001to our media viewers and our listeners the board superintendent and I are pleased that you have joined us as we celebrate achievement review information and make policy decisions related to the effective operation of the Lawrence Township Schools and let me add thank you all family members and friends who are here to celebrate with us our Scholars our athletes and our musicians we are a partnership and we can't do this without you we're so proud of your children tonight so thank you for all you do to make this possible this is a regular meeting and all items that will be discussed are voted on this evening has been posted as required by state law and Azure school board we're here to set goals listen to reports of the superintendent approve budgets contracts and Personnel appointments and
002make policy for the district we are not here to make management decisions or solve the problems of individuals management is the responsibility of the superintendent meetings of the board are open to the public and it is a time when the board conducts its business of governing the school system in a public Arena the regular meetings are not meetings with the public therefore comments from the audience are always confined to the time designated for the public to address the board the public can't address the board absolutely I'm pleased that you have taken the time this evening to join us we're very proud of our school system and very proud of your students so with that said Miss Johnson HR please take the take the mic and we'll begin our superintendent Awards thank you and good evening
003tonight we are here to celebrate many but our first award is being given to Mr Iran morally if he could come forward is the former president of the Lawrence Township Foundation the 40 Years of Excellence with our Educational Foundation could not happen without loyal and dedicated leadership Mr Iran morally has served our foundation for multiple years during the pandemic Mr morale was asked to stay on the board and continue his service to lend strength to a difficult time as a Lawrence North alumni he has dedicated himself to giving back to our community his leadership as president of our foundation was Superior he provided guidance during the pandemic and was integral in the hiring of our new executive director he represents the Excellence of our community as an Alum parent and dedicated Patron he works tirelessly
004to make the schools of Lawrence Township great he is a positive force who embodies our motto of achievement service and integrity Lawrence Township can't be more proud of our foundation board member Mr Iran morali thank you thank you so much the next set of awards will be given by our elementary assistant superintendent Dr Emily Haas Brown thank you Miss Johnson good evening everyone Dr Emily Brown and I'm very pleased to bring to you tonight some Elementary student recognitions we're going to begin tonight with our sixth grade basketball boys in that both one from one Elementary so the proud assistant principal of Sunnyside Elementary Miss kirgo will come up now and energy championship teams all right side with this Suite announcing our girls basketball team this evening I have with us JC Anderson Camila Elmore Kelly
005Moreno kamiyah price and Ashley zorto Dominguez not with us this evening are Miss jamaila Blackman Miss Jalen Burns missile Robinson I believe is still trying to find a parking spot and Miss Taylor Rowe could not be here this evening and my gentlemen our sixth grade boys basketball champions damari blowbroom Davion Davis Cruz daudel Aiden Gary Paul Johnson Jaden Kennedy and not here this evening Mr Isaiah Baltimore Mr Daniel Bonilla and Mr Andrew lizama and a special shout out to our girls basketball coach Josh wheat who was able to join us here this evening foreign [Music] congratulations Sunnyside Elementary [Applause] tonight we're not just honoring our elementary students who are succeeding in athletics but also in Performing Arts a sixth grade Circle the state with song Regional choir qualifiers from of our elementaries here with us
006tonight we'll begin with our proud principal of Amy Beverly Elementary Mr Jared Pennington introducing his qualifiers [Applause] good evening I am proud principal of Amy beverland Elementary we have with us tonight 46 students who qualified as selected participants for the circle the state was sung and some with the imea Honor Choir designation first London Bartlett Sophie Belcher Emmett Berg Kaden Bibbs Lily Blaylock Savannah Brown Emily Burkhart Cato Carl Jackson Willis Collins Crouch Kendall dick adrias Draper Harper dust CC dust Mona Lisa Goff Antoine Gordon Tyler Greene Evan Harris Sanaya Hughes Tyron Jones Amelia Kendrick Molly leffelman Michelle Lynn Gwen McWilliams Chanel mokeo Grace Dalton Zoe O'Donnell Rodney pace Vivian popchev Lucy prala Destiny Randell Lauren Sanders Kalia Sanders Elena sellers CeCe Simonson Brooks Smith Savannah Smith Christopher Smith Sophia state Luke Stratton demia Swain Olivia
007Walker Sydney working called music security Berlin Elementary this is Andrew congratulations Amy beverlyn Elementary our proud principal at Forest Glen Elementary Mr Omar Lalu to introduce his student qualifiers euros good evening and from Forest Glen selected participants are Jordy Chavez Shania Davis Olivia Dinkins Sylvia Eddington Jade Garcia Avery Gatewood Jack Gonzalez Emery Graham Chanel Loretta Elena little Olive Malone linear Mendes Sydney Miller Melanie Perez Isabel Puentes Elena sales Michaela shell soya Wilson and our amazing music teacher Sasha Lugo foreign Elementary I'd never like to welcome Miss Natalie Stewart The Proud principal of Harrison Hill Elementary foreign good evening I am so excited to congratulate Debra Cartagena Torres and unable to be with us this evening Savannah Taylor and Myra Stephen Fortune congratulations Harrison Hill and next our proud principal from Indian Creek Elementary Mr Kevin
008Kemper foreign all right unless I missed you I don't have any with me tonight but I still want to acknowledge my students who participated Circle the state was song uh so if you hear your name come on up I had Naomi participate I had Helen Garcia Garcia participate I had Bonnie L George participate and I had mercy Pearson participate they represented Indian Creek at Circle the state with song thank you Mr Kemper congratulations Indian Creek last but not least our elementary celebrations I'd like to introduce our principal of Winding Ridge Elementary Miss Rose Graham good evening everyone I would like to recognize my Scholars who participate in the circle of the state with song we have Darius Austin Julian Bell Julian Bradley Gianna Carter Freddie deal Elmore Zane Elmore Corey on Ford Nyla Frazier Fallon
009halbush shamaya Holden Aaron Hatchett Adrian Johnson Darrell King Rashad Lang Brooklyn Magruder Takaya Moore nadir penita Maurice rachovich London Reed Olivia Richardson Nassim Rivers Adrian Robinson Katz Casanova Cole Schaefer lamica smiley Julia Smith Elise Taylor Jalen Taylor Tanaya Thomas Jayla Vaden John Eisley Reagan Williams tahana Williams field thank you congratulations to Winding Ridge Elementary and as Winding Ridge completes their photo I'd like to welcome to the podium our assistant superintendent of secondary education Mr Dan kuznick congratulations all right we're going to move on to the secondary level level now and we want to once again want to thank what looks like the entire city of Lawrence for being here this evening as we move on to Belzer middle school and up first Belzer Middle School winter sports Dr Batts good evening Dr Smith president Mustin
