001possession. >> I make a motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I I got two hours in five days. Thank you all for being patient with us. Um, now we need a motion to adjourn from executive session. >> Motion adjourn from exe executive session, excuse me. >> Second. >> All in favor? All right. And um we need to now stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> Approve. >> I'm sorry. >> Yeah, your time. >> All right. We need a motion to approve our agenda item 3.1. >> Make a motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. >> All in favor? I. >> All right. This meeting has been notified. Let's stand for our pledge and moment of pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which
002it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. All right. [laughter] We have anything listed on public forum. There was no. All right. >> All right. Now, we need a motion to approve the certified staff recommendations heard in executive session. >> I make a motion we approve the certified staff recommendations. >> Second. >> All in favor? All right. All right. In your packets, you have the minutes from May 11. We need a motion to approve those minutes. >> Make a motion to approve the minutes from May 11. >> I'll second. All in favor? And brings us to board reflections. Start. I'm going to save my board reflection to start off the beginning of the next school year. Okay, >> go ahead and say >> nothing tonight. >> Sure. Feel
003good. >> Well, I'll just say I'm sure there there may be more after me, but um of course you all know I'm we're going to talk about it a little later, but I'm absolutely super proud of our graduation. Um thankful for pleasant weather and thankful for um our awesome team here at Lexon Ford that makes it go out without a hitch. I brag about it and I will do everything in my power to make sure that we always are at Doug Bennett come the the end of May every year. So thank you to everybody. It was beautiful as usual and um trying to think if there's anything else. That's it for me this week. All right. So now we will turn it over to John Atinson. >> Good evening, Mr. Chair, Dr. Nutter, and members
004of the board. Uh, I'm bringing to you tonight two curriculums for you to consider. The first one is 95 RAP. It is a curriculum for special education students focusing on reading. Uh, we will be looking at implementing it in grades uh, K5 through 8th. We have had a goals-based team that started in September that has been working on this uh through the month of April. Uh they have done research. We have met with different vendors and experts. So this is the curriculum we are bringing forth tonight. Uh we are going to roll this out in a slow way so that our teachers will be comfortable and will be trained to implement it uh over the course of the upcoming school year if you approve. Our second one is our English 3D. It is our multilanguage
005curriculum. This will be going into grades 1 through 12th. Our ML teachers along with uh Miss Don Sergeant have been working on this all year long. Our ML teachers have asked for a curriculum that will give them some structure to help us with our state assessment that our ML learners take each spring. uh and they believe that this particular curriculum will help our students not just do better on the assessment but will be able to um acclimate better in their core content classes. Uh both curriculums are considered to be highquality instructional materials and so I bring that um to you all tonight for your consideration. >> Okay, we need a motion correct to adopt the curriculum as recommended by Dr. Atinson. I'll make a motion we adopt the recommended curriculum. >> I'll second. >> All
006in favor. >> Thank you so much. >> All right, Mr. Newton, Dr. Nutter, members of the board. Uh it's my pleasure tonight to share some operational things as we have uh had throughout the year. Um so going to start a little bit with our graduation review um as well as our Francis Matt construction update um and then we will be following up with a review of our facility study that we've been um using with um uh Mosley and then also the final recommendations um from that study as well. Uh looking at graduation um our preparation I would be remiss if I did not talk about how great of a team we do have here at Lexon School District 4. our maintenance guys put in countless hours um last week as well as our um transportation
007and food service or not transportation but our food service and um maintenance coordinator uh and making sure that we had everything uh squared away. Uh these are just kind of some numbers to kind of look at but the most important number in that slide is the one at the very bottom where we gave out 224 uh diplomas. So as we um pride ourselves here at Lexon School District 4 making sure that we provide our students with the best education going forward. Uh that was great to see as we had 224 graduates cross that stage um you know two Fridays or last Friday um and so forth. Um our graduation attendance now these these are numbers that we are kind of estimating based off of um the number of programs that were given out number of
