Twinsburg Board of Education Meeting - March 19, 2025

001at 6:30m. Um, my Siri is enjoying this. I'd like to call the um, meeting order at 6:31 p.m. Miss Rosia, can you please call the role? Mrs. Egan, yes. Mrs. Hamilton, yes. Mrs. Travis, yes. Mrs. Davis, here. Mrs. Crawford, here. If you're able um, to stand, um, can you 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. Thank you. Um, we do have to add addendum items to our agenda tonight. Um we have item H, the treasures report and recommendations. Um resolution H2, um tax compliant. And then we also have items J, action item, new business for the 2024 2025 individual severance plans. Um so do

002I have a motion to accept? So moved. A second. Second by Miss. Okay. So, first by Miss Eaggan, second by Mrs. Hamilton. Miss Rosiah, can you please call? Mrs. Egan? Yes. Mrs. Hamilton? Yes. Mrs. Travis? Yes. Mrs. Davis? Yes. Mrs. Crawford? Yes. All right. So, that motion passes 5-0. Good evening, um, family and community. Um, welcome tonight. I will apologize in advance because my report is not with me. So everything I was going to say, I don't have it memorized. So I'll just keep it short cuz we have a big a lot of families. But last night I was able to attend the um winter sports banquet which was recognizing um the winter sports of our girl and boys basketball teams, our girl and boys um bowling teams, our girl and boys swimming and diving.

003also wrest um wrestling as well as hockey and cheerleading and um gymnastics. So um it was a great event. Uh they did recognize individuals um who were honored by other coaches through the suburban league as well as they um recognized like our basketball team for the division champions, our bowling team as well as um I think it was one more team but I can't think of it. Um, one thing I'm proud about our with our district is we had 116 students who were recognized for um um for being getting a 3.5 or higher GPA. Um, and yes, I my son was one of those um who was included in that. So, I'm proud of him. Um, Cameron at the high school. So, um, that says a lot. um not only are our students, you know,

004excelling well in their um programs, but they're also excelling in the classrooms. So, to have um over a hundred students recognized last night um as our um scholar athletes, I'm so proud of what we're doing with our district. So, congratulations to all those students who was recognized last night. Also, um I did want to make everybody aware with our um new education um it's I want to change the new name educational um opportunities um committee. Uh today uh this week we have been recognizing um kindness and um kind of sponsoring um we're raising money for the special Olympics that is happening. Um, so this week, uh, they've been wearing different colors to at the different buildings, whether it's red, today was red day, I think the other day was blue day, tomorrow is rock your

005hat, and also, um, your college day, college day. So, you can do that. And then on Friday, um, if you are willing to donate, um, you can send in money, uh, that will go towards the Special Olympics and you can rock your Special socks, um, and wear your rainbow colors. So, please um spread the word for that. And that will end my president's report as of right now. Thank you, Mrs. CRA. Good evening, board. Good evening, everybody. It is great to see so many folks here tonight. Thanks for coming. Um, beautiful day today and uh I hope it sticks around. Um, we'll see though, right? It is Ohio and you blink your eye and something else happens. But anyhow, welcome to everybody who's joining us this evening. We have wonderful students to celebrate from RB

006Chamberlain Middle School and from Samuel Bissell Elementary School tonight. Uh before we get to that, just a few announcements. It is time to register our class of 2038. So 2038 would be our incoming kindergarten children. So if you are a parent of an incoming kindergarten child, our class of 2038, I laugh because 2025 can hardly wait to get out the doors and here comes 2038, right? But um if you are a parent of a young one um and it's time to register them for kindergarten, we invite you to please go on the district website under Willox Primary School, there's a lot of information about registering uh for preschool. And on June 2nd and 3rd at Willcox pre uh pre uh primary school, there's actually going to be kindergarten registration and screening that day. You have

007to be registered in our system in order to select an appointment. So if you could please do that. the earlier you get your um information in for your child, the better it is for the school district that we then can prepare for enough teachers and class supplies, all those kinds of things. Um if you currently have a preschool child in our school district, you do not need to register them for kindergarten. They're already registered as a student here in our school district and they will be um conducting kindergarten screening during the month of May for our preschool children. So, this is only for students who would be new to our school district next year, incoming kindergarten children. Uh, please families if you can begin the registration process now. It really does help us out. Um,

008and as always, if you have any questions, please feel free to call Willox Primary School. The staff there is amazing and they will answer all of your questions. Uh, board of education, this evening we will present strategic plan update for quarter three in the areas of culture, climate, and facilities. And as you know, board, uh, we were supposed to also, um, talk a little bit about finances. We're going to push that to the next, uh, meeting and, uh, we'll just have a little bit a longer of a report, um, on April 2nd. Um, also a reminder to our families from Willox, Bissell, and Dodge. A week or so ago, I sent a parent square um, invitation to you uh, to see if you wanted to go with us in April to see Brexville Broadview Heights

009Elementary School. And the reason for that is that building Brexville Broadbe Heights Elementary School is built in the same kind of idea as our proposed uh preschool through grade six school. So if you want to see what it looks like on the inside, uh this is a great opportunity for you to join us. So we have dates on April 3rd, 10th, and 17th. We ask that you please RSVP through the parent square that I sent you so that we can communicate back to um Superintendent Jeff Harrison and his staff. Just this past Monday, members of our teaching staff went over and saw the inside of the building and uh they came back very excited and have lots of ideas for the new school here, too. So, if you're interested, want to come with us, uh

010we'd love to have you join us. And that is April 3rd, 10th or 17th and look for that parent square and please RSVP so I can communicate to our friends in Brexville how many guests to expect um that one of those nights. Um also, board of education, I want to thank um our parents and our students and staff members and business advisory council. Today has been a busy day. We have our focus groups going on with respect to our strategic plan. And so today and tomorrow uh many of our families um raised their hand and said they'd love to give some advice, opinions, feedback about the school district, about our plan, and about planning for the future. So if you have been in one of the groups, thank you very much. Uh the work continues

011tomorrow and then uh we'll have a report out to the board as to the findings of all of these focus groups. Pretty excited about that. Also, tomorrow night, um, we begin the circuit interviews for our RBC, uh, principal. Mr. Reese is retiring this year. And so, we have been busily, um, screening candidates. Tomorrow is a big night because tomorrow is the evening of the circuit interviews. And, um, and then what we do thereafter is our top candidate, whoever, uh, is um, selected as the top candidate, we actually go to that person's current school district and we ask questions about that person. how are they as you know communicators, how are they as instructional leaders, all of those things because we want to make sure about um the answers that they give and is it really

012how they are. So it's a pretty longstanding process is the tradition that we have when we hire building principles and it's been very very beneficial to us. So that is going on this week as well. It's a little busy around here I guess. Um also a reminder that spring break is next week. I'm sure I don't have to remind you I don't have to remind the kids. Uh they've been telling me at the high school all week, this is it for a week. Um and our school will resume on Tuesday, April 1st. And we want to wish all of our Tigers who are observing Ramadan and Eidal Fetur many blessings. This is a very special time of the year for families of that faith and uh uh we hope that this is a a special

013time for you and your family. So now it's time to turn our attention to celebrate awesome kids and I want to invite Mrs. Johnson who is here to come forward and to brag a little bit about her Bissell Tigers. Good evening, Mrs. Johnson. And I need to get your microphone for you. Doesn't matter. Oh, this is awesome. Good evening everyone. Oh, that is so elementary, isn't it? Thank you all for being here this evening. I just want to say um good evening to our board members and to Superintendent Powers. And we're so excited to be I'm so excited to be here so that I can uh recognize the wonderful job that our students are doing at Samuel Bissell Elementary School. As second and third graders, they come in every single day ready when they come

014in off the bus in the morning. They're so excited. Some of them are still sleepy, but they're pretty excited about coming in. And it's just so awesome to see their faces each morning. So, um, I get a joy out of greeting them in in the morning when they get off the bus. But today is a special day to recognize some of our students who have really really done a great job and their teachers have recognized them for doing so. So, students, when I call your name, I'm going to read a little bit about you. You're going to walk up and receive your certificate from Mrs. Powers. You're then going to stand in the front um of the u stage here and uh we'll let our parents get pictures of you. Uh when I do second

