001please join us in the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty I'm searching Welcome to our Monday December 12th board meeting we'll move right along to our agenda approval deletions additions Dr varako thank you Mr sues we have a revised board agenda at your workstation under Roman numeral seven five we've added the swearing-in ceremony for Mr Marshall and Mrs Kelly and we've also amended 7b1 Personnel recommendations for Mrs mucha move to approve we have a motion by Dr Medlin second by Mrs Kelly any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye any opposed motion approved yes I'm sorry is there any correspondence Mrs Kelly not this evening all right we'll move right on to our liaison committee updates Mr Marshall uh nothing to report this
002evening thank you Mrs Kelly I also have nothing to report this evening Dr Medlin nothing to report thank you Dr Malco uh nothing to report other than Lake Central Education Foundation is meeting right now as we talk and Dyer parks department meets tomorrow thank you and I have nothing for Dollars for Scholars nor the St John Redevelopment meetings so we'll move right into our official School Board business topics consent agenda Dr Morocco thank you again seek board approval for the minutes from our executive session our special board meeting and our regular board meeting on the 21st of November as well as our executive session on the 22nd and our special board meeting that was held on the 28th and finally seek board approval for the claims payroll and extracurricular expenditures you received in your packets
003last week thank you do we have a motion motion to approve those items but Miss Kelly and a second by Mr Marshall any discussion or questions hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you uh there are no public comments regarding action items so we'll move right into our official School Board business topics regular agenda all right we have a joyful first agenda item this evening we are have some guests from Homan the home Inquirer is going to sing for us this evening so anyone who wants to can reassemble I think they're going to sing towards the crowd so I'm going to move out into the audience somewhere good evening everyone before we begin I would like to thank all of our parents for coming and for allowing your children to participate tonight
004we appreciate you all so boys and girls as you're walking in say thank you to your moms and dads say thank you we are so excited to have our choir from Homan we have our awesome Mrs Lynn Koozie here she's the choir director and then where's the principal we have Mrs Tucker right over there and we have Miss Leonard right next to her so we appreciate everyone for coming out they're going to do an awesome job as they Usher us into the Christmas season I think foreign thank you we're gonna get a form oh we're gonna perform three songs we're gonna start with Up on the Roof [Music] thank you baby [Music] foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] your place foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause]
005[Music] thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right she did a great job okay one more song for you guys we're really entertaining today aren't we okay uh the last one we're gonna perform is if I were a reindeer okay [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] we meet weekly every Friday morning before school and we are performing at four or five different places this year so um it's a real treat we have the third and the fourth involved this year third and fourth graders so uh if you just want
006to get I think they're getting pictures off you if you want to go ahead everybody look that way she's getting a picture of you guys okay okay we're gonna go out professionally [Applause] thank you yeah well I knew we are going to continue with recognizing our Homan Elementary spell Bowl team thank you for allowing us to be here I also want to thank you for listening to our choir they really do practice a lot and I um definitely have to give all the credit to Mrs fusey she has such musical talent I have zero but so we are happy to have her at Holmen so again thank you for allowing us to be here tonight and we would like to recognize the home and spellball team and I would like to call down the coaches
007that help these students excel in this competition and that is Mrs Melissa Cummins and Mrs Lynn malatestinic foreign November 14th Holmen participated in the elementary spellball competition that was held at Kaylor Middle School the team of 10 4th grade students was led by our two coaches Mrs Cummins and Mrs malitesnik in a home in place 10th in the state out of 60 teams we're very proud of their accomplishments and at this time I'm going to turn over the mic to the coaches and they will call the students down and thank you to all the parents that helped support your students also thank you Mrs Tucker again we couldn't have done it without the support of the parents and these kids were amazing and they did a great job so Lexi Butera who is in the
008choir might be oh there she is she made it she's wearing all the doing all the work tonight she's singing and spelling and all kinds of great job good job Ellie Patrick okay Michael Brown [Applause] thank you Michael Grayson Yonker [Applause] and then we had a couple spellers that couldn't be here tonight Carter Wilkerson Justin Klein Kayla Bernal Jager and Riley flood oh and Harper Keaton one more so oh [Music] [Applause] good job thank you very much come on right okay ready [Applause] we also have the pleasure of recognizing the bibbage elementary spellbold team I'd like to invite up Mrs petrelia and our coaches at this time foreign O'Rourke and Michelle snow are spellball coaches at bibbage um I prepared something this time to our bibbage spell Bowl team congratulations on such a wonderful achievement
009your time and dedication are remarkable and as your principal I can assure you that the staff and students at bibbage are so proud of you to this Balboa parents thank you for your time and dedication as well we know that you practiced words that some of us have never heard speaking for a friend obviously and changing your schedule to pick up your child from spellball practice is not always easy either Ellen and Michelle have coached the bibbage spellball team this year in many years prior while we are proud of them for placing third in the state of Indiana we are very proud of the Priceless skills our students learned from these ladies during the season these include learning effective study strategies working as a team showing support to our teammates and competitors and setting goals
