001Hey, hey, hey. All right, I'd like to call this meeting to order and recognize we have all of our members present this evening. If you would please stand as we say the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance 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. Okay, we've all had a chance to view the agenda >> uh for this evening. I need approval. Um the motion to second to approve tonight's agenda. >> I'll make a motion to approve tonight's agenda. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion, a second. All in favor? >> I. >> None opposed. Uh we have nobody signed up tonight for public comment. So we're going to skip over that section
002uh this evening and move right into our uh Coington Elementary School Trojan Spotlight segment. This is the back. So, every year the um Fountain County Historical Society offers a fourth grade essay competition to the children in our county. And these ladies and gentlemen were the recipients of some cash prizes and were recognized in front of their peers. So, they're going to start and they're going to go down the line and introduce themselves and tell you who they wrote about. >> Tell you what, why don't you come up and turn I'd rather have them see you. Your parents know right by see us. Come up here and turn around and face out there. There you go. >> My name is Grace Fox. I received third place and the $10 prize. I wrote my essay on Jean
003Savage, a famous artist and sculpture who was born in Coington. He painted two of the large paintings in the inside of the courthouse and became world world famous. My name is Jesse T and I received second place in a $15 prize for my essay on Isaac Coleman. He came here about 200 years ago and gave land for the courthouse to be built on and also land for school in Cington. He settled in with his family. My name is Cam Baldwin. I received first place and $25. I wrote my essay on David M. Sh. He lived in Coington, was a distinguished US Marine co-officer, Medal of Honor represent and the second commander of the Marine Corps. He was known for his leadership leadership during World War II. The bridge over the W wall bash is named
004after him. My name is Brooklyn and I was honored to be an award of an overall fountain county worthy $50. I wrote my essay on George D. Hay who lived in Attica and became famous radio announce. He hosted live music shows on a radio before people had TVs. Eventually, the show became known as the Grand Old Duly. >> Boys and girls, thank you so much for representing our school. So, well, we also appreciate the historical society doing this because it encourages the kids to dig a little deeper into their community and learn a little bit more about the leaders that help shape it. Um, we also have their full essay. Do you want to pick someone to give it to? Each of you go pick one of these board members. >> I want this guy.
005>> Thank you for this opportunity for us to celebrate them. chance. >> All right, that brings us to our next segment, which is our stellar employee of the month award. This month's stellar employees, graciously sponsored by Overpass Pizza. >> It is my honor to nominate Miss Chelsea Market for this month's stellar employee award in recognition of her outstanding dedication to the students of CMS. Her commitment to excellence combined with the genuine care she shows for every student makes her truly deserving of this type of recognition. Miss Margaret's passion for teaching shines through in an engage engaging lessons she creates, making learning both exciting and meaningful for her students. During a classroom observation in December, I had the opportunity to see this firsthand. Students were presented with a challenge of designing and building a sleigh and
006a ramp with one goal in mind. Their sleigh had to travel the greatest distance while carrying two presents. With limited materials but unlimited creativity, students tested ideas, solved problems, collaborated with one another, and refined their designs. The result of this classroom was a classroom filled with ingenious ways, clever engineering, and authentic learning and action. Simply put, her students truly slayed this challenge. Secondly, Mrs. Market consistently goes above and beyond for her students, often dedicating extra time to support those who need additional encouragement or guidance. During Miss Hardy's observations, it is common to see her working at a small table with a group of students, providing targeted instruction and individualized support. I've witnessed her retach concepts to to students who were struggling, help students catch up after absences, and introduce new strategies to strengthen their understanding.
