001the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all good evening everyone um there is only four of us this evening amy counts as a prior commitment so she will not be here um first on the agenda is to adopt the agenda mr president i move that we adopt the agenda as presented second mr russell the motion has been made a second to adopt the agenda all in favor say aye aye aye anyone opposed motion passes four reports thank you uh this evening we have a report on student performance data and dr nora hoover will provide you with that report this evening so norah floor is yours yeah thank you um tonight i'm going to share both current and historical data
002with you regarding our student performance and just a quick brief history on some testing um first and then we'll look at comparative data so center grove from year to year over the last few years and then also i want you to see some peer school data not only johnson county but our peer what we consider our peer cohort schools schools that seem a lot like us so i'm not going to run through all these changes because there's we could spend a lot of time talking about this and probably the most important thing though is that in red and that we are schools continue to react to changes in testing measures and accountability requirements in our state you'll see because we only have a few years of our ilearn data because it's a new test we're
003in our third year of that and so there's lots of changes that happen to us and we we react to those so not only the standards change but sometimes the format of those tests the other big example would be the change this year in our high school for graduation requirement of all of our students taking the indiana version of the sat so to look at some comparative data and this is just center grove looking at itself compared to the state i'm going back to 2017 for i read three this is a foundational test certainly not the standard of a not that it's it's not difficult but it's meant to gauge kids are at the foundations of learning by the end of third grade as required by the by this date we do very well here
004and you'll see there has been a dip a lot of that probably due to cobit impact and learning loss in the last two years but we're working our way back up to having more students pass that this year's data is preliminary that 91 percent is more likely to go up i underestimated because summer school numbers and those kids that pass summer school after having attended summer school they get to take ire 3 again and we don't have all those numbers and we don't have the new state number yet so that's why that that's a approximate at this time this is our ilearn data so this is for kids for students grades three through eight math and language arts and there's our data for the entire third grade um across that top line center grove versus
005the state average a couple things to note you'll see right away particularly looking at that 2019 the first year of the test giving that new format more rigorous testing and standards being assessed in that i learn um compared to this year for example and you're like we're gaining ground we've made up from us a slump in that cove year of 2021. um but one thing i want you to note while we're working our way back up in 2019 we were accountable for the students who were in our district for 162 days and the scores reflect that um the last two years the those percentages or for all students in our in our district no matter if they enrolled the day before we started i learned testing we have to test them and so there is
006a difference so it's really not com i would not say it's a true apples to apples it's as close as we have um but if that's the way we're going to be measured now at least we have that baseline starting in 2021 that it's all students but there is a difference between 2019 and 22. i'm really proud of this and while i don't like that um those numbers aren't in the we're used to seeing nine eighties and ninety percent with istep um this is a very different test for students um and so you can see we're well above the state and you're gonna see in a minute our cohort data how are we doing compared to those schools we often compare ourselves to we're doing very well and the whole goal is to just keep
007getting better and better at making sure our students are getting what they need um to be by state requirements ready for that you know um mass or being proficient at their grade level so that they're ready for that next grade level content i would say not i'm not a lot more than probably closer to 100 i would say we get kids that come in you know basically that means that magic dates usually in october-ish isn't it early october and so any kid that comes in after that those families that move um between christmas and new year's for new jobs that start january 1st those kids would not have counted in that 2019 number yeah yeah and and that's nice to know the impact we can see the impact we have on the kids we have
008long enough to make an impact on so so the date is a little different but but at the end of the day we still get every kid's data so when that kid didn't come to us until february the score is in there but we have the data so when they start with this the next year we know what they need or where their their lagging skills are so it's good we're testing them because that allows us to see a baseline but at the same time you're just reminding us that it may skew the data it may spew the data it's definitely not exactly we're not looking at exactly the same thing as you were from 2019 okay thanks you're welcome um this was the first year for all 11th graders taking our indiana version of
009the sat and so i broke it down by math language arts english and those passing both um well above our state average certainly not where we want to would want all of our kids to be but this again is only one qualifier for getting a diploma and we know several kids will need those other buckets we've talked about dr henderson and jen perkins were here earlier this spring to talk about how we're trying to make those other buckets expand upon and make them more robust not only for career opportunities for students but also for that graduation requirement and so this slide every year we'll just get like all these others we'll just get more and more data we'll just add the new stuff it's a pretty lonely little chart right now here's our comparative data