008vehicles that were there. Um so of course that's our number of graduates, junior marshals u district members that were in in attendance as well as event staff. uh we're estimating that it was close to 22- 2400 people uh that were on our that was on our site and close to a thousand cars when we look at our whole uh parking lots um and system as a whole. Um so that was great to see the all the community being able to come out and of course we were able to get that uh graduation at Doug Bennett Stadium. So being able to have that um was great and the weather you know kind of helped us with that. Looking ahead these are our numbers um as we go forward with our classes. So, as you can see,
009um our class numbers and our senior classes are going up um after next year. Um and then you can also see how that would impact our inclement weather estimated tickets as we um get closer to those um those next couple of years in terms of our graduation and so forth. Um junior marshals I did put at 30 because that's about our average that we've had the last four or five years. Uh just to kind of give us a baseline number of u for those graduates to go along with that. But once again, these are just the, you know, what we have to look forward to for the next three years here at Lexon School District 4 in terms of our graduation. Right. Next, we have the Francis Mack Intermediate School Edition. Um, so just to
010provide some um updates on that. Uh, so as you can see, last meeting I told you we've got walls now. Um, so we got um where you can see where we have um the cast iron is in place where we're starting to also get some concrete um installation of some lowbearing things and so forth. Um you can see um where this is basically um where our chorus and band room is located uh to the left as well as our elevator shaft um right there immedately where the crane is above. Um once again this is the outside of that uh chorus and um band room area. This is inside of that chorus and band room area just to kind of give you an idea what it will look like on from the inside in terms of
011square footage and so forth. And then overall our upcoming milestones and schedule as we go. Uh they are currently right now um doing the fire lane that's going to the back of the school and then they will also be uh working on the water line out in front of the school um that will be uh going down Mac Street. So those are where we're at. We're still anticipating uh completion in December for the addition. So once again, we'll have the addition completion in December and then we will begin the renovation of the uh areas inside. So, um, we're looking to have total construction being, uh, completed by the end of January, early February. All right. And next up, we have our, uh, Lexon and 4 facility study. Uh, once again, we've partnered with Mosley and
012Walpert. We have Corey Mala, who's been the head of this project, uh, who's been providing us with the numbers as well as our recommendations that we'll be going over tonight. Uh last meeting we uh talked about what our capacity looked like in terms of our schools as well as our program capacity and our design capacity. Just a reminder, our program capacity is basically how we do things now, what our class schedule looks like, how we're using those classrooms within the building. Uh the design capacity is basically what it what it says. Uh what how what those are the numbers on how that building is designed to be used. So classrooms and so forth. So an example of a difference between a program capacity and design capacity. We could have a teacher that is using a
013classroom as an office rather than a classroom. That would be you know a program capacity where the design capacity is saying that should be as used as a classroom. Um so as you can see from our last talk and looking at the numbers uh we are looking at a enrollment surge based off of our um construction um numbers. Uh we are using the 50 housing units per year as our measure. Um, so we kind of see that um that we're going to be seeing growth within these next few years in terms of our buildings as a whole. Uh, we do have the SPS which kind of shows a little bit more flexibility than some of our other uh buildings. When you look at the comparison of program capacity and the design capacity, but then when
014you look at the middle school, the middle school is one of those where the design capacity and the program capacity are going to meet uh sooner rather than later in terms of those items. So, you know, we do have a little bit of flexibility SPS at this time. uh but we do not have as much flexibility, you know, at Sand Hills Middle School and etc. Uh [snorts] this is our student potential analysis if you were looking over time. So I believe this chart goes up to um 2077 if I'm not mistaken or or longer, but this basically just shows what our devel um is developable and then how that would use over time to kind of show what our enrollment uh surges could possibly be and so forth. And once again, these are all estimates.
