001quorum thank you mr frieza for being on miss amy miss whitney for being here tonight our first order of business our blue ribbon update mr smith mr president members board dr smith um demo has started on the west side of uh lc and uh actually today as i drove by the over a third of it is gone uh the weight room has been moved out and is in the center of the field house and that is for the demo start of the two-story come july 11th uh elsie jim actually it was all sanded today and they were doing the light uh sketches over the entire floor ready for new paint lc chillers arrive they're installing those and hopefully be up online soon ln edition is really going well uh it always makes uh good when
002you have one to follow so uh what we learned on lc ln has learned and it's moving forward commons area um completely tore up a lot of steel structures going in there for the second story edition and alien art rooms we're moving furniture in that area there's four of those rooms plus their studios new pool again it's going well roof is being completed and once that's done they will start the excavation of the pool on the inside of the building belzer and fall creek valley as well as lecc continue with the upgrades in hvac a lot of electrical wires and automation is going in those buildings this summer mr president school board members dr smith we're very pleased to bring to you tonight our proposal for the 2023 24 24 academic calendar and if you
003look on our first slide you'll see that our calendar committee has been hard at work we have representatives from different buildings levels divisions including but not limited to the elc's the elementaries middle school high school athletics performing arts curriculum and instruction in hr as well as other areas and our group met three times over the course of the past few months to review some parameters that you see listed here and these are just the things that we wanted as just ground rules and our students have 180 days our staff members 180 85 for certified staff members we want to keep our first student day in august preferably not a whole week so not starting on a monday but a partial week our last student day before memorial day also noting federal holidays e-learning days would
004be in place of previously calendared snow days and then looking at our breaks to be consistent with recent years and of course last week we had two wonderful graduations and having this scheduled in june mr president dr smith members of the board using those parameters we bring to you two recommendations for the 23-24 school year and the 24-25 school year they are very consistent with recent years as well as the upcoming school year that's already been board approved uh really the only thing i need to point out to you that's different from previous years is in november of 2024 tuesday november 5th that is an election day and the committee recommended a planned e-learning day for that day that's a presidential election year higher voter turnout some buildings are used as voter sites and was
005recommended for that year to plan an e-learning day on that election day so we present these to you for information this evening and welcome any questions or comments juneteenth similar to veterans day is actually celebrated on the actual day correct now this this summer june june 19th is a sunday so it will be observed on monday uh in the future when it happens to be a saturday it will be observed on the friday before it uh and but if it's during the week you'll be observed on the actual day thank you reimbursement resolution on our one-to-one lease update mr president dr smith members of the board we've always done our one-to-one leases the leases on our one-to-one devices this way in the past where we purchased them and then get reimbursed but the current awardee
006of the leases is requiring a reimbursement resolution in order to be able to pay us back for those so in front of you see that and i'll ask for your approval for that later in the meeting part five mr president members of the board dr smith i am pleased to bring to you part five uh that is focused on the board goal related to ilearn results and just as a a point of reference here at the beginning the island results are embargoed by the state at this point and so we will be talking about it just in general in terms of how our performance relates to the board goal um and at a future date we'll be able to share the proficiency rates and and overall data um after the state board of education meets
007on july 13th so um so no questions on this embargo information um we can certainly talk about the board goal because it's focused on growth and not overall percentages and so i can speak to the board goal this evening but not specific percentages okay thank you so just as a point of reference different from istep ilearn has four different reporting categories and your board goal was built around these four reporting categories two that are at proficient or above proficient one approaching proficiency and then below proficiency so your board goal is to increase by 10 percent the number of students designated as approaching at or above proficiency and so then by inference that means we need to decrease by 10 percent the number of students scoring in the below proficiency category the first bullet is the
008actual wording of your board goal the second one is by if inference that we have to decrease in below in order to increase and above so as always when we begin to analyze any standardized testing but particularly ilearn we have to look at who our demographics are and look for any shifts that we might have seen over the last year and so i'm sharing with you on this slide all of the demographic data for our students who tested in grades three through eight so you can see our overall testers increased by 114 students so similar to our adm increase that we've seen uh this school year um our black subgroup increased by 54. our hispanic subgroup increased by almost two to one compared to our black subgroup and with a 103 additional students a decrease