010so first johnson county and so here's where and this is all of our combined students k through eight excuse me three through eight on ilearn that's our percentage of students who passed both parts math and language arts um compared to our other county schools and again just like us they have those those asterisks and the double asterisks for that data being different that doesn't work and then the last one this is our peer ranking and i didn't the table would be a little expansive so it said you get the plate of spaghetti right but these are our 14 schools including us that we are very similar to both in size and demographics and you'll see our number that's our state ranking against all public schools in the state so this year when you look at
011our ilearn data we were 15th ranked in the state for percentage of students passing math and language arts as compared to all the other public schools in the state the other districts and across the bottom then you can see on our thick orange line where we're at um or have been in the past which is better than last year at 18 on the year before 16. going way back to 2014 um that is after that year is the year that you chose as a as a board along with dr arkanov to make some changes to expand what had been our curriculum department into the teaching and learning department we added our instructional coaches um and i and certainly a lot of that's made the difference the working on having a guaranteed viable curriculum for our
012students so trying to just keep that steady line and and going lower we want to go lower but um the one thing on this chart is that's always confusing you want to be at the bottom of this chart now yes you do yes like the big spikes um yeah it needs to be more red not orange okay i'll i'll talk to the person who does this these these stripes in a grove red but we're really proud of the work our teachers are doing the hard work kids are putting in um despite all the obstacles right now in the last two years in front of us that um we're still able to maintain a great learning environment for our students so that just really leads me to any questions i want to thank you for how
013you support and i didn't put teaching and learning like my department i meant teaching and learning our teachers and support staff and our students in the learning in the building of course while that means my department is because we serve we serve all to help make this happen so i know that because of coving we had extra classes this summer right that was for more than just elementary kids or was it only elementary a lot of focus on elementary we didn't have much high school we had high school credit recovery a lot of global campus some of the last year in our middle school we had a program is a little more geared towards our students who had been disengaged during virtual and we didn't have that this year because we didn't have virtual students
014out in the virtual world and just did not have the the interest from i would say families i feel like they must have thought hey we're back in school and feel more caught up just assumed yeah in the elementary level yes we had a pretty robust elementary program um that marcy shawstack manages and coordinates a lot of that the data pieces and then amy clancy serves as one of our assistant principals um she manages that in real time then as it's happening um and that also includes all those students who don't pass i read three that that are required for some reason as well a lot of other students um that were able to come and get some more that had struggled and got some extra help to jump start them hopefully for the next
015grade level and then we just finished today was our last day of ready set k was able to visit a couple of classrooms um where we're serving up to 15 kids in a room teacher and a teacher's assistant and they're just working on foundational kids getting kids ready to play school right students that don't know how working on letters um and numbers um and a lot of those social skills that just are really important because if you don't have them you really start kindergarten at a disadvantage when you're not really sure what lineup means right or or what you do and don't do in school so great program we're able to fund that with our esther dollars we cannot do summer school for that um because they're not our students yet until august first so
016how did those students get i hate stay chosen but be part of the program um through our kindergarten screening program process and then we do some um we have some parents questions about just some general questions about things that you know how's your child able to do this or this or this and then we use both that affective and academic measure to see which kids need some support for kindergarten readiness good can you go back oh sure i don't i don't expect an answer to the question i'm about to ask but i want to pose the question so obviously in 2014 we were number 36 and the board and dr arkanov and at that time uh dr parker we the board made a conscious decision to invest in the teaching learning area and obviously that
017investment is paying off how do we get from 15 to one what's the investment i don't expect you to have that answer standing here but my challenge is what's the investment because obviously we're not afraid to make the investment and this shows us our investments paying off but i don't like getting beat by brownsburg and plainfield i will i will remind if you want to remind about brownsburg i will i will just say that when you focus wholeheartedly intently on on one thing and achieving that goal at all costs you can do it i have no doubt we can do that there is an opportunity costs that's plural to getting there and i know what all of you sitting up there really want for our kids and that exceptional well-rounded experience across whether that goes
