001Join us in the pledge of allegiance. Doc, if you could lead us. >> Sure. >> This Doc. >> Dr. Hel. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> First thing I wanted to do is we have a new member at our tables up here, Mr. Ryan Ernie been with the school system for a long time. Uh guess he graduated from here in 1996. >> 96 >> was a uh regular on the first baseball state champions. >> He's been a teacher and a assistant principal and a coach and a principal and now he's assistant superintendent of student support services. So we're glad to have you on board. >> Glad to be here.
002Thank you. >> Looking forward to it. Um, everybody on the board received a copy of the consent agenda a couple of days ago. Does anyone have any questions about the consent agenda? >> Yep. Good. >> Sarah has a motion to approve. >> I'll second. >> Second by Judy. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose. No. Motion carries. Give us a minute so we can sign the books. first semester. I just left. I also have a transfer that I do and I will need that signed too. Please. Nice one. Okay. Wildcat spotlight. Jasper Elementary School. Audrey John, principal. Welcome. >> I'm here for moral support. >> And you are >> Brandon Bear. This is taking Audrey's job. >> Okay. >> Welcome. >> All right. Is this working? >> Yeah. Should be. All right.
003Well, thank you very much for having us here this evening. We're excited to share some of our successes and some of our goals with you. All right. Um, so our mission at Jasper Elementary School is to create a learning environment that encourages all to strive for excellence, embrace the leader within, foster social emotional learning, and celebrate diversity. And one thing I would say about our school is it's it's a very whole child approach. Uh, we're not only just like teaching academic standards, but we're building leaders and future community members. Um, so that's very important for us and making sure that everyone is included and feels successful in our building. So I have some current goals and some data for us to look at. Um, the I read three proficiency, these are based off of last
004year's scores. We were at 91.4% passing rate. Um, you know, compare that to the state which was an 87.3. We're very proud of the fact that we are above um where the state is. We do have a goal of 95%. The state had also set a goal for all schools to be at 95%. Um so we hope to achieve that and throughout the slide you'll see some different things that we're doing in order for us to reach our goals. Um for iLearn I put um like our growth and so you can see 47.5% in math the state average was 33.5 and then in language arts 54.7 state average was 44.8. So again above the average within the state and then you can see our goals as well. So when we talk about reaching our goals
005um in the leader in me you have things called lead measure. So it's the things that you're doing consistently to help you achieve your goals and to have success. So these are some of the things that um we are doing this year in order for us to make the growth that we want to see and to get where we want to be. One thing is having our students in our building and wanting to be there. So, really gaining some of that attendance with our kiddos. One thing that we started this year was a positive office referral. So, when teachers or staff members see students doing even the little things that make a big difference, um they can refer those students to the office and then we take their picture, they get to pick a ping-
006pong ball with a number, they're highlighted on this board. You get 10 in a row and those 10 students get to visit our VIP concession stand. But one thing about this is we are contacting every family when the child receives a positive off office referral. So the first semester alone we had over 115 parents contacted to let them know about just the little things that their kids do. And um one thing that really got my attention is most of the time when I called and said, "Hello, this is Audrey John, assistant principal at Jasper Elementary School," they would go, "Oh." And I would say, "No, this is a good thing." Like we're going to also shout the positives in our building, too. So, they really are appreciative of those positive phone calls. >> And to
007back that up, some of the students typically are frequent flyers in the office. And so, like I made a phone call home, they're like, "What now?" But this time it was a positive. So, it's kind of cool to see parents. >> Yeah. Every parent deserves to hear the great things about their child. Um, something else that we started this year, we have accountability partners in our building. And so, we started something called warm welcome Wednesday where I we were able to get sponsors. And so each staff member received a t-shirt with some kind of positive saying like you belong here or we're happy to see you or smile and then um they are stationed in like frequently trafficked areas in the mornings to greet students. It's really important to have those touch points and make
008connections. Not every student is involved in extracurriculars or has coaches or other community members that are out to make sure that they're doing well. So we just want to make sure that all of our students know, you know, they belong in our building and we support them and we care about them and their successes. Something else, just making sure that we acknowledge our students attendance, the perfect attendance certificates, and also making sure that we're always just supporting our students where they are. This was something um it's called the snack shack. And so our speech pathologists and special ed teachers started this in order to work with these students on building their um language development. So you can sign up for them to visit you and they'll provide you with a snack. you pay them and