015So when we're looking at it as a whole, the five-year mark, we're looking at an addition of 120 students. Uh the 10ear mark, we're looking at close to 514 students. Um when you look at the to try to get a good number of that and the impact of it, um in capacity planning, when you think about 500 students, that's roughly comparable to a whole school within our district. when you look at it the way we have our schools aligned with it being two grade levels. Uh so that would be you know the same size as a medium elementary school like we have here at le school district 4. Now our recommendations um so what we're getting from um Mosley and Walpert is they're providing us uh our immediate recommendations of things that need to be
016done right away and as soon as possible which are you know critical repairs replacements actions and things like that that need to take place within the next year or two. uh additional recommendations such as um things that we can improve and maintain over over time. Um also they've helped us look at our capital improvement plan basically looking at what we do and how we and what we or what is recommended that we do with over a 10-year um process. Uh they've also helped uh create and reinforce our preventive maintenance plans as we do have preventive maintenance plans in place. Uh they provide us a more detailed one for each facility as well as different categories. And then also they've provided um some possible floor plans and site improvements for areas uh that may need growth
017and it may need um to be addressed and so forth with our future enrollment. Uh and then just the key takeaway is this these are all recommendations. These are not things that are set in stone. Uh these are things that by looking at the numbers is basically providing us a road map of what we need to do in in terms of our facilities so that we can strategically plan to improve our expanding district going forward. Um so our recommended uh steps um is first we need to address the critical needs that was um prioritized in our facility study. Um then it talks about implementing a life cycle funding which we're going to talk about because that is something that we already have in place uh within our district. Uh then also stabilizing those exist existing
018um facilities because there's nothing um more valuable than the facilities that we do own and making sure that we're doing those and keeping those up to date as well as modernizing and also preparing for growth um for that capacity and things that that is going forward um with that enrollment surge. So for example, this is our capital improvement plan that we've used in terms of SKGO the last five years. So you can see these are items that we've been able to address through that SKGO bond to help us keep our buildings um up to par as well as make sure that we are anticipating growth and kind of address things as needed as well as address things before they have preventive maintenance as well. Currently this is our SKGO um map going forward. So as
019you can see we kind of have items and a lot of these items are also already mentioned in our capital improvement plan uh which is um provided by Mosley and so forth. These are examples of the preventive maintenance plans that's been provided. Um these basically are for each school. It shows um mechanical things that we can address as far as fire protection and plumbing, electrical and energy. We have that for all schools and we have it for all those categories as well. So that we can kind of gives us a checklist to make sure that we're following. It goes annually, weekly, monthly, semianually, and so forth just to try and make sure that we're staying up to the standard of keeping our buildings up. All right. our recommendations in terms of the facility uh levels.
020Um these are your priorities. So anything that's labeled as like a priority one is our immediate um actions that need to be required. Uh and then it goes down to what is something that just needs to be uh brought up to code and so forth. And a priority five um renovation type. So we have uh renovation types that would be levels one through five. So, one would be your least um required one in terms of it being cosmetic to where your fifth one would be more comprehensive in building wise systems and so forth and upgrades to those buildings. Here's an example of the uh CIP. Um so, this is one for the early childhood center. As you can see, it shows Mosley's suggestions in terms of um uh renovations to the office as well as
021general um renovations to the building itself. But then it gives us a timetable to show uh when we should be addressing other issues as they come up in the near future. So you can kind of see uh where it talks about the roof, canopy lighting, fire alarm, and so forth. And kind of gives you an idea of an estimated total cost based off of this year and so forth. So at um ECC, this is an example of the renovations and of a map of those locations. Uh so on the left is how we currently use it. And then on the right, if you look towards the very bottom, the um the orange rooms that have kind of like a grid pattern are the two rooms that would be recommended to renovate to make more office
