001i pledge allegiance to the fight of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you and welcome everybody for coming tonight um future board meetings april 26 at 6 00 pm here may 10 and may 24th at 6 pm here we have no revisions to the agenda so we move right into the public recognition i have a recommendation to approve a 200 donation for mark hewitt doing business as head to head games for northfield esports a recommendation to approve a 100 donation from tammy and eric overman for sharp creek elementary robotics a recommendation to approve a 500 donation for shark creek elementary robotics that did not say what was prompted but i assume that would be the famous
002anonymous person and that's it for uh donation recommendations thank you donations appreciate it so yeah motion second to approve the donations although we're saying hi hi school recognition okay we have several in the audience tonight we're really glad that they're here to share some different things i will start though uh cynthia bell mrs bell at southwood um she shared with me uh an assignment that was done during e-learning and a lot of times we talk about e-learning we talk about what is really happening um and i'm not gonna say anymore cause i steal all the thunderbirds i'm gonna turn it over to mrs bell and let her explain and i will also put it on the screen when you're ready okay with our students here also so for e-learning i have given the students the
003assignment to teach someone how you name chemical bonds if you can teach it you know it and i got some wonderful wonderful videos for kids that's as that was part of the assignment when she had the videos to take yourself but libby price went above and beyond and did a ted talk and she and her little sister just stole my heart and i had to share this so um libby this was probably the best a learning assignment i have ever received and i was so grateful i've watched it multiple times [Music] so do you want to say anything before we show the video um [Music] oh i just i love when we get you learning assignments like this when it's not just like sit here do some outcomes turn it in when it's something i
004actually gonna interact with so that's kind of why i went above and beyond because it's something that you actually really enjoy doing great so let's watch okay guys why am i not enjoying my videos is can we shut up is [Laughter] you don't have the internet's there let me stop this is a different computer and maybe that's the view oh because it's on my computer it's not on the screen so it's not you can watch it on your computer would you like the kids to fix it yeah we're gonna do this found your email that says that liv is coming this doesn't work [Music] everybody can see how loud that is right oh yeah [Laughter] well you can see it right there oh now you have a good point but i don't think you're saying
005isn't it [Music] but hello [Music] so if you have a transition model those can a long time have more than one sort of so he made them known and then the roman numeral afterwards and then yeah [Music] so if you had sulfur and it was going to gain electrons you would call it sulfide got it [Laughter] which is a chlorine two oxygens and still has a radius one star and then you would have four eight which is the chlorine three oxygens and resonance and then chlorine so this chlorine has three oxygens four eyes gonna have two hydrogen's gonna have four and perchlorate is gonna have four this is but these don't tell you how many oxygens are heavy so for example sulfate has four oxygens so it's depending on the quality of falling to say
006that then we could pass that out right now so that was that was excellent so that and i apologize i don't know we do this all the time on the side i don't know why the sound is not working um because the tvs were up my computer's up so i don't know so that's going to cause another issue with our next one too so all right mrs bell anything else um i just just really enjoyed watching the different things the students did it was very open-ended and um some students were two minutes some students were 15. um they trained everything from dogs goldfish stuffed sharks and their siblings so it was it was kind of funny you guys never knew what was going to happen but it was um it was enjoyable for me and
007like lady said that they enjoyed it also so the next time they're dancing all right and you are correct though if you could teach something then you know it and you learned it very well so i'm sure libby's um she enjoyed that too so we appreciate that so we'll move on then to thank you thank you guys for honoring them yeah that was great she taught us something all right we'll do another presentation then we'll do our staff spotlight so we'll go ahead now with uh mr martin and mrs schaefer and i wonder how this is going to work it's not going to work either because i'll let you go ahead and introduce [Music] but i believe the focus is uh this is our building's time to uh uh publicize a program or a person
008or something good going on so mr schaefer is a person not a program but in education we know that it is about people it's not about programs and she is a uh an experienced teacher who i appreciate like you didn't say old i did extremely but one of the things that i've quickly come to appreciate about mrs schaefer this is true of other teachers in our building please understand that she's representative but but as a an experienced teacher she's still wanting to learn new things she's still out there trying to find other ways she takes it very seriously connecting with students sixth grade greeting and this is just an example of a unit that she's going to work you through a little bit tell you about but but it all goes to show that there
