001Good evening. I'd like to welcome you to the regular business meeting a public hearing of the board of school of trustees for the Crown Point Community School Corporation of September 22nd, 2025. This meeting will open at 6:05 p.m. If we could all please rise as Mr. Basser leads us in the saying of the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a moment of silence. to the rep for it stands nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all Move on to the board of school trustees resolution of commendation awards 2.01. Crown Point Police Department Department Officer Sergeant Steno Gliglitch who served for six years as a DARE officer and retired uh Crown Point Police Department officer Sergeant Dave Benson who served for 12 years as a DARE officer for their exemplary contribution providing valuable instruction to thousands of
002Crown Point students and for their professionalism and commitment to the DARE program. I have a motion. >> So moved by Mr. >> Angel second. Second by Mr. Vasser. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Nays. And the vote carries 5. Uh officers if you could come forward as we present your accommodation ward. Thank you. The board like to issue resolution commendation. The Crown Point Board of School Trustees is honored to commend Sergeant Dave Benson and Sergeant Stenko Glick for exemplary exemplary contribution. We hereby resolve that the board of school trustees for the Crown Point Community School Corporation wishes to express sincere appreciation to Sergeant Benson and Glick who served as DARE officers. Sergeant Benson was for 12 years and Glick for six years providing valuable instruction to thousands of Crown Point students and
003for their professionalism and commitment to the DARE program. The board of school trustees publicly recognizes this achievement and renders it permanently to its ministry be preserved for public posterity day this 22nd day of September 2025. Congratulations. Thank you. I would like to say a couple [Applause] truly an honor to present the commendation to you guys. My daughter was a fifth grader at Lake Street last spring. um Juliana Warney and uh I think that there's a lot of energy that comes home from your elementary school child. Sometimes it's recess or basketball, but I was personally I was very surprised at the contribution that Dar made to her life. And when I sit there with from my family's perspective and the bleachers that day and you know we were hearing about DARE hearing about Dare and Dare
004to some of us adults I it's a 30 years ago you don't really maybe have the connection unless your child's going through it to understand what the program is doing for your child. And as I sat there that evening, the thoughts that ran through my head about the help to them, but then all the kids. And you had some pretty catchy things you were doing with students. You you you Sergeant Stanko, he'd say one thing and they'd scream back and you remember whatever you you'd say something else and they'd scream back and they were I mean they were on it which really I mean I think we have to give you a tremendous amount of credit for your personal ability to connect and Sergeant Benson also but then the program I was teaching and I
005couldn't help think schoolboard members and administrators and the opportunity for I think actually the next meeting I came in and uh talked about the the program program, but then we all say if you connected with one kid, if you saved one life, you helped one kid and one family with what you did, it's invaluable. And I feel like as a parent sitting in there that not only did you connect with one kid, but you connected with a whole bunch of kids. I want to thank you as a parent and a board member for your service. And uh it really means a lot. And I I remember coming back after say, "Hey, whatever as as long as we're board members that are next boards, whatever we need to do to hopefully continue this tradition, the DARE
006program in the schools, we really need to do it because it makes a difference." So, um, thank you. If you guys would like to say anything, >> well, thanks everybody. Uh, I was just on the way here. Sometimes police can be a bankless job, you know, but the six years that I was blessed to be point of trained program. So it's been continuous since 1990 which is awesome but in this canul I know I've had Yeah. So, uh it's wonderful and a relationship with teachers. Uh we become like buddies. It's just a wonderful program life program that I hope that we always continue to have. Thanks for that opportunity. Thank you for the support. Thank you. >> Thank you for this connection. just knowing that you're a positive element. We reflect about connections that we
007made when we know and with my long seeing these kids that are now adults and I still have contact with a lot of them and you know they tell me well I remember this and this happened and I remember this and this kid did. Uh so it's not magic but it did come back to them. So, it's just not all, you know, recess prize. I miss those two, but I do it all over again and it was such an honor to do it. >> Well, on behalf of a longtime board member, thank you to both and Mr. Benson and all four of mine, Officer Benson. Sorry. And yet, my youngest Molly is like got the best memories of her life doing things with Officer Benson. So, on behalf of myself as a parent and a
008board member, thank you both, gentlemen, and God bless you moving forward. Thank you. >> Thank you. All right, we'll move on to item three, public hearing. Uh the uh the recommendation is that we have a motion to suspend the regular business meeting and open the public hearing. May I have a motion? >> So moved by Miss Basin. >> Second and second by Mr. Angel. Are there any questions or comments? Not to ask a vote. Uh all in favor signify by saying I. >> I. And nays. The vote carries 50. Uh we'll move on to item 3.02, the 2026 budget. Mr. Ree. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Members of the board, tonight is the first public step for you to take in regards to uh adopting a 2026 uh budget which includes levies and tax rates
