001deal with that but oh boy e e e okay I think we're past starting time just to let everybody in the room know last year the uh leg legislature passed a some code that we have to stream all of our board meetings so we are streaming tonight's meeting on YouTube and uh so the audio goes out so just just to let you know and with that I think we'll open the meeting all right here we go um let's go ahead and call the special meeting of the Wayne County Board of Education to order it is 405 and if you'll stand we'll say the Pledge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic which it stands one nation under God indivisible withy and justice for all let the record show
002that all board members are present in person this evening and will begin with our local school Improvement Council presentation from Hell Elementary thank you well first of all I just like to welcome everyone here and uh Mr Samons will actually be the one doing our presentation this evening however what a wonderful lsic I have to bring up my lsic because they have really gotten behind this project they are at every meeting that I ask them to come for they are they are such a strong LSC and it's there's nothing like having your community your par all of your stakeholders present to collaborate to come up with some great ideas to make Kellog the be the best school it can be um I I would be I would feel awful if I did not thank each
003one of our board members for the wonderful support that we had with our Blue Ribbon and Kell I'll give the Blue Ribbon Award winner 2024 winner at the National Blue Ribbon School and we couldn't have done that without your help and your guidance and the things that you provided us to help us along that way and to help us achieve things like a fantastic superintendent the support staff that we can pull from on a daily basis I got off the phone with Nikki Stephanie less than an hour ago my teacher back here in the back we kind of called her on on a you know on a team call um to ask some advice from her so these people that are in place Jes and CX came to our last lsic meeting to explain to
004our LSC some questions that they had and those people help us to be the best schol we can be and so thank you for you all that is an award just as strong for you as it is for us and we're very very proud of that not to mention our teachers and our staff and the people that make C of who they are and so um please share with us in rejoicing that wonderful wonderful opportunity now Mr Sammons our assistant principal of course I'm retiring you all approve that a couple weeks ago Mr Sammons um is here to make this presentation this evening and our school and our staff certainly have the utmost respect for him and what he brings to our school and Community as well he's a wonderful wonderful leader so Mr Sammons
005you ready thank you Our lsic member have the Perry family here the rash family Miss will KN and Tracy bugman is not here with us I think she might be coming late but it's it's a solid committee really Community involved and it's it's the best community involvement I've seen with our lsic since I've been here so we're thankful for them we'll start off talking about our enrollment data of course we've been declining uh several factors of course a part of that the economy obviously um we we don't have a prek here we know we some students starting in other schools at prek from our community and we wanton Bel lator that point we know we do lose some students from that but the community in general has lost population with that being said we are
006a title one school or social and E our low SC is 66% our special ed population is 30% with that being said I think that speaks volumes for this school and Community the success that you'll see in our data that's consistent shows how strong this school is how strong the community is even though we nationally when we see Title One schools in low SCS we expect education not to be strong all the time it's very solid here the staff when they get here stay here if at all possible they don't miss work and you'll see if our tenants that are kids don't miss work again or school again that attests to the family Dynamics and and the staff here that really promotes student engagement and success we'll get into some data now this is star
007we use star in this County not every County does that uh but this is how we gave some things here this is our early literacy data for kindergarten first grade it's not always accurate when you get kindergart kids comeing to school for the first time their reading their literacy proficiency not always accurate you know that evolves so we don't labor too much on the early kindergarten era but as we progress through let's look at more of a second grade through fifth grade numbers this is for reading off our star dat let's look down here our overall Score first our winter Benchmark from the fall with 52% the district's at 39 that's exceptional for a winter bench marking reading and and to break that down even more our fall Benchmark for the school is higher than
008the district's winter B again that's a testament to the staff here support service personnel and teachers um second we had some outliers here that are exceptional too second grade which 29 to 49% from the fall to winter 20% jump and fifth grade here at 55% we're shooting for above 60 for the end of the year and and we're already halfway through the year they're pushing some of these grades are pushing that already those are strong strong numbers some things we do here that are outside of the VI AR I know some grade second grade for example every week they will switch Miss diamond and Miss RWC will alternate kids miss RWC will take some of the Higher Achievement Centers who are flourishing and riding and challenge them more Mr D work kids who were need
