001insurance llc 100 from the stock tire 500 from hms metals all that for southwood high school's prom appreciate your donations all right we have a motion and a second to accept the generous donations on the paper say hi uh school recognition okay we'll go ahead and begin uh we'll do it in order as listed on our agenda so mr boone you're up thanks for having me on behalf of southwood elementary this evening and i think i'll try to go from memory again that's your key favor i think there were four recognitions that i put on our list uh um just a couple let's see last week we had two students that represented southwood elementary at the kiwanis and journal gazette spelling bees it's an annual thing fifth and sixth graders and fifth grade tristan nickim
002was our representative and then in sixth grade mckenna hunter was our representative mckenna was the overall um winner for sixth grade in the kiwanis b last week and so we congratulate her for that special um win and just both of them for competing and doing that for us and then let's see you have the little nights yes thank you sir uh little nights um we have it's hard to believe i think this uh finishing up our fourth year of little knights preschool this year is that correct yes yeah and um you know about a year into the journey we uh pursued the past equality uh designation for programs uh and um allowing us to provide funding opportunities that uh you know come with a path past the quality recognition and it really has a quality
003and we've talked about that at board meetings before but uh just a recognition of your program that they are maintaining or exceeding you know certain levels of child care education and care in general with in regards to staffing the training and the requirements and so um we did that two years ago but then just here in the last couple of weeks we were rated again and maintained our level three status so that entailed a you know a ton of documentation uh just for staffing and things that are going on in the classroom and things like that and so very proud of our staff this is drake our preschool teacher excuse me uh and then her assistants mrs carrell and ms harwood and then also mrs wright special education teacher so they were all a part
004of that and so we're proud of that and uh you know uh registration you know we are underway for next school year and uh looking good there so i'm excited to see you know what the next year preschool brings for our little nights programs and then wanted to i don't think the robotic season is still going to be happen when i come the next time and so i wanted to uh just share a little bit it's we're not finished yet and that just it just went away so um but uh robotics this year with coven um you know everything else is changing and that did too uh and instead of going to the like four or five competitions throughout the year where you've got 30 to 40 schools competing uh we decided to form a
005league of robotics teams and so southwood elementary's four teams and then also sharp creek elementary and saint bernard elementary and metro north elementary they are getting together on friday nights at southwood elementary and competing there's 12 teams in all and we've got one more week of competition and then the final the final week of competition we've got two but the final week is like our uh finals like you would have at a regular event and so through uh three competitions so far um out of the 12 placings uh our robotics teams four teams are in the top you know six spots both in the teamwork challenges and in the skills challenges and so you know kids have been great our coaches mrs tyson and mrs schmidt and mr wright leading that this year and so
006we're excited about robotics not sure what we're doing for the state tournament yet have heard that that's going to be all virtual and it will just be the skills competition part of robotics and so still kind of seeing what that's going to look like for us as far as robotics goes but uh very proud of our team and it's good to have just you know good to get together you know those other teams on friday nights there south of elementary and then the last thing that i'll um just mention uh every year our yearbook cover part of our package we can have a custom yearbook cover front and back and so mrs tyson our teacher uh kind of steers the uh kids uh fifth and sixth graders have the opportunity to design sixth graders do
007the front cover and fifth graders do the back and she has you know dozens of submissions and then what she does is narrow it down to things that are kind of our finalists and then she lets me with my artistic eye um be the final judge so uh with um kobud kind of being you know a prevalent you know a topic of discussion of course for everything we uh we did kind of a coded theme and so i've got here here is our uh cover uh avery henderson did that and so uh all sixth graders did a self portrait and so um and that's that's actually if i if i were to do a self-portrait you would not recognize me but uh if avery were here with us you could definitely see the resemblance there
008and then our back cover uh fifth grader miss ella cunningham uh designed that and so we've got some hand sanitizer and then i didn't share this with avery's but uh just some words that go along with the the year and the experience mask family global she threw in some activities hiking movies drawing home virus pandemic and so uh very proud of our student artists and their contributions to our 2020 21 yearbook all right thank you mr boone thank you a lot of things going on there all right mr snyder it looks like you have several things you'd like to share yeah i know last board meeting i wasn't here but we had some academic within a brainerd and some artistic with all our art students they got recognized this time since we're ending some winter
009sports season we have some pretty cool recognitions for some kids first of all our varsity girls basketball team won the trc outright this year and i believe that's either a share or outright four times in a row and that's a huge accomplishment for the seniors to win that four in a row and then they also have won the sectional now three times and are going to the west dell regional this saturday so we wish them luck and the next one goes along with basketball too emma hoover and kirsten stout just yesterday signed their letters of intent to continue their education and basketball at trying university so those two off that team so there's three college players already out of the senior girls that are um going on with scholarships and things so that's pretty special
010for a school our size on one team to have that many and probably some still in progress that are making decisions uh i want to thank mr ed shenafield this is his even though he's a southwood grad we didn't hold that against you but he did a great job stepping up uh he retired from the military saw that we had a wrestling position open and we talked to him and he just has done an awesome job he is great with the kids the kids have loved the work he's helped coach college before and of course he's done a little bit of wrestling in and out of life different parts of his life and he was great we were looking for somebody we didn't know who um and ed stepped up and was interested and he