009are a lot of teachers in this corporation who are working awfully hard to provide students with experiences and opportunities that reach beyond the reading teacher she's incorporated other subject areas you know some stem type activities so we just want to show off mrs schaefer and what happens at sharp creek on a regular basis so all right well thank you first of all um school board and mr key baby thank you so much for allowing us to actually take time and do some trainings because this all came from a training that i did at makerspace when i left there i thought this is such cool information what can i do so during this time that after this makerspace training i had a student teacher as well so i had all this time that i could actually
010spend some time planning well then coveted so everything that i had planned just kind of got stopped well this year i had the opportunity after talking with mr drake and have been the encouragement to incorporate more reading in the content areas mrs campbell and i decided to do a unit together which incorporated reading and social studies she was doing a middle ages unit well when i was planning it two years ago the part of our training was working with robots so i got this fun idea sometimes i thought why am i doing these things that we got the little spheros out and if you haven't done you haven't tried one of these they are so much fun okay it's just like a little ping pong ball you can set up a race track you can
011there's all kinds of things that you can do with them the kids love the sphero we also use the edison which is another type of robot they both take coding you have to code programs um but the sphero actually you can just drive it and once it's hooked to your ipad so that is also really really fun well also oh yeah yeah they struggled programming those but that was part of the learning process she goes well we want to do something with march madness she goes do you have any ideas what we can do for both reports yeah i do so one of the things that activities i found was um you can do kind of like a museum exhibit where these are you can program the maki maybe which is an elect electric current
012and you can program them so it's act and record your voice so the kids can do coding and they do book reports and that's kind of part of our march madness so now we're all voting on our top books after they hear um the voice recordings so that was another thing we're doing but when i started the middle ages unit these were my first of my goals i wanted them to explain be able to explain why europe was such uh their location was so important so we had to do that first and this would go right right along with what mrs campbell was doing well then one of the other sixth grade standards is they have to be able to analyze information from multiple sources so we were reading all kinds of books going with
013what they were doing on ixl and putting it all together well part of the requirements then you got to write an essay about why the middle ages was important how does location what were all the aspects of the middle ages and then finally i used you have to expand your skills in coding to be able to program the sphero and the edison we had them driving the sphero down the hall into everybody's room and then the edit said that they were making laughs so they figured out how to maneuver them okay this is um all of our curricular connections with this just this project alone we included the reading the writing math social studies science we can even include the art in there you're going to see some wonderful buildings that they created and all
014i gave them was a white piece of cardboard i said this is what you have any supplies you you need you find or if you find scraps around the room you can use it i did get jingle box blocks from i've got those volunteer course uh we did speaking and listening and then the library did the maki making so this is some of the projects starting out they had to some of the kids brought objects from home so i had a castle back there their their topic was actually nights and battles and jousting everything like that i gave them each a topic i assigned groups this time instead of letting them choose because they always gravitate to the same ones so i said we're going to separate them and i didn't want all of my
015coders the ones who do all the coding i didn't want them all in one group so i wanted at least one in each group so they started out with white cardboard they brought in stuff from home and then they had to start drawing out because each activity each person had their own essay they had the right well they had to code um the sphero or the edison to stop at a certain place so that's part of the coding that was oh my goodness that was fun so watch them apply it was them and not me because i had i couldn't figure it out i can drive it but that's about it okay so that was super so we're just getting started um they did have a lot of fun um at times it was crazy
016and i thought if somebody comes in here they're to think i'm completely nuts or this room has no control and that has a veteran teacher that's really hard not to have them sit and talk you know be quiet it just didn't work so they were still in the planning process there on the left on the right you can start seeing that they're putting a sphere on the place and some of the people coding weren't who i expected which was really cool thing um as we went okay next one a little more in detail some more taking a lot more seriously than others some of them were still very unsure but i could see different skills come out in different kits which was completely unexpected but it was welcome because i wanted to see them all
017in different lights okay they had some pipe cleaners they used that as a tunnel and they had to program the the sphero to go through the tunnel lots of start starting stops but it worked um the one on the right they were using the edison and nate hudson who's got the culture on is one of the drivers for the robotics team and does really really well so he loved this so he was helping them code um this they were doing a street so they had the edison go down to the street turn around and go down another one as each one did their own presentation that's where the speaking and listening came in some okay them got very very creative as far as their drawings it was just they were using my kleenex boxes now