009to work on some skills so some things that we don't require here that they're just kind of naturally doing we've also started saxs and faon and I think we will see continued growth of breeding um we started that just a second year so I think after next year when kindergarten first and second grade have all had that we'll really see as we move forward our reading levels go up and math school which are already very strong as you know with math there a lot of reading involved too so sax I think will be a big big component not maybe not even next year but after that we should really start to see the results really improve and this this is more individual data for for individual students second grade you can look from fall to
010winter over 30% all levels improved fourth grade's kind of you know not not exceptional but still some improvement and fifth grade up to 54% let's get into the math there this is where we really really shine I think and uh just look at these numbers those are all from fall to winter went from 46 to 59% count 31% well Above It Again the community Dynamic statistically for the poverty rate of this community shows how solid this the family comp is here and how strong this staff is that statistically shouldn't be anywhere close to that all things being wonderful wonderful School of fire what are we doing here with math well we have interventionist being a TI of one school we have two interventionists we have solid teachers but they work well with our interventionist our
011special ed Department we teach grade level standards to all students without interventionist we would not have the kids qualifying for special ed services at that's very important kids wouldn't get the services they need because we wouldn't have the time or we wouldn't be able to to get them service and test and identified all that process so those ladies work very hard getting those kids the data for testing making sure everything's in order we would these numbers would not be this way if we didn't have that speci like we said data the the riger with special in interventions they teach grade level standards to everybody and that's what really closes the Gap and mentioned in Blue Ribbon School our special web population is always at the top of the state near the top and that's what
012really gets the kids in the middle and the loc special need really the Gap closes here where it does it in other schools look at some this B here 72% I mean that's what we're hoping to get at the end and that and fourth grade reach has reach that that's incredible you know we're pushing for 60% obviously anything over that's extra fifth grade is already at 61% in the win that's very strong very strong we've adopted as a county Carnegie curriculum and our teachers really seem to grasp it I I think the more than that you do it you're grasping me more but I haven't heard you know you hear different curriculums coming every few years here's something else we're doing and that'll go away that's always this is my 17th year you always hear
013that I don't hear that with Carnegie like I have other cul and when I've been in classrooms the amount of detail in these math lessons I can't do it on on in a third grade class I can't do it and fourth grade I was trying to talk to Shannon green one day about something and I kept walking by throughout the day I didn't want to interrupt so I'll come back later I didn't want to interrupt later she was still and I finally loed in and kids and this is consistent in class rooms kids will be group five different groups or whatever and they're talking explaining their math work to each other and they're debating it no that's not right it's incredible to listen to these conversations and the teacher acts as a facilitator and that's
014the way we always hear that it should happen and it really does happen that way here U I heard the other day a guy from caran was here that fifth grade has a standard where they they they break down a base five math system just to understand Math More conely base 10 is what we learn we're base 60 and they're they're learning a base five system so incredible and our and our staff members work well with the Carnegie people they're here a lot Carnegie's here in the building a lot and our teachers do Le PD sessions with with CI and curriculum too so they're involved with it it's not just an outside agency coming in telling us here's how to do it our staff's involved with it too so we want to buy in all
015those I think contribute to our math our math success and here's here's the state Benchmark D so here's what every school in the state takes and is evaluated on third grade here's for reading or Ela so you can see the third grade States at 19% or 29% winter we're at 41 and the district 28 so we're above State and District well by the state third grade ELA math third grade again we're at 36% winter 30% growth the states at 29 the district at 27 well above there we Reading MA in third grade fourth grade reading we want to see some improvement there but we uh you know we still had 13% growth from fall winter in El and we're right there in line with the state in ela and fourth grade math again math it
016always shines here fourth grade 52% winter States at 28% so we're almost doubling the state that's that's incredible and at 33. so statistically things should be against us and we're just shining here fifth grade same thing Ela winner last pitch Market 51% States at 37 C at 40 again when you start off higher you don't percentage growth is not maybe as high but we're starting out quite a bit high so you know starting there the top you can't always grow as much M to in fifth grade blowing it out of water States at 23% the winter we're at 55% double that's that's incredible numbers for Math and the county of 26 our our teachers support staff here are doing their jobs and the communities there in their part this this is a great great school
017science is our weak spot we only test one grade in grade school of science it's you know and it builds upon other grades only evaluated on fifth grade standards we're at 38% District at 35 mistakes at 30 in the winter of course we want to be higher there we do focus on math and reading and we have work to do on science but that has improved we again but we want to see that more our Trend data again when you're at when when you're scoring high two years ago we were 73% in in math 62 in Reading we went down a little bit last year still still good numbers but we want to see see this trend upward again this year we're on track it looks like for it to Trend back upward and that's
