001Okay. Yep. Okay. We'll go ahead and do a pledge of allegiance at the second meeting at 6:00 and initiate statement. Don't give anybody in attendance. Have a work session tonight with Mr. Swander. We have a section for public comments. Mr. Swander is going to have all the time. >> Great. Right in. Okay. So gave me our packet. Wanted to start out just first discussing the different credits that we do offer at Heights. Um so at the top you can see the different academic courses that we do offer. So the English is pre-cal, biology, world history, US history, psychology. So those are the academic courses that we do have and you can see the number of credits the students are earning. Um and then below that we do offer a lot of the career and technical
002education courses. So um those top few courses are TV classes. Then you get into our education professions, TV classes with Miss Shepard, then the education professions. Um that's Miss Schaefer. And then tons of different ACT classes between Mr. Null, um Mr. Lou, and Mrs. Tracy. And then um towards the bottom you get to the different culinary classes that are offered and the credits that the students are earning. So and that's with Mrs. Perkins. So if you look at the top I think we offer 32 if I counted right 32 of the academic electives and 63 um you know different CTE credits that students can get. So that's total of I think 95 total. So that's the first page of your handout. questions with any of the build credits offered. So, my thought is 95 pretty
003impressive. I mean, we have staff that stepping up and give credentials. So, um second part, impact. So, if you want to know like all the different um programs that our students can go to impact and be involved in and the type credits they get there. So um you got auto body collision repair um first and second year so they can start as a junior and finish off as a senior. You got your automotive tech or service technology. So that's a two-year program construction trades which is two years. Uh the cosmetology two years criminal justice which is just a year and then the electrical plumbing HVAC which that one's becoming recently really popular but that's a two-year program. And then interactive media, uh, two-year program. Precision machining is a two-year program. And then primary health is
004a one-year program. And again, you can see taking those courses, how many different uh, college credits that the students are getting when they take those programs. Marine Tech and Smart Technologies. That's also two different programs at Impact. And right now, they just take those for high school credit. impact doesn't have the dual credits that go with those. So again, a lot of different CTE pathways that the students can go through. Any questions with those? Okay, the next one, um, fire and rescue. That's a newer one that started a couple years ago. Um that one's actually located over at uh Angola, but that's for the student county schools. So Fremont, Cray Heights, uh some Hamilton students um and Angola students. So um that's a program that's started up different dual credits they can get there. And
005then the learn to work program is a new one that's being created. Um that's for the Lrange County Schools, but that one's not started up yet. That's hopefully next year. But uh that one's an electrical maintenance. >> How many students do you have participating in that fire and rescue? >> Last year there was three. This year I believe there's two. The year prior to that I think there was two. So three was the most which was last year. >> That's true impact. >> It's not impact. did something that um I think it was Benny I can't remember his last name but he kind of started up over in the area and then he invited us to Ben County schools. >> All right. Um this next page um that's Cray Heights High School Indiana College Court
006or SNAP. So, something new that they started, it's been I think it went in the legislation this past school year, but every school has to offer what they call an Indiana College Core. Um, and what that means is if students earn like 30 specific credits, they can take those 30 specific credits and they can take them to any public institution, college institution in Indiana. So you can't take it to a private, but if I get these 30 specific credits, Indiana's got accepted, Purdue, PFW, all those different colleges have to accept those 30 credits. Um, this is something new. So everybody has to these public institutions have to abide by it. Whereas in the past, it used to be I could take some college credits through like TR or IU or PFW and then let's say
007I took different credits through these different universities, IvyTech. If I decide to go, let's say, to Purdue University, Purdue would say, "Well, I'm gonna accept this one because it matches us, but this one doesn't closely match, so I'm not accepting." And they could kind of pick and choose. So, if you earned 25 credits, they might only take 12, you know, to that specific institution. But now, they all came together and if students meet certain guidelines, then they can take these 30 anywhere. Does that make sense? And so those 30 even if they go to IvyTech and then transfer to Purdue, they still can transfer one for one. >> Say that again. >> So like if if they if they have these and they start at IvyTech for some reason, but then they transfer to Purdue
