001I would like to call this meeting from December 8th to order. If you will please join us for a moment of silent. Now we can join for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God [clears throat] indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Tim, would you please read the mission statement? Sir, >> our mission is to guide students to become informed, engaged citizens and curious lifelong learners. >> At this time, we will do um the students of the month. So, if I call your name, I would like you to come up and stand in front and then look at the audience and we will read um what your teacher wrote about you and then
002we're going to ask you who you brought with you today and then don't run away because we do have a certificate for for you. So, first we have Wheatfield Elementary, Jude Sims. Jude is a young man who shows remarkable capacity for empathy. He seems he seems to instinctively know when others are in need of help or emotional support. He is observant, compassionate, and truly listens to hear and understand his classmates. When working with a partner, he is able to share his knowledge and help in a patient and kind way. Our classroom is a better place because of Jude's loving spirit and big heart. Congratulations, Jude. >> Jude, who did you bring with you? >> Um, my parents and my grandma. >> Very good. Congrat. Okay, next we have Damma Elementary, Leila Kelly. Ila is an
003all-around exceptional student. Ila is focused and driven to be successful when it comes to her education. Ila is also a kind friend to her classmates. I cannot think of anyone more deserving for student of the month. Way to go, Ila. And who did you bring with you today? >> Congratulations. Um, our middle school's not here. Correct. Hold on. Let me see one. Hold on. Um, Amelia Garcia. All right, next we have Autumn Oliver. How about Logan Nammenson? Logan was nominated for mathematics. Logan is an extremely hardworking and positive individual. In my career, few students have shown the p persever perseverance and dedication that Logan has to improving his math ability and mastering complex concepts. His ability to do this while maintaining a positive attitude speaks even more to his character and a person as a
004whole. Congratulations. >> Love you very much. My [clears throat] mom congratulations. Next I have Jarrett Allen and last I have Sophia Lrand. She is nominated for sister. Sophia is a serious student who doesn't mess around. When many seniors are looking to put it in cruise control before senior itis hits, Sophia has upped the Annie by challenging herself. Her schedule is loaded with all dual credit or AP courses. AP German, AP Chemistry, AP Calculus, dual credit government. Seriously, her so-called easy class is advanced concert band. Congratulations. >> Who did you bring with you? >> Mine. >> Thank you. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> You are welcome to stay and join us for the rest of the meeting, but if you would like to be excused, you're welcome to leave as well. See you tomorrow. Yes,
005>> that's up to you. >> Auxiliary Yep. >> Wanted to make sure we didn't miss him. >> Her husband used to be a super fan. >> And Mr. Street, I have no public participation. >> Very good. been used. Terres >> ask that you approve the minutes of the November 24th, 2025 board meeting and executive session. >> So move. >> Second. >> Moved by Jeff. Second by Bill. All in favor? 70. >> We'd recommend your approval of the corporation claims of payroll for 6,14,110.18. >> So moved. Second. >> I'm sorry. I didn't hear moved it. Katie Katie moves it. Second cell, second five. All in favor? 70. >> Under report items, on December the 6, Saturday the 6, the high school hosted the Legion one business professionals of America regional leadership conference. Uh this was a
006CA this was KB's largest membership on record with 65 students. AV had 11 students awarded first in the region in their events and have qualified to compete at state March 8th through the 10th uh in Indianapolis. Also this Friday to Saturday, our esports team will be hosting the sixth annual Extra Life charity streaming which will benefit Riley Children's Hospital Indianapolis. You can get online and donate um on behalf of the KBE sports team to Riley Hospital. And every year they have increased their goal and since 2000 1921 22 23 and 24 they have raised a total of $13,323. So congratulations esport and good luck this weekend. Under employment actions, we'd ask that you accept the leave request as listed. >> So move. >> Second move by Tim, second by Jill. All in favor? 70. >>
007Under extracurriculars, we'd recommend that you approve the ECA recommendations. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Moved by Bill, second by Katie. All in favor? 70. under employment under certified. We'd recommend your approval of the two certified recommendations. >> So move second by second by Tim. All in favor? 70. >> Under classified, we recommend to approve the classified recommendations as listed. >> Move. >> Second move by Bill, second by Jill. All in favor? 70. Under new business, we'd ask that you accept the generous donations and grants given to support this students and staff at Cany Valley as per the attachment. >> So moved. >> Second move >> by Katie, second by Jeff. All in favor? 70. >> We'd ask that you approve resolution re uh prepayment resolution, which is a resolution that we present every year