009uh for the next calendar year. Uh the budget was appropriately uh placed on Gateway uh last uh two Fridays ago, 10 days prior to this public hearing. Uh the next important date for you to remember after the hearing tonight is the adoption on October 27th, the planned adoption at our next regularly scheduled board meeting. A few highlights about this budget that was advertised. Um the actual budget is down almost $2 million compared to the 2025 budget. On top of that, uh our levy is also uh reduced while the current ad shows it being down almost 400,000. Uh we're anticipating the final number once uh approved by DGF uh to be down almost 800,000 as compared to last year or our current year 2025. And last but not least are tax rates. Uh the current tax
010rate is a$122. Um we're advertising a rate of a dollar, not really advertise a rate, but the rate we're end up with is going to be a$114. What we expect when DGF finally approves that is a rate of A13. Some important notes about that. That would be almost a 9 cent reduction compared to the current property tax rate for this year. And coupled with last year's six cent decline, talking about a 15 cent decline in our property tax rate for the schools, even given all the projects that we have just completed and that debt fully coming on board. Uh that is o almost uh a 1% reduction uh in our overall our 10% reduction our overall tax rate which is pretty amazing. A couple comments. Uh, as you probably read in the newspaper, as other
011municipalities, school districts have gone through this process and holding their public hearings. Uh, Senate Rolled Act One, which was passed, uh, passed by the legislature this last session, uh, is going to have some impact on us in coming years. Um, we are monitoring that impact as we move forward. Uh, and we'll make sure we make adjustments and changes as necessary uh, to comply and live within the revenue that the legislature uh, has given us. that more than likely will be significantly reduced. >> Thank you, Mr. Reese. And I just want to clarify because it came across as 1% and then 10% very quickly. Could you restate that again just so we have a clear record? >> Thanks. I apologize. So, our current tax rate at a going back to the$122 was a$128 two years ago.
012Uh our expected tax rate is going to be close to A13. That's a 15 cent reduction off the$128 which is a little more than 10% on that tax rate. Thank you, Mr. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Are there any questions for Mr. Reese? >> Okay. >> Excuse me. We'll move on to item 3.03. Patrons registered to comment on the public hearing tonight and there are no patrons signed uh ready to give comment tonight. So, we'll move on to item 3.04. May I have a motion to close the public hearing and resume the regular meeting? >> So, second All right. So moved by Miss Basin, second by Mr. Vasser. There any questions or comments? If not, we can move to a vote. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Nay. >> The votes the
013eyes carries 5-0. And we'll show the public hearing closed and resumption of the regular meeting. Item 4.01, patrons registered to comment on educational issues tonight. Again, there are no patrons uh registered to comment. So we'll move on to item 5.01. uh the consent agenda. Dr. Terrell, >> thank you for your consideration this evening. We have 5.01, the regular business meeting minutes from August 25th meeting. 5.02, our personnel agenda. 5.03, the recommendation for employment of Canada's pursuant of Indiana Code 20-26-5-11.2. And then 5.04, our voucher registered checks as listed. Thank you, Dr. Terrell. Uh, you've heard the recommendation for approval of the consent agenda, including item 5.01, August 25th, 2025, regular business meeting minutes. Item 5.02, the personal agenda. Item 5.03, recommendation for employment of candidates pursuant to Indiana code 20265-11.2 and item 5.04, voucher registered
014checks numbers 17769 to 17809. in vouchers number 3065122307298. May I have a motion? >> So move so moved by Miss Basin and seconded by Mr. Angel. Are there any questions or comments? There being no questions or comments, we'll move to a vote. All in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Nays. >> Nay. >> And the vote carries four to one. Uh the eyes carry four to one. Uh item six, action item 6.01, approval to accept and receive the secure safety a school safety grant 20126. Mr. G. >> Thank you, Mr. President, board members. Annually, the uh Indiana Department of Homeland Security offers an opportunity to apply for a secured school safety grant and uh Crown Point school corporation has been participating in this grant opportunity for the last 10 years. This year we applied
015for and received $80,9752 to apply towards salaries and benefits for our school resource officers. This is a matching grant which we would utilize the funds associated with our school officer program to match those funds. Um it's the administration's recommendation to approve and accept the grant funding from the Indiana Homeland Security Grant. Board members, you heard the administration a recommendation from the administration for approval to accept grant funding from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security for the uh the year 26 2026 for the amount of $80,9752. May I have a motion? >> So moved by Mr. Vasser, >> second by Miss Basin. Are there any questions or comments? >> Mr. Gmy, I'm just uh wondering this would be the third meeting in a row. our director of grants no longer presents these things to the board.
016>> Um she's not in attendance at the board meetings. So um occasion she may this one in particular though um Mr. Coulson and I um always write and submit this grant. >> Okay. In the past Mr. Hardman has presented all these so I just would wonder what the change was. >> Any other questions comments? There being no other questions or comments, we move to a vote. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Nay. And the vote carries. The eyes carry. 5 Z. 6.02 out ofountry field trip to Germany. Mrs. Ramirez. >> Thank you, Mr. President and board members. I'm here tonight to request the board support of an outofcountry field trip to Germany um by Crown Point High School students in the summer of 2027. And we have the honor of having Mr.
