001just second well you go ahead and stand stand right we don't have to sit back down all right everybody pledge for the stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance 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 Heavenly Father we as we come to do the School business tonight dear Lord just pray that the decisions we make will help our community our students our staff Lord that we can make uh just a better place for our kids to learn we just give you all the praise and glory in Jesus name amen okay call the meeting to order at p.m. um we're going to start this off with the recognition of the students of the
002month Mr George would you like to start would thank you okay our first grade teacher selected our students of the month and we will start with Miss Hannah you want Mom to come with you that's all right and mom didn't nominate inter all right Hannah I'm going to read what Miss Bush wrote about you okay Miss Bush nominated Hannah and she said that Hannah is a fully engaged student each day and cre typo is fully engaged in her learning each day and creating in and outside of the classroom she remembers every cool fact we talk about vocabulary words historical figures or science concept that we discuss she even made her own informational text about about watercolor techniques she sets her own standard for her work and enjoys every challenge she's grown tremendously in all subjects
003this year and she is also a very kind and patient friend I love having her in class and we are so proud of you and of [Applause] us all right our next student of the month was nominated by Mrs Brown AR hates and Mrs Brown wrote that Ari is extremely smart mature and responsible and such a great leader in the classroom he can always be counted on to set a great example for his classmates and to lend a helping hand when needed he is the first to congratulate his peers for their accomplishments and has great patience and willingness to help when working with others he came to first grade a super strong reader but has already made over 100 points of reading growth this year reading material that is well above a first grade level
004he is a great kind student in all academic areas and excels at thinking outside the box and problem solving we are very proud of all of his accomplishments and know that he will continue to do great things Ari hes har I know your dad never got one of those [Laughter] all right I have two as well the first one I have is for Riley fig is Riley there you are Riley come on stand up here Riley is one of the hardest working students I know some parts of school are not always easy for him but Riley wants to do well and will seek out assistance to make sure he understands what is expected of him Riley is the student I can rely on to be honest and kind and always try to do what is
005right I cannot think of a student more deserving of the student of the month than Riley Mrs White said all of [Applause] that and Eva covin she's not here but I'm going to talk about how wonderful she is is anyway um Eva was recommended by Mrs Rob and Miss Rob said I'm happy to recommend Eva cin for the student of the month award she always stays focused and works hard to do her Best in Class she is kind and respectful to her classmates helping to create a positive and friendly environment her dedication to her work and her good attitude make her a great example for others Eva truly deserves this award [Applause] all right so we have two as well for the high school our first could not be here tonight but our first student
006of the month is Ariana Lin so Ariana was first recognized for being a ah yes I was out there looking for you welcome congratulations so Ariana was first welome uh recognized by her geometry teacher who noted she's an active listener who ask good questions uh she's demonstrated commitment to academic and extracurricular achievement she an outstanding member of our band where she plays the flute and as I've learned on a personal level a very persistent fundraiser for all of her school groups uh she impresses me with her willingness to be a proactive communicator and Problem Solver these skills make her successful across different academic subjects and classes with different Lear thank you [Applause] congratulations our next student of the month is Mr Donovan went all right Donovan so Donovan was initially recognized by his English teacher
007who noted that he has done a fantastic job participating in class completing high quality work and keeping a positive attitude he is a this was in all caps fabulous addition to our class this semester uh Donovan's been one of our most successful students in the second semester dramatically increased his grades this semester he's working to make sure he finishes the year in good academic standing with all the credits he needs to end the year as a sophomore and I would say more importantly Donovan has made huge gains in terms of maturity responsibility and effort and we are all so happy to see his personality shine this semester [Applause] congrats Mr buzzerk sorry if I can get the bowling team to come on up that's here got a few here sorry I'm GNA use my cheat
008sheet I had to I had to make sure I talked to Alex just a little bit ago and make sure I got everything here because it's a lot um but we just wanted to congratulate the bowling team for their success that they had this year can you all move over a little bit that way so the camera can see you the whole world can see you same with you Mr Po I will uh just go through some team stuff that they had first uh the sectional runner up for for the team um also sectional or Regional runnerup for the team so they Advance all the way to semi-state um and then um Andrew Advanced as an as an individual all the way to State um he also was the uh runner up for sectional runner
009up for regional as an individual oh Champion as the sectional champ sectional champ sorry and then runner up for the regional and S my state bow the perfect bold the perfect game uh which I can say that I have never done or come close um and then we had Isaac defer as academic All State and Andrew was second Team all state as well and then the JV was also undefeated for the for the regular season so the future is bright and high expectations for the bowling team in for the next few years so congratulate Alex [Applause] yeah see we get Tyler here she talker all right so at the high school we're very very proud to actually have a teacher of the year um through uh Green County uh water no green County Soil and
010Water correct so um Miss Buskirk uh actually nominated her so I'm going to give her the floor and allow her to um read read the uh read the the leip hello my name is Kylie buer and I'm currently a senior in Eastern Green High School this year marks my second year in FFA where I serve as Secretary of my chapter Mrs Martin started her first year Eastern for the 2024 2025 school year she stepped in wanting to do big things for all her classes with agriculture not only do you have to teach six classes a day but be in charge of FFA chapter and all the crazy field trips that we have to take she gathered all her Knowledge from working with Monro County Soil and Water Conservation alongside the madora high school FFA chapter