009um they tell us ahead of time like, "Hey, these kiddos really need to work on maybe like colors or greeting." So, we make sure to make have those types of conversations to build their vocabulary and articulation skills. Another lead measure is really just focusing on our literacy and our instruction within our building. Um, so we have a strong tier one instruction, 90 minutes of whole class instruction of language arts, making sure that we also hit our um, daily tier 2 time, which would be like the MTSS. Um, and so we're hitting the students where they are in terms of supports, but also our students that are able to be challenged, we're making sure to do that as well. So that's very important. Um, constant training. We offer it to our staff. Just last week, we
010had two staff members do a virtual um like writing like a response to literature um training. We have our instruct or our uh literacy coach and one of our title teachers attending an MTSS workshop in the next couple weeks. Um so just making sure that we're staying on track with like the current trends and educational services and then also making sure that learning is fun and engaging. Um so here is an example of when we had our the Western Day. Um we bring community members in to read to our students. Um so we're doing schoolwide initiatives that promote literacy involving the community and making it fun for our students. >> Along with that one book two schools we did some hints today even. So kids were at or the teachers had a bandana. We put
011ribbons up by their classroom names by the doors and you heard students asking us questions like what's this about? What's this about? and we're kind of just leading up to the clues that kind of leads to the book that we're about to do. >> Yeah. And then also just constantly looking at data and having those data conversation, those talks to make sure that we are um hitting our goals and doing what needs to be done. All right. And lead measure number three is working on our math um to reach our goals there. So having the iLearn checkpoints looking at the data we have a data room that houses you know these are like major scores throughout our school um not necessarily individual classrooms. Um here we have student data tracking. Each child in our building
012has a leadership binder where they're tracking their own data. You know having them take some ownership of their success and their goals is important. And then the last thing is um daily intervention time for math. So in our building it's called math taps. So next year there's going to be some mandates coming down through the state and so I feel like we're very prepared and ahead of the game in that because we're already doing a lot of what's going to be expected of us. So we continue to monitor um looking at our data. Here's another example of like the student data. Here's a picture of our data wall with this is our um dibble scores. Um different colors are indic indicative of their mastery of um the skills in dibbles. And then here we have
013our attendance tracker. So, these are all the different things that we're doing and how we're holding ourselves accountable and making sure that we're reaching our goal and making it visual and so that we see it and it's a constant reminder of um our expectations in our building. So, again, just building the parental support, the communication with our parents, acknowledging our students successes, and then just making sure we support our students, just very important things that are going to help us get where we want to be. So, and we're on track with our attendance. Um, each grade level creates wigs, so goals and the celebrations that that they're going to have when they reach their goals. Um, so we're tracking the attendance that was on the board or the slide ahead of that, but we're on
014track with that with a 93.5% and we're seeing growth within our um iLearn scores and I'm just so thankful to be here tonight and just be able to share with you that great things are constantly happening in our building. And so these are just a couple of the we had a leadership festival this year. Our first grade they building the community partners. They go to a nursing home and they trickor treat. Um here's another a group of the um snack shack visiting a classroom. And then here they were visiting us in the office. And then this was something new and I'm super excited about this. So over the summer I got an email and it was read to the final four. and our librarian is very big into March Madness and the NCAA and I
015was like, "Oh my god, we got to do this." So, I sent it to her and it was for our third grade students. So, over the summer it was the kids coming into third grade and I received an email a few weeks ago and we were number two out of division one. So, then they redo it and then we made the top 64 and then it'll keep on going. There's deadlines or whatever. So, um, the top four, I believe, when this is all said and done, they get to go to Indie for a celebration. So, we're hoping to move along the bracket and make it to the final four and hopefully to the final round. So, >> all right, >> Audrey, is that based on minutes read, books read, or how? >> So, each student
016um tracks their minutes and then turns it into Mrs. Peters, and then she logs it into a system. So, and there were different divisions. We were division one, probably one of the bigger schools that was signed up to do it. So, it's fun. >> All right. Okay. >> All right. Well, thank you very much, >> Audrey. I noticed today on a Facebook post that you had a call out for what's called the Jes News. >> Yes. >> Yeah. So, how tell me a little bit about that. >> Okay. Yeah. So, we have um a group of students who record some snippets of the news. We have several teachers that are in charge of it, so they help with the recording. Um, so we are currently calling out for our students for next year that want
