001i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all welcome to our monday may 2nd school board meeting we will start with our agenda approval deletions editions dr baraka thank you mrs seuss you do have an amended agenda before you with some additions to roman numeral seven three that's my professional leave request to add the three board members to the law seminar in indianapolis on june the second thank you we have a motion by dr malco second second by dr medlin any discussion all in favor aye motion passes we'll move right into our liaison committee updates mr marshall i i have nothing to report on personal interview thank you dr medlin nothing to report
002thank you dr malcolm um yes the lake central education foundation is again looking for volunteers if you're that type of person who wants to be a part of lake central community we have a spot waiting for you and for dire parks department they meet next week so i have nothing to report on dire parks thank you and for my committees for dollars for scholars uh may 11th is the um scholarship evening and the invites did go out so if you got an invite please respond to mrs burrita so we'll move on to our official school board business topics consent agenda dr baracko thank you again seek board approval for the minutes from our regular meeting and our special meeting on april 18th as well as approval of the claims payroll and extracurricular expenditures you received
003in your packets move to a proof you have a motion by mr marshall second second by dr medlin any discussion hearing none all in favor aye motion passes there are no public comments so we will move on to our official school board business topics regular agenda dr veraco thank you and we're going to begin our evening with some recognitions of outstanding student achievement for our first batch i'd like to introduce mr enyart lc athletic director to begin that process with our coaches thank you [Applause] at this time i'm gonna we're gonna start with our first program that's cheer i'm gonna have coach loden come up and she loves public speaking so she's very excited to be here tonight [Applause] the cheerleaders are getting recognized this evening for winning a national championship this past february we
004attended the universal cheerleading association nationals we entered a new division this year we went into a non-building division we have a lot of very talented tumblers and um we beat a team who had actually won that division like over the five out of the last six years so it was quite quite exciting for the girls we compete we pretty much compete all year starting in late september we compete at state we do a state prelim we do some local competitions and this was our last one so we'll call the girls down at this time maddie bigger staff [Applause] addison black [Applause] sammy carlson [Applause] carly gabler haley junkin [Applause] callie cronky [Applause] lily lane who is not here this evening lily was also being recognized this evening for making the all-state cheer team that is
005um that was at state she competed against oh probably over 60 girls and was one of the top 12. grace mills layla missouri kelsey moore peyton morris [Applause] catalina murray haley newton ryan nolden [Applause] anna any illinois [Applause] jules perco greta siegert [Applause] greta just made the purdue university cheer team this weekend emma speck and grace swanarski kylie tatini and stephanie tuffdell [Applause] oh jessica jessica almighty [Applause] is going to get a picture we'll step over here i just told me and you can get in there [Applause] girls would you like to introduce your parents that are with you tonight or have them stand up parents of all their cheerleading would you like to stand up yeah [Applause] and for those of us that go to those ball games and you're always there and you're
006always doing those back flips it scares me to death but congratulations we appreciate you and parents thank you our next program is going to be our girls swim and diving team and coach kalinski all right um i would just like to introduce our boys and girls uh team that went to state in their events that they swam in uh we'll start with the girls i'm not sure did i see amanda amanda abdullah amanda abdullah all right she's not here anna k brood she went to state in the 200 medley relay izzy marcotte i didn't see izzy did i nope no is he megan o'sullivan didn't see her either brenna pacheco she's here uh she swam the 200 free relay and was also part of our uh our sectional champion to uh 200 free relay meegan
007suica she was in our 200 free relay and also sectional champion and jory wilson i didn't enjoy these two jory was in our 200 medley relay and the 100 backstroke [Applause] thank you [Applause] all right so we'll go with the boys here um uh our boys uh state team this year aiden blaze for diving i did not see aiden [Applause] we had leo bowman he swam three events at state this year 200 medley relay 200 free relay and the 100 breaststroke ford crackle he uh swam the 200 medley relay 500 free 100 back and 400 free relay zach gramachi i did not see him but he was in diving and he actually was fourth place this year at diving carter schuster he spam three events 53 200 free relay and the 400 free relay eric
008tinsley 200 free 200 breasts well i'm sorry 200 free 200 free relay hunter breast which you a sectional champion and the 400 free relay tommy tinsley he was 200 medley relay and 200 free relay [Applause] griffin weber 200 medley relay and the 400 free relay our 400 free relay placed 13th at state and just for the record uh our boys this year ended munster's 36-year sectional winning [Applause] how about parents of the swim teams would you stand up for a round of recognition [Applause] our next program is our central left program and coach kevin mathis [Applause] good evening as chris said my name is coach kevin been here for a while the girls this year had one of those historic years where they went out and pretty much swept just about everything that we entered