010and distinguished members of our Board of Education I present to you the Belzer bears Miss Jessica Rabe Mick Champion one meter diving Mr kenyatta's Harris Mick Champion 100 breaststroke then we have our seventh grade boys Marin County Champions Josiah Bridges Trevor bush cam Von Bryson Jones Lucas Bowers Rhett Johnson Neil Collins Sean Matthews Bryce Bush Gabriel Smith Jordan Sims Landon Lampley Chase Hart Caden Washington Elijah Hughes Marcus Sanders Jamal Craig Jacory Sanders Jonathan Gates and we have two wrestlers who are competing tonight in our track meeting baseball games Mr Tate St Lawrence Mick champion and Earl Kearns Mick champion all right congratulations to our Belzer bears up next Fall Creek Valley Mr Robin Lewis good evening here to announce our boy swim and dive Make Champions starting with Cameron Anderson Liam Welty Grayden Jones Kamari
011Harper Appleton Silas petrovsky Maxwell Johnson Jason Flores Graham Willie Dylan Clark Grant Reed Nicholas Williams and Coach Jazzy Kitt boys basketball undefeated season Marion County Champs Mick Champs Trey Cunningham Darrell Harvey Caleb Elkins TJ Davis Darion Hawkins Rylan Hester KJ Jones Ethan Lee Blake Smith Seth bacon Shamar Grady Kaden Barney Aaron Amos Stephen Kenny Luke Tatum coach by jermill Owens and Byron Davis perspective right there yep seventh grade girls Marion County Champs Jada wheat Jada Squires Paige stonage Myla Harris Amaya Sal Jordan Rogers Zion hunt sadio Yaya Brooklyn Anderson jorian Smith Harmony Burks Jaylee Taylor jakaya albis Malia Norfleet Tatiana Hernandez and Coach Austin Sanders last but not least our two-time undefeated wrestler Caden Underwood and Mick champ Santana actor foreign Creek Valley Wildcats continuing on with our winter sports Lawrence Central athletic director Mosey
012Barnes good evening everyone my name is mostly Barnes proud athletic director at Lawrence Central High School I'd like to congratulate everyone being recognized this evening to keep up the great work I'd like to thank our principal Mr Franklin Bush for his vision and his hyper focus on student outcomes I'd like to thank superintendent Dr Sean Smith president Miss Wendy munston members of the board director of operations Dr Grant Nesbitt I'd like to also thank our coaches that are here today and also our parents as well and last but not least our student athletes our winter sports student athletes like to get started with girls swim Lucy shayline academic Allstate girls swim again Julia Rabe academic Allstate boys swim Chase Caldwell all Mick all Marion County boys dive Max Baker academic Allstate he's out of boys
013volleyball game right now earlier moving on to wrestling Dominic Sumner I'll make moving along the girls basketball Jayla Lampley all Mick all Marion County Layla abdurake uh Mick Lola Lampley all Mick all Marion County boys basketball DeSean Craig all Mick Jacob Franklin oh Mick and Joshua mickens academic Allstate thank you Mr Cool answer all right congratulations to our Lawrence Central bears moving right along to the other side of town Lawrence North athletic director Mike Penrose thank you Mr kuznick my name is Mike Pinner is on the Proud athletic director of the Wildcats and we're going to get straight to it uh first we want to recognize our girls basketball program they had an amazing run this year they were Mick Champions sectional Champions and Regional Champions so we're going to bring up the coaching staff
014first first up head coach first year coach Stephen Thomas associate head coach Stephanie Keller assistant coach Tyler Etherington assistant coach Corey majors assistant coach Consuelo Sanders assistant coach Mikhail Rogers and we have our video coordinator here Leila delosa and now for our players first off kiedra Butler Kai heard she's not here but we want to make sure that she's recognized our next player uh kanira Ridley Kamara Mills Amani Washington and next up one of our seniors Monica Williams she was selected to the all Mick all Marion County and the ibca All-State team she'll be playing for the Ohio Bobcats next year Lanaya early she was also named all Mick in all County she's unable to be here tonight and we also have Victoria Geiss a Morris is here Michaela Washington Cobb Jamiah Thomas Nyla peoples
015Natalia Franklin Kalia Bentley and that is your final four girls basketball team for 2023. congratulations all right the Wildcats had an amazing winter season we have several almik All County and All-State athletes to recognize in our other sports first our girls swimming and Diving team coach Matt Moen is here he was the Marion County coach of the year and sectional coach of the year come on up coach all right first are girls swimmers and divers Elizabeth Prince Kent All County all-conference academic All-State Emerson lehan All County all-conference academic Allstate and a state qualifier Rachel and Gabby Peck sisters are also softball players I want to make sure that they get recognized they were all County all-conference and also state qualifiers Brielle Vale is here all County all Mick academic Allstate ihsa State qualifier and just
016committed to Cal Poly to continue her swimming career Molly Miller all Mick Faith Bosco all Mick Elena Eckert all Mick Lillian corkwell all Mick Emma Pletcher she is not here with us tonight but I want to make sure she gets recognized All County all make academic Allstate and an ihsa State qualifier for Emma Elena Thompson academic Allstate and Emily Yoon academic Allstate and now for the boys swimming and Diving team Tristan Eckert academic Allstate all Mick All County and an ihsa State qualifier Nick Ostendorf he's a runner but also a swimmer he's academic Allstate Trace Cole academic Allstate and ihsa state participant Pablo Barrientos Dominguez all Mick and academic Allstate Matthew Fritz Kent all Mick All County academic Allstate and ihsa state qualifier Brody Eckert all Mick All County ihsa State qualifier Tywin Minnick all
017Mick West Drake All Mick Hank senseney all Mick All County ihsaa State participant Emilio Perez all Mick All County and ihsa state finalists diving Colin Anderson all Mick All County ihsa State qualifier all right next our wrestlers I'd like to introduce coach Jacob Haven Commander peer coach and we have with us Brandon Johnson all Mick All County ihas ihsa State finalist and name to the All-State team Blake Jones all Mick and Romeo White could not be here with us today he is also all Mick and for boys basketball tonight Xavier Robinson is here all Mick All County and he's going to be representing the Wildcats at the Futures game this summer at the All-Star game over the summer and Kobe Bowles uh was almik he is not able to be with us tonight that's it
018for the Wildcats we want to thank everybody for all your support foreign all right up next we're going to the world of Performing Arts up first Belzer Middle School Jennifer Bryan good evening Dr Smith president Mustin and members of the Lawrence Township School Board we are pleased to recognize some of our Performing Arts students first tonight as our choir these students earned the Ismail all music award Inquirer meaning they received gold ratings in Solo Ensemble choir organizational and isma Jazz show choir [Music] Braylon Birdsong Christopher Chen kazuko Clements Fernanda cumbian Nunez Stephanie Desir Aya Ewing Sienna Gaines Alexis Gomez KJ Harris Isabella Henry Abigail Crowell Sofia Simonson javian Wilson and Jayla young these are isma all music choir Award winners now I'll turn it over to our band director Mr Eric Park [Applause] following students