008from IvyTech, Purdue will >> Well, these are okay. These are all credits that they receive at the high school level, right? These 30. So, they got to be accepted through I don't know if IvyTech if there's any courses that you could take through the college transfer there. I know trying like you can take some through trying which Tryan's not a public institution but >> and I'll get to some just a minute the other part of it but >> well let me say this and maybe it'll make sense. I'm not sure if I quite >> so if you look at we have to be credentialed through a certain university and the university we went through is Indiana University of South and the reason we went through them is because of those 30 credits half of them
009have to be with a certain college. So I could say we are going to go 15 through um Indiana University or 15 if we decided to partner with Purdue. you would have to at least get half of them through the specific university that you're partnering with. If you notice like on the sheet, we have a lot of trying, but try's private. So, you can't Try's not a partner. It's got to be a public institution. So, we had a partner through uh Indiana University because we offer a lot of courses through Indiana University. Um, so if you look in the first one, okay, you have to have it says written communication, you have to earn three credits in that category. So where our students receive those is Mr. Schmidt. He teaches English 143 through trying. So
010that gives them three of the possible three that they have to have. Um the speaking and listening. A lot of our students go to try. None of our teachers teach this course. Um so they either go to try and take it. It's an online course. Or Indiana University also offers it through the ACP. So those are the two options for our students, but they have to take one of those to meet the written communication like part of I'm sorry, the speaking listening part of it. So the three in the first category, three in the second category, now they're up to six credits. And then if you look at the quantitative reasoning, students can earn anywhere between three and 10 credits there, but they have to at least earn three in that category. So right now
011we have uh Mrs. Smith who teaches the IU um ACP courses and the students get math 125 to 126. So our students are getting six credits in that category and again you have to get anywhere between 3 to 10. So the scientific ways of knowing Mrs. Bi teaches those two history classes and again that's through IU. So there's six more credits um students can get there and again you at least have to have six in this category. Um our students do have the opportunity because we do offer um psychology and that's with Mrs. Hamill. Um and that one's more of a hybrid class where she teaches but then they do an online portion too through trying. Um and then the human humanistic ways of knowing 3 to 12 credits there. Uh we currently have Miss
012Con where the students get three credits in their English 11 class and then also in world history they can also get six credits through Miss Biology. But if you count up all the red, that's all our Indiana credits. They got to at least get 15 credits in red somewhere because that's our partnering institution. And Jesine, I'm not sure that's answering your question or >> um what with the comment you had made about the transfer that they have to acknowledge them, which is great, right? Because they could do the pick and choose before. My question was though, is let's say that student leaves here with their 15 or 30 credits and they start at IvyTech or let's not say IvyTech, let's say IU and then they transfer to Purdue. Are they still viewed at that transfer
013as one for one? Because sometimes that's when the problem happens when they start somewhere and then transfer. >> I would say as long as they met the Prairie Heights guidelines with this partner institution, >> my guess would be yes, they could start like I go to IU first. IU has to take those credits, right? If I do transfer to Purdue, >> I would say they would still have to take those because they met the guidelines back in >> they would be tagged as that. Okay. >> Thanks. >> What else would I say about that? The the only hiccup here is let's say you do have a senior, they have 29 of the credits, they're one short before they enroll at a college, they've got to finish up that last credit or else it's back to
014the pick and choose thing. You have to have that 30 before you enroll. >> Before enrolling. Yes. Okay. >> So, you haven't had that happen yet? >> We haven't had it. And this is new. So, um I think we're going to have quite a few students that are seniors this year that'll actually uh you know make this what a lot of them are doing. We just had a meeting a couple weeks ago because they have to get enrolled in that speaking class since we don't offer it here. So, some of them again are enrolling through trying and they get a discounted rate going through trying and then some of them are going through the IUS side of it. We've never done the IU speaking one before but that one's actually a free course. We have
015them up but >> and that's all online. >> That was all online. Both of them are actually online. So ideally, >> okay, so if they're only 29 credits, they can do another one online. >> They could do it as long they have to fit within the category. So let's say I only received, for some reason, I'm just making this up, like two credits in the humanistic ways of knowing, then you still have to get one more credit in that category. And so Ivy South had to go through since we offered a lot of these through trying, they actually had to go through and say, "Yes, this will count since they have different numbers and everything else." So the partnering institution they do have to go through if it's not through IU they got to go