008at this time. move. >> Second. >> Moved by Bill, second by Tim. All in favor? 70. >> We'd ask that you approve the addition of the American Legion Auxiliary Club and the Youth Alive Club at Kyuk Key Valley High School. So, second moved by Jeff, second by Tim. All in favor? 70. I'd ask that you approve the 202728 and the 2028-29 school calendars. So move. >> Second. >> Moved by Bill, second by Dan. All in favor? 70. >> We'd recommend your approval for Barton Kelma for architecture and engineering services. >> So second move >> by Jill, second by Jeff. All in favor? 70. We'd recommend that you accept the fuel bids from Keystone Cooperative for the school corporation fuel products. >> So second move by Tim, second by Jill. All in favor 70. >> Use
009of facilities. We'd recommend your approval the use of school facilities as listed. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Moved by Ge. Second by Josh. All in favor? And I'm abstainating. So that's 601. >> Those are all the items that we have. >> We get a motion to adjourn. >> So second >> by John, second by Bill. All in favor? 70. And I have Mr. street while we're passing out papers. What you will be doing? [laughter] >> Um the junior auxiliary people we will be doing like yeah fundraisers and management and imagine seven. >> Thank you. >> Want to include middle school and high school for this and start like a club. >> Tell them some of the activities that we do. Ava, what what are we doing this weekend? That's a good one. >> We
010do car shows, funeral dinners, and race across America. angel trees. What? and American cookies for Poppy's Memorial Day parade veterans dinners veterans in local nursing home >> in the veterans home. >> That's good. I just wanted you to kind of tell a little but thank you the wreath and we put them on the veterans um gravestones and then the cookies we deliver to those in our community there. >> So thank you. >> And it was proposed that they were going to help a lot with the Veterans Day program that we have at school and do a lot of fundraisers for veterans type things. So >> nice. >> We were excited for that to get started into high school. So >> how many students do you think will participate? We're hoping a lot of them will
011>> get get more people involved in doing some of the community >> activity seems to >> So I did put Ava on the spot, but she's in the middle school. Her sister couldn't be here because she is at a choir concert. >> So her sister was actually >> Well, thanks for speaking. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Good luck. >> Just her fill in. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Her her grandpa used to be super fan, too. Okay. >> Back in the late 70s, early 80s. >> Yeah. He graduated in ' 82. >> So, early 80s. Yeah. >> And then John Christopher. >> Yep. >> Even wear. >> You guys are welcome to stay for a few minutes. We're going to do >> down to court session and then after that we will go into executive session.
012So, you're welcome to stay or if you guys want maybe you can do that, too. Now, is it okay for me to do the be the advisor or >> um I think Mr. Myers and I talked and it was okay. >> Yeah. >> Um and I can help when I can, but I just >> Yeah. >> I pretend. >> We appreciate you. Thank you. >> Ready for a work session then? >> All right. Well, we'll start with finance with Mr. Richie, >> our bond closed on November 25th or the final amount total at closing was 11,873,56745. Of that $5,750,000 was wired directly to the school corporation. The other the remaining amount of $6,123,56745 is being held in the building corporation trust with Argent bank. So bond sale closing went well. Everything's in uh we're expecting
013our 1782 notice to be delivered to us. That's uh once Department of Local Government Finance processes our budget, they give us a 1782 notice that tells us what they're what we're going to receive. We're expecting to receive that any time. It's probably a little later this year because of the late closing on our on our probably. Um Senate Bill one, we've been receiving more information from uh different organizations that we belong to. Asbo schools, different ones. Um, in general terms, we know that the design of the bill is to bring assessed values down, which will in turn bringing rates up. There are many nuances to the bill though that will affect each county in each taxing district differently. So, Ki Valley schools will be different than our schools or just depends on a lot of
014different factors that are put into that bill. We we've asked our municipal advisor Baker Tilly to work with us to give us some more information on what that will mean for Inky Valley. So, we're hoping to talk to them and have more information. That's all I had for today. Any questions for Chris? Mike, >> the only thing I have is on Friday, an email was sent out to the teachers dealing with the teacher appreciation grant. Um, stating that the application would open this morning, which it did. Uh, the rubric was provided to them. Um, I asked that all questions come to me and uh, within 30 seconds, I did have one. It was It was a good one though. It actually uh, was a good one. all the questions. They probably had five or six