011where she taught for one year with madora being one of the smallest schools in Indiana she had taught around 20 kids in her FFA now she has t doubled that with Easter and GRE we have around 40 F kids her favorite subjects are to teach are horiculture science and soil Sciences she enjoys soil testing so judging hydroponic studies and cover crops and pollination at Green we are we have made rais beds that we have planted cover crops for the upcoming planting season we now have two Hydroponics Towers thanks to her willingness and drive for our chapter and FFA program she's a phenomenal teacher and I'm so glad that she's joined our Eastern Green community and District [Applause] just congratulations to all the students recognized this evening and to uh Mrs Martin for uh her being
012recognized as a teacher of the year so we appreciate all those that uh shine a positive light on Eastern Green so we appreciate that all right if any of the students of the month or anybody honored feel like they do not want to stay for the fun and excitement for the rest of the meeting we do not take it personally if you decide to depart but you're more than welcome to stay all right next section of our meeting is the par participation board meetings do we have anybody here that would like to speak or participate okay I'm not going to read that okay is recommend to the agenda for the March 10 2025 may be approved and presented with additions Corrections or deleted as recommended by the board any discussion on that what I'll second
013okay second so Sharon Kim all those four [Music] five is recommended that the me minutes from the February 10th 2025 meeting be approved as presented second all those four I need to abstain I think I wasn't here okay four Z One is's recommended that the claims number 19769 through n922 be approved as presented any comments on the claims okay do I have a motion Dennis second Natalie all those four 5 all right Mr L would you like to take over um our first uh motion I have here for Corporation is a motion to approve the disposal of out-of-date equipment in books that are no longer used in the High School uh family consumer science classroom a list of those items were shared with you any discussion okay motion that second Natalie all those for uh
014next I have a motion to approve the use of Neola to collaborate and and to serve as our provider for updating board policies uh to help us stay in legal compliance um we've used Neola in the past many most schools do uh we are on the uh lack of a better term the bargain agreement with them so uh there will be minimal cost but there is some cost involved but it should be rather minimal because we do our own edits and we then forward them onto them and they update upload them so I just need that motion do we have any uh there are there will be some coming down I'm going to start with a few um and probably the next board meeting there will be a first reading um but I'm just getting
015into I actually just had a conversation with niola about two weeks ago we started this process okay any other comments okay do I have a motion to approve this Kim second Dennis all those four 500 z uh next uh I have a motion to approve the 20 uh 2026 2027 school calendar as presented to you in your board packet um I will add this has been shared and discussed with uh egto as well as the administration team the uh primary dates you know fall break uh spring break just follow corresponding dates of calendars we currently use um the first student day on the proposed calendar would be um August 5th and the last student day would be May 20th in the proposed calendar can I ask a question on the next agenda item is it
016Incorporated in that's a that's for the current calendar this is two different current okay sorry yeah this is actually the 26 27 is two years out this is already posted or this will be posted th this one will be posted upon approval okay okay any questions okay if not I do I have a motion to approve Natalie second denn you can't you can't votee I was getting ready to make fun of him that I got it at first this time but okay come on we're a serious bunch I know been awake for a long all those four 500 okay and an additional the next motion I have is a motion to approve April 7th 2025 as an in school day rather than a professional development day um on the um originally approved Board calendar April
0177th was supposed to be a teacher professional development day and uh the reason I'm asking for this change is we had kind of an I don't want to say emergency but a last minute snow day U kind of got surprised with some snow and uh we have the I learn testing that will take place soon after April 7th and in discussion with uh the teachers uh the teaching Union and in our Corporation discussion uh they also felt that that extra day of instruction would be more valuable than an extra day of professional development during that time not that professional development's not important it is but with the time constraints and having we've missed uh nine days of school for various reasons this year um it would be that's why I make this motion to change
018that day now we've been out of school nine days how many have we actually taken off as like that's the only true snow non-instruction day was the one I'm asking to replace there the others yeah we did have instruction they were ver ual and then they were uh the the synchronous where we would the teachers would come on at 10 and and teach straight through on a 2hour delay skin professional development days the professional development days are days that we are not in session yes there was three of those yes but actual days that we missed because of snow we did three virtual days where the students would get assignments and then we we've had additional days where the teachers were actually on with the students and teaching that student as the day went did
019we look at the dates of 26 27 I work you were just talking about and we've is that did we move that one I didn't we we didn't look that close we did not but we actually dropped there's no professional development days second semester spring okay okay yeah and we we built in a couple of additional snow days to make up for those um at different times in the calendar any other comment excuse me all right do I have a motion to approve Shar second I don't want to be for as long as we get the business done all right our next we have some Personnel items um a motion to approve the resignation of Travis Ray as special education teacher effective February 28 2025 I have a motion Kim second Dennis alliv four Zer
020um next I have a motion to approve the resignation of Travis Ray as head football coach effective also February 28th 20125 you have a motion Kim second Dennis all those for Z I would just like to wish uh Mr Ray the best moving forward and we appreciate his efforts both in in the classroom and on the field over the time that he was here with us uh my next motion is uh a motion to approve the termination of Jason Franks as U custodian that was a high school an evening High School position a motion second Natalie all those four 5 Z all right uh next um I have a motion to approve uh the hire of Jody Patton as payroll assistant effective February 24th 2025 um as I previously have stated I believe that is
021a when I asked for uh permission to post that it's a 28 hour position okay do I have a motion second Sharon all those four 5 next next I have a motion to approve Teresa Cox as the night custodian at the high school replacing the position um that we unfortunately have DET terminate okay do have a motion denn second Kim all those four 5 Z Z all right next um I have a motion to approve an hourly rate increase for Marcus lucans um he is a mechanic uh Transportation assistant um a little bit of background uh Marcus was hired in um before I was here and he was here for about three months and when there were some other raises handed out to other classified because of the newness of his position it was not
