10.14.2021 GCS School Board Meeting

001with the removal of item 4.6 from the agenda the agenda is approved as presented um and moving on to item 1.5 approval of the minutes from our september 13th 2021 regular meeting and september 27th 2021 public budget hearing do we have any additions or corrections to those minutes very numb the minutes are approved as presented uh we'll go on to item two superintendents reports and item 2.1 student and staff recognition on this line several people we would like to recognize first we'd like to call grace kircher up grace was our very first female in school history to play varsity football and she participated in two sports at one time pretty amazing so we wanted to recognize grace i know you've put in a lot of hard work there and we're very proud of you so

002i have a certificate for you and [Applause] please doctor we could not be more proud of you you represent football very well we represent all of those high schools mr tom cox well well mr cox is well standing up do you want to come down so you can give your certificate we'll have you come up here um we want to honor him for working with lots of schools and parents and students to organize another successful marching band invitational that was held here at goshen high school hacked it was amazing so we wanted to make sure he knew we really appreciated all the work that he put in to making that happen [Applause] we were not nearly as good [Music] so both of these men um helped organize and plan the freedom walk that happened here

003at goshen high school around the track um i know dr hope took part in that i think you stayed up all night right yeah so we wanted to honor them for that the extra work and time that they put in to make that happen and i think we're gonna give mr just a minute so it was a great success our original goal uh and this was through goshen rotary and uh dr hope is a part of the goshen rotary and very appreciative for the doors that he opened and the school corporation opened here for us we couldn't have done it without that there's a million kids in sex trafficking right now across the world there's actually more people being trafficked or enslaved in the world today than any other point in history it takes one

004thousand five hundred dollars to rescue a child our original goal was forty thousand dollars let me make sure i got all of our numbers here we've surpassed that we reset our goal to sixty five thousand we reset that we set it for 80 000 we passed that we reset it to a hundred thousand we hit 126 000 rescuing 83 girls from sex trafficking uh chris russell was the destiny rescue director of engagement he planned on being here tonight he texted me a little bit ago that his wife took his keys with him when she left the house so he had no transportation to get here um but it was it was a an awesome event we were very excited we have a date already on the calendar for this coming year for october 8th if

005you if you or your business would like to participate and donate to that event we will have a website up shortly and i wanted to thank a bunch of people from goshen that made a big difference michael wolford of course brought a bunch of basketball guys out to public parking larry kissinger athletic director was huge just turned open uh all kinds of things for us and made it work uh brian sapp did the gt tv program for us brian bechtel uh here in this auditorium we had freshmen sophomores and juniors came in and chris russell from destiny rescue talked about keeping themselves safe from trafficking themselves because a lot of this stuff happens through social media and so he instructed students on how to be safe from that and then the custodial staff just did

006a great job and and as mentioned dr hope was out there all night so what a commitment is great so thank you again for for allowing us and for uh for the great the great opportunity we had to rescue girls [Applause] thank you all very much uh we will all go into item 2.2 uh enrollment report yes you can see from the enrollment report that we have about sixty three hundred students enrolled this year that's the same number of students we had last spring and then you can see the number of students within each school's ocean high school junior high with over a thousand ocean intermediate just under a thousand then each of the elementaries there um i think it's worth noting that during covid and over these last two years most schools lost enrollment

007this year just one question does this encounter last year when we had the roa as well is that the number well that's that with that yes more questions thank you sir item 2.3 a music department report so uh we were asked to present some information about the goshen music program i can't speak very well and so we thought we'd put together some slides and just kind of let you know what we are what we're doing and where we're going so that's our program cover that we use on all of the programs for all the concerts here at the high school middle school um or junior high sorry pay a dollar i was gonna bring my job uh so uh but we've had that logo for a while now but it really represents what we do

008as a group very well so the coach music program serves all students in our community and provides a wealth of benefits learning to play musical industry or to sync and help disadvantaged children strengthen their reading and language skills by improving their way of the nervous systems and processing sounds patterns in music help children recognize patterns in math musicians have better memories when compared to their peers rhythm skills and lack thereof can predict reading disabilities leading to early intervention music enriches vocabulary development as well researchers from michigan state university from 93 of stem graduates reported musical training as a child compared to only thirty percent thirty four percent of the average adults get so confident so i just thought those are interesting facts that you know you can find on the internet anywhere but um at

009grocery community schools we're fortunate enough to have a staff that is well trained and we've been able for a long time now this is my 21st year at goshen but in talking to maximal getting ready for this certainly max has been around for maybe when it was built uh so we tried to make a big splash when this came out we filled out a survey from the from nan which is the national association of music merchants and to become a uh at best communities of music education and we were selected again for 2021 which is a great thing for the ocean community we there's a bunch of paperwork and i know there are people that help me get all the data collected um you have to submit you know 15 pages of data to uh

010qualify and ghost activity schools was selected in 2021 again we have won that award several times now but this is the most recent so there's the goshen band logo one of many that we have branded all over our stuff and i'll go first uh and then i'll turn it over to sean so there's our band staff i tried to find pictures of all of us um so matt james is on the left he's a percussion director um all five was teaching all three buildings now which is somewhat of a challenge some days but uh we're blessed to be able to do it and the administration's worked with us to work on our schedules so that we can do so everybody knows max in the middle right maximal max johnson uh who's a goshen grad and

011then there's josh and i at concertman state finals and josh kaufman is also a goshen graduate as well the gushing ban over our department overview the ghost program has celebrated its 100th year unfortunately in 2020 uh we were commissioning a piece that we would do five through or six through twelve with the bands and have this big gala and invite all the former band directors back and of course all that blew up and so we'll have to maybe wait for our our next great adventure to uh plan that maybe at a later date um instruction for band students begin in the summer between their fifth and sixth grade year and we have differentiated instruction in grades seven through twelve really six through twelve because if you come to uh any sixth grade band you'll see

012that the trumpets are there and the flutes are there and the clarinets are there and we're using every uh available space at the gis building to uh to teach our kids um that the gaussian band a color guard on have over 500 students participating in grades 6 through 12. which is a pretty standard number for us over the you know last 20 years um you know certainly the band we're a little smaller this year due to covid or whatnot but it looks like we'll gain strength again going forward all bands participate in the annual ism events and our gold ratings uh i stole this one from sean so i thought on his slides and i loved it so i just stole it uh all level focus continues development of music literacy and ensemble performance so

013we're just as max would say we're not just song bands we just don't teach songs we're teaching them music literacy and you know if they were ever to move from here to warsaw or move to you know albuquerque new mexico a quarter note supporter that's a quarter note and we want to make sure that our children if they ever have to move or you know they get transplanted to some other place in the country that they have those literacy skills in reading music we're proud that the band is very diverse and we teach all students from all levels uh music education and leadership training as they get into high school at least once a year we bring in someone from the outside uh just to do leadership training with the whole band brought in joel

