001thank you next is the teacher of the year presentation right so um we were very excited to recognize our teachers of the year from each of our schools um just a few weeks ago unfortunately our district teacher of the year was not able to attend and so we didn't get a chance to celebrate her properly even though her sister did a fabulous job of representing her and looked just like her but we really wanted to have this moment uh with her because it's very important it's one of those things you're going to remember the rest of your life and we wanted to make sure that we recreated that as much as we could and gave the board a chance to celebrate her as well so dawn turner's here and it looks like her graham creek
002family and her family family are here and so todd hearn is going to recreate that moment by sharing the words that he stated and then we'll introduce don's family i'm assuming and yeah your staff okay um you know whenever i get the chance to speak in front of the board and or any obviously any crowd that i'm representing the school i always brag on graham creek and i talk about how it's a place that's you know truly full of love it's truly full of passion compassion and it's just a special place to be and it's it is it's truly a team as a family and i think tonight you can kind of see why i say that you know these teammates are here to support one who has been recognized so to the rest of
003the staff just thank you again for being rock stars you guys are just truly amazing tonight with dawn is obviously her twin sister we met her once before that's shawn and her mom sylvia sylvia thank you for making twins her brothers dawn and shawn's brothers jeffrey and jerry are also twins so it's like they're everywhere so dawn turner let's just recreate what we did the other couple weeks ago dawn turner grew up in kaminsky and was a shy timid little girl who attended graham creek elementary you see grand creek was her sanctuary where she knew she was cared about and where she was safe her grand grand prix teachers ignited a fire for her to learn and reach beyond the limitations of her own home after graduation dawn earned a degree in computer science and
004worked in that field for over five years it was during this time that she became a mother and she discovered that she loved kids a whole lot more than she loved computers so at that point she realized he was not fulfilling her purpose and we talk a lot about our purpose at grand marriage so dawn went back and she wanted to make a difference in the children's lives as though she was back at gce so that became her new mission so he left she left her career began teaching at head start she then through sacrificed countless long nights and measurable grit don graduated summa laude from uh st mary's of the woods in an elementary education where she also received the outstanding graduate in early childhood education so congratulations to that you see the fire
005that gce ignited in dawn still burns brightly today she considers herself a lifelong learner she continually seeks opportunities to grow as an educator dawn is intended attended numerous professional developments truly across the country over the last 18 years she's learned about technology engagement high ability math reading and writing she regularly shares this knowledge with her colleagues during our monthly teachers meetings i think donald say it best and she learns a lot from the ladies and gentlemen that are around her too they truly have made an impact in her lives even at home she has bookshelves full of books that enhance her teaching practices and gives her valuable insight into the meaning and the purpose of education so dawn's efforts don't just stop at grant creek they continue throughout all of her life you know don
006and i are our paths crossed before and i tell people this all the time that she was actually a student of mine in the gt room at the high school in u.s history between her and her sister and their brothers they were just like twins everywhere as i said earlier but thankfully we got so fit that we were gonna have our paths cross again and the story goes is this we a couple of days before school started we had a resignation third grade teacher decided that she was going to take her talents elsewhere and thank goodness she left and went to seymour if you're any administrator no i don't like seeing you so i just said it out loud too i knew that we were in trouble because trying to find somebody that late in
007the game is never good suddenly she shows up dawn at our door at graham creek and says hey i heard through the grapevine that you have a position open and i'd like to interview i'm thinking oh my goodness come on in do you have a license and yeah we know who that little bird was kiana johnson don comes in and she interviews and through that interview i'm thinking this is just way too good to be true and i find out that she's been teaching third grade which is what we needed her home is what a mile or so away from the school she'd been trying to get in grand creek for years i i called it divine interventions and we've had numerous conversations since and we all we've talked about how all those pieces of
008that puzzle had to just fall perfectly into that arrangement that made this thing happen so divine intervention god's will whatever you want to call it all i know is don i'm so grateful that you showed up that day i think our kids our school our community is better because of that day and tonight you're being recognized not as the grand prix teacher of the year but actually as a corporation teacher of the year so that's kind of the pinnacle of the career so far so we'll see where our next adventure lays so ladies and gentlemen this is mrs dawn turner i'd like to start by giving you the hug i would have given you and congratulations um and our board has something they'd like to give you as well and amy if you want to