022he was not given a raise then um that coupled with Marcus's current rate of $20 an hour is not very competitive in the field of diesel mechanic and uh I think in order to be competitive uh Marcus puts in a lot of time for us and does a great job um I'm proposing we uh approve this increase it would be a $4 an hour increase for Marcus um effective on the next pay period okay do I have a motion Dennis second at 24ct 24 yes okay all those four 5 all right um this next uh if you have an agenda the the motion is going to read a little differently um it was just an error on my part I apologize that I did not catch it sooner um but it should read a motion
023to approve a salary increase of $1,500 to their base pay for maintenance employees David fields and Todd enman um share a little bit of information first off they are salary so to give them an hourly raise didn't equ that's the the reason for the change um Todd and David both did not receive a raise during the 2024 calendar year um and considering where we're at here uh is the reason is where I came up with the the rate at, 1500 um it's a similar percentage to what the teachers were awarded in their raise in the fall when you break it over the 18-month period um while they are paid out of different funds that teachers are paid out of Education fund um maintenance and this these two gentlemen are paid out of the operations um
024I felt uh an equitable amount there as far as the raise uh considering it was over 18 months um so that's the reason for that uh motion to give them that $1,500 uh rais to their base pay Mr Le I appreciate your researching that coming back with a a proposal Force you have a motion second Sharon all those fourer there all right next I have a motion to approve a stien for Dennis Crow for additional hours work for Dennis excuse me sorry you I will Dennis Crow probably did a lot of work in the weather on his farm but but I can't compensate you for that yeah he's legally maxed out so let me try this need eat hamburgers let me try this again uh I seek a motion to approve a stien for Dennis
025Carter for his additional hours work for winter weather um I would like to make an explanation of where this comes from Dennis is considered a supervisor and he is hourly so Dennis does not qualify he's not he salary excuse me he salary not hourly so he does not qualify for overtime hours per se um Dennis has worked 50 hours plus on just the weekends not counting the extra time um when we get up and drive roads um while I get up and drive my fair share dentist does as well and that's not even even figured into some of this time so just on the weekends uh Dennis has uh has you know put some time in uh where he's not compensated when other people come in and help because they there's there's a setup and
026they're not supervisory they do get uh their pay is is increased at that time so with that being said I make the motion that uh the dentist be given the stien um the the stien amount is to be $1,800 um and that is less than what it would be if he was paid his hourly time and a half rate for working over the hours second for sure Doug tell him thank you yeah Dennis uh never bats and I just steps up and does this we do appreciate him for certain a next uh a motion to approve Grace boning camp and Hannah Martin as co-chairs of the junior class sponsorship for the 2526 school year a motion Sharon second Natalie olives for we certainly being a recently High School principal getting the Junior and then the
027next one prom taken care of by people that will do it is invaluable okay uh so our next motion is to approve Grace boning camp and Hannah Martin as co-chairs of of the prom sponsorship for the 2526 school year you can see the trend there they kind of go together second by Sharon all those four we get a prom all right next um I have a motion to approve Britney n as the online recovery facilitator online credit recovery facilitator for the high school okay do I have a motion Sharon second Dennis all four 5 z z another extremely important position at the high school is it as we can work to uh keep our students that maybe struggled a little bit on track to graduate and also allow students as we expand our course offerings
028into uh allow students to do internships and work-based learning and um hopefully entrepreneur uh or a what's the word look for not internship what's the other word appr ships apprenticeships thank you um we're going to need some flexibility with that online facilitator and this will give it to us so I appreciate that uh next uh a motion to approve Dylan Abel and Britney n as summer school supervisors for the high school motion Dennis second Natalie all those four 5 next we have a number of um donations so a motion to approve the following donations we have $51.90 from Bill parsley to the Eastern Green negative lunch account $65 Anonymous donor to Eastern Green Middle School band to assist a band student with the Cedar Point band trip fees $40 from Joe and N roia Hogan
029to the Eastern Green Elementary School fifth grade Bradford Woods trip and $3,495 5 from the Eastern Green High School girls basketball booster club to Eastern Green High School to defay the cost of team's travel gear I have a motion Sharon second k all those four got lower donate and yeah we do appreciate everybody in our community that steps up and helps out and we can't do it without without your assistance thank you I do have one late item okay um does it just come with this number do we need to clarify that yeah I just all right it it'll be uh 3-10 D 5318 uh the late item is a motion to approve the 2025 through 2027 commercial HVAC and Food Service inspection and maintenance agreement with HFI as presented um a little bit about
030this this isn't a new agreement we've uh I believe in March of 23 was when they first entered in a maintenance agreement with HFI uh that has worked really well um so it's this is nothing more than a continuation of that I did spend some time looking over it um actually had uh an outside independent person kind of audit a little bit to see if there was you know if everything looked good on both the contract as well as the money we've spent from 23 to present and uh while we do spend a lot of money with HFI because of the agreement and the reduced labor we've actually saved a little bit of money um our equipment is is quite old in this building um so we will continue to have some of that uh
031one of the things we noticed in the uh the audit and the review of it is we probably need to do a better job internally of tracking POS and already put some uh steps in place with HFI and and our the central office to better account for that um I also add it's approximate because it varies but it's about a 22 to 25% decrease in the hourly rate they charge us for lab labor compared to just any other business they would go to so um as I said this is a three-year agreement however um it's it can be cancelled at any point with 30 days given notice so it's not Ironclad locking Us in for three years and there is a graduated scale they anticipate like a labor increase each year but again that's that's