014denton from flutterball tennessee we most recently had the director vance from vandercook college in chicago here with us last weekend just to work with a whole group did a little leadership session with all the kids so it's just not about band it's you know leadership skills for life uh band department or review continued we host a large marching band invitational in northern indiana um the rebuilding of the of the football field at fortman field has been fantastic i'm sure coach park would agree but for us when we host a marchband invitational um there's only one place that the band goes now that has real grass and that's concord and it's the worst marching show we do because it's sloppy it's wet we pray don't have a ball game that night before so to have turf

015in this wonderful press box is just a game changer and now we're bigger than penn bigger than concord when it comes to the number of bands that we host from across the state we also host the largest winter guard invitational in northern indiana um and we're proud to serve also the goshen community we thank the board for their support financially and hiring certified music educators um we value that and we have a good core team put together that we've had now for some time so the different things we offer certainly marching band is the loudest and biggest thing we do we're the largest music largest student ensemble in goshen community schools with over 150 students this year so that gets a lot of press because we're loud and we're big but we have uh two

016to three levels of concert band we do chamber music that's down on the right there's the clarinet choir from a couple years ago at state finals um we have jazz bands we have two jazz bands i mean during the day um we have pep band which is again another you know a lot of people see us at pep band and so we we're proud that we can do all levels of things that's the winner percussion show for a couple years ago winter guard on the right so we're trying to involve as many students as we can in our music programs some of the things that we've done over the years the band has the 23th 20th straight year of a isma all music award which is for a well-rounded program you have to get a

017gold rating and marching band jazz band marching band so on ensemble to me to get that award and we're proud of the high school's done for 20 straight years the varsity wire guard they were straight runner-ups last year they were we had a great season concert bands have been uh the wind ensemble's been a finalist 15 out of the last 16 years the jazz band has been a finalist for the last five that contest is only five years old so we're proud that our concert bands and jazz bands are making state finals marching band has a gold rating for the past 37 years which is really unheard of around you know bands just to have that that much and that goes back to max or maximal dave planck that have done great jobs long before

018we were here the marching band is the three time fans of america national semifinalist that means we're top 30 in the country we're lucky that is hosted in indianapolis we're thankful we're allowed to go we go to the uh isla regional on saturday and then on next saturday we'll be back down at lucas oil stadium to compete in the indie super regional they have 63 bands from 14 states so we hope to get there we were the bands of america class champion at the toledo regional two three weeks ago and dr hope here's your medal right so we can get you one that you can have in your office uh the marching band is performing the fiesta bowl cotton below indy 500 parade philadelphia thanksgiving day parade uh before i got here which sounds like

019a great trip to london new year's day parade so the goshen band is international hundreds of gold ratings this was still an ensemble events when percussionists won six state championships and one national championship and numerous first place you know ratings in marching band and jazz bands and all the contests we go around in the states so that is about the band program i was thinking about uh presenting on the orcs program i was just thinking about kind of recipes for success and what i think has made our program um so good and successful uh so as we're going there we go yeah we have a three staff member team vertically aligned teaching over 450 students in grades 5 to 12 every year we specialize in different instruments uh and we foster seven year relationships that's

020a blessing of getting to work those students from fifth grade all the way through as a relationship relationships we get a form of those students um and with the differentiation of our our uh it really maximized the efficiency and the effectiveness of construction also having schedules that work between the buildings and we're very grateful for all of our administrators for tolerating our high maintenance schedules at times the the fact that we get to be with them and we all get to be with them through these years means we don't lose students between the buildings it means that uh there's a familiar enviro a familiar environment for students when other things may seem less familiar new building new teachers but the music program is the same the experience they get is the same we have a

021long history probably one of the oldest programs in the state or even in the country with 106 year tradition of a of rural new york program we have the 1915 first goshen high school orchestra uh back in the fifth street location and actually the 1927 i don't have older pictures than that but 1927 junior high ocean which we're a junior high school again so isn't that cool um the the the culture and community that we have here in the ocean has a supportive school system has kind of helped allow our program to thrive over the years we're going to skip that slide because i'm going to talk about that right here these are the ensembles that we have this year again all levels are focused on continued development of music literacy and ensemble performance we

022have a sequential approach to concepts new and old with increasing rigor from fifth grade beginners at gis all the way through our symphonic work show that competes at the state level uh comprehensive music education is where uh we uh it's where we not only teach students how to play music but also the consoles of music music theory overall structures of music history and music composition so we aren't again like what tom was saying we're not just a group that plays pieces and and here's concert we're also teaching them knowledge we're teaching them skills that they can use forever wherever the whole well i'll talk about that um fifth grade right now our structure our fifth grade orchestra uh we've got a great start this year meets three times after school at the intermediate school as

023an extracurricular it's kind of a club that the students can elect into our sixth graders uh through ninth grade meet as grade level ensembles as part of the school day uh 10th through 12th meets in two levels we have an audition top level symphonic orchestra and we have a philharmonic orchestra so there's a place for everyone uh we do have extracurricular ensembles uh that meet before school uh our camaraderie our high school groups meet before school zero hour classes uh the camaraderie is available by audition they've played at the state board of education before in the past uh and represent students with a new opportunity to play the most professional levels of string workshop music uh our jazz ring ensembles by volunteers and kids show up with me on wednesday morning and we come play

024dance so it's a lot of fun uh these ensembles are pretty rare in indiana as far as jazz string ensembles they're not very common but our goshen high school jazz string ensemble is arguably the best or one of the best in the state so it's kind of a neat opportunity we do have the middle school level as well that we reverse after school uh we also have chamber music we generally have one to three chamber music groups that rehearse throughout the entire year uh so weekly rehearsals to build a repertoire which is basically to say that we have um a set of music that we can play if called upon to play not just one piece of music for a concert but we could go play somewhere for 15 20 30 minutes maybe even an

025hour depending on the age and level of students this allows us to play in the community and allows us to play for school functions uh all students uh seven through twelve do get chamber instruction as part of our curriculum through the year where everybody picks their groups and you can see different examples of different age students there uh where they get to play together and student-led that's a great opportunity for students to apply their skills and knowledge where it's not the director telling them how to play everything and okay memorize this passage it's they're looking to music and they're learning the music we might be coaching them for five minutes but then we move on to the next group uh i'm not gonna read all this uh it's there on the record and there's we

026have a lot of accomplishments um but uh yeah we love having a big and successful program we love having bigger successful orchestras but that's a byproduct um it's byproduct the individual student learning and and the goal of creating a lifelong love of music and the ability to continue creating it outside their time at gcs if they're just if we're just teaching them to play a string instrument so uh we can have great orchestras that's that's not the best investment in our students the whole idea is that we're creating something that can take beyond their time they want to become a music major fantastic but hopefully they're enjoying to love music and they are building something they can play in their community they can play in their church they can play uh with their friends maybe

