001we'll call the meeting to order we'll start with the pledge of allegiance i pledge the allegiance for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all so we'll start by just welcoming everybody i just want to remind everybody that we are streaming live streaming um the board meeting um this evening so um just know that you are being overheard and um watched on the world wide web welcome those individuals who are streaming with us today do apologize for the late start so i appreciate a little bit of leniency there we will start with um the consent agenda items earl makes a motion do i have a second second a second by pat is there any discussion all those in favor raise your right hand almost opposed 7-0 all right um
002i do have the public participation sign in and there was no one on the sign in list who is asked to speak on any item that's not on the agenda for this evening so we'll start with the stronger together recognitions theresa we have several of those tonight which is our lovely audience that we have here today and so it's my pleasure first of all we're going to start with a gentleman who's made us very proud in multiple ways i'm going to recognize him tonight um and it's my pleasure to present a stronger together so let me finish before you come up where are you there you are so i was sent an email from the district executive for the hoosier trails council the boy scouts and he covers nine counties in southeast indiana he said
003that their district gives out up to three awards each year out of 400 volunteers for noteworthy service a district award of merit and i am pleased to tell you that one of those three out of 400 volunteers is with us tonight so it's my pleasure to present a stronger together to eric kelly and eric before you come up here i'm going to read this letter that was submitted on your behalf so that you're thoroughly embarrassed i nominate eric kelly of pac 518 for the district award of merit eric kelly is a registered scouter with pac 518 in jennings county he has been a den leader for the past three years serving as a tiger leader wolf leader and this year as a bear leader with the challenges of covid eric has stepped up with many
004exciting ideas for the cub scouts in our pack he has created and successfully implemented our pack monthly hikes utilizing the local state parks clifty falls hardy lake versailles brown county muscat attack national wildlife refuge musketeer county park in north vernon salomon state forestry and the jackson washington state forestry in brownstown every month he prepares and disseminates suppliers that tell how to get to the hike how long the hikes will be the difficulty level the six essentials that come that each scout should carry in their backpack and a list of all hikes to come this one activity for our pack has been a lifesaver for the survival of our pack eric has planned and facilitated a campout for the scouts last october which we all know is what the scouts want to do he has contributed
005many hours of service to the scouts in the pack by helping plan and carry out fun activities such as our new cornhole tournament pinewood derby rain gutter regatta pumpkin carving contest bicycle rodeo blue and gold banquet and our pack pinnacle hike picnic and crossover ceremony he teaches at jennings county high school has been the key club advisor for eight years he's been the indiana key club district administrator for the last two and a half years this position serves over all key clubs in the state and trains and advises the district board on district activities and events he has served as a youth coach in the county for soccer spring and fall baseball and basketball for the past four years he's a member of the north vernon kiwanis club and is geared which is geared towards
006serving the youth he's invis he is in the business of serving others in the community especially the children he goes above and beyond all his endeavors to put forth worthy activities for our youth he has impacted not only our scouts lives but also the lives of all of his students and the local communities athletic programs he's a great role model for the youth he's upbeat positive in his dealings with the youth organizing his approach to any and all of his jobs and a hard worker i encourage the district committee to strongly consider this registered scouters nomination for the district award of merit and terry french wrote that and not only did they consider it but they awarded it so congratulations eric kelly we're getting you a t-shirt too they're all gonna get one you're gonna
007get one too it'll just come to you later eric we require the winners [Laughter] all that service so the next person we'd like to give a stronger together today um the adult variety is from the middle school and we would like to recognize missy vance we um mrs comell wrote a letter i recommending that missy vance receive a stronger together over the past two years missy has stepped up to serve as an assistant to the head custodian on several occasions allowing us to not miss a beat and for everything to be handled thoroughly she has never asked for anything and yet fulfills the responsibilities to their fullest capacity she volunteers anytime we're in need of additional support or an extra set of hands the outside of our campus has improved aesthetically beyond measure this is
008because of mrs vance's hard work the donations she collects flour seeds mulch flowering pots et cetera and then the hard work to plant mulch and arrange the landscaping for our campus this is very much appreciated in the administration of jcms believes her continuous efforts and commitment to our school is beyond anything expected thank you missy vance for being the very best so missy vance come on up thank you so next it's my pleasure to recognize the spelling bee winners for each of our schools and then the district winners so we're going to start i'm just going to call you up in alphabetical order by school and then save the winners for the last so when you come up if you would come up and then just start going around here after you get your your
009shirt and your certificate we'll just keep going so from representing brush creek elementary school as the winners we have cameron brooks sixth grade and coraline stevens great come on [Applause] [Laughter] uh representing graham creek we have delaney ritz fifth grade and salomon shaw sixth grade congratulations i love the cub scout before that was appropriate tonight from hayden elementary school we have sebastian white sixth grade and peyton colette sixth grade [Applause] thank you congratulations congratulations did you get that vulnerability from your mother or father [Music] [Laughter] north vernon elementary school representatives we have and this was cute as a button to watch because she's just a little bitty thing and she was up there with those big kids abby patterson in third grade and zelitas got in fifth grade i love watching you walk by and