011has just been a great coach from everything i've heard this year and we've had they placed seventh as a team in the trc they had wrestlers win at sectional and qualify for regional those seniors that went to regional were ethan galbraith logan cox micah higgins and they were all seniors and then junior jaden goshert and then out of that regional we have two wrestlers going to semi state on saturday and that would be jaden goshert as a junior and micah higgins senior so we're really proud of those two guys in addition to our lady norrish the basketball team and then we also want to congratulate grant dale he won the trc championship for swimming in the 53 and in the 100 baxter at both events and then he was able to set a new trc
012record in the backstroke because he beat his own time from last year so grant did an awesome job swimming this year and representing northfield so between the wrestling and the swimming and the basketball we had we still have kids that have opportunities to move on and even begin on this week so we wish them honor thank you mr schneider and there's a few more of course uh we have a couple principles to come and mr mcgivern i don't know if you want to share if you had anything or you just didn't have anything okay you're just observing tonight so yeah all right so mr mcdaniel he mentioned this southward in markville both north of high school at southern high school received an ihs double a exemplary behavior notification said i wanted to report to the
013ihsaa and their respective schools that both teams played hard and with great sportsmanship in the first round of the girls sectional play is it is great to work for both teams and exhibit great sportsmanship and tournament play and that's from official justin paul and moving down here mr martin at sharp creek when we congratulate fifth grader colin beal who was the winner of the walrus county journal gazette spelling bee in kiwanis spelling bee which actually mr rooney also mentioned for southwood so great job colin and good luck as you move on to the next competition level and then we have i think one more um mrs moore at metro north elementary says since november 10th our metro north third graders have been participating in indiana's lead to the final four a program sponsored by the
014ncaa and indiana sports corporation that encourages and inspires third graders across our state to read the main event is engaging bracketing reading competition using lion the read to the final four bracket was released this morning recognizing the top 64 schools with over 300 schools participating metro north was proud to see that our third graders were not only in the top 68 schools across the state but our 45 558 minutes of reading earned us the number congratulations to metro north for all their reasons so mr daisy i believe that's all the recognition for tonight all right so move on to the consent agenda items i need a motion and second for the approval of our minutes from the last meeting on january 26th i will take step second we have a motion and a second to
015approve the minutes from our last meeting all in favor say aye next moving on is claims payroll looks like a fairly normal one we'll start seeing on the future ones next couple probably some eca stuff as winter sports is ending second motion a second to approve payroll all favors out okay financial summary this one doesn't show up but i don't know if yours does i put a little red mark [Laughter] on that self-insurance any questions all right and we'll move on to personnel uh kind of a short list under personnel uh resignations trisha parton cook sharp creek elementary and idris clinton south bus rider and then south wood spring coaches junior high track for tommy boone jeff hobson nick perlick high school track assistant larry vaughan david marks high school track assistant carrie hamill logan
016paris high school track assistants and heather hayden high school track head coach clay target lead coaches we're going to start that up again jeff springer steve piner and donald peterson are all listed for play target league coaches and i just want to make one though the one that's highlighted it's really a retirement idris is retiring so we just want to really thank her for her service she's done many years wanting to continue on but circumstances prevented some of that so just thank her for her many years of service usually when they retire we ask them to find a replacement she hasn't yet so anybody in the room that's interested in melissa well she found you oh yeah so see melissa ball and we can continue to look at hiring more bus drivers i think that's
017across the state of indiana across our nation so we are looking at other types of incentives and different things like that because it's obviously much needed so we can get our children to our schools mike what do you guess i was how long 25 years because i know amber has a bus driving for amber growing up yeah we can't talk about ages [Laughter] thank her for all her service and always been pleasant and um being a safe driver which is very good everybody yeah just a couple of things here real quickly uh first of all just to let you know we unfortunately we continue to talk about the coronavirus and our cue list though but today tim runs that every day for us and i put it on a little chart but it's nice to
018see how if we do a line graph or however we do a bar graph but anyway today was only seven students so again just a reminder when we say seven students that would be either positive students that have a positive case those that have been close contacts those that are close contacts from a home situation so school and home and the fourth way would obviously be those that have covered like symptoms so only seven in the whole district that's that's tremendous that's good as far as active cases right now we have one staff and two students and as you know the new guidance as far as the quarantine process we have initiated that that started really monday but we weren't school monday so it starts tuesday so again we're a mask staying at least three
019feet apart and if it happens in the classroom where there's a positive it's close contact we do not have to quarantine and that's based on the new guidelines from the state department of health so we're glad that they looked at some of that data that we continue to give to them to be able to follow through with that that can always change back and do something different for right now it's good heard some rumors that our county might be even going lower tomorrow at noon when that that data comes out so we've been very fortunate in walt bush county just to mention there's a lot of lobbying groups there's a lot of advocacy groups when we talk about legislation the big bill out there right now house bill 1005 there's a lot of things in