027they play in this community orchard but hopefully they get to continue making music for their life monica stixman um these are our 6 through 12 fire directors um i am currently the only one hired in multiple buildings we also have some accompanists and office managers [Music] um so choirs of christian high school long history again um we have five choral directors across the three schools we are working all together even though we are not all sharing the same buildings and classrooms i spent some time today with matthew smoker picking out music for the junior high coral library but we're very integrated even though we're not sharing classes in the same way another difference about the choir department is that choir directors are also teaching non-ensemble classes at matthew smithers gis is also teaching 6th grade

028general music at the junior high we have applied music classes here at the high school we have mr snyder assists with the band for one semester uh teaches some guitar classes i teach iv music ms o'leary is teaching theory of knowledge and also working with the theater department um and so this allows us to interact with students in a lot of different ways um wire is very different from abandoned orchestra in that you could join your second semester of your senior year um which start a new instrument that's really hard um so we are our population is a little bit more transient students um maybe same for a year in junior high come back to us in high school participate in vander orchestra and junior high join fire when they have a little bit more

029opportunity in their schedule we also are working at keeping those students involved generally speaking up until ninth grade our choirs are fairly prescribed you're with your grade level generally speaking and at the end of your ninth grade year and concurrent years um you can audition for advanced groups and so that helps us make sure that students who are just joining us for the first time have enough background knowledge to be in the same ensemble with somebody who's been in a music class for five years um so oops [Music] okay so on the left our crimson choir um this is unauditioned essay tv students from grade nine to twelve on the right the crimson chorus is on audition soprano alto ensemble these students are mostly ninth graders um on the left the advanced chorale is a

030soprano alto auditioned ensemble grades 10 through 12. men's choir is a zero period class it's grades 9 through 12 auditioned and the advanced choir grades 10 through 12 auditioned essay tv ensemble and the crimson airs satv auditioned swing fire uh one rep requirement because our core ensembles are the core um so if you want to be in the crimson airs for example you also must be enrolled in one of the other advanced fires either the zero period the second period or the fourth period fire um gis has a beginning triple prior gjhs has the cambiata choir that's changing voices so seventh and eighth grade um we were singing higher than no about as high as i we did with chat today um some of them are singing as high as i sing and some of

031them are singing lower than mr snyder so it's a wide range in that one um and then there are two treble pliers and a mixed advanced ensemble and again i think i already mentioned that um we also have lots of achievements we have a few of our trophies in the case out there but state achievements frequent state participants both for advanced fire and the advanced fence choir isma gold ratings consistently throughout the program uh participation in regional and national competitions very successfully yeah all kinds of good things great times traveling with [Music] welcome back over here in addition to uh the joy of kind of coordinating the orchards i also uh am the chair for the junior high and intermediate school music programs performing arts programs i need to be more inclusive there um we

032have vertically lines we talked about uh we have vertically aligned programs they start in sixth grade um and then they carry all the way through school and we all work together to create these successful programs um i'm very very passionate about the middle school level the junior high level uh because you cannot have successful high school programs without successful programs feeding them it's critical um we've talked a little bit of the choir and the orchard programs we also have our our band programs which are just awesome and wonderful uh uh how many having future advantage this year 120 and sixth grade band this year our 7th and 8th grade bands are a little bit ability based uh where we kind of try to serve them best at the level they are at and produce some

033wonderful results our sixth grade music ensembles are meeting four times a week at the interview school this year this is a little bit down from our five times that we are typically used to uh we we typically meet um i have about 45 to 55 of our students at the junior high level participating in performing arts they elect to do that the structure and and way students have uh enrolled in music ensembles in the middle school i can say like we're talking about the past year right i'm okay um has has changed uh a bit over time that can affect those choices but again students are choosing to be a part of those music programs because they know we have that tradition of success and they know that this is a worthwhile part of their

034education so we're honored to be serving that many uh students we uh again i've kind of talked about ability based and grade based but uh we also have after school jazz band we've had after school jazz groups uh uh jazz band we've had after school choirs in the past uh and we have our musical which is something we uh lately have been doing in just the very end of january beginning of february so and we have chamber groups at the middle school level too so it all goes to feed the tradition of excellence that our coaching music programs have the one way we have to communicate with you as a board is we have a music department council so that is uh representatives of the directors we have a school board member and we have

035dr hope that attends and usually one of the high school administrators um so that's the way we can get information to you jose will report back to you but if there are any and if there are any questions ever let us know and we can work on that through our music council which meets once a month to try and get all of us at the table together at the same time our collaborations so the percussionists the pianist lacrosse music department support all the ensembles so we have percussionists in the winds join the orchestra to make a full symbolic orchestra i know that we have instrumentalists from the orchestra playing on choir concerts so we're really we try and team teach together and work across the curriculum 50 of the advanced prize students are also in

036band and orchestra and that's really good i remember the days back when i was in school you could only be in one and that was it that's what you did so at goshen it's been really cool when my daughter was here she was in band she was an orchestra and she was in the advanced choir and crimson airs music and music and so it was great for my child uh and i've got two more on the way so we're hoping that go a long way so what questions you folks have for us are there any sorry if we talk too long i think it's fantastic it's a wonderful update and they say you know music is one of the great things that draws people to students so i think it's amazing the programs that we

037have here and the successes that we've had it's great and we appreciate your guys leadership and all of that in your department thank you appreciate all the opportunities you're bringing to our students and i love that you took it back to that lifelong engagement thank you [Applause] uh we'll go to item 2.4 and i learned a report all right okay so we're going to talk to you today about the ilearn uh standardized testing that took place last spring uh it did not take place the spring before because of copen that was canceled so we took a new test in uh 2020 it was canceled and then 2021 last year so we the new test was only we only have two years of data so when we think about these assessments in this data what do

038we do with it it all goes into this these three these three areas of uh assessment an assessment for us at the school is what tasks students are going to be able to do in order to show they've they've mastered the learning objective curriculum is really what the state standards say the students should know and then instruction is what the classroom activities and strategies that are the teachers teacher our teacher is doing with his students making sure that's reinforcing the learning objectives so they're ready to meet um and show success on the assessment so jumping into that what we're going to look at we're going to show the most recent data and where we are now this is autopsy because it is dead data that is one thing about the ilearn as soon as you

039take it it's it's it's done um we won't know again how we did in comparison to it until next spring so um we have we have some other assessments that we use to make sure that we are are progressing so we're going to look at attendance i read ilearn for ela in grades three through eight i learn for math three through eight um and the istep i'm i'm sorry you guys have this one you guys have this on you don't have that on here okay all right then um so let's take a look at our attendance rates so 2018-19 was our was our last normal have year impacted by covet our attendance rate was 93.8 across the district um then in 2019-20 that's where we had to on march 13th um vacate the schools and

040and we had we ended up doing remote learning for the rest of the year the attendance rate actually was higher during that and part of that is because the state said as long as a student is attempting or progressing they're there and so a student just had to log in in order in order to be in attendance um and then last year with roa with covid um full force our attendance rate was 89.8 so you can see um it was impacted greatly um that also was because we encouraged parents if you're not feeling well keep your kids at home and so they did so what does that mean for our data so for i read the last normal year we had in 2018-19 are our um i read passing rate that's our third grade assessment

