001[Music] and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all i'd like [Music] uh just a few opening remarks uh this is a meeting the school board in public for the purpose of conducting the school corporation business is not to be considered a public community meeting shall we time for public participation as indicated by agenda item number seven industry the mission to go to these schools is to inspire innovation empowering potential enriching our world in our vision ocean community schools indiana's premier global school district of choice uh item 1.4 is approval of tonight's agenda do we have any additions the agenda is approved as presented and the minutes from our february 14 2022 joint school war meeting with the goshen city council do we have any
002corrections or additions to those minutes uh we'll go to item two which is superintendent's reports and 2.1 student and staff thank you we have several people to recognize tonight um we first have five football players i'd like to call up here if they're here brayden jordan williams amiel romero and roman truck these five felons were selected to the academic all-state team um could not be more um um how is one of our bus drivers and you might have seen a tweet out that he went above and beyond um there was a little kindergartner that needed help carrying her i think it was valentine's day and tom walked her all the way across there [Music] of the year for boys and girls diving boys so we'd like to recognize her that was you guys had a
003great season so very excited we'll be calling some of them up here to recognize levi mosher jeremy stutzman sky story and nick sayer they actually went qualified for state in the 200 there's three yeah [Music] actually won the sectional championship of the 100 butterfly and he qualified for the state competition broke the record at 51.01 and he beat jason fox's previous record from 1996 which then he qualified for the stadium thank you [Music] all right so we'll go to item 2.2 which is an update english learner's report [Music] thank you for this opportunity english learners are learning english all day long not just during certain periods of the day therefore every teacher is a teacher of the english language here at goshen community schools 56 of our students are hispanic 27 percent of our students
004are english learners not all english learners are hispanic the number of english learners have been growing since the 1718 school year which was 23.0 and as of launch of this year's 27.4 it is important to note that not all english learners are hispanic there are 37 different languages spoken by english learners at ocean community schools here are the top 14 languages other than english and spanish which would be russian arabic punjabi and others equality means treating every student the same equity means making sure every student has the support they need to be successful the el department helps to ensure that every child has the necessary supports for success that requires understanding the unique challenges and barriers faced by english learners and providing additional support to help them overcome those barriers in addition to language barriers
005our english learners have many of the same needs as the rest of our students to read some of these barriers are interrupted schooling and the reasons for the interrupted schooling may have been not having the resources available to continue virtual learning during a pandemic another reason might be the journey to get here but it might have taken some weeks two months depending on their country of origin education wasn't as important as having the families as working for their families because of survival those are might be some reasons for interrupted spoiling they might also have another barrier might be trauma and this could be a result of their immigration journeys or witnessing abuse assault or even some hospitals and another reason for trauma would be missing parents because of immigrating without them or having to lose
006them to deportation and living arrangements there might be more than one family living in a household or um they are living with a guardian that they might not even know or haven't seen for many years once we start to understand the challenges and barriers we then need to provide additional supports to help them overcome those barriers we provide those supports from the moment the moment they come to register their students our central registrar eliana murano who is here today [Music] they are the face of our district which is of our corporation as they directly communicate with our families since they are fluent in english and spanish this helps all our families feel welcome we in every building to help parents of english learners get information and support they need they help the teachers communicate with
007the parents of these students they provide workshops for our parents and here are liaisons one of those workshops is literacy knives and this is just teaching our parents that they need to teach to read to their students in their first language and here's an example of one that one of some elt some fair liaisons did in december they were just reading about your culture to your students they did it via virtual and they even set it up they put a lot of work into this they can set it up to where the parents had food book they read which was tamales and hot chocolate which is traditional to some cultures around christmas time another workshop would be like technology nights where we have our parents come in and we teach them about our platforms like
008skyward parent square canyons canvas in my school box and we will teach them how to download it to their phone if they need an elder email address we will help them provide help them get that or whatever it is they need so they are able to use these platforms motion community schools has also partnered with triple p and some of our parent liaisons have been trained so they can teach some of their workshops we support our english learners by having two to five el teachers per building they are advocates of our english learners their rights in the laws and regulations they provide direct instruction in the first language or second language as needed to help students understand and interact with academic content for the new arrivals there are resources for information on culture for our
009classroom and content area teachers they can model best practice strategies that english learners need in reaching their academic success and here's an example of an el teacher at the secondary level we have collaborators and these collaborators tutor students using their first language whenever needed as well as develop background knowledge of concepts and vocabulary to help students acquire new learning at the elementaries we have el paris we have one per building in kindergarten and then we have four at the gis building classroom and content area teachers have had the opportunity to get el certified we currently have 15 teachers taking advantage of this opportunity that is being paid by grant money teachers can choose the platform in which they can take these classes it could be online or in person and we have partnered with huntington