010look at your mom every time you're so cute congratulations school we have seventh grade heidi hughes and drew spurlock in sixth grade [Applause] [Music] from sand creek elementary we have marietta claudio hernandez in fifth grade isabelle little littlepin in sixth grade [Applause] congratulations tidwell fourth grade and madeline crockett fifth grade [Applause] congratulations and last but not least we have the winner and the circle place finisher in this bubble and how many rounds was like 17 or 18 feeling it went like a long time we just kept going so in second place we had from the middle school abby vance was having here and the winner was molly watson [Applause] all right well you can give this to jamie when she leaves too so all right that's it congratulations to everybody super exciting we're glad that
011you were here and allowed us to recognize you i think it's extremely important um for our community that they see the wonderful things that you all are doing so thank you for coming and um being part of um allowing us to be part of that celebration with you so congratulations um so now we have a middle school presentation yes mrs coleman um thanks for having us tonight middle school um what we've been able to do over the past several years and share a little bit about what's going on this year that we'd like to make a big difference after coveted so um as the administration um mike greene angie clint and myself over the past four years we've tried to operate with the philosophy of making certain we have positive communication uh respect and encourage
012leadership in our building and then also striving to develop the relationships not only with the students but with the staff and the parents in the community um and that's kind of been our focus for the last uh several years and so we we're trying to keep things on the same pathway and we want to we haven't had an opportunity to talk with you guys because of covert so we're kind of catching you up on some things we also have tried to create visions and dreams understanding that when we work together and we have heart good work ethic that um you can succeed and meet those um dreams that you might have and also um we've just established in our community our school community a sense of trust and mutual respect um that's something that sometimes
013you know angie will mike will call me in and tell me to back off that i need to think things through a little bit and then we do the same thing to each other so that's that's been our philosophy as the three administrators the three principles along with that we've tried very hard to and take that down to the level of our students with the employability skills serena nicholson is here with us today she is our the director of guidance at the middle school and when covet hit we had to make some changes because we couldn't take 55 kids into one room and have them in sitting there together for 45 minutes so sabrina worked very hard on what's called mindful moments and i want to have you watch a clip i won't take you
014into the second part of the clip but many of her heard not just her but mrs cardinal as well many of their clips are just them talking to the students and and then sometimes it also leads into some research based supporting information for students but with that being said they do this every single morning to start their day off and so they come across the screens in the classrooms the tvs and just kind of help to set the day to make it a positive start for every student so with that being said i just want to share a little bit about this this clip if we could and they're very simple and they're everywhere so we are getting to a point of the year that things might be getting a little chaotic a little you
015know stressful maybe on your end we've got i learned is midterms up you know there's end of semester stuff that's happening we've been downstream transition things and i mean i i know that sometimes things can get a lot of pressure and you just feels overwhelming at times and so i thought today we would take a second and just kind of talk about stress um so stress actually can be a good thing just a little bit of stress it kind of gets our adrenaline pump a little bit it says those endorphins flowing and it helps us to kick into that that fight or fight that call to action kind of things where are we gonna we're gonna step up and do something are we gonna walk away to go somewhere else you know find safety whatever
016it might be and so a little bit of stress is actually really good it gets you going too much stress over a long period of time is where we have to worry about trouble and it can have physical you can have physical reactions to an overwhelming amount of stress and it can affect your skin and your heart your stomach your muscles your eyes your lines i mean all kinds of different stuff it can affect you mentally and you know scattered thinking hard to learn you forget things you can't focus on things it can affect you emotionally you know you get angry easily you get laid down i mean there's there's all different aspects of how too much stress over too long a period of time can have some really major impact on you so we
017want you we want to give you a little bit of tips and tricks on how to manage that stress so i'm not going to talk overly long if you click on the the chocolate cake because like it says stress is desserts fall backwards and so it's all just taking that time self-care to find something sweet to do for yourself can help you know ease that stress a little bit take your mind off of it if you click on the cake there is a short video we might think i'm stressed or this is stressing me out but what do we actually mean and what can we do about it so what i wanted to share with you so you can see is every single morning the students start out um with with a way of being
018able to think about themselves and making themselves calm down making themselves think things through um just they cover every aspect and many of those aspects also include what we are really focusing on on our employability skills so i'm going to turn it over to sabrina at this time she had no idea was putting this clip in um and so she's probably going to ring my neck later but i'm telling you i want you to see it because it's so good that that's how they start their day out and sometimes when they come to school they've had you know especially middle school i don't if you remember your kids at middle school but they come to school they've already had an argument with you at home as a parent or um they've been uh sometimes they've
