001redist. >> Oh god. Oh, brother. Brother, >> we're going down. >> Good evening everyone. Welcome to the board of school trustees. this ratification public meeting and our regular meeting for Wednesday, November 5th, 2025. Here in the Pamela Smith boardroom, we'll start with our ratification public meeting. We'll up and turn it over to Dr. Brown. >> Okay. As you know, school corporations are required to give an overview of the changes to their teacher contract before it's ratified. Once again, I'd like to thank MTA Mandy Hilcraftoft, the president, and the negotiations team for being so outstanding to work with. We greatly appreciate it. To summarize the contract changes, the salary schedule will will increase across the board by $1,500. All returning teachers will take a step on the salary schedule. Teacher with a bachelor's of $600. Teachers
002with a bachelor's will increase an additional $600 in their column. And teachers with a master's degree will increase an additional $900 in their column. Teachers with a bachelor in 10 years will increase $1600. And teachers with a master's in 10 years will increase $2,100 in their step. Teachers at the top of the scale will receive a step in the amount of $600 if they're in the bachelor's column and $900 in the master's column. Additionally, a teacher in the corporation uh with the literacy endorsement on the Indiana teaching license will receive a $200 increase to their base salary one time. A teacher who anticipates earning a literacy endorsement on their Indiana teaching license, which would qualify them for this one-time $200 salary increase should note the following. If the endorsement is completed by August 1 and
003verification is received by the human resources department by August 30, the teacher salary will be adjusted according to the contract for that school year. For the 2526 school year only, notification of the literacy endorsement credentials must be received by the human resources department by November 15, 2025 for the staff salary to be adjusted accordingly. Health insurance, the increase to the cost of premiums is anticipated to be 2.25%. 25%. The corporation will pick up the cost of the premium increases. Stipens. A one-time loyalty retention stipen of $1,200 will be given to all returning teachers who were employed by the corporation on January 1, 2025 and are still employed by the corporation on November 15, 2025. The new higher salary schedule cleanup. A new level 21 will be added to the new higher salary schedule. The 20
004plus at the top of the new hire schedule, which states plus 2250, will be removed because the district establishes a new hire salaries based upon mirroring the new hires of current staff with the same degree and years of experience. Additionally, a state of emergency leave was added. In the event a state of emergency is declared, the superintendent or their design may grant affected employees paid leave for the duration necessary to ensure the employees safe return to work. Such leave may be provided until the state of emergency has been lifted. As you know, we had that last spring with the flooding. Bereavement leave language. Each member of the unit may be absent from work with pay for a period extending not more than five school days per occurrence after the death of a member of the
005immediate family. The five school days must be used within 30 calendar days following the date of the death unless otherwise approved by the superintendent. The immediate family definition will be updated to include children lost through miscarriage and still birth. Sick leave bank updates. The following language changes will be made to the sick leave bank. The voluntary sick bank can be used for bargaining unit employees who are absent from assigned duty due to illness of themselves, their parents, spouse or children. One of the conditions a member may be granted days from the sick bank includes submitting FMLA paperwork. In the event more than 185 aggregate days in any one school year are requested, the association can petition the superintendent for consideration of any extenduating circumstances to surpass the 185day cap per the given school year only.
006All decisions of the sick bank are final and shall not be grievable. ECA forformational purposes. The German club was removed from the ECA. The following positions were added to the ECA. Dramatics Junior High fall assistant supervisor up to two positions for $300. Dramatics Junior High spring assistant supervisor up to two positions $300. PLC leaders $300 up to 50. Um and that's all we have. >> Thank you, Dr. Brown. We have any public comments? >> Okay, seeing no public comments, 25103 is the approval of the collective bargain agreement with the Madison Teachers Association. Dr. Brown. >> I recommend the board approve the collective bargaining agreement with the Madison Teachers Association as presented. >> Thank you. Entertain a motion to approve the collective bargaining agreement with the Madison Teachers Association. >> I make a motion we approve
00725103. >> Thank you, Mr. Scott. And a second. >> I'll second. >> Thank you, Jody. With a motion to approve in a second. Is there any discussion? I' just like to uh thank everyone for their hard work. We started out the the school year with kind of some bleak information with regards to potential raises, but Dr. Brown and her staff has worked very hard to uh to cut corners. Um, you know, fortunately, our enrollment went up and uh with a lot of hard work, uh we were very, I think, forthright with what we had to to offer and and it's worked out very well. We appreciate our teachers and our staff and and all the hard work they do and and we want to do the very best we can for them. So all the
008efforts been put into that. We thank you. >> Any other comments for the board. Okay. All in favor of 25103 signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppos. 25103 is approved. We will adjourn the public meeting and or adjourn the ratification and move on to the public meeting. Everybody would please join me now with the for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to 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. >> Thank you. Now, it's our honor to invite our principal, Mr. Trent Why from Lady Milton and his staff here tonight. We appreciate you all being here and uh looking forward to your presentation. >> All righty. Thank you. Um I am not
009one to brag much, but when it comes to having the opportunity to talk about our school, our students, and our staff, I will gladly brag about our school. So, thank you for um giving us this opportunity to um share what's going on at Lydia Middleton and our celebrations and um successes and what we plan to work on um the rest of this year and in the future. Do I need to do something, Seth, to this? >> Okay, thank you. Whoops. I don't think I need to share it. Wrong button. There we go. Perfect. So, we'll start with celebrations. Um, one of the things that we are very proud about last year, um, in our school improvement team, um, of staff members came together to, um, apply for the friendly schools distinction from the state of
010Indiana. Um what that entailed was sending out a survey to our families, our staff, all the stakeholders um just to get feedback on how our community relations um are with um our families. So um we were able to get that honor last school year and so we are very excited to um post that piece of paper um in our entrance. So, lot of lot of cool things going on and it was great to get um a lot of positive feedback from our our families. Um, one of the things that uh this oh last month or so we've been working hard um to to actually put together was our sensory rooftop garden. Um, Katherine Lasso, a member of our social services team, had the idea to, you know, we have this space upstairs, this outside space.