017to participate and record in the news. It's aired every morning in the classrooms. It's how we start our day. We do the pledge, the school mission, um, sharing of birthdays, just various highlights of our building is shared each morning on that news. >> Oh, sorry. Some added in there. They started doing some different special days. It used to be like workout Wednesday where they did an activity, but now they're doing like travel across I think Indiana or Jasper. So the students are doing their own work on that and coming up with their little bits inside the videos. >> Yeah. And not only are students like broadcasting or the you know that they also like do the behind the scenes of research and different things like that you know so it gets a different variety of
018students participating. >> So the recordings that are aired are actually in the students own voices. >> Yes. >> Oh >> yeah. Yeah. They sit in the couch with like like a green screen so it looks like they're >> That's on YouTube correct? >> Yes. Yeah. If you want to share the link, I'll share it with the board so they can see what that looks like. It's a very neat program. >> Sounds like fun. >> Good. >> Anything else? >> Is it all grade levels in that? >> So, currently it's fifth graders that >> fifth grade >> record on the news. Yeah. >> So, they apply in fourth grade and then if you get chosen, they do interview processes and then >> in fifth grade if you get chosen, you get you get to pick a
019partner and uh do the news. And there will be sometimes where they'll do I'm going to call it like a try it Tuesday where they're trying different foods and so they'll ask like hey are there any teachers that want their children to participate with them? So sometimes there are younger students but typically the fifth grade it's their baby I guess I would say. So >> thank you for coming. I appreciate it. >> You're welcome to stick around but if you want to go we understand >> uh building and maintenance update. >> That's me. >> You're okay. Uh the board did receive an update from the stepped in group that just gave some updates about the current projects that are going on. They had no action items. So we said they didn't need to be here
020today. Um but I do have one action item. Um the board may recall that um we were trying to get some uh quotes about around improvements to the high school soccer field. um last growing season and through the actual soccer season this fall, the the field was in really rough shape. And so, um Brady Gunzelman, who manages our grounds, uh sought three different companies to provide quotes in order to um create some improvement so that when we got ready for the season this next year, um the field would be in condition to play on and to practice on. Um he did make contact with three companies. Only one company responded and that was Tenbarge. And they gave us two different options to consider. Um the first option would be to sprig the field and the
021cost to sprig the field with all materials and labor would be $57,378. The other option would be to sod the field after all of the uh work would be done. and labor and materials for that would total $138,433. Um, we have decided to recommend to the board the sprigging option for improvements to the soccer field for the amount of $57,378 and that work would be done by 10 barge. Um the timeline on that would be um in mid to late April they would try to spray herbicide to kill some of the existing vegetation on the field. Um by midMay they would be removing all the vegetation and they would also remove the irrigation heads that are on the field. They would laser grade that in late May, sprig and plant the Bermuda grass in late
022May, early June, and then hopefully with the right amount of water, sunshine, and growth time would be ready for field play early August. >> So, is this different grass than what they had? Do you know? >> It's it's a Bermuda. It's the same, but it's it is the grass that's recommended to be uh on the soccer field. Um, and really last year's mess with that wasn't just Jasper's soccer field. If you were a golfer and you played golf out at Buffalo Trace and you saw their their fairways, they looked the same. Many of the soccer fields in this part of the state were struggling as well. So, um, they feel like, uh, completely redoing the field should give us the the surface that we need to move forward. >> And so, I think the the
023the field at the middle school. So, why why is the difference? I mean, we don't have a problem at the middle school, do we? >> They don't have the Bermuda grass at the middle school. I I don't know what kind of grass it is, but it's not a Bermuda. >> They've got lots of different gr like four or five different grasses, which slows the ball up. It's not a true My son plays soccer, so I've learned quite a bit about soccer, but it's four or five different grasses. It's very thick, and it's not maybe as conducive as to the Bermuda, >> which the the high school a lot of the high school teams around the area utilize. >> It probably has something to do with the speed of the ball. I would think that the
024Bermuda allows the ball to move >> more smoothly and faster than what a grass that has a taller blade. >> Okay. Yeah, I know this is the second year we've had this problem. So hopefully this will >> yes be the solution. >> We hope so. Uh but because of the cost, we do recommend the board consider approving 10 barge with the recommended sprigging option as opposed to the um >> sod. >> Okay, I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Judy. >> I will second. >> Second by Sarah. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I >> I oppose. No. Motion carries. >> Okay. And that's all that I have under the building and maintenance update. >> Okay. Mr. Ernie. >> Yes. Um so just a request there for from Sandyware. The I'm going pull up
