001to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all before we get started tonight we're going to have something that mr keyfavor would like to read yes um as you know chuck bear passed away and the funeral was today and i would just like to read the obituary that has to do with the educational part of his career and also him as a veteran czech bear chuck then enlisted in the marines and was sent to the vietnam war for a two-year tour after his discharge in 1971 he started attending grand valley state college upon graduation he landed a teaching job at la grill elementary in the fall of 1975. he heard him this was not an obituary
002but i heard today at the funeral uh he heard about the position um by relatives at the funeral home so kind of interesting there he met sharon dean a fellow teacher they married in on march 31st once libero elementary closed in 1980 he started teaching at short creek elementary that is where he remained until retirement teaching wasn't just a job for him it was a passion he not only taught but also worked with after school programs these included odyssey of the mind later destination imagination and robotics teams he and four other educators founded the summer school program science in motion where there were three levels grouped by age these programs enabled students to travel and camp all over the us science in motion was a great experience for the many students who participated over several
003years chuck loved sports and coached his daughter's basketball and soccer teams along with the girls summer softball league and the elementary girls basketball elementary boys basketball and football teams so as a tribute to chuck just wanted to read a little bit more and see how long you know all the different things that he did in education for msd of walt bush county and at this time we're going to observe him on silence form thank you future board meetings june 8 july 13 and july 27th all here at a regular time of 6 pm we have no revisions to the agenda with the exception some some things under hr so we will move on to public recognition have a recommendation to approve a 200 donation from dairyland seed for the northfield ffa a recommendation to approve
00412 donation from melanie gibbons penn 25 from denise wood 25 from susan lyons riker 25 from carmen ernst 25 from kurt campbell 25 from deb cats 25 from the long sparring 50 from beth eakin 221 dollars and four cents from matthew all for the southwood high school to purchase 60 copies of tequila mockingbird and moving on then oh i guess we do need to actually accept us motion and second to accept the donations on the baby all right now then move on to the school recognition and before we move to that though i just want to mention that um according to the email i received at 5 00 pm tonight there was actually the media got a hold of us knowing that there was going to be 60 copies of this to kill mockingbird and
005so they wanted to interview our teacher who teaches that and also a couple of students so i guess there's a little clip at five o'clock today and hopefully we'll be able to see that um later on but we weren't at a tv today to see the five o'clock views a lot of times they put that on on their website and things like that it'll be interesting to see that information so and so for school recognition we'll just go in order um and we'll start with mr martin okay thank you well certainly we at sharp creek want to recognize and celebrate the life and teaching career of mr bear a longtime church creek teacher and who has very positively impacted the lives of many many young people over the years also we'd like to say a
006big thank you to current street staff who will not be returning to our building for next year that includes becky mast who has been a paraprofessional and has announced that she is retiring we wish her well in retirement we also know that pam powell's one of our special education teachers and uh alyssa spann who has been a temporary teacher in our building in fifth grade are both moving to uh northfield junior senior high for next school year we wish them well and going with the special ed program that mr spouse has is uh connie wolfe and kayleens are two of our paraprofessionals so we just want to thank them for all their time and efforts in our building over the years also congratulations to our staff member of the year connie wolf one of those
007paraprofessionals i just spoke up and teacher of the year pam campbell both of these ladies are extremely hard workers and they do every day show how much they care about students and student success so congratulations to them and i saw that there's already facebook there's laura did that's got pictures of all the uh teachers of the year and staff of the year from the building um and then just first-time elementary building principal it's just amazing how much elementary teachers the time and effort they put on what what would be considered by many to be above and beyond but i just want to say thanks to the teachers here late in the year that just go above and beyond and provide students with experiences and opportunities that make it special but also maybe provide some kids
008with things they wouldn't had an opportunity to do and see gary norman organize an old-school field day that was basically the whole day today and gary would be the first to tell you that everybody chips in everybody's part of it everybody supervises and helps but it's just a great day for all of our students sixth grade teachers tammy shaper pam campbell matt brown and alison saunders recently organized tammy was kind of believed that the camp outing for sixth graders which was very successful and many many volunteers parents some not parents but volunteers for years and years maybe started out as a parent volunteer but have continued to be a part of that experience a new location this year due to some covenant things uh worked out really well and i know there's some serious consideration