011How could we utilize that in a um to its max capacity? So, she applied for a grant from the community foundation, and we were awarded $4,500. And I'll share some pictures with you here on the next slide. Um, but we wanted to include um kind of a nature theme being outside. We've got uh artificial turf and little spots um for students to sit out there. Teachers can take their classes. And then we have some sensory features that I'll show you here on the next slide. Um so we really appreciate the community foundation for allowing us to put this space together. Um, we've already had some classes and some students out on out um on the rooftop to enjoy that space. And I know in the spring when it um gets warmer, it'll it'll be a
012hit. So, we're really excited about this space. And if you can see, um we and I'll I'll talk about our social groups that we have. Um but uh we have yoga mats out there and and it's it's a really cool thing to um utilize that space to its capacity. Another um celebration that we have um is we're really proud of our retention of students. And and what I mean is um we have a long history of our students enjoying Lydia Middleton, enjoying coming to school, families that value our programs and all the hard work that our staff puts in. Um, and you can really tell when you walk through the building just the um excitement, the um warm feeling um that our staff and students pour into each day. Um, and so I wanted to
013point out that between this school year and last school year, last school year we had prek through 4th grade, we were at 322 and this year we um are sitting at 348. So, preK through fourth grade. Um, and I'll share some um specific stories in a little bit about um how we're proud of our our school. One of the things that we are super excited about and we appreciate um Jony's partnership on this is a total redesign of our side playground. Um, if you're familiar with our side playground now, there's a lot of concrete, some grass, and like two swings. Um, so, um, Jr and a team here at the district office applied for a grant through the Bethany Foundation and we were able to receive that and I know some other schools in the
014district are as well. Uh, but this was something that was much needed. We've been talking about it for a few years now. Um, and we are so excited that this is going to happen. So, um, this spring around spring break, uh, we are set to start the demo and create this space for our students. So, we're we're super excited. And these are, um, the drafts of what we are going to get. Things could change, but um, we're really excited for um, the opportunities that we're going to be able to give to our students. And one of the components that we really enjoy is that this is going to be a community space. So, no, no longer are the the gates going to be locked. Um, they well, they're broken anyways. We can't lock them if
015we wanted to, which is fine. Um, but we're really excited that uh the community will be able to use this space. So, um, it's going to be a great thing for downtown. Um, another thing that I want to celebrate, and Missy Perry, our literacy um, coach, will dive into this a little more. Um, our teachers have really gotten into co-eing and working with our literacy coach, our our STEM coach. And I am proud to say that as of uh this point in our school year, 100% of our K through three teachers have participated in a co-eing cycle. Um and this is where you know they do some planning, they look at data, what's coming up, how can we make our um teaching intentional and um really uh really um amp up our student um learning
016in our classrooms. Um, all right. This is something we're mighty pride mighty proud about and we will put this out there every chance we get. Um, we had a um success last year with our I read 100% pass rate. Um, and I also included um the last three years. So steadily we have increased um our I read scores um the 23 24 25 24 25 school years the last two years we were a part of the Indiana literacy cadre um we're still a part through Marian University um and the state says that by 2027 that we should be at um 95% pass rate and we are doing our best. We're we're there. So, we want to keep building on that momentum. And what I like about this picture, and I promise it is not staged,
017okay, I was uh walking around the BU building just doing my um rounds that I do. And I happened to peek in on my third grade team and literacy coach. And what were they doing? They were looking at data. they were planning um talking about kids and how we can um keep improving everything that we're doing. So um my third grade team is here tonight and my literacy coach and I am just so proud of the work that we're doing and the success that we have and it's in part to you all and um our students. So we are um going to keep that ball rolling. we have really zeroed in on our mission um as a district and so I divided my presentation focusing on our mission of the district and how we're supporting
018that. So when we look at achievement, we are looking at improving everything we do um systems, teaching, how we can support our students, how we can support our staff, um and just really trying to strengthen everything that we do. So we're continuing to focus on I read, I learn. Um, one of our main focuses, um, Missy and I have had a lot of conversations this year about our tier one instruction. What are all students receiving in each classroom? Um, so we've worked with our, um, cadre on supporting our teachers at the tier one level. What are all of our students receiving and how can we improve and make sure it's aligned across the school and across the district as well. So, um, that's been a, um, focus of ours. We've put a lot of time
019and effort into our intervention model. Um and um Missy's is going to talk about that too and and third grade may touch on that, but um we've really focused on our students and our data and what are we doing to grow our students? How are we being intentional with what we're doing? Is it working? Is it not? So, we've had a lot of great conversations and focus on data, how we can intervene with our students, how we can support them. Um, and it's really exciting to see um all of that work happen. Um, of course, we uh continue to focus on our partnerships, just to name a few. Um, we talked about the Bethany Foundation with our playground project. uh our own farmtop program with the high school. Uh I was um I get the
020pleasure to be with the third grade district um PLC team. So when third grade meets as a district once a month virtually, uh I'm the lucky administrator that gets to work with them. and the conversations I hear across the district from that third grade team and how they're focusing on kids and really digging into what we're doing from week to week. They are a fantastic group and I can't say um enough about multiple t uh PLC teams that we have, but since I'm lucky enough to be with our third grade team across the district and hearing and seeing what's going on in each third grade classroom in all of our elementaryaries, it's truly remarkable. Um there's a lot of great work going on. Um, so I digressed a little bit, but our in our PLC,
021um, in our PLC in probably September, um, they were talking about, well, they've got, um, a unit coming up that's money. How can we make that, um, practical with our students? How can we bring in that real world experience? And this is all of the third grade teachers from across the district that were just kind of brainstorming. And it came about just naturally that oh yeah, our novel study right now is Charlotte's Web. We're doing main idea. We're doing D. And um it's really it was really a cool kind of organic thing that happened that well let's pull in the farm stop. Why can't we send all of our third graders to the farm stop? And then um it just kind of spiraled from there. Well, let's get a sponsor to pay for the uh
022pumpkins for our third graders. really. Um I have not heard a negative thing about that day and the planning that went into that across the district. Um you know Jill Deputy, our transportation director was like yes please let's do this. Farmtop staff were amazing. Um they were able to work with us and um you know at first it's like you want to do what? We're going to bring all those kids where? Um but um John Ashley and everyone involved really did a wonderful job to bring that realworld experience to our kids. Um and it tied in all the academic things, math, um literacy. It was really great. So that was a great partnership that we had. Um we've partnered with Hanover College in the last year for college and career um opportunities. Um we're working
023with Megan Welty to uh Megan Wely and um Hanover College to really bring that exposure of um you know there is there there are possibilities in our community. Um what can our students gain from um the opportunities that handover college has for our our students? So, it's really cool that um we can bring that college and career piece um through that partnership. All right, I will turn it over. So, I'm going to bring um Katie Burrus, third grade teacher, up here. She drew the short straw out of the three and she's going to share a little bit about the success that we have in third grade. Frog in my throat, excuse me, Ky Bur. >> Thank you. >> Hello everyone. As Trent said, I was lovingly nominated by my peers to chat with you all
024this evening, but um as he said, anytime we get the opportunity to share what we're doing, um we're happy to do that. So um one thing that I want to talk about is how we've used our intervention model this year. Um we all believe that our 40 minutes of intervention time is our most precious time of the day. Um you know, things change in our schedule. Um but one thing that never does is our intervention time. That time is sacred for us. And during this time um you know we have interventionists work with students and it's just really targeted instruction. So about a year ago as we were starting to really prep for I read in March we sat down and we were thinking how can we best utilize this time so that we are
