001The score will now come to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance 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. First thing on our agenda this evening is the recognition portion. Mrs. Starky. >> Yeah. >> We'll start with uh Loganport High School speech team coaches. Mr. Miller, did you want to speak or you want me to? >> No, go ahead. No, I will say um as you guys know at Lucasmore High School, we've always had a rich tradition of speech and debate programming and uh this year a great recognition um to our coaches. We were one of four schools in the state um to be identified as a leading chapter
002award and I believe one of six in the nation um if that's correct. >> I think there were four for every 106. 106 right in throughout the nation. Sounds better. Sorry. 106 um within the nation and certainly um credit goes back I know to Mrs. Pasil and her work um and it's continued with tradition with Jessica Cray and Ashley and Mr. Miller um and their work and we're really happy to recognize them today for all their work and achievements. >> Um yeah, great. I would I would just say, you know, as a superintendent, like people when people think of Loganport High School, they talk about our speech team and and how successful they've been. And as a mom, I will tell you the skills that my son has learned from being in SPE from from
003being in the speech team as a freshman on up like you it's second to none because the skills that the students uh acquire are amazing. And Alex still, he's 26 and he still likes to go. He'll still go volunteer to judge speech meets. Um because I and I think that says a whole lot about the program when kids are, you know, you know, when they're older, they're still willing to come back and and do um do do things like volunteer their sat an entire Saturday to judge a speech meet with high school kids. And so, you know, it's um I always talk about, this isn't about me, but I always talk about what our extracurricular activities like are so important. Yeah, we reading and math and academics are extremely important too. But that whole other
004side of the equation are the extracurriculars that we offer in Loganport because for many of our kiddos, those are lifong connections and relationships that our kids have and lifelong skills that they learn outside of the high school or outside of the academic classroom, if you will, that uh take them very far in life. And so, um, I'm always proud to talk about, uh, our speech team and and all of our extracurricular activities. So, huge shout out because, you know, there were lots of mornings when I had to get up before he started driving and like you're waking them up and they they look so disheveled and in whatever they leave the house in, but they're walking out carrying a suit. So, you're like, "Well, surely he'll get it together." And they do. So, but huge
005shout out to these guys um for for all that they do. So, And the speech team, by the way, is a good predictor of what's going to happen. I was on the speech team, you know, and I did and I did radio and I I was I did radio and I maybe won one ribbon in the whole four years that I was on the speech team and yet I went on to get into radio anyway. So um you speech team tried to teach me that I shouldn't go that route because they said you're not very good at it and I've I've shown that I have I have proven them right. So there's there's your prediction and I could top mil story because I was with speech team. Didn't get a lot of awards either but
006I was the vice president and I sold donuts on the bus. Made money for the speech team. So I got my business starting journey with learning how to sell things. >> Super great. That is great. Well, we'll start with Jessica Crayons, Joyce Pael, or all the Pasil, Ashley Hayes, and Chris Miller. Michael Konut, sir. And we love our alums. I just want to It's one of the It's one of our favorite things is knowing that these kids are going to come and visit us and judge with us for the day. It's special. >> Just make sure I close my eyes. >> Real good. >> Thank you. Good luck on a good season. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Mr. Storm, I will have you present the Applebee's teacher of the month from Loganport Junior High. >> Full
007House is actually here. >> She is. She's in. >> Oh, there she is. Great. >> Sorry, we've been talking. >> Yeah. So, uh, I have the pleasure of awarding Ashley Benny, our Applebee's teacher of the month. She is um so helpful, such a team player. Um she's the MVP of our of our teacher morale uh group. She's always coming up with fun fun things for the staff to participate in. Um she's always solutionoriented. Um you can always count on her. Even today we had a fantastic Veterans Day program and even today at the end of the program um one of the things I forgot was to tell our kids what class we were going back to. And so at the back of the gym I see Ashley, you know, up there signaling to me where
008Oh yeah, that's right. And so but she's she's always looking out. She's a team player. She does an excellent job. um the the uh she just makes the culture around her so positive and fun and um yeah uh we we'd love everyone to to to be like Ashley Benny and we we'd have a pretty awesome world. You don't want that. or me. I do that. >> Do you? >> Yeah. Uh >> oh. Not good. >> Let's redo between the two of you. >> All right. >> Yes, that'll work. >> Yay. Thank you. Thank you. >> See you tomorrow. >> Congratulations. >> I thought we'd also recognize another group of us this evening. We have the scouts here. Um I would say beyond speech team. I also was a boy scout and I also end up
009being an Eagle Scout. Um and I can remember doing these sorts of things where I remember one time having to go with meet the mayor, Mayor Monahan and and and I went there for like some I am very old. Yeah. You don't even remember Mayor Mad, do you? But anyway, I had to go there and it was a it was a citizenship merit badge and he started telling me about the Tease River and went on for like 3 hours of explaining that there was an underground river here in Loganport around here and that kind of stuff. So, but I those were probably the times that made me the most nervous when you went how to deal with adults and uh learn that stuff. And I say, I don't know if you guys any of you
010guys want to explain, you know, why you're here tonight or what, you know, anything that you'd like to speak about? >> Oh, there we go. >> Citizenship in the community. >> Uh, well, we're here today because of um the citizenship of the community badge involves us um uh all coming to a a meeting like this. And that's one that's one of the Eagle required MARA badges. So >> we're glad to have you. >> We will we have it we have it twice in this meeting we have where you can actually say something. Uh the first one's right now where we say you can have anybody can speak about something that's on the agenda. There'll be one later though. So if you guys get so motivated you may you know want to ask a question. I
011mean you can ask questions about the school board or the schools. You got all a lot of principles here. Um, you know, I remember we had this one time with I think it was like teachers had to come to this meeting and somebody asked about the Bosco sticks. They had taken them off the menu. They weren't nutrition. >> The Bosco bread sticks. >> And one of the kids stood and said, "Hey, what about the Bosco bread sticks?" And like cuz back when they have the our nutrition stuff was being questioned or whatever. So, so you can think of those. You'll have another chance to speak here coming up. So, I can tell you're all just dying to jump out of your chair and say something. Okay. We'll open up now for public comments on anything
012that's on the agenda this evening. No takers. All right. Next, we'll move on to the consent agenda. Uh included in the consent agenda this evening is is the minutes of the October 6, 2025 regular schoolboard meeting. Minutes of the October 6, 2025 executive session. Minutes of the October 9, 2025 special board meeting. Minutes of the October 23rd, 2025 executive session. Minutes of the October 23rd public hearing, personnel recommendations, field trip requests, donation request, treasury, the treasures report for September and claims. Do I have a motion to accept them as presented? >> Motion to approve. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by sign of I. >> I. All those opposed sign. The motion passes. Moving on now to our the fun part of this evening. You
013guys will enjoy this. This is our presentations. First, we have a presentation tonight about the Loganport Junior High School. Uh I'm Matt Storm, uh your principal, second year at the junior high. I will say that I've been in lots of levels, all levels of education, and I really like middle school. Um, uh, they know that much, man. They hear that much. >> Yeah. No. Um, uh, middle school's great, uh, because they've got some skills. Um, they they're starting to develop some independence, but they're not quite high school kids where, uh, they feel like they might know it all. Uh, and so I feel like they're very impressionable. um that they have a small window of time there where we can really make a big impact on their lives. And so that's what we think about