018from the classroom to those ex those extracurriculars after school onto the sports fields the technology we embed in our in our everyday day-to-day teaching and learning i'm not sure i would have to come back with you about a lot of questions of which of these things might you want to give up to do that so i would love to crack the top ten i'd love to be lower down on that that um that chart closer to the axis i'm not i'm not hung up on one because i know that cost that would be i'm not sure you know keep keep claiming the ladder oh absolutely you know we've been pretty steady 14 15 through there so how do we get from the next in my mind the next bar down 10 to 15. you know
019how do we how do we get there and as a corporation where do we draw the line in the sand and say that's good enough we've achieved it because back to your point and i'm glad you're glad you brought it up because i figured you would there's a reason why brownsburg is where they are and it's not a knock and nora i commend you with your answer i like us i like who we are and i like the fact that we focus on well-rounded individuals because when the kids get out in society that's what they need and i'm glad to see that we're 15. yeah i'd like to be 14 next year and 12 the year after but i don't want to do that at the cost of other things that are important so in
020my opinion your answer knocked the question out of the park oh thanks nora nora on 2017 we were 11. and correct me if i'm wrong when did we see a change in testing do we see a change in the testing in that time frame as well so the the change to ilearn happened in 2019 but in 20 between i think it was 16 and the the indiana state standards changed and they were embedding some of the new questions with the old questions and it was a confusing couple of years i was i was in the building um no i was just out of the building but there was a lot going on at that time and what you'll see when tests change a lot of times the schools that have a lot of students with
021with certain types of demographics take less of a hit and so your ranking will pop up um other schools need more time to adapt and readjust to the test and their teaching and then they'll start to get there too but they it's almost like you have to recalibrate your data to get to that point and so that that's pretty typical when they make changes in the test so is any board we're going to say we want everything so yeah of course you do that's what all we all say is parents too right we want it all um but the opportunities we give to students you know and this is just right three through eight and i think of the great things at the high school and i don't want that that percentage of kids passing
022english and math to to indicate what is really going on with our high school that's so unfair to the students who are working hard the teachers providing great opportunities and the um administrators who are constantly trying to bring new things because pretty phenomenal place with a lot of opportunity one test score doesn't measure how successful a student will be correct so clearly you can see a lot of those kids as eleventh graders were passing were passing the whatever test it was when they were in middle school so okay hopefully you like this report i can just keep adding new data to it every year and we can just talk about the new stuff so if there's any changes you want or any additional information in the future i'm happy i second mr hubbard's comment to
023make us red yeah okay at the very minimum that change will be cinegro red next on the agenda excuse me the next one agenda would be public comments and i do not believe we have any this evening so we'll move on to consent agenda items any questions or anything for emotion mr president and i move we approve the consent agenda as presented a second motion has been made as seconded to approve the consent agenda items all in favor say aye aye is anyone opposed passes or else thank you i'd i'd like to take just a quick minute and have mr signer introduce someone to you that you just approved this evening for quite some time she's been at north cove for the last several years she's bought a third grade fourth grade um just took
024a huge loss for her instructional coach but you know that's what you do with your building leaders and we now have an assistant from school there she's going to continue to do wonderful things for both north grove and the center grove community great wow [Applause] what year did you graduate yeah yeah i thought you were going to see you recognize her at graduation [Laughter] actually [Laughter] and i were there they were there we were there yes we were so was i congratulations the first class that you were there that was my first one it was my second class yes but i do remember handing you yuri absolutely well yeah i'm sure he does now i want to see the picture i just want to congratulations yeah the thing is i'm older than you are mr
025alexander i know you are i got you all right next on the agenda is 7.1 a pre-school meal price um thank you okay thank you mr hubbard uh this evening i'm recommending that the board approve the school meal prices for the 22-23 school year and dr long will present you with some information thank you as you know the the usda has dropped the ability for the schools to provide free lunches and breakfast for all of our students this year so we have to go back to charging students that are that aren't eligible for a free or reduced lunch shannon's done a nice job of trying to keep prices as low as possible while also facing up to 40 percent increase in in products and goods from our vendors so tonight we're recommending the the prices
026that you see in front of you which is a small 20 cent for meals increase we aren't changing the adults because if you remember back in the spring we were forced to change those ahead of time so we we did those back in early spring we raised the adult prices for our breakfast and lunches so we don't have to do those already or again for this year thank you bill although i'm not a big fan of raising the prices um i do understand how economics works and and i know shane has done a great job so just to see it only go up that small amount it's pretty pretty uh pretty wonderful to be honest with you so please pass up thanks i will she's done a nice job you need a motion if there's