025maximizing our resources our people. Um so we came up with a model where um it allows us to meet with almost well we so we are able to have 18 groups going in this 40minute period. Um so we have three teachers, we have three interventionists, we have two of our instructional supports. Um and then Amy Long who's our special education teacher. And during this 40 minutes we each are able to run through two groups of students. Um, so that is how we are able to meet the needs of so many students in such a short period of time. Um, and we sat down the other day and we kind of figured out that every single student in third grade is getting some type of instruction during this time. Maybe they're not meeting every single day,
026but 100% of students have a group or activity that they are a part of with an adult throughout the week. Um so it's really um I think contributed to our growth that we are seeing um our great results in our testing um and and just our overall success. We're even able to double dip our most um at risk students, students with highest um need as far as reading goes. So it really has um I don't know shown great success for us and we're very passionate about the time that we spend during this period. So um we use lots of data. Trent showed that beautiful photo of us um conferencing together one day. We use Amplify which is uh our our testing s our testing system. Um it has great data for us. It even groups
027students and gives us suggested activities. We use um our sins data that Sean puts out for us. Um all the things our second grade I read reports or we'll use our checkpoint data. Uh but we are often meeting with our interventionists outside of our MTSS meetings and really just kind of uh making our the most of our time because it is a small period of time but we really want to make it useful. So that is that's our intervention time. Um we also have a fun project coming up where we are able to combine um TBRRI STEM ELA. We're going to do a novel study in the spring on the novel The Wild Robot. I don't know if you've ever read it. Maybe you've seen the movie. It's phenomenal. 10 out of 10. We are
028going to hatch ducklings this spring. um because the character is a robot who has to care for a go. So, we're going with ducks. But, um we are really excited to bring in Michelle from a TBRI aspect to talk about families and how families are different and changes in a family. Um STEM, we're going to measure um mass and and heights and um just talk about life cycles. And then obviously we're going to pull in Missy with ELA from just the novel point. So we want to do like a live cam type of a thing. So hopefully we can send out to other classrooms parents so they can watch the duckling process. So we're really excited about that this spring. Um and then as Trent mentioned, we have this beautiful rooftop garden. Um and in
029the spring we work with the Purdue Extension and Madison Community Grocery um project. It's Laura Rico and Brit, is it Copeland? Brit Copeland. Um, they're phenomenal people and that opportunity, we started this last year and I think all of our other elementary schools are doing it as well. This gives them the opportunity to see what a garden is because I know our students, a lot of them live downtown and they may not have ever done a garden or even had a fresh vegetable. Um, so it's really a great opportunity for them to kind of connect with nature, if you will, but be a part of a group activity that that takes time and they have to contribute as far as watering and and all the things and planting the seeds and weeding and um it
030it's it's really amazing. So, if you ever get the opportunity to come down to Lydia Middleton, um obviously check out our sensory garden upstairs, but if you come in the spring, um our garden project and uh maybe join us for a class because it is really cool. We celebrate uh we have a picture on the screen uh at the end with a salad party. Um so, they have salad with the lettuce and produce that we grow in the garden. So, we kind of made this a whole thing. We talked about etiquette and manners. Um, it was really fun. Um, the other photos I have to share, um, is of Amy Long, who's our special education teacher, and they're not great photos, but it's they're screenshots I took of a video of the day that we
031told this child that she passed I read. >> Um, we let Amy tell her because she's one of Amy's students. Um, and this day probably, and I'll speak for my co-teers, too. um probably for me personally the the most amazing day of my career thus far. Um because this was our second round of testing last year and we had a handful of kids that that needed to pass. Um so she was one Amy I Amy got to tell her the news and the look on her face was just shock, surprise, joy. Um, we were both crying. Amy and I were both crying. And it just really goes to show that what we are doing as far as our intervention model on top of our tier one instruction is working. Um, all of the programs that
032we are doing, all of the outside hours that we spend sitting down to plan these groups, um, is totally worth it just because of that look on her face. And I have I'm obsessed with my children. I have of my personal children. I have tons of videos, but this video I cry every single time that I watch it just because um the hard work that the student put in accompanied with hours. Um definitely the coolest day. We let them call their parents on the phone as soon as we told them. Um so, so yeah, just seeing our our hard work, their hard work pay off. Um that's why we do this. I mean, it is days like that. That's makes it that's that's our why, right? To see the success, see their pride. Um yeah,
033so it's amazing. Um we would love to invite y'all down uh to see us. Our intervention time is at 8:10 uh first thing in the morning. So um anyway, if you have questions about this, feel free to let Trent know. >> Thank you. They're great. >> All right. One of the other highlights that I wanted to share with you is we tried something new this year. Whoa, look out. Um but it was really um with conversations across the district about success in um all of our schools and what's working. Um, and it's it's something that uh deputy is is really um used to doing and the more that we've had conversations about um the impact that it could have um we decided to do that do um have our fourth grade classes rotate. Um and
034I know that that's happening across the district and other grade levels as well. Um but I wanted to share some of the the takeaways that we had um and the teacher shared with me this year um with rotating. So we have three sections of fourth grade. And so we have a teacher that teaches science, social studies, and writing. We have a teacher that um teaches um literacy, reading, and then we have a teacher that teaches math. And so all um of our fourth graders rotate between each of those uh teachers with their home room. Um and what we have seen and and what I took was um everything my fourth grade teachers told me and I wanted to share that with you. So um they feel that they are able to dig down deeper into
035their subject. um they are able to use their um strength. Um you know uh Mrs. Collins really enjoys math. That's her strength. So she's teaching math. So um they're able to dig down deeper. We're trying to really work on um bringing rigor to our tier one instruction across the board. So, we've had multiple conversations about how can we um increase rigor and in turn um impact student success which will help with um iLearn um this year. So, um we're really excited about the things that we're seeing with this change. Um we may trickle down to other grade levels. Uh we'll just see how the year goes. But um one of the things the key takeaways we're preparing our fourth grade to go to the junior high. I mean every grade level from prek up we're
036preparing our students for the next you know what's coming next. So with fourth grade this has really strengthened um organizational skills for the kids. Um they're they have to be organized. they have to know how to go to another teacher and learn a different way because they essentially have three teachers and they all teach differently, different styles. So, what better way than than than doing this at the elementary level to prepare them not only for junior high, but prepare them to be able to work with others that are different. Um, so it's been it's been great to um to see uh we've been talking about it for two years and I finally convinced our teachers to um let's let's just try it. And I I've been very pleased with with how things are going. Um
037I thought at first like, oh my gosh, this this is totally different for us. like we're going to have to think about every single little thing differently. Like our virtual day yesterday, these teachers had to come together and figure out, okay, how many minutes are these kids going to spend with math on virtual day? You know, they had to work out a new schedule. Um, so there have been little things that have come up that um in my principal mind, I'm like, "Oh my gosh, that how are we going to do that?" And these teachers are are collaborating together and they're figuring it out. So, we've seen a lot of um cool things happen with our um fourth grade team this year. Um and uh I'm looking forward to seeing how the year finishes and
038looking at our data and see um how we how we're doing. All right, I'm going to turn it over to Missy Perry for um our literacy cadre, literacy coach, and she's going to talk about interventions and how we've drilled down across the board. >> Good evening. I'm a little bit more confident now. The last time I was here, I was three weeks in and really didn't know what I was doing. So, but >> that's not true. Well, as a reading coach, but anyway. So, this year we've worked to align and narrow the focus on Hegrronity and UFly in our classrooms. And I think aligning our arrows and having all the teachers doing that is making a world of difference because now the kids, they go from one grade level to the next and they understand