019or helped us earn the isma all music award in band for excellent performance in jazz concert band and solo and Ensemble Pablo Maldonado Jasmine Robinson josani valaderes Karen Salazar Desiree Layton Zach Hill Eden Aranda Fabricio Garcia Anthony Ramirez Ramirez Adam Buckner George rigney Chloe Anderson Josh Jankowski and Ethan Johnson thank you foreign congratulations to our bells or bears continuing on performance art Performing Arts at Fall Creek Valley Miss Taryn Williams we have two students from Fall Creek Valley that got gold and solo at district and advanced estate Solon Ensemble and got a gold at State those students are Elisa ample and Sean Haney the following students went as a large Ensemble to solo District stolen Ensemble God of gold went to State and also achieved a goal that state those students are braylee Beasley Addison
020alwine Elisa ample Jillian Braum Ava Berkey Layla Branson Lily Cooper Jamara Frederick Noah Gaither Georgia Gordon Natalia Groves Haley Bennett Sean Haney Brooklyn Henderson minajvik Maxwell Johnson Naomi Jones Abigail Magnus Maya Malouf Audrey McElroy Alexa McGraw should Taylor Riggins and Mackenzie Sturgis okay Miss Amanda Camacho the orchestra teacher will introduce the string students thank you Mike good evening Dr Smith president Mustin and the members of the Lawrence Township School Board tonight we're going to be honoring the winners of isma State solo and Ensemble and the isma all music award participants for isma State solo and Ensemble Liam Welty and Andrea Delgado this those students went to State stolen Ensemble these students have helped us get the all music award by going to not only isma Sol and Ensemble isma Jazz and isma organizational competition um
021Haley Dean Andrea Delgado Luciana denunzio Sophia Gamble Jenna Herman Juliana Koger Dira pedida Martinez Erica Rojas Herrera and Liam walty remember what are you guys doing first it's not a joke congratulations up next Lawrence North Devon jobson good evening and thank you for being here I'm going to read off the names for those from band and Orchestra who received a gold rating horizontal Reign at State Salon Ensemble This Year from Lawrence North High School our first one is Aurelia Jensen on piano Alexander dolin on flute Tara Neal who got a gold rating on tenor sax a silver Ray and bass clarinet and a silver rating on B-flat clarinet Emily santion who got a gold rating on violin Ethan Ryan who got a gold rating on French horn Luke Jackson gold rating also on French horn
022and Alan verstraight we got a gold rating with Distinction on tuba and Mr bro will read off the rest I'm Corey burrow I'm the director of orchestras at Ln and the assistant director of bands that I'm going to continue reading all of our students Aaron Fajardo on viola received a gold rating with distinction uh Ava Grace Stenson received a silver rating on cello and a Christian hornaday on violin and uh Jacob De La Rocco on tuba and Sarah ajishigiri on piano hello everyone my name is Jay Dickerson and I will be honoring the Lawrence North Advanced dance team Indiana State finalists we have Jordan Aldridge Nyla Barber London golden Naya Haynes Marlena Jack demara Moss Shari Singleton Ruby Snyder Ayanna Taylor and Sanaya White is congratulations switching over to Lawrence Central Milo Ellis hello um
023today I will be sharing names recognizing students that made the issma state finals for show choir we had both a uni voice and a mixed group um so down the line from the central sound zaina Lim Hannah Baker Alicia Barnes Janaya Beeson Javon Carter Anna Reba Clark Michaela Clark Justin Dunham Sarai Edwards Zion Garman Sam Greenfield Brenna Hardiman Madison harpold Ella Hajj Kelly Jankowski Essence Johnson Cadence Joyner Nora Krug Attica Lee Joseph Lewis Lila Martin West Mills Craig Morrison Jasmine Neely Cameron Nelson Robert Newton Eduardo Palapa day Patterson Sam poffenberger Powell is Waldo Rivera David Saunders Anna Seitz Adrian Simmons Damien Simmons Tracy Smith Arielle Stigler Kennedy Stuckey Roman Schwartz Olivia Tran daisyon Tucker Joseph turbyville Olivia turbyville Michael Washington Alana Williams Cameron Williams Mariah Wilson that's half from the Suites the universe group we
024have Zeta Bell Genesis Bennett Isabella Bodkin Rianne Brady Zenovia Burton Kanaya Cheney Caitlin Coleman nikaya Dale Felix Davis Jasper Davis Nevaeh Franklin Gabby Freeman Zakia Harris de Maya Hopwood Olivia Isaac Payton Kelly pipes Demi Robinson Kelsey Proctor Dakota Rogers anastosa niela Strickland Amaya Tucker Reagan Tobar V Thatcher 70 Thatcher now you let's oh I said that sorry you read Belize Piper Winston and then our backup band that we're actually the winners of the state um State show choir competition uh Aaron Smith Abraham Greenfield Adam Cheney Ashley Benavides and Christian Jennings as always and Evan sorry Evan Isaac and Nick Walker foreign all right congratulations [Music] we're in the home stretch we're in the home stretch Mr deshmar Marshall good evening my name is Joshua Marshall director of bands at Lawrence Central High School I'll be
025reading off um our All-State band members our state saw and Ensemble students and the Lawrence Township Winter Guard students so first we have um cabriana Barnes Peyton five and Caleb Griffith all receiving gold with distinction at state for Allstate band we have Samuel Martin Bailey Workman and Adam Cheney and the remaining State selling Ensemble students Sam Martin with the gold Adam Cheney gold with distinction Jalen Starr with the gold Kenneth Johnson uh with the goal with distinction um Christopher Chong with the goal with distinction and Oliver Hyman with the gold as well and for our Winter Guard who were a state finalists this year we have Miss Julie Reed who's back here is our guard director um Mallory Anderson Gomez Cheryl and Bracero Gomez Justin Garrison Emory Hawkins Ayanna Howard Sophia martyr Patricia Patton benavidez
026Andy riera Zoe Rodriguez Ava Smith Nakaya Tyndall Camry white set Mallory uh sorry Chloe Collins Elizabeth lucinde Madison McCoskey Michael McGowan Milo Moore Ozzy Morgan Charlie papalko Laura Ratchford Lydia Risser Emily santillin and Kai Norman thank you hello my name is Timothy Henderson I'm the percussion director at Lawrence North this is Jesse Mack we are the co-directors of Lawrence Township winter percussion and these are some of our state finalist members this year we have Landon bear Keith Baker Christopher Chong Arya Lemmy Chase Martin Alia Miller Jeremiah Morgan Gregory Poe III Jason Rosales Harms Michael Savage Caleb Smith steel ducky Watkins Liam Wilkins and Lee Williams foreign while they're taking those final pictures you'll know this is both bears and Wildcats so congratulations to both of you congratulations yes everybody thank you for sticking around for