018that's that's our our data as far as academics and I directly myself G and Jill may we work with attendance and Miss hon does as well Miss hon became principal uh this has been three years ago I believe when I started here our chronically absent students were 26% last year they were at 18% that's a big drop we want to see that under 20% and Miss sure we're in line with that with 17 18% it's hard to improve a lot more than that of course we have things in place to work on that which always outliers that when I make this slide we were 93.8% average attendance rate that's it's hard to be that we uh we shoot for 93% as as a lofty goal we're above that now we're going to be there at
019the end of the year we should be able to meet that u chonic a is in 17 18% again under 20% solid again the family's here I'm at the parent drop offline in the mornings as talking is parents are dropping their kids off before they go to work when you have a community members who work their kids tend to follow that too so even though we have low social economic status a lot of our parents work they're dropping their kids off the other kids are on the bus so it starts there at home U our teachers don't miss work our staff members don't miss work and when their kids miss work or miss school they put pressure on ask them where wor you and they don't want to miss because we don't have Vis problems
020in classroom because kids are working all the time and they're enjoying so they want to be here with teachers and staff members being here every day they set a good example we also make phone calls home gig calls home every day to kids who are not here um I don't do it as efficiently as she does but the kids missing multiple days need to find out I make those phone calls and we work with the social worker please keep funding those positions it really puts pressure on on parents when their kids need to be here and parents are not doing their far when they're they're asking five days and then 10 days they get letters of unexcused absences and basically it's a wake up call to them so we work well with Misty Lambert at
021Vincent she worked with us too so we we communicate well get these parents wake up get the kids in school something new this year we started here the County's pushing it Terry Queen's pushing it and it's a good idea again I I need to improve with these but we started doing SATs opening SATs student assistant team files for attendance we've not done that till this year so normally you see that when kids need some extra supporting math reading so we doing this for attendance as well so what we're doing we're contacting parents setting up meetings getting them in the building and some of those don't come in allot of them are phone calls we still have those meetings here's some information some literature for you to help you get your kid to school here's statistics
022kid misses here's how far they fall behind so it kind of wait some of these people up but it's a step in the right direction students who already have set files open Frack reason we go that attendance goal we do nine week celebrations for perfect attendance some of that's extra play time it's a movie day whatever the case may be I don't know that it's an incentive for kids to go because a lot of these kids want to be here anyway but they should be rewarded even if it's not an incentive they need to be appreciated for being here so we do those things and something new I don't think we did this last year Jill May was here schools they started weekly drawings for perfect attendance through March some of the classroom teachers are
023doing their own thing on top of that too so uh trying to get kids here especially as we're getting near test time in the year we need to make sure they're here course we've missed a lot of school so they need to be in the classroom as much as possible we're doing a lot with attendance interventions and our attendance rates at 94% it's realistically near impossible to be trying that's very Josh how have9 [Music] 3K up here 334 334 official 334 offici 334 our discipline has improved here this before I was here I don't know what what it was I know it's improved in the numbers we've calculated past three years other schools this this might look worse than other schools but we document a lot here in week this is official data not all
024elementaries do this I know them and it's not wrong not to do it or to do it just it helps me I know I was at the high school if you see a kid getting in trouble it's nice to refer back similar things happen in grade school and sometimes it was so this is official state that had a whole lot of B this year these are total incidents so 39 incidents detention three inci suspensions that's a little higher than we want to be three of those happened in one week two weeks ago so until then we didn't have much and Jamie RS special here last year March problem March Madness never march it really does and it get large person been cooped up inside for the winter and they just and all these were very
025we contact parents frequently that's the best way to Cur behaviors especially when they're young and you can do more with kids when they're young parents are almost always supportive some don't believe their kids would do anything wrong but that's R most people are very supportive and so we have wonderful parents here again relationship building is is key for us and I love working with the parents here things you've done for us in recent years of course two years ago you gave us flooring throughout the building BL carpet thank you so much for that this this year you you paid to paint our gymnasium outside and inside desperately needed gravel on the playground we had terrible drainer and SP about that M times guys water would just stand on there and it could be sunny for