017LeBlanc, who is one of the trip sponsors with us tonight. He took students to Japan this past summer. And as my computer is frozen and I cannot scroll down, um I'm going to kind of babble on for just a second and give it a second to uh recalibrate. It is the administration's recommendation that the school board approved the outofcountry field trip to Germany, Italy by Crown Point High School students June 22nd through the 30th of 2027. >> Thank you, Miss Ramirez. Uh board, you've heard the recommendation of the administration that the school board approve the out of country field trip to Germany by Crown Point High School students from June 22nd to through June 30th of 2027. May I have a motion? >> So, so moved by Miss Basin, seconded by Mr. Angel. Are there
018any questions or comments? >> Mr. Oblanc, thanks for doing all those things that you do. What What do you consider to be the best part of you went to Japan this past summer? What was the best part of that for the for the students? >> Mr. Leblanc, >> can I have you come up to the microphone so the people >> Sorry, I didn't mean to catch you off guard there, but I'm just curious. >> Um, the students very much got to enjoy seeing how robotics really is part of their entire life over there, especially how robotics are helping with elder care. So, Japan has a very aging population and so robotics are starting to be like things that are very almost science fiction uh small humanoid style robots are starting to be in the homes
019there and so they were able to go to advanced centers and see how those robots were designed and see how they interact and so they really enjoyed that part. I think that was a highlight of the trip and then also just the culture. So, we did a lot of cultural stops and things like that also. >> Thank thanks for taking that on. >> Oh, thank you very much. We appreciate the opportunity. Thank you, Mr. Leblanc. Let me see if there's any other questions. And board members, any other questions? There being no further questions, we'll move to a vote. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Nays. And the vote carries 5-0. Thank you again, Mr. Leblanc. >> Thank you. >> Item point 6.03, policy revisions and additions. Uh, Mr. Ka. >> Thank you,
020Mr. President and board members. Um tonight we uh bring to you policy 7510 which is the use of school facilities. Uh we are in the process of converting this particular policy to uh ISBA uh policy but right now we're going to make an adjustment in this uh version from Niola uh to add a statement in there about approval from the superintendent or his design. It's in the class two section uh there. So this will uh serve well and ISBA does approve this current version of it with this addition until we can bring you uh down the road the updated version in ISBA language. So this evening uh with this minor adjustment we are asking the board to wave the reading of the policy and approve it with the updated language. >> Thank you Mr. Akiwa.
021Uh for the board members, you heard a recommendation of the administration to wave the reading of policy number 7510, use of school facilities, and approve this policy with the updated language included. Uh may I have a motion? >> Motion to approve and wave the readings. >> Uh motion moved by Mr. Warning and seconded by Miss Basin. Are there any questions or comments? >> Yes, Mr. K. So what what are the big it may not be big, but what are the changes we're you highlight those. >> I'm surprised it's not in a different color here. Mr. Basser, under class 2, paragraph three, um there's a sentence with a percentage listed in a phrase uh for approval being received by the superintendent or his designate is added in there. >> Okay. >> Everything else is exactly the
022same. >> Thank you. >> Yep. Any other questions or comments? With there being no further questions or comments, we'll move to a vote. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Nays. Vote carries. 50. Thank you, Mr. Ke. >> Thank you. >> Moving on to item 7.01, superintendent discussion groups. >> First, there's nothing from Winfield. >> They were they were quick. Nothing going on there. Cedar Lake. and makes nothing in Crown Point RDC that pertains to schools at all. >> Thank you. And again, just reiterate, thank you guys for taking care of those, keeping us ab breast of what's going on in each of those areas. So, move on to item 7.02, Director Elementary Education, Dr. Pacino. >> Thank you, Mr. President, and members of the board. Uh during last week's e-learning day, our
023elementary teachers from each building at each grade level came together for some collaboration and professional learning. Uh we began our time together by celebrating our successes from last year, recognizing the growth uh that our students achieved. Uh from there, we spent a lot of time um discussing how we're going to strengthen teaching and learning in the area of writing. Uh teachers collaborated about the Indiana academic standards and different rubrics used to score student writing. Um, they practice scoring some actual student writing samples, uh, and plan for ways to embed some consistent writing strategies and scaffolds that will start in kindergarten and progress up through the elementary grades. Um, really made the most of our time together uh, and had a great day. Uh, on another note, coming up here soon, in a few weeks, um,
024students in grades three through eight, uh, will be beginning the first of three island checkpoints, uh, for students in grades three through five. We won't get started on those until October gets here. Um, but if you remember last year, we piloted uh, the new island checkpoint process. This year, um, it's not a pilot anymore. Everybody's everybody's in this year. Um while these assessments are not used for accountability purposes, um they are uh very important. We use them for a lot of things to guide our curriculum, to guide our instruction, um to help parents understand where their students are. Um we'll be communicating with parents more about these assessments coming up here soon. Um also, there is a new family portal uh that the Department of Education has. Um, so we'll be having some communication about
025how families will utilize that portal to see how their students um are doing. And finally, I just want to um I know Sergeant Benson and Sergeant Glick are not here anymore, but uh speaking as a former elementary principal and a dad of a student who's been through DARE, those two gentlemen had a profound impact on uh like Mr. Warney said, thousands of students lives. um and just the energy um and kind of dynamic presence that they both had in our schools for a long time was was um just so appreciated. Uh and I know that officer Hassie is off to a great start. Um and that program is uh running strong. It's a great partnership we have with the city. >> Thank you. >> Dr. Sha, just one question. Yeah. >> You mentioned obviously the