015and third grade, I would like the teachers to come up and help. So come on teachers, you can find your a space up here on the stage and then we'll begin. Thank you. And as Mrs. Crawford said, it's red today. So we are representing red today. So the students of the month program at Samuel Bistol elementary school recognizes outstanding student achievement at the second and third grade levels. The focus of this recognition program is on citizenship, academics, social volunteerism, and other accomplishments that this sets the student apart from their peers. I'm going to start first with Alonzo Allen. Please come to the front, Alonzo. And this is written by his teacher, Miss Jolly. And it says that he is a uh pleasure to have in class. He is extremely bright, hardworking, well-mannered. She says that

016he has such a fun personality and she he brings brightness to the classroom. So congratulations to Alfonso. Vivian Bakwitch. [Applause] And Vivian uh was recognized by her teacher, Mrs. Gres, and and she says, "Vivian has a positive attitude towards learning. She is a great role model. She is very dedicated to her academics, and she uses grit every day. And at our school, grit stands for we give it our all, respond with a positive attitude, we're independent thinkers, and we get totally engaged in everything we do. So, great job, Vivian. Congratulations. Abigail Copen from Mrs. Bucknell. Abigail, Abigail is a sweet girl and she loves to help anyone in need. She is a fantastic student and absolutely loves to share her thinking with the class. She is creative. She loves to read and write and she

017takes great pride in her work. [Applause] Congratulations. Navad Dong from Mrs. Robel's class. And it says she's very hardworking. She always aims to please. She puts forth a lot of effort and she takes pride in a job well done. She is very responsible and she wants to achieve success. She tries hard every day and she says she appreciates her dedication. Great job. Congratulations. Natalie Jordan from Mrs. Fringer's class. Natalie. Well, I'll read a little bit about Natalie and it says that she has a positive attitude towards school. Uh she goes she puts forth extra effort every day and she's an she has outstanding behavior. She always comes right into the school and she gets busy immediately. Great job. [Applause] Now Madison Montue from Mrs. Springer's class. And again Madison is from Mrs. Springer's class and

018is nominated for his positive attitude towards his school work, for his extra effort that he puts forth each day, and for his outstanding behavior. It says that he comes right into the school, he gets busy immediately, and he completes all of his work with his best effort. [Applause] Congratulations, Skyler Rosel. Skyler here. This is from Miss Conrad. And Miss Conrad says that Skyler is always pleasant and sincere. She is a wonderful friend and she tries hard. Her favorite thing about school is math. Wow, that's pretty awesome. And her favorite color is blue. Her favorite show is Stitch. And it says that her favorite place to be is at home. So, congratulations to Skyler. Keep up the good work. And this is all of our second grade students right here. So, we'll give our parents a

019chance to take pictures of our second graders before we call our third graders. You come up if you want. Smile, boys and girls. Cheese. Think about that pizza you'll be eating tomorrow. I love you. Thank you. All right. [Applause] And now for our third graders, we'll start with Jordan Adams from the Sis Laquas [Applause] class. Jordan has made many friends with her outgoing personality. She loves to learn at school and she's an avid reader. She, it says, Jordan is never without a book. She especially loves music class, learning new songs on her recorder, and we're so excited because they have a concert tomorrow night. So, we're excited about that. And also becoming a creative dancer. So, congratulations to Jordan. Good job, Laniah Bates from Mr. Delaruso's class. [Applause] All right. And it says that she

020has great character. She enters the classroom each and every day with a positive attitude. She is kindhearted. She's a hard worker. And she's a very intelligent young lady. [Applause] Congratulations, Alyssa. Alisa, I'm sorry, Alisa Chapina. and she is from Mrs. Roer's class. And Mrs. Roder writes, "She's a hard worker who enjoys daily challenges. She is helpful to her classmates and she cares about others. She's responsible and she really works hard to accomplish her goals. Congratulations, Paisley Kosha from Mrs. Laquatch's class. [Applause] Paisley is a responsible, kind, motivated, and friendly student. She's an excellent role model to role model for her peers. She loves to learn at school and especially likes being creative in music and in art class. Congratulations, Ezra Etn Thompson from Mr. D's class. He is one of those students that is liked

021and respected by all of his peers. He is an easygoing leader that is always leading by example. He always strives for his personal best and he it shows in the high quality of his work. Congratulations, Kaylee in Ingram from Miss Markham's class. Is Kaylee here? Little bit about Kaylee. She comes in each day with a positive attitude and ready to learn. She's very dedicated to her academics and she always shows her grit each and every day. Congratulations to Kaylee. Lily Jones from Miss Valinsk's [Applause] class and it says that she shows exemplary behavior and works very hard every single day in the classroom. She's always participating in the class discussions. She works well with all of her classmates and she is always trying all the new challenges. All right, keep going. [Applause] Bio Malawa is

022biome here and it says and this is from Mrs. Dorland. He comes to school every day ready to learn. He thrives on taking on challenges and he learns new things all the time. He's very dedicated to his academics and he puts forth tremendous effort. Congratulations [Applause] Luke Matias. And this was written by Miss Falinski. And it says that he shows exemplary behavior and he works very hard every single day in the classroom. It says he's very empathetic and that he is a team player. He works very well with everyone in and out of the classroom. Congratulations to Luke. [Applause] Carnor Sandu from Mrs. English's class. It says he is very respectful and responsible and he deserves to be recognized for outstanding behavior in the classroom. He is very attentive and he has a positive attitude

023towards learning. He is he actively participates each and every day and is always willing to help out. Congratulations, Theo Weber from Mrs. Laquatra's [Applause] class. And it says, "Tho is an amazing student. He is an excellent role model for his peers. He set good examples of uh character." It says Theo is a Cub Scout member in Twinsburg. Awesome. He has learned valuable survival skills and has made his own car for the Pinewood Derby. That's exciting. It says that Theo is creative and he builds Lego sets in his free time that that are at least 1,000 pieces or more. Congratulations to Theo. And at this time, um, this concludes our second and third graders. So parents, if you would like to come up and take pictures, please do so. Sorry. Good evening parents. I just wanted

024to congratulate Samuel Bissell Elementary School for being recognized for the 2023 2024 Silver Award by the Ohio PPS network and the state support team for implementation of the schoolwide positive behavior interventions and supports. So, congratul [Applause] If any of our second graders are still here and would like a picture, we'd like the second and third graders to come up because this is an important moment for BIS. And board of education, if you'd like to also be a teacher. [Applause] [Music] It's funny. [Music] like he's like way too hilarious like his dream. I was like he does Feel Huh? [Music] Good evening everyone. It's my honor to be here to recognize our RBC students of the month. And I was here last month and I gave an update on our power of the pen team that

025had won districts. Uh seventh and eighth grade had won districts. They went on to regionals and they had first place. Eighth grade came in first place. Seventh grade came in third place. And then they have a combined super team and we are number we were number one in regionals at Kent State as the combined super [Applause] team. So uh we had so that was districts at Ashlin and then regionals at Kent and now we actually was at Ashlin Middle School. Now the the state championships are at Ashlin College and we'll be headed down there for the state with 12 writers. So that's a record for us and we've never won state. Uh so we're we're very very excited about um our power of the pen team. So that's my my highlight over the last couple

026of weeks. All right, let's start with our students here. Uh our seventh grade students of the month. And uh students, when I call your name, if you didn't see how they do it at Bissell, you'll come up and get your certificate from Mrs. Powers and you'll get a pin from Mrs. Davis. And then just line up down at the end and we'll line up all the way across. Seventh and eighth graders. And our first seventh grader is Ailen Sadi. Ailen takes interest and pride in her work and consistently strives to do her best. Her positive attitude is contagious and she helps her classmates whenever needed. Aiden. William Peters. William is always willing to help anyone, student or adult. As a matter of fact, as I was walking in, William held the door for me, so