027no more questions i'll move that we approve the school meal prices for the 2022 2020 through 23 school year as presented fall second motion's been made and seconded to approve the school bill prices for 2022-2023 all in favor say aye aye anyone opposed motion passes four to zero thank you next set biz for center gold middle school so this evening i'm recommending that the board accept the bids for center grove middle school north project and dr long will provide you with some additional information thank you tonight we have with us jim goalie he's a familiar face we probably need to get him a chair up here when we do these things but jim's with aecom hunt and i want to say that because of the shortage of materials and the long length lead times that
028we have they've done a really nice job and this is a little bit different for us how we've approved different sets of bid packets because we're trying to time up when we're going to get other materials in to time it up all together so they've done a really nice job tonight we're recommending approval of the bids for the following bid packets for the following packages listed below including alternate one music instrument casework by winger corporation so you can see that i'm not going to read them i usually do unless you want me to read them for the to enter them into the record but you can see them there the dollar amount that we're approving or that we're asking for approval both aecom and cso d scoped with the low bidders and they recommend approving
029these bids as well should we expect another bid package for this project this is it for middle school north when we do middle school central we had already done bid packet 4 for steel and bid pack at five for roofing uh at a previous board meeting and that was part of our let's get this stuff ordered because of the materials hard to get or there's a long lead time so we had already approved those uh so these are the last for middle school north thanks for the reminder okay um you said four and five sevens missing also we uh combined six and seven electrical and technology and lighting uh that's with um pain so it's all part of the it's right yeah it says in there sorry i should have i pointed that out electrical
030technology and number seven now that's all right i should have pointed that one out because it's a little different than the rest of them and thanks for minding about the purchasing some of the stuff earlier because i i forgot that yeah thank you and we're still within uh within budget we are you know and um you know more kudos to huh on these bids i think we were within about five thousand dollars of of hunt's estimates so that that's like the closest if we're on prices right we'd win this the showcase showdown um for being that close but they're they're really honing in on these costs and that's not easy to do because they're going up they're going down they're they're hard to get so um chris ruck at aecom hunt did a really nice
031job with this big pack and we were pretty pleased and it was five thousand dollars under the estimate so so mr goalie did you buy a lottery ticket [Laughter] it might have been a good day really is the steel here by the way but if he wins a mega mega millions he's buying the whole project we may have to talk about i move that we approve and accept the bids for center grove middle school north as presented second motion to mate is seconded to accept the bids for center gold middle school north all in favor say aye aye aye anyone opposed motion passes accepting the bids for the center grove middle school central it's the early childhood center and um i'm sorry it is the early uh civil and foundation yes i'm sorry it scared
032me for a minute yeah i thought i wrote something wrong yeah so i'm recommending approval of that this evening and dr long will provide you with some additional information thank you this is one where you'll see just a few bid packets we did accept a combination bid packet one and bid packet two for site work and foundations we're recommending approval from rl turner for a million 485 000 uh bid pack and four for the structural steel and roofing uh also those are the longer lead times and um we will be coming back later for with other bids for um middle school central did these come within uh the budget they were within budget um not five thousand dollars he was well it was some of this the the drawing is is not as complete as
033we had for middle school north so the estimates were varied a little bit more allowing for some fluctuations any other questions so both these projects are going to go on parallel a little bit apart we're planning to start middle school central no sorry north sooner and then middle school central a little bit later probably we hope still early this fall for for uh uh north and then later this fall for central somewhere around um north should be done in about a year and central is probably going to take a couple of years i can't remember what we have jim any other questions mr president i move that we approve and accept the biz for center grove middle school central early civil foundation as presented second the most has been made a second to accept the
034bids for center grove middle school central all in favor say aye aye is anyone opposed motion passes thank you all right so next uh 7.4 approve of the 22 23 student handbook revisions and i'm i'm recommending that the board approve those tonight and dr nelson will provide you with some informational information my first presentation yep here we go so [Laughter] we do bring you tonight recommendation for approval of the 2022-2023 student handbooks for elementary middle and high school first off i want to thank everyone who was involved in this process we had administrators parents students and association members this is a process that we start back in late winter and carry it through until now to make sure that we do have student needs that are in place across the board there's not as many