009for that change be coming to norm fourth grade teachers deb shingle kelly ross and kim baer took the fourth grade on an outing last this last uh friday to downtown wabash some parks and wall bags heard some information local history and information but we just appreciate teachers don't have to do that and you know kids could have probably sat in the classroom and been told about it but they got to go see and do and then the fifth grade teachers alyssa spann amber bretzmann and mary jo nguyen uh providing the students an opportunity they refer to as a red carpet event for fifth graders to uh pick out a famous person they're reading the biobiography and then dressing the park and doing the red carpet academy awards type show in the gym parents got to
010come watch and it was a nice thing for kids to get to host their parents but also participate in so just really thankful for all the hard work here toward the end of the year thank you and we have some natural paparazzis as parents don't we yes thank you all right we'll continue then with mr mcdevitt thank you um i'm just going to read precisely what the teacher sent me about because i had to ask for teachers any feedback on the students directly so this is from mrs rigby about lily b when she arrived on campus she was angry and disrespectful i slowly watched her change and grow she started talking about her family working hard enjoying class and earning credits then it came time for her to be released something happened that would just
011be you know poor choices something happened and she was told she had to stay longer an undetermined amount of time i was so afraid this would set her back and she would revert back to the girl we first saw but to her credit she's remained on the right path i'm very proud of her and even though i am happy for her to return home i will certainly miss her so that's lily b and i and mrs ray is spot on lily was was a young man it was very difficult to like when she first arrived and she is leaving as a young lady that we're all sad as ego so we just wish you're the best i also want to celebrate our staff member and teacher the aerostat member of the year was nick perlick
012i think many of you probably know nick very well one of the great things about nick is he is a quiet unassuming worker uh doesn't doesn't ask for actually he'd rather not be noticed and so he was a little i don't know i'd say uncomfortable today but i certainly did not enjoy the spotlight but nick just does a great job for us not only it was just solving the technology things that come his way uh but he's also willing to just step in whenever we need you know coverage here it'll help there he's just happy to do it and so nick does a great job but our teacher of the year was wendy gray and here's what uh one of the staff members who nominated her said about wendy wendy finds the perfect balance between
013developing positive relationships with their students and holding them to a high standard of performance her students respond positively to their leadership in the classroom and they respect her and want to do their best for her one of the really neat things about mrs great i didn't know this right away um but it wasn't about until halfway through my first year that i learned that mrs gray originally it was a license still is but she was originally just a licensed elementary teacher and taught kindergarten i thought oh my gosh because this little woman is great with teenagers and so what he does a fantastic job for us so teacher leaders wendy gray all right well thank you very much and we'll go next with mrs boone thank you sir tonight the car program would just like
014to highlight and congratulate our 72 2021 graduates we're still working on that number because we have several we're still trying to push to the finish line but at this point in time we're at 72 38 of our graduates actually traveled from all over the state and joined us on sunday for uh for our graduation ceremony and they were we had families come from terre haute from evansville from delphi all over the place so it was a really nice um a nice opportunity to spend some time face to face with those kids and their families so just wanted to highlight our students their hard work and their perseverance to getting to this milestone in their lives i also really appreciate this was the largest number of staff that we had able to come and so we
015had all of our staff who are involved in the park program there with the exception of two so that was really exciting and these teachers are just they are committed to what they do they're committed they're involved because they are passionate about working with kids and they are very skilled at working with this type of student and really finding ways to connect and build relationships and rapport with them so i just want to take this opportunity to highlight all of those those who are there and the investment and the oftentimes i call it the relentless pursuit of our kids when they um start falling through the class or they disappear for a while our teachers keep after it and they don't give up and that's one thing that reels our kids back in and that's
016often the key that changes their path so josanna corn kylie roman lindsey lovato amanda rigney wendy gray angela shavio harlan mark hewitt theresa uptight jackie sebesta and nick perlick and you heard mr mcdevitt mention a couple of those names so just really appreciate our staff and super proud of our students i also like to take a minute to thank mr mcdaniel for allowing us to use southwood with this kind of a crowd we didn't have a good place at whites and so it was really nice to just be able to go to our neighbors and use the auditorium and his prep and lori brewer and roger boone helping get everything set up and ready so that it was a nice it was well prepared we were in a nice cool auditorium on a hot hot
017sunday so really appreciate all the behind the scenes things that people like mr pawley and mr baker and aaron heiden did to make sure the building was ready for us so we just wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you to the southwest team as well all right a couple things along that line uh president mr daisy was there also one thing that was different that you did which i think everybody really thought was great was the carnations that they had tanya asked the graduates to take two or three incarnations and the people that there say a little word about how they um helped with their pursuit to to be able to graduate and i thought that was a very touching moment and a good thing so good job good job with that and