010university and goshen college to provide this opportunity when we know our english learners the barriers they face and how to provide additional support they need to overcome these barriers we have english learners that excel in their education they can graduate with academic honors become a city council youth representative continue their education in college get a job as central registrar or an administrative assistant a teacher have successful military careers well i mean they have no limits i want every el student at goshen community schools to have a choice when they graduate high school thank you so much we do get additional funding through the state complexity formula that is account the extra staffing that it's needed but it's we do are instead then so i got roughly about 1700 students in our district that we are
011that are the english learners but it's obviously greater than that we're working so with the 37 other languages how do we support them because i would think it's going to be sometimes harder to maybe have a support for for those languages what do we do with those individuals well what we do we use our english language teachers to help but we also reach out to the community if needed for translation we are apparently not working closely with our community trying to get parents or other community members that speak those languages cycle parent-teacher conferences and when we do i looked at that list and there's some languages i had always heard that some of these less common languages in spoken 37 a lot of those students that's their native language but they also know english a
012lot of the parents also speak english not in all situations [Laughter] levi was part of the 203 qualifying for the state competition and he even make sure all right we'll go to items summer [Music] asked us to school um potential costs and course offerings for summer school this year we are definitely having secondary which is credit recovery or students who would like to get ahead in the class let me take that online we do charge an extra fee for that because it is not uh credit recovery and so in order to be able to afford that at the at the elementary level this year we are looking at scaling back a little bit we will definitely be having the third grade i read um supports um my irene test was taken last week and this
013week so we should find out my results here in the next couple weeks of how about how many students we need to work with at the end of summer school they will then take that iron test again and that will determine our overall percentage of students or proficient third grade this year also i think you might have heard one of our meets second grade the irene three the third grade test is available for second grade for second graders we had four of our schools four of our schools out to try that if a student passes in second grade they do not have they different students over here they work there again with that um if they don't pass it the state is going to be giving us some cup scores and hopefully some guidance on
014where their deficiencies lie so we can affect them and so for summer school we're scaling back elementaries but we will continue to have full course offerings secondary levels questions i don't know if i am confused but you say you're going to extend it to third grade uh the third graders have always taken um this ire test and and we're required to provide remediation through summer school and the third graders have to retake the test within the summer school this year even though it's a third grade test they allowed us to test second graders um and so that way the second grader passes we can kind of see where they are um on that pathway to proficiency testing just happened recently uh it's finishing last week in this report and how soon are the results out
015i guess uh the they're usually out within a week for this one it's pretty it's pretty simple not a lot of there's nothing for anyone for them to bring anybody into open response it's pretty much um multiple choice you've got a little glimpse of this at the last world war with the city combined so today we're going to expand on our school counseling service here at goshen community schools and i'll have a few people to join me on this presentation and i'll introduce them as they as they come up so um counselors help students navigate life's complexities they play a pivotal role in the social emotional academic and career development of our student populations and of all the students we serve in addition to helping students counselors also strive to create a welcoming inclusive school
016environment where students can always put their best foot forward today we're going to talk about those services we provide and talk about how these services eliminate barriers to student success in our schools the three areas we're going to talk about are the academic development career development and the social emotional development so let's start with academic development our school counselors play a variety of roles they're all on there i'm just going to pull out the one that's in yellow for tonight's purposes um and that is to remove barriers for students success to rigorous coursework so trying to get them academically ready to face anything in their future that they might face so here to talk about what we do with our academic roles and our academic development is lindsay craney our high school school counselor um
017so she'll be talking about the that academic role that we play i just have one slide if you want to go to that um so basically this is what a high school course planning sheet looks like over the course of four years so when we talk to students about what does it look like to graduate from high school here are all the criteria that they have to meet so i wanted to be able to see that's why we talked tonight i don't have any other slides or pretty pictures because academics are what they are right there's not a lot of pictures about that but um so every grade builds up to high school right so counselors work in grades k to eight help set the stage for that pinnacle of graduation and for success in
018high school where everything counts and all their grades on their permanent records right so in high school students can get into a number of areas and those include which courses to take which career paths to explore which colleges or trade programs to pursue and how to manage their sorry their physical and mental health and also how to maneuver complicated life situations so my academics are typically thought of as teachers territory school counselors offer academic support for students as well in fact ocean community schools ask the counselors help improve academic achievement for their students and when meeting with students who are struggling with their score counselors can help bridge the gap between students parents and teachers helping all parties identify the root of the problem and come up with alternatives as necessary we also help to