010congratulations to our Vivid spillball team thank you um I can announce them so we'll call your name if you can come and shake the board members hands and then we'll line you up for a picture Harper Clemens Micah dennert Audrey Johnson [Applause] Charles komarowski congratulations Will Lewis Ben Lopez Michael McNeil [Applause] Brooklyn Moore Juniper Paul Michael Rodriguez Dylan Chenault Chris wendelin there you go congratulations Jason West and Sloane wojnow [Applause] great job proud of you [Music] okay ready yeah get a big smile some rabbit ears [Applause] and I think it's and parents thank you for all your work and did you know that Miss Snow was the spell Bowl coach of the year for the state of Indiana [Applause] [Music] right here and then there was us which is good I hope not oh my
011gosh I just yeah all right the place feels empty now laughs my third agenda item is just to update the board on some of the things that Cindy Mrs Susan I heard on Friday down in Indianapolis at the legal seminar I had intended to talk about attorney Sheamus Boyce who's now a lobbyist who did a presentation on minimizing reporting requirements and state mandates which were all very interested in because there are many redundancies in what we have to report to the state in fact some of the things that they want reported regarding data they give us the data so then we can give it back to them in a different form so it feels like there should be some ways to extract that stuff so the interesting part about the presentation it was part talking
012about the things that they've heard from school districts about what can be eliminated or reduced but at the same time there were a lot of of the surveys that you do on your cell phone so that they can prioritize what they think we least want to be burdened with and so the the the final story to that will come during the session that starts in January so instead I'm going to Pivot and talk a little bit about Michelle Cooper her presentation on the pros and cons of Corporation Police Department it was it was good to know that the way we are conducting business is what the vast majority of people are doing in terms of engaging with the local towns and police departments to hire experienced officers who are already trained get them their special
013SRO certification and then we try to continue to work with the police Chiefs and the town councils to have these officers support our students and again It's tricky because many of these officers if they're working evening shifts doing supervision or providing security they were different type of hat than when they're in the school and so it's important for our administrators to get to know the officers build relationships and have those officers serve our students as a resource and so that's what we've been successfully doing um the other pieces that make it complicated is for the districts that engage with their own and hire their own Police Department all of those rules regarding police certifications from the Indiana Law Enforcement Agency are still required and so it would be a pretty big burden on individual School
014corporations to monitor that stuff that's why most of the schools and there are only a few that have their own Police Department actually have one of the people as a police chief so that person is responsible for making sure all the certifications are updated all trainings are in place in including the kinds of trainings you wouldn't do with a school so one of the things that the speaker was talking about was special training with vehicle Pursuit now I guess our police could be needing to do that if somebody created a problem at the school and then they were chasing them but it's not nearly as likely as what you know our our police unfortunately are forced to do on a Sunday or Saturday night at 2 A.M but the challenge again is to moderate the
015role of the sros when they're in our building we're pretty comfortable with what uh we we currently have going on and while we don't have total control of the officers we believe that our regular scheduled tri-town safety meetings as well as individual conversations with police Chiefs and Town Council Members allows us to have enough influence over the officers when they're in our schools and I give a lot of credit to our principals and assistant principals for building the kind of relationships with our officers so that they know how they can best support kids and it doesn't mean that they never have to wear their Police hat and possibly take somebody to the station because there's criminal activity it just means that in most cases they're able to be that officer friendly and support our students
016and so we are comfortable that our our model is is working for us and just for the boards refresher we did present on this at the Indiana School Board Association and got pretty decent reviews from them as well so the people who have not yet expanded their police presence in schools they attended they were interested in how we had different memos of understanding or contracts if you will with the different towns and they are a little bit different but they're pretty standardized and it's really helped us to have that presence in the school that we want any questions from anybody gosh that was good um my next thing is to talk a little bit about the legal ramifications of camera recordings this was another presentation we heard we continue to have situations where we may
017have an altercation and I want to remind everybody that our cameras are not monitored by somebody as you might see in like in the movies at a high-rise apartment building so what our cameras do is they archive events and we're able to watch the footage then the recording and go back and unravel at least one angle or one side of the story about what happened what we typically what we typically experience is when we have it on on a recording device and we don't have a good eyewitness testimony or the story between two people if we're using a fight as an example and the witnesses there's gray area we watch the the footage to try to piece it together what we current what we currently experience oftentimes is the parents want to see the video