009name's our board president she will present it to you and um it's very special so congratulations thank you so much and shane you want to take a pic yeah absolutely all right we need to get to let's do this on maybe come here let's take a pic of amy getting it to her hold on it's pretty impressive right here thank you all for coming i do have a words for me to speak in front of third it is few graders first i want to thank the committee members for nominating me for this award all of your hard work it was a very difficult decision this is truly the greatest honor of my life i am incredibly grateful for my fellow educators at grand prix elementary i admire each of you and i'm inspired by you
010every day i would like to thank todd hearn for being the most supportive encouraging and joyful principal on the planet i would also like to sincerely thank my mother my children my brothers and my sister for supporting me throughout my career and i am certain that i would not be the teacher that i am without your support jennings county school corporation educators are like no other they are committed to a standard of excellent in everything that they do i am proud to stand alongside these amazing individuals who are making a difference in the lives of children thank you thank all of you [Applause] is [Laughter] [Music] thank you for having us okay so again i just want to i know she's gone but congratulate dawn i think i think back to my elementary school years
011and how [Music] my teachers really encouraged me and i could name those teachers and how they made a huge difference in my life so on behalf of the board again we congratulate don turner as the district teacher of the year and we are proud of all of our school teachers at the year and all of our staff and teachers so um glad she could be here tonight um so next on the agenda is symbio elementary presentation you thought you were gonna have a big audience we told them they could stick around and check it out it's real exciting so first of all i want to thank you for the opportunity to come here tonight to present all the wonderful things that are happening at scipio elementary we have so many so many people have responded
012all of our teachers everyone in the building teachers hair pros custodians cooks everybody has done a remarkable job and have been amazing the past few years to make sure that our kids get what they need um so i am so grateful to be at a school um and and all of our schools are like that but i'm so grateful to be at a school where everybody pitches in no matter what needs there is we we always respond and we always rise to the challenge to do what's best for our kiddos and to me that's the you know that's one of those things that that truly makes scipio stand out um above the rest so tonight we're going to talk a little bit about sippy elementary and give you some of the frameworks and some of
013the things we do along the way to make scipio so great and with me tonight i have i'm amber hook i'm the instructional coach at cpo and i'm ashley long i'm the behavioral support specialist at scipio so there were there have been quite a few things that have um taken place the past few years uh or the past year at scipio one of the big things that we were so excited at the beginning of the year we were able to have a new playground installed with the poor in place um underneath our equipment and we actually by working with roy and the and um everyone that was involved with the project we were actually able to get it underneath some existing equipment that was there as well to make it more accessible for our kids
014for all of our kids and the opportunity so whenever it rains we can actually get out onto the equipment and utilize the equipment with that we've had some building repairs we had part of a new roof put on last year i believe we're due to hopefully get a new you know the rest of it finished this summer so we appreciate all the upgrades and things like that that you know that's happening at our school um just to improve everything that we have there so very grateful and like i said you know um there's a lot of positive things that i can say about scipio and you're going to see some of those but the biggest thing is the hard work that our teachers and all the people in our building put in to make our
015kids successful um and so you know they truly they they're what makes the school successful and our kids successful in the long run so as we go through we're going to talk about some of our programs some of the things we do in the classroom some of the talks that we have some of these the data sheets that help us drive instruction in our classroom and what that looks like and some of the benefits and the improvements that our kids have made throughout the year so it's a really awesome opportunity to be here to present that so our school we are a two-section school throughout um two teachers in each grade level we have a behavioral uh specialist there that was brought into our building this year we have our reading coach who is a
016huge benefit to our corporation we have music art and pe in our building so we are just blessed with with lots of resources that help our kids succeed so we are uh we have about one percent english language learners um you know um so if you get on to um in view with the doe you can find out more information about our school and right now our numbers have went up we're sitting right around students there we go okay so some of our benchmark data sources there's they're probably almost the same through the corporation other than there's just a few schools that are doing um star on a monthly basis but these are our benchmark um data sources that we that really help us especially at the beginning of the year do our selection which