018i have kleenexes everywhere without homes um but that's okay we cut up popsicle sticks worked up in um it was so much my room was really it kind of was nice because they were cleaning up all my scraps um josh there on the right he created his own there's were um theater and entertainment and certain um people that they were researching he created an actual theater he painted it he had details on it that looked like curtains and then each little statue had a different person on it like i said the only guidance i gave them was you got to do this and the robot has to stop they didn't like not having so much um there's some more of the finished products they brought in all kinds of stuff they shredded paper um but
019the big point was to get them to think outside the box try to come up with other ways to make stuff and they had their first encounter with the glue gun i had streams of glue everywhere it looked like we had spider webs they were going home with trey oh my someone realized that hot glue was hot but they struggled trying to figure out where to place the ball or the sphero and how to get it to move from place to place but they figured it out okay um one girl spent like two or three hours i think she said three or four hours creating her cathedral yeah and everything was created out of popsicle sticks leftover aluminum and some little jewels that i found in the bottom of the basket and she took it
020home so that's what was on the left she was doing her own cathedral one of the activities that i wanted to get to there were so many i didn't know how my time how it was all going to fit um we were going to build castles and have battles for the spheros but i ran out of time so they were using the jenga blocks as a castle so it still worked clear to the right which looks like toothpicks they are that is a cornfield or some type of field because they had to grow their own crops just to support their um their city so that was their own field and they cut out little people and it was fun and then the legos legos were a hit and they had a well in the middle
021and i was curious i said why what's the wealth they looked at me and they said water you're right why it was in the middle i wasn't that they put them right there so it was fun okay and then you start getting a little more creative with a little more um design and then we started getting into the battle so the big thing was the battlefield um they had their characters and they actually showed the battle um where the sphero was going around of course there's some exasperation kids he could not get the code to go right where he wanted it so he finally doesn't have enough um but they were working together again i put them in groups that they don't normally work with some worked well some we had to separate but it
022worked but they got very creative um these coming up are just some of what the kids were saying the one on the left is actually one of the spheros actually working for a short period of time i don't think we sound but that and it is amazing how they coded it and how much time it took to code it this one they were you know that one coming yeah they were explaining there it is why is it working out uh so they had to measure and they were using like conversions to figure out how long it's going to take the robot to go so far that's the same one yeah yeah so that if the next one has a couple other ones you just have to hit twice again okay and again okay um same
023thing only they were getting it to work um oh that one was probably the new one i added um they they got the pro the the sphere i didn't give you access to that sorry i had to redo something because i didn't like the way it looked uh well anyways this one they were actually um had it where it was making sound so they added sound that they were talking about um well it's going to make a turn here and then it actually created sound um as the ball vessel sphero was going so that was pretty that was fun to watch them exacerbation look again because well i'm hoping you have access to this one oh here's what the um library was doing with the makey makey they would start they had to re they
024had to code it they were creating their book reviews and then the kids would come in and push yet to push one of the tabs with aluminum foil and push another of the book and it would actually then read it to read the review to them and then they voted but the coding process is phenomenal i don't have patience for that so i'm thankful somebody does and then this one oh i might have to get get access for that one one of the suggestions that i was going to do was having the kids do a scratch story which is a programming um a coding program he created his own middle ages story using um scratch and again and he loves doing it so he did it on his own and i was just impressed that
025he he could actually he's got the knights and the battle and the background but that's kind of how the project went um and i told the kids i was coming today well they've known it um i said what would you like for me to tell them oh this is fun well that's good um they like that it was hands-on they like the freedom and the creativity they've really found it was really interesting and they enjoyed having partners that were new um and they liked it because it was different than taking notes which was good um and but some stuff they did learn is you know it's hard to work with people you don't like very well i thought that one was funny um but they did learn that it was a lot more to the
026uh peasants day life than what they originally thought which was at least they learned something about the middle ages too but that was our project i'd like to do now though is we're going to do the spotlight because i told him that i know that that he needs to get going and maybe too but i'm going to do the spotlight and then i'm actually going to throw try to throw this up on the screen again for libby's let's see if that works if you guys are okay you're staying a little bit longer so all right so um what we love to do is uh the spotlight and tonight we have amanda rhodes is the spotlight and becky bradley is the one that spotlighted her so if you guys can come up here uh dr coon's