018then you'll hear a little bit more later on when she talks about the handbook because there's a few a couple changes there too that are kind of exciting too and i'll talk about that later too anyway thank you tanya all right i have a couple more from first of all from mr snyder he just wants to congratulate frank freshman hannah holmes hannah won the 100 200 meter run at the marion sectional on tuesday last tuesday and she is running tonight at the regional at marion also also he wanted to wish best wishes to spanish teacher joe joy edding custodian kathy steele and ryan's room teacher fred nissen as they are retiring at the end of the school year so we have i think the two teachers their last day will be tomorrow and then i
019believe uh kathy's last day is on friday is that right something like that pretty close to that and then just thank you for your work and thank you for your work and dedication for students at staff at norfolk enjoy your retirement also the indiana basketball coaches association girls on world mention allstate awards were recently brought to our attention congratulations to kyrah kennedy kirsten stout addie baker and emma hoover um of course the semi-state team i'll make sure i don't miss anymore and i believe that's it i didn't miss any denying you guys anymore so i believe that's it okay thank you so we'll move on to the public comment on agenda items online wait for the facebook feed okay consent agenda items approval of the minutes from our last meeting on may 11. as presented
020all in favor say aye financials claims the licensing thing appears for the skyward is that a for a full year that's an annual fee one year yep that's a very important software system there are three different components to that uh we didn't always have all those components uh so it makes it look a little bit larger because it has to be separated out our student information system school financials and our financials here payroll and all that so before it was split up in our school building eca so yeah yeah a lot of information but the idea we wouldn't ask us for all that information we wouldn't have to carry it but but yeah that's an annual feed more than a second to approve the claims as presented all in favor say all right payroll pretty
021standard payroll um i think i said this at the last board meeting um the ones at the end of may and june will be pretty uh significant just because of the stipends that we're paying out for everybody plus turning in you know the claims for the ecas at the end of the year for high schools and spring athletics and then we'll also start summer school payments in june as well so it'll be noticeably different significant it was a good word [Laughter] do we have much summer school do what we have signed up for yes that's an understatement 100. you're going to want to kick your feet up when i get to that financial summary dr kuhn i just gave you the cash flows for education operation uh you won't see much different than what we've
022kind of already went over uh and talked about in the past everything is up to date when you look at those cash flows reflection of february edm counts we're still waiting on some final things with a budget to get a better estimation on july numbers but we do know that we will be receiving more money per atm per student so there'll be some adjustments based off of what we estimated which i believe i went back to try to look at it but it was already removed and i believe i estimated about 2 000 students for our estimated account which that would take effect in july payments and then that would be reconciled once we find out what our september payments so nothing really different than what we discussed you'll notice in june and typically in
023december we're closing out the end of the fiscal year in june we're closing out the end of the calendar year in december a lot of money goes out because we have a lot of payments that are due at that time of year but we also get a lot of money coming in uh mainly because of the tax revenues that are turned in and so forth so you see some some big differences there in cash flow terms just as far as money coming in coming out but nothing that is surprising at this point in time any questions we'll move on to the personnel under employment we have clay herring summer custodian for all the schools mike harrelwood custodian at northfield high school melissa cardwell cook at metro north elementary will be starting in the fall kenneth
024working summer custodian for all schools jennifer merkel summer custodian for all schools resignation mary beth harrell cook northfield effective at the end of this school year and under retirement as we said earlier with the passing of mr berry did submit his retirement before that actually happened so we're going to have his retirement on this list becky mass paraprofessional and sharp food transfer suzanne bechtel transferring from southwood high school as cook to southwood elementary school as the food service manager effective the 2021-2022 school year jody chenoweth transferring from a one-to-one paraprofessional to an ld paraprofessional southwood effective the 2021-2022 school year and maxine warford transferring from ld professional to at-risk paraprofessional to at southwood effective next school year under summer school employment transportation susie lewis teresa sears carla gaines and juanita lemon also we have jeanette
025moore elementary director tommy boone secondary director adam phelps at itmentum kathy gilman edmentum patty ross and cam patty steele and cami ross m.i.a janelle ekman lisa dieter elizabeth rajok all primary reading uh lisa alyssa deiter and janelle heckman primary reading teachers elizabeth rayak primary reading aid also mary dye primary reading aid angie herring jennifer cox heather amos mary jo nguyen patti steele allison montz and hacker all summer school teachers as well as natalie hunger jeremy elsie angie driscoll becky elsie shelby drake deb mitchell holly robbins mitch michelle dupont and krista hoover all summer school paraprofessionals and finally nicole knox summer school title 1 teacher cory blocker summer school teacher and megan wright summer school teacher and that is [Music] oh somebody as tired as an edmonton yes yes read all in favor say hi um
