001foreign thank you madam president members aboard Dr Smith I got a couple different shots of our construction these drone side at LC you're looking down on the new soccer field uh down to the bottom is the JV soccer field and to the right is uh the new baseball stadium we also had the softball field exposed and ready for the curbing for Turf and lights to go in Southeast Park parking lot at LC there along with the plaza area curbing's almost complete Stone and Asphalt in the next week and a half the band lot's been milled and ready for asphalt in the North Lot curving some more Curbing and light bases going in and we'll be ready for stone and asphalt LC pool continues on the base uh area for locker rooms and meeting rooms going
002in as well as a large portion of the building with the roof almost complete Ln site work here you'll see the softball field on the far right the soccer field in the middle and Dwight and the new baseball stadium going in on the left and then above the soccer is the new parking lot that will support that area Ellen bandlot has been paved and we continue to work around the southwest and Northwest side of the building along with the next line the new Plaza area going in that'll give us access to door six and seven new athletic area the bleachers we're in second floor where the wrestling room used to be and then the weight room new flooring and painting going on there Ellen pool continues a lot of tile work going on but they
003are progressing forward with that Belzer uh the auditorium Footers are going in also to the right there you'll see an underground retention Pond and that'll be covered up starting tomorrow and pavement prior to school starting those are Media Center continues on a lot of work in there classrooms and hallways we will uh what is it we will check those out this week and next and move those in in a week and a half ready for school to start main office likewise and Fall Creek the new Special Needs Bus drop-off area has Stone in it now so asphalt is just behind it they're finishing up the concrete this week in Fall Creek Valley classrooms and hallways they'll punch these classrooms this week and move in next likewise the media center continues on uh here at lecc
004the North lot that's a new parking lot above our north parking lot as being cut in and ready for Curbing and lights and LC side improvements continue on on our West Side as well as our north side Force Glenn we're almost finished there we will be moving in for them to set up their classrooms next week uh the ramps and stairways are going in this week pretty excited fields excuse me pardon me when we were given the land for the fields at Lawrence Central how many acres of trees were we able to save by being judicious about how we placed our fields we purchased 20 acres and we have cleared less than 10 acres for the three Fields it's a beautiful are we consciously doing anything to plant trees around the district to replace some
005of those trees we will and there are certain guidelines based off of the state requirements that we take down certain trees we have to replace certain trees so that is in the plan to plant other trees and that could be on other sites where we have Open Fields to do that so it can be throughout the district but we will we will have those lovely trees back um I I just I just look at this and I realize Lawrence Township doesn't mess around when it comes to construction boom boom boom boom summer looks Summer's looking good uh comments questions I have a question for the Forest Glen Portables what are the age or what are the Grays that will occupy those uh sixth grade thank you I had just a question from a couple of
006people in the public they were inquiring about when the outside would be completed at Lawrence North the three-story facade just people driving by curious we have had a little bit of delay on some of the exterior facade going up but it currently is is here so we'll put it up as quickly as weather allows thank you on the first one question from about plans for that because obviously the school underwent Renovations in order to adjust for capacity what are our plans for or do we have plans for moving students out of those at some point given the eventually we would like to add on to Forest Glen to allow them to have a permanent site there as you remember we added some programs there that increased the size of that building so therefore pushed us
007into portables for a temporary means thank you for your continued efforts it is incredible to see all the incredible work that is going on in our schools I have a couple of questions the first is related to sustainability and so um when we think about what our school board or what our schools are doing for sustainability in our buildings um are there any sort of sustainability plans as it pertains to reducing emissions and so forth we have upgraded from a technological standpoint our HVAC systems they're all electronic and we control them from a district level so that gives us optimization opportunities within our facilities also licensers oxygen sensors are also placed in so if no one's in a room the lights go out and as you walk in the lights go on so we put
008a lot of that technology in our buildings also all the light is LED lighting excellent I was floor hard surface versus carpet we moved to that especially in the hallways so sustainability and Longevity will help us with our flooring as well that's when I was recently at a convening for school board members across the country and Batesville School District in Arkansas implemented facility upgrades and installed solar energy products they use the resulting energy cost savings to increase teacher salaries by up to fifteen thousand dollars and so there's just some really amazing work that's being done across the country um with we know especially in these times with climate change and seeing these radically high temperatures it'd be interesting to see what other measures we might be able to take so thank you and then the