007One particular example occurred as students prepared for the ILearn assessment. Using testing data, Miss Market formed a small group and introduced a stat strategy she called the bullseye method. After modeling the strategy, students began working independently using markers to place their own answer choices on the board. This approach not only strengthen their comprehension skills, but also built confidence as they practiced a clear process for evaluating answers. Miss Mark's classroom is a place where students are inspired to do their very best each day. As Brad Henry once said, "A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and still and instill a love of learning." Miss Market does exactly that through her engaging instruction, encouragement, and genuine care for her students. CMS is lucky to have her. >> Congratulations. Good job. >> Congratulations on you. I'm
008sorry to take you to sit there. >> This is when you'll have the frame. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Like that in the yard. Keep working on the force. Okay, we lost our first two. >> Hello. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay, moving on to our consent agenda. Uh that includes the approval of review and approval of minutes. Uh that's the regular session board meeting on March the 10th. Our executive session meetings on the 10th, the 2nd, and the 7th of April. Also a review and approval of claims docket, a review and approval of fundraisers. I do have there is one fundraiser. It's for the cheerleading uh the cheerleading team. And then uh no donations this month and then a review and approval of field trips. There's a lot of field trips because it's
009that it's that time of year. So uh anything from automotive class to the eighth grade class going to Twin Lakes. So, it's there's wild wild Indiana is also on there. So, uh a big list of uh of field trips uh to consider. Uh also the personnel report. So, I need a motion and a second uh to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion and a second. I have any questions about anything on the consent agenda? No questions. All in favor? >> I I none opposed. I would like to say it seems like we rushed through that, but we all have and you guys have access to that all those things as well except for personnel report. So, it's not like
010we come in here and we just fly through the all these things. So, they're they're in a in the consent agenda is all one item. So, um but we do have access to that. Usually, we get the agenda on Wednesday or Thursday the week before so we've had time to go over it. So uh and really talk about any concerns that we have. So um just want you to feel easy to know that we're not just rubber stamping a lot of things. So um old business uh second reading and approval of policies uh 2221 through 3232 uh 0.02. Um, I need a motion, a second uh to approve second reading on these policy uh approvals. I'll make a motion to approve the second reading of policies 2221 through 32320. >> I'll second it. >> I
011have a motion to second. Any questions on any of those policies? >> No questions. All in favor? I >> I >> uh none opposed. This leads us to new business. Uh review and approval of a CTE early childhood education program. We got Mr. Ruby here tonight to kind of represent and and uh talk about that a little bit. >> Okay. So, well, thanks for inviting me here today and and uh first I want to start off by as always thanking uh thanking all of you for supporting career and technical education for your students and and uh some great things are happening with your students and throughout the the four counties. So, so thank you for that. Uh commend uh Mrs. McGee for for her vision uh to to definitely look at what the needs are
012for our community and and uh and potentially create a way to to meet those needs and and there's there's a definite need for people to work in early childhood education. And there's a need locally for your folks to to have those opportunities for their children to be to to be in that type of facility. So really what we're doing here today is just to talk a little bit about an early childhood education program uh that would be created here at Covington and shared and where students would come in and receive their training and also assist to to learn in that early childhood setting uh here at Covington. Um, so right now, uh, there are students, you know, we did a a survey and we really did did a lot of work to see are there
013students interested and these numbers are solid for a first year program. Those are those are right on target for what you would hope to have in a first year program. Um, six students from Fountain Central as of today, uh, two students from Seagar, and whenever we printed this, it was three students uh, from Covington, but I did get noticed that there would be a fourth one added. So, there will be a fourth one from Covington. Um, this is a two-year program. They don't have to take it for two years, but there is the opportunity for them to take that and get high school credits and college credits over that two-year period, their junior and senior year of high school. Um, so in addition to the dual credit, there's also the opportunity for them to get
014the CDA certification. So that is a child development associate and and that uh gives them basically uh opens the door to to most opportunities in an early childhood setting. Um over there on the second page I just listed a few things like so we we don't have things settled yet but we do have opportunities for dual credit because it just depends um I believe you have somebody in line to hire for this potential position. And so I'd like to have those discussions with that individual to make sure that we can kind of cater the program to meet what that individual wants to to do for their students. But Indiana State and IvyTech have very similar dual credit opportunities. Uh where that first year you're getting up to 18 dual credits um for taking that particular
015course. And that's the students don't often recognize the the importance and the the financial value of those free dual credits, but the parents do. And and so those are some good opportunities for them. And then that second year there there's an additional six uh that could be taken at that point. Um you know, and then I listed some career pathways and then on the back that's that's the part that you you like to pay attention to in addition to the others and that's the financial overview. And so, uh, the the budget would be right at $38,88. A and that that's that's an estimate, but but it won't be too far off from that with a cost per student of right at $3,528. Now, I I on the way here, I noticed I didn't do my
016math very well under this cost breakdown section. So, I can send you some corrections on that. Um, but so that would would it basically total Covington I'm sorry, Southeast Fountain paying $21,168 and MSD Warren County 7,56 and then Covington $10,584 uh for that half-day program. And the good thing is the state of Indiana then reimbures each school for their students who are enrolled in that particular uh program. So the state will pay $1,197 per student enrolled. So the total cost isn't as high as as what what it shows. Um but really why this program matters is you know we have we have a very robust education professions program and and it's doing great and we are getting right at 50% of our students who are going furthering their education to go into the teaching field.