009this year our varsity team was the the state champion in aaa and jazz palm as well as hip-hop making the consecutive winning since 1995 a total of 50 state championships for this lake central all right we also had another champion with our trio our small ensemble which was lily rogers grace pinna and gabriella gracovic [Applause] our dancers also went to the national championship and competed in all three categories our palm i'm sorry our hip-hop finished fourth in the nation our palm was national runner-up and our medium jazz was national champion which marks the 18th national title that these girls have brought back to lake central i know you guys all want to get out of here so i'll go quick first up we have two of them together recognizing alexa edwards madison galacta congratulations gabriella
010gerhofick chloe hardesty isabella holdren megan martowitz grace penna courtney pereira [Applause] gianna poulos lily rogers jillian brzezowski freizel [Applause] vivian denson who is home ill today fiona hopkins olivia iguardia addison schalke abby olendindi [Applause] and amir youssef [Applause] further yeah are you ready [Applause] okay ladies would you please show us where your parents are appearance would you stand up for a round of applause you certainly deserve it [Applause] all right our our next program is going to be our gymnastics team i don't think i saw coach parcella here all right so this lake central gymnastics program has taken quite a turn in the last four years with these young ladies they'll go down as one of the most decorated teams they finished fourth in the state for the third consecutive year so congratulations to them
011our first gymnast is chloe amanda titus [Applause] liliana ventura sullivan sydney black haley delgado [Applause] alexa rimley [Applause] taylor semenzy ava gutien isabella martisik amanda todd elise blackhurst [Applause] uh and andy we'll call her andy andy andy rica angela all right angela sorry sophia de montes and savannah lamb and christina amanda titus [Applause] all right [Applause] okay appearance of the gymnastics team members would you stand up parents thank you for your dedication and our our last program our program we're going to talk about is our wrestling team i don't think i saw coach trivline here coach miller was here i think he must have stepped out so on behalf of them we had three individuals qualify for the state finals this year our first was jake seuss galermo rivera and johnny cortez who finished fourth
012at the state finals this year congratulations laughs [Applause] you know i really really want to express our appreciation to coaches for giving us these names and for supporting all of our students the way you do coaches and parents i have to make a special announcement because as i look at this group there's a two families i've known since the little ones were in kindergarten that would be the tensley family and the cortez family so many years many years but i do believe mr mathis could i put you on the spot can you refresh my memory about your your awards what they came to if you accumulate a number oh i put them on the spot didn't i well um wow um the state championship the girls won three state titles this year which would have
013been their 50th since 1995. 50th state title since 19 and then they won uh jazz this year which would have been their 18th state uh national final uh since the same year eighteenth suggests also do one extra thing i can hear in the audience back there they were also grand national champions out of a hundred and seventies all right [Music] [Applause] well it's quite a cumulative number of awards that you have earned with the girls and their parents and i do believe that there are some signs that are going to be found celebrating that at the entrances of the dire shareable in st john communities and that was put together by the some of the parents of the um centrolettes so that'll be a nice reminder to those of us that come through our community
014thank you kevin may i ask you a tongue-in-cheek question how old are you [Laughter] no yes well this was a nice night to celebrate we want to thank all the students for all their hard work and we want to thank their parents for supporting them our coaches for guiding them and we want to thank everybody for coming out this evening to celebrate this we are going to continue with the rest of our business meeting of the board but if you need to get on to other things this is a good time to check out right um yeah rob jake good job kevin is i'm always fight four times yes all right so my second item this evening is just to review some key topics from our superintendent's spring meeting that took place two weeks ago
015the first key item was from lisa tantal of the school board association she's the attorney she wanted to address sea 83 open meetings and this legislation that passed that goes into effect immediately as soon as the governor signed it was that we must permit public comment at every public meeting and so the way this impacts us is if we have an open dialogue like we do when we review board policies at our work sessions we need to have a spot on there for the public to comment at our work sessions we haven't had people attending our work sessions for the most part because we're not taking any action but nonetheless that's a change for us i i think the key on this piece would be since we generally talk about the board policies and then