017we'll get into that data here pretty soon um just to kind of keep track of where our kids are but then the next slide shows us some of our i think our progress monitoring so um we do reading a to z quarterly our benchmarks are best and we don't want the kids necessarily getting used to those books over and over again so there's a correlation chart we use um to convert those scores so we really see their their growth early lit is monthly star reading is monthly star math is monthly um we use those as progress monitoring as well because they take about 20 minutes and we get a lot of information from the reports on those and then of course classroom assessments i didn't know if we wanted to maybe come back to that
018one just because for the sake of time absolutely okay okay so um of course we have the flowchart and i'm sure you guys have all seen that i did how do we click on that yes please so of course we have tier one that's first um and something that we do whenever we have our data meetings every month it's the three of us in addition to our school counselor and each individual teacher we meet with them each month during one of their prep periods and we talk about all the students and anytime that something comes up where teachers just i'm racking my brain i can't figure these things out that flow chart has built in links for it for the teachers to go in and get ideas and then of course we will share ideas
019and that's still in tier one um when we're having a little more trouble with the student getting them to show the progress we want we'll move them to tier two um that may be some pull outs some small group work it may be a little different for her for tier two but that's also when she kind of may start pulling out kids and i'll let you talk here in a second and then we if we're still not seeing the growth which sometimes we do and then the child will be dismissed and go back into the classroom um but if not then we move to tier three where they're getting some really intensive individual support so we can go yeah well not the next slide well actually we don't really need to go into all that
020probably for the sake of time but this go ahead and go to the next slide okay okay so that this kind of talks about what we do when we start those interventions so of course we start with our we do our monthly data meetings uh we always talk about whatever new data we have coming in um we've been hitting on stem a lot recently but for mtss reading tier one of course is core instruction in the classroom tier two depending on what the student needs fifteen minutes daily in a small group um decodables close reads guided reading library books heading bridge to the gap those are all those tier two interventions that we use if a child needs to move to tier three then they are doing 30 minutes of daily intervention small group or
021individual um getting the tier two interventions in addition to barton reading and spelling or lexile word work and some of the conversations that we have in our data meetings is so helpful to bounce ideas off of everybody you know what have you tried have you tried this yes we've tried that okay so what's our next step what can we do to help make this child successful so the the different ideas and the quality of conversation that we have about each child you know it really shows that our teachers know our kids our staff know who our kids are and we know what they need to help them succeed and to you know to advance and improve each and every time you know we have those data meetings if they haven't improved we come up with
022a plan immediately you know and we you know we talk about the different ideas that we have different programs that we have available and how we can advance them into a program to help them continue to be successful or hopefully get them on the right path so those conversations that we have are very valuable especially you know amongst that small team and just for the growth of each of our students i mean i'll use an example today we were in my room talking and we had a second grade teacher come in with a concern for one of our students we both knew exactly who the student was what reading level he was at the beginning of the year where he's at now and it just makes things so much nicer when there's that constant communication
023and all of the stakeholders are in those data meetings um okay i think we're ready um this is i just wanted i didn't include any kids in our pictures i just wanted to be safe for that but um this is the mtss room for reading each station is a different intervention and sometimes the kids are at one station for 15 minutes and they move to a different one with a different assistant it's like a well-oiled machine it's it's wonderful to see but they're all getting what they need and it's all in that room um and then we'll move on to behavior so uh i'm the behavior specialist at sipio i work with the kids from k through sixth grade i have kids in every grade level uh we do a lot of different types of
024skills in my classroom we do coping skills time management skills executive functioning skills social skills because we want those kids to have those skills so that they can stay in the gen ed classroom as much as possible and get the education that they need several of my students have daily scheduled breaks i have small groups with some each kid is is a little bit different which we all know we've worked with kids um and they'll have different needs i have one student who really struggles when they come in from recess we do quiet time we put on some soft music we do some puzzles and we work on coping skills then they go back to class i try to keep kids 10 to 15 minutes unless it is a greater need they're in tier 3