027I know that to be true. William is also timely in completing his work. His positive attitude and smile light up a room. William Scarlet Arasmouth. Scarlet is a diligent student who gives 110% in everything she does. She is always kind to others and willing to lend a helping hand. Her ability to persevere through academic challenges is an inspiration to others. Scarlet [Applause] Lane [Applause] Winnlay is a shining example of hardworking, motivated student. His intelligence shows through each and each of his academic endeavors. He comes to school daily ready for a challenge and eager to help his peers. [Applause] Lane, right? You can stay up there and we'll uh start with our eighth graders. Now, first we have Abigail [Applause] Shields. Abby is respectful, responsible, and eagle eager to learn. She actively participates in class, completes

028all her assignments on time, and often ask thoughtful questions. Abigail Neve [Applause] Modi. Neve is an exceptional and high achieving student who sets a strong example for others. Whether working independently or with his peers, Neve shows perseverance and takes pride in his work. [Applause] Neve May Zack. I didn't think May was going to be able to make it, but I'm going to read about May. May's natural ability and willingness to learn is inspiring and sets a positive tone in class and amongst her peers. May. And last, we have Lucas Bradic. [Applause] Lucas is an exceptional student who treats others with respect, is very helpful in class, and is a very bright student. Lucas has so much potential ahead of him and a great future in the making. Lucas and those are our RBC students of

029the month. So, if you want to take a picture, they're all going to stay there for a couple couple or a minute or so. Uh, so we can get a nice picture. Um, and for the sixth time in a row, we are proud to announce that RBC Chamberlain Middle School has received the 2324 Gold Award for PBS. So, congratulations. [Applause] I get the whole Thank you. All right. Mrs. Crawford, that completes my report for tonight. Thank you. You're welcome. Any committee reports? The families want to leave. Oh, if you if any family does not want to stay for a regular meeting, please feel free to leave. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good night. Thanks for coming. If you want to stay, feel free to. But extra credit for um we're gonna record next Oh,

030yeah. Sure. It'll be after the reports. All right. I will turn it over to you. There's no commodity report. So, great. Turn it right back over. Thank you. Um, Mrs. Crawford and Board of Education, this evening we are doing a um strategic plan update for quarter three and we're very excited tonight because as you can see by all of the students here, they have a big part of our presentation. and a lot of great things have been going on in our schools and tonight's a little time for us to brag a little bit about all that. So without further ado, I would like to ask Mr. Bandiiera who oversees our culture and climate part of the district strategic plan to come forward and introduce what is happening here tonight. Good evening, Mr. Bandera. Good evening,

031Mrs. Powers. Good evening, board. Um, thank you for the opportunity always to present to you. We're very excited with a large group of people here this evening um to share about our culture and climate. Um, as you know, our culture and climate goal, um, focuses really on our MTSS, our multi-tered systems of support, um, that we're doing at the Twinsburg City School District. Um, where we're working on making sure all of our students feel represented, as we have a lot of representatives here, and respected um, in all of our in all of our programs. Um, so to do that tonight, we're going to have three different um, presentations tonight. Our first one is talk about some multicultural experiences happening over at Bissell. Um then we're going to talk about um at RBC our student groups

032and organizations that are happening um which we're very excited to hear about. And then um Miss Julian Walker is going to give you an update on our MTSS process and um some of the consistency she's been bringing through her role as MTSS coordinator. So without further ado, I'm going to turn it over to Mrs. Johnson and your group for um talking about some of the multicultural experience happening at Bissell. [Applause] I think I'm more excited than the students. I'm not I'm not going to steal their thunder, but I tell you the partnership that uh we have with the high school uh this school year has been amazing. The high school uh Spanish 2 students, their class has come down to uh Bissell to I'm not even going to steal their thunder because I know they

033have uh slideshows that they want to uh share with you this evening. But super excited just to see that partnership, the high school students coming down teaching and working with and just leaving a lasting impression on our second and third graders. So without further ado, I will invite Miss Marco and Mr. Santiago to the podium. Thank you, Mrs. Johnson. and good evening board and Twinsburg families. Um we are very excited to share with you a little bit about our Twinsburg Spanish partnership this year. And to begin with, I would like to give you some background and how this program got started. Okay. All right. So last year, my daughter Mia, um one of Mr. Santiago's secondyear Spanish learners came to my third grade classroom to present a children's book she wrote in Spanish. She also

034brought two related activities to do with my students. Those activities included making a book with common everyday Spanish words to use in a child's home or school. My students were fully engaged and offered feedback throughout the lesson. I later found out just how impactful this Spanish lesson was with my students when other students from other third grade classrooms were coming up to me in the hallway speaking Spanish to me. Come to find out, my students were outside at recess teaching them Spanish. Um, my class later was exposed to Spanish traditions, holidays, and um because of their interest in learning. Mia, who taught this lesson did a wonderful job, and I was very proud of her as her mom and teacher. and my young students really loved it. So I went to Mr. Santiago and told

035him how wonderful this opportunity was. We got to talking and we said we wanted to do a little bit more with our students. So the proposal was um written up. Mr. Santiago um myself and our gifted coordinator um Shelley Grady um built this um partnership based on the experiences from last year. We have connected with Mr. Santiago's first block of Spanish two students. We're going to work through the glitches, right? Um, so we've uh connected with Mr. Santiago's uh first block of Spanish two students from the Twinsburg High School and we are using this opportunity for them to showcase their work in our second and third grade classrooms at Samuel Bissell. We feel this is a great opportunity for our older Tigers and younger Tigers to work together all while celebrating and learning about language

036and culture. Our Tigers are collaborating once a quarter. We would love to see how the program evolves over the years. This proposal provides an opportunity for our high school students to showcase their work, reinforce their learning, and their presentational skills. Our younger Tigers will get the benefit of learning another language and culture, preparing them for future learning at RBC. Um, so as you can see here, this is Senorita Mia Pakitzki in our third grade classroom over at Samuel Bissell. Um, she was reading her children's book in Spanish and in English, also doing uh two relatable activities with our students. This is um what is currently happening in our classrooms at Samuel Bissell. This is Senorita Cameron, my stepdaughter, and Senorita Teresa uh actively working with our third graders. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. [Music] They were

037singing happy birthday to me. It was my birthday that day. The birthday that keeps on going. Great job, ladies. This is Senora Santiago in action with our kiddos over at Bissell. [Music] Three, two, one. Let's go. Good job. Congratulations ice cream. Our next slide is our Twinsburg High School um Spanish speaking students who have been participating in our partnership. Way to go kiddos. You're doing an amazing job. And next I would like to share with you what I would like to call is making a difference because of this program. We have a little girl um who moved to Twinsburg and enrolled in Samuel Bissell in January. She came from Argentina. She came here to the States, a brand new country, a brand new school, and only speaking Spanish. As you could imagine, this was a

038tough transition for her. On March 11th, we had our second Spanish lesson at Bissell. This little girl was asked to help teach a Spanish lesson on body parts to her peers. Her class could how special that was for her. In that moment, she was able to showcase what she knows. She felt celebrated and she felt recognized. This was a special moment for many of us. And knowing how much this meant to her really, really filled our hearts. There is a small clip of her working um in her class, Mrs. Engler's class. On the last slide, no. Okay. Um, we will go ahead and move on to the next thing. So, I would like for um our students to kind of showcase what they've been doing. So, if my little tigers can come up to the

039front. All right, Aria. All right. girls. Very [Music] good. Would you like to share a little bit about what you love about this program? My favorite thing was it was in Spanish. So they would basically like say something in Spanish and we would um say what it means in English. Yes. Gracias. Jada. Can you share what you love about the lessons that have been taught? I love the um telephone game where basically um we would get given a word saying in Spanish and we're going to have to pronounce it in English. Yeah. And Oriona, how can we continue to practice uh Spanish, our second language, at home? So, like you can do like Duallingingo. Dualingo is like a really um fun learning app that's like on your device. And it's not just like Spanish. You