009other question was about the media centers are the media centers going to be up and running at the beginning of the school year at both Fall Creek and Bowser uh Belzer will not we usually find a place for them to temporary temporarily run their Media Center so as we renovate finish up we move them in and move to another section of the building so they'll still have access to the shared system yes okay and is there any type of through this process an opportunity for us to look at Collections and to call anything that might be outdated or is that something that's ongoing that does not fall under construction that's under curriculum that's an ongoing process okay thank you yes that's an ongoing process okay thank you so much thank you Mr Smith we appreciate
010uh everything you're doing for us uh now I am going to um stay with you Mr Smith um you have you have you you will request permission later to to bid on the Lawrence North roof can you present that to us please thank you madam president members board Dr Smith we're looking at risk sections two and three at Lawrence North that is over the Performing Arts and exceptional learning areas we've had a lot of traffic on that area because we've had to replace all the equipment in the mezzanine and now that we are complete with the mezzanine work we would like to replace those roofs so I'll be seeking permission to bid roofs sections two and three for Lawrence North board Smith about the roofs my question is was this an unexpected expense yes and
011no okay part of that was is we was hoping to get a couple more years out of the roof but knowing that traffic using that as a pathway for the renovation of the mezzanine uh we've been having some issues and we need to drive the building so we pushed that up a little bit to go ahead and replace those roofs so do we have in our funds from the referendum how are we funding this from the referendum yes we have some opportunities to transfer some monies short term and and work off of future future Bond projects okay thank you thank you very much any more questions about the we never get to see the roof you know we take tours of the buildings we never get to see the roof should we try the we'll
012do a drone shot did we try praying for Hail like I do for the Lawrence household roof um when we okay just just a little tiny marble tiny well now this this next on our agenda is very exciting um can you please tell us about our student achievement part two sure thank you madam president members of the board and Dr Smith I bring to you tonight an update uh to your board goal specific to iLearn assessments so the data was unembargoed last Wednesday after the presentation to the State Board of Education and so we are now able to discuss it publicly and just as a reminder your board goal is an ambitious board goal to increase by 10 percent the number of students that are designated as approaching at or above proficiency so this is
013really looking at Proficiency in every subgroup another way to look at it is decrease by 10 percent the number of students that are scoring in the lowest category which is below proficiency so specific to language arts 10 of our 13 schools had individual subgroups school-wide that met the 10 percent growth goal in ela and you can see the specific subgroups for those 10 schools we had three schools that school-wide for our black subgroup two for white one Hispanic three English learner two multiracial and one free and reduced when you go a layer lower and you don't look school-wide but you look at specific grade levels then we had 147 individual grade levels or grade level cohorts that met that 10 percent growth goal in ela and then you can see how that breaks out demographically
014and so what's particularly encouraging about this different than last year's data last year our White subgroup had the highest growth in terms of the 10 percent this year it's our Black and Hispanic subgroup so that is a really good into education for the progress that we're making at that individual grade level or cohort within a school it's also important to look at proficiency so this is students that have scored in that proficient range on iLearn and what I have for you is three years of data 21 22 23 so looking at our post pandemic data by subgroup you can see your total number tested and so this is an important number for us to continue to monitor as we're looking at demographic changes within our student population and then it also shows you the percent
015proficient in each of our subgroups and so that last column is the change from 21 to 23 and so you can see positive growth and this is a little different than you what you might have seen on the news for the entire state or even in Marion County for ELA Statewide the the growth was pretty stagnant in terms of proficiency we continue to see proficiency growth in La for each of our subgroups from 21 to 22 and then 22 to 23. the one couple cells that I want you to pay particular close attention to in the total tested to look at our fastest growing subgroup our Hispanic subgroup and then to go down and look at free and reduced and Els so we increased our El population by 180 students from 21 to 23 and