014uh every day at Loganport Junior High. And uh lots of new staff this year, not as many as last year, but um we've got each core subject area uh some somebody new in each area. I've been thrilled with this uh with this group coming in. I'm really excited about what they're doing. uh building projects. Uh love to take the opportunity to thank you uh for investing uh literally in the junior high and it's it's been uh wonderful to see some of these projects wind down and finish up even though they may have l uh taken a little longer than we would have liked. Right, Greg? Uh but it's uh if you haven't been over lately um you're you should come visit and uh and see what we've done with the place. Um there's just a
015few photos up there. I didn't cover all of them. Uh I wouldn't have left uh Chris any time if we would have covered all the many ways our building's been improved. But thank you very much for that. Uh we spend a lot of time talking about what we developed after our first year. Uh and I say we um uh mentioning Lauren Kennedy. Uh she's she's a fantastic assistant and it's a pleasure to serve with her. Um but after our first year, we kind of tried to come up with a concept that kind of summarized a lot of the a lot of the things that we found ourselves talking about frequently. and we arrived at the instructional triangle. And um just quickly to kind of explain how this works, um it works bottom up. And if
016you were around last year, you probably heard me mention uh the uh motivational stick man and what that's all about. But that's up that's the bottom. And uh the whole point behind that is we do try to be very intentional about um connecting and uh expressing care for our students. We believe that unless we do that, there's no learning that can take place. And so that's always where we start. We're very intentional about that step. And and moving up the triangle, each level becomes possible if the level or levels underneath it are are where they need to be. And so if we're connecting with our kids and they believe that we care about their well-being and their growth, that allows us to really start to establish a efficient learning environment in terms of how we
017manage our classrooms, in terms of how we plan the activities and the curriculum. And you know, we can really start to um uh organize how best to teach our kids as long as that relationship piece is taken care of. And if we manage well and plan well, uh we move up the triangle to um talk about differentiation. Uh that's been a big theme for us this year. Uh to talk about how can we enrich uh the learning experience for kids that are getting it. How can we challenge them and push them further and how do we support the kids that are struggling? And uh and then of course there's one more level. The top of that triangle is risk. And we want our teachers uh to take risk. We want them to be um have
018some professional theories about what works best in education and to put those theories into practice. uh because when when you develop a personal theory and you test it out, that spurs a lot of professional collaboration and uh we're doing lots of great things if we can get lots of teachers uh to get to that top uh level of the triangle. It's also a great reflective tool because if we meet with teachers or we we we talk with groups and and we're just not pleased with how things are going with a particular class or whatnot, we we talk in terms of this instructional triangle and we try to diagnose. Okay, if we're not pleased with how we're able to differentiate, let's backtrack and make sure that, you know, we we're we've got some management tools in
019place. We've got a we've got a good plan for the curriculum and of course that those relationships are established. And often times if we just backtrack and try to try to secure the base, it allows us to move up that triangle um very quickly and do some exciting things in education. Uh speaking of our instructional initiatives this year, it's uh largely about math and ELA. Uh we're we're trying to grow math skills. We're trying to grow literacy skills. Um, literally everything we're doing, even outside of English and math, uh, we're talking about how we can support and complement the development of those skills. Um, that's the the nutshell of our instructional initiatives. We do have student incentives uh that have been successful for us in keeping kids motivated. uh we reward them each quarter as
020long as they meet certain marks to do some fun things. We're using our impact period a little differently this year. This is a 26minute daily chunk of our schedule. Uh we've got math Mondays which we we focus across the building in a program called Alex. I'll talk a little bit more about that uh momentarily. Tuesday is all about literacy. Uh we use a word flag program that again I'll get into uh in a moment. Um Wednesday has been has been fun for me. Um we've been doing large group impact meetings. Um actually there's a couple times I've had to leave cabinet meetings over here to hustle back and and uh and take care of our plans for our large group impact. But that's a time uh I have a third of the students at a
021time. So, three quick quick meetings of 26 minutes and and um I've been able to help our 4C programming uh get through um the catch my breath program for this fall. We've got other plans coming up for bring change to mind um in the spring. And then uh lots of other things that we just think kids need to hear, be reminded of. um we use that time to recognize kids that have reached certain um certain achievements. Um but that's been I've noticed that I I'm still fairly new. It's just year two for me, but I've noticed that just doing that, being in front of the kids more often has made me more approachable to them. I see lots more kids interacting with me throughout the day. And um I'm confident that we're on the right
022track with uh with incorporating that large group impact time. And then Thursday is kind of the um work day trying to get caught up. You've got most of the weeks come by. If you're falling behind somewhere, let's get you caught up. And Friday, uh we challenge our impact teachers to um to meet with their kids individually. um they don't get through their entire roster every Friday, but they get through at least a chunk and they touch base on how they're doing academically um how they're doing in general. Uh revisit goals that they've established and uh and encourage them uh throughout the year. We won't go into the specific plans. I know Chris has to talk later too, right? Uh this is our PLC schedule for this year. We made some adjustments from last year. uh
023you'll see so this is the 30 minutes that we have before students uh arrive to first period and uh we've got lots of different things on here we've increased the department meeting times um you I mentioned differentiation uh so we've got a couple days blocked out to really um cover some ground there we've got different track meetings um our RTI uh team every every committee or team that we have has some time to get together and uh and make progress and plan and uh and implement things. But I know there's a lot on here. Um if something jumps out at you is, hey, what's that? You're welcome to interrupt and I can answer those questions. Um Belook's frenzies, one of my favorite ones by design. It's we picked different topics and the design of it
024is to uh have professional collaboration on that topic. So you you bring something that you're familiar with, a tool or a strategy that you found to be successful on that topic. Uh or you show up when you're clueless on that topic to get some help from your colleagues. Um uh our SOS team uh that goes handinhand with the handle with care uh program that you may remember hearing about recently. I think that kind of got off and running uh barely last year. Uh but that's our that's our team that um communicates about some kids that have some challenges that they're going through right now and make sure that we are intentional about about supporting them. Again, kind of going back to that uh relationship piece that I've already mentioned. Does anything else jump out at
025you on what you're seeing on the screen that you're curious about? We could talk for a long time about different different uh plans around each of these PLC's. Uh let's get into literacy. Uh word flight is the program I've mentioned that we've picked. Um specifically, it helps us address and grow word recognition and decoding skills. And this was our uh beginning of year screener. And I don't it I don't want it to mislead you. Uh the even the green kids on here have room for improvement. And we've we've been careful to uh to talk with kids, get some feedback throughout this fall semester, and even the kids that are are knocking it out of the park are communicating to us that they see a lot of value in this program. And uh and so that's