015questions and uh they've been pretty good questions. Um the principles have access to the questions on a spreadsheet and the answers that I gave. So if they get asked the same question, at least they have that. The uh principles also were provided with a PowerPoint um and they're going to they're going to show that to the teachers. If the teachers want to come to a meeting and uh and ask some questions. So, if it's something that is uh just a general question the principles can answer, that's fine. If not, they can refer them to me. Um but there there's been some good questions on that. It'll be a a work in progress since this is new and a little bit different type of a grade. >> Any questions for Mike? >> Is that a percent
016or so many? I can't remember how that works. >> Yeah, the the way that it works is uh the state said 20% of your staff can be eligible for it. Um but based on the money that is allocated by the state uh we would never come close to that 20%. >> And because there's there's actually three different levels there's a 3500 5,000 and $7500. So we have worked with uh the KBTA and decided to only do one level 3500. uh that way more teachers would have the opportunity uh to get it >> and that would be roughly around 30 teachers that would get that based on that. If they went with the other then that'd be considerably less money or net less chances for for teachers. >> Okay. The Kiki Valley Intermediate School presentation. Shelly,
017>> you're going to run the point >> at you. I have notes just in case I forget something. Thank you for allowing us to speak tonight. Um, this is Brooke Oliver. She is my new assistant, the intermediate school. So, our first slide talks a little bit about our enrollment. Um, over the last six years, our enrollment has stayed pretty steady. My first year we were right over 500. I think we're like 504 kids. We're down a little bit now 469. We have 18 students in our life skills and levels program. So those students for the most part stay self-contained in a room most of the day. Um we do have some of our levels kids that go out um for reading or math. um they have recess and lunch with their gened peers. And the
018same with our life skills students. They mostly stay in the room. They might go out for a special here or there um depending on if they are having a good day. Um and then they will eat lunch with their peers as well. So our class sizes range anywhere from about 22 to 25. Um, our higher class sizes normally come from our high ability classes that are normally a little bit bigger and then the lower end are normally our special ed classes. As you know, we have 10 teachers at each grade level. Six of those classes at each grade level will have students with IDPs in them. Um, two of our classrooms normally have students that are ELLL and then we have one class that is designated for a cluster group if we have some overflow
019kids from our high ability program. And then that last class is our high ability class. One of the new programs we have in implemented this year is Edum Exact Path. Uh this is a great program that we just started. So at the beginning of the year, our students took a diagnostic test and that created a pathway for our students to allow them to fill in gaps that they might be skills that they might have missed along the road. Um each time we take the iLearn checkpoint, there is a new pathway created allowing them to fill in additional gaps. When they fill in those gaps, they receive what's called a trophy. And we have students that have mastered or filled in gaps for over 104 skills. As of November, we got a report that there was
020one student that filled in gaps, 104 different skills. So, we thought that was pretty great. um some of our higherend kids like our high ability students, they're receiving a pathway that allows them to continue and enrich and learn new skills that might be at the sixth or seventh eighth grade level, wherever they're at. Another program this year that we have implemented is readable English. This is a reading foundations program um that we only have 169 seats, but we have 169 students in there and they are learning um they're called glyph. So, kind of think of a dictionary pronunciation guide. They're learning those little symbols that will help them understand the sounds that the letter makes and helps them improve their reading fluency. So we have those 169 kids working on that. There are four different
021phases to that program. So the first phase is them just understanding those glyphs and learning them. And then the second phase they get into practicing those glyphs in actual writing or in their reading. Um that's the phase most of our students are in right now. uh they practice one set of texts three times throughout the week to show growth. What's nice about that program then is our teachers can take any text that they have online or even a paper copy and put it into the converter that will then add the glyphs to anything they read. So that's been very beneficial. Next, um, something we're taking very seriously this year is we are adopting a new reading series and it is a very long process. We started a couple months ago. Uh, Mike was very gracious
022and was able to get us copies of all of the reading materials that are on the Indiana state approved list. So, we have reviewed them of those. I don't know if there's seven or eight of them. There's quite a few. We have narrowed it down to two companies that we really like. The Wonders Reading Series and then Open Court. So, I reached out to both of those companies and asked if we could pilot each one of those. We wanted to get into them, see how they work, see all the components. So, I have four teachers right now piloting Wonders and four teachers piloting Open Court. And they're giving it a test run. they're really picking it apart. Um, we'll have our first meeting on Thursday to kind of go through it, see what they're liking,