016through and get with try and say yes this will match the college core. >> So they're basically approving what we're taking from TR. >> Yes. Yes. and our partnering institution has to make that decision because it took us a while to get we wanted these two on there the world civilization and originally they said it wouldn't meet like the requirements that IU had but uh it was well let us see the syllabus and then finally we just said how about you talk to the instructor because that was the easiest and she covered everything that they wanted was like okay so then they did accept it but a lot of it has to go through the department chair so they had to get the world history department chair through Indiana University Southbend to get on the
017phone call. And that was that was the task. But it would be nice eventually if we could get somebody that could offer this public speaking communication class. And we'll get into that in just a minute because that's a new requirement for all of our new uh graduates starting with the freshman class. They also take communications class. What does it take to become certified to be to teach these classes? >> Um, you have to have a master's in something and then 18 additional credits in the specific uh like if you want to teach English, I can have a masters in education, take 18 specific master's credits and then you can teach it. >> Yeah. So, the nice thing about the reason we partner with the ACP and IU is we've had a lot of uh teachers
018that have not had a masters and the ACP program is if you go through IU, they will actually give it to you free. You go to Bloomington, I think it's once a year every summer and then you meet with them a couple times throughout the year and they'll pay for your classes. So, we have teachers that are taking classes the same time as they're master. So, yeah. So, any questions with the college? All right, the next one, the new diplomas. Okay. So, prior to the new diplomas, our current sophomores, juniors, and seniors, they have to meet like all the old requirements, which is the typical core 40 diploma, have 40 specific credits. Um, the 40 specific credits were in certain areas. Um, our freshman class this year now have to meet these brand new guidelines.
019So, prior quarting, you could get an academic honors, you could get a technical honors. Um, now the new requirements are you can get a diploma and they don't call it core 40 anymore. There's 42 credits. So the first thing we're going to talk about is the basic what we would want to say is kind of like a general diploma which wouldn't necessarily get you into college. This is just the base what they want you to do. But instead of an academic honors when you look at your next page instead of calling it academic honors now on your different diplomas you can get these different seals to put on your diploma. So you can get like an enrollment seal, an employment seal, an enlistment seal, and go over those in just a minute. But besides each
020one of these seals, so I could actually get if I work a lot, I could get an employment seal. Plus, if I'm an honor student, I can get an enrollment seal. So I can get like two different seals on my specific diploma. If I decided to do all that and then enlist in the army while I go to college and everything else, I could get a third seal. So you could get three seals. Plus, if I did a lot more stuff, I could instead of earning an honor seal, I could also get a honors plus seal, which is just one step better than a honor seal. And the same thing if I work a lot, well, if I learn a lot more and get certain certifications besides getting an employment seal, I can get an
021employment plus seal and so on. So, starting with every student, we want to at least get their 42 credits. So when you look at that first sheet, um again this is just with all our current freshmen, they need to get eight English credits and two of their credits has to be in English nine. Okay, one credit, which this is brand new, has to be a communication class. And right now that's to get credential and communication. We've been working on that for a couple years now, but there's specific things to get the communication um credential. And my guess is most of it's through the English teacher. But in the next few years, because our thoughts as a staff where we would offer that their junior or senior year um and they do have a dual credit
022class, so ideally it' be to get a lot of kids to get that through dual credit. Um so that's three of their credits. Then they need five other English credits. So, we could say if we wanted to keep with the typical terminology, we could say they take English 10, English 11. Let's say their senior year, we could do like a different type of English 12 class plus their communication class, which would give them all eight of their credits, if that makes sense. There there's a lot of information here. Um, one of the things that the state did was you could actually submit different courses that you think provide that communication based and then they have to come back and accept it and say yes, we will count that as a communication elective. Um, one of
023the things that we pushed, our staff talked about it, it was last year, um, because there was a job form where you could send what you think and one of the things that we submitted was Karen Reed, her theater class. I mean, they're on the stage, they're performing, you know, the communication, they want the speech aspect. So, that's one that's in kind of like a deciding part like they haven't said yes to. Um, but that's one that they're still making a decision on. Uh, one class that will count for the communication is uh, Carmen Shepard. She teaches the TV class, but it's not year one. I think it's actually year two that'll count for that. So, students would have to specifically take the first year of TV, second year of TV, and that TV class.