026three days and kids couldn't play on the playr because of water it's awful now there's 9 in of gravel there no standing water ever and it's just wonderful kids can play their off um and I think it has contributed to less contributed to less accidents kids getting hurt because it's so deep they can't run full speed and not see their buddy coming and hit their head so we're rarely having incidents out there like we did before so thank you so much for that and it looks nice it's just B Blue Ribbon School for all the reasons we talked about you have paid for our banners the one out front and paid for the one parent drop off you can't see that without driving around but it's hanging out fence and you also paid Miss hon
027H go he in the car McCoy and so that's a lovely celebration in Washington DC for that thank you so much for what you've done for us and you've always been very accommodating and we know that money's not what it used to be we understand those things but we still ask for things but here here are this is what is in here's what we we have we had funding funding for this soov according to my cour spoke to him few weeks ago it's been a big concern for us out front we don't have schools on designation very dangerous don't notice that's a school don't so we need flashing lights out my told me assured me that that has already been purchased I don't know who who we contract to or whatever it's just a matter
028of them putting them in play installing them so all we're asking for is just somebody can follow up with that I follow up with my to we certainly don't want that not in place next school year when we've already you got to feel needed especially since they've got enough to Marshal when they those kids are the adults yeah yeah get your when you see those defitely need that and it's already been paid for what I've been told we just help follow up with that we appreciate that make sure we get water bottle station Miss hon contact Matt Stanley and uh we are to get one of these installed it's already in the works we have it in the warehouse apparently Noah Thompson no yeah came down and measured for it probably two weeks ago maybe
029three and we don't know what's Happ so please follow up apparently it's it's here we just need to get it put in there it's already paid for so please do do what you can for us there so thank you so much for what you've given to us we really appreciate it and we hate to ask but we will I know we brought this up I know we brought this up in multiple years and Jason Cox did come out and meet with the lsic and I know there's red tape and and I don't understand all of it we do have room here our rooms are adequate sizes for preschool rooms uh of course we'll have have to do something with a playground and those things but we lose kids without question specifically the CK we know
030we do and and in other places I'm sure too we've lost Staffing this year and really when we lose Staffing our class size when we lose kids our class sizes actually go up because we lose staff if we get because we're right on the border of needing that having to have that active teacher so when we lose kids our class SI go up if we can retain some of these kids you know we're going to reduce class sizes and if they're just going to CK there's still a teacher down there in County so we're not really maybe not necessarily increasing the budget we're just keeping a teacher here instead another iny if in those situations but U we desperately need that and I know you I know you're concerned about it we need it and
031would anybody here want to speak on on that you're welcome to C parents you're welcome to well I'm happy to speak on that beh I mean this is a wonderful school but my girls went to this school the teachers are excellent it is documented that if you have a fre Skol p in an actual School the students actually do better when they go kindergarten through good grade especially going in kindergarten if it's in a like I'm not opposed to where it is but if it's in a building that is not the actual school that they are going to then they have to transition from that building to a school building and that makes their kindergarden year actually more difficult because if they were in the actual School building that they were going to go to
032then they transition better and um the gentleman that came and presented to us last time he even backed that up in the statistics and and then he had some good points that even if it is in the school the preschool teacher can have lunches in their classroom and different things in the rooms first and as a year goes on progress and integrate let them learn about the cafeteria and the school rules and stuff it just goes better I do think it' be better for our teachers um we are losing good teachers here at we are losing great stack and I feel like if we had a prek in this room then our numbers would be up and I'm not opposed to CK and then having preschool work progam but I feel like this school deserves
033one too and it has room and there are bathrooms we learned some of the things we had to have we have we really meet most of the requirements the playground is an issue but if you're not paying out money for another building you could perhaps we could have some money to update that playground so that we could have that on I just really it's a really valuable thing that this I agree we're all agreed with that yeah thank you preach to kindergarten how how much further along those those kids will be that the kindergarten teachers won't have tojust students would be dedicated to learning instead of procedures and where this is where that is I mean that's a huge show start and as a parent you definitely want to send your students to the same
034place they were at prek so you know that I think that does cause some of the enrollment issues because if they went to preschool down the road then why am I going to move my kid back down here for kindergarten even though they're just equally wonderful schools they've already established their yeah and so that's obviously our primary gok here a safety issue and a convenience issue and I'll get to that too we I literally have that many keys so if we have an emergency we know this was a case I believe it was Evol a shooting the emergency responders showed up and couldn't get where they needed to because the custodian didn't have a proper key because had keys so they they couldn't get where they needed to be I'm afraid we would run into