039what they're doing and that makes it that much easier for the teacher. Our title one ISPs, they used the beginning of the year data, the BOI, and they performed a diagnostic test, which is something that get digs a little bit deeper into the student to see what they know. And they took that and looked to see what would be worked best and how to group those students. Then they were able to start interventions within the first three weeks of school, which is the earliest I think we've ever started. And that's huge. They were this year they're utilizing ISPs, title one ISPs, uh teachers during that 40-minute block. And like third grade said, that's allowing us to meet meet the needs of several students during that intervention time. I put up here some intervention results. So
040I meet with the title ISPs bi-weekly and we go over the students progress. We discuss if the intervention is working, that they're doing. We discuss if um here like here's a sample chart um we put in the BOI scores the beginning of the year scores are the top one and then each time they progress monitor between 12 to 15 days after they've met with a student they will enter the scores red meaning that's their lowest yellow middle and then green is where we want them to be. Now you'll see some kids may stay in red but you have to look at the number that's growth. They may be at a zero and go to an eight and still be in red, but we're looking at the growth. We're not looking at the color necessarily. So,
041that's what you have to look at. So, we see the second one down. The boy was in yellow, yellow, red, red, red, and that child has gone to a lot of green. So, we see with that child, what we're doing is working, but you may see another child on down that looks like what they're doing is not working because it's red, red, red. But that child went from a nine to a 20. So what they are doing is still working even though the color hasn't changed. So we really dive in and look because when you just see the colors you think oh that is not working but when you dive in we take the time we look at the data very carefully not just the color we look at the numbers and just make sure
042that what we're doing is working. We don't just want to look and say oh it's not working. The color's not changing. We look at the numbers and that tells us more than just color. But if we don't see growth being made, we reassess. We look at the fidelity of the program that they're using. And then we may add more skill time for the skill groups or maybe change the number of students in the group because they can have three to five. And if that seems to be too many, we'll maybe rearrange the groups to maybe one to three in that group. Maybe they need a smaller group to work with. So we've been talking a lot about our tier one students. And I assume everybody knows, but we know we shouldn't assume. So, our tier
043one are those students that really don't need an intervention per se because their scores might have been in the green and blue. They were doing well, but you also always have those bubble kids that we don't always look at because they seem to be doing well. So, you never really check them and you just keep going. But because of that, sometimes they're slipping and you don't even realize it. So, we sat together every grade level. We looked at across all the tests where was there a deficit together in the grade level and in the classroom. And so now the teachers are focusing on those kids in that area. Maybe it was on um phmic awareness. So they're practicing more on that. Maybe it was on um blending words or something. So they're doing a little
044bit more of that as a whole group in the classroom so that those kids that aren't getting an extra intervention are at least getting it in a hole in the classroom. So that's where the tier one comes in. Just because they're way up here in the green or blue doesn't mean at some point they might slip. So that's why our cadre has said we need to also check our tier one kids. Don't just let them slip because as years go by, just because this kid in kindergarten looked like he was way up here doesn't mean he's going to stay there. And sometimes you miss those kids by not going back and looking and checking on them all the time. So I progress monitored some of our tier one stu students on oral reading fluency given
045them a passage they give it a minute to read it and we had 83% growth. So just working with those students we're seeing what we're doing is working. Coaching cycles. So these are just some of the coaching cycles I've been doing. I've been in kindergarten a lot. We have a lot of newness in kindergarten. So I've been really trying to help them get going. One of them was sequence. The students listen to pump uh pumpkin story on pumpkin soup. Students were able to name characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end of the story. Then we reviewed the sequence and they were able to do a paper and put it in order. So they're just a few pictures of what we were doing in the classroom and how engaged the students were. Um have done some coaching
046in first grade. Again, we're working a lot on fluency. So I did reader theater scripts. We went around to classrooms with some of the first graders and then I tested them on ORF and just practicing that expression. um you know just reading quickly isn't the answer. You have to put more into it and that's what they were working on in their um reading scripts. Um we've did a unit on I uh grouped with Ste um STEM with Jennifer and we did a fables and retelling and it was a little red um fort and the little red hen and then they built a little red fort along with comparing the two um fables. But the most recent one is my dream playground. This week we're doing my dream playground. when we read the story, talked about
047our playground, and now they're making their own playgrounds in first grade. So, that's really exciting. And now, uh, what's really special this year, our coaches have started doing a lot of PD and getting a lot of great feedback. We have offered, um, oral language. We have been doing a lot of UFly, and I think a lot of our, um, staff have getting a lot of good things from seeing the PD and actually seeing what they're supposed to do with UFly, what we're supposed to do with Hegy. We've gotten a lot of good good feedback from the oral language one that we did. So, we're seeing a lot of good things coming from the cadres that we've been in and being our lit literacy coaches and it's doing really great things. And these are just a
048few pictures from our um PD that we did and some of the kids and things that they did in the classrooms. The pictures tell a thousand words. >> Thank you for having me. >> Thank you. Thank you. Nice job. >> All right. So, when we look at val valuing our students, our staff, everyone, um, how are we growing our students and teachers? So, I wanted to share just a few things quickly because I feel like we've touched on some of these points, but one of the things that I really made a priority this year is to look at our tier one. what everyone is receiving in the classroom. And we have been working Missy and um our literacy um TSS our support to start to organize uh learning walks for teachers. So, we've targeted our
049UFly program and we've selected a teacher that we're going to have other teachers go into that classroom and see specific instruction um and we're going to observe. We're going to debrief. We're going to um talk about best practices. And so that's something that we are currently planning and I believe we're hoping to um have that December. Yeah. So the most important thing is to share with our staff, get them in other classrooms. And so I wanted to make sure that we share best practices, put them in in each other's classrooms to see the good things that are happening and how we can implement that. You know, something going on in a first grade room that we can implement in a third grade room. So um I'm really excited um for this opportunity coming up. our
050PLC Wednesdays. It's phenomenal having that time to not only have our um grade levels meet inhouse um in our building, but also that once a month when the when grade levels are talking across the district, collaborating. Um it's been wonderful. And as you can see, um there there have been great things that have come from this. we have teachers that are collaborating, working together, drilling down on standards um and really aligning arrows across the district. So, it's it's it's been great. It's it's been wonderful. Um I know we give Dr. Brown a hard time as administrators for all the book studies we do. Um but this was one thing um that Dr. Brown was very adamant on and we all bought into it. Um, and we read several books about PLC's. Um, but it's it's
051been great. Um, I can't talk enough about the great things that are happening across our district um, because of PLC's. I'm going to breeze through interventions because I think um, Missy Perry did a great job talking about interventions and um, Katie Burrus as well. One of the things that Missy mentioned was the PD opportunities. We're doing a lot of in-house opportunities thanks to our coaches, thanks to our curriculum and assessment team. Um, and that's just um unheard of. You know, we're not paying um a lot of money to have all these like f you know, infamous famous um you know, speakers come in and talk to us and give us professional development. we are growing our our staff and so to have peers have teachers be able to deliver PD to their colleagues has been
052huge and um those opportunities just keep increasing for us. So um a lot of intentionalities going into what we're doing with our teachers. Um really quickly, these things are just um when we look at the whole picture things that we're doing that's student centered um achievement focus and valuing everybody. Um every month we have our core value program. We're we're focusing on a life skill um that we want our kids to um learn more about and how can we apply that to everyday life. Um this morning we just celebrated um for October the core value was knowledge. So our staff members uh recommend a student to receive um the certificate and award um and have breakfast with me. Um we always have horse donuts. You can't go wrong with that. Um and so it's just
