001if you'll please join us in the Pledge of Allegiance should have to go I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which State Nation under God indivisible with liberty and Injustice For All Welcome to our Monday November 21st school board meeting I will move on to our agenda approval deletions additions Dr Morocco thank you Mr sues you do have an agenda before you that have no additions from last week question by Dr Medlin second by Dr Malco any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes Miss Kelly is there any correspondence this evening there is none to report thank you we'll move on to our liaison committee updates and we'll start with Mr Marshall thank you at this point there's been no activity on
002the interview committee thank you Mrs Kelly and I have nothing to report on the Redevelopment or The Parks at this meeting all right Dr Madeline nothing to report with the uh to Redevelopment commission um The Wellness committee um there seems that there's been some interest from teachers to um get the wellness committee rolling again so um that's in the works as far as I know thank you Dr Malco correct with the Lake Central Education Foundation yeah they have just been very very very busy and I think I shared with you the last time that they did the Portillos the day after the big 5K race so I don't have anything new to report on that although we are very anxious to receive our financials to know where we can go we really do want to
003change our model a little bit and be a little bit more Community oriented and get more Community involvement so Saint or I mean the dire parks department it's a cute group of people and they're very very energetic and they are making progress and they're working on this Central Park and which as I said before we'll have that nice veteran Focus as all of our Lake Central communities have we love our veterans so I will keep you updated on great thank you and I have nothing for Dollars for Scholars nor the Saint John Redevelopment commission so we'll move right into our official School Board business topics consent agenda Dr Barraco thank you again seek board approval for the minutes from our last meeting on November 7th and seek approval for the claims payroll and extracurricular expenditures
004that you received in your packets last week motion to approve those items motion by Mrs Kelly second by Dr Medlin any discussion hearing none all in favor aye motion passes there are no public comments regarding action items so we'll move right into our official School Board business topics regular agenda Dr Morocco first recognition this evening we'd like to invite Mrs petrelia forward Yolanda is she reading this or yeah sure sure free whatever okay so Miss Michelle snow was chosen as the Indiana Association of School principal's academic coach of the year after receiving a nomination from one of her bivitch peers who is also here Eleanor Roark [Applause] thank you thank you thank you Michelle Michelle oh that's right one more now I always have to give a few shouts about Michelle because she's real quiet
005about it but if you remember and I remember this so fondly when I took over the principal ship at bibbage after I'd been at Lake Street School in Crown Point there was no spellbull or math bowl in the Lake Central School corporations so I went up to Michelle and I said Michelle would you would you sponsor a spellbold team she didn't even think twice she was just right on it so she is the reason and I swear I this is no exaggeration when I talked to the lady in the office down at the Indiana Association for gifted children or that's not the name of Indiana Association for what is it i-ase what [Music] anyway Indiana competition for excellence yeah the Indiana competitions for excellence what she told me Diane told me the secretary is that
006this area up here in the region has the strongest response in math bowl and spellbow and she said I think a lot of it has to do with the energy that Michelle snow brings so I thought I'd share that with you you're and I always like to remind the students when they're here that Michelle was a risk taker you know she took the risk she said yeah I'm going to try it and that's the type of attitude we need to have to get through in life so okay I'll go back up you're welcome and for my second item this evening is to seek board approval for Mrs Susan I to attend the isba legal seminar on December 9th in Indianapolis move to approve motion by Mr Marshall second second by Mrs Kelly any discussion yeah
007if I could I would like to amend that as a possibility that I would like to go also on December 9th I tried to clear my calendar I don't have it totally cleared yet but if we could amend the agenda so that it would include me also to go okay and I will take care of the registration or talk to Val about registration are you going to ride with us we're leaving at 5 15. probably not okay so I'll probably drive down the night before and save us some friends and Andy yeah okay so um I think the best thing to do would just be to attend and then they can bill us after the fact okay okay all right we'll we'll amend the thing tentatively to approve you to be able to very good
008thank you all right do I have to re-vote because we're in mind of it all right can I will somebody make a motion on the amendment um okay I'll try that motion to amend uh to allow Dr malkow to also attend the isba conference all right we have a motion by Mrs Kelly second by Mr Marshall any discussion all in favor aye motion passes thank you we'll move right along to our director of Human Resources Personnel Mrs mucha thank you we are recommending that the following Personnel items be approved motion to approve motion by Mrs Kelly second second by Dr Medlin any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you also in your package you'll find some information about high school summer school the dates for high school summer school and