026that's not here so we don't have a heart on the career center report superintendent's reporters key paper yes and i'm going to show you one thing real quickly someone can get out of this if i can all right i want to put this to rest actually we talked about this so mr drake starting in about november 30th would run a cue list and we didn't know if we ever had to use a cue list but things were changed as far as attendance and so every day he would run a cue list and then i would put it in just this a real quick graph and so i kind of just want to put it to rest because we hope not to ever use this again the cue list was for quarantine list and we know
027that the quarantine list would be based on because they were close contact in schools whether they were actually a they had coven or there was a close contact and quarantined because of a family situation all right and so as you can see the numbers there i thought we were going to get down to zero on the last day which was the day and we had we still had one but that had nothing to do with the school that was more just because of the family situation so again just kudos to all the staff to work through this whole year people were betting on going to school about two weeks and then shutting down in august and it was got a little rough there when you saw those numbers and how many kids were quarantined this
028is over the district um and not whites was not included in students were not included in this graph but with all the help and work and of everyone we got it down and there was only one in the last day of school and that really had nothing to do with with the school itself so i didn't just want to point that out um i appreciate all the work that um everyone has to do with just putting that list together um and of course mr drake uh creating that given to me and distorting it in this graph so we just wanted to put it to rest basically that's what we're doing and i just want to mention uh i appreciate the the school board allowing me go to epic epic it was the butler university of
029indiana association public school superintendents leadership academy just got a nice little plaque for completion of that the only thing is it was a 12-month program that took our group our cohort 18 months so we were a little slower than most groups but obviously that was based on cove but not because of the the participants in the program itself but it was very good things that i will continue to use and and a lot of it is those connections the networking that um you uh and the relationships you built with those other superintendents in that group so i just appreciate to allow me to go to that so that's all i have okay mr craig curriculum and instruction yeah i just want to say we know that uh it's all about the people that we have
030like the chicky favorite set earlier and i just want to say something about tonya tanya's put together a graduation ceremony someday that would have rivaled any hallmark movie channel that that you guys would watch there were tears and hugs and there were people there that don't want to go to school and the families don't feel comfortable there but they they knew how important this was and it was incredible i got the chance to talk to a couple of families i talked to one lady who said i said so what's your story you're here to watch somebody graduate and she said yeah he's not my child it was somebody down the street or whatever and ended up with her and i said well do you think he'd make it and she goes there were times i
031thought he was going to go to jail and uh and she was just so thankful for the car program so if you if you guys as board members have a chance to go i would highly encourage you know i know todd had a chance to go this time it is just you just listen to those people on the stories is it was amazing and so kudos to her that was excellent and then scott asked earlier about summer school i think the board should we've got a summer school program that is rivaling the state we always talk about the summer learning loss i know most of us come from families where the summer isn't something where our kids experience learning loss right but there are a lot of families when they those kids leave school it's
032a safe place it's a place for friends and so we've always wanted to do more of our summer school we just had the funding and so we've actually tapped into lots of funding to try to put this together and so what you call the summer scholars program and so mrs moore has reached into she's working with ynca she's worked with the same life that dr who started like she has so many programs going on and so many kids but you just look at all those those teachers there that is an extra 30 days or so four or five weeks that those kids are going to be with a meaningful adult having great conversations and so i couldn't be prouder of how that's turned out and it has been an incredible amount of time for this
033is more of emails and communicating between southwood elementary metroward and including transportation and now the ymca and then we have this grant and that grant i mean it has been and she's done an amazing job bringing all those things together and so um i i know you see the listing like holy cow that's a lot just know that that is it's going to be an amazing experience for about 200 kids for about 200 kids and that is at southwood elementary and that measurement worth multiple grades and then some kids are leaving there and going to the ymca for spark and some kids are going with this m.i.a thing so then with teachers in the afternoon like to try to describe it isn't it's impossible but um hopefully we've tapped enough grants that maybe we might