026provide provided some confidence with us. Another thing that jumps out to us on here, uh that that high-risisk, that red, uh chunk of the pie there, there's 165 that were in that that uh group at the beginning of the year. And uh we were able to dissect that list and a lot of those kids uh have already qualified for extra services through special ed or our EL programs. um there's actually 29 that that aren't receiving uh some support already in one of those programs. And so we're able to to plan specifically for the groups that are needing the most help. Um and uh that was the the initial data. This is the very beginning of the year. Of course, there's you see across the bottom there's 24 different units here. And I just I took
027a snapshot every month. And I'll go through this quickly, but there's the beginning of the year. There's a month later. There's a month later. And we see actually we already have some kids that have actually finished the program. And um we have uh some rewards for kids that get to at least unit 12 and have certain scores again with those word recognition and decoding scores. and uh we're recognizing them publicly, but we're we're seeing we're seeing some nice growth and we're seeing kids confidence grow um which is exciting too. Uh but this is the most recent one from uh from Friday of last week. Um you can see that uh I will say once kids have kind of gotten to a certain level um we've freed up some of the time in our schedule to
028do some other things. uh maybe work with Khan Academy, maybe work with our more of our writing skills. Uh again, uh thinking of that third level of our triangle, trying to find find ways to enrich uh the learning for these kids is something we're thinking about as well. But I'm confident we're going to get a huge number uh and percentage of our kids to master word recognition and decoding skills uh this year. This is just a chunk of that. This is from the 24th. I think Tammy I think it was Tammy here. Yep. I think Tammy uh summarized this a couple weeks ago, but this was just the 141 kids that at that point had reached the midpoint of the program. And uh she looked at the those kids and where they were in that
029first that beginning of your screener and you can see the 99 of those kids were already green and they were still green. But we also uh got a lot of those yellow kids, those 36 yellow kids in this group to to jump up and some of those red high-risisk kids to jump up as well. So uh we're seeing some validation of of uh our wordflight program. Dr. Jenny is uh the literacy consultant that we've gotten to know very well um this year. She's been great to work with. Um, and I thought it would be helpful for you guys to see some of the feedback that she's provided us. Um, some of these bullet points are from September. Um, and, uh, at least one or two from, uh, today. Uh, we had, um, a PD session
030with her last Wednesday and she followed up by, uh, observing some vocabulary lessons and, uh, but she's given us some good feedback. Now, we haven't heard all positives. There's plenty that we're working on and plenty of growth to be made, but um but I think she she feels good about our situation that that we are set up for um success and and large strides of growth. >> And I just before you move on, Mr. I would say that secondary literacy is not something that that middle school, junior high teachers are used to talking about. The the word literacy and fluency is something talked a lot about and focused on in elementary school, but not something that uh even your English language arts teachers at the secondary level are comfortable with. And so, um, you're going
031to hear, I feel like this is a this is a place where we're a a step ahead of the state of Indiana. You're starting to hear from the Department of Education them talking about literacy because the state of Indiana made growth in every area except literacy at the secondary level. And so, you're starting to hear them starting to hear Dr. Jenner and the state board talk about uh focusing on literacy at the secondary level. And so we began this year um with Dr. Jenny and really we began last year having these conversations. And so uh it's it's it's a really good thing. It's not comfortable for teachers because it's not really in their >> I'll use a Jeff Kennedy term. It's not in their wheelhouse, right? And so um it's something that you kind of
032have to bring them around to. And and I will tell you between Dr. Deal and Mr. Storm and Miss Kennedy, it is the support that the teachers are getting that we understand you're not comfortable with this, but we're here to provide all the support you need because our kids deserve this help. And if you think about all the gaps that came from COVID, literacy and math are there are huge gaps and these kids were all greatly affected by that. So, >> yeah, I appreciate you sharing uh that, Michelle. Um yet our kids right now in junior high are the kids that were in those pivotal literacy grades in CO. And so we are having to Whoa, wait a second. Again, that third that third step of our triangle about supporting we're we're having to adjust
033and and adopt some uh some strategies that our our teachers aren't necessarily used to uh to meet the need. And um I'm I've been very pleased with our teachers answering that call. >> Will you be able to back off of some of that once you get through this COVID related group then? >> Absolutely. Um ideally um I I know some of the data in the elementarymentaries and and the iAre scores are definitely showing an upward trend and so this we'll we'll constantly be adjusting based on where our kids are at. So it's it's not likely something that that we'll be focusing on every year. Um there'll be a piece to that of course for the kids that need it, but it won't be um such a a broadcale strategy. Um in terms of literacy, >>
034the cool thing will be it'll just be more tools in every teacher's toolbox, right? Not just language arts, but in science and social studies and PE, all of them. So, >> right. Oh. Um switching gears to math. Uh the big change that we we made this year involved uh holding kids accountable for their effort. Um, we did our best to communicate very thoroughly um from Barry kickoff and even before and uh in in math classes from day one. um that you know if t we were going to be make sure we're all on the same page with our quarterly assessments and uh we were going to make sure uh that we did everything we could to put kids in a position to be successful just on that quarter's key standards. And if they didn't get
035to an 80% score on that quarterly assessment, then that next quarter, they were going to be assigned a a math lab to remediate the entire previous quarter's curriculum. Uh we did allow um a caveat of 70% as long as there were no missing assignments and they'd been showing the effort. Uh but uh but we do have I think 10 math labs on our schedule and so we are we designated a lot of time and manpower and energy to making sure that we are remediating uh students on math skills that uh are lacking. That's been the big change for math this year. This is Alex. I mentioned the Alex program earlier. Um, essentially it's a program that adjusts to a student's individual performance and and they achieve and earn uh different chunks of their pie. Um,
036then that pie is is directly correlated to the standards they're supposed to cover in their grade level. And so over the course of the year, as long as they complete that pie, then they they're in good shape moving forward. And so we have been intentional about making sure there's time invested in this program. That's in addition to of course the math instruction. And this shows our our growth from uh from early on until recently. Um the key here is that upward trend of course that um that we keep seeing growth. We're not we're not stalling uh in terms of our progress on u on the Alex pie charts. Uh just a couple pictures. This is actually from one of our large group uh meeting settings where we acknowledge some of the kids that had earned
037their wings. Um that's what we the phrase in the the group that we um uh the achievement that's what we're calling it um for word flight when they get to a certain level um of accomplishment. And actually uh Colton Folultz is on the top right there. He actually uh knocked out his pi, his Alex pi. He's a rock star and >> in algebra one. >> He's ahead of the game. >> He's he's an outlier in a very good way with math, but he's on the top right there. He's actually had a haircut and he did a great job with taps earlier, but um he's a rock star. Um uh this is correlating. We're not talking a lot about iLearn. Uh we know where we're at. We're scraping and clawing uh to make progress. Uh but
038we're focusing on Wordflight uh and Alex and we're we're talking about things that we can grab on to and and really do something with and we're going to trust that if we do those things effectively the results are going to show up here um eventually. And uh this is just the first checkpoint uh because we've only had uh that at this point in the year. But we've compared the first uh checkpoint scores in in ELA and math to last year's first checkpoint scores. And uh this isn't a night and day difference, but you can see some evidence of progress here um with uh percentages shifting a little bit to uh to the um the section above. Uh so we're going to keep working hard and again trust that the proof will be in the pudding.