023what they're not liking, but we really want to make an informed decision this time around as we look at reading textbooks. Talking with the teachers, one of the things that they really want, they want a physical textbook. They want something that they can put in the kids' hands to read, which is kind of refreshing. Um, and they're really not worried about what's online. They're not really looking at that digital platform and what's out there because a lot of times, let's face it, we get a textbook that has great things online and half the time they don't work anyway. So, it kind of seems like we're going back to the textbooks. So, that's really reassuring to me. The iLearn checkpoints are new this year. Last year we joined most of the state when we um piloted
024that program, but this year we're doing it full swing. Um we finished our first set of checkpoints back in October. We gave the ELA and the math test and then since then our teachers have been remediating students that were at the approaching level. They didn't quite meet mastery. And today we actually gave the ELA opportunity 2 test. So same skills as opportunity one. Our teachers remediated and then now they retested just today in ELA and they're finding out a lot of their students did show growth. So that has really kind of helped our teachers understand that what they're doing in our RTI process is working. So that kind of will give everybody a boost to keep that up, keep following our IT RTI program so that our students can measure our attaining growth. One thing
025that we started working on at the beginning of the year is really evaluating our common assessments. Um, that was one area that I think we were kind of lacking in as a building were those common assessments. Brought in Jamie Ramsey from Waw Bash Valley. She talked to our teachers about the importance of giving assessments and not just testing to test but using that data then to change your instruction. So she is coming back on Thursday, no Wednesday to continue that talk about common assessments and then how to use data to run small groups. Um that's something that I think our fourth and fifth grade teachers are a little afraid of running small groups because at fourth and fifth grade that's not normally something they do. But the power of a small group instruction is very
026important and they see that value. So we're ready to take it to the next step. Last year the is spent a lot of time talking about discipline and I know all of you were informed of that. Um as we did had all those meetings and put things into place last year. We were slowly implementing some of them but others we held back until a new year started. So, this year we have fully put into place all of those things. Um, the teachers, I'm a very hands-on paper copy person, so I made copies of everything. Everything is in a binder. They can use it as a reference. Um, and for the most part, everything is going well. We knew that we were going to have to tweak things along the way and talk about it and
027have conversations. So once a month during PLC's, we all sit down and we talk about discipline. What's working? What's not? What do we need to change? Where are our areas that we need to focus on? Um, one of the things last year that we knew we were struggling with is how we're reporting our discipline that we see throughout the day. We talked about different forms. We thought about a Google form, lots of different things. But this year, Brooke actually made a Google form for us. And that form will then take all of the data that we see from all the reports, either an office report or a teacher report, and gives us data. It keeps track of all the behaviors that we're seeing. So, we can see trends throughout the day, um, types of behavior
028that we're seeing, and everything is in one spot. So, we talked about it what a month or so ago and the teachers had a chance to kind of play around with it and kind of create some data and we've had some time to look it over. So, we're hoping to run it, start using it and roll it out at the first of the year. PLC's have always kind of been a struggle at the intermediate school just because our groups are so big. We have 10 teachers all trying to come up with a consensus of something in at each grade level. So this year we're running PLC's a little bit different. Every Wednesday we meet together in the library as a school and we talk about different things. We will talk about data, discipline, assessments, the
029um IEL checkpoints, but we start the conversation together and then we break out into small groups where then Brooke and I can go around to the groups and hear anything that is the same or different and kind of address it right away instead of having to come back at a later date. So, I think our PLC's are running a little bit better. Hoping just to continue it all year long. Professional development has been big this year. Uh lots of different things going on and many different people coming into our building. We started off the year um with Randy Shrock coming in to talk about deescalation. He works with the co-op. We had Edenum in several times this year already to talk about that exact path and make sure our teachers are trained and they know