034be able to pull something off this year even though mrs moore will get like 10 more gray hairs probably so i just wanted you as board members to uh just to be fully aware of how amazing and again like i said at the beginning it's the people not the programs um and so just kind of amazing people uh yeah so i just wanted to emphasize that let me right here before we move on i just want to piggyback off that and say kudos to mrs boone um again you were right that was probably one of the most emotional graduation ceremonies i've ever seen with the possible exception of watching my daughter graduate from manchester university before but there were so many tears and so many hugs of we made it we didn't think that this
035day would ever get here and you know you just see those kids and and how pride you know how full of pride they were that they made it to that point and the parents how how proud they were of their kids for making it to that point so good job new business we're going to move on to the recommendation to approve the 2021 2022 curricular material and course fees so i gave you a couple documents one document represents the elementary course fees or curriculum they don't call it textbook rental anymore it's curricular materials um and then the other document lays out the uh course costs for the two junior senior high schools at northfield southwood elementary is pretty cut and dry the cost of the fees have not changed since even when i was a
036principal in the corporation we try to keep them as low as possible and those remain at 190 so no changes were made from previous from last year's rental fees and then the high schools are kind of all over the place just depending on what courses that student signs up for you're looking at that am i going too fast yeah i just uh yeah no one had any recommendations for any type of changes um we still feel comfortable that the price is right when it comes to what we set for the ipad feed for the four year use we've explored using some of the grant funds to help supplement the curriculum and so that might be a conversation down the road about when those grant dollars are gone maybe introducing some kind of conversation about lowering
037that device to try to help with the curriculum and find another we do yes how much does that cover so we put in the full amount but we don't always get the full amount because there is a cap as far as how much the state will spend in that and so usually when every school corporation asks goes above that cap so it gets reduced it usually gets reduced about 85 to 85 so it's reached about 15 sorry um so we recover about 85 of that uh from there and then along with that though we also have the ability to any difference that isn't made up is to take that out as part of our debt service to make up for any of that loss i've always thought with the devices and obviously it takes a
038lot of thinking about but is it would it be cheaper somehow for a family to purchase one than to rent it you know 110 you know you add that up over you know 13 years or 12 years um that'd be something i'd like you know sure if we could you know could be a way to look at that now aaron could probably explain this a little bit more some of the issues we run into is us being able to filter yeah and control what happens with that device which could lead to a lot of other issues down the road um and so plus keeping up with the technology and then be able to push out stuff because a lot of our information apps and things like that are pushed out to the devices that the
039teachers use and so forth so we would have a lot less control and accessibility when it comes to having somebody use their own device with that i just you know obviously maybe not i don't know if you own it or you pay a certain amount and you're you're speaking more like still using the school device it's just from your probably personal experience of multiple children right you you start adding that up i mean you spent a thousand thirteen fourteen hundred dollars per kid just on a device that you could have probably you know sure so i'm just thinking about you know if there would be other options for family that are you know paying that amount you know it's not a lot but it would be if you added it up for the years that
040they're in there so i just i and when we did have textbooks so i think it was the same thing too because a textbook would cost 60 70 80 and they would rent those and so um i understand your point is the comparison would be the textbooks too like we used to do so textbook so just ask a recommendation to approve fees for next year uh i'll motion for the recommendation to approve the textbook second motion second to approve the textbook the course curriculum material course fees for next year recommendation to approve the 2021-2022 board of education meetings so you look at that this basically mirrors what we made a few changes for this year and so in october one meeting in december 1 meeting and then also in june one meeting every other time
041though there's there are two meetings so it's what we voted on last time when we changed a couple of those typically we'd only have one in december october sometimes we'd have one sometimes two and early the only other change was the june one so pretty standard of course we have all kinds of meetings in january when we reorganize mr downs gets to take care of all that so i just asked that you approve those dates for next year or for this fiscal year i moved to approve the calendar from four meetings so much on the second so i approve the board of education meetings calendar all in favor say aye all right first reading and review of the 2021 high school handbook i'll introduce mr joe lacey assistant principal at southport junior senior high school
042i will tell you he spent a lot of time a lot of work on making these revisions although there aren't a bunch of them there's a lot of people that he has to talk with and not everybody is very quick on their feet as far as replying back to him and so i really appreciate his patience and his detailed work on making sure everything works so mr lacey thank you man and i did not uh put i mean all those pages otherwise i'd get carpal tunnel doing this the whole time so i just have the revisions up there for everyone sure no problem thank you good evening guys thanks for having me uh like mr key favorite said there's not a ton of revisions this year and the ones that we have are not real