041that shows that a student is reading at can read at grade level our proficiency was 79.7 uh then in 2019 um that was the spring where we kept cancel school we did not forgive it and then so last year our our proficiency rate was 66.66 um one of the things we were not able to do last year that we've done in the past is that after school reading camp which is after school tutoring for every student that's at risk from january through the end of the school year so we were unable to do that last year so a logical conclusion is that probably had an impact on what was that we also have students learning remotely we'll be able to whip through some of these slides because that once you see once you see them

042you'll be able to quickly tell what they are so i learned scores for ela reading language arts and for each grade level are up there the state average is in gray and then our performance is in red so as you can see as the grant except for fourth grade it seemed that as our students were getting older they're getting closer to uh the state average on that math was a was kind of an inverse relationship and the state actually informed us all last year that for some reason statewide math scores were had dropped dramatically and as you can see um especially once you've hit the middle school junior high school ages that was that did happen again the state average is in gray ours is in red by grade level how do we how do

043we compare to school districts around us in elkhart county so in ela um goshen our our percent passing in grades three through eight um precaution was 36.4 state average was 40 40.5 um as you can see um bago fairfield middlebury were higher than us uh and meltpart scored lower than us on those assessments one thing we have that a lot of schools don't have is we have a large el population and so we also compare ourselves to schools uh schools that have a el population of 25 or more which is where we are as you can see when we look at north white um frankfurt which was a surprise to me seymour west noble logansport um you know we we are doing very well compared to those schools we're still not where we want to

044be and we want to tell that fact right now that we're working very hard to make sure that we continue to increase our students growth and proficiency um going into the math piece in three through eight here's how we here's how we look compared to our our neighboring districts again uh concord and elkhart were lower than us fairfield and bogo were a little higher goshen was 31.2 and the state average was 36.9 um so looking at our our how we compare to districts of 25 or more el it's a little closer it is in in math than it is in language arts but again you can see we outperform those schools that are that are like us in that one thing dr michael can i interrupt you for just a moment there so i think

045those slides are really important we need to compare ourselves to other school districts who serve a similar population since my arrival in goshen i'm constantly looking at data from other schools especially those schools that are very similar to us like logansport is almost like a twin city ocean and they don't have very similar demographic to date i've not found a school district that can outscore adoption that is a huge testament to the teachers here in bilshin the work that they do every day the difference that they make with our students as dr mcnabb said we are not where we want to be but we're doing a great job because of where teaching is going on here in the classroom today we will get better so when we look at um before covet and then last

046year during the mid circle how we related to um distance from the state average so in 2019 we were four percentage points lower than the state average uh we are this year we're 4.1 percentage point neighboring school districts as you can see might have been closer or farther than the state average than we were but pre-coveted to post covet we have been able to maintain a we've been able to maintain that distance from the state average which means we have not seen the loss that other districts have seen which is again a testament to our teachers and to our parents so we want to thank them for that istep is in 10th grade and i stepped this year um was there it is so in 10th grade ela state average was 65.9 we were at

04765.8 so right there at the state average in ela you know and this is uh 10th grade istep and it's it's students who have not passed the istep out as of this point in math not quite as close to the state average but still right there with the state average being 37.1 and goshen being 31.8 if you combine the two the number of students passing both ela and math the state average was 36.4 and we were at 30.8 so what does the high school look like when we compare to districts around us in ela state average of six again 65.9 new year at 65.8 uh the only two districts around us that scored higher than us uh were fairfield and middlebury um concord was close but not quite i think i think this is important

048to note that with the population we're serving here at goshen we have a lot of second language learners and research will tell us that second language learners take five years just to acquire the language and another two to three to become proficient at reading and writing and so i think our scores that we just looked at are indicative of the progress our students are making over time if they stay with us here in goshen which once again is a testament to our teachers it's a testament to our parents is a testament to our students who are working hard to overcome those language barriers that may be impeding them from being successful okay so how do we compare to districts with 25 um or more el students thank you so what's noble in ela uh did

049outperform us the state average is again 65.9 we were 65.8 but north white frankfurt seymour logansport we we do outscore when it comes to the language during the language arts in math how do we how do we fare to the neighboring districts again fairfield middlebury state averaged 37.1 goshen was 31.8 um so we did better than bago concord and elkhart and how do we compare to those el pocket schools with 25 or more el uh in math we explore higher than all except for north white and north white actually was at 36.4 and we were 31.2 so again when we look at ourselves compared to others percent passing both um there are a couple districts that continue to outperform us we are making ground and we are surpassing some districts around us percent passing both

050in ela and math so the same student passes both math and ela the only the only district that does a little better than us is north white they were 33.3 and we were at 31.2 so we are all right there together so what does this mean what does it what do we do with this data what does this data mean we'll kind of start pulling that in for us so our steps to moving forward dr metcalf showed you at the beginning there's three kind of those three legs of what tips in a school curriculum being making sure we have the resources and the resources in the maps that match the state standards instructional practices that match the rigor of the expected state standards by using those resources and those maps effectively and then making sure

051our assessments measure that student progress effectively so when we put those three together we want them working in tandem and not in separate silos we want them all to be connected and working towards that same goal so we kind of have four little things here that make that tick we have our schools preparing plans for school improvement so they have consistent goals and a consistent structure for their school improvement plans our we want every teacher using our instructional maps and our adopted curriculums consistently so that if any student is in any one of our elementary schools they're getting somewhat of the same material at the same time we want that cadence of teach assess enrich in our re-teach of every 15 minutes in our classrooms so that teachers are aware of which students got it

052which student student and now what do i do about either of those things either to extend that learning or to go back and re-teach it and then we're really focusing on intervening quickly within five days hopefully making a difference for those students so that we aren't dealing so much with kids that are getting further and further behind but we're addressing it quickly our csip plans a couple of board meetings ago you were introduced to those and saw those these are our school improvement plans they're all aligned to whatever the buildings have decided as their lowest areas in their targeted areas for instruction our professional development structure is consistent across all our buildings so our teachers are constantly engaged in a weekly cluster where that includes coaching on best instructional practices it includes coaching on any

053resources we may have adopted it includes coaching on students themselves maybe difficult students or students that are second language learners and what do i do about it then we have our our high leadership teams in their weekly leadership team meetings they're looking at data what's happening in their buildings they're doing walkthroughs to find out what's happening with their teachers what are their teachers needs so they can address it in that weekly customer and then we at the district level we have weekly district meetings with our master teachers and and our principals these weekly meetings are making sure that we're consistent across our district so we're dealing with anything on this year especially as new adoptions of resources on digging into those just working together on those three stools so that coaching is happening continually consistently