027all of our student awesomeness um it's great to see everybody Excel and succeed Here Comes part two we're going to transition for a few minutes and then here comes the fun part of the board meeting you are more than welcome to stay but if not here's your chance to run have a good evening yes next month my passport is still not here myself my sister my sister is getting married I don't know what needs going on I'm here honestly but did you get in okay I didn't even bother I was just that's why we don't sit close today ladies you know when I was a little bit chilly Dr Smith so I'm happy to be this close to y'all close at the dance just I'm left-handed I'm getting windy over here okay good enough let's
028wait a few minutes everybody ready it's up here somebody's looking for their phone it's up here you're good I do the same thing my kids get mad at me every time no no you've already yeah oh yeah okay we're going to start the rest of the meeting here um for our first information item could we call Mr Sven Schumacher to the Deus give us an update on the sharing place yeah thank you for the opportunity to give you a quick update we have 10 years worth of sharing place we are operating and uh definitely uh I think you heard us talking about that during the heights of covet not as many clients found us their way but it's a totally different now so in January February and March we had 2952 families and that is
029about 12 000 people that we served in in the program and it's interesting that since we just saw these great kids um in the group between 66 and 17 years old 3900 and most of them come here out of this district and so it's something that really is helping so many families and children and so we are very glad to be part of your efforts and our efforts um I shared with Miss Sean Bush that we have seen an increasing number of older people too over the age of 65. and what's interesting there is many of them are serving as homes for grandchildren so I uh not too long ago I was helping out and I met a lady who was I think 68 she told me and she worked all of her life for
030a t and she said I'm not coming off but every once in a while I have to come and I said why and he said I have three grandchildren living with me and they are sometimes needing more food than she was able to do through her pension and through her social security and so you know we are providing the an important service for your families and so we are very glad to be with with you there we're working with Mr Rogers Miss and his team on the renovation so there's a degree of anxiety on our level especially when we're talking about that bridge and how to get all the food because I think some of you that have maybe seen when that big leaner strike comes on Fridays and delivers 10 pallets of food that's
031the kind of scale that we are working here on we are not just playing food pantry anymore we are actually really doing it and so that's one of the things we are trying to figure out how to do that without having major disruption I think it's the same moment we're working on an extension of our contract Mr Smith is working on that too and so the last new program that maybe some of the new board members that I have seen but maybe don't know we have a home delivery program that serves about 150 people and these are folks that originally were maybe not able to come to sharing place during the the covet crisis but many of them are seriously ill and so we get referrals from Community North Hospital and others and people with
032cancer just came out of the hospital having nobody that delivers some food so we have a whole group of some of our churches here in this area that do that so just to give you a little update we are very very pleased to be part of what you do and thank you so much for your amazing Support over all the years and of course I'm a kind of more personally interested because I have a ninth grader at Lawrence North so I'm kind of have now more skin in the game than before Dr Smith so thank you so much and thank you thank you madam chair for your wonderful support thank you [Applause] just a quick question it is Our intention from Dr Smith it is Our intention to continue our work with the sharing place
033as we as we navigate our new facility yeah absolutely and I think board and public you need to understand the vital support we receive from sharing places not only serving the community at large but more specifically Lawrence Township and the story that Mr Schumacher just gave of a grandparent who has children in our district so absolutely Mr Smith we have a plan Roger Smith over there with our renovation of this facility that sharing place will continue to be located here at the lecc good thank you Mr Smith do you have a blue ribbon update for us I bet you do Madam president members aboard Dr Smith we continue on uh the west side of uh LC is coming along really well we're hoping to get that asphalt patched in there so students can start using
034our new sidewalk uh the art rooms almost finished up we've got some flooring to do the next slide Media Center likewise we're hoping to be in this area by the end of May of this year the senior Cafe again on the west side there a lot of movement on the North soils being turned and moved and smacked up the retaining wall is supposed to start this week so we'll see that going up LC pool continues on you'll see some concrete walls starting again this week going up around the pool Ln fencing over four thousand feet is up and we'll continue on around the entire property Lawrence North phase two six classrooms the LGI and some other dressing rooms for Performing Arts being renovated L land two-story uh that's the inside the new two story for
035the new wrestling room above the commons area Jim is being demoed as we speak and that will hopefully be up in uh usable come August and to put uh pool continues on with the ceramic starting to to lay as well as the final deck also a reminder we do start the Fall Creek Valley Belzer Middle School we'll be moving teachers by the end of May with renovation starting in those buildings in the first week in June we also continue with the design work for the new lecc building yeah I do have let me see oh okay all right thank you Mr Smith everything's coming together really well I did have a question for the public record I I know the answer to this but I get this asked a lot by people in the public
036what will be what will the old an auditorium at lnb utilized for a good question we do have two old natatoriums that will be filled in and utilized as a multi-purpose space both four Sports and Performing Arts Mr Smith I'm not sure who on the cabinet can answer this but with the renovations of the media center I'm just wondering is there a refresh of the books I know that we're part of the library shared system so didn't know what was going on with the books that are in the library and how those are being moved to the new library thank you Miss Dunn I'll let curriculum go ahead and answer that because we do a Refresh on books all the time so not only with the renovation but I'll let them go ahead Troy we
037do continual refresh so each year we order new materials for the media centers and so our current collection will move to the New Media centers thank you so much we like books in Lawrence any further questions for Mr Smith okay um I will hand this over to Mr kuznick and Dr Brown and I assume there will be a cast of thousands we're going to look at our strategic Plan update good evening president Mustin Dr Smith members of the board yes we are very proud of our committee's work for our strategic planning and an update for you tonight and before I begin with our presentation I'd like to ask all the committee members who are in attendance tonight in the audience um those who came to focus groups or were on the committee please stand thank