032something we can always set and negotiate so that's a motion to approve the uh 20 25 through 27 commercial HVAC um inspection and maintenance agreement of HFI any discussion okay do I have a motion Dennis second Sharon lose four 5 Z okay I think we are ready for discussion and uh I'm going to turn it over to Mrs Clary she's got uh a presentation to talk a little bit about our Middle School programming um talk a little bit about uh what her building what they do every day and the unique learner that is our young Adolescence in the Middle School so this handout just kind of gives you um a very quick overview of um the Middle School model that we follow um I kind of feel like a like almost stepping on toes because
033the expert of this is sitting at the table we wouldn't have um the Middle School model that we have if it hadn't been for Doug and his team back um when this all came um into play so um Eastern Green used to be K through 12 building and then um they decided that we were going to separate um and they built the high school in 2008 and um in that process then the Middle School its own building um just before we get started on this raise your hand if you know the difference between a junior high and a Middle School junior high 78 School six okay good answer anyone else have a guessing wrong it's not it's not entirely wrong well I always thought of junior high is being mini high school that it wasn't
034it tended to be followed the same High School model as opposed to Middle School being more teaming and more emotionally supportive for our young ones yep y um so I'll be quite honest when I started to apply for the Middle School principal position um Amy Goodwin came to me and she said do you know the difference between a junior higher and a middle school and I was like no I didn't know there was a difference um and then I started doing my own research um middle level education America's middle level education did a lot of studies on the difference between middle school and Junior High um Sharon you're absolutely right that Junior High kind of is like a mini high school so it's very subject focused um and a middle school focuses more um on
035developing the whole adolescent um and focusing on supporting them in that unique development period in in their life um and so they came up with what they call the successful Middle School model this we believe there is a book um I brought it if you ever wanted to read more about it you could there's also a separate book that talks about teaming specifically and scheduling and how to make it work so a lot of times Middle School is um we have all of our mods at the beginning of the day and then because we do a teaming um model then we have our core subjects that follow so they have uh math science language arts social studies and they see the same teacher all the time everyone in that grade level sees those teachers the
036reason for that is just like we said it supports um the whole child um it's going to give an opportunity for some interdisciplinary instruction so that those teachers can work together um we know that kids learn best in kind of an authentic situation and so by having these team type situations they're able to do that um it emphasizes academics but also personal and social growth um we recognize that this is probably the hardest point in anybody's life um everybody is awkward in the Middle School the teachers and myself included um so we um we spend a lot of time just helping students decide who are you as a person um who is it that you want to be and I don't mean do you want to be an engineer do you want to be a
037nurse I mean what kind of person do you want to be do you want to be a person that helps other people do you want to be a person who works with numbers so more just that kind of um relationship in a junior high school it is very much like a mini high school it's prioritizes the subject instead of the whole child um so you will see you might have a teacher that sees kids in seventh 8th 11th grade when I went to school here there were teachers that were teaching all different subjects right so in this way we're able to get away with that so I have some quotes on here we'll go ahead and break into this successful Middle School model and just some more information on um the five things that they
038believe make it the most successful um so there are five essential attributes responsive challenging empowering Equitable and engaging um along the way you can see that I added these quotes these are quotes from kids from egms um they're not quotes I found on the internet um they're they came directly from our kiddos so atalina Schwab says I love this school because it does not force its students to be who they are not instead they embrace our differences and show us our potential the school makes us think that we can do anything if we put our mind to it this school might not be the wealthiest school but that does not matter when we have the best community to be surrounded by so um I think she hits the nail on the head um I picked
039her for one of the first quotes because I was like that's it that's who we are um we do set high expectations um but we do meet kids where they are and help them get to those high expectations um we are constantly advocating for all of our students no matter where they come from um no matter what it is that they're choosing to do and we of course try to make things relevant um to them it's gets harder as you get older to make it relevant to them but we try to um make sure that we talk to them about those things what are you interested in what is it you want to do and then we try to design lessons around that so what does it mean to be responsive it just means if
040you're looking in our school you'll see that we Implement a lot of flexible grouping strategies um we have our honors classes so we have our high ability language arts math classes um we have Jag classes now we have um we have inclusion classes that are helping to meet some of our lower students but also including them in um everyday lessons we have informative assessments that are helping us to tailor our instruction we're of course following those iearn checkpoints um but even just going throughout the day we're we're looking and seeing our and assessing our kids where we want them to be what do we need to do to get them there um and then we're providing mentorship programs that connect students with caring adults part of the teaming process and why we encourage to be
041in those teams is because then you do see the same kids every day and you're able to then respond to them I know and I'm sure any teacher in my building knows when someone's having a good day when someone's not having a good day and I know that because I see them every single day um right in my classroom so this school um Gabriel Biddle said this school has trust also we have teachers where if we have a problem I know that I'm safe to go to one of these teachers also the sports program it makes me proud to play baseball or this community and I'm very proud to be a part of Eastern Green so challenging we have high expectations like I mentioned before we set rigorous academic goals and provide scaffolding to support
042achievements so yeah we have high expectations and high academic goals but we're going to help you get there along the way we try to incorporate as much project-based learning um that's pushes our students to think critically and then we celebrate Student Success and reinforce the value of hard work so um we do lots of Project based learning and a lot of our classes that's a sixth grade science class in the bottom right hand corner um they were working on a lab science fair is coming up I'll talk about that here in a little bit but science fair is coming up and um that's a great a great opportunity to see some Project based learning in action um what makes our school the best is our staff and how they are so caring to us another