019always been a little bit too big for their bridges when they come you know and they come into school and they're in an upset mood or um they're tired because they've been up on their phones all night or they don't have their homework done or something and this allows them to just kind of get themselves in the right mindset and and start the day and i do believe it's it's fantastic and i do believe um that they they deserve credit and i wanted you guys to be able to see that because um it's something that they developed on their own and to make certain that they still got into the classrooms and still was able to be able to communicate with the kids so um all right she didn't mention there's a song on there
020too but you don't have to play the song there's always a song on there so a lot of our students identify with music and so i do come from an english teacher background so the songs vary in all genres because i just have this part that kids should be able i mean we should let them see there's more than just today's music so anyway we started mindful moments last year it was me and the counselor that was there with me and we covered coping skills and character building and stuff like that this year mrs cardinal has done coping skills she has seventh grade she's the eighth graders but she's done coping skills and i have done more on the side of career exploration and employability skills and that kind of thing so we've been bouncing
021back and forth so our school counseling program we are a gold star recognized comprehensive school counseling program so that means that we cover three different areas throughout our program we cover academic achievement career planning and then social emotional development so within that academic achievement we do have the students do a weekly grade check so every tuesday they have a spreadsheet that we share with them the first the second week of school really once we've got some grades going and every week on tuesday they update that they can check their missing assignments they put their current grades in there it gives them a chance to have them accountable and be responsible for those grades so we look at that we do have one-on-one meetings with students to discuss missing work or low grades organization those usually
022come from referrals from parents teachers or even the students themselves when they think they're struggling and we try to do honor roll recognition every quarter we work with teachers to be sure students are placed in the classes to help them best so if there's something that we need to do some adjusting the teachers will talk with us and we'll do some consulting and see about making those changes we do a classroom lesson every january with our eighth graders to help them see what their graduation pathways are to kind of help them set off that transition to high school and a better on a better step so i understand what it takes to graduate we also do classroom lessons in seventh grade and eighth grade about learning styles that way the students can kind of see
023you know how do how do they process how do they approach different things how do they learn best and then we kind of help them to see how they can apply that to their own studies and then we do a lot of transition activities our spring is a lot about transition so we do 8th grade visits we do 8th grade parent for 6th grade visits 8th grade parent night 8th grade visits to the high school and then our big one is our new student orientation in july and that one we really push a lot because that is a great four hours for those incoming seventh graders to learn our building and kind of get it used to it when it comes to career planning um the mindful moments this year did hit on a lot
024of career stuff i did the career things with that and i usually focus on more of the trade type stuff a lot of our students know about the traditional careers so we want to introduce them to some careers maybe they hadn't heard of before so we focused on that college go week activities in september kind of kick off our career planning and career explorations mindful moments this year because of not getting a chance to do reality story we did introduce resumes and interview tips and tricks to our middle school students that is a standard the state has for school counselors so we did that through our mindful moments and then we did discuss employability skills in lessons and mindful moments and then we do career type things in our impact lessons we both of us
025i miss cardinal and i both go into the impact classroom about every other week and we do either character building or career exploration um to help with those students next year we're going to be adding back high ability lessons this year that kind of got with all the chaotic stuff we didn't quite get that in there but that will be returning next year when it comes to social emotional development and the mindful moments covered a lot of our coping strategies we do different things all year long mrs cardinal we rotate weeks so every other week that they were learning some different things just with the thought in mind that the students will find a strategy that works for them so we put a lot of tools out there for them to try to use and
026we do mindful moments covering self-care and working to find balance between the different parts of their lives so they're not becoming overwhelming or getting behind um classroom lessons start the year we do cover respect of self others and technology we do one-on-one meetings with students to assist when needed so if the parent reaches out or a teacher reaches out for them to be checked on or if a student contacts us then we will meet with them and then we do lessons in impact and high ability resuming next year that also focus with that social emotional development in addition to what we do with our program we also promote 21st century scholars program we do a monthly push we get applications out to our students we do like little incentives each month trying to get them
027to turn that back in we start that with college go week and they have an application that week that they didn't get points for um we get one out to our incoming seventh graders so when they take the folders home from our sixth grade visit there's an application there so parents can see it if they want to fill it out and get it back we hold it and wait because we really want every parent to have that opportunity and then at the end of the year we have um a big type of thing that we give for everybody who has turned application in whether they get approved or not we also maintain um the nutrition club and that is like i don't know what other schools call it what we call nutrition club it's like