026uh e-learning day. Can you from your perspective of being our director of elementary education the importance of that day as far as for the professional growth and development of our teachers and the connection there? >> Sure. Absolutely Mr. Angel. So um we did reduce the number of those uh professional learning e-learning days this year. Um it's always a tough balance between um when you're making a decision making decisions like that, but the value is huge for our elementary teachers. It's so important that we're able to bring them together. Um it's it's one thing to do that collaboration virtually and some of our morning times. It's just different when you get professionals in the room together to actually talk and um be able to think through things and problem solve things. So, uh it's a it's
027a huge impact. >> I've been it's been brought to my attention because you know you hear from parents of what really happens and why is that? But I just want to make sure. So, perfect. And thank you for that explanation. >> Thank you, I can also ask you additional question. You know, since this is the uh it's no longer a pilot, >> is it a three-step? >> Yeah. So, there's three island checkpoints and then the summitive assessment is in April and May. Um the summitive assessment this year has been shortened quite a bit. So, it'll be the first year of this kind of new summitive assessment. >> And I and I know in the past, you know, the state, you know, they always ask everybody's opinion, of course, before they do anything tongue and cheek.
028And um does it jive in your or is that yet to be determined with curriculum mapping that we do and course building that we do with what is being tested along the way? Great. >> It's been a problem in the past. >> Yeah. >> And I probably don't know yet because starting but >> that's a great question. So they did ask um two years ago for a lot of information about when at different grade levels different districts are teaching certain standards. Mr. Vasser. So, they did try to um put certain skills and standards on checkpoint one versus checkpoint two or three. And some aren't on any checkpoints at all. They only show up on the summitive assessment. Um but we found last year uh with our new curriculum maps at at elementary school that for
029the most part it does align pretty well. Um and we were able to teach the skills and standards prior to the checkpoint. Um but the there is an opportunity for students to take the checkpoint again uh after reteing has occurred or remediation. So uh that's something that's there as well. >> Well, that's great to hear. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Sure. >> Before we go to Mr. Ramirez, I'm going to throw it to uh Mr. Jay and ask him just to speak a little bit about the e-learning days as well. So thank you Nick. >> Thanks. >> So uh Mr. Angel, I know I know your question is like what are the things that can be packaged in a day like that for what our teachers can cover. Um, every e-learning we work together
030to make sure everybody knows where we have to coordinate because um we're trying to cover so much. I mean district PLC's at the elementary level where every single grade um cover different writing. So without being able to do that, we can't create that consistency we want to see across our grade levels. So that happened. And then in addition to that, you know, you move into some more um articulation across the building and where they're working on the things that they need. So there'll be a corporation piece and then a building level piece where they have that time to have those conversations they can't have when we're doing a regular day. Uh the middle schools and high schools talked about um AI. We we talked about magic school, a piece that we brought in. That is
031a pretty big lift for our teachers to start trying to use appropriately with their students. So, the corporation needs some time to sit down there and do that professional development. So, they covered that. Our e department does all kind of training. They trained with goal books, which is a new piece that they're using to create the goals for the IEPs and then be able to progress monitor those goals. These are all things that we have to have the teachers with us to be able to do these things. So to create that space, these were just I'm not hitting everything that was covered, but these are some of the things that were covered. I know that we had preschool um they do additional training in those for those instructors in Paris and create more materials during
032that time. For the preschool programming, we do CPI training. Uh every year we hire new folks who need to have that CPI training to be able to deescalate students. um verbally and then in the worst cases scenarios, how do you appropriately hold that student so you wouldn't injure them? So that CPI training is critical. Can't do that during the day when you're actually doing your job. So these are all the kind of things that we pushed in there. School counselors have all a moment as well on that day. So there's a lot done. I I know that if we could get more and squeeze more out of that, we understand, but we also understand that uh when students are in school, that's a bit of a burden for our uh our teachers, I mean parents
033as well. So, one of the other groups I would want to acknowledge for e-learning is we do keep child care open in two sites. We had over uh 60 students at one site and another 40 at another site and they're there for the entire time and we we help with homework there. So, our childcare workers, a shout out to them. That's a long day and they do they do a great job keeping it going for those kids and the parents that need that service through those e-learning days. So, very valuable to the corporation. Um, you know, and those days are really really u valued by our our our staff. >> Mr. Dream for me. Thank you for that explanation as I've been approached a couple times and the non-truths out there about that, you know,