019create an environment that fosters academic integrity and teaches students how to establish good study habits so they can take with them throughout their academic journey these four skills are being taught throughout gcs k to 12. some specific specific examples include counselors have worked with the counseling cooperative at welfare county to just to build core lessons that would be taught k-12 and in the academic focus we include group instruction on topics like study skills and test anxiety and then from that small groups or individualized plans can be determined if students have more need based on what we do in a large group of instruction like i said those are kids well we also have four year plans with students when we get to high school we actually start these in eighth grade when we meet with
020them during transitions we talk to them about um what the next four years will look like they're not locked into that at that point but we like to give them an idea of what it's going to look like um so yes we primarily focus on ninth grade but as we're working through we make sure they have plans for all four years and then what happens if we don't meet that and kind of maybe have some fun to figure it out but we do schedule a plan for them for all four years we meet with them annually to develop their schedules to make sure they're staying on track so again if they're falling off that path we meet with them and say what do we need to do what kind of interventions do we need to
021have that type of thing to help them out set up time if needed that's primarily younger grades would be with things like peer mentors or past mentors maybe outside support when they get to high school a lot of it's more like peer tutoring it's like national honor society students will tutor other students during srt things like that we also help teachers develop plans to get students back on track and that could be um maybe if they come in late and we're trying to figure out how we can best get them in classes to get them some credits that year or maybe they just solve the times maybe some materials too hard and we work with teachers and try to develop um developing individual plans for students and connecting them to outside resources and resources at
022the end of the day most of our work in academics isn't even related to actual academics and we feel that it's helping students believe that they can do the work and they can be successful yeah i think that's okay okay that's the big battle is making sure that we need to do to setting goals what do we need to do to work towards those goals and reach those goals so we can be better in the classroom which helps us be better at home better at the community better in the world we help break down the difficult barriers that are interfering with student learning so a lot of times this is seen in high anxiety in school so we have to address those barriers first to help their learning so we do one-on-one check-ins just some
023relational support small groups so we help teachers with managing behavior in the classroom with students that are really struggling we come alongside teachers and help them with those specific students so it might look like helping women like a student from the classroom or giving teachers tools to be able to manage the behavior within the classroom creating often will help the teacher create a secondary place to go to to calm down and reset so that they can return to learning next is career development um morris was supposed to be here this evening so i will be talking with you a little bit about the career development so on the next slide you will see all the roles that a school counselor plays in career development you can see a picture there of fire a fire a
024truck and kids learning about different careers with fire trucks but what we're really trying to do is to pay attention to eliminating any barriers that are keeping students from developing the mindsets and behaviors necessary to be work-related schools resiliency perseverance understand lifelong learning as part of a long-term career success to build that positive attitude toward learning and a strong work ethic so in the elementary portion of this um we have a variety of activities that engage our students in what do they want to be when they grow up so it's a beginning concept of work and a beginning concept of at some point school is not going to be there unless you choose it to be there so how do we develop you into recognizing all the things you can possibly be become as you
025grow older you can see there's pictures of college go week where students um can be a part of what college they might want to attend um spirit days go along with that interest inventories of things what what students are already interested in at a very young age um career fairs the bottom fixture has students that are dressed up in what they might want to be in their future careers these students take field trips to colleges they learn about what the occupations are and what each of them entail so they're learning about early on about the skills and what it takes to possibly think about a career in the future the junior high is next um just the activities that our counselors engage our students in are career quest which is a county-wide off-campus hands-on event
026showcase showcasing local career options in manufacturing construction healthcare and i.t um so some of these pictures are from there there are classroom lessons that are college and career related lessons that take the student's personal interest and connect them to possible apprenticeships trade schools military two and four-year colleges college go week continues into junior high it's an annual event that's k-12 where students can look at different colleges and can explore colleges and see what might be out there in that area in eighth grade an activity that we do with our eighth grade students is the four industries with program it's an immersive experience for students bringing them face to face with four industries you might be familiar with it's a big manufacturing company here in elkhart county teaching them about business management product design engineering manufacturing