040can learn like Korean or Indian or whatever language you want to learn. And um um um Domingo is like just like on your right device. So you can um like like I do it every single day and get your skills get better and better and you can just practice anywhere like at your friends or what whereas good job girl. Well done. Awesome job. Good job. Thank you. Thank you. So, we're going to now um ask that our high school Spanish speaking students come to the front. Um they're going to go ahead and share a little bit about what they love about the program. I just want to say real quick like I asked my class I have total of 21 22 students and I asked um I'm going to need some volunteers to come to

041the presentation and when my students were like yeah I'll come I'll come that just kind of goes to show you how like awesome this this program is which is kind of cool I'm excited to hear what they have to say I'm nervous Good afternoon. My name is Mia. I'm Miss Farham's daughter. And originally when I came to reach her class, I was really excited to share one of my favorite subjects with all of these kids. And as we came up with the partnership, it really meant a lot to me realizing how much it's impacted them and how much they've appreciated it. And I hope with this that we can teach them how important it is to have inclusivity both in their everyday life as well as in school. And appreciate their own culture, but the

042other ones that they might not know about yet. [Music] Ola buches. My name is Ashna and I had the pleasure of working with uh Mrs. Dep's third grade class and it was just really meaningful for me to see the impact that I had because like the way their curious faces would light up when like I would just teach them basic things like colors and body parts. It was really meaningful for me and I just like to connect with the students and just have conversations and build connections with the younger kids. Hello everyone, my name's your karm. I got the privilege of teaching Miss Bolinsk's class and I had an overall great experience. I feel like the kids did too. They got to learn learn a new language. I got to connect with them and yeah.

043[Applause] Ola, my name is Abney and I had the chance to work with Mrs. Watson's class and it was a great opportunity because we were all able to connect and I feel the kids were very inspired and hopefully this has inspired them all to maybe take Spanish when they get to eighth grade or above. Hi, I'm Charlotte and I was also with Omni um in Mrs. Watson's class. And when we were in there, we'd always have to ask them for the games like for volunteers and they were all so excited and they all wanted to go and kids would even come up to us and ask if they could go again. And I really like that they enjoyed what we were taught them. And like said, I hope they go up to learn Spanish because

044it's really it's a really great class. I'm Anv. Uh, I had the opportunity to teach Miss Dorland's class who was also my third grade teacher. It was really nice connecting with the kids for I also moved to the United States when at a young age and I speak another language at home and I want to say around 25% of the kids in my class also spoke another language such as Russian and uh some spoke Hindi/Punjabi and some of them even spoke Spanish. So it was just like something that I could connect with them on and it just made the whole experience very meaningful to me and I just walked out of there with like a different perspective on teaching and teachers and how important it is to make like learning engaging yet like impactful. So

045thank you. [Applause] Um Ola, my name is Kate. Um, I think my overall favorite part was being able to build relationships with the students and watching them fall in love and become eager to learn a new language and culture. It was truly inspiring just to see how excited they were to learn something new and be able to connect and be able to communicate to other people who are different than them. Um, and I can't wait to go back and see them. Hola. Um, I'm Lucy and I just thought it was really fun just to see all their faces light up when we were like teaching them new things and they were just so eager to learn and they really like picked up on the Spanish quite easily which I thought was so cool and I

046just really thought it was so fun seeing how much fun they had learning. My name is Dia and I taught Mr. 's third grade class. And my favorite part, I enjoyed it a lot because they'll remember this moment when they go on to Spanish in the future and they had a really fun time. Hola, Kasa. Um, my name is Cameron McCclaf and I'm actually a junior at ths and I'm in Spanish 4. Um, Senor Santiago taught me um my freshman year and honestly it was his teaching that truly gave me the love of Spanish. Like I want to I want to minor in it in like in college. I love this language and being able to share it with other kids and to teach them has actually really meant a lot to me because I

047mean it's beautiful. being able to create a new community and learn so much about other cultures and I think it was just a beautiful experience and I hope that other kids get to experience it too. Okay, without further ado, you guys are amazing. really we couldn't do this partnership without you and we're so proud of you and you were such an inspiration and our little tigers. You're doing such an amazing job and we're really proud of your growth too. A so um we would like to award you with an award um for your dedication, hard work, and achievement. Um great job. So this award goes out to Jada Benson. Next is Aria Davyy. Oh, you say that's you. My daughter Mia [Applause] and my stepdaughter. Love you, Mom. We have two of my kiddos in

048this program. I mean, phenomenal, like awesome. Uh, we got Dia. Uh, Caitlyn Gres, which she failed to say that she taught in her mom's class. Um, Lucy, Abne, Charlotte Aaron. I gotta do it. But he goes by Lil Girk in my class. [Applause] Locer [Applause] Aby Ashna. And then last but not least, so I had Claudia who was not here. She's ill. Claudia, just a quick quick story. Claudia is the my student that um was in Simona's uh you know class and something that kind of touched me that she couldn't be here. She was actually very bummed out that she couldn't be here. Um I remember what she said to me when we got back to the high school. um she was having a rough day that day and uh little did she know about

049the whole Simona situation or whatnot and she got back we talked gathered at the cafeteria and she said like it was so touching that I did that for her like I I had no idea and I didn't know about it until afterwards and kind of made me tear up because in the same way that Anvi you know uh mentioned and and Simona like I myself also came to the states and I didn't have an opportunity like this so it's kind of cool kind of brought tears to my eyes and just to hear that Simona smiled that day. Um to Claudia, like props to Claudia. She's a phenomenal student and I got to give her her flowers even though she's not here. So um I [Applause] Claudia, we can't we can't wait to go back again

050uh in uh in May. Um hopefully. And um I love this Spanish program. It's great. something. I just want I'll take care of I'll take care need to say one last thing to say. Um, Nia just has one last thing to say. I just wanted to throw out a special thanks to Senor Santiago because not only is he an amazing representation of our Spanish in our high school, but he is truly one of the best teachers I've ever had. He not only cares about his students and their academics, he really works to care about them as humans. And it means so so much to me as well as all these kids here. What he does for us. [Applause] What do you say to me all the time in class? I hate you. I hate you.

051I hate you. I got you. I'll sign off. [Applause] Let everyone play off for a second. But how do we top that? It's going to be hard to top that tonight. Okay. Yeah, he's got all the stuff on it, too. Okay, I have to call him or something. I didn't do anything for that. If there's one person that can top that, it's Mr. Ree, uh, who's going to talk to us about the student groups at RBC this year, which are Thank you, Mr. Bander. No matter what, I always have to follow the Bissell kids. That's just not fair. Uh, believe it or not, not every middle schooler loves coming to school to learn math, science, and social studies. And, um, that could create a challenging environment uh, for a group of 13 and 14 year

052olds. And so, part of being a gold medal school is to find ways where all kids can connect to school in some way. And maybe math, science, and social studies isn't their thing, but our it's our duty to help them find their thing and that thing where they're good at, the thing that makes them uh special and makes them want to wake up in the morning and come and be part of school. And there's just countless studies over the correlation between success, not not just in school, but later in life, and being involved in school activities and the importance of that. And so over the years we've developed um quite a few different groups. Some of them meet after school, some of them meet during school. And today I wanted to highlight uh some of

053those groups and some of those activities that we do. And the first one um is our reading and writing festival. And we have over 20 kids participate in this every year. and they're just a group of kids who like to read and they they read the the books that are part of the festival and they get together with Mrs. Walters in our media center. They do their little book club. They're connected and in a couple weeks they will be going to Kent State where they each year they meet an author. They have some contest. Last year we came in first place in the writing contest. And so, um, it's just a a unique way to connect kids and we're very thankful for the board support because these are a lot of times kids who maybe

054aren't in athletics, um, or or maybe they don't do well in math, but they love to read and get together and that's how they're connected. Next, we have our STEM club. And STEM club gets together with Mrs. Anderson after school, and they they do science activities. My favorite one of all time was one spring they tapped the maple tree outside of RBC and they collected syrup and then they voted whether it was going to be pancakes or waffles and I believe pancakes won. So the kids made pancakes and then they made uh may use the syrup that they had uh gathered which is quite the process I've learned uh through the maple tree. And so the STEM club uh is one of another way we connect kids. Next we have our student government and this