035that you know is it expensive on the front end yes but if we had a master KY get into these classrooms one or two keys versus 15 it's certainly safer we know it's safer but from a convenience standpoint our special a teachers often times they are going to classroom to get kids out of rooms and having interrup class knocking on the doors speech speech intervention so there's there's and me so me interventionist special there's four times the class by knock because they don't have key to all these rooms so it's it's interrupting learning and certainly foremost it's a safety issue but it's certainly it is inconvenient inter learning please consider helping us change locks out here and getting a master master key for somebody said one of the schools they work at worked at it
036literally was brought up that teachers were complaining because other staff members were stealing your food I don't think we have I said be funny but I couldn't believe it that was actually had to be brought up in FA and Ry rash brought this up and as much as we stood out the rain I thought about so and and the price is very I know we would have I think I'd have to get three quotes to make this legal but the canopy on the drop out this is something we never asked for I said Robby rash brought up but on the parent drop off pick up for kids in the morning and dropped off picked up in inent weather we stepping right out in the weather they do fall sometimes even though we try to keep
037it dry inside they're still slide when they get in the door U some you know kids are running trying to get so you know is a safety thing by being wet think if we had this is not exactly what it look like it's just an example it be an awning canopy where the kids and the staff could stand under parents pull right up let the kids out them dry dry into the can and it be so much nicer and safer cleaner so something we want to look at moving forward is is for that to happen C here now this material here I'm looking at there are other ways of getting around that expense I mean you locally West Virginia steel and other places have material that we wouldn't have to necessarily go through a company
038for that and if maintenance could help with that the expense wouldn't be what these companies what I know would happen next I think we got toot $21,000 I think it was I've got in my office um for a to buy this from a company but that's the material is not that expensive Char but you know any help you could give us perhaps or be match fund if you could help us out but it would be very nice for kids and staff to have that so that's the only extra additional thing we're asking for that we haven't you've given us so much certainly since I've been here you've given us almost anything we want thank you so and we need it the flooring especially has been excellent that old carpet and out there in the paint
039you just been wonderful so thank you so much well I don't know that if they're aware that we use our leadership team in the morning so it's not just the kids coming in out of the car because that would be quick the leader ship team has to stand out there for 25 minutes so the canopy isn't for the quick movements only for the quicks it's for the the kids and that leadership team is a great learning tool it's great learning tool four fifth grade students open the car door so they're out there in the weather they but miss rash did go up to w wow what a nice she took our kids up there and wsa gave us nice great big golf so we don't have them out there in the driving room but the
040AI would be very this is after our Blue Ribbon recognition we most kids you can see are wearing blue shirts or something that's blue so we Tred to make a rib as possible so thank you for what you've done for us questions concerns for us how many how many in the room are using the Carnegie curriculum hello every better be up definitely different but I'm tell you it's it's exciting to see it really it's exciting to see how the approach is different how the kids conceive it different how they understand it better my favorite part is the support that Carnegie got I'm sure we're paying for a support person I'm very thankful because he has been here I'm like I'm G get very great support and helpful and how to implement everything and like overall
041my students love ma they the hands on apprach you know having that to look at things even approaching like in third grade this is the first time in 26 years that program that we're using has incorporated teaching fractions with the ruler and the clock the very first time that I have ever seen it in ever now granted you know we always did that but actually to have a curriculum that integrates teaching fractions introducing fractions on a number line but using a rer what better I mean like what better sense is that you know conversions the things that I've been seeing just this week those higher level thinking skills um it's it's amazing it really is and the support has been wonderful I'm G point out Amy D she's don't don't let this woman attack me
042but she has the highest fifth grade math scores in the county and to watch her teach um and of course Miss ler is fantastic too she's our math Cadre um Shannon Green's also on math codre we have too but Amy DS um to watch her teach this and get those kids to those higher level thinking skills that explain component that comes out with that where and you know we've all learned as teachers that there's nothing quite like having to explain it to someone else if you really want to learn learn social studies get up and teach it because you're going to learn it real real well to be able to explain it to a to another group of people and to watch these kids do that is remarkable and that's coming um you know three