039Uh other notables that I thought might be good to mention for you. Uh we've got 150 kids that are participating in uh athletics uh so far this year. Um we've also got u speech was recognized at the high school earlier um even though our speech sponsors left after last year for different reasons. um that program has survived. We've got new sponsors and they've got a good group doing good things. Uh we've got an art club, uh band and choir, uh um is doing great things. Actually, we just had their Veterans Day program this afternoon. I think I've legitimately heard five compliments since 2:30 from like non- staff about how impressed they were uh with our um with our music today. So, doing great things. Um attendance um it's always something again that's if we're doing
040everything uh well and people like coming to school, they're working hard, they're feeling like they're they're making progress, then that's going to kind of take care of itself. And we are noticing um that we're we're moving in the right direction with attendance. And thought I'd mention also a preeads program that stands for pre-employment training services. Uh actually students uh can't qualify for that until they're 14. and they they can qualify that by being um um already qualified for some other special services either through 504s or or um IEPs and it's a new exciting program. I'm familiar with it um already and we're trying to get that up and running. But essentially, there's some great resources there to help our kids uh develop the skills and really start to think about uh careers that are that
041are a right fit for them and uh and how to get there. Uh we always do our berries of the month. You can see our seventh graders uh thus far this year and our eighth graders got lots of kids doing well. It's always a good indication for me as well how many recommendations we get and I see that number increasing um staff that have been impressed with different students work ethics and performance and I get we get more names to try to figure you know try to uh process through this um accolade uh than than we have had in the past. So that's a good sign. And there's our staff members that have been recognized as berries of the month outside of of course Miss Benny that we recognized earlier tonight. And in closing, of
042course, unless there's questions, I thought it would be helpful uh just to throw out some quotes of some feedback that we've received this this fall um thus far. Uh I grabbed something from August and September and October there uh from some different uh sources. Um and uh and I I do feel um and I'm reassured by by lots of my colleagues that that we are moving in the right direction. Um uh it is going to be a hard process. Uh there's going to be bumps. Um, but we're in it together and uh we're working together and we're going to get there. Um, but uh happy to to spend a little time with you to let you know a little bit more about Logansport Junior High and what we've been up to lately. Um, do you
043have any questions? >> I have several, but I don't want to cut into Mrs. Hess's time. >> That's probably a smart choice. >> Maybe I'll catch you afterwards, but anytime. >> We are planning as the board to come and take a tour uh next month. >> Great. >> We're looking forward to that. >> It'll it looks different from the last time you've been there. I guarantee it. >> Hope so. >> Just more of a comment. A lot of times on the board, we get negative feedback. People like to tell us what's going wrong at whatever school. >> Sure. >> Since you've been there, I've had that many. So, >> congratulations. That's takes a lot off our plate. >> Well, again, I I won't own that. I've got people like Lauren to to help carry the
044load and and like Ashley, Benny, and a slew of other staff that are they're just great to work with. And I'm fresh off a trip to Texas. I was invited to go down with some folks from high school guidance and administration to learn more about, you know, dual credit programming mainly for the high school, but um really about establishing that culture um at Loganport of you know thinking thinking about the future and being prepared for it and um and I'm thrilled uh to be able to be a part of the team. We're going to do good things. Thank you for being here. >> Thank you. >> You all next on the agenda, we have Mrs. H. Uh, she's got a little bit of time left here if she can squeeze in. >> Sorry, Chris. >>
045Oh, don't apologize. >> Talk to us about the strategic safety plan this evening. You may need help with that technology. >> You're fine. That's you. can do his magic for us here. >> Jason to feel needed back. >> While they're doing that, I'll just share with you as as Mr. Storm talked about what they're doing with math. For those of you who were on the board several years ago, it might sound extremely familiar to Algebra that works or algebra the LHS way. And so they took that and kind of remodified it to meet the needs of the junior high. So that program was extremely successful for us uh at the high school level, you know, until the state change the game, but that's beside the point. Uh so that that's going great. And then I
046would also say that um Dr. Deal and Mrs. McMahon and Mrs. Zamara go in is it monthly? >> They meet monthly as one of the PLC in one of the PLC's to help the teachers with ideas on how to differentiate. So from high ability to e to special services and it's gone they always come back like that was so much fun and so just another level of support for the teachers. >> Go Chris. >> All right we're up. Thank you everybody. You might enjoy this, Mr. Schwarz. >> I know. That's what we were talking about. It's perfect timing. >> Yeah. >> All right. We're going to talk about all things safety tonight. And we've done Oh, you've got to be kidding. >> After all that work, it's going really well so far. >> All uphill.
047>> Problem solve is what we do here. >> That's right. >> All right. Um, all things safety this year works. I am very excited to talk to you about what we have done this year. Here's a quick synopsis of some of the things we have been working on all year. Um, you can take a quick look at that and I'm going to talk about each of those. Um, focusing a lot on our Alice active shooter response training and I know many of you have been a part of that and kind of followed us along a little bit. Our message this year is safety is everyone's responsibility. And that's kind of what we're telling our um administration. They are telling their staff and we're telling kids that. And it started with um talking about Alice training.
048Um as you might have heard, ALS is an acronym for alert, lockdown, inform, counter, and evacuate. And we we as a district had looked into Alice training. I know Mr. Kennedy had done Alice training. Mr. Dubes had actually gone to do Alice training and it's a big training. It's a full two-day training. It's an actual train the trainer model. We were trying to figure out Michelle and I were talking last year, how do we send a lot of administrators to Alice training? Where is it in the country? And in talking about it and reaching out to our um company, Navigate 360, we decided to bring them here. We ended up with two trainers and we ended up training 32 not only administrators, but we trained all of our SRO's. We trained some deans. We trained
049two um athletic directors, Justin Herold and Mr. Strong. And we actually strategically picked out some people. For example, um Mr. Shannon was trained at Century Career Center. his background is in law enforcement. So, we picked out some strategic people. It was um an intense two days. I will tell you that Mrs. Starky was there. Um had to pick out a picture of of her. The first day was learning, just learning um about what Alice is, the background of Alice, why it was developed um about each component. We also collaborated um with small groups. We had to come up with demonstrations on how to talk about each specific topic. We had homework. We actually had homework and we had to go home and do a deep dive into one of the um acronyms and then we
050had to teach it to each other too. So the idea was we would have 32 folks that could train 600 staff and then 4,200 kids. A big undertaking. So you can see some fun. Mrs. Skagnolia, you're up there. I see Mr. Mo. Um so in discussion with our um administration and safety team, we had to really figure out how we're going to roll this out. and we knew we had professional development days built in to our calendar. Thank goodness. We decided we need to focus on safety. We really, really do. Um, so pulled an admin group together. I think it was the second week of school and just try to figure out what does this look like? H how do we logistically do this and do it the right way? Um, and it boiled down
051to we have SRO's on our staff. We have four four SRO's and we felt like our staff needed to hear from them. It's what they do. It's what they've trained for. Um so we got together came up with a presentation. All 600 people were sitting in male auditorium and listened to our SRO. It was about an hour and 40 minute presentation. Um and I think you could have heard a pin drop in there. Honestly, would you guys agree? Um, we got some great feedback um about the presentation. Um, our our SRO's were phenomenal and frankly I don't know that every staff was familiar with all of our SRO's. It was a great way to introduce the staff who's who's hanging out with with your kids >> at each school. So, that was that was great.