027and much more in that program um we do have a manufacturing day each fall nearly 3 000 8th graders visit manufacturing facilities all around our county and learn about all the different kinds of work that are possible from the shop floor to the executive offices so it takes them through the whole picture of what it's like to work in the manufacturing industry and then we have the opportunity for students to take a preparing for college and career course on this eighth graders can take this and they can earn high school credit by completing this pcc course we have a variety of stem opportunities that are all driven by um our school counselors um university of nodar game visits for our stem conference for girls um coach goshen public library stem group and then many other
028mentoring active activities that we engage our students in to make them well aware of what might be ahead of them and then our high school this is now where we focused that those cte concentrators our high school has been working really hard to have a series of classes that are focused on a specific career path right now these career paths include advanced manufacturing construction digital design engineering accounting business administration marketing and sales so we have currently 11 in-house cte content concentrator options and more options are coming as our high school counselors are really working towards those college graduation pathways and what they might offer to our students freshmen also take a preparing for college and english careers course where they learn just a variety of different ways ahead of them that they could choose so
029you'll listen to a short video here of a goshen jr high school counselor so as counselors some things we do to support career development is have every student take the learner's breaks with that it points out their personality traits some strengths they would have do they want to work around people are they more comfortable working by themselves do they want to travel do they want to stay home it just kind of sorts out their personality what they value and then when the eighth graders meet with their freshman counselors we talk about post-secondary options and pathways and look at what students are interested in and how they would want to interact with people and then try to show them the options through the pathways for example if a student wanted to work with their hands and
030construction we would point them towards the introduction of construction pathway all right social emotional development so if you look at this next slide here are all the roles our school counselors play in social emotional development there you go got it um i'm gonna highlight that yellow one again which is just our school counselors know and utilize strategies to help support our students in their social emotional development and these would be in order to remove the behaviors which are impeding their full development along their academic and career paths so social emotional has a big context but that's the crux of what we do in social promotional development so i'm going to bring up shelley bing's shelly is a school counselor here at grocery school she serves at gis goshen intermittent school and milo elementary hello um
031okay so can we go to the next question thank um right here if you if you look at this slide we have three tiers and i'm going to go over those uh tiers that um help develop our with our program and just some social emotional development so social emotional learning supports right to break down barriers and improves climate and academic success so in our tier one at the bottom there in the green and these are our core instruction for all students um so this is our tier one intervention level and i'm going to go through some of those of what we do with the tier one for all students um we have poor school counselor lessons we have life skills character education monthly conflict resolution bullying cyber bullying saying no to drugs and alcohol vaping
032um body safety text anxiety um careers expressing good expressive expressing big feelings in healthy ways um learning responsibility and what that looks like um teachers are in the rooms during our school counselor lessons um so that they can re-teach and use the same language that we've taught that life skill throughout that moment um we're a part of assemblies called the culture building building safe and in connected environments for all students and staff we participate in national awareness and celebration weeks such as kindness challenges college go weeks bully and drug prevention weeks we have leadership programs at all levels k through 12 school spirit weeks dress-up days school-wide programs such as our positive reinforcement programs we have class incentives student incentives announcement shout outs students doing announcements daily and we start that at the kindergarten level
033and uh i'm teaching the confidence and being able to speak in front of others in the student body um student citizens of the month we have school-wide belief incentives at the two schools that i'm at at model kids hear this every day the model dog beliefs respect responsibility safety kindness at gis the red hut ready values respect responsibility trust and safety students here and see it posted all over the building you hear announcements in the classrooms in every area throughout their day specials hallways bathrooms cafeteria buses um recess after school programs so we they're constantly hearing our expectations um and each school has their own so the other elementaries have their own set of incentives and their school-wide beliefs um we send out parent square tips and information from the school counselors um and that's
034how we are able to connect immediately to parents who shoot information out students are able to reach school counselors um by canvas in several different ways we have canvas we have qr codes we have notes that go into a confidential box they if it's i need to see a counselor right away this is a serious issue we go in and we tell the kids at the beginning of the year these are ways to get ahold of us and you can go right to a teacher if you need to see us and we will get something down to you that day so there um the qr codes and the notes it may take us a day or two to get to what we try really hard to get through those we're always working through those messages
035from the kiddos that need to come and see us um so then our middle section narrator too are with the targeted students with some risk factors these are students seeing more support um not making that are not making progress we need strategic instructional and behavioral interventions um so this is when we do some more on these specific students we do check in and check out with individual students we have mentors assigned to these students lunch lunch check-ins mtss team academic and behavioral we check data with dashbridge our savers attendance our discipline we work with teachers and mtss teams to have set interventions support supports in place to help students succeed we communicate and collaborate and partner with parents school personnel and all stakeholders the school counselors also we do the 504 504s in the building