028the backpack blessings that food gets home sit home on fridays right now we are providing food for 43 students so every friday afternoon we have teachers that help us out and they deliver those bags to lockers we try to keep it very confidential and then students take those home um this year we're down to 43 last year when covid was high we were up in the 60s so we're trying to maintain all of that um we also maintain maintain a school supply closet a clothing closet and a hygiene closet so anytime a student comes in and needs something we have those items for them um and then the last thing that we're just excited about next year we are planning to bring reality store back that is a huge undertaking but it's so so worth
029it for the kids so i'm very excited about that one and we're also bringing back career day mrs cardinal doesn't she is planning that one because that is her baby i do reality store and then we're also bringing back our auditorium lessons so this year we do classroom lessons like every other month and then the other months we do auditorium lessons which are large group lessons um because of code we didn't do large group gatherings but next year we're hoping we'll be able to do that and those are shorter just 20 minutes 25 minute lessons but we can make a great impact in that time all right thank you and the other portion we wanted to share with you um that's going on with the middle school because you know you don't know if you
030don't get to hear about it um and that has to do with over the past uh four years that i've been at the middle school we've really worked hard on the remediation because when by the time the kids get there you know people say oh they you know first grade they didn't teach them this in second grade that's not the case at all the pro the situation is they've been taught it it's just sometimes they don't always remember just like all of us so we have um we don't focus on first and second and third grade skills necessarily fourth grade skills we focus on the indiana state standards for the seventh and eighth grade and if students are struggling with that we work with them on those standards we started out with karen pedego as
031the instructional coach and did an exceptional job uh we went into uh she got an administrative position we went into uh the covedgier and lo and behold we were like oh my gosh this is this is crazy and it was just it was just truly a blessing we had cali garrett who steps in and um it must be coming from like three generations younger than me because she came up with really creative ideas and we did all of our lessons live at the middle school and that was totally callie garrett that all did that so you want to go back into the classroom totally understand um and then since then we now have karen field who has stepped in um and i told theresa when we when we brought her into the middle school she
032has the pedagogy that i'd like to see for remediation that's an elementary background and but she has organization skills of i swear she's it's got to be a god her organization skills are higher than anyone's i've ever seen and so she's going to talk to you and i told her that she's very very limited on her time just so you know okay i'll try to go a little faster well i will say that when i took the position at the middle school that the question you know that i had for mrs coleman was but i have 25 or so kids every year that i impact and i just don't know that's that's a big undertaking she goes but now you can impact over 600 and that kind of sold me and um i've never looked
033back and i'm so so excited at what's happening there and so many terms that she mentioned in her in her speech up here about vision and ethic work ethic and things like that that we're doing it's it's making things happen for our kids and that's why we're there we're all there for our kids so we have um paula ertl who helps with the math remediation side of our remediation team and leslie brown who's our english and language arts specialist there my team is fortunate enough that i have worked with them in the past as well so we do make a fantastic team downstairs in our room 20. if you go on to the next slide seth our remediation intervention program has key components and it's our panther den team that's what we call our our
034area where we invite the kids down there's a lot of collaboration and a lot of conversations that go on among the staff and even with the kids that make us successful we do a lot of student data tracking we have something called a classroom connection i'll touch on in a moment and a panther study slide please so again my team leaders are paula and leslie and together we meet very frequently informally and formally with a group of pair pros that are also down there with us uh several ladies and gentlemen that are very much an impact on our kids and it's so nice to have both men and women working with our students because that gives them some good role models for the work ethic that we're looking for so the picture of our team
035part of our team there they're not all there but this team is phenomenal they plan together they support our students with incentives they sit down and they brainstorm what what makes our kids work for us you know what what are we going to do to offer them some some good feedback and they model the work ethic this this team is such a model for our kids and the work ethic that they put forth they review what the students are doing in the classroom they go in the classrooms and they see what they're doing and then they come back and they re-teach that instruction and they help create the better understanding of the content from the classroom we are data driven all the time as you heard z talk about how they do their great checks
036the kids do that we're doing that for our kids too we have our teams downstairs they work on this where they track every week what these kids are scoring in their classrooms and their math and their language arts and then they'll take notes right beside that student's name when they've reached out how they've reached out did they email them did they did they send them a note whatever it was however we're reaching out we're documenting all that we're doing to get those kids on board and you'll see their grades every week whether they're going up or down and then that that's where our targets come in as to who are we going to get down there next week so then every day we send out a sheet like this every one of our teachers in
037math and language arts gets this and so they can put on there what's the skill we're working on today and then our parapros and ours our staff downstairs they get the student down there and they work on that activity and they'll put notes it's completed or you know somebody needed a quiet place to work that was sitting down there because they just were having a tough time getting something completed so we document this every single day i'm also not just organized i'm the binder queen at school so i'm binders full of this where we're working with our kids on a daily basis and we're tracking the things that we're doing to help them here's an example of one of our students in language arts this was their beginning grade 24 and you can see all