043uh major uh so one thing we did update this year through laura was making uh the document ada qualifying on our website so that screwed up some of the page numbering i apologize but once we get these approved and i take the deletions out and add in the additions i promise i will fix that uh and that'll be good in in on paper format in the uh on the school websites uh handbook approval is of course uh hopefully this first reading so we would ask that you would approve at the next meeting the board members were updated of course uh since our last inbook academic awards this actually was implemented this year for mr drake in our for the msc academic awards for seniors and juniors there was a there used to be a attendance
044component to that and of course that needed to be changed with all the cobia restrictions this year so at that time then we took advantage of that to go ahead and change that to the senior and junior academic awards student work permits are actually starting july 1 are no longer going to go through the schools in indiana any longer so our secretary is very pleased probably with that but i have some language there just stating that that's going to be taken out that is not going to be up to employers and families uh and it's moved out of the education like i said in the state and moved over to the bureau of labor uh to take care of uh we i we want to keep language there however though that we can still revoke
045those if needed if the attendance for a student gets terrible or the grades take a deep dive after they get a job and so that is included we have a updated disciplined matrix that you'll find on page 28 hasn't been touched for a number of years honestly so we just cleaned up some language uh main part here really is the technology we added to the bottom of the document as far as if there was intentional damage to a device things like that excuse me old uh matrixes still said laptop and that's the one thing we did was update that to include the correct uh verbiage and we're just going to use the word the generic word device from now on instead of uh specific naming but the fees obviously had to change and that and
046i worked with the our our tech department with mr hyde mr miller to get those things uh included and so that's really the main change there for the discipline matrix the daily discipline that let's say myself and mr ellsworth that northfield would do there's really no changes there one thing we did look at though we would like to start next year is including in if there is a vape or tobacco offense in the school that we would have our sros also involved in that we had a meeting early this year with the assistant principals from around the four schools in the county and the sros everybody pretty much seemed to be on board with that i know that wabash city's moving forward with that we would like to move forward with that uh and so
047on the first offense uh that obviously does usually result in suspension and things like that from school but we're also going to have the sro write it basically a warning ticket could be a possibility at that point uh second offense in the school year an actual citation a ticket written uh from nesro the one thing i'll say mr lacey too we are working with um court services because core services would have to be a part of that um and what court that would go into so there's been some discussion with that and i'm actually on that board also so been in some of those meetings to talk about that but they have to agree with some of this so the language in it um allows us um it's a may instead of a show because
048we don't have all of that worked out with them yeah and we want to make sure that we could continue on to have this first reading and continue on with it so appreciate mr lacey continue with that and work with the other superintendents or other assistant principals yeah i would reiterate that the language is pretty vague for this school round so you know it would say you know this may include possible a court fine or a court fee maybe possibly if we work with court services or maybe some maybe like a temporary probation period or some community service those are all things that are being explored right now so with the language way it's in there right now it will kind of open that up so that we can do any of those things if
049need be next item down is just again working with the tech department and updated rup responsible user policy um and again the main change there was everything on the old one was geared towards laptops and so they just again changed that to use that kind of generic term of device uh and that to cover whether it's the ipad's computer whatever it may be so that is inserted pages 56 and 66 has the same change but ones in the northfield athletic handbook ones in the southwood athletic handbook regarding athletic participation and so that's mainly geared towards the elementaries and so just letting you know what that says right now any 5th or 6th grade elementary student for the north or south with great eligibility requirements can participate on the 7th grade teams in cross country wrestling
050and track and field there was a caveat there where it did say sixth grade only for track and field we're going to remove that to where the fifth and sixth grade can participate um there is a note there however the rrc is a middle school conference and so they do not allow fifth grade participation in their championship events and also the athletic directors that agree in years past that fifth graders will not participate in wabash county championship events for what i understand that's only in cross country and track are the only wabash county championship events that are held so the fifth graders will be able to participate throughout the season just not in those championship events there we're also adding something here uh i'll just kind of read it kind of verbatim to you as