054across every one of our buildings to address that ela piece of that data that you saw earlier we embarked last year on a professional development called letters which is all about the science of reading this this particular professional development happens in our weekly clusters with our k-2 teachers and then has some full days of instruction as well it's basically a program that is helping to make what we were doing already well even better focusing on phonemic awareness phonics fluency vocabulary and comprehension so our first cohort that went through was our master teachers who are now facilitating this with our career teachers we have our first teacher cohort that started in august that are going through this now and it's all about how to get students reading phonetically reading phonics correctly so that when they can

055get to words that they don't know they have a way to tackle it and tackle it well and that leads them to a higher level later when they have to really tackle their comprehension piece so it's been a quite of an embargo it's been quite of an endeavor to start um but we're very encouraged by what we're seeing across our district with this and especially the data that is being used which i'll talk about here our assessment plan needs to be aligned so in ela we have two week quick checks which are our new read and our question sets and then students are engaged in an end of module task so we're always trying to make sure if what we taught was actually received by the student and can they perform at a level of

056what the standards are asking us to in math it's the same process two week quick checks built in to match the unit that's just taught and then those interim of those common assessments to make sure that their everything that's taught over time is mastered and that we're showing that standards mastery in our letters work we're taking that fastbridge assessment and we're looking at the results of what students are doing in our k-2 foundational skills and schools have developed intervention plans around those results of the student so if a student is having trouble with letter id they're immediately intervened and they're using the skills that they're learning with our letters instruction to help that intervention so that students are more likely to improve over time on any of those skills that might be hindering them from

057moving forward as a reader we know our goal is to get students reading at grade level and we know that needs to happen by third grade if it doesn't happen by third grade our task becomes much harder so our focus is on those mastering those foundational standards so that we can begin to see improvements in across all of our grades so that's kind of in a nutshell what what we're working towards um knowing our data isn't where we want it but yet there's lots of spotlights and lots of places where we are doing well so taking all of our best practices that we know are going well adding pieces to it slowly so that it enhances all that we're doing so many questions for us a lot of information it's sure about it i believe

058this this powerpoint will be available to them on there okay we thank you all for your efforts and everything that goes into this we uh look over it got questions we'll let you guys know uh we'll go to item 2.5 uh grand canyon university reports yeah this will be quick i just wanted to update you that i had a development manager from grand canyon asked to meet with our department with the hr department about an opportunity that they would like to partner kind of partner with us but it's free of charge so there's no cost but what they do is they come and they will help recruit within our district so our paraprofessionals that maybe want to be teachers are if you have a nutrition staff any of our classified staff that maybe are interested

059in going in to education but have a hard time working and balancing school and paying for school at the same time they would like to create this time where they could come in and work with these people to fill out their application to also help them get scholarships they say their goal is that they would have to they would be nothing that they would work really hard with these potential teaching candidates which we all know we could use we need more teaching candidates out there that they would have this opportunity to come one-on-one and meet with these um candidates to help them fill out applications get scholarships um again there's no cost to the corporation for this and they there's no expectation or limit of how many people go into their actual program it also

060in this agreement that i put in your board docs there's an opportunity for people that work within our district if there's classes they want to take and they want to get a master's or they want to work on a bachelor's there's a discounted rate that they will offer for those people as well you can read through those um they are willing to help bridge this teacher kind of shortage that we're in and how can we help people go into the great career that i can tell you i've been in for almost 30 years um that we can recruit people to want to go into teaching we have a lot of great people right here in our corporation but they've talked to me they can't afford it they can't not work and go to school at

061the same time this is an opportunity for them that they can grand canyon will work with them um also grand canyon is actually a division one college in arizona which i didn't know until he he told me that but so it's not a small small college it's actually a pretty nice-sized university um i also put in your board dogs there's a list of all the different degrees that people can look into going into grand canyon so just wanted to give you an update on this i i feel like it's a great opportunity that maybe we should um invest in to see who we get get more people going into education i think this program is brimming with potential production to help us with this teacher shortage build teachers right here in our own community and

062especially expand the minority candidates it allows those people who are working with us who don't have a bachelor's degree than to continue working and work on that lori i read this stuff i saw where it looked like every student would get like a 3 900 scholarship but the cost is still 13 000 more than that are you saying that they will find scholarship that's their goal they said their goal is that they can find scholarships help people apply for scholarships and get scholarships to get it down to as minimal of a cost as possible and they will come here and we can have kind of these sessions where these people can come and they will help them go to these different scholarship sites or ones that grand canyon have right there within their university and

063help people i also read that gcu is a religious organization it does say yes it is do they have a religious component with that or not you know i don't i don't know about that yeah i can find out for you so just brought to you as a superintendent's report tonight we'll bring this back as an action item again there will be no financial obligation thank you very much thank you we'll go to item 2.6 which is a negotiating community schools foundation update well before i do that since i'm the community liaison i'm married to a master's degree uh gcu grad so i'll just tell you that it's a good place so i'll just get my little plug in thank you um i am here to talk about the foundation and where we're at uh

064one of the big things is our trivia night's coming up so we would still take probably yet the end of this week or the beginning of next week a couple more teams corporate wise or community wise so if you have a bunch of friends and you guys want to pool your money and you know put in 300 for team entry we'd love to have one more two more teams we're getting close to our limit at that building uh peddlers does limit how many tables we can have but we're pretty excited about it and that will be on october 26th from 6 to 9 30. sounds like we'll have a pretty good meal from mario's catering or mario's incorporated i'm not exactly sure some of the stuff that we have says different things but it will

065be i believe lasagna and maybe some um parmesan chicken so you won't go away hungry it sounds like it'll be a great meal and obviously uh goshen alumni tj sticky boots i know him is like echo barger but he will be there doing the trivia so that's kind of cool to have an alumni back and then um as we were talking about the band and having a hundredth year the high school is coming up on its 100th year at this location in 2023 and we are looking ahead to how that can be celebrated we are looking at an alumni plaza of some nature we do have some early renderings but we are kind of revisiting that and what that will look like with some architects uh different options and the goal would be to there

066would be two options one would be to kick off the fundraising in 2022 with an unveiling in 2023 at the 100th anniversary the other possibility if we can't get construction and things or funding done by then we would look at kicking off funding in 2023 with the 100th anniversary and then unveiling it in so that is some stuff that the foundation is working on it's a partnership with the school system so it's not just falling on the foundation we are more of the vehicle for the funding i mean to handle the fundraising funds so i think that it's more of a partnership across the board is that would you agree with that dr hope i think that's how we view it yes so do you guys have any other it's questions i think we need

067to make sure we get our name in for the team for the trivia yeah i don't have anything from you guys so get on it guys i've got a table card for you and everything but nothing is gonna make sure we retain the trophy that we've had in two years right oh and that's a really good point the trophies that are being made this year are super cool they are being made by our engineering class and it was actually an intro to the engineering design student that designed them and there will be trap they will be trophies for all three of the top finishing teams in the different categories so that's pretty cool we have the kids doing that so we will see some of you guys then in a couple of weeks thank you