027gonna put you on the camera so we can see you mr craig can you go ahead and give a picture one time so so amanda come over here right there right there that's perfect so amanda rose's spotlight congratulations thank you but then becky is going to go ahead and explain a little bit uh what's going on here so tell us a little bit about amanda and i'll talk about it okay amanda is kitchen manager for two schools sharp creek elementary northfield high school her overall quality of service of the food service department she shows positive attitude when it comes to a job and is willing to help others lead by example a good example of this with last year is the covert we have food shortages paper supply shortages staffing shortages that we still are
028and amanda hails like a trooper she never lets a phaser here now she always has a smile on her face it comes with a positive attitude that could ask for a better employee all right oh well thank you i'm just glad that i have a child to come to it so yes and mr martin would you like to share anything too i i know that we share amanda with uh the junior senior high but i have said and i i guess you're responsible for this problem but i say we have better food than any school i've ever worked in and we have pleasant people working with our food and it's just a good situation very impressed and when you try the fish sticks you let the kids vote on whether they thought fish i thought
029that was really cool and they seemed to like that i think that's really mean did you let the kids kind of weigh in on whether they thought that was a regular weekend yeah very cool and i've got to add how nice it is planning a sixth grade camp and trying to get food ready and not knowing what you need to get and going where and i would come to mantis what can you service did she all get business and she's so willing to help us deliver it if we need to because we switch places and it's just a nice time to go down and say hey can we do this and she's fine with it so it is such it's so nice to see you when you come in thank you and i have to
030say one little thing i mean i just got this thing going on right now where i i'm for the south i'm south of high school manager right now and she's a north field manager so we're trying to see who can get the best sales every day to those and i just want to say one thing too i'll hand this to you first though so this is an msd place to rest thank you for doing what you do so well and i told becky no we're not going to do this though at north shore creek though this is something for home but i do want to say something real quickly though too i know during covet you know we had to make a lot of changes you made um thousands and thousands of meals and i
031always know that when i went to northfield um at the time i think what you were doing two years ago yeah again i think everybody's just nailed it that uh very positive and and that's a big part of being around people and being in the schools to be very positive we always appreciate that a lot well i have a great staff that helps me out too so all my ladies are wonderful so all right well congratulations [Applause] all right i know you guys need to take off and i'm just going for the fun of it i don't know why why that just started working too [Music] be non-metals those are going to be anions because they're going to gain electrons and gain a negative charge and just to name those you add i to the
032a so if you had sulfur and it was going to gain electrons you would call it five got it okay and it's named atomic there are four different things that you do so for an example you have hypochlorite which is chlorine oxygen and then and then you have chlorine which is a chlorine two oxygens and still has bonding and then you would have chlorate which is the chlorine three oxygens and has a negative electrons and then they have per chlorine which would be employing four oxygens in the negative one triangle so the hypo the i the eight and the per you how many oxygens are going in there so since chlorine has three oxygens fluoride's gonna have two hypo is gonna have one and perchlorate is gonna have full [Music] sulfate has four oxygens but
033while chloride has three and sulfide has three oxygens but chlorine has two so it's depending on the polyatomic how many oxygens are in there and so that's how you name the alloys all right well thank you guys for coming you're welcome you're welcome to stay but uh typically people take off yeah all right sorry a little bit longer because we kept on doing it [Music] thank you [Laughter] [Music] all right i'll go through these pretty quickly here so we do have a lot and i won't read every single name but at southwood junior senior height um they want to congratulate the knights on outstanding basketball season of course they won that third consecutive title we kind of mentioned last time that he wrote it on here because i think i mentioned it but one thing
034i do want to say is though that the team that they did get me by at lafayette central catholic they are in the championship game state finals so they played a very tough team um southwood also was proud in norfolk also of all the outstanding musicians who participated in long beach county honors band and choir and then we will continue on here don't go too fast here so congratulations our eighth grade robo knots knights on their awesome robotic season they completed and competed on saturday march 12th at the vex state robotics championship at lucas oil stadium on saturday so congratulations to them mr mcdaniel also wants to congratulate the south of 10th grader grace denney she won a level three award in the indiana state library letters about authors contest way to go grace it's