017And so, um, early childhood, yes, while it's similar, it's different. People have different interests, different needs, and it's a different path. And it's really a good opportunity for us to offer those opportunities for that particular student who wants to be working with the the young students. And um what we were really excited about because the other thing we didn't want to do was cannibalize our education professions program and that's located in Southeast Fountain and provide services to all four of the schools in Fountain and Warren County. And we saw just a minimal uh reduction in the amount of students enrolled in that education professions class. So, it really it it fit all the all the check boxes and and the uh the rest of the superintendents in in Fountain and Warren County are supportive of
018this and um so >> do you have any questions? >> What's the capacity? Like do we know how how as far as how many students would be in it before it be like full? Well, I mean the goal is to have enough students to grow the program to a full day program and and I think we would have to really take a good this is like your pilot here, right? So, so you have the half-day program, you have a a new instructor, a new program, you know, in your facilities. So, I think this would be a good idea to say, okay, do we need more? Like, how many more can we handle during this period of time? So, these students will be here in the morning, the the first half of the day. we have
019capacity to then the following year go to a full day where you have a set of students in the AM set of students in the PM. So you know ideally I would think right up to 28 would be considered a full program morning and afternoon combined >> and the other part that which I know you guys know but um there's not daycare in our area. It's a definite need. It was one of the first things that was brought to my attention when I moved here. But starting next year, we will have an in-house daycare. It'll only be for employee kids right now, but with the early learning program, we hope to be able to secure a a site license so that then following year we can open it up to the community. Um, and then
020we're for prek, we um have had a great number of people apply. We'll actually be offering an all day prek. So, prek plus extended day and then we have enough to have two sections of half day daycare as well. So, all of the kids that are in this early learning program will be able to go over and work in those classrooms and and get hands-on experience. So, we're really excited about that. So, >> do any of your southern schools have this program? >> Early childhood does not exist in the south. Okay. So right now we have education professions but none of them have uh really had a similar opportunity to create that early childhood programming down there. >> And the certificate they will have when they leave if they so chose would they could be
021a director of a daycare. They could open a daycare. Um so >> it's it's a very robust certificate. It's it's pretty tough to get as far as it takes a lot of time. It takes you know you're put together a portfolio and and they have a lot that they have to prove that they know. Um, that's why it's very valuable for them to have that certification when they go out. >> Anybody else? >> All right. Well, so I need a uh I need a motion uh to accept early childhood education program. >> I'll make a motion to accept the early childhood program. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion to second. Any any other questions at all? >> It all developed a lot quicker than we kind of I'm I'm pleased, but it's happening
022fast. >> Absolutely. >> All right. All in favor? >> I none opposed. All right. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Um, next up, I have review and approval of out of country trip presentation by Miss Kemper. again. You're >> always going somewhere. >> Are you Are you tired of me yet? Oh my gosh. Okay. >> Very envious. >> Here we go. >> Oh, go ahead. Yeah. Sorry. Okay. Um, well, sorry. Here I am again introducing another trip somewhere else I want to go. I'm the crazy art teacher for those of you that don't know. Lindsay Keer. So, here's our track record so far. First, we went to Italy. This year, for spring break, we went to Bise. When school gets out just after graduation, we're hitting DC and New York. Japan
023is planned for 2027. And rumors are flying. Where are we going for 2028? Here's some snapshots. Of course, the uh the pictures say everything. Just look how much fun we had. It was awesome. Here's some pictures from Bise if you haven't seen them yet. A cooking class, pottery class, we went ziplining. The kids got to kayak and canoe at one of our hotel resorts. We um were out of breath climbing to the very top of that ruins there. And here we are. I would like to go to Italy and Greece in summer of 2028. So, here's the stretch of time. our little travel window, if you will. This was the best time for the price of all the things that we're going to get to do there. And here's the breakdown. So, we'll go to