051far as uh kids playing up i guess that's what it would be referring to uh in age so uh in the sports a student may turn participate on an athletic team above their current grade level only if the need arises due to the number of athletes on the team in the upper grade level for example a sixth grader may play on a seventh grade team if there are not enough seventh grade participants to viably field that team the same will apply with seventh graders participating on eighth grade teams again as needed if this situation arises the participating athletes will be chosen by the coaches additionally if a student is needed and chosen to play on an upper grade level team it cannot also be then included on the roster of the team at their current
052grade level we don't want it like a sixth grade kid playing up on the seventh grade team and then so also being on the sixth grade team um and so he's going to play on seventh grade king's 107th great team um so no student will be allowed however to play down uh you know no student will be able to play lower than the great level if they're in uh that will be like i said both uh both uh participating students out there all right and books and the only other change is way back to the very back and that's our school account it will always be to include the 2021-2022 calendar those are the revisions and for scott and christian this is really just the first reading so obviously you have questions but if there
053are questions we would like to know pretty quickly though before the next meeting because then it would be voted on on the next meeting so and i won't ask um uh joe or jeanette who actually are talking about to come next time so i can just feel those questions if they're anything else but hopefully i hope there are no other questions but earlier than that before we vote on those so because we'd have to make changes if we did that thank you very much uh thank you all right first reading and review of the 2021-2022 elementary handbook all right well thank you and i appreciate i did not realize the amount of work they went into revising the handbook because mr snyder always took care of it thank you mr snyder i'm forever invented just
054the page number yeah that's a trick trick [Laughter] we just updated the award adoption date um to reflect hopefully when it's adopted in the next one meeting and then updated the school year on page iii we updated the notes to reflect july 2021 as well as our school website and where to access work policy on our new msdwc.org website on page one we updated mr martin to reflect the new principal at sharp creek updated mr three flat rocket um and then also included mr rosine and mr hopper as our new school board members on page 15 we added in the middle of the paragraph about the use of cellular phones and electronic devices the part about taking recording and or displaying or distributing video pictures to digital or otherwise or audio recordings without the consent
055of a student or the staff member in a situation not related to a school purpose or an ethical educational function is prohibited we added that in two spots in the elementary handbook and this was one of those we also on page 18 that's where we added it again in our responsible use guidelines we added that same text as an i will not with um their sculpt issue device on the page 19 similarly to the high school we added information about the elementary device matrix to look at incidents of intentional damage ours are a little bit different because we don't have friday school um and there was something else that you mentioned in yours that we don't have the elementary level but i can't remember what it was now besides friday school day reporting oh yes
056probably um so those two pieces were added to page 19. page 25-27 those where i think just some formatting pieces um harassment is now added as a full topic not as a bulleted piece as well as use of an object as a weapon and we also need bullying a topic not just a bullet within another area and those were our revisions sit on the treatment book thank you all right and finally the first reading review of the 2021-2020 bridge handbook this is benny thank you mr daisy were you going to start with anything well i was just going to say how i'm pretty sad about this situation but i agreed to it so the car program is not going to be called the bridge no more a vehicle to success um just being sarcastic that's
057okay so the person that came up with that was gifted yeah that's right so no anyway this is they've done a lot of work and looked at branding and different things like that so i won't take any more of your thunder on that um so you can go ahead and go talk to us about the bridge we are going to shift um we're in the process of shifting laura's helping with that we're working with an outside party that is just covered under our sig grant um who's also helping us with that but we were we're struggling with families being able to understand car they have no idea what car stands for and we have probation officers calling it cars or harp and at least the other one wasn't said yet don't say that right now
058so it's just we're trying to move away from any disney movie child movie um connotation or nasty fish um conversation so we are moving to the bridge and we felt like with the bridge you can it very much identifies we can very much identify with what we're doing with our kids which is bridging gaps and filling gaps for our kids so with that i'm looking at mr lacey's handbook and mine is like um not even a third of the size you don't have athletes and in health it makes a difference also our families would not make it past the first two pages so um the highlights that i'd like to bring to this i did add several new things this year strictly because we continually are attempting to improve the validity and just just who
059we are and what we're doing and make sure that we are meeting a letter of the law and the first thing that i'll bring your attention is enrollment and onboarding that's probably something that is in a traditional handbook and it's critical to an online environment so we have to have a very specific enrollment and onboarding process that if for any reason we would be audited um to show that we are making every attempt right out of the gate to engage students and get families on board and along with that our attendance and student engagement this is pretty much reflective of what last year's look looked like however i just tried to be more specific and identify the exact procedures we're going to follow and what attendance and engagement are defined as for our families so