034it's an inconvenience to parents and all that, but it's part of the overall corporation, part of our overall calendar, which allows this and our staffs, like you said, for the importance of getting together for that training. >> I think it's also important, it was mentioned that we reduced the number that we had had in the past couple of years this year. And when uh Mr. Gian Fermy and his uh group brought this to me um and said they wanted to reduce it. I said, "Are you sure?" Because I knew all of the things that we have to do and and the value of these days. So, I appreciate your your leadership and your department working on making sure that we could refine this and get as much as we can out of those days to
035put us in a position to keep moving forward. So, >> thank you very much. >> Thank you all. And I think it's fair to say that there's nobody up sitting up here who believes an e-learning day is better than an inerson day for student for student learning. But this is an essential part of what we do. And you just heard why. So just thought I'd reiterate that. Uh backing up a little bit or going back to 7.03, Director of Secondary Education, Mrs. Ramirez. >> Thank you, Mr. President and board members. I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight um an event that occurred on September 4th at Crown Point High School and to thank Lynn Alky, the administrative team at the high school, as well as the counseling team at the high school. They held
036their fall college and career fair during which they had um the opportunity for our students and families to meet with over 50 post-secary institutions that were very well um represented, diverse as well. Um there were military representatives there as well as specializations for work opportunities from everything from school of beauty to plumbers union. So it was really a great opportunity for our high school students. And then on the same day um I want to thank the chamber of commerce, our middle school teams and Mr. Akiwa um for their work. The Chamber of Commerce hosted a your future your choice careers with skills and degrees locally here in Crown Point. And again, students in grades seven and eight, we um had the opportunity to have them go and they were able to meet with and learn
037more about professions from plumbing to electricians, construction, banking, military. So, it was another great exploration for our students to be able to start even at the middle school level to think about what they may want to pursue and to then take advantage of course opportunities that we have. So, I wanted to thank um those two groups. We have a lot of things happening um like we always do. This week is college go week and that's a really exciting thing throughout the corporation that elementary through high school celebrates um through spirit days through again working to make sure that students understand what they can do after high school. We have homecoming coming up before our next board meeting. So that is on October 3rd with the dance on the 4th. We have PSAT being administered at
0388th grade and in 9th through 11th grade on October 9th. If your evenings are free on the following dates, feel free to jot these down. We have fall concerts. Um we have orchestra on the 29th, choir on the 1st, and band on the 6th. Those are starting at 6 PM. And then for sure, and I will bring this up again if I remember, in October, we have the Wizard of Oz that will be performed at Crown Point High School, and that will be running November 14th through the 23rd. So, I'm sure you will want to check that out. And then to just kind of chime in on the e-learning um impact that this has at the secondary level. This was really important for us to maximize the alignment and collaboration for us between our two
039middle schools with new ELA and math curriculum. It was really important that we work to discuss everything from actual implementation to problem solving to grading guidance. So it was really um a very impactful day for them. we did focus on generative artificial intelligence. And then at the high school, they were able to cover a series of um professional learning that also included generative AI, verbal deescalation, 504s, ILPS, IEPs, as well as some safety trainings from the nurse. So, it really is a day that we try to cover as many things as we can as thoroughly as possible so that we educate our teachers so they can be as most effective as possible. >> Thank you, Mrs. R. Questions. I do unrel That was a great presentation. Unrelated to any of that. Uh I read an
040article in the local paper last Thursday about AI. You briefly mentioned AI. Uh this was from uh colleges that are having considerable trouble with it for students that are cheating using AI. And I know it's relatively new to our schools. We just talked about it last year. Um have you probably not a fair question. Has there been an uptick all in students using that to I don't want to say cheat but I'll I'll use it. >> Sure. Well, a component that we really are stressing with generative AI is the importance of being a critical thinker and critical user of generative AI. because we know that there is bias with generative AI and we need to make sure that we are kind of creating AI resistant prompts is what they will oftentimes call it. So like
041if I'm expecting students to be able to produce an essay instead of maybe having them do that independently, what parts can I see them doing in front of me or how might I have them use AI for certain parts like maybe a general concept but then they are doing research using approved databases. So it's really about educating the educators. so that they set the parameters and the expectations for how generative AI can and can't be used by students. Magic School, which is the generative AI tool that we're looking to leverage this year, also allows the teacher to be a little bit more in control because they are able to put specific tools into a room that then students are invited to come into and to use it for a very specific purpose. So, while I'm
042not going to say generative AI doesn't potentially cause us some challenges with um cheating or plagiarism, that has kind of existed for quite a while, I would say, since the invent like invention of the internet. So, they call generative AI the next >> that's way before that. >> Well, perhaps I mean there's always copying. I mean, I can't say that I didn't, you know, stand on top of a lock like by a locker bay and take some notes from a friend every once in a while. Um, so I mean, when we have this technology, this is what happens. We have to teach our students to be respons responsible digital citizens. Help our teachers understand what is being done through generative AI and the large language models. Um and we keep stressing really uh human in