043thing is the amount of projects we have plus we have calzones I also like having strings is one of my classes I love the teachers and a lot of other thingsone day I mean they are good it's a big deal I uh Mrs yo and I have to stand in the cafeteria door and like stop them from rushing the cafeteria ladies on C wait a minute why is the board not known about this our big guy approved I will say that they are good come to czone day and Thursday every Thursday every Thursday all right um all right I had lots of I will say I don't have every single student comment on the uh presentation but Kel zones came up a lot um the food is excellent so congratulations to the cafeteria they are
044killing it in there um the bottom leftand picture is Mrs cage um they were we were recognized Noah at the last board meeting I just sat in Mrs C's class the other day and I didn't want to leave she makes everyone believe that they can be an artist and they produce some amazing work in there so it's really nice empowering choices and participation so allowing students to select topics um for projects that interest them but also we do have some mods like I mentioned at the beginning of the day so band and strings we have Jag um they have a rotation of sign of keyboarding in seventh grade so we have some choices that they're allowed to make along the way um and and a lot of PE a lot of our students are really
045getting involved in music and art now because of the classes that we're able to offer so it's been very very very helpful um we have student Le conferences where Learners share their progress with their parents of course we have um student teacher conferences at the very beginning of the year um but also we invite parents in a lot just to see their kids work and what they're doing um we try to put on activities that allow the students to shine and then we involve students in decision making not only just in the classroom but our student council is very active in the middle school and they're doing things to try to help um build a school that they feel like they have created um how the teachers go out of their way through the struggle
046annoyance headaches and other things just to teach us new skills and that's the best and most important thing so kids should help make that easier Ryland John um Eastern Green is a very good school in my opinion because we always have someone to talk to if we are upset or down I also really like the extracurriculars like strings band Jag and choir I also really like how as soon as I got to the middle school I got comfortable with talking to my teachers I also felt even if I mess up I can have someone help I can have help understanding it so Blake hick and Bam said that advocacy is a huge thing that we talk about um in Middle School not only us advocating for our kids but teaching children how to advocate for
047themselves um and ask when they need help or do you have a problem with the teacher or assignment you feel like that was unfair let's talk about how do we sit down and and advocate for oursel and say hey I I feel like maybe this wasn't quite um what I wanted so we Implement differentiated instruction to meet our learning needs um we provide resources and support for students that need that no matter what background they come from and we try to Foster an inclusive environment that respects and celebrates diversity um that was from one of our Awards day there you can see we have lots of kids receiving those Awards I like egms because the teachers are nice and helpful the food is really good see again um the start the starts program and finally
048strings Mr Drummond is super awesome and one of my favorite teachers in the school he needs a Race So get on that um engaging um we use real world problems Mrs Goodwin does an awesome lesson with um Barbie Bungie um where they have to decide how much rope the Barbie gets so she doesn't hit the ground when she bunge jumps they also did something right before um break that involved um percents sorry and how to figure up percents kind of right before Christmas so um and not just in there in science I see a lot of um Miss Richardson was just doing a lab the other day about the different types of erosion which was really cool they were able to walk around and talk about each one of the types of erosion um while
049I was in there everyone was able to explain that to me so we try to make it relevant and and pertinent to their lives we use technology um we're learning more technology all the time we've had a lot of professional development this year that has allowed us to learn some technology along the way and things to help enhance our lessons and just engagement we have collaborative projects we encourage teamwork and creativity very rarely will you walk around in the middle school and every single room is quiet and everyone sitting at the desk now they may be there at some point during the week but the in every single class language arts social studies science um I don't care what room you go in sometime during the week the kids will be out of their seats
050and talking to each other and working um it's all very productive chatter um and they're able to explain what they're doing so we we encourage that because when they leave our building they're going to have to be able to work together in a Workforce and be with other people and communication is a huge piece of um the puzzle I think people are respectful at egms the kids are very kind and very smart the teachers are very kind and so respectful and they make egms special you can make good friends that are very kind and very sweet and it's just an amazing time every day you go I love this school so much Julia Lewis so the picture in the bottom right was from um when we had the maker space come and they did a
051language arts and science kind of stem lab together that day it was really cool yeah and then um teaming so I mentioned teaming at the very beginning teaming is not one of the five essential attributes but teaming is very important in the middle school because this is how you get that collaborative instruction you build um the student teacher relationships and you get that interdisciplinary learning learning opportunities and we have consistent behavior and academic expectations all that stuff they is lined out at the very beginning of the year they um talk to the kids about what they expect in class the behavior that we expect that we expect in the building um and we stick to that so we follow a very like I said it's um it's always consistent and it's always fair so I
052think that speaks a lot to the school I love how nice everyone is and how there's breakfast for lunch I also like that when I feel low and I need a friend someone is always there for me another thing is I can always make a new friend every day because Eastern teaches and helps us learn how to be nice not just to yourself but to others as well Andy West it makes this school better because of the nachos again the food and the teachers I love this school because of all of the people that work here I've been at this school my whole life and it's so much fun and this Middle School I could live in here if the teachers would let me Carson no I I I do want to add because this