052Um, and it was recorded also. So, and I we had some people that were sick or weren't able to attend. Um but we did record it so that they could have it available. Um that afternoon we had some more plans. So first we had our Century Career Center um stepped up and said we want to we want to do scenarios. Um part of that two-day training was actually running through some scenarios in classrooms. Um, and there were about four different scenarios and we were the students, all 32 of us, we were the students going through short scenarios and I'm not going to go into detail about what those were. Um, it's just not appropriate for the setting right now, but I will tell you the magic happened between those scenarios. And that's when we processed
053our emotions and our feelings and what we could have done here, what we could have done there, what are we going to do different the next time. That's where the magic happens. So that afternoon um officer Ferris and Mike Shannon u Mr. Isles also was also there of course um and they trained we ran through the scenarios at Century Career Center. Um that was our original plan and then LHS stepped up after meeting um with their safety team and said we want to do it too. We want to do it as soon as possible. Absolutely. Let's do it. What do we got to lose? Now that's a bigger challenge at LHS. You're talking what, Michael, 110 staff members, but they figured it out. They did two different sessions, two different groups. Um Officer Fry came
054over to help. We had uh Travis, Officer Noly, um and some other trained folks, too. So, it was amazing. Um I watched both of those and listened and it was fantastic. So, I I was thrilled that we got the high school to do it that day, too. Here's another fun little picture of Mrs. Hagerty. Now, I will tell you, Mrs. Hagerty was not at the June training. So, we wanted her to participate and actually be a part of in the classroom during the series. Now, we were having a little fun there, of course. Nerf guns, by the way. >> Yeah, Nerf. Nerf gun. They don't hurt. But, you know, she was getting into the the uh scenarios. The other buildings though, the I know the elementaryaries, they spent some time planning together as well. What
055are you going to do in the um afternoon? Um because our teachers, this is a new topic for them. So, they went back to their buildings. Um one, they just talked about the presentation in the morning. We they had questions. you know, you're you're talking 5-year-olds to to 10 year olds in an elementary building, and I know L did the same thing, but they they learned about securing their own classroom doors. Obviously, they keep their doors locked. That is protocol. All doors stay locked. Um, but other ways to secure the door. They went into their own spaces at their own schools and looked around and tried to apply some of the things they learned from our SRO's. Um, they played dodgeball, and I'll tell you why. um because they were given specific rules. Um so
056obviously you picked out a few people that had the balls. You all know how to play dodgeball. Um but all the people that in the middle, they had to pick a spot and they couldn't move. They had to just stand there. And obviously what happens is they're they're going to be easy targets. Um the second round the the rule was you can run around but you can't throw the ball back. Okay. And then the last thing was they could catch the ball and throw it back. So they were just demonstrating movement and how movement helps in in um a violent critical incident, if you will. That's a term that we learned during our Ellis training. So um then we decided, okay, we have some other PD days built in. We need to do some more
057trainings. So this last week we had um Loganport Junior High School um the intermediate school and the academy also did the actual scenarios and again led by our SRO's um and they did a did a great job. We had some followup too and Mrs. Starky said um at her introduction on September 10th um and I'm going to quote you, this is not a oneandone. >> It it is not. and and I think most of our administrators out here can tell you they've had safety meetings. They've had staff meetings. Um SRO's have gone into classrooms and talked to students. Um it is statemandated that um all schools have an armed intruder drill um the first 90 days of school. Um so this is part of that as well, but we did a deeper dive with some
058of the tools that we have now. So here's some of the things we we ramped up. We did a safety week. Um and some of you came to our parent safety night. I appreciate that very much. Um we had a small group of very interested parents. Our SRO's did a presentation, a very shortened presentation. Then we also had Sheri Kripe come um from Purdue to talk about child and teen safety matters and it was great. We did not have Jason Miller. I should have taken that off. He was not able to come. Um and then that book at the bottom um all our elementary schools have that book. Um it's just a nice book geared toward elementary age children to talk about those um new protocols. All righty. Let's talk about reunification drills. Well, I
059will tell you, let me go back. Um the elementarymentaries will do those scenarios at our next PD day which is in February. So by February, we'll have all our staff trained. Also, our SRO's um are going to do a later in the day training. We have some staff that work second shift, some custodians. Our daycare ladies can't leave to do training because they have little toddlers and babies for our staff. So, our SRO's are going to do a training after hours for those folks, too. So, our SRO's are fabulous. Let's talk about reunification drills. that is actually part of um the topic we're talking about. In the event of a violent critical incident, um we have to have a way of for parents to reunite with their students. And you can see in 23 24
060Fairview Elementary participated in that. Um last year, Loganport Intermediate School participated and this year Loganport High School and Century Career Center are gearing up. Now, we've already had some meetings um with their designated spot. We don't put those out in public of where those spots are. So, if you would like to know, I can talk to you privately about that. Um big undertaking, but it's important that we now look at Century and the high school. Um another thing we did last year is um firmed up a lot of ourus with all of these various spots. And we actually changed four spots last year um that just were better and work better, more space um we had more access to them for our school. So I'm happy about that. We are all finished with that, aren't
061we, Tammy Bartlett? >> Yes, we >> and you guys know because they've come through you guys, too. >> Um last year we started an LHS student safety council. Um, I think you heard and I think Matt brought brought up connecting with kids several times and this is another part of safety. If kids feel connected, they feel safer at school and kids do need a voice and kids are part of safety. Like I said, every safety is everybody's responsibility. So, oh, it's fantastic. Last year I I met two times with the group and I also pulled in Casey Hopper, the educational liaison at the health department, an outside kind of person. They feel a little maybe more open and willing to share. Um it was fantastic. I thank the high school so much for allowing us
062to do that. And actually our first one this year is this coming Friday. Um I will tell you some of the topics we some of the things we asked them. First of all, um do you feel safe at school? why or why not? We probably were on that topic for 45 minutes. Um the group is a very diverse group is what we wanted. Um and they were very respectful of each other. Um was wonderful. Um what can be done to help students feel safer and be safer at school? What kinds of things do you see going on that adults don't see? That was very eye opening and I appreciated their cander and sharing some of that. Um so those kinds of topics. Um what suggestions do you have? Do you see bullying? I mean, all
063those things. And and when we first met, the idea was obviously hear their voice, but it was also what can we do to make it better for you. So, got some great feedback. Now, we we are going to start one also at Lo Logansport Junior High and the academy to hear those voices as well. Um, we um ramped up big time our ARS, our anonymous reporting system. Um it is now on every school's website on the black banner at the top. Um it's it's literally it says safety and it's a drop down so anybody can report something going on um out of school, in school, whatever that looks like. And those reports go directly to the school administrator. Um so we're happy about that. Now, we are part of a grant, a consortium of school
064corporations that Sheri Kra um from Purdue has written. Um she was hoping to submit that early fall but with changes of funding and government and federal funds. Um but it's a grant through Sandy Hook Promise Foundation and we are part of that. So she has submitted it. I just was it last week I believe last week I got word that it has been submitted. So now we wait if we get that grant then we our anonymous reporting system would be a an actual company that is monitored 247 which is fantastic. So a third party so we'll see what happens with that. Um I think Matt mentioned handle with care and Bry's got something she's going to pass out to you. We started a program last January called handle with care and it's it's simple. It's