022space uh for that area. All right. And so for the ECC, like we said, these were the recommendations for those. They were one of our um buildings that had the least amount of recommended to it due to the flexibility of the space that there was there at that building at that time. Our next recommendations will be for the primary ele and elementary school. Uh so the primary recommendations for that location um I tried to summarize it to kind of give you a better idea instead of looking at that whole chart just to give us a focus of what we're looking at there. Um is parent loop expansion um classroom additions by year five. Uh level three classroom renovations um and then also additional study for our shared spaces. So, as our as our buildings um
023you know, as our capacity is going up and as we're adding classrooms, do we need to also increase the size of our cafeteria? Do we need to increase the size of our media centers, our PE space, and so forth? Um so, those would be other um items that would need to be come through on that additional study and so forth. And then you can see where we have renovations uh that also include other elements of that school. So, here's a a map. These are just once again recommendations and um suggestions in terms of um some of those items. So up top on A, you can kind of see where the parent loop um expansion. There's two options there to kind of alleviate some of that traffic that is going on on Lewis RAS um in
024321. So you can see option A would be basically going around that field um towards 321 and then wrapping back around. And then you have um the other option to the left where it's basically a double lane on that parent loop that runs through the uh wooded area. Now, it was also um recommended in the study to possibly turf um the playground areas where we typically have a lot of erosion and you know um sand that develops over time. Uh those are also recommendations that were made um for that area. Uh here's another better look at the parent loop expansion. So you can see option two at um or you know option A was which is the one through the field as well as the one where we basically stack the lanes going through the
025wooded area. Sorry. So option two is is the existing loop. >> Uh no actually it's coming off the existing loop. So you can see um right here basically this is where we come in typically with our car riders and then we turn this way. Basically now you go into the field and around and then connect back to that loop that would be into the wooden area. >> Right. I understood that. But you said there were two options. >> Yeah. The second option would basically be where we would be stacking right here and being a double lane going through here using that existing loop. >> Oh, okay. [snorts] >> All right. And then these are the recommendations in terms of the classrooms. Um it was also added that we would um look to have expansion of
026the classrooms. Here it shows um addition of eight um taking place at the primary school. So you can see at the left side this is how the uh school was currently um used and then on the right the ones that are shaded in a darker grid would be and the hallway shaded would be addition locations for uh the primary school. Uh it's very similar to the elementary side. The elementary side is four on the end of the hallways that are closest to the bus loop side. Um so and in all it would be eight for each site which would be 16 classrooms for SPES combined. Um, next is our Francis Mack Intermediate School. Um, here we've already been addressing some of the um um classrooms there. Um, so really what we're seeing here is more
027level three and level five renovations to that building. Um, and then also additional study space once again for the cafeteria, front office, and media center, those shared um, spaces to make sure that those do not need to be enlarged as well as infrastructure renovations and upgrades u to that building as well. Um here you can kind of see where there's um some um on the right side of the map on the um that is our upper level of Francis Mac where uh it's looking to possibly renovate some to create some office space at that area. However, there's no additional additions being added to that building or being recommended for that building at this time. All right. Then we have Sand Hills Middle School. Um it is recommended that we add four to eight classrooms um
028by year five. Um so that would basically put us at year 2031 uh to um have have classrooms there. In addition to that that would be the cafeteria um also getting an addition as well as um renovating the kitchen area. Um also there we have the building renovations of level that are level five category as well as infrastructure upgrades to our HVAC windows and case work throughout the building. Um in this space you can kind of see the left is our current map of the Sand Hills Middle School. on the right would be the recommended placement of those additional classrooms uh for that location. Um that is all on the field side of that school uh which is you know that's where we have the most space in terms of any of our buildings currently.