038the many times they went down to that lab in that semester and by the end of that semester they were at an 82 because they're working they're working hard and they're making things happen and that doesn't happen overnight it takes a long time to make that progress but it's that commitment from the kids and the commitment from our staff that's making that happen and with that staff that we have downstairs it's just phenomenal what we can do with our kids so data driven remediation and instruction from our our group of panther den and we offer lots of activities for them when they're reading a certain thing in their language arts classroom we may have a challenge that goes with that if they're doing something in math we may offer a challenge for something that they're
039working on in math we send them a lot of positive things locker notes or an announcement over the intercom or a good news note home we celebrate what the kids are doing it's the little thing sometimes and it's sometimes it's the big things but we want to celebrate all of it because they are making the effort for us and we offer them you know incentives to have no missing assignments or bring up your grade by you know one letter grade we celebrate all of those things because that's what makes our kids successful and we try to always recognize that we also do our clear site assessments throughout the year that obviously get us ready for ilearn and so what i do is after we finish those assessments i sort them by every one of our
040english language arts and math team and i color code them so they the teachers can actually see how each one of their students has performed and then we use the color coding and we sort them once more and then after our winter assessment we take our groups by their color code and we do more small group remediation with all of them to get them better on those skills that they were obviously struggling with so we just wrapped up our winter remediation session where each week every group got a small group dose of something that they were working on on the assessments and so they were able to improve they the teachers gave them some exit tickets each time that they would do some of the remediation to see how well that was working and small
041groups as you know are incredible when you can have a smaller group of kids so the teachers the parapros and everyone split up and took a group to work with so we could really be more intensive on what we were working on so a lot of good effort on their part there we also have the ixl program that supplements what we're doing with the math and the language arts and we encourage the kids to use that both in the classroom and outside the classroom teachers can assign things they can check the progress of the students and then the staff down the panther den even start started thinking okay well let's make some challenges here and so we just finished some challenges from the math and language arts departments where the kids mastered so many skills
042and they earned things on each level as they went and we have some kids that we've been celebrating in that area as well so just a lot of things that are happening there that i'm so grateful for that their kids are motivated by and they were very motivated by by this the classroom connection came about when at the beginning of the year when we started getting those emails saying well we have some extended absences so extended absences is like oh my goodness what are we going to do this the students going to be out for a little bit we've got to do something to help them so even though our teachers were doing all this phenomenal work on their google classrooms teachers can't stop teaching in the classroom to help somebody that's sitting at home
043so we established the classroom connection which was a google classroom page that i set up and then i would either email or call home and say to the parent i know your students out please reach out because we have a staff member that can jump on a google meet with your child if they're working on math their math teacher may not be available but we are so reach out to us and we'll set that up for you and try to help your student while they're home that worked phenomenal we had a lot of kids reach out to us on that and i emailed and called every single student all year long that was on the extended absence list to make sure they knew that was available to them um actually mrs comell told me i
044should tell you that it's crazy i sent out i looked i've sent out over 10 000 emails this year to people so parents and students mostly she said 9 000 to her but that's not true i do reach out a lot i do a lot of phone calls a lot of emails i email not only the parents but the students they need to be advocating for themselves as well and i am so pleased to say that there's probably not a day goes by that i don't get an email or from a parent or a student reaching back out to me and that's what it's all about making those connections and then we have the after school program and you know kids is that detention it is not detention it is an opportunity and i sell
045it that way to the parents we have an opportunity for your child to stay after school to get some extra support to get some extra time just to sit down and work on some some assignments that you might be missing i have some students are like i've got so much going on this week can i stay after one day and get this stuff done absolutely absolutely so we have this program in place and we have different staff members that stay out or stay after throughout the week and help with math language arts social studies whatever they're working on and it's not limited to just you know a tear student it is for any student in our building and i reach out a lot to parents and invite them in i i document all of those
046connections that i try to make for our parents to know that we do have support there and i do get a lot of i didn't even know you did that well we do and so please take advantage of it and so i do literally have a parent nearly every week asking for their student to join and stay after school uh sometime throughout the week so it's been a wonderful program and i hope to expand that next year and add even more staff members that i can bring in to help the kiddos and then this is what it's all about is it a reason a season or a lifetime connection because it is the connections that we make that make the difference in our kids and in us and so to finish up and i don't