065simple, but it's another way to connect with our kids and to be in tune with what's happening with them outside of school. And it came to us through the Department of Health, Indiana Department of Health. Um, and basically what it is is if a patrolman, policeman, first responder happens to be in a child's home after school hours, that's traumatic. and the child could be up all night. What whatever could be going on. If schools don't know about that and the child shows up the next day, there might be issues. The child might fall asleep in class. The child might be hungry. The child might be traum traumatized. Whatever that is. This allows LPD sheriff office also to report to us that there was a situation the night before. And literally that business card, they all
066have that business card. We created those. They all have that business card and it's a QR code. They put their phone up to it and a Google form comes up. Child's name, what school, send. It's that simple. It literally takes them 30 seconds to send. And all we get is Timmy Bartlett, Fairview Elementary, handle with care. That's all the messages are. No details. We don't need to know the details. We do need to know though something happened last night. So if that child needs to take a break somewhere, that child is hungry, that child needs an whatever that is, that's the premise of the program. So we started that. Um Travis Yik was the police chief last year. Um and the the police were were trained, had some training. Um we have a new police
067chief, but he is well aware of that as well. So, we are hoping it takes off a little bit more. It's kind of had a slow start um for whatever reason, but it's an important piece of how we connect with kids, too. So, um just a little bit more about safety at L at LCSC. Um we are re revising our building walkthroughs. Our fire marshal last year was here and you probably heard all about that. um he did a lot of work for us and um we made some changes. So by doing our building walkthroughs and our checklist, we can ensure that that we don't get behind years and and situations. So we're going to start that back up. Um Mr. Dubes is chairing our our county school safety commission this year. Um, we've met
068once and that's for all the county schools and EMA and police and um, we've added dispatch. We've added a state policeman. We've added the fire chief also to that group. Also, typically over the years, and Mr. Schwarzel knows this, we've had those meetings right here in this room for many, many, many, many years. This year, we are going to take the show on the road. We had one here. Next time we'll go to another school, then we'll have it at a different school and a different school. Why? Because let's see what they're doing with safety. Let's hear about their corporations. So, we're excited about that. We also added one more meeting, a summer meeting to plan for the for the future. Um, we are going to ramp up our LCSC safety page on our website.
069That is a work in progress. Um, you may know this, the Department of Ed no longer has the Office of School Safety. The governor has pulled that out now. It is a separate office, but I think it's going to be good. I've seen some really good things come out of it. Um, Julie Smith is the director. They're doing regional trainings. We have applied and um put in a request to be a host site for a regional training. I don't know if that will happen or not, but you may or may not know this too. All our buildings have at least one certified school safety specialist. Um, but every year you have to renew that with hours of training. So, we're hoping that we can um bring some training here. Um I have joined um something
070called National Council of School Safety Directors. Um this has been so interesting. These are folks that do what I do all over the country. So, there are monthly roundtables and um webinars and all kinds of good stuff. But it's good to learn from other other states, other schools, and it's been really interesting. And then last, our school safety grant did go up this year. Not to the level that we had hoped when we apply, but it is up from last year. And you can see the amount there. So, lots going on with school safety, guys. And that is it. Any questions? >> Good work. >> All right. On behalf of our scouts, let me just try to give you guys a little nutshell of what goes on these meetings. We have a presentation like this
071every month. And so each month, each school, each school will come in in a different month and present something about their school and overall thing about the school, special programs they're doing, things they're doing to help things. And so that's what you got to see in the first part there. Mrs. Hess had the safety presentation kind of overall presentation. those happened also about things that happened in our school. I think the thing that I want you to understand is and you I think you got a feeling from it here is um how many of I I call it the heart of a teacher, but how many people that you run into that are teachers or principles or uh cafeteria workers or whatever it is that actually care about you guys. You'll see behind us here
072there's a bunch of things about mission statements and what we're all about and that kind of stuff. In general, it's about the fact that we all want you to succeed. All of us here, the schoolboard members, we have been voted on by the community. So, we are here to represent your parents and community members to make sure that you get try to get you a good education. And you know, the goal that that you'll find out is not we don't want you to succeed in our school, we want you to also go succeed in life. So something that they they kind of brushed on a couple times in the presentation that I think is really important is to understand that if you ever have issues, there are teachers that would like to help you. You
073know, it's something you think, ah, nobody likes me, nobody cares for me, that kind of stuff. But there really are you you see some of these presentations, the work that they go through to try to help every kid in our school corporation to succeed. Some kids can't speak English. We have all kind of challenges that we have that are there, but they all I mean it just to me in my time on this board, it it always sets me back to just see the love and care that these people have, which you may not see in the classroom all the time, but but they really do prepare and try to make your life better and to make each one succeed. So, never be silent if you, you know, if if there's things that you are
074concerned about or you have problems at home or whatever it might be or friends and what have you. um you know, don't be afraid to contact somebody, uh reach out to somebody. Okay. All right. Moving on now to action items. This is where we're going to do consideration of recommendations to approve policy changes and updates. And since as we as we have done so far in the past, since this is being uh streamed, I'm not going to read the policy numbers because it doesn't mean anything to anybody. All these these are changes that are happening to policies, things that are recommended to us that should be changed uh to make things better and change you know things that they see across the country that all of a sudden they that that schools have run into
075a situation then they recommend recommend things for the schools across the country. So instead I'm going to write read the the kind of description of what the the the type is and what you're not going to tell what's being changed. These are all available in our office. So if you if anybody that's watching out there wants to know more about what the changes are, you can you're more than welcome to come in and get a copy of that. Uh okay. So the the the policy changes are going to be in internal control standards and procedures, time and effort reporting, bad checks and uncollectible debts, budget hearings, disposition of real property, disposition of surplus property, safety standards, video surveillance, electronic monitoring, accounting systems for capital assets, volunteers, personnel background checks with contracted services, student records, school
076safety information, environmental health and safety, issues, parasitic infections such as headlights and bed bugs. Uh food service programs or some replacement and changes and voiding of some of those policies. Uh wellness programs, vending machines, some recisions to some of that uh language, transportation for field and other corporation sponsored trips, uh school visitors and public attendance and school events. We I need a motion now to accept all the changes as they were presented in your packets. >> I'll make a motion. >> Got a motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> All right. Any further discussion or questions? All right. All those in favor signify by sign of I. >> I. All those opposed, same sign. The motion passes. Next, we have a resolution authorizing participation in the 2026 Indiana Bond Bank Motor Fuel Program. Mr.