024Vatican City, the Systeine Chapel. We'll do the Colosseum and the Roman Forum. And then, of course, we'll go um see some famous Renaiss Renaissance art in Florence. We'll visit a UNESCO site, the Castle in the Sky. Um, and of course the Temple of Apollo and the Parthonon. Some bucket list things there. Um, here's what's included. Nothing new. Nothing's changed from the previous international flights. I basically treat it like an all-inclusive vacation. Um, you know, you pay this price and this includes your overnight stays and most of your food, not your snacks or unexpected um luggage if you overpack. But um, everything is included. And I I can't stress enough how awesome that is to not have to worry about all of that stuff. Um here's what's not included. If you do overpack, we were we've
025been awesome and doing carry-on only. I'm so proud of all of our people. Carry-on only is awesome. >> My wife hasn't been on these trips. >> No way. >> Here's the breakdown. U it looks really sweet in the pink. That is more than doable. And of course, the total overall cost is in the smaller print right below that. And here's why uh EF leads the way in travel based learning. I I met so many people never heard of this before Mr. Kerzy brought it here with him and I now the more I'm like, "Oh, I'm traveling with EF. Oh, we do that too." Or all school that our school does that too. And so look at all of our friends nearby that are also doing the same thing. And it's just it's growing all the
026time. And it it's really amazing what kind of opportunities everyone's doing around us. So we're doing it, too. Um, everywhere on the map is where they have an office at. So, basically, they are ready to hit the ground running at any given time if there were to be an incident, if you will. And the peace of mind is is just there with them. They just know what they're doing. They're they're experienced. And we saw it in Italy and I saw it in BISE. And, you know, because there's going to be unexpected things that happen. You know, your flight might get cancelled or a hotel might be over booked. And they are right there to handle all those things. And here's my favorite part, the testimonies. So, even though Heidi's butt got bit by a catfish
027while we were cave tubing, she still says, "Don't be afraid to try new things because you never know. You might like it. And if it goes bad, like the catfish, you can always laugh about it later." And my best friend, um, Amber pays to go on these trips with us. So, she went to Italy and she went to Bise. And so there's a picture of her and our very own Pacia climbing to the top, braving their fears to go ziplining. And Paca went upside down on the zipline, I must add. >> I have to add she went upside down on the zipline. >> Yes. On purpose. Yes, she did like the Spider-Man thing. It was really cool. >> And then the last picture is of Pesa's daughter, Chloe. Chloe got to paddle board, which she's
028already really good at. But look at the smiles. That's just awesome. That's the last slide. Thank you. I have >> a question. >> Oh, yeah. >> I can't book for myself. Like I can't really book flights seven months out. So, how do they how do they do it and keep the price? >> I really don't think they book till about three 90 days out. >> So, they just >> get your money. >> Yeah. I mean, you >> I start booking personal trips about six months out, >> but I Yeah, it's a >> I've always been curious how they are able to do that and keep the because you never know. flights could go nuts in in that amount of time. So I guess they just eat the >> because they've already given you a price.
029So there's no chance there's no chance of it. Well, what they give you is >> there's no chance of it like, oh yeah, we're it's going to go up. >> No. Yeah, it is what it is. What you see is what you get. >> Cool. >> It is cool. >> So now when our students are on the taking the actual tours and all those kind of things, how many other students from other schools are with them? >> Quite a few. Um like for example when we went to Italy did you know that Fountain Central was with us? They had 20 what? No 14. So we were coincidentally partnered with them while we were there. When we were in BISE we were partnered with another small school from Tennessee. Um so it just depends on your
030group size. So um we had 27 in Italy. So it just so happened that our 27 worked with Fountain Centrals in the same time frame. So depending on your group size, you will be paired with somebody else from another school, other students doing the same thing you're doing. >> It's really cool. The planning, I can't even fathom the amount of planning that goes into this. It's quite interesting. >> Thank you for doing this. >> Yeah. >> So great. >> Thank you for having me. >> Thank you. >> All right. Well, I need a uh a motion and a second to approve this out of country trip to Italy and Greece. I'll make a motion to approve the out of out of country trip. >> I'll second it. >> I have a motion in a second.