047like to read things out loud to you but i'm going to read this one because i think it's important many conversations happen among our staff to make decisions based on what is truly best for our students we have to ask sometimes if we come into someone's life for a reason a season or a lifetime a reason to meet a need provide guidance or support a season to bring experience and teach something new or a lifetime to provide lessons to build upon in order to have a solid foundation for the rest of your life at jennings county middle school i hope we meet all three of these criteria but it is certainly our goal to help our students build this lifetime foundation through each reason and season we share with them so thanks um this is
048the last time i have to to come and present to you guys um it's kind of bittersweet it's probably a little sweet but it's a little bittersweet you know i'm just being honest but the truth of it is i'm really going to miss being being at the middle school i've been in three different schools and at central office this middle school staff is phenomenal and they make mike and angie and i look pretty decent pretty good and then we love coming to work every day because it's just that's exactly what she said it's we're here to make it the best for the kids and um when a decision is made you know it's easy to say oh you know is that what's best for kids it's easy to say that but they truly are looking
049at ways to make it better for kids and committing their time and you know i've been accused of recruiting staff members i i did recruit karen that's that's the truth and i can say that since i'm going to be leaving but you know you got it you got to surround yourself with the best and um over the past four years i truly believe we have the best of the middle school so we appreciate you giving us time to talk to you today um and i say i i promise them that they didn't have to stay through the yola policies so but we'll read about them later and then you know missy vance i have to say um missy vance you know linda is a fantastic head custodian she's fallen twice this year broken five bones
050total i think and every single time missy will just step up and take over and make certain that we don't miss a beat and has everything in place and she makes the outside and i don't know if you've noticed but the past four years um between mike you know changing the sign doing things outside and missing doing the flowers and landscaping and stuff the place looks so much softer and so much nicer and so much more inviting and so i couldn't let um this year go without making certain that missy had credit for what she did because she truly and linda will say i give it to missy and she makes it happen outside so thank you missy for that too so thank you guys [Applause] thank you middle school thank you i can't believe
051you don't want to stay for eola well we'll read it yeah i am a little hurt by that and she had an athletic event [Music] okay for those of you who are left old business what do you know neola policies it's quite exciting yes um i would like you to pull neo policy 167.3 public participation i think we have some more work to do on that one okay but the rest of the new yola policies are up for second reading and i would recommend that we pass that so i have a motion by pat in a second by travis is there any discussion again we will be pulling just to make sure everyone is aware one six seven three 7.3 um hold that one and take a look at that one um the next time
052since i have no discussion all those in favor new business under administration yeah so at that time of year i would like to present to you administrator contracts for renewal to add an additional year to their contracts for two years and if you um i'm just recommending the award approve those as presented in your packets okay do we have a motion motion by tony second by earl is there any discussion hearing none all those in favor any opposed one opposed okay um next under programs um bringing just an inform the 22-23 student handbooks the buildings have those ready so um sent those to you this week if you have any questions or anything following those just reach out to me and i'll get back to you on that and then i will bring it back
053for approval next meeting okay and then summer student programs so later on the agenda i have some requests for some staffing positions for some summer student programs so i wanted to share briefly some of the things that we'd like to offer for students this summer um due to covid we have gaps like everywhere else across the nation they've been kind of created by some of the covet times we particularly looking at our data and noticed two areas that are of concern that we think that we can help by providing extra support during the summer one is credit recovery for our high school students that have developed some gaps and need some more credits and then the other particularly is primary literacy so our smallest students k through three the pandemic had a big impact on
054how they are developing in their reading so we'd like to offer some opportunities this summer to students in need to help get them caught up there's really three main areas first is high school and this looks like this for the cover sheet the first is high school summer school this is traditional summer school programming comparable to what we've had in previous years for the high school they anticipate at least a minimum of 60 student course enrollments so that can be funded through the summer school grant is how that will be funded and that would be equivalent to four certified positions and one paraprofessional that would start tuesday may 31st it's that tuesday after memorial day and students work on their own pace with teacher guidance and the edge annuity platform so they'll work throughout the
055summer then for our elementary students to focus on those primary literacy needs we have two programs that will work together the first is remediation for i read so students take i have two opportunities to take i read in third grade every year the first opportunity is in march and that's already completed if students don't pass they have a chance for intensive remediation and another opportunity to take the test again in the summer so we have identified who those students are who need that intervention and we'd like to provide an opportunity two different ways the first for those who are very close to that cut score just need a little more push and a little more work and reading an intensive week right after school is completed so that is the may 31st to june 3rd