029Um so that would be where those additions will be taking place. It basically be four classrooms at the end of each hallway on the field side at the middle school. Um, at the freshman academy, we're looking at more level five building res renovations as well as uh infrastructure renovations to that ex u to the existing bu building. Um, and so I didn't include the map there because there was no additions to that. It's just basically renovations to that building. Now, here at the high school, we do have recommendations of a parent loop expansion similar to that that we um looked at for SPS uh because that traffic on on that side of the road at the front of the school does get backed up at times as well as renovation to the science lab uh
030within the next two years. Uh classroom additions u by year six, level five building renovations, so once again renovating um that um those larger items in that school as well as infrastructure renovations to our HVAC windows, casework and etc. So looking at the um high school um the top left map is what we where we currently are. The bottom right map is where the renovate or where the classroom additions would be. So is it recommended for six additional classes there. That's basically going off the math wing uh right behind or right by the reservoir p pond and where the old band stand is where those loca is currently the recommended location for that site. Um this map it shows the top left once again that's how we currently use it. The bottom right is just
031pointing out the science lab which was recommended to be uh renovated. Um it is original to that building and has not been renovated since um I think the late 70s early 80s in terms of that. >> I have a question sir >> and I should know this but I can't remember. What is housed in the existing [clears throat] or the previous band room now? previous band room was renovated to be the health science um classroom and lab space. Um so that's on that Kate hallway. So it has basically now has two classrooms and a lab space at the back. Yes, sir. Um and then this is the recommended um parent loop extension for those car riders at the high school as well as addition additional parking. Uh, basically this would be coming in on the
032curve of the bandside field band field. U making that a two-lane entry and then making a two-lane um entry into the band field um and then kind of um having that space where the band podium is currently stands um and adding parking spaces there as well. As we know when we have events that are um on campus um during school hours, it is a challenge to get people parked as well. does it does also provide additional parking for our graduation um ceremony as well. Um so as our next steps um so once again these are recommendations these are not set in stone things that we have to do um but these are basically a roadmap for us to um for our decision- making going forward. Um so as a district what we will do is
033we're going to continue to analyze uh the facility study and address the critical needs and infrastructural needs that we already have in place. Um, once again, we do a lot of that through the SKGO bond. Um, and then we're also going to make sure that we are implementing the uh preventive maintenance plan, the more detailed one that Mosley has provided with us to make sure that we're keeping those buildings up to par, as well as um making sure that we are modernizing our learning environments as we go to help support that student achievement as well as um district recruitment in terms of teachers as well. And then also we will continue to monitor. It's recommended that we continue to monitor the demographic and enrollment changes because once again we've had 11 subdivisions that applied when
034we first started with the study, but then we've also had a few that have now been added to that that is not that has not been included to that study. So we want to make sure that we continue to follow that and um track that because we don't know if this is just going to be a one-time thing or if we're going to continue to see that growth coming down um six and so forth. So, we want to make sure that we're following that so that we can make those educated decisions um going forward for our district. And then also want to make sure that we are aligning our facility investments with our district goals going forward as well. >> Do we have any questions at this time? >> I do. I have one regarding
035the Skego slide. >> Yes, sir. >> Dealing with the high school. You stated it stated um environmental branding. >> Yes, sir. >> What does that entail? So environmental branding um we currently are contracted with Will Brian. Um so basically what it is is they come through they provide um they we have an adopted color scheme that we use throughout the building as well as like our logos. So a good example is one behind Quincy. Those are one of the things that was designed by Will for us to adopt and put within our place. Uh so it kind of provides um more of a cosmetic upgrade to our buildings um and so forth. So that's usually where our environmental branding is involved. Um they also provide some um recommendations in terms of how we use space