030how to use the program. The same thing with Readable English. Uh Marsha Webster comes in once a month to sit down with our teachers and talk about the data and talk about the program and make sure that they're utilizing it correctly. Like I said earlier, Jamie Ramsay came in to talk about common assessments and she'll also be back on Wednesday. McGra Hill came out to train our teachers that are using the wonders and the open court program so that we're not just throwing them into a series. They were actually trained on it first. We've had several teachers go to learn about iLearn data and we have several teachers that go to Waw Bash Valley or get online and do their PD pops which are really nice because they're online after school. The last thing I
031want to talk about is safety in our buildings. I know in today's day and age, we have to take that very seriously. We have four separate teams in our building that we all deal with safety. Our first team is just our blanket safety team where we go over the binder. uh they help with our fire procedures, our um drill days, and we talk about what works, what doesn't, what changes need to be made. We also have a crisis team, and this team is a group of teachers that have dedicated five days throughout the year to get trained on TCI, which is therapeutic crisis interventions. So when we have a student that is escalating or at risk of hurting themselves or someone else, this team is called in to make sure that everybody stays safe. Another
032team that we started that we talked about at the end of last year, but we started this year is a deescalation team. That team was brought on by two teachers, two special ed teachers that saw a need for it and just kind of took it and ran with it. Um, these teachers are called in when we have a student that isn't really in a crisis, but we're seeing behaviors that are repeated over and over again. The teacher then will call the deescalation team in and they just kind of come in and observe. And then at the end of the day, they go back and they tell the teacher what they've noticed and they try to come up with a plan to help the student. Finally, another new team that we put into place this year
033is that behavioral threat assessment team. Um, this is something mandated by the state, but we see more and more students that are making threats, making threats to hurt themselves or someone else. So, we have a team um that is set up that can review the threat, talk about it with the student, and determine is it something that's viable or is it something that they're just kind of blowing off steam. So safety is a big issue right now and I think we have all of our bases covered. So hopefully at least. Finally, I just want to recognize some of the people in our building that work behind the scenes and just don't get the credit they deserve sometimes. Um our cafeteria staff that spend so much time behind the scenes preparing lunches every day. our office
034staff who Jackie and Tammy answer all those phones and our first line of defense when you come in the building. Uh Mrs. Helton, she does everything computer related. Um she also takes care of our yearbook. She takes pictures. She was at the uh choir performance on Friday night staying and doing all those late night scene late night things that we don't always see. Our school nurse Courtney is new this year, but she has done an amazing job. She's just kind of jumped right in and taken care of everything. She She asks questions and she helps our students just to make sure she's on top of everything. Miss Angie, I can't say enough about her. She She's always on the move. She's always doing something and she is on top of it all the time. She
035even teaches classes every our students. Um she does all of those guidance counselor lessons and she's a busy person. So she deserves a huge thank you. our custodial staff. It's hard to believe that our building, this is what year 26 for that building and you would never know that it is that old. It's a great building and that's all due to them and how they maintain everything. And there's our teachers. We were all dressed as where's Waldo last year. So, they don't get the credit that they deserve. the the hard work, the late hours, the work that they do behind the scenes and on the weekends. It's really appreciated. >> That's all. Thank you. >> Thank [clears throat] you. >> Any questions for Shellyley [clears throat] dealing with her presentation or about the the is
036academics? Thank you, Shellyley. Just want to remind the board of in January, January 12th, we'll have your school board organization meeting with our reg prior to our regular meeting on part of it. And then on the 26th after or before regular meeting, we'll have the board of finance meeting. And then other items deemed necessary. I had sent information to you about a company called Spy Glass that will look through bills of school corporations that government other government units and look for hidden taxes co that companies put on that schools aren't supposed to be charged and some other items. they have saved quite a bit of money for some other school districts in our area and I would like to give have them an opportunity to to look at our billing as well. So if they
037if they find something that's been a reoccurring charge, we pay that amount for a year after it's corrected. So then we receive that that reduction of expense. I don't like to say savings because it's really a reduction of expense. So I'd like to move forward with that if you all are okay with that. So I think it'd be helpful to us. >> So those are all the items that we have in our work session. Does she have anything for us?