024I think it's the audio video one um, will count as a communication. So there's different avenues they could get that one credit, but ideally it'd be nice just to have a speech teacher, dual credit speech that could teach that for a semester and get those students that credit. Any questions with English? Okay, math credits. Um, prior core 40, they needed to take algebra, geometry, algebra 2 to get their core 40 diploma. Um, again, this is just a base general diploma. Now, to get their base general diploma, all they need is two credits in algebra. Okay, they have to take, and this is new, every student has to take a credit in personal finance. So, that's three of their credits. Um, and then the other four where it says additional math credits, they could decide if
025I'm not a geometry kid, I don't have to take geometry, I could take algebra 2, go from algebra 1, algebra 2, and then take like pre-cal. So, they have options. or if we did offer at some point like a business math for some of the lower level kids that just need some business side of things, they could take, you know, two credits in business math and maybe two credits in geometry. So, it's kind of deciding I I would say if you're on the college track, you're going to want to still take your geometry, your algebra 2, your pre-calc to keep along there. But, so seven credits, there's now options instead of just must take this, must take this, must take this. But one of them have to be personal finance. Yeah. I will say we
026did try with because the personal finance thing they put that in place last year. So all of our current sophomores as freshman last year we made because we thought take a personal finance freshman year. That wasn't good. It didn't go well. The students were not ready for the personal finance of freshman year. So as a staff we discussed that and we thought ideally once they get to their junior senior year have them take the personal finance. So, and one of the things when you get down to the social studies, they used to have to take an econ class. They no longer have to take an econ class. So, maybe the personal finance is kind of what took over the econ side of things. Okay. So, science science before they needed to take biology, they needed
027to take chemistry, and then they had to take some other science class. Um, now it's a little bit different. They still have to take two credits in biology. That's required. a new required class that they all have to take is computer science class. So that's a third credit and we decided right now we have all our freshmen taking that class and they're doing fairly well on it. Um but besides that then they need to take four other credits. So it says they must take two additional science credits. So they can either take like a bio2, a chemistry, an ICP, a physics. So they have to take a class of that but then they have to take two STEM focus credits. So two STEM focused means they could take any other science class. So if they
028did want to, they could still take biology, chemistry, bio2 because that's still a science class. They could actually take another math class if they want to go stick with the math side of things. So that can count as the two-step focus credits, but they did come up with a huge list of other classes that would count. Um, this is kind of nice since we offer so many AD classes. They could take an animal science class, which meets the STEM. They can take advanced animal science. They can take landscape management. Um they can take a structure fabrication design, natural resource management. So there's a lot of ad classes that would meet that additional two credits in the STEM area. Any question about science credits? Okay. Social studies. Um, in the past they had to take US
029history, they had to take government, they had to take econ, they got rid of the econ. So now they just need two history. They still have to take their government and their two other credits, they have to take some sort of social studies class. So you've got there it says geography, history of the world. Um, but one of the things that they included in this social studies category if they don't take geography, if they don't take like history of the world, they actually included world languages there. So, it's got to be an upper level. So, it can't be like Spanish one or Spanish 2, but it could be a Spanish 3 could count as that world perspective. Or, uh, we offer ASL, so American Sign Language 3 could count to meet those extra two credits
030for that social studies category. Okay. PE health um used to have to have two physical education courses or credits. Now they only need one. So one PE credit and it used to be it had to be like a certain code physical education that had these specific things. They loosen that up where you know we offer a weights class. The weights class can now count as a PE credit. So, there's different things now that can count towards the PE credit besides the typical take a PE class, you must do this unit, this unit, this unit. There's some options now. Um, and they still have to take their 1L credit. So, >> does uh on your PE a couple years ago, they did, you know, athletes that come in, you know, workouts, they were able to >>
031bypass. >> Yes. And and that's a school decision and we started that a few years ago. Like if you're involved in some sort of extracurricular football, basketball, cheer, like all those type things, that'll still count as a >> That's still okay. >> That'll still count. Yes. >> So we have a lot of students Yeah. that need that credit never have to take a >> It opens them up. They can fill, you know, there's other options then. Yeah. >> Yeah. So a few years ago, I had a student tell me that he takes a PE class online. would have been so >> they can still they can still take and it's because >> we have offered uh Apex which is online and then >> adminum that's also online and they are credentialed through the state so