016bring them back at a future public meeting for action the public actually would have two opportunities to comment on any of those board policies and the other key piece was that comment must be allowed prior to a vote and those of you have been on the board for a while know about five or six years ago we switched to having comments twice a meeting so the early comment period is for any action item the later comment period is only for things that aren't on the agenda anything else somebody would want to comment about we are allowed to set reasonable time limits for our comments as well as a total time limit which mrs always announces i do think that we've always in the past extended the time necessary to let everybody who signed up uh
017say a few words of their concern the other thing is that virtual meetings moving forward are only allowed if the state or local government declares a disaster emergency which means that for us to meet and present would present a risk to any of us and the other piece is that at least one of our schools in the district would have to be closed for the disaster emergency so it's not likely we'd be doing any virtual total virtual meetings in the immediate future barring i guess something like a tornado so any comments about that i mean as i mentioned at our work session i think we're we're pretty good because we have pretty good system in place already the next item is hea 1093 and so the isba updated a report and so this has to
018do with the number of e-learning or virtual student instruction days that we have per year um at the meeting they were anticipating a an update from the doe and we did get that update and so in your packet you received the updated piece and as mentioned in there we can do up to three asynchronous days with as a substitute for a snow day and after that we have to make up those days at the end of the year unless we have live instruction for fifty percent of that instructional day which equates to us to about three or three hours and 15 minutes and so as mentioned to the board earlier we are going to reconvene the e-learning committee to work through these items and we'll bring that piece back to the board at a future
019meeting this summer after we've had a time to you know talk through what that would look like for us typically three days should be enough i mean we've had some years where we only had one or two snow days we've had some with as many as five or six but typically like this year we were four typically we are around three or four so um that is some relief for us but uh we still need to uh continue to pay attention to that because um if you don't hit the 180 days you don't get your full tuition support and that's not an option for lake central and then my final item is the department of local government finance and the wording of public referenda questions once again the required language on the public question on
020the ballots has changed it continues to be in my opinion and an opinion of many others confusing this year they changed the question to sharing a percentage increase in taxes for the average resident when in the past it would say how many cents per hundred dollars of assessed value your taxes would go up or would be impacted and so it's important for us as an organization to continue to talk to our legislators about the importance of making this question easier for rank and file people to understand it continues to not be as clear as it needs to be and as somebody who's done a couple of these campaigns when you're explaining it to people at their door if the way the question reads when they get to the voting booth looks really different from what
021you've explained on their doorstep it makes people anxious and i i think the important piece here is to be fair if people know what the impact is and they don't value it they have a right to vote no but the important piece is the question shouldn't create doubt or concern or confusion for voters and so we want to continue to work with our general assembly to say let's look at this piece and let's figure out even if it requires us to have more words on the ballot to make sure that the question is more easily understood by the general public so i believe we need to make it a priority moving forward to talk to those people who represent us down in indianapolis to try to make this better any questions about any of that
022stuff has has anything surfaced with the valparaiso situation since it really is a decrease but the verbiage will say increase well i mean the dlgf passes the question as they see fit and then it's the job of the individual districts to explain to their constituents what it means and the important part there of course is that that you convince enough people that what you're explaining in terms of the impact of them as a homeowner and a resident is what it will be but yeah that question does create confusion the way it is written especially for valparaiso given that they're reducing how much they're asking for but as i told you earlier when they received a strong endorsement from their chamber of commerce so they've got the business people behind them it'd be my assumption that