038you for your work and contribution it took many hands I'm also pleased to share with you that tonight we have our strategic planning consultant Dr Jill Kramer and she'll open our presentation and then I will conclude it and Dr Kramer if you'll go to the podium thank you madam president and Dr Smith and members of the board um okay um thank you very much um so we just want to kind of walk through the process that we took to get to the Strategic plan we did have hundreds of people involved in this process and so um with the cabinet we did a little planning and looked over an environmental scan so we could level set sort of our expectations around education and the state of education and so our idea was sort of funnel take
039lots and lots of great ideas from stakeholders and pare it down pare it down pair it down to a strategic plan and so we challenged the group to look at the I think 1200 or so ideas that came in from 29 focus groups and hundreds of participants we had Community Partners we had Parents students faculty staff classified staff administrators participate in this group in these focus groups and so we asked for questions who is Lawrence Township so describe Who We Are what your your opinion or what your perspective is of who the the district is um what does Lawrence Township do well what can Lawrence Township improve and what do you see as barriers to Improvement and so from that we had about 1200 ideas come in about 400 sort of unique ideas and we
040divided those 400 or so ideas into these themes that you see up here so around people and Staffing facilities Technologies or the physical things that we have to do our work with our students academics extracurriculars and student support culture that had equity and culture in it outcomes and policy and we asked each of the teams then to look at the ideas that came in there and pair those down to even you know a smaller grouping of things that would be priority fees for the district and so you'll see the number of teams that we had in place so everyone who was invited to a focus group which was hundreds of people was invited to this prioritization process and they were placed on a team and they went through really a two-part in-person process but I
041think each of the teams had many meetings to sort of prioritize and vet and then the ideas that we came up with are creating the plan that I think Dr House Brown and the team will will bet with you tonight so that was our process to engage and then prioritize prioritize prioritize and ask what does the group really need the whole District behind in order to affect change and then many of the ideas I know have already been referred to individual departments schools groups of teachers or groups of Administrators to start to implement or look at because they didn't rise to the level of a strategy but they were important from the voices that we heard thank you Dr Kramer for your leadership and guidance through this process um we as a part of this
042process Dr Kramer also guided us through reviewing our mission our vision and our values and the committee work together and to make some recommendations and so you'll first see the recommended mission on the slide now and the previous mission is there in Black Ink and then the additional recommendations are in red and you might remember the previous mention Mission talked about educating all students to graduation well you'll see the expansion of how we've evolved since that mission was written not just educating but supporting all students you'll see the words Pathways and not just graduation but beyond that we're preparing the children for beyond graduation the next slide has the recommended vision and at this time the committee does not recommend any changes to the vision when we looked at our values we did not want
043to change the three values those are solid foundation blocks of our community but you will see there are some additional descriptors added to two of the three values staying with our recommendation is to stay with achievement integrity and service but you'll see the expansion at achievement and service and I'll just read the recommendations of those three to you we are committed to striving for excellence and maximizing performance and potential of each individual student in an environment where race ethnicity gender and family income are not predictors of success staying with our previous value of Integrity we embrace our differences treating everyone with dignity honesty and fairness we are entrusted to be inclusive and transparent and the addition additional recommendation to service we are servant leaders listening and responding to the needs of the school Community focusing
044on continuous Improvement measurable results stakeholder voice and stakeholder satisfaction and contributing to making our community a place where people feel welcome and well served regardless of race ethnicity gender family income religion or sexual orientation or gender identity moving on this should look very familiar this format previous you've seen committee work around Equitable student outcomes in our audit and our work with Dr Mayfield and so we um Mr kuznick and I took that same outline approach because our community is familiar with that where we have a major outlining strategy initiatives activities divisions responsible and metrics to measure and monitor how well we're working toward those plans you'll see that there are six strategies tonight Dr Kramer mentioned those reference those and three are big rocks they have more initiatives than the other three and three or
045more foundational and you'll see that in the number of initiatives um for tonight what I'll do is I'll read our strategies and also go through our initiatives as an overview strategy one is academic achievement and this is by far the heaviest Rock increase the number and percentage of students earning College and Career credits preparing them for post-secondary education and work Pathways this strategy alone has eight initiatives so I'll read through those with you the first initiative is to increase the number of students participating in work-based learning experiences aligned with high-wage high demand pathways the second strategy is expand Elementary and Middle School programming I'm sorry the second initiative in strategy one expand Elementary and Middle School programming to raise awareness and interest in high wage high demand High School Pathways so you can see the
046stair step between initiative one and two continuing with strategy One initial initiative three increase access and enrollment in dual credit courses at the high school level continuing with the strategy of academic achievement we next have initiatives four and five increase the number and percentage of students who enroll in advanced coursework and earn high school credits prior to ninth grade initiative 5 increase access to highability programs in the elementary schools again you can see the stair steps in the initiatives moving on initiative six in strategy one improve K-12 literacy achievement and you can see that's a very meaty initiative 7 ensure a consistent curricular review process that is responsive to the rapidly changing educational environment and the eighth initiative in strategy one improving alignment of instruction and assessment within the Spanish Immersion framework moving on to