025my email here so I get this right. The sister cities of Jasper is wanting to use one of our charter buses um to transport their attendees to the uh from the Indiana German Heritage Society to Ferdinand and back. Kind of a big deal. Um, so I'd ask approval for that. Um, couple of things that we had going on. Um, we had bus inspections this past month. Those went really well. All of our buses passed. A couple of them have a few minor things to fix, but they were not knocked out of service. So, that was a really big deal for us. Uh, so a huge shout out to Bobby Sheeter, uh, bus maintenance. Uh, he takes care of a lot of things out there and does a fantastic job. Um, so he was able to
026keep all our buses in service, which is very helpful for us to maintain getting all our kids safely uh to and from. So, uh, thanks to Bobby for for doing that. Uh, next month, February, it's Love the Bus Month. Uh, so Jillian and I have been working on some little things that we're going to put out on Facebook. So, just some I brought a few examples. I'll just pass them down. Uh just some stop arm winter safety which I wish this one would have came out a little earlier with the big snow that we had but uh just distance from the bus just to help keep our kids safe. Um so love the bus month is is coming up uh here in February. So her and I worked on that. We're going to send those
027out. Uh she's got them kind of scheduled uh just, you know, to kind of help bring people that that the buses are out there and and just how to keep safe around our kids and stop arms and different things to to make sure we keep everybody safe. >> Good. >> There is one action item there. Um we need to consider approval for the sister cities of Jasper to use our charter bus. I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Sarah. >> I'll second. >> Second by Judy. Any discussion? >> All in favor say I. >> I. Post. No. Motion carries. >> Thank you, Ryan. Dr. Lauri. Other business. >> Um, we missed curriculum update. >> Oh, sorry. >> That's okay. We're going to go back now. >> You're not all items. That's okay. I don't have
028any action items tonight, but I did want to give a professional um professional development update. um and just highlight, you know, our ongoing strategic professional development efforts um in the board packet each month. I think it's in there each month, but I made a concerted effort to to up bring up to date the PD report that you have access to. Um but just wanted to draw your attention to to the activities and our targeted um areas. And I think you will see it aligns to goals that Mrs. John and Mr. Bayer talk Mrs. John and Mr. Bayer that came out weird. I don't generally refer to them in that way. Um that they highlighted and just some other things that we've been talking about this evening. So um first and foremost I think you will
029see um uh literacy and math the development of our tiered systems of support. So with those tiered systems of support for both ELA and math legislated for grades K through 8 beginning next school year 26 27 um the district has been focused on thoughtful development and implementation of systems that address foundational skill de deficits and support students in closing those achievement gaps. um to ensure that successful implementation, our teachers are participating in things that are receiving professional development focused on like like I talked about earlier, understanding the structure of tiered systems, the importance of explicit instruction within the intervention space um and the use of effective identification and progress monitoring practices to ensure students receive the appropriate support. In addition, um we've had groups of teachers um participate in data focused iLearn workshops. Um actually
030I think we've got some math teachers going to one that's been rescheduled for next week um at some math teachers at the middle school. Um so these workshops support teachers in interpreting again interpreting that state assessment data utilizing state provided resources like instructional frameworks and assessment frameworks um to inform their instruction and engaging in pro programmatic and curriculum review. So these efforts ultimately support our students in demonstrating their knowledge and skills on those state accountability assessments. Um, we've also done we've had a focus on STEM integration. Um, hands-on engaging STEM instruction remains a critical component of our overall curriculum. Um, we've had professional development in this area to support staff in delivering meaningful applied learning experiences for our students. Um, and this year specifically, I feel like our our main focus within that STEM um,
031space has been um, a big piece of it has been on AI. Uh we our our technology team created an AI badging system that our staff can um progress through and earn a stipen once they complete that that just increases their literacy and their comfort level in utilizing AI to to streamline their own practice but also to help our students learn the appropriate ways to utilize these tools for their future. Um um additionally um we're in our third year of our scale partnership which I've talked about numerous times over the last three years. Um through that partnership our staff are engaged in the development integration of micro electronics related content. We've been working on again a vertical alignment plan to ensure that our students are um are are being exposed to this type of content