009of 61 white students a modest increase for our multiracial look at our ell increase so these are students who are designated according to wida as english language learners and so we can see 122 additional students that are testing this year compared to last year so this is very similar to the 13 increase in el students that we've also seen in our weed of data a little less sped students this year however look at our free and reduced numbers for this year so as we think about that 10 percent growth goal we have a much larger subgroup for free and reduced this year than we did last year and as we think about our families we've seen some of the biggest increases at our middle schools and if you'll think back to last year our middle
010schools were not in school full-time really only a third of the students were were in the building at any given time and everybody received free lunch last year this year that was not the case everybody was back and so um we think we're seeing increased free and reduced uh lunch numbers because we've got all of our students back and to fill out the the paperwork now makes a lot more sense that we're back in our regular routines so as we begin to look at the board goals so this is ela and we're focused on growth moving students out of below proficiency moving students into at or above proficiency and so you can see the subgroups the grade levels and subgroups in which we reach the board goal so third grade ela white students fourth grade
011ela special education students fifth and sixth grade both had white subgroups that were meeting that 10 percent or above growth the information below that is without getting into specifics just generally 12 of our 13 schools had individual subgroups that met the the 10 percent growth goal so somewhere in the district we had 10 subgroups black that reached 10 percent growth 13 hispanic and so forth throughout the rest of the demographics and and so this is really really exceptional in a year that is hold harmless from the state of indiana so that was passed at the state legislature level that there won't be accountability assigned to these scores yet we set very ambitious goals for our district in a 10 growth that would be ambitious in a regular year let alone ambitious in a year where
012we had the delta variant decreased attendance and so on and so forth however you can see in the subgroups where our work lies moving forward in order to achieve equitable student outcomes we need to have on the previous slide we need to have our black and hispanic and ell subgroups growing at the highest levels and so that will be our goal moving forward in math our proficiency rates again without getting specific you can see where we we scored from one year to the next in terms of overall at or above proficiency rates so seeing some increases um in five of six grade levels and four or five cohorts with um in in those four grade levels all racial subgroups increasing in math you can see um and i think i've reported to you before that
013our greatest learning loss or our greatest unfinished learning was in the area of mathematics last year and you can see we're rebounding and really rebounding across multiple subgroups across several grade levels in the district and i did want to point out even though it's not in green that our third graders particularly our black sub group had an eight percent increase and so when we are moving our largest subgroups which are black hispanic ell subgroups we know that we're making good progress and so third grade both in ela and in math showed exceptional growth this is that that same data from our individual schools i'm really proud that we've got 13 of 13 that can report individual subgroups that met the 10 percent goal and so that tells us as a district that our systems are
014moving in the right direction when we have all of our schools that have at least one subgroup that met the 10 growth goal that ambitious goal that that was set and you can see that the numbers are significantly higher in math in terms of the individual subgroups we had 18 black subgroups across the district 18 hispanic that met that growth goal at individual schools within the district and the overall number for math is really important too that overall are all the sub subgroups put together so we had 15 different data points within our schools that had that 10 percent growth goal for overall as we look at the proficiency rates we can see we have improved in every single grade level when you do a year to year comparison again that third grade plus seven
015percent is highly significant with all racial subgroups increasing when we moved to the middle school seventh and eighth grade we also had growth with the largest subgroups subgroups increasing and that piece is really important when our middle schools are moving both their black and hispanic subgroups that's that's a good indication for us however where our work is is in that cohort um and particularly at the middle school um with our cohort data um that we've got to increase those proficiency rates not just moving students out of the below category but really getting them into that at or above proficiency rate and that's the work of of our middle schools for the coming year so in terms of of next steps this is just an initial analysis as i said the the data is embargoed at
016this point we are having conversations within the curriculum and instruction team as we look to support the buildings with their data analysis i think the second bullet is really really important this has been a challenging year and we like i said had the delta variant lots of quarantine going on at the beginning of the school year and there are celebrations in every one of our schools and the the first rule of data analysis is look for your for your wins look for your celebrations because you can build on those and i'm really pleased that we do have in every school pockets that have met the 10 percent ambitious growth goal the the second or the third bullet is our culturally responsive instruction that is a necessity um and that we're launching in july at our