036and we are also um help with ieps we are part of the meetings and things like that which are the individual education plans um there's peer support for students resource rooms and networking for families in need so then we have our tier 3s um these are for students that are very at very high risk and these students um are our tier three interventions that are available to one to five percent of the student population um this is intensive students are very high risk meaning both school and outside supports so these students um your status when we need to help the families with reaching out to individual outside counseling family outside counseling skills trainers case managers formal behavior plans we can get in-house on specific students to help them succeed we do risk assessments threat assessments
037we do a lot of these when kids are showing signs of hurting themselves um we uh reach out to scan and wrap around services um outside our probation outside our um probation we've worked with we've worked with the courts at times we work with our sro officers um working and collaborating partnering with parents caregivers along with outside resources doctors nurse practitioners um these all all of these years for all of our students these are supports for all students our goal is to help all students achieve to reach their full potential to graduate from high school go into the workforce for further their education to be a healthy productive adult within their family and their community [Music] lessons on a monthly basis cover a wide variety of things to cover um self-esteem how i feel about
038each other friendship skills getting along with others being kind how do i treat others talking about the words that come out of your mouth how that affects someone else we often say you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all and we want our students to think about um my choices how they affect me and how they affect those around me so students that need more supports we work with our mtss team to help them obtain fibrochords ieps formal behavior plans we also do small groups with these students centering around the topics of coming back to school during a pandemic high test anxiety self-regulation or with some of our students we've held a greek small group through ryan's place actually gis now students that need additional support along with parent partnership we look to
039outside resources such as ryan's place the law doctors mission behavioral health ocean general hospital department of child services for these extra outside supports while this work is meant to be proactive our school counselors are working really hard to be ahead of the game rather than kind of game um part of this work that is done with our partnership with the social worker um this is just a little bit of data from goshen jr high school as a couple weeks ago had 50 students refer to oakland or private therapists for maple city vista for therapy this school year um we are averaging one to two risk assessments per day um so in those cases those are examples of not being as proactive as we want to be this is more reactive where a student has come
040with some some definite issues that we're trying to help them and their parents navigate through um this range of severity from quick check-ins when a search is flagged on gulf guardian which is our our system for being aware of students that might be in need to more severe threats of harm to self or others social workers ask these individuals these students about their relationship with a trusted adult or another support person in and outside of school and they always work with parents to assist get assistance for this to connect the student and the family to therapy so some parents say i know we're already receiving therapy other parents might refuse assistance and connect with the family to resources but in the end we want to make sure that we're meeting all the needs and we're
041trying to eliminate all those barriers so to sum up the message tonight is travis baines a school counselor at goshen intermediate school so i like being uh referred to his [Laughter] you for the face to be up here tonight i really do appreciate the privilege and honor to pull us out of this section um this is what i put together to sum it up being a school counselor comes with great honor and an awesome responsibility we are the heartbeat of our schools we're connected to practically every area and the school counselors we communicate with administration almost all levels of staff students parents and even with our community this is a responsibility we don't take lightly in fact we embrace our rules because of our desire to see our students succeed as you've heard tonight the
042basis for running a comprehensive school counseling program is utilizing the school counselor to support growth and learning for all of our goshen students our programs use relationship building skills to support student growth and promote equity and inclusion these programs keep us connected throughout the school our programs are designed to provide comprehensive and data driven academic career exploration and social emotional services to promote healthy and productive citizens for our community our programs specifically aim to reduce and or remove the barriers that keep our students from learning and graduating high school when our students graduate high school they become free to explore a world of opportunity at their choosing school counselors help with our mtss program oversee students with bible forks run small groups as needed develop student leaders promote and organize the red ribbon and anti-bullying
043weeks we meet with students one-on-one and all of this is done under the asca framework we utilize an educational model that focuses on student strengths advocating for our students in the school system so they have access to all that our schools have to offer through this we advise students about all the multiple post-secondary pathways available to them so i'm going to wrap up my time by saying this school counselors focus on these three domains as you've heard tonight academic college and career and social and emotional because we want to have a positive impact on our student achievement and on our community thank you and with us tonight we have several school counselors we will all stand up that are here tonight we are so fortunate to be able to have school counselors in each of
044our elementary buildings and at gis and uri and at the high school um along with our social workers who work in canberra with us so thank you any questions for me or them or that was a lot to digest our school counselors are very busy individuals for sure in that triangle i think she mentioned that one to five percent of students are in the top doors she said what percentage are in the yellow you have any idea do you know how many well in the middle tier two yeah yeah you're too sick um i don't have the exact i can certainly pull up and get you something um particularly but there we do a lot of tier two intervention right now i don't even want to just guess that i want to look at my