043the loop is the key that the educator is at the forefront of making the decisions. Why would generative AI be useful? What need is it meeting? And then we need to educate our students as well. >> Thank you very much. >> Welcome. >> Thank you, Mrs. RmIrez. Mr. Basser, I I just to touch on that. I also know that there are tools where teachers, professors can use to catch people who are using chat GBT all the time. So, absolutely. So, uh I know that that's been those tools as well. >> Goardian does it does that does that sorry you don't have to come back up. >> I can probably answer. Is that in sync then with go guardian or is that a separate where the >> So we have quite a few different things watching
044what's going on but the magic school itself is this the teacher assigns the student a room to actually be using the tools and we'll set the time that they're in there >> and it will it'll flag all kinds of different things for us to keep the safety all kind of different safety pieces on it though but that's the nice part about it as we kind of wade into this and come alongside AI. So, >> thank you, Mr. D. >> We're gonna go back to you. 7.04, assistant superintendent. Mr. D. >> Yeah. Just a couple things. Uh, on on September 4th, uh, Mrs. Allen, uh, kind of arranged a meeting with the philanthropic educational organization. She brought myself, uh, Dina Smith, our director of grants assessment, and Sarah Coven, our our STEM specialist, and we addressed
045the group, um, of about 30 35 of these members and talked all things Crown Point schools, and we talked about AI and STEM with a little bit of a flare on uh, women in education. And, uh, the the feedback from Sally Nelber, the executive officer, was that we were probably one of the best prepared groups and they really enjoyed our presentation. But it's always the, you know, a pleasure to go out and talk to community groups about our school and see what's tell them what's happening. So, it was a kind of a a nice event that we had back there on September 4th. And I thank all those folks that went out there with me, talk to this group. Uh then the last thing I have is yeah, we will not see you before October
04620th, but October is uh school safety month and we will be having our parent uh safety presentation for parents of the community to come out here at the administration building at six o'clock and we will have the whole crew out here and we'll talk all things school safety. We did this last year. We did it at the middle schools, but we feel like we can have one group here, get it done with one night. But uh yeah, any parents that are are interested in how we're trying to keep our schools We would present that on the 20th. >> Thank you, Mr. G. Firmy. Item 7.05, Chief Human Resource Officer, Mr. Kiwa. >> Thank you, Mr. President and board members. Um, echoing the comments of uh Mr. Chikina. Um, I also just want to personally thank
047uh Dave Benson and Officer Glitchage for all their time and effort. I got to experience some of that when I was at Timothy Ball and it was just absolutely fantastic. So, thank you to them. Um, also Sabrina, thank you for mentioning that chamber event for the middle schools. That's a first of its kind and we they hope to grow that. So, um, I was actually there and it was quite quite the scene and I think it's going to be a a continuing effort by the chamber to to expose our students to, uh, career paths. Um, so great job there. I want to just thank the big four um for making an effort last week uh, in getting their employees connected. Big four meaning uh transportation tech uh uh food service and buildings and grounds. I
048we've moved the uh the platform to do your annual tutorials to a new system which requires logging on to a new system and logging on to new systems uh is quite the challenge uh for our employees. But we right we currently have enrolled 1390 individuals in the system. And last week we spent some time uh really helping our folks uh making sure their their email was accessible to get the invitations to get the login instructions and uh tech pitched in. Uh Mr. Molasi had his folks at all the different sites uh getting set up. Christine had her folks getting set up in food service and Marty brought transportation folks over here for three sessions at central office. So, I want to thank everybody who uh put in uh time and effort that day, including my
049HR staff uh helping folks get connected and get logged on to Frontline uh to get these tutorials knocked out this year. And that is all. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Cuba. Moving on to item 7.06, Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Reese. >> Yeah, I have nothing this evening. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Ree. Uh, item 7.7, director of communications, Mrs. Allen. >> Thank you and good evening. Um, earlier this year, we implemented a little bit of a new procedure in the communications department where we send a form to every school every week. It's a digital form and we ask the teachers and staff to tell us what's up, what's happening in your building, what's going on, whether it's something you've just completed or it's something that's coming up in the week ahead. And in
050about 20 days of school since we've implemented these forms, we've had more than 230 responses come back to us. Things that are just good news, great lessons in the classroom, opportunities to go out and take pictures, to film video for super things. Um, so I just want to thank our teachers and staff in the buildings who have sort of embraced this new way of sharing information. It's become incredibly effective for my team um, behind the scenes. Speaking of AI, we're using an AI program to help sort and categorize all of these different opportunities to track how frequently we're headed to different buildings and for what reasons, different grade levels, so that we can also kind of share the love and when we don't hear from someone, we can follow up with them and say, "Hey,
051I haven't heard from your grade in a while. What's going on out there?" Um, so just a big thank you to our buildings for um helping implement this and for responding every week. >> Thank you, Miss Brown. 7.08 Superintendent of Schools. Dr. Terrell, >> thank you. Just a couple of things. Uh, Miss Allen mentioned Super Things. We were at MacArthur that should be coming out uh today or tomorrow. It was released today. Had a great time filming at MacArthur uh with their students. Um, it's refreshing. It's uh helps keep your mind on why we're doing what we're do, why we do what we do, and you get out in those buildings and talk with kids and it's just uh very helpful. Interesting. Uh was mentioned one of math curriculums is new at the middle schools.