068i'm going to take my little uh athlete home with that though thank you very much and we'll go to item 2.7 a ocean junior height school achievement check we just said goshen junior high drop the ass but i'm very excited and so honored to be here and seeing to tell you guys all about the great things that are going on at the junior high it's been a very busy nine weeks first nine weeks this fall but i'm excited to show you what's different about groceries okay uh we've had quite a few different missions and visions in the middle school along the way as we were ib and new tech and go to middle school before and then gosh middle school after and so now we are just looking to make sure that we have all

069students find success we want every one of our 1041 kids to find success and be inspired figure out what their at the niche high level so that way they want to stay engaged in school all the way through high school graduate we're doing that for our red hawk ready values respect responsibility trust and safety and as i said we have 1041 junior high kids in our building if you ever had a middle school student junior high student you probably had some conflict with them in those years and if you think about those years and multiply that by 1041 we have our work cut out for us to make sure that we're all being respectful and to make sure that we're all being responsible and trustworthy and being safe and in the age of tic tac

070it's been quite a challenge but we're working on it every single day our school goal this year is pretty simple we want to beat the state average and i learned in math and ela we're very close i'll show you that right here um i i did not put our neighboring districts on there i thought that was not cut so i didn't name them but we we didn't lose any ground last year we maintained in the pandemic with 400 of our kids online in roa and many of them in and out and back and forth and not being in schools on wednesdays so i think that's a huge testament to our sixth seventh and eighth grade teachers last year that we didn't lose ground we maintained especially compared to other districts around us that unfortunately lost

071lost a lot of ground um every one of our content areas just gave an intro that's the first we've never had all 12 different content areas 11. all of them gave an interim at the end of this nine weeks math and english give an interim every six weeks they give a quick check every two weeks and we do that to keep a pulse on where we're at and ready for i learn at the end of the year by the time we get to eyeliner and as dr metcalf said it's dead that we're just doing an autopsy then this way we are able to see exactly where we're at so from interim a last year at this time seventh grade ela is up 18 we've also added writing a writing component to that in trump this

072year which we didn't have last year eighth grade is about five percent um our math is just we're out of control in math right now we're at 49 it's the same test that they would have taken at this time last year so we are we are well on our way to a state average okay um the next slide that's coming up just to save some time here um i want to talk about what's different about ocean junior high this year and uh we have reworked our schedule to be able to stay aligned with the high school which is very nice for shared staff that we have but we we have that black schedule in place so 90 minute class periods seven different class periods we have gone to nine week grading periods instead of twelve

073so that we have more great great checks again just a better pulse on where we're at um semesters are are quite nice for all of our students that are taking high school credits classes so we all have the same schedule it's the first time we've had one schedule in our building i've been there for 18 years i don't i don't know when we've had just one bell schedule in our building the last time it would have been for that it's been a very long time we are focusing very hard on grades and gpa as we have standards-based grading for a very long time which is awesome for teachers standards-based grading but it's super hard for parents to understand one twos threes and four parents understands eight understand abc's disease so we're bringing back the importance

074of a gpa every one of my students should be able to tell me what their gpa is because we spend time making sure that they know where that's at and how to find it and why it's important we've made a lot of changes to seventh grade this year we want them to explore things to kind of figure out what they're interested in when they come to us in junior high they are so different from each other they don't know who they want to be they don't know what they want to be they're just trying to figure out how to fit in or not fit in so we want them to explore lots of different things because they may not even know what their interests are yet so we've added two carousels so they have a

075carousel of stem nine weeks of stem nine weeks of health and it's a pe and these are computer science and they'll rotate through all four of those and then they also have a world language carousel french german spanish heritage and art doesn't quite fit in that but we need a place for art so there it is um so they rotate through each one of those just to get a taste of that and explore it for nine weeks we've added competition theater where students actually are trying out for our competition theater classes is new we will compete with other competition theaters groups across the state their first one is december 4th in logansport so we're excited to see how they do on that we've added culinary arts this year which is wildly popular mr craigler is

076our culinary arts teacher and he is doing kind of culinary arts around the world this this week they're in the mediterranean and smalls of garlic and pasta sauces last week they were they were making fried rice we still have what used to be gmtv but it's now red hot tv which is also a very popular class so our 7th graders are exposed to lots of different things so that by the time they get to 8th grade they know what they want to focus on we have 342 high school credit classes being taken right now all of our 8th grade students are taking preparing for college and careers we have eighty of them in algebra 11 in geometry 349 are real languages pe we've added this year for high school credit and those are our new

077pe uniforms thanks to mr campbell they look pretty sharp with our new gym floor they were very excited and they're proud of them they're proud to wear their uniforms i dress up and then help we've added as well for seventh and eighth grade but i still cut it because i think [Music] the next big thing that we have that's different at ocean junior high this year's homeroom we have home room twice a week on our even days mondays and thursdays and it's a 90-minute block of time but we've split that into four parts so on monday's part one is very important and we are doing great texts we are looking for missing assignments we're looking at our attendance we're checking tardies just getting a picture of how we've done for the last week and then

078we make a plan if we have missing assignments how we're going to get those done and get those turned in what what do we need to do maybe we don't need to do anything because we've got it together this week but the kids are able to know what their missing assignments are and they have a plan to be able to get that caught up that's the part one of monday's part two we go back to our quick checks for math and eoli and we see who needs some more remediation or enrichment and we move and we go and we get help where we need it from our math or ela or other teachers on thursdays part one our entire seventh grade is doing lexia it's a reading it's a reading program um because our our

079scores show that we need more help in reading across the board so every single seventh grader um is working on on-grammar and phonics and lexia our eighth grade is taking preparing for college and careers for our high school credit session two same thing we're switching and moving for math and ela remediation so that we're sure to exceed the state average another awesome thing that we have going on this year is our tardy intervention plan this is bretton fish's brainchild uh not not proud of this but it is what it is before we had the shutdown um pandemic we had a documented 7 000 tardies before christmas at the middle school well that's just crazy there was no sense of urgency for kids to get to class on time it was that way from the beginning

080of the school year and and so we just said no more we're done with us so all of our teachers are using their prep time first 15 minutes we've got it down to about 10 minutes of their prep time but we are helping students get to class and if they're in the halls after the ball brings then we find out what they need to be able to get to class on time and we walk on there and as we're walking them there we're having conversations with them about what do you need how do you need help getting to class on time so it's not necessarily a punitive thing it's an opportunity to make a relationship with a kid that we maybe would never otherwise get to know right now we're at about 600 parties compared

081to seven thousand before the shutdown so we are loving our targeting intervention we are loving getting to know kids that we wouldn't necessarily have conversations with otherwise and finally what i want to end with tonight is kind of a milestone and this has been a dream of mine for a very long time i used to be a cheerleader so secrets i love school spirit and it's been very hard to do when we were a building of 1600 you've never been able to be in one place at one time but with 1041 of us look we all fit in our dome so we had our very first pop session two fridays ago and we recognized every one of our fall athletes because we have over 140 fall athletes which is awesome and we're very proud of