055year we have 28 kids in student government. They play in our pep rallies which are out of this world. Uh they go around school taking pictures. They do a slideshow at the end of the year. And tomorrow I'm asking uh many of them to be part of the uh next strategic action plan. So they're going to meet with Dr. Regal and do some of our planning. And uh so we have 28 students in student government. The next group is what we call our Crayola crew and they come and they meet in the morning before school and they listen to music and they do art. And um a lot of times kids with anxiety we put in that group uh because it they know when they get to school they're going to do something that is

056relaxing, it's fun that they want to do. They're with um that's run by our Beachbrook counselor, Mrs. Hunt, who's actually an art therapist. And um and so that fear or sometimes the hardest thing for those kids is just getting through the door. Now they're not going straight to that class that they have anxiety about. They're going to color and listen to music and talk to Mrs. Hunt. And that has significantly I I believe increased our attendance with those students who struggle with anxiety. Our next group is our celebration club and they they plan our monthly celebrations for our our different groups that we have and they just put together an incredible Black History Month celebration. It culminated with the they got the Blue Diamonds to come over and the STEP team from the high school

057as part of our pep rally, best pep rally we ever had. Uh they brought in speakers, they brought in fraternities and uh so they met with um Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Henderson and um that they uh find ways to celebrate our different groups and as most of you know this week we're wearing a red today and we're celebrating our students with disabilities um this week. And next we have our girls group. Our girls group meets every Wednesday and they just talk about girl stuff and handling emotions and I'm not invited to that group so I don't know really I can't really speak too much about what's going on there. Um, but I know that uh they look forward to that every Wednesday. I mentioned earlier our power of the pen uh group. They they practice

058every week with uh Mrs. Copen and Mr. Peterson and they hopefully will get the coaches of the power pen coaches of the year because they deserve it. And we have we have like 25 kids in there, but they don't all get to compete, but they all get to go to the competition and they like cheer each other on. And I think it's the coolest thing. And like you see at the end of the Cavs bench, not everyone gets in the game, but those guys are always cheering for each other. And I wish I want like always point that out to our athletes like you're not always going to be the guy in the game. You might not get the most playing time, but be part of the that's our power of the pen team. They

059like all show up at the competitions even if they're not writing and they celebrate and cheer for each other. So it's just an amazing way that those kids are connected. Uh, next we run our spelling bee as a club. And so the kids sign up and then they practice in one of my language arts teachers classrooms after school for the B. And they they spell each other words and they do practice. And then we finally we had our school spelling bee and Sophie Nana won that. And last week uh last Saturday Sophie went to Akran Beacon Journal spelling bee and she finished in the top 50%. She made it through three rounds there. And not everyone makes it. First you have to win your school. Then you have to take an online test, then you

060get to go and then uh Sophie uh beat uh about half the kids in Summit County and she ended up going through three rounds. So that was that was really awesome. Um performing arts have grown dramatically, which is kind of a double-edged sword. Once it's awesome that that many kids are performing, but now we can't fit like the orchestra on the stage at the same time. So my orchestra concerts are now twice as long. So, I I miss out on uh on getting home in a timely fashion, but that's a good problem to have. Uh because all of these groups connect kids and I encourage them because they do so many cool things when they get to high school. Um and um and you can see our numbers there. That's like 250 kids alone out

061of our schools who's connected to school in in a way with a special group that they just perform in school but outside of school. Uh next we have the uh athletics of course and uh we have about 20% of the school in spring athletics right now between track and softball and baseball. But over the course of the um you can see the numbers up there. Hundreds and hundreds of students athletes and students who participated and were connected to school through athletics. Our art club is huge. 31 kids in the art club and that's one of the rainarrels that they're painting. And so kids who identify or connect through art are able to do that. The rain barrels are with the Tinker Creek Conservatory and they're working on water preservation and we're learning about how you

062have to they had to paint all the barrels white and then they're going to put art on them, paint them art with art because you can't have any light get through the barrels because that would create algae. And so you can have any and then they put a a finishing polyurethane coat on them and then they're identifying spots around town to um place the rain barrels to collect water. So that's a collaborative a collaborative project and the art kids are learning a little bit of science and didn't even know they like science but now they do. And um our next group our next two groups I'm going to let Mr. Sanders Mr. Sanders is new to RBC this year as our dean of students. I cannot say enough about what he does. The impact he's

063had on our culture and of our our students. Uh the energy he brings is irreplaceable. And so we are very very fortunate that we were able to have Mr. Sanders working with us this year and he runs two separate groups with the kids. He runs one group called the fit club and another group called the Tiger Men on a mission. And I told the girl people with the girls teachers that run the girls group. I said you have to get a cooler name because Mr. Sanders now he changed boys group to tiger men on a mission. So we got to up the girls group name. But uh for this year um he wins. So I'm going to introduce Mr. Sanders and uh he's brought some students uh as well. Uh Mr. Reese is retired this

064year. is great for our building and obviously we're going to for sure miss him. Um, fit club. I love fit club. Uh, first thing when I wake up in the morning, he get out of bed. You know, I I think energy is most important. Um, our kids don't think so as much. I I got a quick story. I think it's our first week of school this year. Um, I'm really loud. Kids kids come in, Mr. Reese and I, we just greet them at the door. Good morning. And you know, first week of Fit Club, I'm yelling, "Get to Fit Club. Get to Fit Club." Half them are sleeping in the cafeteria. They're looking at me crazy. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. As you can ask some of those boys back there that are involved in

065Fit Club, I do bring the energy. Um, but I love Fit Club because, you know, it it brings a bunch of different guys together and and they're able to not only work out and just and just get ready and motivated for the day, but it allows them to communicate, allows them to learn more about each other, you know, different different views, different perspectives. And it, you know, a lot of times often in there, whether it's 15 or 20 minutes, we find ourselves in there having just great dialogue, you know, talking about the day before talking about future weekend plans, talking about, you know, sports activities that are going on and just basic debates that that we love to have. Um, it does it does get tricky with, you know, obviously buses rolling in here and

066there, but we have a great system to intact to where they work out at 7:19. You let them go get their breakfast if they if they want it and they go right to class. So, they've done a good job of being leaders and definitely sets a positive tone um throughout the day. Next group um is our Tiger Man on the Mission. Our Tiger Man mission group is is just a group of 15 young young men comprised of just doing great things. We we establish and talk about the seven daily habits and you know the big thing that I stress to the boys a lot is is take care of your mental. You know these boys are great leaders and they've been you know initiated in our program because of their leadership style. um whether it's,

067you know, checking a friend when when checking on a friend when he's having a bad day, whether it's, you know, stopping a a a confrontation between, you know, two boys or two girls that may escalate in the hallway or so. Um, and I think, you know, we have three young young men back here that have just demonstrated embodied, you know, what it means to to be great uh future Tigers. Um, I'm going to bring up Levi Harris, Liam Clark, and Kayen Crawford. Um, we can move on to the next slide. These boys will just, you know, talk about, you know, the daily habits of highly effective people. You know, being proactive, obviously, sharpen our mental. I'm going to let Levi Harris start. Good evening. Good evening. family. Today I'm going to be talking about the

068seven um daily habits of highly effective people. The first one is to be proactive. And so pretty much what that means is to control what you can control and to make sure you are focused in at all times. The second one is to begin with the end in mind. So when you're trying to achieve something, you always want to make sure you have a goal in mind and that you are trying to get to that goal. And um I'm just before as you can see on the on the uh on the slide here pictures, this here is a one of our first lessons we did. Um the boys here are kind of uh playing a team building activity. This is right after kind of they wrote their reason why. We had a activity where we