035just amazing all the different contests and different things that are going on mr mcdaniel also mentioned the ffa chapter participated in the discovery degree quiz bowl contest at huntington university on saturday march 12th members of the team did well and participated in the ffa exhibit there were several students there too so we wanted to congratulate them the ffa knights also congratulations from northfield to mr johnston and the junior high choirs the northfield 7th and 8th grade choirs participated isma junior high choir contest at manchester high school last saturday and received a gold rating in their division and it was very interesting because that's the first time they have done that for many many years so glad that they were able to have that opportunity and won mr snyder also talked about the robotics team who've
036had an awesome day in annapolis of course they are going to go on to worlds i think you know that going to dallas texas in may mr snyder also mentioned about the northfield students who were going to the honored abandoned choir concert mr boone talked about the red circuit breakers the fourth grade and the sixth grade represented southwood elementary at the vex state robotics championship uh they officially wrapped up their season did very well you want to thank the coaches mrs erica tyson mrs kelly bear and mrs amy schmidt boone also wanted to mention every south of elementary student recently had artwork on display at the honeymoon center for the fame festival big thanks to mrs tyson for getting all that work collected and a time spent setting up and tearing down the fame festival
037it was a good time also the kindergarten students went ahead and they sang there saturday morning he also wanted to recognize the spring banner art show and rep reception at the honeywell center special congratulations to jacob he's a second grader whose artwork was selected to be printed on one of the large banners that is now hanging in the downtown wallabish area he also mentioned that trot a first grader was honored this past sunday in annapolis at the symphony in color t awards trots artwork one of the 60 36 finalists across the state uh mr goon also said that uh 22 uh fourth and sixth graders competed last night in that first annual booking in the bash friendly reading competition the teams did really well there it was fun southwood elementary watching the two southwest teams
038and the sharp creek teams competing mrs jennifer finney and mrs house elizabeth were the coaches and actually one of the southwood teams narrowly uh it was a narrow victory uh they were going into a tiebreaker it took a while and they ended up winning by one point mr boone also congratulated and thanked the winter sports season wrestling and also basketball the fifth and sixth grade boys basketball coaches were brian bassett and cole wyatt fifth and sixth grade girls basketball coaches were sean klein brandy pershing and the junior high wrestling coaches carrie campbell and harley heiner mr martin has a few uh we wanted to congratulate all four of our sharp creek northbound robotics teams who were all received an invitation to the dallas texas vex robotics world's competition in early may we're very proud of
039them and thank the coaches mr mrs gretzman and also mr joel nessler good job sharp creek booking in the bash 2020 competitors your time and effort preparing for yesterday's competition is appreciated thanks for representing shark creek sharp creek elementary and southwest did have the home field advantage i guess that's why we think we got beaten by a very narrow margin it was a good i liked waiting mr boom friendly competition it was good and congratulations to sharp creek art teacher mrs katie gray and these students for their aggressive showing at the symphony and color award ceremony recently anthony hughes won people's choice award and an old ribbon also earned him gold driven for teagan bear toria leonard uh giona black jaylen turner and adeline you know we have spent a lot of time going over
040recognitions and different things like that but it's great to know let you guys see a little bit about what's going on and hearing all the positive things that are going on so i think that's it i appreciate it all right so we'll move on to the public comment for items only facebook all right if they come and we'll pick it up later all items just so uh we'll move on to the consent agenda items first item is the approval of the mess from our last meeting on march 8. meeting minutes from march 8th all in favor say that all right claims yeah what's this 41 000 [Music] the new one that's has has always been switching over from the projectors once they die out and phase them out um but we had some gear moving
041over that we needed to spin on a time frame so we went ahead and bought those to start replacing a little bit more in the classrooms elementary water type from 2017 phase six quality electric yeah was that just the late building yeah we had to do something no that was really good really yeah and it was brought to steed they were talking about it with quality electric for our metro north project and then for some reason he's like i don't think i ever built you guys and so we did hey [Music] i just went ahead and gave you the cash flow for education operation fund [Music] for january and february actuals and then the rest are just the the estimates and then i put down at the bottom what those estimates reflect or do not
042reflect at this point in time we should be seeing what our basic grant revenue is from the february 80 m count here within the next month or so and then i also have to in the next by the end of next week give our july estimate estimated adm counts which then would determine the monies that we would receive from july to december that would get reconciled once the february september count came this fall so um some of those numbers will start to be shifting a little bit and then working on a proposal for uh classified uh and admin raises uh for this spring for next school year and so start to plug in some of those numbers and figures in there to get a kind of idea of uh our expectations i guess for the