023their parents would be strongly behind them and so then you have to just figure out how to get to that 51 percent vote so there's been quite a bit of dialogue in the battle community about the wording of that referendum question would you guess i i don't know i don't you know i live here but i know that their superintendent has been on the record as saying as he's knocking on doors and as he's explaining to people that there is some confusion about the way the questions worded yeah because i mean i hadn't heard anything about the vapo situation until you told us about that tonight so i wondered howard i know you read the paper a lot did you see anything in the paper about balboa in the referendum question yes that was in
024the paper it was it talked about the inaccuracy how confusing it could be okay thank you okay and my final item this evening is to seek permission for three board members as well as myself to travel to indianapolis in early june to attend the isba indiana school board association legal seminar um seek to approve thank you we have a motion by mr marshall and i will second that any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you move on to our director of human resources personnel mrs mucha thank you very much i'm asking for approval for the personnel items in your packet but i want to bring to your attention lane whiting who has been a bus driver for us for 31 years wow thank you wow move to approve the personality second we
025have a motion by dr medlin in the second by mr marshall any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you very much i wanted to give you an update on the emergency buckets we started at 11 810 and these are the pending ones that are coming educational foundation dire town councils um our trustee's office for st john marathon pipe and sheriff fire association which will give us 19 for our total of 31 thousand one hundred and sixty so we thank the generosity of all of our community members and we're almost there and then i can quit talking about emergency buckets so you were needing thirty six thousand or that was yours six thousand yes yeah and the nineteen thousand dollar one is from nineteen is the total from all those people who are
026the checks are pending okay thank you so we're excited thank you um we also just wanted to bring to your attention that we are participating in the food bank distribution with the food bank of northwest indiana um there are central office administrators and whatever building people can find their time to be free this friday it's may 6th from 11 30 to 1 30 in the soccer parking lot so we're happy to help our community with that food bank absolutely and my last item is to ask for your permission for the professional leave form that was in your packet so moved we have a motion by mr marshall second second by dr malcolm any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you thank you move on to our director primary education dr bracey good
027evening i'm coming before you tonight seeking your approval for the professional leave request you have received in your packets you have a motion by dr malco second second by dr medlin any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you also mrs castaneda and i would like to share some exciting news for the first time in quite some time and we think it's been a very long time we're going to have the same math series for grades k-12 in lake central our committees have voted for reveal math for our students beginning in the 22-23 school year that means consistency in vocabulary algorithms and vertical alignment across grade levels based on the department of education's keep indiana learning reveal math is rated four stars because it aligns 100 percent with the indiana standards it provides
028teachers with an easy to use lesson path teachers are also given support in choosing between activity-based lessons or guided exploration as students build their conceptual understanding and it was huge for us to have a program that focused on conceptual understanding it supports differentiation in every lesson reveal math encourages students thinking by providing strong questions reveal contains a variety of assessments and these assessments and the questions in those assessments are the key reason reveals for reveals four-star rating reveal provides exit tickets with every single lesson it's already integrated into clever and there's a seamless integration to canvas there is a digital component that identifies students who did not understand the lesson and it provides guided supports and interventions for those students and there is also an online platform that provides adaptive instruction also at the beginning
029of this school year we had purchased i don't know if you're familiar with dr nikki newton but we had purchased her training sessions for guided math and several of our teachers have gone through those courses or they are going through those courses we have it until the end of september well come to find out dr nikki newton has partnered with reveal math she provides support for them for their guided math portion of their lessons so we are very excited to welcome reveal math to the lake central community thank you how was your committee constructed did you have k-12 representation so for elementary we have representation um k-4 there are 31 committee members 29 all voted for reveal and the other two one person revealed was their first choice bridges was their second and the other
030person bridges was their first choice and reveal was their second so all 31 people had a reveal on their list and the assessments that are in this uh typically that's kind of a weak area for textbooks what what was your assessment of the assessments their assessments fit our needs the only you know there was one part that we had looked at lisa alessandra instructional coach she's been digging through the data and she's been going through the books and the only area and our committee had also noticed that for first in the first grade and into second grade it was we needed more for time and money so we already have it all planned out we're going to provide more resources to address those gaps but those are the only gaps we found with the program