009the subjects that will be taught for your information any discussion no no but I do have a question to ask Terry about the the head varsity girls wrestling coach did you have a hard time getting a wrestling coach for the girls actually no we had someone pretty quickly that okay had varsity soccer coach head varsity a volleyball for the boys for the volleyball yes yes that came pretty um quickly also wow okay so now we just need to get the team members we already have some people interested we've started yeah the girls uh wrestling does wrestling they're done fabulous yes yeah I know I've heard some of the girls are very good yeah all right thank you just just curious about that thank you thank you with that we'll move on to our director of
010primary education Dr Bracy oh you have nothing okay all right director of secondary education Mrs Castaneda thank you for my first item I am seeking your approval for the professional leave requests move to prove that professional leave requests second that motion motion by Dr Medlin and a second by Mr Marshall any discussion or questions all in favor aye motion passes thank you for my second item I am seeking your approval for the field trip requests motion to approve the field trip request second we have a motion by Mrs Kelly in a second by Mr Marshall any discussion our questions all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you and for my last item I just wanted to discuss some changes with our Iowa summer course offerings if you recall this past summer I brought to
011the board a change for Lake Central's graduation requirements due to the added rigor of the graduation Pathways we decided to decrease the number of credits that students had to earn to a true core 40 instead of the 46 where we had had it set in the past we have allowed students to take Iowa summer courses and really had no limitations on it however with this reduction in the number of credits that were requiring for graduation we no longer feel that that carte blanche approach is really necessary um so what we're going to do is we're going to allow students to take Iowa if they've attempted a course here at Lake Central but want to improve their grade on it so their first attempt is with us and that they want to retake it in order
012to improve their grade then we would allow them to take ioa we also would allow them to use Iowa if they were a senior who is trying to graduate at the semester and so there would be a limited group of courses that they could choose from in that scenario which would be government economics personal financial responsibility health and composition we would cap that at four credits Max because they already have 56 opportunities during the course of their time here at Lake Central and even if they were graduating at semester there would still be more than enough room to fit everything they need into their schedule the last change we would make is that if a student was pursuing something that we don't offer here at Lake Central for example ioa offers American Sign Language and
013that's not something that's available here we would allow them to pursue that and in that case if they were going for the academic honors diploma you would need six credits worth of that in order to qualify for it and we'd let them go above the four up to a six Credit Max but those would be the only um situations where we would allow the use of Iowa because of the reduction in the number of credits that they need to graduate we just feel like it's not as necessary as it was before any questions on that you know so it was very hard for me to hear all the particulars in what you stated do you have something written that you could email out to me of course thank you okay thank you thank you our
014director of student services Mrs gramala thank you I just wanted to update the board on a training we hosted at the end of October we had 98 staff members which included teachers counselors School psychologists principals I think we had an occupational therapist there as well they all participated in a two-day training with Dr Trisha Berg from safe and civil schools the training was on a intervention method called the tough kid toolkit so it's a strategy focused training it was a really nice complement to trainings we've done with Dr desotel's and earlier trainings we did on Champs which is a classroom overall classroom management strategy one thing that we heard from a lot of our teachers is that they had very limited training on classroom management in their teacher training programs most said they had about
015one class in all of their college coursework so they really believed that they all had students who would benefit from these strategies they were able to most of them sat sort of in their groups with their buildings so they were able to do a lot of brainstorming throughout the two days and we got some really good feedback from it so we've had enough interest that once we start looking at remaining grant funds we might try to host it again to get more more staff members through I I did hear from some teachers about it and they were very excited about it because because of the needs of the students in their classroom classroom and this teacher was talking about restraining and it's like no no no you don't no no there's other ways to do