035changes as what we've seen in the past but i'm going to highlight some things that we've done to make it more fluid k through 12. so it's easier on our parents and students and staff to have similar language throughout all three handbooks the first one is health services there was change in that language for mrs norman our director of health services to match the community health network community health worker health network nurses now have access to skyward for parent information and there are illness guidelines in that section the biggest change to all three handbooks was our attendance policies and i'd like to thank lori myers damon cox and jenny harlis with our johnson county juvenile community corrections as there was change in attendance rules at the local county and state level this year so looking
036at those handbook changes the county guidelines from johnson county probation moves the 10 day excessive absences now to 15 days that did go and change our letters that we'll be sending home some of our secondary schools we're sending letters home at 4 6 7 10 and 15. it now makes it fluid k through 12. a warning letter will be sent home at seven days for unexcused absences warning letter 2 will be sent home at 10 and excuse absences and then the official referral letter would be sent home at 15 days in order for that absence to be excused the school will need documentation and presented to the school within 15 days where there were sometimes we would allow 100 days later that we could receive an excuse so we did per probation they would like
037to see that at 15 days the documentation also needs to come from someone that is not directly related to the student we've had some requests for outside telehealth counseling and doctor's appointments for students due to hipaa and ferpa requirements those will not be allowed to occur and again these are outside appointments on school property it is it is a violation plus we want the parents to be involved in that how um outside health appointment the certificate of income and incapacity as a corporation we will work with families um on these and these are school-based implemented this year students and families are covered by doctor's notes under excuse absences so the sea of eye is not always needed and center grove middle school north and middle school central they're going to start taking attendance every period
038where it was only twice a day that they would take attendance and this is due to student safety just to ensure that we know where students are at and they're reporting to their classes each period with the middle schools we aligned both of them this year our middle school deans and administrators took a look at the student address expectations and those were revisited for the focus on self-expression as long as it meets the expectations listed a lot of that had to do with just the shortness of the shirt or what was placed on the shirt we also added to the middle school canvas and that was additional language due to the use of the online learning platform that is being used in the classrooms and at the high school we're moving away from the attendance
039hotline now all attendance will be reported through skyward which will eliminate that line streamlining the process the dress code policy was clarified and elaborated on and now electronic devices should be put away unless individual teachers explicitly authorize the use of such equipment to enhance the learning environment so again the big changes k through 12 were attendance and a lot of the health services and then minor changes throughout the middle school and high school handbooks any questions they're not even getting yep thank you any other questions that's boys and girls because the boys are wearing the short props again all those are back in style good i'm glad to hear that you can break them out of the back get them out of the back of the closet [Laughter] i want to see one tomorrow morning
040tomorrow morning please any other questions mr president i move that we approve the 2022-2023 student handbook revisions as presented second motion has been made executives approve the 2022-23 student handbook revisions all in favor say aye aye anyone opposed motion passes thank you very much and now uh announcements dr arkanov thank you mr hubbard um just a reminder that we have the executive session next meeting will be at 6 p.m i'd like to suggest a location change i believe we'll be able to have that here at the esc in our new in our new space is that correct yeah fingers crossed yeah sure okay we're only a text away will be done by next wednesday as long as you publish notice bridge we will do where you tell us today so we'll we'll um we'll advertise
041that in the esc if that changes we can advertise that differently and then the regular board meeting will be right here seven o'clock same day august 18th and then finally just a reminder that the back to school bash is from seven to nine for staff members at malo run next not this friday but next friday august 5th we are up to um how many attendants almost 1300. almost 1300 between staff and and their and their children so looking forward to it it's always fun to include retirees or no only active employees active yeah okay yes yeah and again that's just for employees that is it sir any uh board member comments before we adjourn i have nothing tonight thank you all's been kind of quiet on the redevelopment commission front so the only thing i
042have is is there is the all-school reunion is this saturday night which is open to everyone but it does tend to be kind of 80s and 90s people at monkey ducks because the owner of mikey ducks is the central graduate okay i will update you guys on c9 our project is coming along just fine we're in the same kind of problems we're having to order things a lot ahead of time and things like that so um seems like every meeting we're approving purchases of different items and stuff so anyway that's moving along is still on schedule and like to thank everybody for coming and like specifically thank the boy scout back there i didn't see you but thank you for coming young man media adjourned