025usually when we're longer than 15 minutes a day all of my students know that they can ask for a break if they need it if they're feeling frustrated if they need a little help getting regulated so they can ask their teachers and their teachers are always willing to work with them and make sure that they are getting what they need to be successful we do have puzzles we have quiet music we have breathing exercises that we work on i have weighted balls that we sometimes do some exercises with brain breaks and body breaks just to get them where they need to be so that they are able to concentrate focus and retain the information that they need to be successful at school can i just add i really appreciate all the ways that you guys
026are involving your staff and and teachers and the interventions for kids at tier two tier three and i know you involve parents too when you get to tier two and tier three as well right they're part of that team so thank you for that and this is my classroom um we have different things on each table some of them are fidgets some of them have puzzles some are play-doh just different things that we do with the kids you know some kids are more sensory motivated and we need those tools as well they are also welcome to borrow fidgets and things in the classroom as they need to we have balance boards i have several students who use those balance boards all day long and they are so much more successful in the classroom with those
027tools that they have available to them okay so this i just wanted to include some of the growth that we've shown this year um so if just to give you an example if i look at kindergarten what we want to see from beginning of year to december is two levels of growth in the best and so that means we want them from not reading at all to reading at level b so right now we're going we're slightly lower than we want to be we're right right now our each student has grown about an average of one and a half levels um and it it's the same thing all the way down but you can see fifth grade we've got a little more work to do but everyone is working so hard um but i'm just
028really proud i'm really proud of that so i wanted to include that do we have time we probably did we have a few few more minutes here to go back yeah we're going to pull up a few more of those sheets that we wanted you to see because it really does you know the things we have in place the processes we have in place really do help put the you know put things in motion to help our kids be successful so we wanted to just show some of those things that we do have in place um that we rely on some of the tools that we have you know and and that spark those conversations so you want to go back to the other yeah just keep the next slide i know okay um probably
029the big the newest one that i'd like to talk about is the group data and then probably the school-wide data and then i think um so this group data this is a new chart that we started this year um normally you would see kids names in the column the caller columns and that's where the student kind of is assessed or evaluated to be at at the beginning of the year and then each one as we go on and collect more data they're either going up or down or changing colors and this the teachers really like this because so far they've been using it as kind of a reflection tool for does it look like i'm putting too much focus on this group over this group or um i can tell this student probably had either
030a lottery day or a really bad day because they don't believe in or they don't belong in this group so it's just been kind of a nice different set of data to look at and if you scroll down it shows where they so it starts out and it shows where the students were at the beginning of the year so as you look and you see the urgent intervention students it does paint a really good picture of where they started to where they're at now so we don't move them from the group that they started in but we do update those color-coded circles um with the air with the arrow just to let us know you know the gains that they're making and that's pretty a pretty powerful tool when you sit down with the teacher
031in a data meeting and we're like okay here's where we were it's giving me goosebumps talking about it but here's where we were here's where we are what things are working and so when they get into that conversation and they tell you all the different interventions that they're doing in the classroom the extra support the extra reading whatever it may be and you're like oh my goodness look at everything you're doing and that's the reflection that we're seeing kids are growing they're becoming learners um and you know and so that sparks the conversation of hey have you talked to your your teaching partner so you know we encourage teachers to branch out and share the things that they do in their classroom because if it's working there you know it's going to work for someone
032else so we're constantly talking about that collaboration with other teachers to help because you know if we find something that works we definitely want to share it so that it helps all of our kids so those conversations and the you know some of the the data charts that we use are super important to help us see visually where our kids are at yes and the the actual the the school-wide data spreadsheet and then i think that's a problem um so if you go to if you can click on maybe the fifth grade would you mind clicking on the fifth grade there you go okay so um i put letters in instead of this student's names but this is the sheet that's shared with the teachers so they can go on and see how their students