032>> it's a computerized PE class and what they have to do is they have to keep records of different physical activity they did we have once most kids don't go that route but yeah we do have some um you know what is amazing though students right now with this PE and now they can either pick a regular PE class where they play basketball or learn volleyball that kind of stuff versus the weights our weights numbers have blown up there's a lot of kids that take those courses so um and then the personalized electives then they need to take 12 credits it says they're encouraged to utilize new readiness seals to align personalized electives So from there, the other 12 credits, like if I wanted to and I'm really interested in welding, I'd probably take Ron's
033program and gear it towards that. Or if I'm going to go to college, my 12 extra credits are probably going to be more of I would probably take psychology dual credit, things like that that will help me um when I do go to college, I don't have to retake those general electives. So just depending on what your plans are, just 12 credits gearing you towards some sort of path. whether culinary, I'd probably gear mine towards the culinary kind of. And then again, we talked about all the dual credits over at uh Impact. So that's kind of what those 12 personalized ones are. And then they did bring back um because we used to have it as a local requirement and then we got rid of it. A lot of schools got rid of it. Now
034it's back. Every student must take a college class. So we also need that a freshman class this year. So that computer science and the college and careers are freshman classes. >> But it says you can offer it in middle school >> and you can we can offer different courses in middle school also. You could offer preparing for college and careers. You could offer the computer science. We could actually maybe at some point offer principles of a we already offer algebra in middle school. So yeah, there are different classes that you could offer a middle school >> to meet these requirements. >> But that personal finance that you are offering now, you're talking about moving that to their junior senior year, not keeping it as a freshman. That's what I heard. Right. >> Yeah. So all
035our freshmen this year are not taking it last year. So all of our sophomores when they were freshman, we're like, "Oh, take the personal finance." And the teacher was like after teachers like, "Yeah, they're nowhere prepared for this." So we switched it up. And now our current freshman is like, "Nope, we've got time. We're going to probably put it to junior senior year. >> Yeah. >> And then I think one of the questions about the econ because they took it off. I think a lot of colleges what I heard I don't know but they want students to have an econ class. So >> I hate to see that. >> So again this is the base general diploma. This is where students just get their diploma, but then and I think we're going to talk about
036this at another work session, but in order to meet all the accountability stuff that's coming down the lines in order for them to get specific maximum points, they at least have to get a seal on their diploma to get the some maximum points for accountability purposes. So yeah, our goal is to get everybody to get the general, but then our next goal is we want every single student to get a seal on their for >> and one seal will count. >> One of these seals up here. Yeah. One seal will count. >> We'll count in the accountability. >> Yes. Yes. >> And that that's a whole another thing. How do you calculate all that? Talk about that one time. >> So then yes, our goal is if you look at the enrollment seal, it has
037all the different criteria. Um, you know, I used to say where they need six world languages. So, Spanish one, Spanish 2, Spanish 3 to get the academic honors. Now, just to get the enrollment seal, um, you only need four language. So, they switched up some things here that I would say is one of the major ones. Um, but at least specifically this pretty closely mirrors what the current academic comments just a little bit of differences. So, so I have a dumb question because when I was in school, it was basically took a class for a year, you got one credit for it. Is that not how this works? So, if I take all of Spanish one for my freshman year, is that one credit or is it two? >> If you take it all, you
038have to take it all year round. So, you'll get a credit first semester second semester. >> So, like once Christmas hits, we'll be done with semester one. So, all seven classes that students are in, hopefully if they pass them all, they'll get seven credits. So, then second semester, they'll get another seven. So in a year they can get 14. >> So they only need two years of or language to get >> Yes. Yes. Y um the employment seal if you read through that they've got to get at least they're not our goal is some sort of pathway. Um and again we've already done those career pathways. Again what that means is take you know a Mrs. Perkins culinary class or take certain classes in TV or take certain ad classes. um or go to impact
039and take those CTE classes. So to get the employment, that's one of the key things there is meeting some sort of pathway. The second bullet says they must complete 150 hours of work-based learning. Um and this may include multiple experiences that are paid, unpaid or assimilated. So we need the kids to meet some sort of career pathway, but then they also we have to prove that they've worked 150 hours, but that's over their entire four years. So you take 150 divide by four I mean you divide that by two that's 75 75 that it's 37 and a half. So they need 37 and a half hours pretty much a year which is definitely I would say attainable. Um they work hours and then they must demonstrate skills development communication collaboration and work ethic. So the