036to help try and modernize it as well. >> Okay. Secondly, um thank you. Secondly, um when it comes to the parking lot of the elementary school, I understand the two lanes for the high school because the students are much older, but just taking in consideration um that a with the two lanes for the elementary school, you think that's a good idea with if it's two lanes and child sees their mom in the lane over, they gonna take off running? >> Yes, sir. might be, you know, quick accident happened >> and it and it currently is it is two lanes there now, but they they blocked it because of those safety concerns and safety reasonings. So, you know, once again, it's just it's a recommendation. It's not anything in stone. It's just one of the options
037that's provided to us by them. >> Okay. >> Yes, sir. So, I actually u [clears throat] of course with my kids ages, I'm still suffering from PTSD from this same loop right here. But, um I think that one of the and I'm glad that we're looking at this. I think we've talked about it before. One of the things that I've always thought was a concern is the lanes, not so much, but the trees that are in the space. I'm not sure if that was even something that was considered because if there's I know that there's been mornings where parents have broken down or um there's been a situation where somebody could get their car cran >> can't get the car moved and so you're stuck there until a group of fathers get out and help
038push the car aside when you're in the back loop. >> Yes, sir. >> Because there's nowhere to go really as far as a uh to subvert traffic. So, I'm glad that we're visiting this and um discovering options for it. So, thank you. Well, I appreciate the feedback because as we engage in that conversation, that is something that we bring that we bring up and I know Corey's probably taking notes on that as well as he's designed that >> entire island out there or peninsula. >> Yes, sir. >> There is no cut through if I'm not mistaken. >> Yeah, I think the only cut through cutthrough is at the very front of it. There's none going past the that shed that's out there to where we used to house um lawnmowers and so forth. >> We're
039graduated now. We're going to Francis Mac. So, we're done. >> Yes, sir. [laughter] It's been rough. >> Thank you, Mr. Newton. >> Yes, sir. Any further questions? That's right. Thank you'all. >> Mr. Chair, um Shelley Allen sends her regards. She's not able to be here tonight, so I'm going to try to uh take her role. Uh so looking, you received your financial statement uh for the month of May. The good news is is that we are right on track. There are no uh surprises, right? And especially when we look at the fact that we have had a transfer of $4 million to our building fund, which goes directly to great stewardship that we're doing as a board to uh provide us the opportunity to address different recommendations. Right. So, with that 4 million, if it
040was taken out, we would be right on track with where we are last year at this time. And talking with Shelley, uh with our anticipated revenue expenditures for the rest of the year, we expect to uh end up uh well and where we are at the end of the fiscal year. So, any questions about that? I know you had that in your packet. >> Yes, sir. As far as an update on the budget and uh we are doing second reading of our budget tonight, Shelley has put together this slide for you and I'm sure you've been following along, but at this point we do not have finalized state budget and the general assembly passed a continuing resolution. We are recommending that we go ahead and approve [clears throat] uh on second reading what we have
041set. Uh we do not see uh any of the key education funding amounts changing. Those are not what the legislature is looking at at the moment. And it appears that all of that will be maintained. If it were to provide a issue and it were to change after we do second reading, our good financial status and our fiscal responsibility with our fund balance will allow us to adjust and not have to um issue any debt or anything such as that to maintain a a change in funding for a shortterm change. Any questions on that? >> No, sir. >> So, with that being the case, um we are bringing to you tonight the 2026 27 fiscal year general fund budget for second reading. A reminder of this budget and it's important for our stakeholders, our um
042community to understand, we are not looking at a mill increase. This budget does not include a mill increase. It's a balanced budget and the resources additional resources are focused on our people, our staff, our students, our teachers on recruitment and retention of highly qualified teachers and investing in maintaining competitive salary schedules. So with the current uh budget, there isn't a lot of wiggle room, but we also are not having to cut or or that type thing. So again, uh we would recommend a budget uh in the amount of 45,454,555 for second reading as was approved in April. >> May I have a motion? like to make a motion to approve the 2627 fiscal year budget in the amount of 45,454,555 as presented by the administration. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> Thank you.