045that tier one is counseling for everyone right and um we're really trying to be as proactive in that tier one so we're using any kind of data we have um we take the social emotional um savers that we use that to find kids that might be telling us like i need help but i'm afraid to tell everybody um so we we do a lot of things to drive that to your room with data and then that drive that's here too happens when we're just not meeting them the smaller make a smaller group make more targeted interventions all along with the parents i mean we are in contact with the parents in and out of any of those tears that was going to be one of my questions is how often our parents proactively reaching out
046to you all because i would imagine that that definitely happened that's a great question what would you say how often that's the ending it's weekly it's a weekly thing i think parents call they reach out um parent calls we let it set get to them within you know what we do we don't let go no more than 24 hours to get to that parent to see what's what's going on they will get calls from i can't get myself out of bed today to okay let me get there let me get in the car i'll i'll be there as soon as i can to hey my child is really in trouble like i need he's involved with drugs or whatever it might be and so the calls are very diverse but they know parents know who
047they're called i'll say that police officers also get those calls i can't get my kid to go to school today and they would get a lot more of those calls if they didn't have you guys i know i don't they're really frustrated that takes them away from other times please questions we greatly appreciate each of you in our schools and uh all the help you give to all the students thank you very much so we will move on to board committee reports and we'll start with parts departments you heard a great report from park superintendent heidi at our grant meeting last month we have a meeting now next week uh mr elzo is not trying to use the council will never be the same this one's katie's doing a great job and this is fantastic
048which is exciting so the house is progressing well we'll be ready by the school year uh three point five ocean foundation yes three things i wanted to highlight um we are we have the mou between the foundation and um on our consent agenda tonight so that is a foundational sort of document that that group has been working on for a while to formalize the relationship between the ocean community schools and the foundation and then into more sort of fun things um the campaign kickoff for major saver is tomorrow so if you are uh don't have a plan to get your major staker card make one find a child who's selling one and pick one of those up um and then tentatively october 25th will be the date for trivia this year thank you uh 3.6
049legislation well the year ended a little better than it started thank goodness 11 34. still has some concern um you might have written there were 70 000 emails that didn't get the legislators because of the spam filter that i mean the emails went through any nsa teachers association so they didn't get the legislators so um there's some concentration about that i don't know if that filter applies to everything they do yeah okay so i would like to see us invite our legislators to store early before the next section starts because these guys start writing their bills at the middle of the summer or whatever and so by the time people start thinking about the lifestyle session a lot of those bills are already already written and so if they could come and share with us
050what they expect to see come in education let us express our concern before they start working on this stuff okay um and 3.7 goes from redevelopment i would say uh two biggest items that have happened with redevelopment since our last meeting is uh two uh housing projects have been uh attentively approved uh the first one is a development out by the new junior high school which is uh like 60 apartment units so that passed redevelopment as well as the city council on initial reading and then last week uh second development um here at the old western rover property passed through the redevelopment commission and moves forward to the city councils coming monday so that is another 140 potential units so we talk often about housing um both those would uh get built that would uh
051generate some nice new housing for the city so and they also are waiting to receive money from the ready grant through the regional cities so they've got a number of purposes all right we will move on to item four which is consent agenda items approvals of checks number four zero six seven zero three four zero seven five zero three one four three three three two six zero six zero three nine six through six zero three nine nine and eft's number six three four through six eight three and five zero six through five one zero four point two the ocean junior high colorado trip 4.3 the crossing service agreement 4.4 2022 23 chromebook purchase 4.5 memorandum of understanding between the ocean community schools and goshen community schools foundation 4.6 riverdale user agreement 4.7 goshen junior high
052school roofing 4.8 amazing projects 4.9 ocean high school track improvements 4.10 appointment to the elkhart and st joseph county head start consortium or 4.11 gifts and donations and 4.12 personnel anything doctor [Music] facilities all right with that items 4.134.12 are approved as presented item five action items uh 5.1 chamberlain bids that's before you you received uh uh letters from uh marco villama and myself for uh work at chamberlain the uh initial getting change was 1.273 million and uh there are alternatives alternate goods that go with that that we would suggest that the world accept bringing the total bid per uh package up to 1.411 million uh that handles all the the previous uh agreed upon work as well as the acoustic panels in the gym and then in the always cafeteria area and the uh
053uh and the bathrooms in the military questions about that yeah um in the memo it said that this came in higher but about how much higher so they were anticipating hard costs of one million softball side and about another two hundred dollars on that so they want two hundred thousand dollars is no they were responsive and it wasn't outside of you know uh karen's remarkable bill was looking at those numbers and she's seeing those numbers go across everything it's a company that does a lot of similar works i don't have fears that is someone that's ever done we've worked with around around before they've done good workforce so i don't have any concerns about that right any questions thank you uh with that [Music] yeah so they would start it as soon as possible but