069gave each student in there a um a sticky note. They wrote kind of their reason why, you know, why they why they wake up every single day. What's their objective? What's their drive? U we also had had each student talk about, you know, things they can improve on. You know, we're not perfect. We're we're we we all have things that we need to do to get better at. And I think it was great just to for them to express, you know, ways that they need to improve on themselves as a young man. Um go ahead, Leo. All right. So, another one was uh put first things first, like putting school in front of like sports and stuff. Um, number four is think win-win. And number five is seek uh seek first to understand then to

070be understood. I'm going hand it off to Kayen. Number six is like leadership. And then number seven, sharpening the sword, taking care of your mental. Let me ask you a question, Kayen. All right. Leadership. What leadership skills have you demonstrated this year? In leadership, I demonstrated uh like going like playing basketball and like talking to our teammates and stuff. Okay. Liam, take that mic for me. Or how have you take how have you been taking care of your mentor throughout the school year? um like whenever there's like something happening like a lot of like drama and stuff and it comes back to me or something um like you kind of try to break it up and stuff and it helps me uh and the flow of things. And Levi, all right, win-win. Think win-win. How

071do you feel about that statement? Um win-win. I think that means to like What does think when I think when win means to like you may not win all the um all of the little goals but you'll reach the end goal in the end cuz you know in the beginning sometimes you're not like basketball per se. I wasn't the best at it, but I worked to get better and Yeah. and end it in a winning situation, right? Yes. Thank you [Applause] guys. Sure. Thank you, Mr. and Mr. Sanders and our our young men tonight. We appreciate um seeing our students so involved outside those outside activities um during the school day and outside the school day as well. Um the last thing I'm going to present on for um our culture and climate goal this

072evening is our um MTSS um coordinator um Miss Julian Walker. And um as you um recognize board last um around this time last year, we came to you with this proposal that um we have been for a long time um having the disproportionality um challenges within our district um specifically related to special education. And part of that um part of the thing that we were seeing as one of our root causes was that that inconsistent practice for our MTSS process across the district. Um one of the things we used some of our redirected funds for was um employing Mrs. Julian Walker as um our MTSS coordinator. Um she came to us with wonderful experience, a former tiger and then back as a tiger again. and we're excited to have her tonight to kind of share

073some of her progress and the steps um that she's taking to bring us a consistent um MTSS prog process across our district. So, I'm going to turn it over to Mrs. Walker. Good evening, Board of Education. Thank you for the opportunity for allowing me to get in front of you. Thank you for the opportunity to come and speak to you. give you a brief recap of what's going on as far as MTSS goes in our district. As you've seen, even as evidenced tonight, the phenomenal programs that we have in place um both academics and social emotional, we still do have students that struggle. And so the process of MTSS gets together within the schools to help those students. As a brief review, MTSS is a structured program and it's a proactive framework for all students

074and it is focused on academics, behavior, social, emotional, and attendance. And what it does is it uses data collection and interventions that are evidence-based to help our students be successful through MTSS. It's a multi-tiered um instruction with different layers of support. And as you can see evidenced on the screen, there are three different layers that we um kind of put together at each school. And tier one would be different or tier one is is instruction for all students that is differentiated based on students needs within the classroom. And if we find students that are not being successful at our tier one, we can meet and come together as a team throughout the building and implement any tier 2 interventions um which gives a little bit more intensive um structure to their day and to their

075academics. And then even then, if they're not successful with tier 2, we might even implement a tier three, which is usually one-on-one um more opportunities throughout the week to get extra practice or extra support wherever they may need it. Um, some of the things up here, I'm sure you've seen this before, but some of the things that MTSS is not is it is not just a pathway for special education, but rather it's designed to help all students and any student who may be struggling in one of the areas that I've mentioned before. It also allows our schools to come together more collaboratively where teachers don't feel like they're working alone and might have to solve some problems only within their classroom. It gets together the experts at the team and even around the district who

076may be be able to provide some support. And we found that one of the most important keys to MTSS is prevention is better than a cure. It's getting ahead, checking the data, um checking our resources, and actually putting together a plan for students who may need help. The Twinsburg City Schools has two goals for MTSS this year and I worked with um people services and um curriculum department to come up with the goals and one of the goals we found is that we need a consistent um implementation of vocabulary and terms of MTSS throughout the buildings. I've had the opportunity to meet with every building and review their process and attend several meetings and every building is working so so hard, but everyone does it a little bit differently. So, one of our our main

077goals was to come up with terms that we can use throughout the district. And the second thing to do would be to put together a guide book that would be for each school, the teachers would have it. And again, it would have that consistency from when they're starting at Willox going all the way through the high school. So, where are we now with that? Um, like I said, I've had the opportunity to meet with every school and kind of go through their process. Um, we were able to give a survey out to the staff um at the beginning of the year. We did have 140 um responses, which I thought was excellent. And of those responses, we found that about 35% of the teachers felt that MTSS was really working very well in our building.

078And that's not to say that that's a low number. Um, a lot of them have very very positive things to say about all the hard work that's going on, but consistency came up as one of the biggest challenges. So that's one of the things that we're going to focus on. Uh, we also talked about collaboration time and that's not only amongst themselves as teachers, but with the experts in the building and then also even the sharing of knowledge of best practices and additional evidence-based um, interventions. Some of the current action steps that we have going on right now is we have quarterly meetings with the principles to review um the MTSS process itself. I've also had the opportunity to meet with the um different leader groups within the schools as as mentioned up there from

079assistant principles to related services. And See, we also have a draft of a proposal um for the vocabulary words and for the guide book. These goals, we als with these goals, we should have our uh we will have our vocabulary, our common vocabulary terms put together by the end of the year as well as a guide book for you to see and for approval. And then we even have future goals to um do something for our parents to create a guide book for MTSS for our parents and whether that's an actual book that we um pass out or and even some type of publication on the website so that they know that what is available. So thank you for the opportunity to to um review this with you tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you

080for the opportunity this night to share all these great things happening across the district um in terms of our culture and climate. We appreciate we appreciate uh Mrs. Walker and her her expertise and um you know multi- ranges of experience help our teams um find out what the best way to help our some of our students is as well. I'm going to turn over to Mr. Strickland who's going to talk to us about our facilities. Thank you Mr. Bandera, members of the board and community. Um it's hard to follow all these acts before me, but um but I've got some Dodge kids that I'm going to show off here in a minute. So um our facilities goals are posted up there for the year. Um we are still doing really well budget-wise. Um I will

081say, and we said this last meeting, uh this winter was pretty brutal. Um, so our paving endeavors and some roofing repairs this coming summer um will will be a tight rope on the budget, but we're still um doing a good job there. Um, Tiger Legacy Project is rolling right along. Um, we did put project boards outside in the lobby for folks to see tonight about the uh proposed project and I could talk all night about facilities and all of that. Um, however, I want to welcome some new friends of mine. I'm going to let uh Mr. Holland from Dodge um introduced them. Uh these are sixth grade students and they are members of the principal strike committee and part of the student advisory. And I got the opportunity to meet with them and um they

082talked about from a student's perspective challenges um to learning and to just being a kid at their age at Dodge and what they would like to see in a new building. And it was a pretty cool conversation and uh pretty cool kids. So I'm going to welcome Mr. Hollow and he can introduce them. Good evening everyone. So you've heard me talk a lot about our principal strike committee. They do a lot of um advising of me to help make God a better place. So what we have is three young men who are actually going to introduce themselves as part of their leadership roles, but they represent three of 16, excuse me, 18 members of the principal strike committee, one from each team. And so their role is not not only to advise me, but to

083be leaders in the classroom, take information back to their classroom, get feedback from their classroom. And so that's kind of what you're going to see today. However, to this activity today, they took leadership in um amongst the entire group. And what you're going to hear are their thoughts unfiltered. And we worked on the language a little bit, but it is their thoughts unfiltered about what they feel about their current building and plans to move it forward to a new building. Hello, my name is James Carter and I'm will be presenting my perspective for the classrooms in a new school. I think we need brighter and more vibrant colors because colors can play a big part in learning. For example, green and blue promotes creativity and increases anxiety. And yellow and orange is good for engagement