017lawrence learning summit july 18th with principal cafe and then dr mayfield will be the other bookend on thursday of that week with a focus on positive identity development increasing that student engagement for our students and the fourth bullet and we've seen this for several years even pre-pandemic that the schools with higher rigor diagnostic scores show more growth and higher proficiency on ilearn so those two are very very closely related and so the more we push on our instructional framework the higher results that we're going to get and then in terms of curriculum we have a new english language arts core curriculum being implemented in the coming year and under the leadership of dr anderson we're continuing our program review for math particularly our middle school math and as always we're focused on that research-based intervention
018and supports for helping our students move out of that below proficiency category would be happy to entertain questions or discussion at this point well to be quite honest i really prefer that we wait till this information is released because i know we're going to have questions that's going to get real close to we can't talk about that so because we're going to deep dive in how we really good information for us from a district standpoint but as a board with all the hard work we know is taking place troy we got a whole lot of questions that we just probably can't be bring up right now so let's just be careful with with being a public media just be careful with that so if there's any high level questions we'll ask those but it's hard
019not to ask the question that we really want to ask right you're not down into the devil you're talking district you're i do have a question on the third bullet point the lawrence learning summit and the positive identity development workshop um are those in person this year yes those are in person we do have a virtual option for some of our sessions but those particular sessions are in person and will this be will those be held during jump start or after after jump the week of july 18th so after jump start so everybody is yeah okay thank you and we have about 500 teachers that are registered at this point great any other high-level district questions award i just have one just kind of um all-encompassing um is the general feel that one of the
020big drivers for growth is our commitment to have the in-person learning on these tests i mean um over last year the growth that we've seen yeah there's no question that our students need to be in school forever and so when you compare our results um even in 2020 um with our formative assessment data we see that our students need to be in person yes for sure thank you absolutely so this topic will likely come back up when can we talk about this deep dive the next state board of education meeting is july 13th july 13th okay okay just a little teaser this evening we'll bring it this will be on the topic for ourselves we're shifting gears we're already in the 22-23 all right no stopping us right now we'll pause for this but we
021are moving on into the next phase so as troy pointed out the state board is not going to give any accountability with it because there was state legislation in the past that they cannot so they just want to get it right yep and and so we already have the data we're already reviewing it it's just not public yet okay so the public needs to fully understand that correct so we'll do another full agenda item on this once it's been released curriculum part five rev one but we'll start to start new numbers with the new school year this is five for the 21-22 school any other questions or comments on our district performance troy thank you for this information and again we will we'll discuss a bit in details once we can thank you you're welcome
022proposed resource adoption for our next level programs of study thank you mr president members of the board dr smith as we have brought to you in a series of presentations we are adopting new courses for next level programs of study and these are primarily cte courses that director mari swain leads for us and mr handy harshes our director of secondary education works closely with her and he will be presenting the resources for consideration this evening good evening mr president dr smith and members of the board um as you can see on this slide um just review of um the law around how we set procedures and review our resources on the next slide you will see just a quick explanation of those next level programs of study that is that series of three to four
023courses that students can take during their high school career that leads them on a specific career pathway most of those courses also give our students opportunities to earn college credit and also some industry recognized certifications and all students that complete a next level program of study are prepared of course for meaningful employment in a career pathway when they graduate completing an nlps also meets the cte requirement in box three of our indiana graduation requirements so the process much like our other resource adoptions and recommendations um i think that's supposed to be 2021 the fall of 2021 we began in phase two of our nlps rollout meetings were held that included representation from lawrence central lawrence north and mackenzie center for innovation and technology we did a review this spring and we met to determine those
024specific pl excuse me the plcs for those pathways also met weekly to review and prepare the plan for this phase ii implementation and they finally made their final recommendations for these concentrator courses so on the next slide the mackenzie center for innovation technology plc team developed a document that would help make sure that they're aligning those indiana standards to the governor's workforce cabinet and uh this is an ongoing process this is phase two and we will then move in later on to phase three the following slides will include and there are many all of the courses that will be offered the course code for the state of indiana and then of course the resource that is being recommended ms mari swain was unable to be with us this evening if you have specific questions about