077Correct. Do you have any more? >> Yeah. In your package, you simply have a document that's been proofed by attorney Rosie. And then it's a program that we've participated in since, I believe, 2018. Again, it just helps us kind of protect our budget as it relates to fuel costs for transportation and and other equipment that requires fuel. So, this be effective for calendar year 2026. Any questions, comments? be more comfortable if Mr. Hillis would review it. >> Didn't trust >> I don't do that. >> All right. Do I have a motion to accept? So move. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> Any further questions or discussion? Right. All those in favor signify by sign of I. >> I. All those opposed, same sign. The motion passes. Now we'll move into department comments starting
078out with Mr. Cre and the business report. >> Yeah, just three brief items for your benefit. Uh to uh Wednesday, Wednesday of this week uh our bonds will sell for projects we have for 2026. Uh following those results, we'll share some information about midday on Wednesday this week. Uh, additionally, uh, we've got held, we held today a pre- bid meeting in this room and then on site at the career center in anticipation of that project, uh, which again is scheduled for summer of 2026 at the career center. We had eight uh, different contractors show up today, which is always a nice sign when it comes to competitive bidding. So, we're looking forward to that and whatnot. Item number three, uh we're just diligently working with our crow partners or our our audit group uh that
079uh comes come excuse me comes in every other year and uh does a nice deep dive into our book work and just all of our programs. So we'll work with those folks as we do every other year and then uh we look to wrap that process up towards the end of December. >> Outside of questions, that's my updates for tonight. Any questions or comments? Thank you very much. Moving on to the technology report. Mr. Fall, >> our security project that we did at the high school and all the bus cameras is coming to an end. So, kind of happy about that, but we're applying for additional grants to continue that. But that project is near completion. And then we've got three other projects that we're going to be working on the next couple months. We
080have some power supplies for our IT closets that'll be replaced. Our servers are coming up for a refresh over the next couple months and then our phone system is also going to get refreshed. Okay, that's all questions, comments. Thank you very much. Okay, next is the curriculum report with Mrs. Rosie and Dr. Deal. >> Um, so last week we had our professional development day on Wednesday, November 5th. Um, one of the things that we focused on the elementary, um, a big initiative this year is working with Dr. Linda Kvasos, and I've talked about her before. Um, she, her specialty is science of reading for English language learners. So, she came in last Wednesday, um, met with elementary and two of the key takeaways are that, um, we need to be teaching more explicitly, and she
081also gave us a lot of different oral language strategies to use with our students. So, what I mean when I say teaching explicitly is um you're basically you're telling students what they need to know. So, you're taking your reading curriculum or whatever it is um explaining to students what they need to know. You're not asking them questions right off the cuff because they don't know and those are just sort of time wasters for most of our students. So, um talked about reading or teaching explicitly. She used our reading curriculum as a as an example to show us how to do that, but also show us how to implement those oral language strategies. So, that's always helpful when trainers come in and they use our curriculum. Um, so then next steps, she will continue working with
082us um over the school year. And um one of the nice things is we're not paying for her to come work with us. She's actually um paid through the Department of Education and she's working with a lot of different districts in Indiana on the same initiative. Um and so our next steps um Mrs. McMahon and Mrs. Jackson who's our EL coach um they are going to start working with um myself um administrators, teachers, our instructional coaches, and we're going to create um short videos that actually demonstrate how to implement these strategies that we're learning from Dr. Kvasos. So, this will be something um that's ongoing. And the great thing is these are not just things that work for our English language learners. It works for all students. So, it's been a really good initiative so
083far and we're going to continue continue on with it. >> Great. >> Along the lines of professional development and I know that Matt and Lauren touched on this and thank you for a fantastic presentation that was they're a dynamic duo. Um we have been working with Dr. Jenny French who is our literacy consultant and she spent a lot of time at the academy and the junior high specifically looking at how we can break down text in any sort of subject how we can approach vocabulary so that it sticks and then also she previewed essentially John Hadtie's work which is a metaanalysis of 81,000 studies and it shows the growth that you can get by doing certain teaching practices and just getting teachers to start thinking about if we're doing practices that only show a little
084bit of growth, why aren't we doing something that can move kids two, three, four years? And so that was a good conversation with both buildings. Um, with the high school um, and the academy, they have their Veterans Day programs tomorrow. Also at the high school starting next Friday is Legally Blonde, the musical, and you guys can start getting your tickets. The LHS spellbowl recently competed and won first um at the Maran Spellbowl competition. And then the Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association recognized a lot of berries recently. Specifically, Rody Patel, Eric Garcia, and Belinda Cherry who are students. They received the exceptional global citizenship award. Um Mrs. Sylvia Haywood from the academy and their diversity club won a world language group award and then Mr. Sailor and the culinary club from the Century Career Center won
085a cultural group award. So, lot of representation there. Um, and then in addition, let's see, we have five academy teachers and two junior high teachers going to Winchester for a PEK visit this Wednesday just so that they can see how their PEK, PCAP, whichever one you want to call it, program is going so that um, we can continue to grow ours. That's it. >> Questions, comments? Thank you very much. Moving on to comments. We have the superintendent's comments. Mrs. Tarky. >> Yeah. Well, today uh midterm grades for the second nine weeks were due today at 3:00, which is hard to believe. And on the same day, we planned summer school for 2026. So, um, wild and crazy, right? Um, I would also like to say, uh, I was fortunate enough to get to go last
086week with the early college group from, uh, the high school. So, it was and Mr. Storm. It was um Mr. Miller, Mr. Storm, uh Mrs. Olri or Mrs. Mrs. Combmes, I still want to say Carol from guidance. Uh Mrs. Hagerty >> and Mrs. Lundy and myself um to the early college vis visit in Macallen, Texas, which is where it all originated from um for us. Uh it's where the Achieve Center was birthed, if you will, um with Abby and and so um it was amazing to for me to go. It's the first time I'd ever been. Um for some of our folks, I believe this was the third trip, but um you know, their school district has 46,000 students. Uh and it's but it's right there in Macallen, Texas, which is right on the border.