020that that doesn't really favor public education and there are some school boards that actually have written resolutions or written letters that's something that we could do too but we we have in the past i've shared that with you but we are a part of a group that's an advocacy group that's down lobbying for some of these issues and that's just one that really could it's costing a lot of money that can be taken away from public education but we're still watching a lot of different things with with legislation so just want to mention that if you want to talk to me more about that later you can it's house bill 105 that's all i have for tonight curriculum report mr drew yeah uh first in the facebook comments cheryl rozier piped in and said that
021uh idris has been driving for 30 plus years and several people congratulated northfield and they got lots of hearts i don't really know how to translate that [Music] that's right that's right i did want to share with the board our nwa data and so what you're looking at is a student's growth from when they first came to school in august to january and the target is in the diamonds and nwa of course is a nationwide exam and so you're talking about a large population of students that put that together and so essentially what they'll do is um they'll take a student where they scored in august and they'll say generally speaking they should grow x number of points between august and january and so you can see there in math like look at the third
022grade there the third grade in math a typical student would have grown about two points uh in their score and so generally speaking of math we've done very well in that growth in reading again we've done very very well with that growth we see a little bit with the second grade and so um principals are made aware of that the teachers are made aware of that and they'll work on an individual basis to bring those up but as i look at it from a district level i feel like the growth we're seeing with students that we have is very very strong obviously we don't want to be just at the 50th percentile so we would like to see that growth be above all those diamonds and that includes students who come at us from the
023bottom end of the academic scale who kind of struggle in school and the high-end kids it factors all of those in so i feel like if you're going to ask and impress me as to why we've done so well it's because we've had so many kids in school having them there with the teachers with the title and services with all of that support really makes a huge difference and so um so anyway that's generally what what you see there i'm hoping for any questions or any anything more even more about that so we'll run that apart again in the spring and then we'll compare we compare from years past we compare all across those different things and use that to engage our programming and our plans but again i feel like our growth from the
024fall to the winter has has been very good especially in this challenging year so you will do that three times yep uh we do it three times and you might notice there's some funky grades in there nba has a k to two test and a three to five set like it just kind of looks weird um but yeah we'll run that three times in grades k through six is there any correlation with like a certain grade level like a second grade has had more quarantined or left out because that is a great question we have some of that data and actually second grade has been one of the ones with a lot of virtual students um and virtual is our students who chose to stay home and then come back and so um you gotta
025think let's just choose a second grader there like in the spring they were quarantined because we closed down in march right so they missed the second part of their first grade year and if they were virtual this followed they missed the fall instruction so um that's a good question because we talked about that but i want to remind you though too and mr drake uh we've said this before but right now of our traditional students there are 26 students that are virtual and in this area that's very very low now we had 118 from the very beginning so when we talk about those second grade so hopefully we'll see that bump up because now most of those students are back in school do you see a drop off from the ones that do virtual how
026do they do we do not if they stay virtual we did not bring them to the test and so what you'll see there are only kids that are here with us for the testing but it doesn't hit the quarantined kids right so yeah thank you any questions all right we'll move on to new business we have a recommendation to approve the continuation of using the food to school purchasing cooperative for 2021 2022 and i'll let you speak to that he's going to go ahead and read that yeah let's read every page word for word uh we've been a part of the food to school co-op for the third year now this is just a standard we have to approve those vendors such as the hps the prairie farms and the aunt millie's bakery as those
027are what the co-op has decided to purchase from and so this is just a yearly agreement then that we do typically renewal every year based off the recommendations from the co-op and you can see how many schools are part of the co-op which gives us a lot of buying power with those types of numbers on the last page which is the the page that you'll sign it just kind of gives you a breakdown of of what is involved there you don't have to go through every single page but it just gives you a little bit of background on that last page the signed page and so our recommendation would be to continue purchasing with the food to school cooperative i'm just curious on that do they set the menus who said submit uh our food
028service director our food service director and cafeteria managers order from that yep and it's generally cheaper than us having to go and just find it here i moved to the school purchase motion in a second to approve the recommendation to keep using food school purchasing cooperative uh for next year all in favor say hi also in our new business recommendation to approve a field trip to swiss valley ski resort in jones michigan for north field advanced speaking class on february 22nd second ocean and second to approval field trip to swiss valley northfield all in favor say hi hi folks we have no unfinished business or work policy this time i will stop over the public comments since it sounds like we are still able to facebook live and so if there's anybody manually i'm getting
029tired no got arrested we'll just start calling you tripod yeah i could go that could go a bad way debbie smith says um she says to northfield a way to go norfolk girls so proud of you uh way to go boys and wrestling assuming so proud of all of our schools excuse me and she says jay is a super principal and deserves the kudos and that's all the comments we have okay so we'll move on items from board members all right as far as i did not