033are doing on all the assessments and then their tier two paperwork their chair three paperwork their behavior intervention plans all of that is linked to the student's name they can access the group data from there they can access the reading conversations that we have from there so that's kind of a one-stop shop for them or anyone that needs to see our data everything is accessible through that so i think the reading conversations were very valuable too i wasn't planning on talking about those but they were extremely valuable so all right yeah so so thank you again i mean again this is just a brief snapshot of all the wonderful things that are going on at scipio and not only scipio because we all share the resources and we have you know some of the same
034procedures all the other schools are working super hard but i do like the opportunity to kind of highlight sippy elementary for the wonderful things we're doing we have wonderful students wonderful parents um you know a great support group at our school and you know you the people sitting in this room have been a have been a great support for our schools not only this year but in the past and you know we've all had kind of you know a rough couple years here but because of the people sitting in this room we've been successful and that truly you know i can't thank you enough for the support that you've shown us um you know as as we've all you know had some struggles but we've definitely come through and we're better because of it and
035we'll continue to move forward and get her continue to you know get her kids moving in the right direction so thank thank you thank you for all of our decodables and our guided reading library yes so thank you and thanks for the growth and all the work that you guys have put into helping those kids get better thank you and thank you thank your staff yeah our teachers are are phenomenal our whole staff not only teachers parents cooks without our cooks cooking a meal for kids sometimes that's the only meal our kids get hot meals our kids get throughout the day our parapros are there for support um custodians having the building clean maintenance men you know we bus drivers we we have the best i i truly say that we have the best and
036they truly do care and have the best interests of our kids and at heart so but thank you guys we appreciate it [Applause] we'll move on to new business i think there were some viola administrative guidelines but that was informational that's correct those were just given to you as an inform right great um next we'll go on to programs i think nikki i am going to share with you some updates on cairs and esser can view that clicker thank you so as part of uh coveted response and some economic stimulus money we have been lucky to be the recipients of some grants over the last couple years that have been significant grants so i'd like to update and share tonight how we've been using that money so far and the plans for that money for
037the future so the three largest grants that we have received have all been three esser grants the first grant was referred to as cares originally and then they decided they wanted to rename it sr1 and so that was 780 000 for us sr2 is about 3.2 million dollars that we were awarded and sr3 was 7.3 million so they progressively increased we have additional funds that are gear funds that were awarded by the state to increase connectivity for students and staff we received 1.6 million dollars for that that includes st mary's non-public school and those dollars however i would mention the majority of that grant actually is administered by ipbs public broadcasting indiana to actually install data equipment that 1.3 our portion that we use within the schools and control those dollars is 240 000. so
038i'm going to go into detail on each of those grants and the overall so these grants came through then they follow our title grant guidelines so those same type of guidelines that we follow every day for rules within title grants are mirrored in these grants as well such as like not using uh for food purchase unless it's pre-approved there's a five thousand dollar equipment threshold for approval some things of that nature in the first grant sr1 or cares was completely geared towards covid relief and then as sr2 and 3 came along other categories and choices were available to us and then finally esser two and three include something new that we've not had before which is a maintenance of equity requirement and that is intended to make sure that our highest poverty schools get the
039exact same resources as all of our schools the state does have a new transparency dashboard for how school corporations are spending this money available and if you don't mind clicking on that dashboard link for me i'd appreciate it this is what the dashboard looks like each school corporation is listed and what my funding they received and said that the very top it says school corporation all if you'll hit the drop down menu and turn off select all and just type a j then you'll see jenny's county pop up and you'll be able to click on it and so this shows is a quick snapshot of what funds we received you'll see that it matches what i shared on that first slide it's a visual and seth right by that 4015 is a drop down there's
040a plus uh the line that says 4015 yeah thank you this updates you on how much money we originally allocated how much that we had reimbursed so far and how much is remaining and then it shows the percentages of the money available to us that's left and so we'll go through that in detail in further slides i will mention if you look at this it's always going to be um behind about a month from what we've actually submitted it takes that long for the state paperwork to go through so the numbers i'm giving you are the exact up-to-date numbers right now and if you'll just go back to those slides thank you okay so cares cares itself we received 781 thousand dollars it has to be encumbered by september 22nd of this year and so