043>> We're also bringing to you uh a motion or a recommendation for our annual SKGO bond. I know Shelley went into depth with this uh last month and again you see the benefit of it in Justin's uh report just a few minutes ago. It's important that we know that this uh Skego opportunity uh continues. We we need to approve it annually, but it the primary thing it does is it saves our taxpayers from additional it allows us to defer maintenance to this bond in such a way that we keep our millage level the same and it's consistent over time. So, it's best practice financial stewardship. Again, it's a credit to the board and to uh previous leadership for us being able to engage in this and our recommendation with what has been provided to us
044from the individuals who run this SKGO bond. Um, we believe that this year if we uh set it to not exceed $3 million that that would be financially prudent and going along with what the bond will be and will allow us to continue to uh defer from the general fund uh to do these different investments in the different areas of maintenance and upgrades, safety improvements and technology. So, we would recommend to the board to [clears throat] approve the SKGO bond re resolution not to exceed $3 million. >> Can I receive a motion? I'd >> like to make a motion to approve the SKGO bond resolution not to exceed $3 million for the purposes of offsetting facility maintenance and other improvements in technology. I'll second. >> All in favor, >> chair, we provided back. So, we're
045at the end of the year. This is our last meeting of this school year. We'll meet again in August. We appreciate the leadership that the board has provided. We also want to uh let you know that uh from our perspective we have had a very successful year across all the different components of our district. You have seen uh across the year from each school the different things that they are working on and also the things uh the successes that they have had and the way that they're reaching out to the community, our students, our parents and working to uh help our students be successful across uh the continuum of 3K through 12th grade. We have an excellent team and uh we have done a lot of work this year and we appreciate your support. This
046is the slide that I presented back in August. As far as an overview of the key things from this year, I want you to know that uh we have engaged new mathematics standards and curriculum uh across K12. Uh a big shout out to our office of academics and our chief academics officer, Miss Dr. Atson and also our principles, our our APS, our instructional coaches, but most importantly our teachers because we have not just implemented, we haven't just opened, we've opened and we've dived deep into it. Uh there's been a lot that has gone on as far as not just learning the curriculum. We have visited other school districts that have already implemented this curriculum. We have gone on learning walks with different uh teachers and staff across various schools, visited each other and grown in
047our ability to not only understand the curriculum but implement it. And we believe that that's going to have invaluable um uh impact moving forward. We also talked about technology as a tool. I again want to credit uh Dr. Atson, our principles, our instructional coaches, also uh our technology, our systems and accountability department with Miss High Totower and also Scott Spencer, our new uh technology coordinator, a director uh in the sense specifically with this we have moved away from virtual SC as a foundational curriculum at the secondary level and move towards actually and you've heard a lot about this, you've heard about it from the state department just the needs you all have experienced it as well all of our public has that co made us very reliable or or on technology but there's something about
048the human dimension right and there's something about learning skills and teaching and uh knowledge and so we want to use technology as a tool and not as a end all beall and we have made discernable uh quantitative steps in that regard This year, another thing that we talked about was systemness and capacity building. Looking at our system across K12, our kids and our parents change every two years. And we have continued, we worked on this last year, but looking at our interdependence, our our work across grade levels and across schools. So again, we we mentioned the the visits between schools. We mentioned the collaboration between principles as accountability partners. We uh you've you've heard a little bit tonight. Dr. Atkinson talked about K6 intervention and also uh K8 uh special education and those curriculums coming
049into play. that is a step in the direction of not just being individual areas but being across a team and then like our ML um Don Sergeant was mentioned tonight we have an ML curriculum uh she has spent time in our teachers that work with ML I have seen them here till 5 5:30 in the afternoon once a month up here from across all schools doing PD working on their collaborative skills Uh this past week, uh Dr. had and our team had a group of educators that were here from our district Monday through Friday working on a uh curriculum and skill-based uh strategies called SCOP that's promoted by the state department of education that deals with specific strategies to help not only our ML students but all students with understanding and learning and that is
050again an example of us working across grade levels uh and across schools. We've also worked on capacity building with our leaders. Uh an example of that would be Dr. Sanders, our human resources uh chief and also Dr. have participated have engaged our APS like in the spring of this year in their AP uh professional learning team got them together and worked on what it means to be a principal building their capacity building their knowledge and their skills um as far as developing a pipeline that can help us and help them to have meaning. So, those are just some of our uh examples of that. I I would be remiss if I left out our chief financial officer who's not here, but systems and capacity building. From the beginning of the year last year, we had