018and It's Tricky when there's more than one person in that scene an informal survey in the room indicated that none of the people in the room had the technology the ability to blur out every face other than the person who you want to focus on but a couple interesting pieces came out of it one is that if if it is an incident with two combatants and if both parties agree that the other party can see the entire scene then you get the permission of the parent or an eligible student meaning an 18 year old high school student yeah that's okay if the other parent sees what happened then you're free to show that video to people the important thing that he emphasized is that while you you may have the inclination to show that video
019that recording to the parties no recording of the recording should take place in other words you should maintain the record and not give that record to somebody else who then can push it out elsewhere and so avoid that at all costs um and so that that was a little bit of a new thing for us because we do often want to show the video especially when somebody thinks that they played a very minor role when in fact they may have been an equal combatant or even the aggressor and so we'll continue to monitor what happens in this area but um our cameras help us to unravel incidents but I just want to say one more time for the record we don't monitor them so that we're not usually able to interject and stop things from
020happening just because we have a fair number of cameras across the district so that was from Friday any questions about that piece all right now the exciting part where we get uh Mrs Peterson to come and swear in Mrs Kelly and Mr Marshall you may know that in the past oftentimes we've done this at our reorganization meeting in January but the law does allow us to do it early and we just as soon knock this piece out so we can hit the ground running on January 3rd take it away Mrs Peterson I will do give me a moment no problem if you're please repeat after me I and state your name hi Howard Marshall do solemnly swear solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of
021the state of Indiana and the laws of the United States and the state of Indiana I will Faithfully execute I will Faithfully execute the duties of my office as a member of the governing body of the Lake Central School Corporation so help me God by the authority vested in me I declare Howard Marshall and Nicole Kelly a member to be duly elected please join me in a round of applause and congratulations on your re-elections it didn't hurt a bit did it Howard all right my final item this evening is to go over the schedule of board meeting dates for next year as we discussed at our work session we are going to add back a second meeting in January that'll be January the 3rd it will be for us to conduct our basic reorganization business
022and we'll we'll also pile some claims in there for Mr James's request so it'll be a short meeting because the rest of the business of the board will take care of it the regular January 23rd meeting we inadvertently didn't look where we have to have the reorganization meeting done by January 15th of each calendar year so that meeting will be a 6 p.m meeting on January the 3rd the rest of the meeting dates on your schedule will be 7 P.M we have not confirmed yet with the board on next January we typically put that first meeting on this list so I'm going to declare that if you approve this those two meetings in January of 24 will be tentative we can still talk about those later in the school year when we get closer to
023it because the holidays get tricky for people so that's what we're going to do Tuesday January 3rd 6 p.m the rest of those dates 7 PM seek board approval for those meeting dates at this time do we have a motion I moved to approve the meeting stationed by Dr Medlin and I will second that any discussion hearing none all in favor aye motion passes thank you so we'll move right along to our director of Human Resources Personnel Mrs mucho thank you very much we are recommending the following Personnel items be approved move to approve motion by Mr Marshall second by Dr Malco any discussion questions hearing none all in favor aye motion passes thank you thank you move right along director of primary education Dr Bracy good evening I am seeking approval for the professional
024League requesting your packets we have a motion by Mrs Kelly second second by Dr Medlin any discussion questions hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you thank you in September the idoe notified all districts of the need to compare their current High ability program plan to a newly implemented rubric the wording had changed in many of the descriptions I notified our broad-based planning committee and we began to dissect the plan we had in place a broad place a a broad-based planning committee or a bbpc is required for any District that has a high ability program the purpose of the committee is to create plans and goals for the highability program our committee is made up of 15 members including teachers counselors social workers parents and administrators we had visuals and tables we've
025added them to our parameter I'm sorry in our plan we added visuals and tables to explain the parameters used to identify students for the high ability Services there are certain areas that had to be covered to meet the needs of the rubric you will see those in bold print at the top of each section we added the names and titles of all the BBC plant BBC to the plan Enlisted the steps needed for a student to be exited from the program our plan is also located on the website foreign did you say are there any questions are there any questions oh I don't always I don't always hear down here so so then basically what you were doing you were aligning our rubric with our document following the guidance from the state correct all right
026and I noticed she read off that you have parents on the broad brace planning committee correct and how often do you meet we meet three times each year three times in each year okay all right thank you for sharing that you're welcome I'm glad you're following the guidance of our state department thank you any other questions thank you our director of secondary education Mrs Castaneda thank you for my first item I am seeking your approval for the professional leave requests move to approve motion by Mr Marshall second second by Dr Malco any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you and for my second item I'm seeking your approval for the field trip requests move to approve those motion by Mrs Kelly and I will second that any other discussions questions hearing none