082that the band is over here to the right the band learned our school song most people didn't even know that we have a skull sock the cheerleaders performed their competition routine they are runners-up in the big 11. the students all wore their uniforms their jerseys their cheer-out beds to school that day there was a lot of school spirit that day and it was super cool to have us all in one room together and talk about being goshen jr high because that's never been done we've had some very disappointing behaviors because of the tick tock challenge and i brought out our custodians to the middle of the floor because i wanted the students to be able to see that when they're doing all the vandalism around the school it's not part of me and it's not

083hurting mrs hershberger it's not hurting the teachers it's hurting the custodians that have to clean that up every period every day all day and i wanted them to put a face to what they were doing and since that moment and they got all kinds of tears it was pretty cool we've had one very minor incident since then but i'm very proud of the way that our school is coming together we still have work to do we're working on it every day but that's ocean junior high and that's where we're going thank you for your time today i appreciate it have one yes you're talking about world languages you mentioned one that maybe i should know what it is but i don't know heritage those are our native our native spanish speakers so their mother tongue

084is spanish so they're learning academic yeah reading writing spanish i heard about it i just didn't know what it's called next year we'll add in sign language thank you thank you very much appreciate it all right we will move to uh item three board committee reports uh we'll start with 3.1 parks department i missed the last meeting but i don't think i have reported here that one of the parks in the city has been renamed and i've mentioned that the park just north of the railroad on the west side of state road 15 was known as often park it is now mill street park so if you hear about mill street park that's where it is i just want to say the city didn't take the name away from no we're still going to have

085a little renaming ceremony up there when we put the plaque up the the sign is over the archway so people know it when they come there yeah the plaque's going to change so at that point i would explain why yes yes then it is true that that um it was named for our former mayor and he approached the park board and asked that that it be changed thank you uh 3.2 music council yeah um first of all i want to say i want to go on the record saying that i love the music performance parts here at ocean community schools it has affected our families the final degree i'm a proud dad of a freshman at boston conservatory is going to major in music conscious composition and i blame really what used to be ocean

086middle school for the foundation in music and the [Music] his love for composing music very proud to say that um as far as the uh the minutes uh or my report the minutes are there i do want to highlight one thing in the report um the music department hasn't had a field trip in a while and if everything goes well you will see that on the consent this is a return to the music trip that we haven't taken in two years now thank you very much uh 3.3 athletic council and mr grover is not here this evening in the volleyball yes uh 3.4 building trades this year's house is on timothy drive which is in the portland trails neighborhood i drove past last evening and they are in the midst of framing the house the

087rafters are up and they are shooting the roof currently so they are making a nice progress uh it is a spec house again this year so it is currently for sale uh item 3.5 uh foundation i don't have anything to say beyond what michelle said i can't be on the trivia team because yes so this is my first year so this was my first big school board conference i found it very interesting because on the legislative liaison here dr will appointed me as a delegate to the legislative committee meeting so that was interesting they talked a little bit about states wanting her a legislator wanting to politicize school board elections and that's something that we're going to be against there are other things too i found that interesting and i learned a lot and and

088part of it is you folks that have been there before know it's not just in the sessions that we learn stuff but lunch with people and dialogue and talking about the common school boards are issues all across the state here's some discussion about how they're going to deal with that some schools have gone to zoom only some go into the discussions on the board items some of that police presence some of that riots we haven't had that yet yeah so it was it was an interesting experience thank you and lastly i had a 3.7 goes from redevelopment uh we had a meeting this week but the thing i'd like to comment on last evening the goshen redevelopment in the city of goshen actually hosted michael hicks and david terrell from the university or from ball

089state university um and they was talking about overall development within cities one of the things that they really touched on which is important is as people are looking to come to a community we heavily look at school district and the importance of a strong school system you know that is the thing that many families now look at they don't come here necessarily because of jobs it is really quality of place items and the school system is a integral part of that so i know the session was recorded so we'll see if that can be shared with the other board members if you'd like to see it i thought it was a very good discussion uh so moving on to item four which are consent agenda items out of four point one approval of checks number

090three nine seven zero eight through three nine nine seven one one four seven nine through one five zero three and eft's number 1-832-1931-4825 item 4.2 community buyback 4.3 tax anticipation loan out of 4.4 ocean public library board member appointment 4.5 gifts and donations 4.7 goshen high school music department overnight field trip myrtle beach i had a 4.8 amendment to board meeting calendar and item 4.9 personnel do we have any things to highlight or religions to that [Music] the consent agenda items are approved as presented we move on to item five which are action items and the first item tonight is item 5.1 public hearing on additional approach appropriations uh so this is a open hearing for this if you're interested in speaking at the hearing please make sure you have provided your name and address

091after a presentation by the administration and its advisors there will be an opportunity for the public to make comments about the additional appropriations at the hearing we will ask each person limit their comments to three minutes and that topic is limited to the proposed geo bonds the notice of this additional appropriation hearing was published as legally required on september 29th 2021 in negotiation news we'll now hear from dr evans on the project's commitment well this uh this bond monies will be utilized to make needed updates for both chamberlain and kander elementary schools with a variety of other projects within the school corporation and can you please let us know how these will be structured the bonds will be general like obligation bond won't have any impact on the tax rate uh we will now open

092up the public hearing so if anyone would like to speak uh directly on the go bonds please step forward and state your name all right hearing none we will close the public hearing uh dr evans can you please again kind of summarize the appropriation resolution for us the initial appropriation resolution provides the approval of the school corporation to appropriate school corporation funds for the project of the bond proceeds all right and with that do we have any questions of the board here the appropriation so with that we have a motion and a second for the uh the geo bomb can both resolutions be included in the same motion there's actually two resolutions okay [Music] 783 the final bond with resolution emotion do we have a second please a second i have been moved and seconded

093uh any further discussion or questions from the board at this time so we have a motion in a second on item 782 and 783 all those in favor please say aye passes 6-0 thank you um item 5.2 adoption of the 2022 budget i grew up thank you so we had the budget workshop where we talked about the budget and how it was going to be formed and we presented the budget uh to the board a month ago and then we had a budget hearing about any possible concerns with the budget and so now it's time to ask for your consideration to adopt the budget for 2022 as presented any additional questions from the board at all on what we have seen and reviewed here over the last couple months i would like to say that

094we appreciate you know dr evans everything that you presented with that and the entire administration uh pulling that together it's been a lot of work and we know there's a lot ahead of us yet but we appreciate that uh do we have a motion and a second to adopt the 2022 budget approval move to second and any additional conversation or questions [Music] thank you very much uh moving on uh item six uh we have no discussion evening or discussion items this evening so we will go to item seven uh which is public comment um so as i uh requested uh individuals needed to sign in at the beginning of the meeting we will ask that you keep your comments to three minutes uh this evening and mr knobslinger will time that for us uh and