053a just a cool way to celebrate our students. And you know, we recognize around 24 25 students a month. So, multiply that by um the months that we're in school and we are recognizing probably a third of our students just by um this program. So, um we're really excited for that. Um, every week we have uh staff members that write um successes of students and we call them our star cards and we read those every Friday on the announcements and it's a nice way to recognize students for um the things that they are doing at school and in their classroom. We already spoke to about our rooftop garden and our um partnership um that is in every elementary um this year and it's a great partnership that we have with our community. Um one thing
054that we haven't mentioned um is our TBRI nurture groups and social groups that our student services team um has put together. Uh early this year, we sent out a letter to all of our families with a menu of sorts of different social groups that we could offer and anyone can sign up and be a part of those social groups. So, we have a group that's called TuneIn to Nature and these are ran from ran with our counselors and and some support staff. Um we've got a group uh a girl group called Heart of Gold and there's always a focus. So with Heart of Gold, they're talking about positive self-t talk with these girls. And um with another program we have, buddybuilding, they're focusing on listening and personal space. You know, some of those skills that
055as teachers, yes, we do um we, you know, we do teach those things as well as the curriculum. um but it's nice to um team up the students with peers that are um focusing on those specific social skills. So that's one thing that I've been um really proud of our social services team in coming together and offering a menu of different a variety of different groups that um students can participate in and we rotate. So, you know, this nine weeks it may be second and third grade groups and then we just kind of rotate throughout the year to give as many kids um as possible um the chance to be with these small um social groups. All right, we're wrapping up friends. Um so, next steps, what are we going to do next? Some of
056the things that we've targeted um is um attendance. How can we better attendance? There's been a lot of a f a lot of focus this year um with some of the things that the state changed and um mandated on attendance um and so it's been a focus for I think families also um you know at our school so what can we do to improve um attendance and what sort of incentives um can we offer um I've talked with our team at school and then um I've been talking to the other administrators on um successes that um they've had in their own personal schools and and what we could possibly do moving forward. Um we've we're in the process of kind of revamping our house system. Um all elementaryaries have house systems, so I'm not going
057to you you're well aware of that, but um one of the things we want to do is we're always looking at improvement. Um how can we get better? And so we're working on different things that we may want to implement or tweak um to our house program just to make it um um the best opportunity for all students. I have already spoke about our instructional walks that we're going to start um in a couple of months. And um the last thing that I wanted to say point out which was interesting is um we had a um our staff uh took a TBRI survey uh a few days ago. Um and I was able to look at the results and one of the one of the things that um it kind of spoke to as a
058next step for us in our TBRRI journey is staff regulation. And so if you look at the basic needs, and this is something we're excelling with with our kids, um you know, making sure if they need water, need something to drink, they get it. If they're hungry, we feed them. Um and and engaging them in sensory breaks and movement breaks. Um we knock that out of the park. You know, I don't know how many times a day we say, "Are you thirsty? Are you hungry?" Um that's just a basic human need. and something that with TBRRI it's it's at the forefront of everything we do. Well, when you look at our survey, so the people that are pouring into our students aren't pouring into theirel and I that stuck out to me as um you
059know, we have a phenomenal staff that really truly care for students and those people that pour so much into students aren't taking care of theirelves. So, we're going to work on that as a as a team. um to to really make sure that our staff are taking care of their own needs. All right, I'm going to wrap up um with this cuteness here, this popsicle party and preschool. Um so earlier earlier I mentioned uh thanks Miss Kim. Um earlier I mentioned we talked about student um retention and being very proud of the students that want to come to Lydia Middleton. If you look at the data I mean we have a lot of transfer students that you know are from other districts or shouldn't you know go or go to another or should go to
060another elementary district. um a large large number of transfers. And so I reached out to a few families that were new to Lydia Middleton this year or last year um to kind of wrap up my presentation. And um I just wanted to take a moment to share with you a few things of what families, Lydia Middleton families um have said about our school. Uh we are consistently impressed by the positive atmosphere and strong sense of community within the school. We absolutely love Lydia Middleton. From the very beginning, our children have been welcomed by caring and dedicated educators who truly value their students. Um the level of care and dedication at Lydia is truly unmatched. I didn't pay these people. Um, I didn't prompt them on what to say. I just knew they were new to
061our to our um school or even um to our um district. Um, Lydia has made our transition to Madison so smooth. Um, this is my third grader's third school and easily her favorite. And my kindergarten son would go to school on Saturdays if it were open. My wife and I can't put u can't wait to put our third child in Lydia to learn all of you. I I'm going to quote this. I I want to say you all have something special going on between the way you teach and help each other to how the kids all seem happy. Um it's been such a wonderful transition and everyone has made it easy and been so welcoming not only to our boys but to us. So I wanted to end by end by that because I know
062um you know it's not hard data but it's what families are saying when they come to our school and our community and our district. And I think it's really proud. It's something to be proud about with Madison schools, um, with Lydia Middleton. Um, you know, to make to to get a little bit personal, my four kids come to Lydia Middleton. Um, and my I'm not I'm not trying to uh be cheesy or anything, but my wife and I talk about it. It was the best thing that we've done for our kids. So, um I can't speak enough to what happens in those three floors um every day. Um there's great things happening and I thank you for allowing me the chance to share some of that with you tonight. >> Awesome. Okay, we'll move on
063to the consent agenda. is the approval of the agenda of the November 5th, 2025 regular board meeting. 25106 is approval of the minutes of the September 25th, 2025 work session and the October 1st, 2025 regular meeting. 25107 is approval of claims. 25108 is the approval of financial report. 25109 is the approval of construction payment which are as follows. Coke mechanical incorporated pay 2261254-5 high school HVAC for 37,66750. Second again to KO Mechanical Incorporation for pay app number High School HVAC 405,52270 and the third is again to KO Mechanical Incorporated pay 2261254-8 High School HVAC for 364,417.15 and the fourth is to Smid Associates pay 2024 4-044 MCP-8 MLEC or MELC. There we go. 109,67055. 2510 is approval of the personnel report. 2510.1 is the agenda of the personnel report. 2511 is the approval of grants
064and donations to the district which are as follows. And again, this is to the district. Gory Corporation donated $500 to provide pumpkins for all of our MCS third grader students to purchase while visiting the Growing Minds farm stop and to learn about the community business. The second was of First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, donated $1,000 to the Growing Minds Farmtop. This is a legacy gift from Dr. Connie Bevans who left a legacy of helping children. She dedicated her life to early education and the church is pleased to support the work of the growing minds farmtop. The third to the was the Goodman family/madison chemical company incorporated donated an ongoing supply of industrial-grade food safe cleaning supplies to the kitchens and kitchens detergents for the use at the growing mines farm stop. The next were
065donations to Lydia Milan. The Jericho County Community Foundation donated $4,500 to be used for a rooftop sensory garden. This donation will enhance the current existing rooftop patio at Lydia Milton Elementary School to allow for better utilization space and small groups and classroom experiences. The addition of plants and other natural materials will offer both a calming effect as well as opportunities for learning. Next was to the Madison Junior High German American Bank donated $950 to go toward the makers benches and tables. Butler Dentl PC donated $400 to be used to pay for the band for Makers night. Dave Mayor Contractor donated $500 to the archery team. Lidle Welty Funeral Home donated $100 to the archery team. Bide Autoglass donated $100 to the archery team. Chandler Chevrolet donated $100 to the archery team. The Madison Moose Riders
066donated $100 to the archery team. The Loyal Order of the Moose Lodge number 765 donated $400 to the archery team. St. John United Methodist Church of Christ donated $100 to the archery team. And SEI Communications also donated $100 to the archery team. to the Madison Consolidated High School. Chris Lanthier and Tammy Hagmire donated $500 to be used for TBRRI Nurture Group support. Metroet Systems Holdings LLC donated $1,000 to the football team. North American Stainless donated $1,000 to the football team and the NABIP South Central Indiana chapter donated $100 to the choir program. Just say Connie Bib was my kindergarten teacher at Lydia Middleton. >> There you go. Awesome. >> She was wonderful >> members. Nice. >> 25112 is approval of field trips. We have an overnight field trip request from uh FFA advisor Amanda Briggs