054that's also uh with what's going on in the world today the the products they want to get to go as soon as they can [Music] uh we'll move on to uh discussion items in item 6.1 extension of current math adoption i get to round up the show tonight um we are starting math adoption it feels like we've just been in reading a doctor which we did which was delayed because of the film and all that um so he wanted to update the board on the adoption process for math um we have goals to do this adoption one is to review all the chosen resources from our vendor presentations um even any online resources that may be interesting to the teachers and we'll be doing that against the ido and recommended that work we are hoping
055to i shouldn't say hope because hope is not a strategy so i will say we will choose wisely on a resource teacher and we'll use diligently which is aligned to the rigor of the state standards um we're working through the lining k to six and then a line seven through geometry um and then in turn make sure our maps are aligned to the scope and sequence of the chosen resource so that the resource and the maps are in cohesiveness with each other we want to choose a resource that offers common strategies vocabulary and assessments and we also want to consider the shp alignment which is some of our new requirements so that we're aligning that seventh in geometry we hope to complete the adoption by the index 123 for possible implementation you'll see on the
056next slide the elementary will look like this we're working right now to form a committee of representatives um and then we'll bring in those select vendors right now i'm looking at three to bring in so they will do presentations from the presentations um we'll see if we can lean any out that don't interest the teachers um and then the ones that stay we will put those against the rubric and then hopefully we're able to bring a recommendation to the board somewhere between february and march of 2003 um goshen junior high looks very much the same although we can include all the math teachers because they do have a common time right now that they work together so we actually had our first uh first vendor present today to those math teachers at the ocean uni
057um and so that'll be happening from there we will lean out if we can we'll put them against the rubric give with time we'll give some resources a try in the classrooms and then hopefully we're able to bring to the recommendation to the board for ocean junior high school as well and that leads to high school and it's pretty much the same kind of timeline there the only thing is the high school is maybe going to ask for a delay in the process with schedule changes and so forth happening at the high school we want to make sure we've got people in those places that need to redo the math and so we may need to allow for additional time for that those review of those resources format this being said where i need your
058immediate consideration is our math um resources expire at the end of this academic year so anything we've been pre presently that's adopted and we've been using expires um so because we're pulling back on math and giving it some time especially because we've delayed our reading adoption um i'm asking we'll be asking the board to approve the continuation of the ones listed on the slide there i already mapped theta six go math seven eight um we started a pilot with a few fifth grade teachers last year and sixth grade we'd like to be able to continue that and then the high school has a variety of different ones that were previously approved that we'll need to continue to use so with your blessing we hope we can just extend these for a year so that we
059can go through the math adoption process we may end up with some of the same resources just new versions of them we may not it just depends where where it all comes out in that adoption process so so asking you to consider extending what we're currently i guess just general questions does i mean the instruction of math really changed that dramatically um we had a big shift in standards um to common core so most of what we're using now is is a line but yet there are some indiana specific common course statements that are not in there so it doesn't change a lot no it doesn't change a lot but there are some significant changes in the standards that happen between the times that we adopted previously and what were you currently using so that's
060where we'll pay a lot of attention to that the other thing that the state of indiana changed was our process standards so now there's a whole bank of just process standards for math and so our resources really have to align to those because that's where most of our testing is coming from for iowa there happened to change it's not i wouldn't say significantly how long has the current program been in place yeah revision of six years with what is currently adopted which is a normal time to start looking at what happens next if you have any questions between down the next board meeting please just email me or give me a call all right we'll go to 6.2 foundations so um we're asking the board to allow us to extend foundations into third grade so
061i'll wait for him to bring the slideshow up we currently use um foundations in beta2 so you can go to the next slide please um that is our core background so that is our core phonics and even awareness and um fluency curricular resource we've been using it kinda two for five years i think maybe four four or five years um and we'd like to extend that to third grade to be able to target those skills that are still weaknesses for many of our students and bringing that on board in third grade it is very similar to what we do in k-2 if you go to the next slide this is all the skills that it would cover we know third graders have to take a yearly iri test that test requires grade proficiency within the
062skills of phonics phonemic awareness and fluency and we currently don't have anything that's used standardized across our district in third grade and so this aligns really well with what we already have in cater to as that next component to third grade but it hits many of those skills that are all in our standards in a very structured and systematic way that our students are used to because we use it too i went around to the buildings and asked thoughts from third grade teachers um i would say 90 of them were very much in favor of adding it to third grade um especially now we can use sr funds for that which are definitely have to be used for gap filling gaps and this is a gap that teachers are seeing so we have looked at