025any of these specific resources i am happy to field those questions but i will tell you that i will likely have to follow up with her about the specifics uh and the folks but all of her teachers teacher leaders were around the table and had great input as they reviewed these resources that they're recommending to you this evening so at this time i'm happy to field any questions what any questions or comments or any who's pitch hitting which does not but you still have to play it andy so um on our next level programs of study i guess the only question i would have was there any consultation with institutions of higher learning to make sure that they align that is a great question and i do know that mckenzie works closely with their advisory
026board um i i do believe that they're okay that is part of their process not only from higher education but also from industries great thank you are there conversations around concentrators that might not even exist today i mean things are changing rapidly in terms of our workforce workforce skills workforce needs i mean it's a brand new work day for many in fact a couple of these on here i'm like wow some of these things to me might be a little bit out of date but uh are there some that we remove every once in a while well that's probably a question for miss wayne i guess it is and really student demand drives much of that and so there are some that have a much smaller footprint now than what they did maybe two or
027three years ago and others that were growing into a larger footprint based on exactly what you're talking about however what you're seeing this this evening really is a directive from the state and so we are tied very closely to the pathways that are developed at the state level and this is a requirement that you implement exactly what is within the pathways that are given to us my other question is i don't see a pathway here for some of the trades plumbing hvac electrical construction and i know one [Music] um statistic i've heard says that within 15 years 85 percent of some of those workers will be retiring are fellow boomers um and are we working on that piece as well so you do see within phase two um it's on a previous slide the the
028principles of construction trades and so as we think about the three different phases that's phase two then in phase three are those specific traits that that you're thinking about and so look forward to that that's a preview for for next year um where you'll see very specific trades to align with the lawrence economy thank you for that clarification i missed that that's a good point let's recap so phase one phase two phase three that's the state right that's right that's how we're approaching that yeah that's how we approach it phase one would be what so phase one is what we brought to you last year and that's very much around principles courses uh many of the courses um were previously introduction right then we had to do a curriculum shift to become principals to align
029with the next level programs of study and so um strategically specific courses were picked um in that phase one and now we're in phase two um and so some additional principles like this slide has um construction trades automotive service collision repair but then you also see some upper level classes so there's some early childhood classes that will be held at our early learning centers as we're growing even our own pipeline around early childhood and so those are some upper level classes that are in this phase too then in phase three will really be the final phase and that's where we'll be bringing some capstone additional capstone opportunities as well as flushing out what that construction trades piece looks like and this initiative so when students complete these concentrators they are else will go right into
030the workforce with certain certificates in order to college with credits correct correct correct how is that different from what we what we used to do it's much more strategic and much more streamlined and so what we used to do is a student might take intro to culinary and then the next time they take intro to transportation and then they take intro to business and they just dabble and really don't come away with anything meaningful anything employable any credential that they could take to the workforce or to a higher education what this does is really align students so you can dabble a little bit and we're pushing some of the intro courses down to middle school so we've got some dabbling going on in middle school now um some dabbling a little bit in freshman year
031but then by sophomore year we're trying to get you into a pathway that you feel good about that you feel like you're talented in and could see yourself doing and then you take the three or four courses that are part of the pathway and then you've got choices employment higher education something meaningful that's good i want a community and everybody to understand i was part of this conversation we was talking about students just having a broad of everything and really nothing and what could school districts start doing to help students to understand there is a clear pathway if you stay in sequence now that's not to say that you might go out and do something else but at least you un have an understanding how the sequence works and if you decide to choose something
032else understand there's a sequence to becoming a success in terms of whatever you pursue so just want to make sure everybody understand what we're trying to do here well what the status tracks is trying to do yeah absolutely okay any other questions or comments i do like the idea of this sequence for one profession that we all should be trumpeters for and that is early childhood and principles of teaching 100 that we should be more cohorts classes that we could think of when students are sitting in front of wonderful teachers in lawrence township absolutely grow our own okay any other questions or comments thank you mr harsher on that let's let's let's change around here a little bit hundred grand let's go to our proposed boys volleyball and girls russian sports this is for 2022