067to take 12 FFA students to Purdue University to participate in the state forestry contest on December 12th and 13, 2025. We have a overnight field trip request from high school boys cross country coach Chris Sandland to take nine cross country team members to compete in the IHSA cross country regionals in Shelbyville, Indiana. And that was on October 24th, 25th, 2025. We have an out of state field trip request from high school biology teachers Jeremy Huff and Shelby Green to take approximately 100 biology students to the Newport Aquarium on February 27th, 2026 in Newport, Kentucky. The students will learn about marine biology and topics in chemistry or the water cycle and plate tectonics. >> Is that right? >> Yeah, but I've never heard >> Yeah, I ask the teacher. Is that right, teacher? >> It's a
068biology thing. We have a request from high school coach soccer coach Marcus Hail to take 43 student junior high and u high school girls soccer team members of the Sunday on Sunday November 2nd 20 2025 to attend the Louisville racing game in Louisville Kentucky as a team bonding opportunity. Dr. Brown. >> Yeah. Okay. I recommend that the board approve with one motion and one vote the consent agenda items 25-105 through and including 25-112 as presented. >> Thank you. Board entertain a motion to approve. >> Make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Thank you. And a second, please. >> I'll second. >> With a motion to second. Is there any discussion? See no discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Sent agenda is approved. >> Do we have any No public
069comments. Okay. We move on to the action agenda. 25113 is the approval of supplemental pay resolution for teachers contract. Dr. Brown. >> Yeah, we're seeking approval of the supplemental pay resolution for the teacher contract. The resolution is authorizing MCS to pay the supplemental base salary payments to the teacher as we presented from negotiations. Asking for approval. >> Thank you. Entertain a motion to approve 2513. I'll make a motion to approve 25-113. >> Thank you. With a motion, is there a second? >> I'll second. >> The motion second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all signify by saying I. I. >> Opposed. >> 2513 >> is approved. 2515. >> Yeah. No, I was looking for 14. I don't see it. You're right. >> I'm right on that. >> So then 114 is approval to pay increase
070in retention statements. >> 15. >> Okay. 2515 is approval of of pay increase and retention stipen for a classified hourly classified salaried administrators, certified salaried employees, and substitutes who meet the incentive criteria. Dr. Brown. >> I'm recommending a 3.9% salary increase for all classified salary administrators and certified salary employees for the 202526 school year. I'm also recommending a four five a 4.5% average for all classified hourly. The range is 2% to 9%. We increase the scale 75 cents which results in this range. I'm also recommending a $1,200 retention stipen for all employee groups who were who were employed January 1 of 2025 and are still employed on November 15, 2025. These salary increases are consistent with the increases being provided to teachers in the bargaining unit and this would be effective July 1, 2025. For
071substitute teachers, I'm recommending that we increase the daily rates to the following amounts effective November 17, 2025, which would be the beginning of the next pay cycle. So for a high school diploma, the 2425 rate was 97.50, looking at the new rate being $15 a day. For an associates degree, it was 105, moving that to 120. And for a bachelor's degree, moving it from 120 to 150. So asking for the approval of the pay increases as presented. >> Thank you. Entertain a motion to approve 2515. >> Make a motion we approve 25115 >> and a second. I'll second >> with a motion to second. Is there any discussion? I think on behalf of the board, we do appreciate all of our our substitute teachers. We know uh it's a a moving uh target every day,
072but uh we we appreciate all the all the effort that goes into that and and I think by this proposed rates, it it shows that we do appreciate appreciate their time because we certainly couldn't operate without them. So, we thank them. Anybody else? No other discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. I >> opposed. >> 25115's approved. >> That was Yeah, that was actually 14. >> This would be 14. >> Yeah, that was actually 25114. So 251 15 is approval to purchase a school bus. Dr. Brown. >> Yeah. I'm seeking permission to purchase a bus from Midwest Transit Equipment in the amount of $182,344. >> Entertain a motion to approve 25115. >> I'll make a motion to approve 25-115 approval to purchase bus. >> Thank you. A second, please. >> I'll second >> with
073a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? >> See no discussion. All in favor of 25115 signify by saying I. >> I post 25115's approved. 25116 is a first reading of revised MCS policies. Dr. Brown and bylaw 0142 the election and eligibility to serve bylaw 0144.1 compensation bylaw 0167.2 executive session policies 322 staff evaluation 3220.01 1 teacher appreciation grants 3231 outside activities of staff 4162 Drug and alcohol testing of CDL holders and other employees to perform safety sensitive functions 5462 retaking a class 6320 purchasing 7440.01 electronic monitoring and recording 7455 Accounting System for capital assets 7540.02 2, digital content and accessibility. 8121, personal background checks, contracted services. 8405, Environmental Health and Safety issues, indoor air quality, animals in the classroom, idling vehicles on school property. Policy 8452, automated external defibrillators. Policy 8462, child abuse
074and neglect and 8,500, food service program. This is the first reading of the revised policies. Um, so no actions required. >> Thank you, Dr. Brown. >> 25117. >> Uh, policy 5350, student suicide awareness and prevention. Again, this is a first reading of a replacement policy. Therefore, no actions required. >> Thank you. 25118's approval of parent square renewal for the 2025 2026 school year. Dr. I'm seeking approval of the parent square renewal for the 2526 school year in the amount of $15,858.96. This is a slight increase in cost due to the increased enrollment, which is a good problem. >> Yes, absolutely. We'll deal with that anytime, right? >> Yeah. >> Seek a motion to approve 25118. >> I'll make a motion to approve 25-118. >> Thank you. And a second, please. >> I'll second >> with
075a motion and seconds. There any discussion? See no discussion. All in favor of 2518. signify by saying I I >> opposed. 25118 is approved. 25119 >> approval of parent square attendance plus addition for the 2025 2026 school. >> Yeah, I'm seeking approval of the parent square attendance plus edition for the school year and a pro-rated agreement beginning January 2026 through October 31, 2026 in the amount of $7,070. This is a new product from Parent Square that aligns with our MTSS system. It manages attendance for each student individually. At the renewal time, it will be added to our communications platform um for one agreement for an annual renewal based on our annual student enrollment numbers at approximately $8.98 per student. This aligns with our strategic goal of improving attendance, aligns with state required attendance tracking, and
076it aligns with our MTSS systems, which are our intervention systems. So, asking for um approval of that additional platform. >> Thank you. Entertain a motion to approve 25119. >> I'll make a motion we approve 25119. >> Thank you. And a second, please. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. With a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? See no discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. 2519's approved. 25120 approval. A procurement agreement between Wilson Education Center and MCS. Dr. Brown. >> I'm recommending the board approve the procurement agreement between the Wilson Educational Center and MCS. The Wilson Educational Center is a recognized education service provider. It offers procurement services to educational institutions. It allows us to save money to purchase from them. So, asking for approval. >> Entertain a motion
077to approve 25120. >> I make a motion to approve 25120. >> With a motion, is there a second, please? >> I'll second. >> With a motion and second. Is there any discussion? See no discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. 25120 is approved. 25121 approval of agreement with Job Ready 360. Dr. Brown, >> I'm recommending the board approve the agreement with Job Ready 360 in the amount of $3,17625. Job Ready 360 is a comprehensive cloud-based platform designed to streamline and enhance essential career readiness initiatives across our district. It provides a centralized system for managing, tracking, and reporting on critical student progress and program requirements. Specifically, the complete suite integrates three core functions. Work-based learning, which manages student internships, mentorships, and employer partnerships, college and career readiness, which helps students track
078individual career pathways, explore occupations, and complete necessary readiness assessments, and career technical education, which simplifies compliance reporting, program management, and performance data collection for all CTE courses. We request approval to purchase with grant funds the complete Job Ready 360 software suite to ensure our students have robust unified access to modern career preparation tools leading to improved outcomes and administrative efficiency in all of our related programs. >> Very good. You entertain a motion to approve 25121. >> I'll make a motion to approve 25-121. >> Thank you. And a second, please. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. With a motion and second, is there any discussion? See no discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. I oppose. 25121 is approved. 25122 is approval to declare science equipment obsolete and no further use to the corporation. Dr.