031Any other questions? >> All in favor? >> I none opposed. Uh moving on to review and approval of 2627 curriculum uh 6 through 12 McGreel Hill Alex at a cost of $4,4364. We do all these separately all these all these review approvals separately on these because they're different. They're different. So >> you have to do them separately. >> I mean that's what I'm that's what I'm asking. I guess >> they're line items so I guess we'll do them separately. So, um I have to admit I don't know anything about this stuff. So, >> the Alex is the um computer program that in middle school they use for math. Uh and it it's like a it supplements the the direct instruction that they get. So, right now this year most of the students have a math
032block and then they have a block where they're doing Alex. So, it's it's putting them it's individualized. they take a placement test and it kind of creates a path for them. >> So we have I mean I know I hear about my kids come out they said they complain about it. So I know they I know they so we have it now. So this is just this is just >> new curriculum for the for the coming year. So >> okay. So um I need a motion for that. Uh Alex the 6 through 12 for the next school year. I'll make a motion to approve Alex for next school year. >> I'll second it. Have a >> motion. Second. Any questions? >> It's very challenging. >> All in favor? >> I. >> None opposed. Okay. Review
033and approval of the 2627 curriculum uh 6 through 8. I don't know how you say that. >> E Sabbath. >> Sabbath. ELA. at a cost of $6,560. So, >> and what's that? >> ELA, a reading and writing reading and English curriculum. >> It's the same one we have now. It's like our textbook. >> All right. I need a motion uh and a second for this. I'll make a motion to approve the 2627 curriculum for Sabos ELA and the cost of $6,560. >> I'll second. >> Have a motion and a second. Any questions? All in favor? >> I. >> None opposed. And lastly, the 26th 27 curriculum sixth through 8th grades have a social studies at a cost of 5,780. >> Are these books or is it all? >> It's digital. We have a set in
034the classroom, but then it's a digital that students access it on their Chromebooks. >> I need a motion in a second for this as well. >> I'll make a motion to approve the curriculum for social studies. >> A second. A motion and a second. Any questions? >> So, do they actually use the textbooks or is it just >> Some kids do when they're in Mr. Beaver's class, there's a set of like 25 books, so they have the option, but a lot of kids do like it on the And it's nice because we have our accommodations, so like students can have it read, the lesson can be read out loud to them. There's interactive like tools to the side. There's video clips and things like that that they do use. Yes, we have. Go ahead and
035finish. >> We have a motion second. All in favor? I >> I none opposed. Um, what was you saying about this? >> So, this first policy reading of 6250. Sorry, I just got I went to the dentist today, so I'm starting to get my feeling back. So, if I sound like I'm slobbering. Um it it's a policy that has to be approved every year and it talks about what we will accept or allow for students for um proof of residency. Um and so we are not changing ours at all and what we we would want to see to prove that residency would still be like a a electric bill, a mortgage statement, a rental agreement. Um they always ask you can put in that a was it birth cert immunization but we've never had that
036as a proof of residency and I mean if I gave you my children's proof of residency from their imu im immunization it's Florida you know so we didn't feel like that was we didn't feel like we would want to add that so we left our policy exactly the same >> okay so we need this is just first reading so we don't need to we don't need to we'll approve this on on May. So that's the first reason. So all right, that was the only policy on this month's uh new business. U nobody was down for general public comments. So that moves us to administrative reports. Vicki, you got anything additional for us? Anything out of the ordinary or >> nothing? Any questions? >> All right. Um >> Paul, you got anything for us? pull up.
037>> So, out at the uh sports complex uh due to the heavy storms, our air fiber or internet got knocked out and uh I think I had told you all before that we signed a contract to have fiber ran out there anyway underground. So, I met with the uh engineers and the constru construction crew to get that handled and they're just designed in that. So, um hopefully within the next month, probably somewhere around June or the end of June, they'll be able to run that line and we'll have a solid internet out there instead of the issues that we've been running with in the past. >> Okay. >> Cool. You any reports from Ross at all about anything? >> Well, yeah, they're not very good, though. Um when the storm hit um we the high
038jump pit or the high jump mat ended up on the other side of the baseball field and they just realized I think at the track meet that it broke the >> clips which could possibly mean that we have to have a whole new mat. >> Um and then we still haven't found the the pole for the pole vault team. It's probably in a corn field or somewhere but >> there were no kids on the back. That's that's >> No, there was none. And the >> Well, they were using it tonight. it seemed just fine. So, >> um it's still missing, but So, we did have I know it was a lot worse than So, um those are a few things. And then, um and then the truck that Ross uses is not working again. So,
039>> I know they had some damage in one of the batting was it the batting case >> and they had Yes, I think they were able to get someone to weld that to fix that, but the track stuff just they're going to be working on prices. So, yeah. Yeah, it was a lot more damage than I can't believe that big heavy mat blew from the high jump pit all the way to the other side of the baseball field. >> Yeah. >> Crazy. All right, Mr. Kers, you got anything for us tonight? I recognize you're here. You got any any pertinent information or >> Great to be here. >> That's good to hear. All right, M. McGee, you got any anything additional for us? >> No, I think that's that's it. >> All right. Any any
040comments from board members? >> No. All right. I'd like to recognize our upcoming dates. Uh regular session board meeting in May will be on May the 11th. Last student day uh is May 21st. Quickly quickly coming. Uh so I need a motion and a second to adjurnn. >> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> I have a motion a second to endure. All in favor I meeting is adjourned.