016we also increase their Proficiency in ela still very very low in terms of where we want to be proficiency wise but we know we at least are moving in the right direction our one red cell that we're concerned about is our special education subgroup while there has been one percent growth from 21 to 23 there was actually a decline from 22 to 23 in the LA and so that's a particular subgroup that you'll see when we get to a future slide that we're beginning to develop some specific support for our schools around as we switch to the the next slide this is the below proficiency and so are we moving students out of that lowest below proficiency category and you can see some some green there for our Black and Hispanic students free and reduced
017yells again multiracial is a group that we actually have more students in the below category now than what we did in 21. our white students have stayed the same and again that concern with our special education students with some increase in the percentage of students that are scoring below proficiency so we switch to to math I'm in that same kind of thinking we had seven of 13 schools that had subgroups school-wide that met the 10 growth goal in math so you can see this is just a little lower than where we were with Ela so we're eager to begin implementation of our new math adoptions so you can see subgroup wise that are again are black Hispanic and El students uh have the the most subgroups school-wide when you go down a level to specific
018grade levels or cohorts 135 different grade levels or cohorts didn't meet the 10 growth goal in math again with our black students and Hispanic students leading the way in terms of of growth the the 10 growth goal when we look at Proficiency in math this is similar to the state of Indiana and similar to Marion County and that we're seeing larger gains in math relative to post-pandemic proficiency and part of that is because there was the greatest lost in proficiency pre-pandemic to post pandemic so we're making gains a little bit faster in math again multiracial and the sped subgroup are subgroups that we need to continue to pay close attention to but you can see we have growth in black Hispanic white are free and reduced and Els as we look at below proficiency all
019green here we have moved every subgroup students out of the below Proficiency in math so just some Key summary analysis points at the the district level um the progress toward the 10 percent uh growth board goal um is occurring in all of our subgroups in both Ela and math except with the exception of sped um and you you'll see how we're addressing that in a future slide there is still a significant Gap in proficiency levels among our racial subgroups this is a gap that continues we have narrowed that Gap slightly for Hispanic students particularly in ela but the Gap has widened in math so our white students in terms of proficiency have grown at a faster rate than our students of color and so this is certainly something that we're concerned about and working with
020our individual schools around this last bullet point I think is important for you as a board in bringing two of your board goals together at the school level there's a really strong correlation between our rigor appraisal scores and the 10 growth goal I mean we see this both in Ela and in math when a school reaches a 10.0 on the 12 point scale that correlates very strongly to many more subgroups that are achieving the 10 growth goal and it makes sense because the rigor appraisal is all about core instruction it's not about special programs it's not about extra tutoring it's about what's happening in the classroom between students and teachers and so it makes good sense that the schools that are scoring the highest on our rigor appraisals would have the most growth in in
021terms of the 10 percent growth goal and that's why I think it's really important that you set your board goal this year for the rigor appraisal to be 10.0 and that's an increase over where we've been in previous years as we look at our next steps um and these are the 30 000 of you Viewpoint because we have very specific next steps with each School based on their data uh but that first one really is about continuing our school specific support our schools are in different places in terms of core instruction and they need different types of support and so again supporting them to achieve that 10.0 or higher as we're working towards our 10 percent growth the next one is a really specific one around an instructional strategy that is part of our instructional
022model part of our teacher evaluation model helping students examine their reasoning and this is really important particularly as we begin new math adoption K-12 that we've got to be focused on reasoning in mathematics versus computation in mathematics and so this will be a really important one for our district and for each of our classrooms in terms of the delay the continued focus on the science of reading implementation in all of our grade levels and this is more than just phonics the science of reading is about how all the strands of reading come together so it is a big push on Phonics in our early grades but we've got to focus on that continued comprehension in our upper grades the next one is the one specific to special education our principals need some support in how