041we are down to you saw on the state side about 12 of that left so we have done a good job budgeting that responsibly along the life of the grant um it will need to be spent and by september of this year the allocations and cares or sr1 have to be in response to the covet emergency so it's very specific usage that has to be in response to covet and doing something to make our classrooms prepared it was approved for us in september of 2020. we have three thousand dollars um remaining the projected spending activities will be uh student staff connectivity making sure that we're prepared with hot spots uh online programs that we use for learning credit recovery program support and then ongoing cleaning supply costs which increased due to coven since we've spent
042the majority of that grant i wanted to share with you the percentages of what we've spent so far grouped into categories so approximately 37 of our spending on that grant was for student and staff connectivity hot spots recording equipment for teachers online programs software and pla platforms for students 38 was related to covet relating supplies and equipment like masks cleaning supplies some electrostatic cleaners and water bottle filling stations seven percent was on staffing specifically to help support an additional technology technician uh covet testing staff and covent planning and then finally 18 was on classroom supplies and student support needed for covid which increased social distancing so we'd have some additional desks plexiglas barriers uh additional equipment and supplies for each kid to have an individual set then sr2 is our next grant uh approximately 3.2
043million dollars it must be encumbered by september of next year so september of 2023 this same allowable cost as sr1 but it also opened up anything that we needed to support school being in session and in person so operational cost and address academic gaps that were created by covid it was approved for us in may of 2021. of that grant we have 1.7 million remaining the projected spending that's approved within the grant is continuing staffing support so within this grant it is where we staffed six behavior support specialists for two years for our elementary schools and then it continues the funding for that same technology technician that we added within cares paraprofessional pd for certification this is actually really exciting one it was the program that was recognized by the state through adult ed where
044we are training our own paraprofessionals so that we can get them certified in classrooms quicker that's what allowed us to hire so many s repairs at once is because we could train our own and didn't have to wait for them to obtain that separate training it also is supplies to increase student engagement such as stem and pbl and online program support and then a big portion is also for increasing air quality that was an approved part of ester grants and we are working on some hvac program projects at sand creek and the high school and then other approved needs of the portion we've already spent of sr2 about 40 percent of it went to those operational costs created due to kovitz so additional staff days because because of covin additional substitutes that were needed the
045transportation costs during shutdown and then our online teachers for elementary that were added 20 for the 21 22 school year then you see the behavior support specialist at the elementary schools examples some of those online programs has been supporting freckle ixcel screencastify cami canvas stem and pbl classroom supplies summer school curriculum support and student snacks and then coveted related supplies like additional carpet cleaners milk coolers and those individual throwaway mill containers which are shockingly expensive sr3 we received about 7.3 million it is encumbered a year later than sr2 so we have quite a bit of time still to spend this one and about 90 of it left um it has to be uncovered by september of 2024. it is identical in spending possibilities as sr2 with the exception that it has a requirement that we
046must spend at least 20 on closing coveted learning gaps so working with students individually or in small groups our balance remaining is 6.5 million and the projected plan spending is continuing staffing support for the inter additional paras in each building that are supporting intervention the behavior support specialists are also at the secondary buildings and they are covered with an sr3 and then that same technology technician that was written in the grant before it also will be helped support hot spots and online programs that we have money towards those hvac projects at sand creek and the high school stem supplies and curriculum and other approved costs and i did note that 20 of this grant for us is 1.4 million that will have to be highlighted towards student programs so a quick summary on what we've
047already spent in sr3 hotspot hotspots for students and staff summer school cost after the summer school grant from the state we had summer school last year available for first through 12th grade and after everything was said and done and amount that we got from the state for summer school we spent about 194 000 on that program um the five additional pairs in each building we've paid for google enterprise some support for the jag program the meeting recording pro equipment that we can use for board meetings in pd cafeteria tables for sand creek and then cleaning supplies and a floor scrubber the hvac projects that i've mentioned to increase indoor cat air quality i put them all into one page for a quick overview uh sr3 is support is providing 2.3 million of that funding and