052And the other day I was walking through Taft and there was a student who happened to be at his locker and he stopped me. He said, "Aren't you the superintendent?" I said, "I am." And he told me his name and he said, "Well, I just want to let you know that I love our new math curriculum." Who says that, right? What middle school? I know when I was a middle school kid that probably wouldn't have been the thing that I would have stopped the superintendent to say, but I appreciate that and I appreciate the efforts that went into selecting our math curriculum, but also the work that continues to happen on a a regular basis in our classrooms as well. Tonight, I'd like to uh bring up Crossroads Chamber hosted a meeting with Secretary Jenner
053from the DOE a couple of weeks ago. I'm a board member there and we were invited to be a part of that meeting. So, myself, uh, Mr. Gian Fermy and and Nick Kina were able to be up there and Dr. Jenner started off and she has a very, um, polished program that she goes through with her slide presentation. And on the first slide, it listed probably six different things that are happening around the state. And I had no idea what she was going to have on that slide, but in every one of those areas, we outperformed the things that she was touting that are happening in the state of Indiana. And it just reminded me of how as a school corporation, we continue to push that envelope and do those great things. Afterwards, um, she
054had to leave rather quickly and they threw the mic to me and I was able to get up and talk through the things that are happening here in Crown Point and bring that to all of our community members. Interesting group. They were there about graduation pathways, the changes, excuse me, to the diploma. We're able to talk through that 350 of our seniors go out and do internships on a daily basis. We're able to talk through more than 10,000 dual credits. We're able to talk through the amount of AP tests that are going on. So, literacy rates, how what our I read three passages uh rating is. for our second grade as well where we outperform and come pretty close to what's happening across the state. Um so it's just a great reminder of how fortunate
055we are here. And so much of that is about the students that we have, but also about our teachers and our administrators, our staff, and how they continue to work for our kids to do what's best for them. >> Excellent. Thank you, Dr. Terrell. Uh, moving on to item 8.01, other vis tonight. >> I could share I wish I could say coming back from the uh ISBA conference, I had a lot of knowledge or ideas to share with everybody, but at the same time, I kind of feel like it's piggy back what Dr. Terrell said. It's almost it's kind of rewarding and positive that there's a lot of good information being shared there. A lot of it over the years we've picked up and attempted and tried and probably do a little bit better, but
056continue to get better at it. So, it's kind of neat. used to go there and the agenda would have the work sessions would have three or four things to pick from and you oh which one we can do these are all very interesting and it's to you know in a good way to the point now there were only a couple opportunities to uh really gain interest or something we could be better at and uh I'll try to share some more later but I do think noblesville did a presentation with their superintendent and board um ironically part of it was about strategic planning which we know we're going to try to um dig into a little bit. Um and then just uh how we could be better as a board. Um they did a really nice
057job presenting how they grew as a board and I did pick up some ideas there that we could certainly be better as a board. I'd like I'll share with you guys when we get the opportunity. >> That's uh good to hear, David. Thank you for sharing that. I think you know that goes along lines with professional development as a board as well. So I think that would worthwhile. We always need to try to improve and we preach that and teach that to be the best and strive to be the best, but then we have that same obligation ourselves as so I'd be very anxious to hear what you picked up down there. But thank you for sharing that. Anybody else got anything? No. All right. Uh I don't have anything myself. I I think you
058know just speaking on long-term planning and planning guys discussed this earlier. We'll try to get executive session back. Okay. Um 9.01 board statements of appreciation and recognition. Back to you, M. >> I just like to thank or show appreciate show appreciation to coach Chris Cloff and the media team and how they take what they do very um they're taking a very professional approach to everything they do in the media department. And um if nothing else, I I think that there's some true character development taking place. And whether some of his students that are involved in his program are going to continue to be in journalism, communication, media or not, they're developing some true life skills. And I um from the outside, I can only we only know what we can see, but I think uh
059Coach Glo is doing an excellent job of uh mentoring them. >> Thank you, David. Mr. Angel, >> so I'm just going to piggyback on that. Me and Mr. morning were invited to be the first guest on their game day practice run set three weeks ago at the first home game. This Friday they're actually going to be on Marquee Network as for the live show after doing some practice runs. Dr. Ter looks like has some additional information on that. But um I'm just me and Morning were just so impressed with the notes and the like these both the boys that interviewed us has asked questions were well prepared. Hey, a couple technical glitches like you're going to expect out of audio tight end thing. The camera made sure everything was going. I went back and watched
060it. They had co they had an interview with coach Buzz and uh Mr. Goff and Mr. Barber deserve all the kudos in the world because I found out Mr. Goff actually built this built the rolling set for like game day like on ESPN for the track. The students came early. They asked for them to come early so there'd be a that atmosphere behind it and it was really well done. Um, and unfortunately I'd be out of town this weekend, but I can't wait to see the end result for this Friday after that practice run because then you know me being Mr. Sports Guy that evening that I was watching the second half of that game at home and the camera work wasn't quite at that level yet. So of course I professionally I texted Mr.