023to best utilize all staff the beauty of special education is there's additional staff that comes with special education the challenge is as a building principle how do you best utilize all staff to make sure that we're giving our students including our special education students access to the most rigorous core instruction that's how you see growth is rigorous core instruction and so our special education students must have that support through the additional staff that comes with that program in a general education classroom and so co-teaching is a point of emphasis of our professional development this summer so that we really can continue to form those Partnerships between general education teachers special education teachers to provide rigorous core instruction the next one um we can see in our data particularly as we look at our data relative
024to the state of Indiana and to Marion County that our Equitable student outcomes action plan is producing results for us we saw growth in every one of our subgroups black Hispanic El free and reduce in both Ela and math I mean that's unique in Marion County it's Unique in the state of Indiana so we know that that focus on Equitable student outcomes is making a difference in terms of the proficiency rates for our students and you can see in the 10 growth goals that are Black and Hispanic students are growing in more cells which is what we wanted to see this year and then the last one is we we really need to get back to our 95 percent attendance rate attendance equals student achievement so we've we've begun a comprehensive plan to improve student
025attendance so that we can get back to the 95 attendance rate which is also one of your board goals for this year so I'd be happy to entertain any discussion or questions word questions and comments or Mr noterer yeah I do I have one could you please expound on the parallel from the equity audit and um and the iLearn results what we are planning to see or the the bridge if yeah and there's lots of bridges there's lots of places that there's connection between um specific data that came out of the equity audit that became an action plan so I'll give you an example our keynote speaker at our Summit this morning was Dr Dominique Smith who's the author of the restorative practices Playbook and his message to our 300 that were in attendance this
026morning was really about how do we keep relationships strong with students so that they're in class and that we aren't excluding students for reasons that are unnecessary so talking about discipline in particular and rethinking the way that that we look at disciplines so that students are in class so that was data that came out of our Equity audit that became an action step in our Equitable student outcomes action plan now we're providing the professional development and we would expect to see more students in class rather than sitting in the office sitting at home sitting in ISS when you're in class for rigorous Court instruction you're going to learn when you're sitting in the assistant principal's office maybe not as much and so that's a real specific example of how the two connect each other thank
027you for that I had a question first of all thank you this is a lot of great information I'm just trying to better understand the data just from my own understanding so an example would be from all of our groups say you have a student in one racial subgroup that's also in special education are they counted as two different separate data points okay yes so a student would be counted by race yes it would be counted by their free and reduced status if that applies they would also be counted either special education or El if that applies as well so for some students they may be counted in four different subgroups okay thanks for helping me understand the overlap and then my second question what are some things that you attribute to the slower growth
028in the special education group are there some kind of things you're seeing that might be related to the um I guess it was the proficiency kind of sliding a little bit sure I'm going to ask Mrs Niemeyer to come to the the microphone one of the concerns that we have and and this gets into the technical pieces of how IEPs are written but that students are not pulled out of core instruction to receive special education services we want our special education staff to push in to core instruction in a general education setting so when you pull students out they're missing instruction and so that's a piece that we're really supporting our principles around how to best utilize their staff to make sure that we're pushing in as much as possible what would you add to
029that space okay yeah thank you for that explanation so it kind of goes along with the next steps that you mentioned about the um co-teaching yes okay thank you thank you so much for this very valuable report I um similarly I have a couple of questions about the data on slides three as well as six can you I'm just trying to figure out of the 147 individual grade bands what is the denominator there I'm getting 588 is that accurate it's actually higher than that and so it's over 900. so we're looking at still when you do the math it's still 20 20 of our students are meeting the 10 growth in ela and then the same with um math is that correct yes about 20 of grade levels or grade level cohorts okay thank you
030um and then G you have a crosswalk between how students especially the El population which I know is so excitingly growing here in Lawrence Township with the um a lot like looking at their access scores and how they are um assessed on iLearn and what that's like over a period of time because we know obviously English language acquisition doesn't happen after overnight and so what type of data can you share around that so that's long-term data that we look at for students over uh several years I think one of our our exciting points is that we do see students particularly at our elementary schools with that that same level of high rigor that have students who are exiting the the program as level fives much more quickly than schools where the core instruction is less