047strategy 2 culture defined as improved the learning Culture by focusing on Behavior expectations norms and consistent services to students families and staff this big rock has four initiatives so strategy 2 initiative one increase access to programs that are demonstrated to improve student health strategy to initiative to increase stakeholder engagement strategy 2 Initiative 3 Institute restorative responses versus punitive to behavior infractions and the final initiative within strategy to culture increase the use of community and external Partnerships to support staff Health mental health professional development and workload burden of our big three of the six we're now moving on to strategy three Staffing and people increase staff support to improve retention reduce turnover and improve workplace satisfaction among staff within strategy 3 we have two initiatives embedded within the definition initiative one increased staff satisfaction an initiative
048to reduce staff turnover now looking at our strategies we'll move on to the three foundational strategies if those were our three big rocks these other three support all of the above strategy Forest facilities increase effective use of space to support increased academic and extracurricular alignment and opportunities and within strategy four we have one initiative but it's a big one increase the effective use of our spaces moving to supportive strategy five technology maximizing technology use for students staff and families parents and families and parents and within strategy five we have two initiatives initiative one increase effectiveness of student and staff technology and initiative to increase effectiveness of technology for parents and families and our final strategy which touches all strategies strategy 6 Finance increase Financial alignment with our strategic priorities and the one initiative there for
049finance is to monitor available resources for Staffing curriculum changes and building projects and that board is your overview of the strategic planning committee's work who would like to ask the first question it is hard to absorb I do have one question regarding reducing staff turnover um I see that we're going to analyze exit interview data and my question is can we create some kind of oh sorry so okay let me start over um we're going to analyze exit interview data to reduce staff turnover but at Exit data where we've already lost someone is there some proactive way we can um get data from our staff to know what what they hold valuable in their Club what kinds of things make them want to stay and what kind of things um engage them the most before
050we have an exit interview is there a survey available that we could use president Mustin um before I hand this to Miss Johnson our Chief Human Resources there are also stay surveys which are for current employees um yes and I'll hand that to Ms Johnson to add okay thank you madam president um as Dr Brown was saying we have surveys for the current employees that are staying with us but I think to analyze those that when they leave what were some of the reasons as to their departure and how can we be proactive as to what does that data tell us going forward you know versus just saying oh they're leaving because of relocation but to actually have that hard factual data and what can we learn from that and one of the Beautiful Things
051Madam president about a strategic plan it gives us an opportunity to have focus and to dig and find a quality product that human resources can use for school corporation as large as ours that is always going to be a challenge and so how do we streamline that and make it better that'll be a task of Human Resources to find that perfect spot great I I do hope we can work on that I know exit interviews are very very important but again by the time it's an exit interview we've already lost that that valuable asset okay thank you so first of all congratulations on just convening so many people to give such great feedback on the Strategic plan I do have a question I know in thinking about strategic plans a lot of times we're focusing
052on three or four big rocks and there's a lot of big rocks in this plan and so I'm curious as to how we will be sharing progress towards the metrics and what kpis will be completed so that we have a clear line of sight in how the Strategic plan is unfolding yes and you you might notice that our big rocks and all six of our strategies are aligned with board goals and that's and not not a surprise to any of us um I think what we've learned from our Equitable student outcome process is that our monitoring is done and made available to the public through our week our monthly updates to our dashboard which we've shown to the board previously when Mr kuznick and I were looking at the final submissions from the committee and
053thinking of an organizational tool which would our community would respond well to we wanted to use that same outline so that we could also have a dashboard for monthly review and to show our progress and also to monitor ourselves and that's why those divisional assignments are so important as we use an equitable student outcomes those divisions update their areas every month so their specific items thank you so much good work good okay um thank you thank you for that information that is uh that is a tremendous amount to um to grasp in in one sitting so I'm sure when this comes back to us we may have a few questions left as we digest this okay so um Mr miles permission to advertise for lease proposals for the one-to-one devices please thank you thank you
054madam president Dr Smith members of the board tonight I bring to you uh currently for information but later for a vote would be permission to propose for advertise for our lease for one-to-one devices these are funds that we'll use to fund our curricular resources specifically to purchase Chromebooks the good news this year is we had some federal dollars that we were able to utilize from our emergency connectivity uh funds that so the lease this year would be smaller a little less than half of last year's size but we do need permission to advertise that lease to the to prospective bidders at this later this evening thank you any questions board if there's no questions Mr miles again do you have our financial update please thank you madam president Dr Smith once again members of the
055board tonight I share with you uh the March financial statements for both our transportation fund and our general fund and you should have those um docs just a couple of things to point out we feel very comfortable with both funds where they're at at the moment trending as expected our general fund the overall balance at the end of the year through these first three months is better than expected so we always love to see that state support is just a slight tick off but nothing to be certainly concerned about and then on the transportation fund see a lot of good things there as well uh our our salaries are actually up just a bit that's once again I think we saw that in February we've been able to be successful in hiring more drivers so