053has happened from the beginning of the middle school and in true M Middle School design there's a planning period and a teaming period from for a financial standpoint we've never been able to do that here at Eastern Green just because it's very expensive to give those teachers two planning periods in essence regardless that we can't do that the teachers here have always bought into the middle school concept with such passion that they still find time to team and and most of them I believe still do it during their lunchtime y they get 30 minutes of of unstructured unsup they don't have to supervise anything they spend that 30 minutes meeting with their other team teachers working on making Eastern Green better for our students so I I I don't want I just they've done that
054from 2008 on and they still do it so I I just I wanted to mention that about the team that they really do go above and beyond with their time and a lot of very productive conversations happened during that lunch period I can speak both from the teaching aspect obviously when I was in the classroom still and now from the admin aspect that um that's a time where they talk about students and I and I don't mean talk about students and like berate them or anything like that but just hey did you notice soand so was feeling down today or I sent so and so uh to the nurse because they had a headache at 10:30 so if in at six period they're looking kind of peakish again it might be because they need some
055more adill I just little conversations like that that I think go a long way to help make the students feel comfortable and and responsible so um so key takeaways middle school education require Ires developmentally responsive approach the five essential attributes which you have on your handout um provide the framework for that Improvement we intentional and imple implementation and reflection students needs to drive our decision-making processes and our instruction and the teaming allows a team of teachers to be responsible for that whole entire grade level they work together they help support the kids Etc and good food and there's good food so what else could you ask for but if you ever want to visit Middle School you want might want to know how to be cool in middle school and this guy has some tips
056for you all right here's how you be cool in Middle School based off of what I see every day as a middle school teacher don't ever dress for the weather you should do this instead you should dress the opposite of the weather forecast when you're walking in the hallways or the classroom don't just walk you should do this instead you should do random Zoomies don't ever use a normaliz pencil you should use one of these instead you should use the tiniest pencil you could possibly find if you got to get up and blow your nose don't it take the most efficient route to the kleenex you should try this instead you should definitely take the scenic route and walk around a little bit maybe even stop and say hi to one of your buddies maybe
057even hit them in the back of the head walk by garbage can don't just put your trash in there you should do this instead you should imagine you're the next LeBron James because you never know every sing every single boy in middle school does it whenever there's a ceiling that you could potentially touch you should attempt to touch this healing regardless of height or athleticism don't just drink water out of it you should do this instead with it you should try to dump it on your friends all right here's how You' be cool in Middle School based off of what I see every day as a middle school teacher the weather you should do if you ever want come Middle School make sure that you remember these helpful tips and you don't just you should
058that's any questions about the Middle School I would just say thank you for all the time and effort you put into that the school well that to yeah thank you thank you very much all right Mr George would you like to go next sure I'll start with uh our I uh we finished officially wrapped up I today had all the makeups done um while I can't release anything publicly just yet uh I want to say that we are Beyond thrilled with how our students performed uh so a big thank you to our teachers and staff for the work that they put into preparing our kids for the IR testing both in second and third grade uh it's paying off in a very big way uh tomorrow great you get the scores this fast you have
059to wait two months I love it I love they finished you finished today and you've got them already well I not official but they because this week is the last week of it they waited until they had the bulk of the state done uh and then they told us I think it was Thursday they said we should probably have them to by Monday and then we made up our test this morning and they were on by I don't know when I brought them over to you probably noon I think um so yeah so we have all those in um and we were very pleased with those so um tomorrow uh Miss Clare Mr Kirk and do I will be going to IU for a recruitment Fair of sorts highlighting our Corporation and speaking with potential
060candidates uh it's a great opportunity to showcase what makes Eastern Green special and hopefully bring in some outstanding new teachers later this week uh Mr Lewis uh Miss Tasha and I will be meeting with our grade level leaders to continue our kids at Hope discussion and I think middle are you doing too yes and the middle school team leaders as well uh to continue our kids at Hope discussions um last week we had the opportunity to meet virtually with the program's founder Rick Miller um and I truly appreciate Mr Lewis um for helping bring this initiative to us uh this has the potential to make a very lasting impact on our students and I'm excited for this to take shape um this Thursday at 7 our third graders will be putting on their annual Folk
061Festival Mrs Drummond always does an incredible job of helping our students put together a great performance and i' love to invite all of you there I'm disappointed Mike isn't here because I wanted to specifically invite him um to dance uh turkey and the straw but uh our fifth graders are gearing up for their big Bradford Woods trip uh coming up on April 2nd through the 4th I think myself and Dr Morgan are going to rotate on those days on going up and visiting with them I went last year was the first year uh with fifth grade um on the elementary side that I got to go realized very quickly that I did not dress appropriately for the day uh dressed for for work and not play and I think Mr Lewis is going you're going
062you got any cam Shenanigans plan do I yeah uh not yet well I can't tell you that that we're public so I got to keep that secret I didn't say what they are it's just if you had any working on it right um right now fifth grade is finishing up their fundraising uh with pie in the face event um so huge thank you to all the teachers um who are stepping up for that one uh last week was a big one for Hands-On learning in the elementary w lab visited and put on an amazing convocation for our student body and followed up with a fantastic stem KN thank you to Mrs buser for making those happen and working those out for us um right before that we had star laab here as well uh which
063was a huge success again thanks to the planning and organization of Mrs Brown so we appreciate both of them for bringing those experiences to our kids uh on the administrative side uh we are finishing up acrs long evaluations in the elementary are almost done and we're moving right along uh as we move into spring break as we head into spring break next week uh this is World Tour week uh one of my favorite weeks of of the uh of the Year oh also I didn't put this on the notes but I do want to um specifically thank Judy milis and Martha marmes uh they worked with Mrs Evans and um Mrs Van dender uh for our book fair last year um and I always say that about Mrs that she is a saint on Earth