031okay and will the high ability classes be using this same yes okay yes thank you you're welcome thank you move on to our director of secondary education ms castaneda thank you as dr bracey shared we're excited that reveal will be used across the elementary middle and high school level reveal will be used at the middle school level with grades 5 through 8 for the regular and the advanced track and then will be used at the high school level with algebra 1 geometry and algebra 2. in regards to the assessments because dr gracie already shared a great deal about the program we do feel having our middle and high school math coach take a look at it that the questions on the assessments and the assignments do mirror more of the types that they'll see on
032ilearn psat and sat so we are very excited that that level of rigor is there in those questions that will be on the assessments very good in the packets um for the upper level high school courses you also saw that we had textbooks listed for statistics ap statistics pre-calc intrigue and ap calculus those actually are just the updated versions of the current ones that they're using they're the most recent editions of them as you saw in mrs novak's presentation on our ap scores we've had a great deal of success with ap statistics as well as ap calculus and so the teachers do feel that the updated version of their current textbooks will meet those needs and so that's the full list of the textbook selections for elementary as well as secondary any questions great for
033my second item then i'm seeking your approval for the professional leave requests that you received in your board packet move to approve the professional leave requests a motion by dr medlin and a second by mr marshall any discussion all in favor aye motion passes thank you i would actually personally just like to thank danielle carr who is our high school computer science teacher she's attending a great deal of training this summer and we think it's going to be a huge benefit to the program and then for my last item i am seeking your approval for the field trip requests that were in your packet so moved we have a motion by mr marshall second by dr malcolm any discussion all in favor aye motion passes thank you thank you move right along to our director
034of business services mr james thank you um as part of the process for the biblic expansion construction project um we've talked about how it's uh we will be selling a portion of the parcel at bivets to the building corporation and um it's going to be approximately 2.4 million dollars that will come into our books that will be used toward the construction project and so this is the time where we get to have a public hearing of the use of those additional appropriations into our books so at this point i will turn it over to the public to see if anyone has any comment okay it's hearing none um now i seek the board's approval on the adoption of the additional appropriation resolution that was included in your board packet i have a motion by dr
035malco and i will second that any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you um next time to seek your approval for the professional leave request in your board packet move to proof we have a motion by mr marshall second second by dr meddling any discussion all in favor aye motion passes and then finally seek your approval for the donations that were in your board packet also move to approve a motion by mr marshall second second by dr malcolm any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you thank you we have no public comments so we'll move on to our board comments and consideration of future agenda items mr marshall i have nothing other than to say it's been a very full evening enjoyable and that's it thank you
036dr medlin just want to say uh thank you to all the teachers given that it's a teacher appreciation week and uh thank you for being so wonderful that's all thank you jennifer dramarco yes and and i would agree thank you to all of our staff members for just doing the excellent work you do it's a staff appreciation week and and all of you are very valuable and we appreciate that the commitment that you bring to our school corporation is uh very much appreciated it was a fun night it was a great night we had the art show and we had all this celebration and that's what schools are supposed to be about and so it's kind of nice that we're getting back to that these days um i did happen to run out to see
037a bit of the track meet so it looks like our boys track team is doing well too so um it's a very good time of year and of course the varsity and jv softball and baseball teams they're just rocking it out there so it's good things happening we appreciate it um augmenting our instruction in the classroom is all about that all about that team building that's out there all about the team building that they brought in learning to respect each other and to be a part of a team so um that's it for me thank you and i thank all of our teachers our staff and everyone that makes lake central what it is so thank you and with that we'll turn it over to dr veraco board calendar future activities thank you we will
038be back in two weeks we'll have a special celebration of our retirees at that time as well as our teacher of the year for the current school year so look forward to that celebration in addition to possibly a few more recognitions so thank you all right do we have a motion for all adjournment