032um throughout their K12 experience. And then um career exposure and exploration is another big piece of um our professional development offerings. So ensuring strong vertically aligned system of career exposure and exploration is is another priority. So um we've our we have seen professional development and certification for our college and career coach. So that's Aaron Yokum. our PCC teachers um had had a session scheduled for next Wednesday. We're in the process of rescheduling lots of things um where that's concerned. Additional staff ensure students are consistently exposed to local career opportunities and receive targeted guidance and course selection aligned to um individual student goals. So that work is often through partnerships with ROI, the regional opportunity initiative. I think that's the right I think that's right. and hub 19. Um, through those partnerships, we continue to review
033and refine our career exposure activities across K12. Again, I think that's a theme here. You know, we really are trying to be more systematic in in virtually everything that we do. Um, and ensuring that our students have just a broad range of experiences that build upon each other over the years. And that starts with our teachers and and them um having what they need in order to implement those things. Um, and then I would also point to the to the integration of the competencies outlined in our Duboce County graduate profile. We are doing some work around that as well. So those efforts broaden students awareness of post-secondary opportunities and encourage future engagement within the local community. Again, Audrey talked about their their work at the elementary level is not just academic. It's it's the whole
034child. And one piece of that is the the soft skills or the um the I'm going to just going to soft skills that are um highlighted in our graduate profile and and how students are um gaining experiences in those areas. So on the actual um document that you have access to, I did link um in February the the agendas that would have been implemented on February 4th next week. Um, and again, you will see the recurrence of these these themes in the focus of the activities. I spent most of today working on starting to reschedule everything and we will find ways to do that. We're just going to have to be more creative because we don't have a day anymore. But um those um activities will be carried out and um and the the the
035return on investment when it comes to PD is huge because as as Dr. Laura alluded to in executive session like teachers come out of a training program and and they just need additional training like it doesn't go away. Things in education change constantly and so um I feel like we really work hard to ensure that our staff have the skills and the knowledge necessary to continue to serve our students to the best of their abilities. So that is the update there. If anybody has questions, let me know. >> Thank you. Sorry for going out. >> It's okay. I didn't mind. >> All right. Now it's >> all right. Well, thank you. Um, we do have one item around uh approving conflict of interest statements. Monica has those. So, Monica, do you want to share what
036those are? >> Yeah. One of them is for Arlette, and that is because she is on the board and also drives school buses for us sometimes. The other one is for Brady Gunsman. Um he is our um grounds maintenance person, but he has um a company that cleans up at alumni after the football games. >> So how we can probably take those both together or do you want to do them separate? >> I think we do them separate. >> Separate. Okay. Well, let's do Arletes first and then I'll maybe do Brady's. So, the board would need to consider a motion to approve the conflict of interest statement for Arlet based on the criteria that Monica shared. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Judy. >> Second by Sarah. Questions, discussion. All in. >> She
037doesn't drive that much anymore, does she? >> No. She'll sub from time to time. >> All in favor say I. >> I oppose. No. Motion carries. And the second one would be for >> Granny Gunsman. I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Sarah. I'll second. >> Second by Judy. Questions, discussion. >> All in favor say I. I. Oppos? No. Motion carries. >> We have something to sign. >> Yeah. Just sign in here. >> You want to continue? Okay. Um, I'm going to go ahead and continue while the board is signing the conflicts of interest. The board should have received a copy of an acceptance of donation for student meal accounts policy. As a part of our state board of accounts audit, they have been reviewing all of our financials. And one of the things that
038they noticed is the fact that we accept donations from community members or individuals that help us to offset the cost of negative school lunch balances for students. And so um they asked us just to adopt a policy that specifically identifies and outlines that that as a practice. So the board did receive a copy of the donation for student meal accounts policy. And at this time I'm just asking you to review that and then we will bring it back to the board in our meeting next month for consideration for approval. >> Okay. And then just uh one announcement, our next board meeting is February Monday, excuse me, Monday, February 23rd at 7 PM here in the community room. And that's all we have to bring to the board. >> Does any board member have any other
039business to bring before the board? >> If not, I'll ask for a motion to adjourn. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Judy. >> Second. I was going to say ping pong. Ping pong continues. busy. >> All in favor say I. >> I oppose. No. >> Motion carries. Meeting adjourned. Thank you very much.