056as we look at our budget from one year to the next that that lag and what we what we didn't have last year was certainly didn't quite predict as much to date this year so but it is still in a good good position and happy to answer any questions on either on either fund thank you for handling our finances so beautifully any questions board okay all right then we're going to move on at this point to our board committee chair reports um Miss Norman Foundation please thank you madam president I Believe Miss Gibbs is in the audience so I would like to have her share the foundation updates good evening Madam chair board Dr Smith uh great news at the foundation we are so thankful for your support and all that we have the opportunity
057to do to support students um just reporting to all of you the gala report 145 000 raised 751 people record highs 244 applications for scholarships those have been adjudicated and those names have been sent to the high schools celebrating those graduates and those next steps and up and running is coming the race is May 20th building healthy minds and healthy bodies you want to find out more please see our website and feel free to donate at www.l msdltf.org thank you thank you very much for the update um Miss Dunn do if we have any policy updates yay keep your reading glasses handy okay um Parks and Recreation yes Parks and Rec we have the um wonderful pickleball courts are in full effect so yes also this past Saturday was Community shredded day so it was
058successful and also facility rentals utilize them I'm actually using next month for a college graduate yay one down four to go to look at the pricing and the lovely updates of our facilities go to cityoflorance.org that's all I have for you thank you thank you for that update or do we have any updates from the isba from the Indiana State School Board Association come on none okay let's go let's go let's go all right um then we let's at this point go to our action items please um Mr miles approval of permission to advertise those lease proposals for the one-to-one devices thank you madam president once again Dr Smith Ford at this board approved permission to advertise for our one-to-one devices so moved second properly moved and seconded any questions any discussion if not all
059in favor please aye aye any opposed we are approved next we will go to the approval of high ability recommendations Miss Laplante Dr Smith Madam president members of the board on March 20th I presented the recommendations from our high ability Review Committee and tonight I would like to ask for your approval of these recommendations it's like for Hopper we moved and twice seconded because the only discussion I would like to have is a again thank you for the the work on this committee and um it's it's amazing to see how well it dovetails into our strategic plan so the timing is great on both I appreciate it with that any other discussion all those in favor aye any opposed we have approved the high ability recommendation uh next Mr noterer the approval of our curriculum
060update Madam president members of the board and Dr Smith at your last meeting Mr Andy harsh our director of secondary education presented our math review process and recommendations for curricular resource adoption in the area of mathematics I request this evening that you approve those recommendations as presented second properly moved and seconded in each discussion on the curriculum updates the math updates then all in favor aye any opposed we've approved our math adoption and the next Mr noterer the approval of our curriculum update for English language arts thank you madam president members of the board and Dr Smith at our last informational meeting Mrs Lapointe presented the recommendation for sixth grade language arts curriculum adoption and I request you approve that recommendation as presented some of the second properly moved and seconded if there's no discussion
061all those in favor hi any opposed we have approved the English language I believe that was English language okay next Mr noder our approval update uh curriculum update for science adoption thank you thank you madam president members of the board and Dr Smith at your last meeting Mr mcaloon our assistant director of Workforce Readiness presented our stem for all update which included recommendations for science curricular resource adoption I request that you approve those recommendations as presented so moved second properly moved and seconded all in favor aye any opposed we have approved all of our curriculum thank you madam president I move that we treat action items 4.6 through 4.12 as consent agenda properly moved and seconded um all those in favor of treating those as our consent agenda I I any opposed okay we have
062a consent agenda I move approval of the consent agenda second properly moved yeah moved and seconded um Alva's in favor of approving the consent agenda say I I any opposed okay we have approved our consent agenda okay Miss Johnson could you please come to the podium and make a few introductions for us Madam president Dr Smith and members of the board this evening we bring three individuals before you we're going to begin with Lawrence Central High School is proud to welcome the new varsity basketball coach Mr Phil Washington Mr Washington is currently on staff at Lawrence Central as a physical education teacher and will transition to this role from that of associate head basketball coach a role he has had since 2020 with over 18 years of coaching experience coach Washington has a passion for
063teaching the game of basketball and believes that game outcomes are the result of the work put into the game Washington has coached basketball in some capacity since 2005. bringing a wealth of knowledge to this new role prior to serving at LC Washington was the Grant Park Premier 17u head coach 2018-2020 head coach of the Indianapolis Blaze 2016-2019 and varsity boys basketball coach at Crispus Attucks High School 2012-2016. according to LC athletic director Mr Mosey Barnes coach Washington is a passionate coach who can always see what students athletes can be as opposed to what they are I am confident that he will continue to focus on teaching life through basketball with a focus on academic achievement he adds we are looking forward to the continued excellent and the future of LC basketball under coach Washington's leadership
064coach Washington shares I'm so excited to transition from associate coach into the head coach position and I'm very grateful for this opportunity I love the Lawrence community and will continue to promote Lawrence Central showcase and celebrate the achievements of our student athletes and be a servant leader for the MSD of Lawrence Township while leading this program to new heights in Anderson Indiana native coach Washington attended Southern University in Baton Rouge Louisiana graduating in two thousand 6 with a double major in Mass Communications and secondary education his teaching license is in health and physical education he and his wife Jacqueline have three children Brooklyn Harlem and Bronx thank you I have a little voice I'm sorry this raspy I was coaching all weekend but I thank you I really do thank you um for this opportunity
065I would give you my all my best and go Bears thank you coach Washington you did see the talent we had on the floor at this this evening and uh some of those bells are boys coming up so we're gonna give you the best we have all right come on down it's okay that's a future Bears Mr Bush got some bears they've done a great job they're beautiful not the Bears are here next our Board of Education approves the new director of Elementary education this evening the school board of metropolitan school district of Lawrence Township unanimously approve the appointment of Mrs Natalie Schneider to the position of director of Elementary education Ms Schneider will transition to this new role at the conclusion of the 22-23 Academic Year from that of principle of Crestview Elementary in