043end of the year i didn't read the very bottom and so these are plugged in there a little bit none of those have been plugged in at this point in time those are just based off of trends right now so and then give you the similar type of information for the operations fund so nothing to improve there just all right we'll move on to personnel under resignation we have phil boone principal southwood elementary school effective at the end of the school year uh teacher ryan mcfarland at northfield high school effective at the end of the school year uh linda miracle cook at high school under employment we have morgan walker social worker at sharp creek elementary uh assistant baseball coaches jim sparks and peyton peter and those are both volunteer positions at southwest high school
044junior high track patricia oswalt sarah adaman kyle aderman and michelle rice and kyle oswald with all junior high track at northfield kyle adaman and connor oswald are volunteer and then under retirement we have nancy mccauley bus aiden north and south and then under lee we have employee number 137 and you see the dates there for that and i'd like to uh just mention nancy appreciate what she's done over the last several years to to be a bus aide um and driving all of those miles uh with the bus to be able to help with those students and also thank mr boone um typically we'll talk a lot about resignations more retirement but um uh when he was hired he wasn't employed by the university of walrush county and so we uh we were looking at
045maybe just a one year position and it's been six years already it's amazing how fast it's going so he has other things that that he will be doing but we appreciate his service to msd of walmart i moved accepted [Music] excuse me uh heartland career center report yeah i'll give you a little update the county commissioners on the building grant hired a consultant to help us and everybody kind of work together and try to keep everything on track and hopefully that will work out that we can all see the same way and be in compliance and all that so that's still in the process um last time i told you we got an offer from going center for some of the ground it took all of a day to withdraw that and completely get out
046of it but whatever so so that's off the table uh debbie grindel i don't know if you guys have ever been in there she's been there 40 plus years and she's going to retire this year she's you know as about as long as i've been around there man she's just been a staple there so that's gonna be kind of tough replacing her and then mr key favor gave a presentation on trying to amend the funding process down there so and with that process we'll have to go through the schools each school board will have to approve that so that we're started in that process so i let him take all the arrows [Laughter] yeah i just want to mention uh you know legislation session ended earlier this month there were actually 18 house bills and
04717 senate bills for education we're not going to go over all those tonight but just a couple first of all the school board this is kind of directly related to the school board but house bill 13 i'm 11 30 and senate bill 83 which talks about open meetings but the nice thing about it is we are actually doing that and even more and so we don't have to make really a lot of changes but but in house bill 13 11 30 it says requires a governing body of the school corporation school board to allow each member of the public attending a meeting attendee the opportunity to provide oral public comment allows the school board to permit oral public comment at a public meeting that is conducted electronically during a state or local disaster emergency so
048luckily you know we're not in that public health emergency right now and so we'll have to change ours a little bit because we don't need to do everything that we're doing right now but we still will allow for public comment prior to um you know people are here prior to uh our items because that's part of the senate bill part of the senate bill says that you have to allow for public comment prior to that's being voted on it's interesting the house bill does not say that so it'd be interesting to think about okay why would you have public comment if the school board already voted on something and so the senate bill does say that but not the house bill and so just wanted to let you know about that we might change some
049of the wording that we have on some of this but the most part we're already in compliance with that so we want to begin differently for any of those people that have kids in college right now or going to be in college um house bill 1045 increases the tax credits for the 529 college savings accounts did not know if you knew that but i think it's from uh 20 uh oh i just lost the number well it was if you put 50 000. now it's 7 and you can get twelve fifty back so it's still twenty percent credit so you can do more now so because of cost of things like that so so don't quote me on if it is five thousand yet because you get a thousand dollar credit or if you put
0507 500 now to be a 1250 credit um house bill 1251 various education matters allows school districts to hire teachers like they do in college um that's not nothing something that we necessarily want to do but yet with a teacher shortage that's kind of what's um happening in some districts we haven't done that well i mean it's just a new law but that's something that's a little bit interesting um and then the other one that we're going to really follow and watch house bill 1093 these are all bennett enacted they have all been signed by the governor um this talks about e-learning days and how that's going to be uh how they're going to be limited um how many you can have but yet have waivers so nobody really knows uh necessarily what that waiver
051is going to look like and how that's going to work so we're going to we're going to follow that very closely right now they're saying the limit is three and it depends if you're synchronous or asynchronous if you're a synchronous um they don't count towards the three but they're asynchronous they count through the three did i say that right yeah they count towards the three and so if you have others then it may not count but there are waivers so we just don't know what that really means though is that waivers for other professional development or is that waivers for like weather and so we'll have to find that out but right now our calendar last few years has only been three anyway as far as the professional development so if it's just waivers for
