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Jennings County School Corporation Board Meeting - 11/10/22

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Source
YouTube / JCSC Stream
Date
2022-11-11
Location
Jennings County, IN
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,335 words · about 8 min
Collected
2026-06-06

Transcript

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001there's foreign [Music] amen I just want to remind everybody that this board meeting is being live streamed so welcome those who are joining or catching us on the recorded version so the first item on the agenda is to ask if anybody is present who would need to speak on any item on the agenda or any other topic hearing none will move to new business programs I think we have an inclement weather planning yes so the state uh passed okay agenda agenda oh I'm sorry I'm so sorry [Laughter] okay so let's pull back a little bit we're not ahead of myself um so first we'll take a motion um to approve consent agenda items motion by Earl do I have a second second by Travis any discussion all those in favor six up now we'll go

002on to help it last spring the state passed House Bill 1093 and it limits School districts to three asynchronous learning days a year and what that means are three days where the kids are online at home working at their own pace so the options available to schools are to do traditional makeup days to use those three days you're limited to where the kids work at their own pace which is how we've traditionally done snow days the last few years or you have to do virtual live instruction meaning your student has to be in front of a camera that's live the teachers on the other side in their home on the camera live for at least half of the day um so our e-learning committee was tasked with coming up with how do we make that

003work within Jennings County and so there are a couple of things that we really studied the first thing we had to do was find the number of students who needed hot spots to be able to be online if we needed that so we've been working to get the word out to families and to staff and if they need a hot spot to be virtual if we were to have a snow day to get those distributed then the first thing that we reviewed after talking to different uh staff members talking to community members are the preference that the virtual learning days become the last option for us just because when students are at a babysitter or a different location than home for a snow day those are the most challenging for both teachers and students so

004built into a plan that we would like to be able to share with families ahead of time ahead of inclement weather so they can be able to plan ahead and know what they will need to do if we have a snow day for school so they came up with a option that has five days at the front that are not that live teacher live student on the camera and then after the sixth snow day we would need to move to the virtual live teacher live camera so just walking through these if we were to have a snow day the first snow day that we were to be called would be a traditional makeup school day so on President's Day it would be like we used to do in the past a traditional school makeup day

005students would attend on President's Day um the second day that we would cancel for snow and the third day and the fourth day if we were to need them would be the e-learning days and that's what we've done in the past for snow days where the kids are at home they work through their lessons at their own pace the teachers available to them but they do not have to log into live lessons if we were to need a fifth snow day this year which nature signs are saying it might be a rough winter um we would use another traditional makeup day and that would be Thursday May 25th that would allow us to still finish the school year in the week that we planned um teacher day would be the Friday of that week nothing

006would impact graduation or it would be done also still Before Memorial Day then day six and Beyond if we have that kind of winter that gets us to day six or Beyond that's when we would start doing virtual live learning with students at home and teachers at home and they would be on the camera so what we are going to do is begin preparing our students with practices on what this looks like so they're well versed share this information with our parents and of course when we make that auto call if that event of a snow day we'll also say on the call what type of day it is um and we'll have a longer to prepare for the virtual learning days because we will only resort to that if we get six snow days

007in a year and at that point we really don't want our students to lose any more live instruction which is why we would prioritize making sure we have that so that is um our plan for inclement weather for the year we'll start communicating it out with families so they're well aware as well and I have to thank the e-learning committee that put hours of work into getting this together so that we're prepared we have a plan in place and we're using the multiple options available to us to make it best for our kids and our families any questions for Nikki so this requires a vote no it's just an inform perfect um okay you're hearing no questions we'll go down under professional staff recommendations yeah have some information Ali Bertram for the jcec career and

008college coach Monique Christensen for a high school teacher Roxanne Norton will be doing the night school instructor position her first Sister Christine White will be a high school teacher and we have some elementary basketball coaches for fifth and sixth grade Katie Caitlyn castetter Aaron Colette Aaron green Eric Kelly Courtney Christ Johns an elementary girls basketball volunteer coaches for third and fourth grades it's Casey for approval for those positions thank you motion by Travis do I have a second second I've had any discussion all those in favor 6-0 under support staff recommendations asking for approval for Cassie Burge as a Scipio Elementary Esser paraprofessional Riley bowling as the maintenance intern Rose Craig for nbe Panther mindset work Club Connor ertle for Jennings County High School volunteer boys basketball program Hunter Euler as a high school volunteer

009assistant boys basketball coach John Thomas Harris as a Jennings County High School volunteer assistant wrestling coach Jake Inman as a Jennings County High School volunteer boys basketball coach Alyssa Marling as a Graham Creek sub parapro Megan Matthews Sand Creek Elementary parapro elementary basketball coaches for fifth and sixth grade Ron bowling Joshua Burke Andrew Flora Shannon matern B.J Sigler Gary Speer Megan Stevens and Andy weinhorst and then elementary basketball volunteer coaches for third and fourth grade Joshua Burke Sean gherkin Mike McCracken Devin mule and Jake Ross I have a motion by Tony do I have a second my Travis any discussion all those in favor and then down under Finance get some donations yeah so add some donations and obviously the first one hits close to home the carry here in the audience it is 30

010donations 1565 dollars in honor of Bob Kent to the JS JCS hope food program and we also have Coffee Creek Baptist Church 300 to Grand Creek to purchase items for students need the fidelity charitable five hundred dollars to Hayden for lunches for students in need Cummins 355. dollar value of a mono price voxel 3D printer and that is going to Hayden and for the Jennings County High School winter formal donations from driver's big head pizza for a hundred dollars ebbing auto parts for 250 and Caldwell Banker Jared Decker 75 Scott Brown 50 AAA lawn irrigation 250 Family Ford 250 Bob Pointer family dealerships a hundred Wesley and Darlene Bradshaw for 50 and iron vendors Fitness and Nutrition for and Ray wagster 250 dollars to the jchs panther pantry donations and to accept those donate donate

011motion by Susan do I have a second by Pat any discussion all those in favor six seven list uh last next thing I've got is resolution with four weeks between meetings we've got the normal resolution authorizing treasure and Deputy Treasurer Jennings County Schools claims without board prior action and allowed treasure and Deputy Treasurer to make transfers of Appropriations within the education Debt Service and operation funds in order to balance do I have a motion motion by Travis do I have a second by Pat any discussion all those in favor 6-0 done under relations looks like we have an affiliation for an mou before between Jennings County School Corporation and Grand Canyon University so we can do we can be teaching if I have a motion motion by Tony do I have a second by Susan

012any discussion all those in favor 6-0 and then we're done under other and I think that Nikki you have something to remember yes I have one other asking for approval to accept the resignation of Shannon of course effective 12 to 22 I like to add to that I thank Shannon for her service to Jennings County Schools her dedication and commitment and wish her the best of luck and I have a motion to accept that resignation can do we have to I'm just checking Earl has a motion do we have a second second by Travis any discussion all those in favor 6-0 and then any other items yeah I'd like to braggle our superintendent even though it's our first full-time meeting we had a concern that a school and I can and within a few hours

013it was taken care of care and I sincerely I thank you for the quick action caring and taking care of it I really do if that says anything what the next several years going to be a Genus guys going to have a health foreign anything else under other I'd just like to say sales [Laughter] we will entertain a motion to adjourn motion made by past we have a second by

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