066Lawrence Township where she has served as building leader since 2018. in 2022 she was honored as the Susan Jordan administrator of the year before that time she served as the assistant principal at both Skiles test and Brook Park Elementary her teaching experience was in mathematics at Belzer middle school and in grades one and two in Dayton Ohio according to superintendent Dr Sean Smith the director of Elementary education supports our commitment to academic Excellence as it pertains to Elementary curriculum and instruction professional development and data he adds Ms Schneider has demonstrated a commitment to student achievement evidenced by her years of instructional and servant leadership in the district I'm confident in her abilities and believes she will be great asset to our team regarding her new position Ms Schneider shares I'm truly grateful and humbled to
067have the opportunity to support and serve the Lawrence Township community in curriculum instruction I look forward to working collaboratively with LT Lawrence Township leadership teams to continue to provide the high quality and Cutting Edge instruction that all students deserve Schneider holds a BS in elementary education from Wright State University in Dayton Ohio she completed her master of education degree in principal principal licensure programs at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion Indiana congratulations Ms Snyder Madam president Dr Smith and the board I just want to thank you for this opportunity I am so excited to have this opportunity it's always been a dream of mine to work in curriculum it's I've always had a passion for it so I'm super excited about this opportunity thank you so much foreign this evening the school board of Lawrence Township
068approved the appointment of Miss Mari Swain to the position of Director of Human Resources Miss Swain transitions to this role from that of director of the McKinsey Center for Innovation and Technology where she has served since June of 2018 before coming to Lawrence Township she served in the Lawrence Township of Pike Township as director of The Pike career and STEM Center assistant principal at Pike high school dean of students at Pike high school and instructor of business and I.T at the Pike Career Academy before transitioning to school administration she was an English teacher at Pike High School Warren Central and Taylor High School in Kokomo Indiana she also has experience in higher education having served as a student affairs coordinators of recruitment training and Tech development at Miami University in Oxford Ohio superintendent of schools
069Dr Sean A Smith shares Miss Swain brings a wealth of experience to our Human Resources Division she's highly respected leader within the city and state according to Swain it's been my pleasure to serve LT at the secondary level for the past five years and to work to lead the best CTE Center in the state of Indiana and I look forward to serving in this new capacity as we work to serve our students for many years to come she adds Lawrence Township students deserve the very best and I look forward to joining the team that onboard staff into our world-class school system Swain earned a bachelor's degree in Business education from Indiana State University in 1995. she earned her master's degree in science student affairs and higher education Administration from Indiana State in 2005. her education
070continued when she earned her building level Administration license in 2007 at Indiana University and her director of Career and Technical Education certification at Ball State University in 2015. she completed the requirements for an education specialist certification through Indiana State University in 2018 and is currently a doctoral candidate an Indiana native Miss Swain has been a resident of Lawrence Township since 2019. she her husband Rommel have one daughter Clark congratulations and welcome to human resources from central office I'll be very brief just want to thank to you Dr Smith Madam president and members of the board in cabinet I just want to thank you for the opportunity to continue to serve serving the common good is something that my grandmother instilled in me at a very young age and to whom much is given much is
071required and so this allows me to continue to do that and I really appreciate this opportunity so I look forward to it thank you [Applause] thank you Miss Johnson and it's so exciting to have our new appointees here with us this evening board this brings us to that portion of our meeting where you may have some comments to make would anyone like to make the first comment do I have a volunteer thank you madam president uh you know I've been reflecting a lot this week on how talent I mean tonight was evidence of how talented and exceptional our kids are in our district um but I also had the opportunity to sit in the scholarship committee um that Ms Gibbs referenced earlier today as a member of the Lawrence Township School Foundation um every year
072it's kind of my favorite thing to do because it really is a Showcase of the kind of the best and brightest that our district has has to represent and I will tell you our kids come from diverse backgrounds our kids come from from uh some you know economically disadvantaged some with hardships some moving here from other countries and it really is quite impressive because I don't think there is another District in this state that offers the same sort of diversity and the same sort of exceptionalism that our district does and so I just want to call out the fact that we have just a really incredible district and we should all be very proud as I am to read all of those applications I also feel very much like I've accomplished nothing in my 43
073years compared to some of these kids good parenting would you like to make I think it's really been a long night and I echo my fellow board members sentiments that just want to congratulate those that have been newly appointed we're just supposed to stop so congratulations good job good job everyone I wanted to thank the foundation one of the roles that they play is funding field trips uh all of our second graders were able to go to Lawrence Central and see the musical setup of Mamma Mia and then we were able to attend Mamma Mia and I was just blown away at how talented our students are I mean Beef and Boards look out because they I mean the artwork that was done on the stage the musicians in the pit the students singing I
074mean everything the lights was fantastic so kudos to everyone thank you have a good evening I just I thank you all for being here for the long haul this was a long meeting but so will our kids so so deserving um the hard work so um our next board meeting uh I'll I'll hand the mic to Dr Smith in a second but just a reminder our next board meeting is and a good superintendent always closes out thank you madam president thank you board good meeting and I'll let you close out the meeting Madam president because I was ready at the gavel for you do we have a motion to adjourn we're adjourned you implicitly