084and can boost energy. But too many colors can overstimulate can be overstimulating. I think we also need bigger classrooms because in Dodge the class classrooms are cramped and have little to no room. And with bigger classrooms, students can have room for physical activities. And I think we need better quality desks because the desk at Dodge can be easily broken and students can have a lot more focus with more comfortable desk. I think we also need soundproof walls because students when can be disrupted from classrooms and people talking in the hallways. Hello, my name is Anthony Gerky and I'm going to talk about the playground and recess project for our new skill building. I think we should have new and improved basketball hoops that are really nice and solid so that kids can feel like they're

085actually playing on a real hoop with um a good rim and net in a whole backboard. The ones at Dodge have no net and they um each one of them is taller or shorter than the other and it can make some kids feel uncomfortable when they're shooting. I think we need more field space for soccer and football for our new building because at Dodge it we have a ton of field space outside the black top but we're not allowed to use any of it because that belongs to the Princeburg varsity teams. Um and uh we need a playground and black top um material that will not be affected by a type of um weather like rain or snow or heavy winds because at Dodge we have a playground but it has mulch so we only

086get to play on it like seven to 10 times a year because it's always raining or um like unfortunate weather. Hi, my name is Nick Welch and I'll be giving the student perspective on the hallways and lunch. We think we need bigger lockers and better storage because we feel rushed when we have to put all of their stuff in a small locker in a short amount of time. Next, I think we need hallway directions for new students because there could either be new students here or students who are just beginning school that need to know the ways or any students because they need to know the ways to their classroom. And next, a garden for fresh veggies or fruits for lunch for healthy lunch. I think we need a garden because it will help kids

087have a better dietary plan and be healthier for physical activities. more choices for foods for kids well-being. I think that kids need more choices for food because if they don't have an appetite for the foods that are presented for each day, then they can just choose from any foods that they have any other days of the week. Um, I'm going to do the heating and cooling project for the building. Our heating and cooling project should be um a lot quieter and not disrupt the classrooms as much as it does at Dodge. The um air vents are always very loud and sometimes distracting and then janitors have to come in and fix it and that disrupts the whole learning process. And we should have ceiling fans cuz if it's not working, we um there should be

088ceiling fans so that nice cool air can still come on the classroom even if the vent isn't working. We should have windows that can slide open and close um but have screens so that bugs can't get in and but keep the cool air um flowing in. And teachers should be able to control the temperature in the rooms by like some remote or something at their desk that they can do. Um if the kids are um worried about it being too hot or too cold, um the teachers can adjusted to whatever make whatever makes the um kids feel comfortable in their own classroom. Can we borrow you tomorrow for a video? So, just one quick thing. We were preparing for this and I asked the kids when when's the last time they had a window that

089opened and a lot of them said never at Dodge. Never had a classroom that had a window that opened. So, I I found that very interesting. I'll close on if these three young men uh look familiar. So, a couple weeks ago when we did our board recognition in the video, this is three of the six been presented for you. They're back again showing their leadership which we appreciate. Thank you. Awesome job. Thank you. Great job. Thank you. Thank you. Very, very good job. You did a very nice job of speaking and you didn't read and Mr. Holland. They didn't read everything. They were looking up at us up here with their eyes talking. It excellent job, young men. Excellent. Yeah. Um, gentlemen, you want to go up by the board and get a picture? All

090right. So, the last two slides that we had had on facilities were just updates to the Tiger Legacy Project from the last time um that we talked um these were um additions that the board had discussed with us about um intentions for the Bissell property and the Willox property. Um you can also find all the Tiger Legacy project information on our website. Um, but we wanted to highlight the Bissell Nature Park um, concept and all of the components are listed on there and it's a really cool idea in that um, there would be a learning pavilion, an amphitheater, a walking path. I'm cutting out on sound, sorry. Um, uh, natural meadows, um, a trail that goes through the woods that our cross country could use, the community could use, the whole thing. Um, and one

091of the most exciting things really two components. Um we would partner with numerous uh area organizations for grant funding for this um as well as uh be able to transplant native um plant and wildlife species from the proposed new school site to the Bissell site. Um so for anybody that is you know paying attention to the natural impact of the project um we feel like uh this is a win um really for everyone. So, we're excited about the potential there at Bissell. And then at Willox, um if you have heard us present about the Tiger Legacy Project, you've heard um that we have been uh talking with a company called the National Fitness Campaign or NFC. And what they do is um they partner with school districts and communities um to bring fitness parks to

092active communities. And when Superintendent Powers and I met with them, um they had a really neat um activity monitor that's satellite driven and it taps into everyone's uh smartwatches and fitness apps. And uh Twinsburg is a really a thriving active community. Um people are outside and they're on the move. And um they were very interested to talk with us about the potential of bringing a court like this here. And the pavement material that the gentleman that spoke with before me, um the young men from Dodge, um what they mean is it's kind of a um like a spongy, um track-like material, and that is what is on these fitness courts. It's weatherproof all year round. Um shock resistant. Um so you see on that um on that picture there that half of it is like

093a yoga or aerobic studio type thing um concept and then the other half is parkour activity equipment. And all of it is weatherproof, so it's obviously outside all year round. Um the package includes um a yearly maintenance and check by the company. Um and then we part we would partner, they help you uh set up with all kinds of corporate sponsorships and grants. Um so again, this is very minimal impact financially. Um but we feel like is a really neat uh multi-age, multi-generational potential in the community because really families of all ages could could use it. Um, and there would be the intention as well to build um, a handicap accessible playground nearby. Um, so let's say you've got a family that the kids are too small or can't use the equipment, there's something for

094them to do there as well. So, um, we just wanted to introduce those two concepts for Bissell and Wilcox as part of the Tiger Legacy project. So, and you know what, Mr. Stricken, I think, um, Twinsburg, there's so many opportunities. Get out and be active. We have Liberty Park, Glow, the park behind Idlewood. And this would be a perfect location because we don't have much on this end in this area. And it's it's just one more place where people can meet and be active and and do something out outdoors and um like I said, great I think a great location. Yep, we agree. A lot of cool opportunities, cool things happening. So um does anyone have any questions? Um if not that concludes our strategic plan update for this quarter and we thank you so

095much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for all you guys. Is there any All right. So, we'll start with H1. Um, resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the following meeting minutes. Regular meeting of February 19th, 2025. Special meeting February 24th, 2025 as sent to the board under separate cover. Do I have a motion by Miss Hamilton? Second, second by Miss Eden. Any discussion? There being none, Miss Rose, can you please call the RO? Mrs. Hamilton? Yes. Mrs. Eagle, yes. Mrs. Travis, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mrs. Crawford, yes. And that motion passes 50. H2. Motion to remove agenda resolution H2 tax compliant TFI Twinsburg, Ohio LLC 2150. Wait, hold on. I'm jumping. Remove that. Hold on. I'm I'm going ahead. You're doing what, Mrs. Crawford? Huh? H2 was removed by the

096addendum. Am I supposed to do this one right now? Okay. I was doing it right. Okay. I was like, oh, okay. Um, Highland Road, Twinsburg parcel number 6400900. Do I have a motion? So, moved by Miss Hamilton. Second. Second by Mrs. Travis. Any discussion? Uh, Mr. Mrs. Hamilton? Yes. Mrs. Travis? Yes. Mrs. Egan? Yes. Mrs. Davis? Yes. Mrs. Crawford? Yes. And that motion passes 5-0. All right. Number um three resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the filing of a complaint for tax year 2024 on account of a recent sale transfer of the property as provided in RC 571519 as sent to the board under separate cover. Um text resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the filing of a complaint for the texture year 2024 on account of a recent sale transfer

097of the property as provided in the RC5715.19 as sent to the board under separate recorded cover I'm sorry resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the filing of complaint for tax year 2024 on account of a recent sale transfer of the property as provided in the RC5715.19 as sent to to the board under separate cover. And then five, resolve the trans of education approves the final of complaint for texture 2024 on account of a reason sale transfer of the property as provided in RC 57 5715.19 is sent to the board under separate cover. Do I have a motion? So moved by Mrs. Second. Who is that? Davis Davis. Okay. Second by Miss Hamilton. Is there a discussion? I would just um like to add that we do have uh exhibits H3 to five that