060that when we get to those situations where we're looking at 10 days of absences or we're having to look at truancy that we have followed all the protocol and we have what we need to justify whatever action we need to take as a school i did spell out the indiana code for truancy just for reference purposes for our families and so that we have that in a black and white as we move forward and what that would mean for our bridge students and families what that's going to look like we do work very closely with most probation departments around the state and some are much more supportive and engaged than others so it makes they we have several counties who are with us right at that front that first step that we need to take
061and they're knocking on doors and getting people's attention before we have to take that step so hopefully as we continue to improve our oversight of the program that those fluency referrals will go down and our dropout rate will continue to decrease as well on page seven we did add a parent guardian as key team members in a in the online world well as you all know it doesn't matter what world of education we're living in family members are key to our students success and so i wanted to put this in there in writing so that families number one understood that they're a critical piece to their child's education that we value their input and their support and they have a responsibility it's not just sign them up for an online program and get them in
062front of a computer and let them go that's not how this works there's communication support accountability involved so just lay that out for our families we have our student code of content conduct that i adjusted to include netiquette as far as online etiquette with among our students how they should be addressing and their their teachers and other students when we have classroom time um in appropriate manners a lot of times texts and emails those kind of things have become pretty informal and sometimes rude and disrespectful so we're going to try and shore up some of those things and help our students gain medicaid that will actually help them as they look at entering the workforce and appropriate ways to interact with people whether it's face-to-face or online we did make an adjustment from last school
063year to our grading scale so that that is aligned with msd's grading scale so that is reflective now of what's happening at southwood in northfield with our greeting scale on page nine we added state mandated assessment and attendance requirements this is a struggle this is a huge challenge when we're trying to collect students from all over the state number one they avoid school like it's the play number two they avoid testing even more so and so trying to gather kids in get them to travel get their families to commit we felt like this was a critical piece that they understood this wasn't an option if the state says you've got a test you're making a commitment by signing your student up in our program that you're going to do whatever it takes to get them
064to that test site we do travel so we do our best to find locations where are somewhat central to our family so that it does eliminate as much hardship on them as possible with travel and finances and those things but there is sometimes travel but you're talking once or twice a year um but i just wanted to outline that so that they have that and we can refer back to that is as far as the indiana law and assessment policy and the next we did make an adjustment like mr lacey did to the um to the work permits no longer being issued by the schools and specified that because that is that can get cumbersome at times we liked the control that we had over that when students weren't engaging but at the same time
065it's definitely going to take a um take an irritation off of our secretaries at times um on like mrs moore said i we updated the links as well so that it matched our new website and our calendar our msd calendar and we also for our family's sake we included all the graduation requirements so 440 general diploma all the pathways requirements just so they had that as a reference piece because that especially with our older kids most of our families don't have a clue and don't understand that so they at least have it in black and white while we're talking to them about about those those things those were the main changes to our handbook this time and i guess i'll say one more thing since mr mcdevitt mrs booner here they've been working very diligently
066to create what we called and i think i've given that information to locally created pathways a pathway because uh they're a certain um group of students that will not fit into the buckets um that was intended when they created these pathways as far as the new graduation requirements and so they have created that actually mr daisy and i are going to have a signing party tomorrow about 12 o'clock i believe with on uh to be able to send that off so a lot of work uh prior to that to get to the point where we can send that off to the state of indiana they are required if they don't approve which we we obviously hope that they will approve it but if they don't they do have to tell us why and we will
067continue to work on it because we want to do the best that we can for the students that we serve and be able to get them to graduation so there's a lot more i can say about a lot more they can say about it but just appreciate their time with that and appreciate mr daisy coming in tomorrow for our little signing party here so all right so if you have any questions about those for any of those handbooks make sure you get those in quickly and just send to me and then i will pass them along and ask questions so we have no unfinished business no board policy public comment for anything any item not necessarily on the agenda and let that facebook feed catch up all right any items from board members okay