043four and five I think we're a little bit more gho at first than K1 and two but K1 and two are really coming along um for Mrs SM one of my first grade teachers I went in and did was a first walkthrough I did of the year and she came up to me that evening and she said you did a walkth through that was my very first Carnegie laston you did a walk through and I said well I wasn't going to do a walkth through but I saw what you were doing and I had to I mean I had to do a walk through um because it was that higher level thinking skills and kids were doing things that they'd never done before they were creating a cph flipping a little coin or a little
044thing that had red on one side yellow on the other side then they were wrapping out their Pro first day at first grade math I mean that's not something that we're used to but wow what a difference what about days a week and she she came to me after s in the first day and she said I know how multiply divide fractions but I have never understood it until day she said I truly get it and then the next day she came back she said I told my teachers and you need to give Miss ler a mathbook because I think she could teach If She Could Teach the way she does with her kids then everybody would be able to do all this stuff because she teaches it to where you understand well I'm doing
045party I'm teaching party I'm doing the concrete the C I'm hands on for explaining we're doing all those things and and and I'm I'm not doing anything any differently than anybody else in the building because I'm following that which I wholeheartedly believe in but she was like I just want toass she like I know how she was so excited that young lady was so to understand I never understood decided to do it but I didn't know and she was she was and that's one of the future Educators that's from Miss Terry Don Tanner's class that you know and they are in our classrooms we have six of them six seniors right now doing internships with our teachers and U they were so excited she was so EXC she came down and told me the same
046thing and you know just so excited and it is it is working I think that the Carnegie that higher level thinking skill anytime you start a your curriculum you don't have the background that maybe you need to be as successful as we will be in the future but this was our first year you have to start somewhere and um they have to go back sometimes and retach some skills that maybe will come with those kids as we go up through this system but we're just really excited we're excited for the growth we're excited to see how our final test scores are I'm expecting we have anybody first or second grade in here are you hearing anything about how the eats are working out I think that as far as from what I'm I'm down in
047that little hallway but they're really grateful for them and help them out with lessons and especially with the Carnegie every three days there's a re-engage day and so I know that they're using them to help the an extra station for teachers as a parent a first grader andth grader here and as a parent of first grade and fifth grade gr have an ecat with especially with the class sizes because we are you know losing kids reducing teachers higher class sizes I think the ecat is very important because that child gets or those small groups get a little bit more individual instruction rather than that teacher trying to teach a bunch of six and seven 25 six and seven year old something they can break it down and some of those children who need more individual
048or small group work that facilitates that so as a parent I'm thankful for them the ecast work are in all of our class our k1s twos they have centers and so you've got and they're usually group I always call likeminded Learners um so you'll have a group of students that are likeminded they have this you know same skill sets let's say and so with an ecat you have two that have direct instruction one will be on a computer and the other one will have some it's um today I was watching them and they were forming words with with letter tiles and they had a list of words you know they had all these letter tiles and they were going through there picking out their letter tiles sometimes they'll be doing um I think of Mrs
049Webster's class and they have this little fishing game where they will pick a it's like on a fishing hole they pick this word up and then they read the word and turn it around to their friend so they've got an activity like that but you still have two tables going with that Direct instruction from either the ecat or the teacher um it's a work of art and those are the things that kind of contribute to these test scores that's that's where we are with that the other thing that I had to say about these fine people that I've had the privilege of working with for almost the last 10 years is when you say Bell to bell bell to Bell it's Bell to Bell I called the other day at um 231 was my timeline
050and I thought well I should be a good this teacher now I talk to you know I'm sure kids are out in the hallway getting ready and I called student answer the phone and the most of them have a student answer the phone because they're instructing or they're working and I could hear that teacher teaching in the background and I said they said oh it's Miss hon miss m miss m Miss hon and I heard her say tell her to hold on she it all she had and so they said can you hold on not short you know so they do go Bell to B they it's a phenomenal place to work our Happy Days Mr Sammons and I sometimes we get loed down Po in the office different things have to go to meetings
051get to go to meetings I mean just and our happy days are when we are in these classrooms because then you feel the success and then you see these people work that are Masters at their trade and to get in there and watch them it just fills you with so much joy and I really don't have a whole lot to do with what they're doing they were Masters before I got here and they will be Masters long after I leave but to watch them do their work is just it's so uplifting so I invite all of you to come anytime any day doesn't matter if it's Friday Monday Tuesday any day in between and come in and watch these people work and you you too will be filled with this sense of wow what I'm