061Gloff and said he goes, "Nope, we're doing about three, four more games prior to the big thing this Friday to make sure they have enough practice." Meaning they were doing JB games, freshman games and all that. So that just goes to show you the dedication about making sure it's perfect because I can tell you Mr. Glo is a perfectionist. So when things aren't going, he will make sure it gets fixed for that next time around. So kudos and best of luck to all those individuals involved in Friday night. The character development piece, I would tell you if you guys go back and watch that video, I sent it to Brian. There's some sound issues at the beginning of it and to see how they had to scramble and try to figure out, I mean, it
062was real life stuff, right, to get this up and going. Um, but it's it's a great learning experience for them and it wasn't, oh man, let's just No, they kept figuring it out and they trouble, you know, they were doing the troubleshooting with it and kids behind the scenes were running all over making everything else happen. So, uh, it's a great opportunity for our kids. >> What an opportunity 16, 17, 18 years old to have that, right? It's unbelievable. So, Mr. Vasser, >> yes. Uh, I'd like to recognize and thank our school crossing guards. U, I live very close to uh the crossings that go to Timothy Ball. And both of these ladies are are nice to talk with whenever whenever I go by. They're very attentive to what they do. And they never get
063recognized until something bad happens. So, I just want to tell them and and the other crossing guards throughout our town and uh in Winfield as well that thank you for what you what they do because it really is important and I don't want to overlook those little things. So, thanks to them. Thank you, Mr. Ambassador. Miss Basin, >> uh, I just wanted to reiterate what many have said about, um, Sergeants Benson and Gliggage. They have really been around since I was teaching at Eisenhower. Officer Benson um, at that point was the DARE officer there. And, um, phenomenal just to have them in the building. I I know multiple people have said the energy that they bring. Um but their message I think has gone so much deeper because of who they are as individuals. Uh
064my three oldest kids have had um officer G they've called him so Sergeant Gliggage. And he um his energy and ability to connect with the kids and and I think that in that way when you become relatable and become somebody who they know, like and trust that information is transmitted and lasts I think a lot longer. So, um, their their ability to connect, I think, is, you know, on the same level as our amazing teachers. And so, it kind of just continues. They become a teacher of the DARE program to those kids. And, um, and I think that's been really phenomenal. So, thank you um for your years of service uh, to our two sergeants. >> Thank you, Miss Basin. Uh, tonight I just have two two things. I noticed Miss Ramirez said that the
065Wizard of Oz is coming. So, I want to I'm going to say it again. The Wizard of Oz is coming to Crown Point High School. And the reason I say that is because I know those tickets will sell quick. So, if you want to get tickets, I recommend buying them early and often from experience. Um, the second one, which will be a great show. They always put on a great show. The second one is I had the opportunity to go to the ambassador program, which speaking of Mr. one of you shared that we picked that up from the United State Bar Association several years ago as one of the ideas and it was the first time I had opportunity to go to the opening day um of that and I just want to commend our
066administrators, our team and the individuals that are participating because it's really well done and I heard feedback already from one of the individuals at at the ambassadors program about how much information and how interesting it is. um which is numbers. I think Matt was the one presenting. So I said it only gets better from here. Um so but it's just a it's it's a great thing that our general public has the opportunity to get informed of some of the details that we know about and hear about often as board members. So just want to say thank you again and kudos uh Todd, Dr. Terrell, and the administration for the work that you do. Uh Brooke, you as well. I know you're instrumental in it and and all the work and behind the scenes work. So
067you did a great job. So that's it for for me tonight. Um, anybody else have anything? All right. If I uh may have a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved by Mr. Angel. >> Second by Miss Basin. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. U. The vote carries 5-0.