056four days that they would come and get help and practice in reading and then retake the assessment and then the second half of that is some who are a little further in that gap and need more help getting help throughout the summer with a tutoring program with a teacher and then retaking the test later in the summer so that program would be four staff members total it would take us three certified staff members and one non-certified staff member and it would be about five thousand dollars which we would use s or three funds to cover and then the second program that we would have for students is for our k-3 students and a few identified 4-6 students for an elementary summer reading tutoring program this is a little an out of the box idea but
057to support our kids in reading last year we were successful with summer school we saw that data particularly with our third graders that we saw a big change in the reading for pre-test to post-test so looking to expand that with our younger kiddos the summer reading tutoring program would be one-on-one it could be a small group with some k-1 kiddos we are able to provide based on money that we still had left an so3 for summer school that we had budgeted originally we had some leftover money last year so that would be used to provide this program each school would have a set number of students and that's in your packet you can see on the tutoring program the estimation of what we're able to provide it would look like two certified staff members at
058most of the buildings nve would have a third and two non-certified staff members per building that would be working with students one-on-one so they would have six open spots in a day schedule to work with kids if you account for contract time and so six students would get a scheduled with one teacher and that teacher would reach out with parents and schedule where and in time for that tutoring to take place so offering flexibility both for our parents to help kids get the reading help they need and our staff and it hopefully encourages more staff to want to be a part of the program because they have some flexibility on when they can schedule that summer's nine weeks long so if you think that it's 18 sessions for a student that's like equivalent to two
059sessions a week it'll carry them completely through the summer and help hopefully raise some reading levels for kids who have gaps developed so the pro the total cost of both of those elementary programs fits within the budget of what we had left over that we budgeted for summer school last year and so3 so we would just capture the use of that money and provide the tutoring program to at a minimum 156 students if everybody takes advantage of the opportunity if they choose to do a couple small group sessions with kindergarten and first graders it could be greater than that so those are the three possible summer programming options that would be available for parents and students to take advantage of for the summer questions about any of those programs or details on the budgeting and
060flexibility with the parents and the kids and the teachers and we know the only way we're going to make up the gap is additional time we just have to have that there's no substitute for it thank you that's just an inform correct that isn't informed here i i'm asking for the positions to be posted okay for permission to post positions further down okay does anybody have any additional questions right now for serving another opportunity to ask questions if needed okay so we'll move down to professional staff and then i have recommendations now we have the career increment master teacher stipend for michaela hines casey ernst is going from the middle school head track coach girls track coach to assistant girls track coach josh land we're looking to extend another year on his current supplemental boys
061basketball contract to extend extend that through 22-23 and christy sigler the high school head girls varsity basketball coach add another year to the current supplemental contract hers is well extended through 22-23 that's a question before you ask for it you can okay i must have missed this but uh on the high school uh sports uh uh that we're talking about the basketball i would like to have a report from the aed on what his recommendation that i didn't see we have those i have that for you girl if you want to see it yes before i vote and i'd like to know the record and all of that can we table this for one name yeah i'm with mania okay thank you so i i just want to be clear you're we're only talking about
062tabling or pulling out um josh land the head for the head boys varsity coach and christy siegler jchs the other okay just those two thank you so what earl has asked as we pull out those bottom two so we still need under recommendations the master teacher stipend and then the um casey ernest the jcms girls head coach to assistant correct correct okay okay so i have a motion by travis do i have a second okay second by tony is there any additional discussion on the two positions no additional discussion all those in favor any opposed so 7-0 okay do we need to i want to make sure we're doing this correct do we need to make a motion to pull out and hold those for the next or um i think since it's already on
063a posted agenda did you did we make a motion to table it so i didn't get a second to vote though oh okay okay so now um earl that's what i wanted to make sure we did um earl has i believe made a motion to table um the two for the high school so do i have a second second by chelsea is there any discussion no discussion discussion all of those in favor and any opposed so seven of them um okay so then um next on the agenda we have um posting jcs jchs certified summer school positions and this is related okay we'll go ahead and nicky europe so permission to post the four um certified positions for the high school summer school salute okay so i have a motion i pat do i have
064a second second by chelsea is there any additional discussion again we're talking about the high school positions any additional discussion okay all of those in favor any opposed 7-0 day next we'll move to the 14 certified summer tutoring for elementary positions nikki so the 14 certified teachers for the summer tutoring program this is for the one-on-one or small group focused on k3 but 4-6 could be included this is already budgeted within summer school for esser funds so permission to post those do i have a motion motion by susan do i have a second second pat is there any discussion no discussion so all of those in favor any opposed 7-0 and then we'll go to the um i read so then permission to post three certified positions for the i read summer remediation program that's