079Brown. >> Yeah. I recommend the board declare the following items from MCHS science department obsolete and of no further use to the corporation. A hot plate, oven heater, large incubator, small incubator, 30 old microscopes, 10 buns and burners, a demonstration lamp, gas chromatograph, glass slide projector, universal timer, u my favorite bag with strap full of random things, three cords, Kodak projector, two cassette players, interface equipment, a video cassette recorder, and an old projector. Don't make me say that again. Lady of staff. Anybody interested? You good? Okay. All right. >> Probably want the bag full of random >> bag full of random things. >> Yeah, that could that would make one nervous, wouldn't it? >> All righty. You entertain a motion to approve 25122. >> Make a motion we approve 25122. >> Thank you. In the
080second, please. >> Second. >> With a motion, second or any discussion? See no discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Oppos. 25122 is approved. 25123 approval to deed parcel 39-04-09-441-00006.0000-005 to Lancaster Township. Dr. Brown, that's a lot. >> I recommend the board declare parcel number 39-04-9-441-006.0000-005 0000-005 to Lancaster Township as presented. >> This parcel is located next to Dupont Elementary School. >> Okay. >> Entertain a motion to approve 25123. >> I'll make a motion to approve 25-123 >> and a second, please. >> I'll second. >> With a motion and second, there discussion. See no discussion. All in favor of 25123 signify by saying I I opposed. 25123 is approved. 25124 is approval to purchase classroom interactive boards and chrome boxes. Dr. Brown. >> Yeah. I recommend the board approve the purchase of
081the following classroom interactive boards and chrome boxes. 35 new line 75 in 4K Google certified interactive panels to replace 35 Prometheium boards that are nearing the end of life. This purchase includes installation of the new boards as well as disposal of the older boards. We would purchase these from Riverside Technologies, Inc. The total cost for the interactive panels will be $76,34725. We would also like to purchase 115 Chrome boxes to replace the end of life computers that are connected to some of our newer Prometheian boards. The older computers are running slow and will no longer receive security updates after this year. These will be purchased from Electronic Strategies, Inc. The total cost for the Chrome boxes will be $64,31145. All of the money will come from the 2025 technology budget which was reduced 20%. >>
082Yes, you didn't know. >> But he's doing a very good job management. So, we'll give him credit for that. >> Need to entertain a motion to approve 25124. >> I'll make a motion we approve 25124. >> Thank you. And a second, please. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. With a motion and a second, is there any discussion? See no discussion. All in favor of 25124 signify by saying I. >> I opposed. 25124 is approved. 25125 approval to purchase uniforms from UNIFirst Corporation. >> Dr. Brown, >> I recommend the board approve the 5-year Universe Corporation uniform contract for maintenance grounds employees and welding and diesel teachers in the amount of 22,63320. This contract is projected to save at least 11,67645 annually compared to the 2024 expenditures. >> Very good. Entertain a motion to approve 25125. >>
083Make a motion to approve 25125. >> Thank you. And a second, please. >> I'll second. >> Thank you for the motion and second. Is there any discussion? See no discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. I >> opposed. 25125 is approved. 25126 is approval of letter of engagement with Policy Analytics Incorporated LLC. I'm sorry, Dr. Brown. >> I recommend the board approve the letter of engagement with Policy Analytics LLC in the amount of $20,000 which will be paid from bond proceeds. Policy Analytics LLC will assist us with Senate Bill one cash flow parcel level analysis. So asking for approval. >> Thank you. Entertain a motion to approve 25126. >> I make a motion to approve 25126. Thank you. And a second, please. >> I'll second with >> the motion and second. Any discussion? Seeing
084no discussion, all in favor signify by saying I. I. I. >> Opposed. 25126 is approved. 25127 is approval for Madison Consolidated Schools to request to join the Southeastern Career Center. Dr. Brown. >> Yeah. I'm seeking permission for Madison Consolidated Schools to join the Southeastern Career Center. This is a conversation we've been having for a while and so asking for approval to seek that opportunity. >> Thank you. Entertain a motion to approve 25127. >> I make a motion we approve 25127. >> Thank you. And a second. >> I'll second >> with a motion and secondary discussion. >> Yeah. I would like to thank Lori, um Kevin Fry, um >> Brandon Brandon >> Brandon Fry, excuse me, Ronnie Lawhead, and um especially Dr. Brown. Um, we have been discussing this for uh quite a while now. Um,
085we probably shouldn't have ever gotten out, but we did, and I'm glad that we're getting back in so that we can provide more opportunities for our students. Thank you, Mr. Scott. Well said. Anyone else? See no further discussion. Uh, everyone in favor of approval of 25127 signify by saying I. >> I. Oppos. 25127 is approved and 25128 approval of the revised statement of benefits. Dr. Brown. >> Yeah, I'm requesting approval of the revised statement of benefits which includes step changes for hourly employees and three additional holidays for the year round two 60-day employees of Martin Luther King Day, President's Day unless we use it for a snow makeup day in which case it would not be a day off that year and Junth. So asking for approval of those changes. >> You entertain a motion
086to approve 25128. >> I'll make a motion to approve 25-128. >> Thank you. And a second, please. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. With a motion, a secondary discussion. Seeing no discussion, all in favor of approving 25128 signify by saying I. I. I. Oppose. 25128 is approved. We'll now move on to reports and our outstanding student representative, Savannah Hall. Welcome, Savannah. Um, I'd like to start off before the report. Thank you to the Lydia staff for giving that presentation. I'm honestly kind of jealous of your kids that get all these incredible opportunities and I think that um being able to see some of that stuff, especially at the third grade day with the farm stuff. I thought it was really cool to see how much like it's benefiting the kids. So, I thought that was
087really cool. Um, and then on to the reports. Congratulations to the Cubs football team for rounding off the season with the sectionals game on Halloween. Um, sub some upcoming sports in November are high school girls and boys wrestling, high school girls and boys basketball, and junior high boys and girls basketball. Um, FFA Skillthon High School team placed 11th in the state competition on October 11th and only missed advancing to nationals by two places. Michael Briggs placed 25th individual out of over a thousand judges. The junior high team also did well for their first time at state. And then the upcoming school musical Mean Girls High School um edition is on November 21st, 22nd, and 23rd. And we hope to see a bunch of the students and community show up to all these upcoming events. Thank
088you. >> Thank you, Savannah. Any public no public comments and we'll move on to the board comments. Mr. Scott. >> Um, I would also like to thank Trent and the Ly Milton staff for their presentation. Um, but I would like to single out um Katie and Missy. um you know particularly uh with Katie in sharing um the young gal who who passed the I read um it made me think you know I don't think within the Madison School Corporation we need any government agency to remind us that no child should let be left behind. We make sure that no child is left behind on our own. and I I feel like that was the perfect example of that. So, uh kudos for everything that is going on at Lydia Milton. I certainly know my two
089grandsons have been and will continue to be well taken care of. Um with regards to the new teacher contract, um I think ever since Dr. Brown has been our superintendent. Um the teachers have been um rewarded either with a pay increase, a stipen, or both. Um and I think that says an awful lot to her, particularly when I sat in the auditorium um that first day of school. And not surprising, the message was bleak. Um but with Senate Bill One, um she just flat out said, "I don't think or don't see where we're going to be able to give anything." and yet you saw tonight what we were able to to do. So, um that's truly amazing. And what I like about it is it's real easy to say that we appreciate our staff and