048sr2 is providing 785 000 there is an additional 700 earmarked through sr3 that's our proportionate share of that same project for air quality over at the career center that is a projected amount they don't have final estimates yet for that one gear briefly ipbs that is using the 1.3 million that they have allocated to put equipment out for data casting to make it available the money that's available to us within the school district was 240 000 which we have exclusively used for hotspot contracts we have a balance of 66 000 remaining on that and it will be used for that same amount that same thing any questions or requests for any additional details on any of those categories thank you i was going to say the same thing i i think that they're um i
049have seen on social media and other areas that there are a lot of questions about this money and i think this was a very thorough and well thought out presentation that explains where these funds are going to and i agree i think this is going to be very appreciated the link for the online where you clicked for the ido dashboard i don't know if that would be because while they'll be able to see online through the live stream all of your presentation they won't be able to click on that link is there a website where they can go or how if they want to go the community members want to go and actually see that dashboard how can they get to that so we have posted already our overview of sr3 funds on our website
050right underneath that i will just post this same presentation and it'll be a live link great um so this presentation then will be posted for community members who are streaming or catching us on the replay again i can very well put together thank you for that any other questions for nikki before we move on so i think we're down um to professional staff on our recommendations teresa yes i do have a recommendation uh for the board tonight um a the principal has recommended that the teaching contract of lee alcorn should be canceled for multiple reasons stated by the principal and a preliminary written decision that was provided to ms alcorn i provided the board with a copy of the principal's preliminary decision after receiving the principal's notice miss alcorn asked to have a private conference
051with me i met with miss alcorn and have decided to uphold the principal's preliminary decision to cancel her contract i notified ms alcorn in writing my decision and informed her that she had the right to request a private conference with the board ms alcorn has not requested a private conference with the board and her deadline under the law to make that request has expired therefore i am recommending to the board tonight that you approve the administrative recommendation and cancel the teaching contract of lee alcorn for the reasons stated and the principal's preliminary notice um so theresa brown superintendent has recommended that the board cancel the teaching contract for lee alcorn for the reasons stated in the principal's written preliminary decision do i have a motion i move that the board approve the superintendent's recommendation and
052cancel the teaching contract of lee alcorn for the reasons stated in the principal's written preliminary decision and i second the motion okay we have a motion by susan a second by earl is there any um discussion has been moved and seconded um and that the board approved the superintendent's recommendation and canceled the teaching contract of lee alcorn for the reasons stated in the principles written preliminary decision susan would you call the rule pat yes tony yes amy yes chelsea yes earl yes myself yes motion passes um so now we'll move down under support staff recommendations we have dakota bland county middle school parapro maya board trigger a jennings county high school assistant girls soccer coach amy gibruller for a jennings county bus aide andy gudgel for scipio elementary para beth hamilton for the united track
053coach at the high school the unified track coach my apologies shanna lovett as the nve um sub parapro doug mills as the jennings county high school assistant baseball coach chelsea ragsdale lascipio elementary ssr parapro and jason smith for graham creek elementary parapart i think asking for a motion to accept those recommendations i make emotionally proof as read okay pat tony seconds is there any discussion no susan will you call the role yeah tony yes yes chelsea yes earl yes myself um next under finances um donations yes we have two donations i bring to the board and asking them to accept tonight sarah sports corporation 435 dollars to sibio and the jennings church of christ 200 to the high school panther pantry asking the board to accept those donations okay do we have a motion tony
054second chelsea any discussion susan i do have one thing um so i'm going to ask the board to consider joining a suit for litigation there are 41 school districts in indiana um and many in the nation who have entered into litigation with jewel labs due to marketing vaping products to our children we have had real concerns with vaping in our jennings county schools i'd like to recommend that our board consider joining this lawsuit there's no upfront cost to our district in any way shape or form but we would be adding our name to the suit if the board approves that so i'd like you to consider that okay now we have a motion from earl is there a second second second from pat any discussion just want to say from a healthcare perspective vaping is
055extremely dangerous not only to our children but also to adults so i appreciate you bringing this forward and allowing us to participate in this and making a statement um for the health and well-being of our children so thank you for that um susan when you call the role pat yeah tony yes amy yes chelsea yes earl yes yes um i think we're to the end of our um agenda is there any other items that need to be brought no then i'll entertain a motion to adjourn motion from chelsea do we have a second second from um tony susan you want to call the role that yes amy yes chelsea yes earl yes yes all right