052weather then we should be okay um and that's all i'll share right now but we will continue to look at all those bills the 34 bills or whatever there are 33 um new ones to make sure that we're in tune with all of those and i'm sure our school attorney will help us out whenever we need help one of us to so that's all i have for tonight all right we'll move to the curriculum and the instruction report uh mr greek yeah last time i we met we talked about social studies um i want to let you know that we've had parents look at the books and we'd actually have members of the public living books and they both came back with a favorable response they were all uh if i can remember the quote
053it was pleasantly surprised about how unbiased the books were and so of course that's how we chose them to be so we're happy to hear that uh and we now will be looking at math textbooks and so i've given you their list of the different vendors that the teachers have chosen um you'll see k to five they're still debating between the two we hope to have that wrapped up but as with social studies we'll have these out here uh for any member of the public and so if they want to come check them out we encourage them to so we already have the high school copies out here we should get the elementary ones by the end of the week we're hoping by the end of next week for sure so when did you say
054the approval for the final board approval would be for the social social studies books oh i hope to bring both to you on april 28th okay math and social media yeah now if mr q favorite creates a new board meeting i might try no um [Music] that's it okay so we'll go to new business we have a recommendation excuse me to approve the southwood elementary school sixth grade students and staff to transition to southwood junior senior high school starting with the 2022-2023 school year i'll let you speak to that yes so we have been starting this discussion even last year when we started with or adding some of our preschool classes where we've had some increased enrollment we knew that there might be a situation we need to look at and so last year we
055started discussing it and then we started in earnest starting this year with principals and administrators then we went to uh teacher meetings in november um also a parent meeting where we actually had the parents coming to southwood junior senior high school and we showed them basically a slideshow about some different situations that we were thinking because we wanted to get their input and typically uh everything was positive there were a lot of questions though which rightfully so when you move sixth grade up to a seven through twelve building and uh we ended up saying that we would make a decision in february uh to bring to a school board meeting in march which we did and after all the conversations i'm talking to the teachers again and talking with the administrators looking at everything to
056see if this could happen then that's the recommendation obviously the rationale that right there in the middle basically is that we need we need more space and so we do have more space at the junior senior high school at southwood and we've added you know really a couple sections and we will add more sections this coming year too because of the number of students that we have so that's the reason why i think a lot of people wouldn't just know what the plan is so the plan there i listed kind of a format you know three sixth grade classrooms will be grouped into close proximity with each other you'll actually be in the hallway the front hallway is what we call it would be down closer to the west end of the building but in
057that front hallway where the high school office is in that hallway sixth grade students will have different passing periods uh that's through the seventh and through twelfth grade so we don't have to worry about that situation sixth grade students will eat lunch during the seventh and eighth grade lunch period but be separated from them even though at some point that might even change because there are a lot of schools that actually have six seven eighth grade um eat together um and they do a lot of other things together too sixth grade students will have have a recess though that's one thing those ask about but they will have a recess uh our seventh through twelfth grade they don't have recess right now that our sixth grade will continue to have uh they'll have the regular
058special classes during southwood's homeroom period with southwood high school teachers sixth grade teachers will receive their preparation period during the homeroom period and an additional time during the students recess time to kind of match up and correlate with the same as what typical 7-12 teacher would have and then if the recommendation is approved further details will be discussed and worked out there are some things that we have to continue to work on but it has to be approved before we move on with that but i really have lots of conversations lots of notes um and i feel like this is actually going to be a good thing in a lot of different reasons um and uh we're ready to make the move so we make the recommendation for that move to happen uh for next
059school year if there are questions okay so they'll be on the south hallway towards the west correct okay so that has recess they go outside then they can go outside also we'll have we'll be able to use the gyms which will be nice because the gyms are large and things like that um one thing that we are looking at we we won't have any the only playground equipment that we may look into is doing like a gaga pit a lot of middle schools have but other than that you know we're not going to recreate you know swings and things like that but but they will have an opportunity to have a big gym i mean you think about southwood elementary how small that gym is and the tile floor and how slick it is and