095we will i'll please start with uh robert excuse me barbara hotel hello it was good to hear many wonderful things that are happening at ocean schools my two sons were in the music program and that was wonderful um however we're always looking for improvement right in every area we're looking for improvement and i recently learned that the indiana school board association the indiana association of public school superintendents indiana school associate indiana teachers association and indiana library federation all testified against protecting children from pornography that was shocking to me the indiana obscenity exception statue shields administrators and teachers from arrest and prosecution regarding obscenity and pornography and it makes you wonder why would we need a law like that this is quite frightening i'm very concerned about this and recently it's we found out that at

096a school district close by middlebury junior and high school they found a book in their library jesus land which sounds so innocent but it's a pornographic book this is very shocking you can imagine how shocked the parents were and how shocked the student was so this is something i think we really really need to be aware of i know this was middlebury but goshen middlebury and five other schools joined together to transform education and have received grants together together so and today i did call goshen middle school to ask them if it was in the library the librarian couldn't say yes and she couldn't say no which it was interesting they told me to call you superintendent so anyway to close i just want to say that i'm very concerned about what motion is and

097is not allowing in their library and the books that are taught and read to our children now is the time to remove all immoral and degenerative curriculum and standards please return to the solve academics it was encouraging to see about reading and math um return to standard achievement tests so we can compare indiana students to other states maybe i'm not understanding that correctly but it sounded like we were we compare indiana to indiana but not indiana to other states so personally i would like to see that and i would like for us to be aware of what's in our libraries please as parents as grandparents we can't allow this type of thing to be in our libraries so thank you so much for your consideration thank you robert robert 908 south penn street good evening

098uh i want to spend some of my precious three minutes talking about the music program uh then the benefit of that uh my my uh you may recall we homeschooled our five children and they were open arms received and they all benefited tremendously from ban some orchestra in the choir as well so what that means board and mr superintendent is when the music program comes to you with their hands open you say yes because what else can they do they've achieved in every possible way i could spend many stories my wife had terrible cancer and when she overcame that the marching band stopped in front of my house and instead of singing that hey hey baby that they like to sing they said hey hey sarah tremendous um but i'd like to spend some time

099talking about our scores but but i'm i'm alarmed at this uh and i'm sounding the bell whether we got a storm coming parents are being ups are getting upset about this pornography and this this uh the terrible things that are in our schools that we seem to be out of control parents feel like they're losing their god-given right to to raise their children i believe we have a wit and wisdom curriculum for our grade school i watched a 90 minute i watched a 90-minute presentation on that i was appalled at the macabre uh degradation blood all the grand literature we have and this is what we're teaching our our grade school kids um i had to shut it off at 30 minutes because they talked about a mis miscarriage to fourth graders i couldn't believe

100it it recalled uh it recalled our own uh miscarriage uh stillborn actually uh in my family and with my wife's cancer we suffered but i've never known such mourning losing a child whose name was robert and we're gonna do this share these kind of images and topics with grade school um i believe it's wawa c i might be wrong but a parent came to the librarian and said we have some pornographic material in the library allegedly the librarian said oh great thank you for sharing that with us let's get that removed that's what we want i'm telling you the storm is coming i'm not threatening anybody but people are going to get upset and if we can have collaboration what did what did jesus say to pontius pilate he said you would have no power

101if not granted to you from above this is a great opportunity that god has put you guys on the board at this time all right so i'm begging you i'm warning you to to collaborate and let's get the nonsense knocked out of here we don't need children sexualized all right we want to raise virtuous solid educated citizens ocean is doing a great job with all across the board hoping to see scores and the things that you are working on raised i come tonight however opposing the masking of our children if you've heard the statistics before they're worth repeating in hundreds of mass studies over the decades it's well established that mass do not stop viruses standard cloth and surgical masks are no protection a covet virus is 0.1 microns in size the pore size of

102surgical or cloth mask is 200 to 1000 times that size it's like putting a chain link fence over your mouth it does not stop the spread it does not stop the transmission in fact in the cdc review of all the data worldwide the cdc says quote no reduction in viral transmission is found with the use of face masks masks come with medical issues a decrease in o2 levels carbon dioxide increases bacteria stays on the mass kids are breathing bacteria all day long it causes an increase in bacterial upper respiratory infections children have been shown to not be drivers of covid the chance of a child dying from covid is point zero zero three percent that is a ninety nine point nine nine nine nine seven percent chance of full recovery these statistics make masking our

103children difficult to justify then there are the psychological effects depression anxiety communication verbal and non-verbal is reduced laughing and smiling are invisible bonding between students and teachers take a hit and emotional connection is difficult and it creates an atmosphere and common is driven by fear it is driven by fear and it should not be the masking of our children is madness it defies logic it defies peer-reviewed studies and even the cdc findings so why if something is more harmful to our children than good would we continue with it i say stop the mass madness let the children go let the children be free and breathe free and be children i i say reverse it and let your legacy show that you care for the children in this area thank you thank you [Applause] steve condor

104the podium necessary or may i just stay here you're fine okay all right um this has to do with communication and notification the last meeting i tried to attend i started at the administration building found one open door which i found out later it's good to have off because it wasn't meant to be open came here there was an orchestra concert went back to the administration i never could find it additionally i looked online and i and i you know tried to find out where the meeting was and i couldn't tell well after the fact so i thought there was supposed to be public notification a change of venue or time of meetings why incorrect that'd be one question that i have um tonight's meeting in fact when i got online i went to a

105google doc and there's no time listed that seems to be a pretty simple process even if it is redundant at least to me my question here is then are those intentional or just some some form of uh correctable incontinence if it's a ladder when can we expect a correction new people being invited like myself i've only i went to one tried to go to a second couldn't find it and i couldn't find the time tonight so i took a chance on six o'clock and then lastly the last meeting that i attended mr copeland alluded that you all are privy to more information about the efficacy of masks and masked mandates and i'm curious about why that pretty information isn't openly and freely disseminated to those of us who are lesser before so i have three

106questions i don't know how much time is left i'm willing to wait for responses there you go i'm curious about those three things so i know how to move forward so what i'll say on our meeting is we we uh publish our meeting our times at the beginning of the year um they are so we will be actually coming forth for our 2022 schedule here over the next few weeks and that gets published and gets published uh in negotiation news yes required by law and if we do have a change of venue again it has to be published in the goshen news i believe 72 hours in advance okay which it has been so how do we access that if you don't have a subscription that goes your news you just have to go buy

107paper why wouldn't it be published on your website the information i believe is posted on our website as well because we do we do uh notifications through uh various social media as well i may be i'm the symbol so i understand that i could go be mistaken but i could not find on your google doc the time can you you know i would like to introduce you to my secretary you'll just stay and talk to her she'll tell you what it's like all that stuff how to access it okay we want you to come in all right thank you thank you very much all right uh that concludes our public comment this evening uh we'll move on to item eight closing items uh 8.1 any miscellaneous uh items from the board tonight 8.2 any miscellaneous

108administrative items we'd like to wish everybody in the ocean community a wonderful fall break have fun get arrested and rejuvenated uh and 8.3 do i have a motion for adjournment please say i was there please say aye