08791% 91% poverty. um just a collegegoing culture uh which was it it's it's always great to like go see what other people are doing and to hear what they're doing but then yet again to go like to validate the things that we are doing and I will tell you the very first day was um a school tour. First of all, their school buses were amazing. I sent them to Greg and all I got back was a picture of an empty wallet. Yeah, they were amazing. But anyway, that's beside the point, right? Beside the point. It was great. >> But I'll tell you what was the absolute best part was when we finished that day and we all went back and changed our clothes and we went and sat outside um by the pool, but sat
088outside. We were probably out there for three, three and a half hours before we're all like, "Hey, I'm getting kind of hungry. Should we go eat?" just having conversation about what we saw, what we can do differently, what it could look like differently at Lesport High School, at the junior high. And then even like Aby's like, I'm going back and I'm putting together a page about what we can do K to2 and just just that conversation was was absolutely phenomenal. And it happened again the second day after we left the conference. So, um it was just really like reinvigorating. Um and I'm I was thankful that I that that they allowed me to go with them. Um, but it it it was just great uh information for us to get, but the planning and the
089teamwork that happened I think was um it was just a feel-good. So, uh lots of good things coming our way uh for our students for sure. So, um then I would just like to say uh welcome to Mr. Schwartzel back there. You just come to hang out and check out what's happening in Logport as he's running for sheriff. Yes, >> that's all I have. >> Any questions or comments for Mrs. Starky? >> All right. Thank you very much. This is the public comments time again. This is the scouts chance to uh ask a question or make a comment or complain about the schools or two. >> I I have a >> go. I don't know if I want to do that. It's like I said my >> on video. It's how they can put you
090on video. >> I have a question about um more about like uh discipline for uh you know tardies and stuff because some of my friends have been tardy to their classes and they got OSS for that. I believe if you guys want kids to be like successful in all these things, taking them out of school and I asked him what he did. He said he didn't do anything. And I mean I mean >> you know what I think maybe you should do is more have stuff like in school suspension and try and keep kids away from or not no keep kids inside of school and keep them here because I feel like that's way more important. That's it. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Good job. >> And never be afraid to to make those
091suggestions and stuff that you know, you've got a whole room of principles here. So, they've they've heard the message and they'll take that back and take it over. Anybody else? the bathroom. >> She's just used to doing it all. He's really in tune with a question. >> Um I wanted to ask why was it that the cafeteria was remodeled at the junior high school? Um I wasn't sure exactly cuz um uh I I I didn't know that there was a problem with it or anything. So, I can speak to that for sure. So, part of um us wanting to be able to get away from having uh four lunch shifts at the junior high and having three lunch shifts was a space issue. And that was originally part of a study done prior to us
092building the new intermediate school. Um and we had planned to do it at that time as part of one big project, but we weren't sure uh financially if we would be able to afford it and wanted to get through the building of the new school. And so that's when um that's why it's just happening now. It should have happened a couple years ago, but but we couldn't do it then. We wanted to be more sure about the cost um because the having we had we had architects study like how can we do this? What can we talk what can we do? Talked about moving it. Could we build out into the um open space outside? Well, it's a lot more it's a lot more cost-effective to do things under one roof. And so that's why
093with the size of the library or media center there um we felt like that was our best bet to take a little bit of that space to um to enlarge the cafeteria. So that was the major emphasis behind that. And then just uh the change inside giving it a facelift. It was a much needed facelift. We feel really bad about kids going from the intermediate school with this nice new looking cafeteria. They would come to the junior high, which was the same cafeteria, not quite when I was there a hundred years ago, but not too far removed from it, and then go on to Loganport High School, and it it's a nicer cafeteria. So, that that's the reason behind that. >> Good question. >> Anybody else? >> I was wondering, I know it's a new
094rule, but why do we have to keep our phones in our lockers? Well, that's that happened under state legislation two three years ago. >> So, um and I will tell you the amount the the decrease in discipline that we have had since phones have been kept in backpacks in lockers has been great. A a huge decrease. And really um I I'll go back to the very first year that we did it. Uh I was at the high school. They were having a grade level team meeting or a grade level meeting for all students. Every single student in there was engaged and listening and watching what was going on on the stage because they didn't have this in their hand. >> So there there life can be good without a cell phone. >> Thanks for asking.
095>> I'm not sure convinced you. >> Anybody else? All right, >> questions. >> Anybody else? No. Okay, we'll move on to board members comments. Uh, Mrs. Bird. >> All right. Well, thank you, Mr. Storm, and your team. Um, I enjoyed, uh, learning about your instructional triangle. I think that was really great. Um, and, uh, junior kids are junior high kids are hard. So, I appreciate, uh, all your efforts. I really do. And Chris, I enjoyed your presentation. and I attended the um community um presentation and it was very interesting. I I learned a lot. So great efforts >> this is >> um also thank you junior high really really enjoyed the presentation. Um Chris I wanted to say I watched the video of the and um you have that available I I think it' be
096worthwhile for some of the staff to go back and watch it again after they've gone through some of the trainings to to really you know emphasize what >> it's in the very brief actually. Yeah, it was it was really really and I was so impressed with the SRO. That was it. >> Amazing. >> And then finally, thank you to the Boy Scouts. Appreciate you having here >> and your questions. >> Mr. Hess, um, two great presentations tonight. I won't tell you which one I like better. >> It's okay, Melanie. >> I'll let you guess. But um and I won't say that they were really too detailed, but it was daylight when they started and pretty much pitch dark now. But uh anyway, thank you for those. Um thank Mr. Hillis for stepping back into the
097Boy, what a fine job you did tonight, Mr. Ellis. You haven't you haven't lost a thing. I mean, you know, just riding like riding a bike, it all came back to you pretty quickly. So, um, and then seriously, I do want to thank, um, our veterans. I didn't I wasn't in the armed forces. I I did not serve in the armed forces. So, I'm especially thankful for those who are and those who have. So, happy Veterans Day. You can know that we appreciate what you're doing. Thank you, Mr. Cappy. Uh, Mrs. Hash doing a great job. I've heard a lot of good things about that presentation. My wife works in the medical emergency world and she said it was phenomenal. Um, you just can't put a Yeah. So, thank you for that. Before this meeting,
098we had a 2hour goal meeting with Mrs. Star. Um, just so you all know, she has them, too. Uh we have kind of embarrassed to say that we have 22 goals for her and um rest assured uh she's has your back. She's working hard for the staff and students. So thank you Mrs. Starky and sorry for >> they all know I like paper. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh again thanks to the scouts here. I might mention that uh I know by being a scout that often times you get drawn into community stuff which means you kind of have a caring heart which means you might be a perfect teacher. Um we have a program with IUK which is a partnership program and kids that go there uh can come back here and student teach and
099I think there's even some some stipens in there too I think. So if you if you uh continue want to serve your community and serve Loganport, uh consider that.