016this so it was very timely good job thank you so now we'll move on to our director of Business Services Mr James thank you Mr Seuss when I sent the board packet out on Thursday we had yet to receive any information from the state about the annual teacher appreciation grant that changed since then and on Friday school districts across the state were notified how much each district as a whole was going to receive in December from the grant um last year the school district was awarded approximately 344 thousand dollars this year it's just under 340. so in essence materially very close to the same amount as last year um the grant is eligible to be given out to certified staff with based on who have received a effective or highly effective rating the state law
017mandates there must be a 25 difference in the amount given to those two levels in 2017 the legislator excuse me the legislative General Assembly changed the law that said only classroom teachers are eligible to receive the grant even though we have many other certificated employees who get a rating as well so the people who have been carved out of the grant include guidance counselors Deans School psych social workers our Ed Tech trainers administrators assistive Tech coordinators Etc our administrative team and historically the board has always valued the what these other staff members bring to our students and in the past we have seeked the board's approval to use education fund money to pay a stipend to those aforementioned people who've been carved out of the Grant and to be in the same dollar amount as
018the people who are in the Grant and so I am seeking your approval tonight to pay a stipend to those those groups that I mentioned I don't have the dollar amounts per person yet we are focusing on doing our pay teacher pay raises for the next pay next week I will start working on the computations for the tags the teacher appreciation Grant and we intend to pay that out on a separate pay on December 9th which would be before our prior next before our next school board meeting that's why I seek your approval tonight to do that and then what I would do is once I have those calculations made I will bring that back again on the December 12th board meeting to have you bless it again so I seek your approval for that
019motion to approve that additional company we have a motion by Mrs Kelly second second by Dr Malco any discussion or questions all in favor aye motion passes thank you and my last item is to seek your approval for the donations that were included in the board packet move to approve the donations motion by Dr Medlin and I will second that any discussion questions all in favor aye motion passes thank you and uh I'm being told there are no public comments so with that we'll move on to our board comments and consideration of future agenda items Mr Marshall uh thank you uh this has been a short and sweet meeting this evening I have no particular comments to offer thank you Mrs Kelly I just like to wish our staff and our families a Happy Thanksgiving
020thank you Dr Medlin no comment thank you Dr Malco oh I do have something really positive to share and it's perfect because one of the principles is here Education Foundation is as I told you trying to reach out and be more Community oriented so we have a person from the community who is wanting to be a member of the board this is a letter she wrote I'm a parent of a first grader at Watson and a fifth grader at Grimmer you're not Grimmer wrong guy you're a clerk anyway I'm going to go ahead and finish it we moved to the area and Lake Central School Corporation in 2019 my older son attended two years of preschool and a well-funded private school in Chicago the lab school at University of Chicago I was extremely nervous about
021withdrawing him from that school and enrolling at Lake Central frankly I did not expect the quality and commitment of the Lake Central teachers to match the teachers at its private school where they were paid a lot more money where they are paid significantly more more money not only have the teachers at LC matched they have widely exceeded my expectations my children have had committed and talented teachers at Watson and Grimmer every staff member and administrator I interacted with at Watson was welcoming kind responsive and committed to students so um pretty exciting and you just need to hear those positive words because that's what keeps us going in this world that we live in she loved the work that the foundation is doing and she is also an employee at the University of Chicago they moved
022to St John to be near her husband's work and he and his two brothers are all like Central graduates so celebration yeah yeah right and are you done I don't want to overtalk you um but you know our LCT uh lctv and Publications they they went to St Louis and you know they brought home nine Awards too at their their convention so the lctv and Publications on the 14th went to St Louis and they brought home nine Awards so that was good to hear so um and I would like to also thank Mr Stanish on in in the high school for their Veterans Day program fortunately that was the only program I was able to get to this year but I'm sure they all were were great um but I can only attest to the
023one that I attended and it was fabulous so with that we'll move to uh Dr varaco for Board calendar of future activities thank you you're welcome so winter sports will begin check your calendars for activities I think there are still some holiday concerts to come for both band and choir at our secondary schools and our next board meeting will be here on December the 12th same time same place thank you Kelly