031and so it's not so much about what extra support and extra Services it's truly about core instruction our most concerning data point comes for students that that we would consider long-term Els so they've been long-term Els maybe with us since kindergarten they're now in middle school and so how is it that we get growth in Access and also growth in iLearn and so this is an area of great support for our middle schools right now around language acquisition around language instruction and what that looks like in content areas but middle schools are focused for that right now thank you I appreciate that I have a question related to attendance I know we've talked about it on this day as before I can't recall what our attendance rate was this year I know we're aiming toward
03295 so what is our current attendance rate and I know that our board goal State's pre-pandemic levels is that 95 aligned with the pre-pandemic level or is that higher than what we had previously no it aligns with pre-pandemic but we're at 91 right now okay thank you very much yes um I have a few questions um and I did have a little chat with Mr Smith in the hallway before we got here so um if it's too long of an answer you can email us um but um because I'm going to try to get us out of here before but um my question is um reasoning versus computation yes can you give me a quick example yes so um and let's talk middle school again by the time students are in middle school we can't
033continue to be teaching simple computation those standards are actually ending in the third grade now and so we've got to move our students into reasoning and give them other supports if they need support in computation for example on iLearn most sections students can use a calculator and so let's teach them how to use the calculator for the computation if they don't have memorized all of their facts and let's focus on the reasoning because the reasoning is really where students are going to be able to be successful and I learn story problems story problems problem solving real world problems situational problems or if we are focused on computation let's focus that around and give students some examples of five problems and three of them are are wrong figure out which three are wrong and tell me
034why and so really flipping it from the teacher showing algorithmically how to solve a problem to students examining their reasoning of three of these are wrong I've got to figure out which ones are wrong and and be able to defend my answer this is why we're going to love our new math curriculum it's all in there okay um rigorous core instruction for all of our kids from sped to you know High ability and Mike my question is how do we balance that with their mental health because if you ask me what I want for the kids in Lawrence Township I want them to be healthy and happy first okay so how do we balance that rigorous curriculum with mental health they don't have to be mutually exclusive and so part of a rigorous curriculum is
035giving students an opportunity to tell their story giving students an opportunity to talk to each other to collaborate in examining reasoning to work together those are all really positive strategies that support positive mental health and when students are successful academically they feel better and so it can all go together thank you so much for for putting that together for us because I I know that's a concern a lot of parents have when we talk and I just I want to end my comments saying I've been on this um I've been at this dance for about 11 years and um many years went by with no change in achievement no change no change no change and to see all of this positive change really coming to fruition board board is a really big deal it's a
036big big deal so kudos to our to you your team our building leaders um and our teachers teachers and and absolutely you know the heads of our divisions uh you know for for coming together for the equity work we've done um this is the first time I've seen it really working yeah on a more Universal level so thank you very much absolutely okay there are no more questions about that we're going to talk with Mr miles about our proposed 2024 budget adoption calendar thank you madam president Dr Smith members of the board uh our discussion around the 2024 budget adoption calendar is for information tonight uh before you you see dates that we would propose that we move forward as we are required by Statute to do so many of the dates um there is
037obviously we have a fixed deadline as to when we have to have our budget submitted to the state so this would keep us in line with that as well as all other timing restraints and constraints that we're required to do so so as information tonight we just present this and we'll bring this back in at the next board meeting for a vote okay we're going to move right on quickly to our board committee chair reports uh Miss Norman what do you have from the foundation thank you Miss Mustin the only update I have is the next upcoming event which is the Bob Bridge Fund Golf Outing Friday September 29th at Pebble Brook Golf Club information is on the msdltf.org website and what is that website for the foundation sorry the Lawrence Township School Foundation website
