years ago we've not had that incident since um but we for the elementary um the lists are given to the teachers now that give the survey to students students so they know which students not to take they have a posted on their Chromebook that says play a game or do something else so that they're not isolated for not doing we my next to is how do we not shun the students not taking it and it's the same at middle and high school and then for our K2 students um those teachers fill that out on what are called our PLC sheets and I go in and remove those kids' names from that list so they don't even have that kid to give um those questions for thanks for asking I'm sorry right so that is
114held through our Google um and the people that have access to that is your principal assistant principal and counselors and then obviously the K2 teachers they fill that out on their PLC sheet so that's secured for them um we have had several parents that have said hey I'd love to know what my kid responses were or how can I support them um so then obviously we we have shared that anytime they reach out we can provide that for them in addition yeah of course in addition if we're going to provide some additional support like a tier two or tier three support we're calling home to say hey this is what showed up these are the options we have would you like a small group would you like oneon-one or would you not like your child
115to participate and so we share that information at that time so good questions my observation on this is not great correct thank you okay any other comments thank thank you I know all right any other discussion no all right do I have a motion Madam president I move that we approve the employability skills survey as pres thank you Mr Alexander do I have a second thank you uh okay all those in favor signify by saying I I um any opposed motion passes 5- z um the announcements we have uh Labor Day no school September 2nd um our next executive session board meeting and good for the Grove is September 19th so we have to encourage some folks to come and talk to us on uh September 19th um other than that Jack do you have
116any um ending comments uh just want remind everybody remind everybody of the isba Fall conference uh September 23rd and 24th if at all you could attend it would be greatly appreciated uh it is the 75th year for isba but I don't know what it is for conference U and we have a big name what it's called Uh but they're always good to go to and as I've said before you get more out of talking to other board members in the hallway sometimes than you do the semin ours uh which which is a good thing you know so if you could make it at all that would be appreciated uh alumni friends uh packed up yearbooks yesterday from I was told 1980 through 2020