027all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you thank you our director of Stu student services Mrs gramalla thank you I am going to turn it over to Liz DeVries who is our El coordinator for the district and she's going to present just an update on our programming for English language learners it's going to be on the screen if you want to move down to see it foreign okay hi thanks for being here I know it's late but here we go this is just an update on our ell program so this is just an overview of Who's involved we go from a director all the way down to paraprofessionals um how do I identify our students every student in the state of Indiana has to fill out a home language survey once that survey is
028filled out if they have another language listed that student is screened if the student qualifies then we have a committee that gets together and comes up with a plan for them which is known as their ILP and there is annual testing every year so in 2014 um Indiana decided to join Wida we used to do last links now we're part of Wida and it's a very large Consortium these are all the states that are involved and then this is just a better view of all the states so it's nice when students come from a state that is what we call a weed estate because we already have their scores we have everything together this is the Wida access test and what what's involved the grade levels are kindergarten takes their own tests and then grades
029one two three through five six through eight and then 9 through 12. so the students when they're given a level level one is entering and those are students that basically will not really be talking really won't be saying anything because they're probably new to the country and afraid to speak and then when they hit level five they have tested out of the program and then we monitor them for two years there are um test results from last year from 2021. oh no currently we have 461 students 381 are receiving Direct Services 51 are in the first year monitoring and 29 are in the second so the state of Indiana still has us monitor them for two years and then they're still considered in our program in case they need some assistance okay here's our results
030from last year so um these are this the different ones the kids in red are first time test takers so we have nothing to compare it to the kids in blue are our alternate students and then pink sometimes there's a glitch and some kids don't test um this is the Middle School population and then the high school so overall we had 397 students test 72 or new eight were alternate so our percent of improvement was 72 percent last year we were at 65 so I think covid made a big difference like with them being in person so our diversity we have um 32 languages 29 countries Spanish is our number one language and Gujarati made it so we do the top five and so they are four percent of our population each night we hold
031a parent night for the parents to come in we have done it both virtually and in person this year we did in person this is just a view of where our students come from um a lot of them come from the United States are born and raised here but have a dominant language at home that is not English so Essa is just accountability for our students but No Child Left Behind they had to come up with a way of how to measure our students so what they do is they take their Wida scores and they compare them to the previous year and that helps go into their Improvement what they would like to see is that students they start and they test out within six years that doesn't really happen but that's the goal that
032they'd like to see and that's it any questions Liz I have one uh for general information it's my fault I didn't see it quick enough oh I'm sorry do you want me to go back here no no the one screen showed of the languages that we deal with the last one begin with the G the Gujarati that's from India India thank you I wasn't familiar with it yeah that one that um like I said it's new on our chart for one of the top five for Lake Central very good thank you all right thanks oh yes I would so we have 461 yeah rounded to 500 with preschool kids we've got 10 000 well you know ten thousand five hundred so five percent yeah I was gonna say five but I didn't want to say
033five any other questions they were they were 65 last year and then this year 72. growth all right thanks thank you [Applause] foreign some of our our El teachers held one in person and also held one virtually to give parents both options on how to participate so we did have good attendance this year foreign thank you now on to our director of Business Services Mr James thank you my only item is to seek your approval for the donations that were included in your board packet did you buy Mr Marshall and by Dr Medlin any discussion or questions hearing not all in favor aye motion passes thank you thank you and there are no public comments so with that we will move on to our board comments in consideration of future agenda items Mr Marshall well
034I'd like to compliment uh I wrote her name down I apologize let me see the choral director from Holmen oh Lynn Lynn uh Posey is it pusing okay I like to compliment her on having a very spirited group and that's a nice way to start the holiday season thank you can agree more this is Kelly foreign happy holidays to everyone Dr Malco did she say Mrs Malco doctor um Dr Malco um yes first of all Merry Christmas to everybody and enjoy and uh take some time to relax and enjoy family so very very proud of so many things going on at Lake Central it's amazing to me when I walk because you know I walk this circuit at night and there's so many activities and uh you know Dr Barraco I think that you provide
035the support for all those you and your team and and thank you for doing that because it's just endless just like the other morning it was The Debate Club I didn't even know we had a debate team are we allowed to go watch them debate can we visit those competitions does anybody know could we find out I'd love to go hear that that sounds new so anyway that's all I have to say thank you thank you and uh just happy holidays and a Happy New Year to everybody and I will turn this over now to Dr Rocco for Board calendar future activities okay we uh continue to have a lot of extracurricular activities encourage all board members to look at the calendar and attend some of those fun things that are coming up and our
036next meeting will be on January the 3rd at 6 00 PM in the k-trap room again that will be a very skinny agenda just to do our reorganization in order to meet the state mandated guideline other than that everybody have a great evening and thank you for a German [Music]