064and I always feel so guilty asking her to do anything because I know that she can't tell me no uh and I and I feel so bad sometimes but she she yet I do yet I continue to do it uh but she uh when and I actually asked Mrs marmes first and she said well talk to Judy and I was like well Martha you know how this is goingon to go right but um I I appreciate them volunteering their time and helping uh Mrs Evans and um Mrs vaner with that um with Mrs vaner at the high school picking up Engles classes she just didn't really have the time uh to be able to put into the book fair so um we really needed some assistance if we wanted to make that work and without
065those two ladies it just wouldn't have wouldn't have happened and the book fair was a great success again this week is our world tour week um but as we head into spring break uh want to wish everybody a restful uh break uh they've all worked very hard and hope they can take some time to relax and recharge for the rest of the year um as always thank you for the time and support and it's a great time to be at Eastern Gren thank you she she's talked way too [Laughter] long I was gonna thank Mr George the floor is yours I'll be F again again again um attendance all three grade levels are sitting at 95% attendance I put this down um because even though it was a little behind what we had last month
066we had a lot of sickness hit the building this month and I thought that 95% was pretty good for flu a and flu B um checkpoint three is happening this week in a lot of rooms our teachers are working really hard to get our students prepared for I learn which is coming up um in April some past events that I wanted to brag on the school dance um our Middle School formal was a huge success uh everyone had a great time the catering was awesome I want to thank Mr Cole U Mrs Campbell Mrs Dorman um the entire student council for putting together a great event I have to admit I was a little skeptical when I said yes we can do this and it turned out to be really fun everyone looked very nice
067the student showed up well dressed and and represented very well I also wanted to thank um everyone that put together the book fair and read Across America which happen our jck Middle School Jag students helped with that uh and they really enjoyed being able to be a part of that and I think they did a really good job I want to thank High School Jag and Mrs bman for kind of mentoring our kids um during that whole process so that was it was really nice upcoming events like Mr George mentioned will all be at IU interview day tomorrow um we are invited to the career fair on Wednesday at the high school so thank you to the high school for having our seventh and eighth grade students come over there and be a part of
068that in the afternoon I wanted to shout out nurse Amber she has been rocking it she came in and just has done a fabulous job we're streamlining some processes and getting everything worked out so I really appreciate her I also wanted to thank um Mrs Bailey and the special ed team for the acrs and everything they've been doing to make sure our kids are ready for next year and have all the things that they need to be successful and then I also wanted to shout out our instructional assistants at the middle school they have been covering classes like crazy because we have no subs and lots of illness and they just they go wherever I ask them to go and that's very very thankful for that I hate that they have to miss out on
069some of their time in their classes and what they're supposed to be doing but it has certainly been a help because there's not enough of us in the office to cover the office and everything outse in school so I appreciate all of them your turn all right you were gonna thank me no I I'm not I took it off let's keep it moving good afternoon um the high school is sitting at an overall attendance rate of 94.2% um although as of uh more recently on a daily daily rate we are uh seeing about 95 95.5 um so slow incremental increases uh we are also at total enrollment of 335 um as of today again congratulations to Hannah Martin uh for being nominated as a teacher of the year for Green County Soil and Water and
070congratulations to our bowling team and Andrew Shaw for their postseason advancement would would like to wish uh good luck to Brooklyn Johnson and pton Lewis uh they will be representing Eastern Green on Friday at the Jag State Career competition up in in Anapolis um would like to thank also Travis Ray for his service to the school district appreciate all of his efforts both in and out of the classroom and wish him the best of luck as he pursues other Ventures uh mock AP exams are near complete we have uh AP Cal coming up in March uh and sat was completed last Thursday I want to give a huge thank you to uh Mr Ken Howard um for overseeing all of our testing he's done a fabulous job and and has really kind of made it
071a very efficient use of our time uh thank you to Aaron Buskirk for hosting the boys basketball sectionals um we had the entire pretty much the entire County over here for they weren't here they were WV yeah they were they were here um and he did a great job um we received a lot of compliments on the hospitality um and uh all all the work that was put in um and Mr buerk also made sure that concessions was covered tickets were covered so I do appreciate all those volunteers as well we'd also like to extend a thank you to our custodial crew uh Sher Angie and Teresa uh we received several compliments from uh visiting teams uh complimenting us about how clean our facilities were uh we are also very happy and thankful to have
072back uh she she left us for a while and she she's now back and um she does an amazing job uh just a few things that uh need to know coming up uh we have about 10 to 15 students that will be interviewing for our internships and appre apprenticeships through the upskill program uh they participated in a resume building workshop a couple weeks ago and we'll be interviewing for several positions here in the next few weeks uh best of luck to our spring Sports as they start the competition in the next few weeks we have Boys Baseball uh boys track girls track girls softball um and boys golf thank you um so just want to wish wish them all best of luck at in their Seasons as Dustin said uh tomorrow uh we'll be representing
073uh Eastern Green at IU interview day um in hopes to find some some great candidates for for our our school uh Green County band day is also tomorrow so I want to wish Miss Ole and our Eastern Green band the best of luck as they perform um I believe over in Linton I believe I a blomfield Bloomfield okay isfield thank you uh finally uh tomorrow uh evening we will also be acknowledging our swak winner winter Award winners congratulations to Clara Hawk Shelby fenstad Kobe Sykes and Roman Valentine um on Wednesday we have our career fair I would like to invite all of you to come and see everything that they put together on March 26th we have our National Honor National Honor Society induction um March the career Affair start uh it will start at
074the beginning of this school day so about I would probably :39 8:39 o'cl yeah um March 27th we have our top 10 banquet uh which is a local tradition where we where we have the top 10 of each class and uh a bunch of teachers and everybody just go goes out and celebrates all of their hard work and March 29th we have a Riley dance Marathon again if you have uh little kids uh or middle school kids I would encourage you to come on out and uh support our Riley dance Marathon we try to make a make a day of fun with that and then April 2nd marks the start of the Bradford Woods trip I believe they're there for about three days so um just want to hope everyone I want to wish everyone