051our first systemwide training on finance with all of our principles, APS, and our financial people in this room. And uh Miss Allen has continued to engage in that training throughout the year. It has not been unusual for her to be doing school visits for support and going and working with our bookkeepers and those type things as we work towards a system of accountability with that. And finally, I I just want to give a shout out to our teachers because we've asked them to go deeper with our execution of what we would say are high impact strategies this year. That goes everywhere from the ECC where uh the team there worked on behavior and intervention with students and identifying what needs are of students and involving teachers in that process and assistance in that process and
052then pulling groups and small groups to provide intervention and to look at what skills can be utilized. Uh I had the privilege of visiting that multiple times some of those uh situations and it's just it it's going deeper than just showing up to school. I it's it's going deeper than we're just attending school. Let's see how we can intervene with our 3K and 4K students. One of the best things about that, and I give credit to uh her, Miss Harrison Young, is that she submitted her plans for quarter one next year, >> that process is on there, and it's about going deeper with it still. And that's the example where we just want to get better at the most important things that we do. I want to share uh last year we were under tier
053three. We shared in August and we came off tier three this year, but we shared our continuous improvement plan and we had three goals. I just want to share that on each one of these three goals. You can see connections to what we just talked about. So student achievement, you see the key word there, collective execution, you see standardsbased curriculum. Again, Dr. At a principles, we have worked more than we ever have and our teachers have uh have validated that and their feedback to me as far as working on aligning and being standardsbased and I I believe that that's going to have fruit. Um explicit instruction, working on our instructional model that Dr. atics set into place when he came six years ago and working on that instructional model that corresponds with the state model
054and then working on what we assess. You all have heard all year long about I ready and I ready assessments and we're not only using those assessments but our students and our parents and our teachers know more about how to use those assessments and the amount of uh training that Dr. practicing has brought in and teachers and and and parents uh sorry and principles have engaged in uh has allowed us to be more informed. The second goal was about our atrisisk populations and you've heard about that tonight. So back in August we talked about we have to work on our ML students, our English learner students. We've had to work on systemic intervention structures and you see that with the approval of a curriculum. As Dr. said, "We've been looking at that and working on
055that from September through April." Right now, we're implementing we'll we'll be adopting and then implementing that curriculum and our behavioral and attendance at risk accountability and support. Every school that's come in here has talked about MTSS and how they have continued to work in that regard. One of the best things that I saw in doing our final data this year is that our our discipline data as a district the trend was going down throughout the year. Now again that doesn't mean that we we have more hearings this year. We have more individuals in alternative program. What that tells me is is that we're we're trying to hold people accountable, right? But also the overall trend is on the downward side as you go throughout the year whereas a lot of times it will be on
056the upward right does not mean we're perfect. We bring in 3500 kids every day with 500 adults. So it is a challenge and is a challenge that I appreciate our team accepting. The great thing is we know where we are. Okay. And then finally our district resources. Again, you've heard all year long, you can ask any principal. Uh the the office of academics has been a very good addition as far as providing targeted professional development. We've not only engaged professional development with each other, but we partner with other districts. We've had four different districts in this room with our people learning about math standards and skills over the course of this school year. And this summer we have some teachers who now they're we're we're going down to Calhoun County and partnering with those same
057individuals. So again, partnerships and targeted PB for what is needed. Um program analysis and refinement talked about alternative program, any program we want to continue to analyze and see how it can be better. I just want you to know, I want our public to know that our people work hard to do that. We are uh conducting a program analysis of our alternative program right now in June and looking to see how we can improve it. So again, I I just want to be accountable and communicate the fact that the things that we talked about in August, we have been addressing throughout the year. We have a great team who's been investing. We appreciate your support and I hope that you've seen that throughout the year as our different schools have come in to visit with
058you. Any questions? We have upcoming dates that are on the um agenda with our board meeting on August 10th. Uh we have a uh school law conference in Greenville this time in August and also the COSPA uh federal advocacy conference in Washington DC in September. And again we very much appreciate a dedicated board who is interested in professional growth learning and advocating for the people of Lexon for as well and we appreciate that. It's all I have chair. >> All right Dr. another we thank you so much especially for um the uh review of the system the systemic review um I I know that my mind was racing and I will be reaching out to talk to you more about uh what we saw today or what we heard from you and saw on the
059slides there that being said um we're all done all we need is a motion to adjourn motion to adjurnn >> second all in favor Thank y'all.