063this many times before but it was just too expensive to put on an adoption process but with esser we were able to allocate to think about could we use those funds to fill the gap with what that means so um so if you'll just take a next time we'll ask for your approval if you feel like you can do that for us and we'll move towards using that level three as a whole group as well as some stopper and eventually any questions about that that's fun foundations yeah all right and finally 6.3 world language performance yeah you have a memo in front of you um we have been working on a world languages adoption since before um the reading adoption actually you put it off put it off and covered and everything it just kept
064sliding off the plate um these would be resources we would use at goshen high school and goshen junior high school you have a list of the ones that the teachers um really love really um felt that met the needs of their students with the needs of the standards in world languages um we'll see french german ib german spanish iv spanish and then spanish for our heritage speakers which is of course we offer to our students so they are listed there and the rationale behind each of them is in that memo so we will be asking for next time to possibly approve that [Music] are we still buying textbooks for all these new adoptions some of these are some of these are electronic versions some still do have a textbook so it just depends on where
065it is also depends on how many students that we're targeting for those classes um just depends on the language and whether it's more beneficial to the textbook or beneficial to be an online version so it's kind of all over the place on that one other questions thank you very much all right so we will move to it seven website which is public comment um we have well you know i've been hitting this uh sexualization of our children pretty hard uh in preparing for tonight's precious three-minute presentation i uh was said with several articles in the last just a few days seven maybe ten days of course we've got the rhonda stannis uh sarcastically called don't say gay bill that's being considered for our youth that's been in the news also just recently exposed was a
066video of chastain buddha judge in des moines iowa several years ago leading a pledge allegiance to the gang flag we also had uh in kentucky an article came out just a few days ago about a sexy summer camp where youth are given subjects on bondage uh self-managed abortion sex on drugs sex workers gender diversity and masturbation is for as young as toddlers i can provide sources for all these i'll do that in my email that i don't know if you read or not um that doesn't happen in indiana am i right wrong and just a few days ago gay camp in indiana let's talk about sex with ashley geared for three-year-olds sex ed summer camp for third and fifth graders i had a guy again just just last week uh said that he went to
067an elk county library and said that some of your books are bad they've got bad stuff in them and they said we're not going to take that off that's censorship he went to the next town uh also el park county the adjacent town the library said thank you for telling me we don't want this stuff to go to our kids what about goshen community i've written you about this this book already i was given a form that i'm supposed to fill out so we can kick this thing around for 30 days or 45 days or however long that's not that's not how it goes this book talks about masturbation to our kids high school kids junior high we're talking 13 and 14 year olds okay what's being done to this point nothing nothing is being
068done who can justify that in our curriculum now i picked an easy topic and there's worse topics that are in our books that i'll gladly share with you but i don't use these words in my own house i don't want to come and say these things out loud like what's happening all across our country we've gone here and there's nothing that's being done this book the absolute true diary of a part-time indian by sherman alexie my daughter read that in college and it wasn't appropriate for her at that time why are we letting our 13 and 14 year olds have access to these books but no no repercussion they can check it out at any time why is that happening this is this is outrageous we have to somehow address the sexualization of our children
069if if this is an address and i'll follow up again with the email there i'll share some of the worst of the worst that's that's out there in our schools right now please miss up and then talk to me about why we're losing uh enroll enroll these why we're declining in school population i do want to say one thing we do have a policy in place to review books and we have that because there will be books that some people will not always agree with on both sides no one ever said it's a 30-day process but we need it to be followed because there needs to be proper representation from both sides so if there are books you would like to be challenged i do think requesting you do fill that out and they will
070be with you yeah reply i i have friends who have submitted several examples according to them i'm not saying they have not received a single request all right i'll follow up with them i'll i'll follow on but you know we see that in politics all the time where they they stymie and they just kick around this needs to be gone yesterday so i'll i'll fill out the the the paperwork in good faith and and i hope that we can all walk down and we will i mean but that is the policy and there is that for a reason because there are other books that i guarantee people will disagree with that we do want to remain agree thank you thank you that was all that uh signed up for public comment this evening so we
071will go to uh item eight which is closing items um an 8.1 miscellaneous board items anything from the board so the only item so yeah i would like to get our board policy reviews made back together um but the end of the executive order from the governor now actually suspends our ability to have board members attend virtually until we actually have a board policy in place um so we need to officially put a war policy in place i think it's also an opportune time to review any of the other policies that may need to be reviewed so we can have up to three of our members participate in that committee so i just did not know if there were any individuals we would need to have at least one officer and then you know if
072anyone has a desire or if you want to think about it i think that's something we should put in place here we should have a policy place a minimum for the ability to attend virtually that's somebody else okay okay so we'll get something out and get that on the event here the week or two i would say okay uh 8.28 miscellaneous administrative items.com our next board meeting will be right here april 11th and between now and then and uh do i have a motion for a german please say hold fair please say aye all right we are adjourned thank you all very much and have a wonderful evening enjoy the weather