033and 2023 school year that's right good evening mr president members of the board dr smith uh exciting activity with coming out of the indiana high school athletic association back in early may they for the first time are recognizing what they're calling emerging sports and those those two they're looking at are boys volleyball and girls wrestling emerging sports is a new term for them and you can see there's those bullet points they have the rule books coaches rule meetings coverage under the catastrophic medical program and then all rules and policies now there's not a state tournament as of yet uh that would be the next step and would become a real sport but that's that's kind of the general guidelines of emerging sport boys volleyball little history lesson for you may not know but we've had
034it uh here in lawrence township for some time uh lawrence north had it for a long time um and in 2010 were even the state runner-ups um lawrence central has not fielded it yet but uh i've already talked to their leadership and and with the state athletic association starting to recognize it that does create uh a little more excitement around it and some credibility to it so more more students will be involved um that's a spring sport and uh and that might get some kids that might play basketball or another activity that could get them get them out for the team um there are 42 teams statewide currently doing boys volleyball a little history lesson for you there uh those are the ten sports currently offered by the i trista boy see most of them
035been quite quite a while i showed you the same slide uh back when we as a district started recognizing lacrosse a few years ago and so you'll see that that's that's another now that the state athletes hasn't done lacrosse yet but we'll deal with that another time uh girls wrestling uh neither lcrln has had a girl wrestler this year but they have both had individual girls wrestling uh over the years and you still see that uh around where there'll be some girls come out for the team um the wrestling coaches association began sponsoring a girls wrestling state tournament this year and that's the bottom bullet there you see the 113 schools of around 400 high schools participating um so it really has had a lot of traction and there's a lot of a lot of
036excitement in that world you'll see there in olympics started doing it 2004 so we again we think with the credibility of the athletic association sponsoring it we'll have more girls coming out for wrestling and then there's the ten sports currently uh sponsored by the athletic association the institutional support we currently do for boys volleyball now in case you're curious i don't have girls wrestling up there because we don't have any girls wrestlers right now um but if we did have girls wrestlers and as we do for boys volleyball right now we give practice space and of course we do background checks on any adult that's going to be interacting with our students and in coaching what we'd be looking to do is if the board of education does recognize these sports uh we would have
037these additional items as a school district we would provide coaching stipends transportation administrator support that would mean they would fall into the athletic department the athletic directors would be helping hire and uh evaluate coaches game game officials etc and then of course we'd be recognizing here at the board meetings because we'd expect them to be reaching some level of achievement that that would merit coming here to the board meetings uh the coaching stipends what what kind of monies involved if we would recognize them uh boys volleyball would mirror the girls um that would be a total of seventeen thousand dollars if they had all three levels uh varsity jv and freshman and then same with wrestling um it would be an additional assistant coach we would look at wrestling at this point if we just
038had a couple girls come out one girl three four girls come out we would look at very much like we do boys and girls swimming right now boys and girls swimming two separate sports by and large they're always together they practice together it's the same head coach same assistant coaches uh they all the meats are together very much that's how the wrestling will be structured now we did discuss and we don't know how many weight classes are going to sponsor but if we do hit a threshold where we're fielding enough girls to compete as a team then we'll be adding a head coaching stipend and more assistant coaching stipends now it could be like swimming or be the same same individual or it could be different um but facility wise um both volleyball in the
039spring and the gymnasium wrestling in the wrestling room the only cost we'll be looking at is that transportation costs and some administrative costs and then the stipends and here's our timeline we're looking at tonight's our first reading we look at our second reading in two weeks and then if if approved then they would immediately start up their their summer conditioning and whatnot um and then there's the those are the probable dates and looking at where the the current wrestling practice starts and then the volleyball first practice that's in that same ballpark that most of the spring sports are starting baseball and whatnot so with that i'd be happy to field questions about boys volleyball and girls wrestling as emerging sports question dr nez is quite excited about it so are there any questions or comments
040are you going to coach one of these i i don't tend to but any time we can get more of our young people involved and more engaged in school the better and so it is exciting i love that we're doing it and considering it it's always a good thing for young people to be around so uh being at school more often about more adults and realizing their full potential questions or comments we have any idea of the interest are we in good shape i think so we're like we we have it happening in boys volleyball already and again and talking to folks that i'll see we think we'll have some more there um yeah and boys volleyball a lot of that you know quite honestly a lot of these kids are kids that may have