075a safe and enjoyable spring break so thank you thanks you sir thank you yeah I got just a couple things just a reminder to everyone that uh you know we did change that uh Monday April 7th Day to an in in school day we will be sure to communicate that effectively to all of our students since it is a little different we will have that updated on the website soon also we did update the 2526 calendar um those changes we made a couple changes to uh the calendar at the last board meeting those changes are already on the website for anybody looking to make plans for next year and then the 26 27 calendar that we approved today we will have that uh by the end of the week that'll be on the website as
076well so people can start reviewing those dates and and uh making their plans accordingly um I do want to mention the book fair thank you to everybody that did that I do have to add a little story though because uh pton Lewis was over here and he read to some kindergarteners while they were in there and then I just happened to be I was reading to the kindergarteners that day and they said that this Mr Lewis did better than pton Lewis reading the book so they said I was better at reading the book but they said he was much better as Simon Says than I was so um yeah I just I had to get that little jab in there pton but uh it was uh kind of neat as a dad to see him
077in there reading to the kids and cutting it up I also want to pass on some thank yous it's my uh first time as superintendent and really getting out into the elementary school while they're uh gearing up for testing and to see the teachers strike the balance of the importance of the test but not putting too much pressure on the kids that's a that's a very fine line and it's different for each kid and I thought our teachers do an outstanding job of that as as does the administration so I I appreciate those efforts um that they took it serious but did put too much pressure on them also shout out to uh as Eric said to Mr Howard and and that entire team that did the SAT testing because that's not always an easy
078thing to get high school juniors to buy into that if they they don't think it matters to them and those scores and that data is important for us and and I think uh Mr Howard and the rest of the team did a really good job of communicating that to the students and and he was very happy with the effort uh that he received um he already mentioned it but uh having dealt with putting on a sectional myself um it's never an easy task and uh Mr Buskirk and his team did a great job uh you know I didn't really hear anybody complain um and uh it's that's usually the sign of a good event when nobody complains for especially for your ad they don't get a lot of accolades but unless you mess something up
079everybody let you know but they did a great job Final thing I have you know we got spring break coming up the week of March 17 through 21st uh just a great opportunity for everybody the students faculty staff kind of recharge and get geared up for the final nine weeks it's hard to believe it's here um seems like uh end of February 1 of March seems to last like 15 weeks when you're in education sometimes and then you get to that spring break and then it's like a Sprint to the end it's going to happen so quick so good time to get recharge those travel and safe travels and you know we're sided here at w or excuse me at e happened yet no we're we're excited here and he's wearing a blue jacket yeah
080we're excited to get to spring break for the kids and the teachers that all need a break and uh charge up for there at the end when we do our best yeah it's all got after that [Laughter] yep can I add one thing I'm sorry I should have said this earlier and this proof that parents are watching because I already got an email that asked uh uh I read results for parents I will mail those out at the end of this week you the parents will receive them uh via mail over spring break and I'll send a voice message towards the end of the week with an explanation on how those will go so um hopefully they're still tuning in and they caught that I won't we're kind of in bar good right now okay
081Shar anything you want to say this has been an astounding year so far and I just thank you guys you have just done amazing job so please share with your staff it's and you know during the covid years it was rough Rocky and rough and it's you guys are just nailing it so thank you appreciate yeah um just let Doug know I've reached out about the U gift eight additional funding Early Learning Center she's not in until next Tuesday she's on vacation so we'll need to talk with her in maybe and we can maybe bring some more information back next meeting how that might work um and then just want to thank Mr Howard for being on our career coaching team and uh hope that will uh benefit our students as we move forward to
082through that learn about new careers and let him see all these different employers and things and than for the apprentices and interns I that's that seed we're planting there is just going to blossom into some wild and wonderful things things for these kid that I may not had an opportunity for in the past so thank you for that energy yeah um just thank you to everybody I guess thank you to the parents that are watching the teachers that are watching for getting up every single day and doing the hard stuff I I totally get it and I think our admin team is doing great our all of our staff is doing wonderful our bus drivers everyone's doing a great job and it's really great to see like the little quotes from some of the people
083and I'm like I actually know that kid now you know because my kid's getting older so it's like yes yes you know so watching anybody grow is just really amazing some of these students of the month today really really really have made tremendous growth and it's it's really cool so thank you for everyone that's putting in the work all all the time every day even when you don't feel like doing it can I say something you made me something sorry the student of the month I was just so so thrilled to hear the teachers talk about kindness throughout almost every single one and that just you know it just really does my heart well and it just makes me feel like we have something really special here at Eastern Green a lot of schools don't
084have and those character traits are so so important so I appreciate all the work that the staff and teachers are doing gosh sure copying everything I'm saying to have those kids say that I'm sorry but I did I just so many times it is it is really it is really awesome yeah yeah yeah BCE and if is volunteering to go on the Bradford Woods trip publicly he's GNA take all of his cattle but other than that everything is gonna be [Laughter] fine you know again thanks everybody hard work they put in I still would you know this is starting my nth year on the board and I can't believe I haven't known about czone we're n years in and I'm just finding out about it so there is a little bitterness there but okay sorry
085we let you down we'll just let that go all right um with that is recommended that the meeting be adjourned at time is 7:46 PM do I have a motion Dennis second Kim all those four oh okay I guess I mean I was having a good time but oh