052doing is really making a difference because they uh it's wonderful that's probably going to be my biggest regret when I do retire is not watching them work on a daily basis as they are fun anyway that's it um questions concerns for us do you all want to see anything do you want to walk around and see our building you want have questions I just I'll make another comment and um Josh went through the the data the data is very impressive um the percent proficiency that you're turning in on those State benchmarks you got to remember when you look at those State benchmarks districts aren't required to do those benchmarks so when you see the state average what we found is that the top performing school districts in the state are the ones that take those
053steps so when you're coming in above State average and you guys are not only coming in above State average you're coming in significantly above State average when you're when you're doing that it it is something special and as we go through the data of all the schools there's there's some real there's some bright spots that that um appear and this is one of those spots that's why that National Blue Ribbon award came so it's just tremendous what you're doing it's it is one of the best elementary schools in the state there's no doubt about that they are just and that again because it's two it's not it's the teachers the community um you're all support um the level above us and administration support that comes in and really pitches in to help us and gives
054us guidance when I had shared earlier in the year and you'll have to remind me what the number was but we had looked at the uh the uh achievement results for the special ed population here and it came in I'm want to say eight was it higher than that or was it eight I thought it was a little higher than that I thought it was six but maybe it's eight we'll take eight so looking at some national websites that break down the individual states catalog special ed population I know was in the top 10 in the in the state of West virgia and again that is that collaborative e eort from the teachers and our special Educators and our special Educators I I have to go back to Mr Jeff coming into Amanda's room back
055here Amanda Leer's room and he said you know who were those kids that came in and we said oh those are her students that they came you know they were coming from Mr Rick's classroom came in sat down and she was you know going on with the lesson and they were right there and discussion raising their hand and he said to me how do they know they haven't been here for this how do they know that answer I said because they were getting that same scenario in a small group maybe broke it down a little bit more down the hallway in Mr Rick's classroom and came back in and were able to pick out in the exact spot that she was so that collaborative effort between our special Educators our interventionist is phenomenal I mean
056they are working so diligently on closing gaps um and I look at Miss talken back there she takes the students in third fourth and fifth that have those those learning gaps or are missing something and fills in those edges and brings them along and U gets you know it's just it's a beautiful piece of art to watch them work in a day so I I do invite you all to come please be uplifted like we are it is it's so rewarding to see them do their thing I think what you do is obviously it's working and it's a piece that we've been missing all over the county you know and other other schools where we haven't made that collaboration yet but obviously you figured it out it's working it's working it works and we are
057a family and and that's something that um I that was my big thing I stole that from Gary Atkins back when I got started and he called us the talk TS family back when I Ser first started 30 years ago in this County and uh he called us a Tulsa family so when I came here and I thought I get M school I still that off this we're goingon to be the Kellog family and we are the Kellog family and just like all families at times we say can you believe she did that but overall the love is there the respect is there the admiration is there and we work together as a family for the betterment of our children and so I think that's thank you we do we do have one item of
058business that we need to take care of and then our original agenda called for a recess and and but we postponed Vincent middle schools lsic so we can move down the new business number one consider for approval purchase position ex5000 that's one we pull the other night yeah this is a replacement computers at Serita Canova Elementary School um they're computers in the building just have outlived their life of course we do those on a rotation basis so that's a replacement there and then uh the other po the $16,000 PO is the replacement of a um intercom speaker system at a school that is broken any other questions or concerns all in favor any opposed motion carries five uh I don't have to double check it's been a couple weeks since it's told I can't remember
059well we have two basketball champions state champions in the county I know that's not a report but it's good news yeah it's good news in case nobody's former Timber a former Wayne so do [Laughter] I the uh we had our architects in the district today um I had told you that we want to look at some safe schools entrances for a for a grant major Improvement Pro project so we made a visit to Spring Valley vinon here at Kellogg and Tulsa high school today to look at uh putting together a proposal for a grant for safe School entrances at those locations that's all I have vinent Kellogg Spring Valley and tulson right motion toour need a second second all in favor any opposed carries Z thank you to those that joined us online you went
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