041played basketball and they they got cut they didn't quite make the threshold but they're tall and they can jump right they aren't quite there well here's another opportunity for them um and so you know those those kids enjoy it you know and again if the credibility there that's just going to create more excitement in the girls wrestling um you know winter sports right now we have basketball and swimming um and then cheerleading and so that's that's a just a whole nother avenue for him and again that's that is i've been surprised at how popular that has become it just it really has it's you saw 113 schools uh had girls participating this year that that's a lot questions um yeah this is great um one thing that came to mind was would this require any
042modifications to our upcoming apparel agreement if we're adding additional teams good question yeah uh it wouldn't um the the agreement we had this last time included some sports not all sports as far as buy one get one free but then we do have that percentage we get off and we would still it'd still help us out we'd still be ordering uniforms for the same vendor and uh still realizing cost savings thank you good question no other questions comments you ever call me doc smith i always just want to remind the board anytime we talk about salaries and stipends uh that goes to carla johnson and the negotiated agreement we have with the lea so when dr nesbitt talks about coaching stipends we we have a scale that we negotiate with our teachers associates i just
043want to put that on the record okay so that kind of determines where where we go with that we have to negotiate that good deal excited it's good news i think for for everybody good opportunities just in time for these new uh high school gyms that's right anything else thank you dr nesbitt thank you i'll classify employee handbook updates for our 2022-2023 school year and then we'll go ahead and go into the student handbook as well good evening president mcgregor dr smith and members of the school board this evening i bring to you information our classified handbooks some of our revisions under the classified handbook include our holiday pay medical days vacation days attendance violations workers compensation which is a change in making sure that our classified is matching our certified employees code of conduct
044progressive discipline we also have our food services handbook and we have various pages with updates you know minimum of names and phone numbers are being changed personal days lifting requirements our dress code policy school delays and closings in our food service handbook also our payroll procedures and then a full disclosure statement that we've received from the usda has been added to our food service handbook those are just some of the notes that are to our handbooks for the updates in our transportation handbook there are no major changes that have been received are there any questions is the school day closing does that change like uh food service employees are not paid when we do schedule learning we don't we don't do count food for that is that new no that's not new okay okay okay
045board any questions or comments on our classified handbook no updates to the transportation handbook but are there any questions okay student handbook good evening president mcgregor mcgregor dr smith and members of the board i have a few highlights updates for our student handbooks for the 2223 school year for the elc and elementary handbooks very minimal updates uh one thing we just wanted to switch the language from electronic devices to one-to-one computing devices so that change was made in a couple of areas we also had a few additions under visitors visitors and volunteers we wanted to add that only one one person is allowed into the classroom at a time as a visitor and that we would not want to have siblings who join that the principal or destiny may be present that there would be
046no interaction with staff or other students in the classroom from from a visitor and then a note about confidentiality and then for the middle schools we had some clarifications regarding uh what time a student is considered tardy so clarifying that it's not just if the student is dropped off after 8 50 but that they needed to be in class and ready to go at 8 50. additional highlights we wanted to clarify with technology with uh lost or stolen devices that we wanted those to be immediately returned to the technology office rather than to lost and found so just a clarification there and then we added some additional information about the directory so more detailed information shared around our board policy on directory information so there was just some some more verbage included there for clarity
047and then just as an example under bus rules one of the bus rules is do not smoke we wanted to include that this includes electronic cigarettes and vape pens and then under [Music] just a couple of other clarifications there and then um that initially we at one point we had said that we did not want electronic devices to be used during school hours obviously that is not going to happen in this day and age so the use of technology during instruction is at the discretion of the classroom teacher because we do have some teachers that allow and encourage want students to have their phones out for one reason or another but then there are other situations where that's not appropriate so that's at the discretion of the classroom teacher that's when we get calls on