038I missed lstf dot lstf I believe no it's it's Ms I only know because I was on there Google it yeah Google has your back okay that's that's a stumper question all right uh Miss Morris do you have anything from the Indiana school boards Association of course none for me at this time thank you so much you know for all of you we tend to get we all get the same emails from that it's a statutorily we have to have a member to give us information but we all get that information Miss Dunn yes I um just want to continue to thank my um co-policy board member or member the two of us um but it is my understanding that Neola is a little bit behind on their July package um and so we are
039hoping in a few weeks for the two of us to meet um to look over the next latest and greatest legislation from um downtown thank you we'll look forward to it and Miss Puckett what's our what's happening in in Lawrence Parks lots of fun stuff first a successful fourth Fest in Lawrence it was awesome it was even more awesome just to see the positive Collective support for Lauren's like to be on that walk it just hits it hits different in my Urban vernacular it hits different um so that was amazing um Farmers Market Fort Bend cultural campus just a reminder Thursdays Thursdays from four to seven June 1st through October 5th and also be prepared August um 11th hold on wait hold on I got it August 11th sorry from 10 to 2 Lawrence Community
040safety day so come and support that's all I have bad Bing bad boom thank you for those thank you for those committee reports um oh no August 12th I knew to double check August 12th it wasn't feeling right in my feelers so yes August 12th thank you Miss Beckett thank you so much we were all going to be there wondering where the fire trucks were where all the fun was okay um we will move on to our action items um and first Mr Smith um the approval of permission for the Rubes Madam president members aboard Dr Smith I recommend the board of approval of request permission to bid Lawrence North roofs as presented second uh any discussion board about the Lawrence North roofs all in favor aye aye any opposed Lawrence North gets some new
041Roofing um and we move on to Miss Norman yes Madam president I move that we treat agenda items 3.2 through 3.6 as consent agenda properly moved and seconded all in favor of treating those items as a consent agenda hi hi any opposed we will treat them as a consent agenda I move approval of the consent agenda I guess we just did that right no oh I'm confused on this honestly yeah all of those okay just as a point of clarification before we move on we have to request that they are a consent agenda and then we have to request that we approve the consent agenda it's 3.2 3.2 yes I think she missed one she missed them yes yeah okay do we need to um through 3.7 um I would I would request um that
042we have a motion to approve the consent agenda as amended so moved second all in favor aye any any eyes have it okay and um so now I've lost my train of thought you sillies okay all right um you know in the comments we are on to board and administrator comments so um as a scarecrow said let's start on this side well I think you cited and I have been glued to my computer all day just not on the Weather Channel that we have weather coming in so I'm gonna pass and say thank you and wish everybody a great start to the school year and wrap up of Summer I just have two comments first of all I want to commend the amazing work that uh you all have done um in preparation for the
043summit I had Educators texting me telling me they cannot get over the incredible lineup of Educators that you have um and you're doing it Mr Smith with Fall Creek Valley under construction and so um just is so incredibly impressed with that effort and the fact that you said you have 300 plus Educators so um I'm going to try to sneak by tomorrow we have our enl Retreat today it was today and tomorrow so I'm really bummed out that I'm missing it but kudos to you all um and then also mad gratitude for the presence of Lawrence Township at Black Expo seeing all of the Facebook posts and Lawrence represented is just amazing and so um just want to say those two shout outs so thank you Miss Puckett Miss Norman just one real quick thing
044for the teachers um two of our local Track clubs collected 850 items for back to school supplies if you stop by the Fall Creek Valley Track tomorrow between 6 30 and 8 you're welcome to get them it's papers pencils Clorox wipes all the things you need so I I appreciate all of our Community Partners and I appreciate our staff as they get ready to bring our kids back outstanding Miss Norman enormous standing and I would just add that I was lucky enough to attend this morning and here um Dr Dominique Smith and and what he had to say about building relationships was very powerful and I even have a video of myself telling myself how beautiful I am so so there's that um very exciting you know our summer our Collective summers are kind of
045coming to a close we're preparing for the opening of schools so just hoping that that everybody has their their rest um with them uh and and can move forward positively into the next school year and hoping all of our kiddos will be ready um Dr Smith with that being said Madam president that day is Thursday August 3rd is the first day of school so for the record Sheila we just remind parents there will be a series of communications that will go out over the next two weeks just reminding everyone about the start of school so that's all I have thank you board our next monthly board Education meeting will be Monday August 14th and it is a work session it will begin at 5 30. um art that is the do I have a motion
046to adjourn our this meeting so I can't properly moved and seconded we are adjourned you did that radar it looks awesome how are the kids now um yeah yeah so this I'm sure you know I just want to say that when we lost a deer family friend um foreign