090our leaders and stuff. Um but just words don't help pay bills or or take the kids out to eat. Uh money does. So, um thank you Dr. Brown and leadership team for coming up with a way to bless the good people that we have employed at Madison schools. >> Thank you, Mr. Scott, Mrs. Jansancy. >> Well, I'm going to kind of echo some of that. Um, thank you to Lydia Milton and and the staff, Mr. Why, all of you for coming and sharing with us tonight. Um, I say this every time. I that's, you know, it's one of my favorite parts. Um, I think the true excitement is seeing the excitement in you guys coming and sharing that and the results and the hard work you guys are putting in because um the data that
091we're seeing, the things that we see that you guys are doing, the fun things like I'm like Savannah. I'm ready to come back to to elementary school and do some of the fun things you you are doing. But um not only that you're providing the these fun activities for the kids, but what they're getting out of it. It's it's truly remarkable and we thank you all for your hard work and and not just, you know, the the the teachers and the staff, but you know, all the way through the district, the hard work that you guys have put in um each year and it just keeps getting better and better. So, thank you so much for that. Um and then about the teacher contracts um you know I was on the committee of course we
092David I just show up um um we get you know get a little bit of like a earlier that night but um you know the true work is it was what Dr. Brown and her staff have done to be able to you know give raises because like Mike said we you know really didn't think that this was going to be possible this year. Um, but one thing that I did say at the work session and I'd like to say again is again thanks to our staff. Um, because one of the things that made also made that possible was the the cuts that Dr. Brown and her staff did, but also 75 new students. Um, which brings in more money and I I know Dr. Brown it, you know, has expressed to you guys about, you
093know, increasing our our student population was going to help be able to help us with raises. So, we thank you for going out and showing our community what the great things that we're doing here um and increasing our, you know, our students staff or our student um population. So, thanks to you for helping do that also. >> Thank you, Joey. Well said, David. >> I have to follow all that. That makes it hard and stuff. So, once again, thank you to all of you guys for your presentation. Just wanted to throw it out there. Um, I do have some connections if you guys need help with duck eggs or anything like that. So, reach out to me. Um, and then I also wanted just to bring up that I know FFA at the high school,
094they've started doing the vertical gardening. I personally have not seen it, but that might be something that you guys can look at as well. But I really like the thinking of outside the box, you know, with the sensory rooftop garden. >> You know, so many people would probably just look at that project say, "Well, we can't do anything." But you guys thought outside the box, you know, going on the roof. So, great job. And that's what it takes, you know, being creative, thinking outside the box. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Dave. I too would like to thank you all for being here tonight. Your presentation was outstanding for about nine months. Uh I was a school resource officer and uh Lydia was one of my schools and I don't want everybody to think, you
095know, you come in, you give this presentation and you know, everything sound. You guys are truly awesome. when I would walk the hallways, I would be able to listen into uh into your rooms. Ene drop a little bit, I guess. But uh but what you presented here tonight is the real deal. You guys really truly love and care about these kids and uh and uh that means so much to them and their family and and to our community. So we we truly appreciate. So again, what you've seen here tonight is is what you really get. These these people are really the true heroes of our community. We and we thank you very much, >> Dr. Brown. >> Yeah. So, just starting off, thank you, Mr. Whley, and the Lydia team. Um, I'm very proud of
096you. You know, as I'm listening to you tell your story, um, tell our story, right? the fact that you're using words like intentional and interventions and student level data and uh you're passionate about what you're doing and you're having these professional conversations um on a regular basis and you're getting into each other's classrooms and you're modeling and mentoring and all of those things are just incredible. It just speaks to my teacher soul and I'm just so proud of you to hear the things that you're doing for our kids. um you're you know you're intentional, you're persistent, you're relentless, you're focused. Um I couldn't ask for anything more. So, thank you for sharing that information tonight and more importantly for what you do every day. Um and also thank you Mandy for being here and the
097work your team did with us. Um again, we just really enjoy working with all of you. You're just amazing. Um and and a shout out too to the team at Central, you know, um the people behind all the work that's happening that we're talking about and you know, when we're talking about curriculum mapping and we're talking about data and we're talking about instructional strategies and professional development and coaches, all of those things fall under the people that are here um that are in that back row that try to hide uh during these meetings, but they're the ones doing this work. and you know, Janet and Sean, um, Danica and Shannon and the finance team, the work they did for negotiations. Incredible. We had daily meetings for about two weeks just looking at what we could
098do. They put an incredible amount of time behind that just to be able to come up with those numbers. Um, and really worked worked hard on it. Um, Lori, the work that she's doing with the counselors and CTE now, um, just incredible. Ashley put out the district correspondent yesterday. I read that last night again and I was like, "Oh my gosh, it's just like telling our story and getting it out there. Incredible. Appreciate everything she does." Tara um Tara is like my right arm, my left arm, my right brain, my left brain, and sometimes more than that even. Um she does incredible work with our special populations and um I definitely need her guidance on a daily basis. So appreciate appreciate the team um here today from central um because it takes all of us
099for sure to get this work done. And then Jay back there in the corner um today is National Redhead Day so it's we definitely want to make sure we call out um thank you to Jay um for all he does around here with facilities. Um he's on top of things and you know it's not an easy job. There's a lot that goes into that. So I appreciate that. And of course my Pamela um who I would I would leave today if she left with me. I will not stay another day without Pamela. She's my she is everything. Um so winter sports are beginning and want to remind everybody about that. Also Makers night happened just recently at the junior high. It was very successful as well as the Frankenstein play. I got to see that
100at the high school. Uh the kids did a fabulous job and as Savannah shared, Mean Girls is coming up in a couple of weeks and then uh Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer the beginning of December. So I think that's going to be super cool to take the little >> um also want to thank our board for um doing what's right for our kids. Um appreciating our staff, doing what's right for them as well. um certainly our salary increases and stipens and um supporting me. I just I couldn't do this job without you. Thank you for that. I appreciate that. And we have an email going out to staff in about one minute at 7:30. I said it um explaining what what happened tonight, the action you took. So, um I'm looking forward to them finding out
101um that they have some additional funds coming their way very soon. So, appreciate that. Thanksgiving is coming. As you know, we're off the week of November 24th. So, I want to wish everybody a happy holiday. That's all I've got. >> Very good. Thank you so much. We'd like to remind our our Linda Milton staff if you do have any openings for your yoga rooftop class. I think maybe the I think maybe the board should come down and and participate. No, >> I'm not that flexible. >> I'll come watch you, John. I'll come watch John. >> We'll just cancel that appointment. There will be a work session on Thursday, December 4th, 2025 at 4 pm. Next regular board meeting will be December 10th, 2025 at 6 pm. Wish everybody a blessed and and great uh Thanksgiving.
102And a motion to approve or to adjurnn. Yeah, take a motion to approve the adjournment. >> I'll make a motion >> and a second. Motion to second. We are adjourned. Right.