048yes yeah and and that's why let's be clear in his hand with what we're saying yeah yeah that that does come up a lot at the schools then uh we did add under application of consequences that school administration may recommend recommend that a student go to an outside service such as reached for youth or some of the programming offered through fairbanks if there's a substance issue so we included that and then for the high schools um that was all it looks like a lot but really it is just switching out um the policy that is related to tech not acceptable use guidelines so it looks like a lot but it's just that some old policy language was taken out and replaced with new policy language and then the last major update was from health services
049uh we previously require we previously required community health network with our partners there a consent form to be on file for every student every year which was extremely problematic because we just didn't get them back so we changed that to be that the only the only time that they need to have a form is if the student is being issued specific medication or treatment and then that is it questions let's talk about door dash so it's my first time having phone calls about parents at door dash i don't have that like that's what what are you talking about doing this now yeah let's just make sure everybody because the call was about some teachers allowed some teachers didn't because they didn't want kids to be so let's just put on the record what's the rule
050food being delivered the record is that no student or parent should order doordash and that if if that rule is broken the the food may be confiscated right so that that is not that is not an acceptable practice it has been quite an issue i have a question with that also um is there food allowed at all to be brought in if a parent brings the food you also clarify that members of the board we have food service here we shouldn't be in the habit of bringing outside food unless it's been approved in question yeah it's always yeah that's always an issue so we want to stick with what's in our our our handbook which should speak to that for our families and also i want to remind the board my people didn't speak to
051this remember items that are brought to you from the handbook have been reviewed by the school officials but also we look at our policy and in the third phase we make sure we vet through our our school council through our attorneys so those are good questions uh i see food service backer cringing we really don't want to bring outside food there's a number of reasons why we don't want to do that without it being approved so we just want to keep that in mind mr mcgregor i'll give you an answer on doordash no okay i i have a question i didn't see dress code anywhere here is this in the handbook where did where did i miss that there weren't any changes but yes there is a section on dress code and there's been a
052lot of discussion you know nationally that dress code can um can target women you know over men do we have some equity in our dress code you know that was part of the discussion as the administrators were reviewing the handbook and you know um that that was part of it that it seems like there are more um items that are related to what is traditionally considered female dress morix whether there is or it's just perceived that there are more accessories more different layers of of clothing that can be used it was part of the part of the discussion um we may have had a some slight additions i didn't highlight them just now but we might have had a couple of slight things but there there weren't any major changes to what we already had
053because this actually came up this comes up pretty much every year so we we are very cognizant of that where where is dress code in in this handbook you know i don't have the actual handbook up here with me now but okay trust me it's in there madam vice president i would think so i would have been highly recognized using it mr shreves just shared with me that it's on page 16 of the middle school handbook yes i was on 19 i was close i'm bored i would highly recommend if we're discussing dress code which typically is very controversial yeah that we have a separate committee to look at something like that that has not come up to me as an issue as superintendent so i would advise us if we're going to take a
054look at that that we would delve into that through a district-wide committee that becomes a very controversial topic and if something would come up between now and and next year we'll look at it individually we always look at that and always leave the discretion if you look in our handbook to our school administration but it hasn't risen to me as a topic for discussion at this level of the board unless i'm missing something bored you haven't shared that with me nobody needs to come the reason we bringing these up dr smith is because these are the phone calls we get from parents one on they're not really like let's have a task for us they just can you explain to me how come i can't send food to my son or daughter to today and
055it's because it's in the student handbook it supports that no question we get phone calls about dress from parents maybe just one set of parents or so but these are the questions we get from the community they're not asking for task force we all just want to make sure people understand items are addressed in a student handbook right for all of us to abide by and if we do need to talk about something we will address that as a district and as always our student handbook it's a working document because you know we we live and learn we you know things come up we things are brought to our attention that that maybe we hadn't thought about it in the same way that that a parent luckily you know will share with us and so
056it's it's a working document and we're always willing to review and i know that at middle schools there was there were some issues with different teachers having different ideas about the dress code and not only that but do different teachers have different ideas about the dress code based on your subgroup and um i just want to make sure that every educator in our system understands exactly what the dress code is from their building leader and are on the same page with all students right we have the same situation with the cell phones with different expectations for the cell phone so just trying to bring everybody together and and um let let the the big folks and the little folks know that this is what our policy is and this is what we need to follow