098was shared with the board. It doesn't show on the agenda. Yeah. Thank you. Mhm. All right. And can you please Mrs. Travis? Mrs. Travis? Yes. Yeah. Mrs. Hamilton. Yes. Mrs. Egan. Yes. Mrs. Davis. Yes. Mrs. Crockport. Yes. That motion passes 5-0. All right. Item I, resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education accepts the certified licensed personnel and or contract recommendations detailed in the attached exhibit as per the dates, terms, and other applicable conditions specified pending satisfactory OC background checks. Number two resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education accepts the classified personnel and/or contract recommendations detailed in the attaches that have been asked for the dates, terms, and other ethical conditions specified pending satisfactory OC background checks. And number three, resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education accepts the supplemental contract recommendations detailed in the attached

099exhibits as per the dates, terms, and other applicable conditions specified for any satisfactory ORC background checks. Do I have a motion? So moved. So moved by Miss Egan, second second by Mrs. Travis. And um any discussion? Mrs. Egan? Yes. Mrs. Travis? Yes. Mrs. Hamilton? Yes. Mrs. Davis? Yes. Mrs. Crawford? Yes. And that motion passes 5-0. J. Action one. Resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the proposal for an overnight extended student trip for the Twinsburg High School varsity baseball team to travel to Columbus, Ohio to compete against other high school teams. The team will depart on March 28th, 2025 and return on March 29th, 2025. The cost of the trip is being paid by the athletic booster baseball account as sent to the board under separate cover. Number two, resolve that the Twinsburg Board

100of Education approves the first of two possible extensions to the agreement for internet service with the Northeast Ohio Network for Education Technology, Neonet, from July 1st, 2025 through June 30, 2030, at an annual cost of $39,840. This exercise is our voluntary extension per terms and conditions set forth in the original agreement approved on April 15, 2020. The dates set forth in the original agreement are July 1st, 2020 through June 30th, 2025. This is a general fund expenditure. Three, resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education determines the impracticality of transportation for the schools and students listed below for the 2024 2025 school year for the Ohio Department of Education in accordance with the Ohio Revised Code section 3327.01 list of students kept on file in the transportation office. The maximum amount of payment will be $583.86

101per student. These students are in addition to the students approved at the July 17th, 2024 through August 21st, 2024, October 9th, 2024. Um, wait, it's not through. These are just separate days. August 9th, 2024, October 23rd, 2024, November 6, 2024, and December 11th, 2024. Board of Education meetings. Number four, resolve that the board of education approves the job description for the Twinsburg Alternative Program TAP consultant for the attach exhibit. Number five, resolve that the board of education approves the revised job description for the administrative assistant elementary school principal per the attach exhibit. And number six, resolve that the Tunber board of education revises the 2024 2025 strategic plan action step in the goal area of culture and climate as follows. During the 2425 school year, through multi-tered systems of support, MTSS, the Twinsburg City School

102District will support a culture where all students are represented and respected as demonstrated through a consistent process aligned and implemented between our schools as measured by the MTS MTSS end of the year audit. Do I have a motion? So moved. So moved by Miss Hamilton. Second. Second by Mrs. Davis. Any discussion? M Rosiah, can you please call the role? Mrs. Hamilton, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mrs. Eaggan, yes. Mrs. Travis, yes. Mrs. Crawford, yes. And that motion passes 5-0. Action item J. Number seven, resolve that the Twinsburg Board of Education approves the 2425 individual severance plans with Educators Preferred Corporation EPC. um at that following address. Teachers participating in these plans are Margaret Carlic, Edward Lipnos, and Christine Magnar. These individual SE plans are in addition to the EPC employee subs plan originally approved on August

1037th, 2024 and addended on December 4th, 2024 as sent to the board under supple. Do I have a motion? So moved. So moved by Miss Travis second. Second by Miss Egan. Any discussion? Miss Rosette. Mrs. Travis, yes. Mrs. Egan, yes. Mrs. Hamilton, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Mrs. Crownford, yes. And that motion passes. 5 Z. Miscellaneous. Any Yes, I do. Um the um music world of Twinsburg schools continues to excel. So, I want to offer congratulations to our symphonic band. uh for the fourth year in a row they received um their highest honor of superior which means that they will now in April the 25th or 26th of April go on to the state uh competition for um the symphonic band. Um also quite an accomplishment from each of the judges in each one of the

104categories they all received a number one which is the top score that you can get and to get it from all judges in all categories is just phenomenal. So congratulations to um I will say to Mr. Bonnets, but in the in the mix of that, it's also Miss Gosset and Mr. Resnik and all of the families and parents of all the children who have just stayed with the band and the music and have earned that place in that symphonic band. Um then the concert band also travels to those competitions and for the second year in a row they received an excellent rating. Um which is again very very good rating. Um, but on top of that and and I had the honor from when I was a band mom to to go on with, you

105know, accompany the kids to the trip and and the competition. After they perform, they are then taken into a room where no one goes in with but the band director and the and the band. And this is for symphonic and concert. And they are handed a sheet of music that they have not necessarily ever seen before. And they get so many minutes and that's it. just so many minutes that they have to site readad to look at it, think about it, try to click it out and then they have to play it. And they received all ones on their site music performance. So, you know, to just get a cold piece of music as a as a freshman sophomore in high school and be able to play and get a one from the judge, just

106again another major accomplishment for our our music department. So, congratulations there to Miss Gossip, but again to Mr. Bonis, Miss Gosset, Mr. Resnik, all the families that have children in our music program, they're just becoming just phenomenal in all areas of, you know, we did the orchestra, um the the the singers, the groups of singing and and vocal music, and now the band is pulled off again. So, congratulations to our music department. And I also do think the band and the orchestra are safe travels for this weekend because I think they're all heading to New York City to perform. So, I hope you know, wish them safe travels and good luck and have a have a blast, you know, and have that enjoy that experience. For sure. Yes, for sure. And that was part of

107my president's report. Um, but we're piecing it together for you. They're piece they pieced that one together for me. Another part that was in there that I'm able to pull in now um is that um want to congratulate uh there was um students at CBCC who um was able to attend um last week. Um they attended the CBCC um um sorry they competed at the BPA state leadership conference that was in Columbus. Um these students um are now able to head to compete at the National Leadership Conference which will be in Orlando May 7th through the 11th. Um Damon Hoodie, he's a senior. He's actually ranked number one in Ohio and network administrative using Cisco. Alex Mi uh Miller uh is a senior who's ranked number seven in Ohio for the database applications. Nicole Nissenbomb

108um is a junior ranked number seven in Ohio for advanced desktop publishing. Evan um s uh Joe and Shaw son Evan Shaw I don't know why I couldn't just say that. Um he's a junior ranked number five in Ohio in Java programming and Anthony Yusf is a senior ranked number three in Ohio for website design team. So, that's very exciting to see all the different things that they're able to do, all their talents, and for them to uh get that experience. So, congratulations. Great job. Nice. All right. I don't have any exciting news to share or anything, but um students and teachers and staff, um you're going to be having spring break soon. So whether you have a station or vacation planned, um I hope you enjoy your time off and and just uh you

109know relax and and get to enjoy and have a few fun things planned and last um grading period. So everybody finish strong and keep up the hard work. Yes. All right. Thank you. So the board um does have a need for executive session. So, the board of education will enter into executive session at 8:21 p.m. to consider the employment, discipline, and con compensation of public employees as per the board of education policy number 0166A. I'll make that motion. Is there a second? Second. Second by Miss Egan. Mr. Rosa, Mrs. Crawford, yes. Mrs. Egan, yes. Mrs. Hamilton, yes. Mrs. Travis, yes. Mrs. Davis, yes. Thank you. I do not see the need for us to come back. So, I hope you have a great evening and again enjoy your spring break next week. Thank you.