060now they have a big gym with a lot more room so that will be better especially when you have the nasty weather like today so there are any teachers moving over there right the sixth grade teachers yeah that team unless there are changes you know with some sections moving there might be some teachers that could possibly move don't know if that's going to happen yet or not and if there's an interest or not but there could be a possibility of that but yes those teachers um i mean the sixth grade teachers will be moving out they'll be using the restrooms on the west hallway then yes okay that's good yeah and like i said they'll have different passing periods um we discussed back and forth but we are going to go ahead and just let
061them have lockers we were thinking about possibly doing cubbies in the classroom um but we have enough locker space in fact it used to be actually everybody has their own locker right now we still might double up a little bit with uh junior high but in the past it used to be we had so many students obviously they had to share the only people would not share with the seniors but now everyone has their own locker now that will change a little bit next year maybe some junior high kids will have to match up not quite enough to do all that so we feel like one classroom of three-year-olds and [Music] next year we're looking at having two of four four so we only have one right now we'll have two and then we're looking
062at having an additional um fourth grade classroom right now we have two sections but all three sections because actually you know there's only two sections so you think about fifth grade but now the numbers have jumped up quite a bit uh during the year the fourth grade teachers did a great job going out uh recruiting more students because that class kept on getting larger and larger and so um we will have basically three sections in all grades k through six except then of course like your littles you said that three year olds will be one section and the four year will be two sections i just wondered how early when you think about this registration period you think about okay how young they are right now and so they they may think about it differently
063this summer too and they want to be a part of it they're tired of it that's exactly right other questions though i'll make a motion to make this change sorry okay i have a motion a second to approve the recommendation to move southwood elementary sixth grade students to the junior senior high beginning next school year all in favor say hi bye next we have a recommendation to approve the revised 2022-2023 junior senior high school account and i can just tell you it doesn't really change that much when you look at calendars and when you do things in excel how this is done mr mcdivitt actually does this sometimes things autofill a little bit differently like autocorrect you guys have had that situation maybe in the past i have um so some of the days for
064example march on the old calendar had march 1st on tuesday and march 1st is really on a wednesday so when you look at all those different things it messes up everything and so that was caught um by one of our staff members uh the numbers were right it's just that the counties were wrong so nothing's really changed except it's the right calendar for the right a second to approve the revised 2022-2023 might do your senior high school calendar all the papers [Music] public comment for any items and i think that's probably a smart idea to put that before we take a vote on anything yeah it was interesting though the first bill that did not have it in there though that was the household senate building thought on the reminder but that also said that
065comments from people in attendance yes so we would probably be moving to strike that from the language to all facebook comments just to reiterate that there might be comments we'll probably even answer them but we're not going to take the time to do that during the meeting let me just rephrase that again um so uh any items from board members i just had a question on the movement of southwood this is already thought meeting that northfield or should we consider that being keeping both schools yeah that was a good that was a good comment there's there are other um in other words we do have the rise classroom at northfield also so that and there are more students at northfield and so it probably would not be as feasible to do that necessarily right now
066we have uh don't quote me on this but a rough estimate there's probably about 50 55 students more at northfield than the south one plus they do have the rise classroom so that takes up another classroom but yes we did consider that and thinking about that also but since we have the two elementaries too and we have enough space we still have a space and that consideration was considered but it felt like it wasn't something that we needed to do we had made adjustments for third grade because the maryland preschool was already much more yes so it has made some changes but just not quite the same level right i wanted to come in in your presentation and also the interesting part about the positive comment about working with kids that they hadn't worked with
067that you were willing to mix that up because speaking from an introverted point of view that likes just to be around the kids that you're comfortable with that's excellent you know there's always that the ones on the fringe that don't feel like they're part of friendships with other kids and that's that's really cool and and the kids made that comment yeah they said they they learned more from [Music] being the people they didn't know and i think that goes to pull them out of their comfort zone because you can see the kids who don't typically volunteer class or offer anything or the ones who participated the most which was there was a couple of one of the girls in my second switch she could not wait to get the coping done and make it she
068was the one that would not let anyone else touched the little spiro and it surprised me because that's not her typical personality so yeah that's great i like it the other riders board members okay