057so great thank you any other question or comments or miss moose thank you for this good conversation if not neo policy update second reading mr president members of the board dr smith at the may 31st board meeting i presented neola policy 0167.3 for first reading tonight i present those same updates for second reading i recommend the board receive this as information be happy to take questions or comments this time questions or comments on our neola policy second reading thank you dick any questions or comments i think we're good thank you board on to our action items approval or reimbursement resolution on our one-on-one lease mr president dr smith members of the board i would recommend that the board approve the reimbursement resolution on the one-to-one leases as previously submitted second boom is wendy mustang second
058is amy norman question the comments because we have mr freeze in our virtual space i'll call on you one on one for your approval ms norman yes ms mustin yes miss puckett yes mr fridgey yeah i am a yes motion carries thank you approval of neola policy updates mr president members of the board dr smith i recommend the board approve neola policy zero six zero one six seven point three have updates as submitted second move mr dick freeze second i think that was miss puckett miss puck is second questions or comments miss norman yes ms mustin yes miss puckett yes mr freezey motion carries thank you approval of the personnel report mr president dr smith and members of the board i would like to recommend that we approve the personnel report as presented so moved
059crystal's gone second move miss crystal park is second miss mustang questions or comments miss norman yes it's mustang yes it's puckett yes mr freezie i'm a yes motion carriers thank you and then personal report greetings in our personnel report this evening we approve the title change of our interim food service director rolanda brown to the permanent director of food services congratulations rolanda she has done a wonderful job leading food services bro you need to come i don't think we never met you yeah ms brown you can go to the podium she's behind the scenes thank you it's been a fun year and i'm excited to continue to lead the food service department okay thank you would you come here my boss is requested you can come down and shake their hands row okay my boss
060has requested to also um let you know so as of june 25th that will be i will be here 32 years so i'm not new to the district [Applause] there he is [Laughter] thank you miss brown and thank you for your 30 years of service outstanding new title new job thank you well we're going to our comment miss norman i just wanted to say congratulations to the class of 22 lawrence central and lawrence north and thank you to the team who helped put together both graduation ceremonies and then the other thing i just wanted to bring up was i wanted to encourage all the families in our communities with children to take advantage of the summer servings program um the information's on our website we all know we are all feeling the pinch you know
061at the grocery store so please just um utilize the service it's at school and non-school sites mrs the secret sauce today just came up miss robron rolanda brown is in charge of our summer servings program so uh board the person who does that is not roger smith but bro brown so and thank you miss brown for feeding our kids because i know it's a big job you mr freezey thank you sir miss mustin i just would like to say that graduation is always very special and um every year when we start walking into the field house i get goose bumps everywhere it's so exciting to know so many of our students have reached that culmination in their k-12 career um to see their happy faces the fabulous shoes the stoles that they wear and the
062ribbons and you know the smiling faces and even those that are a little reticent you know that make make an effort to get across that stage um it's very exciting and just to say thank you to all who helped with the lawrence township foundation golf outing this last week as well thank you it's bucket i second everything that was said thank you very much and the puckett children approved the summer servings they had it during swimming at the y so it was yummy to them so thank you to all thank you again it's just a special thank you to ms blankenship for taking care of us at the graduation before and after and doing it [Laughter] thank you for that and the best information i always get at the graduations is when i walk out
063and parents say thank you for getting my kid here let me share that with you all because i always say i'm just the person who hand out the diploma there's a whole group of people in lawrence township that you should say thank you to because they got your students across that stage and i think that's the most powerful message i ever get when a parent say come up and say thank you for helping my child graduate from high school so we thank you for all you do with that and i have fun at graduation so thank you so much as excited as they are behind me so on behalf of all these families we say thank you for all that you do to get them across that stage thank you i just really don't have
064an appointment to them but they don't smile right superintendent says kudos to all uh mr mcgregor we do have a board meeting in two weeks i do want to warn the board that we will come with additional celebrations uh this spring has been a good spring to lawrence township and its achievements so we'll have student recognitions at the 27th board meeting so we will start at 6 30 p.m mr president and we'll be in the pd room as we are expecting a large crowd to celebrate our youngsters from their achievements so thank you if nothing else all items have been covered on the agenda i will take a motion to adjourn so moved second my consent we are adjourned thank you for being here with us this evening all right