065for four days as the length of time for those positions that's that intensive boot camp okay i have a motion by travis do i have a second second by chelsea any discussion all those in favor aye opposed w okay so now moving on down the agenda we have support staff recommendations we do have blake clanton for the jennings county high school a volunteer for the boys track and field coach i have jennifer campbell she's going to be a jennings county high school parapro in a sped self-contained classroom savannah kneer is a sand creek paraprofessional matt capes will be a middle school assistant boys track coach cassie elliott will be a sand creek paraprofessional hannah everhart an nbe parapro brenda little is a sand creek parapro shanna lovett an nve cares paraprofessional lori mccain is a
066jennings county school bus aide wyatt messer is going to be a high school volunteer assistant strength and conditioning coordinator catherine safely is a saying cook elementary sorry sand creek elementary cook megan stevens is the jennings county middle school head girls track coach asking for approval motion my girl do we have a second second by travis any discussion all those in favor any opposed 7-0 day and then it looks like we have another request yes so permission to post one paraprofessional position to support high school summer school okay motion by chelsea do we have a second okay second by pat any discussion all those in favor any opposed 7-0 um and then and then permission to post 12 non-certified paraprofessionals for the summer tutoring program support okay so moved motion by path do i have a
067second second by tony you need discussion all those in favor and any opposed seven and then permission to post one non-certified paraprofessional for the i read remediation motion by tony of a second susan second by susan any discussion all those in favor 7-0 thank you and then we move down to summer internship positions yes that's one i'm going to present this summer as usual we usually have students or staff that maybe want to work additional hours during the summer asking for permission to post three grounds worker positions that would be the weed eating mowing taking helping take care of the grass during the summer we're asking for four technology positions one central office assistant position one i'm going to change the wording on this it's not directly working on buses i don't want to mislead
068anyone it would be a transportation assistance so washing buses helping with that process six custodial positions and two maintenance intern positions but we would look be looking to fill those for the fall asking for permission to post those positions so promotion by pat do i have a second second my chelsea is there any discussion no okay sorry all those in favor any opposed seven of debbie and then down under students teresa right so each year we have to turn into the department of ed our student transfer cutoff for non-residents and so i'm recommending that we use may 24th after that date for the next school year which will be the last day of school so we would continue to take transfers if we had space in each of our places through the end of the
069school year so i'm asking for approval do i have a motion motion by travis do i have a second second my path any discussion all those in favor 7-0 and then under finances we have donations we do asking the board to accept donations from ascension st vincent for one thousand dollars to the high school student athlete leadership team nvic 250 dollars for the high school student athlete leadership team in the ic 250 dollars at tammy galloway at hayden to help fund the lego club betty lois paulie and member of curly patterson fifty dollars to the high school panther pantry nvic 250 to the high school choir for musical supplies dmv embroidery 120 to sand creek for student council t-shirts joe mills from sims park in crothersville 400 worth of mulch for landscaping at the middle
070school jc pallet of butlerville 150 trucking fee to haul mulch to the middle school the erler cardinal family foundation 565.71 to nve to purchase comprehensive research-based toolkits to help students with math facts so asking the board to accept those donations do i have a motion susan is there a second second travis any discussion all those in favor 7-0 um and then we have under finance the march fund report discussion about that that's information okay all right so under operations then um review and update the panthers prepare and care plan yeah so we are required under the esser guidelines to review our panthers repair and care plan each six months the letter that we used in february to state our update of the plan i presented you with and asking you to approve that for our
071six month review um it is also posted on our website basically that was when we were sending the masks and social distancing and those kind of things the department of ed came up with new guidelines at that point so that's what that letter reflects and then of course the follow-up when the department of transportation allowed school buses to stop wearing masks that was a few days after that letter so that was also included in your packets so asking the board to accept those two things as part of our six-month review requirement okay do i have a motion susan you have a second second pat any discussion all those in favor and then i think we're down under relations mlu yes we are bringing an mou from western governor's university for a student teacher relationship between
072jenny's county corporation and that university so it's a typical mou that we share asking the board for approval motion by travis do i have a second second by susan any discussion just a question do they have any kids right now two okay yeah two great opportunities any additional discussion all those in favor 70w and then resolution and engagement agreement yeah so if you recall earlier this winter i shared with you a desire to enter into litigation with jewel labs as a result of the marketing to our students to high school students and so we have initiated that we have a resolution and engagement agreement that we're bringing to you tonight we're ready to file that on behalf of jenny's county schools to initiate the litigation with jewel labs and join that class action suit with
073other school districts so asking the board to approve that agreement so that we can sign and move forward do i have a motion promotion by pat second by earl any discussion all those in favor 7-0 and then down under other yeah so um we are interested in investigating the purchase of land on highway 50. so we'd like to ask the board for permission to have the have the land appraised and to initiate that investigation and then bring back the facts to you to determine what action you might want to take so asking for permission to move forward with that at this point motion by earl do i have a second second by travis any discussion all those in favor say all those in favor