040state has different definitions of what does it mean to develop communication skills or collaboration skills or work ethic skills. So, we have to decide how we're going to make that happen. Um, you know, met with our CTE instructor and talked with her a little bit and our thoughts are when they go to these employers, maybe have a checklist or whatnot, you know, good communication skills, check, because we have to have some sort of written documentation. So, you know, were they collaborative? Check. Good work ethic. So, it's coming up with definitions of that and how they need to teach one of those skills. And then one of the key ones is meet attendance goal. So it says at least one school year they can have no more than three days of unexcused absences or at least
041150 hours of work-based learning experience with no more than three unexcused absences. So this is where our attendance becomes huge and this is going to be huge when we talk later about accountability. But in order for students to meet the seal they can have no more than three days of unexcused absences. So that excuse or like you know parents aren't calling them in or and that's where when we have the doctor slips things like that it's helpful. So and then the enlistment again go list um achieve a certain score on third enlistment test which is the test meet attendance to role and demonstrate skills development again kind of like that other seal. So, those are your honor seals. Honors plus, I don't want to bore you guys with three throw this, but then they could
042do even more to get the honors plus seals. So, the major thing I see about this, cuz my oldest daughter, not my younger ones, but my oldest daughter, she wants to have the best of everything. And that would have been probably me as a student, too. Well, I have to have this, but I also have to have this plus seal because it's looks so much better and colleges want that. colleges are happy with an honor. The plus is just besides earning a lot of this stuff, you must also complete at least 75 hours of work-based learning. So, they add a learn our working component onto it and just a few other things. So, which I still think is attainable. I mean, if you work summer hours, that also counts towards all this. So, you get
043a total of what 75 working hours throughout high school. It's it's obtainable. So the attendance on the three days of unexcused like with this current senior class, you have an idea on how many would be in the jam because of that requirement now. Is it going to be a challenge to get to that point? >> Um well the good thing is it says at least one school year with no more. So we can be in once. We don't care about your other three years. I shouldn't say that, but um you only have to meet it once. The verbiage of excused versus unexcused, that's one of the key components of it. Um of course, if they have a doctor's note, if they're going to a funeral, things like that. Those are all excused absences. More of
044the unexcused is when we don't have parent communication, that type of stuff. So, is this obtainable? Yes. It's going to be difficult for some. Yes. Um, >> who's going to enforce that? >> What being here and >> and making sure, hey, you can't have any more unexcused absences or you don't get >> it's it's going to take a team effort. I mean, you think about even >> you're going to need more help. >> Yeah. >> Here. And here's >> you're gonna need a druid officer. Well, and if you look at like, okay, collegebound students, and I'm making these statistics up, but I would say 25% of our students are going to meet this one probably. >> You say 25%. >> I'm guessing I'm just making like 25% of our kids honors. If 75% have to
045meet this employment thing and they have to do this pretty much their junior senior year, we're talking about 75 students. We need to get start getting jobs. seniors, 75 juniors. I mean, I can see our work-based learning program, which right now I think we have 30 maybe 30 students in workbased learning. Now, let's try to find jobs for 150. So, who's going to keep like kid has a summer job, who's going to figure out where they work, get those hours, get somebody to sign off. So, it's going to take a team effort and help. And >> when you say help, what a lot of schools are doing or planning on doing cuz we talked a lot about this in our conference in Indie, but you know, you don't need like as many credits here or
046here. So, there are some staff members that might have three periods here or there. It's a team effort of like bringing them in and they're now helping possibly with placement, checking up on these kids because our counselors, they don't have the time to do all this. It's it's going to be a it's a total restructure. It's going to be a team effort. So >> because it's planning to begin with, right? I mean that's exactly what I have written down is like there's they have to have a pathway and a plan so that they are applying for the right things. But then also the accountability piece needs to be checked from time to time to say are you on track? Are you falling off track? Where are you falling off track? Some sort of an they
047have to make a decision. Do I want to improve to be able to continue on this track or do I need to change tracks or something? >> Yes. So then the workbased learning piece that so now we only have that for seniors. So then that changes to being open to other grade levels also. Correct. >> I would say when those freshmen get up there like yes in the next two or three years we're at different thought process and the goal is to yeah get juniors out there working seniors out there working. Yeah. >> Well, and at 42 credits, a student could be done in three years, which I don't think that that's a great thing. Is it? >> I >> mean, tr truly right. If am I off on that? I mean, >> no, you're
048right with the math. I mean, if they pass everything >> and that's given them a study hall every semester, I mean, they would be done in three years at 42 credits. >> Yes. But and the one thing I thought I read, I thought I heard is in order to graduate early, I think you have to meet a seal. So they've got to at least meet a seal in order for them to graduate early. So some of them it might not be possible because they haven't met their seal yet. So >> don't quote me on that. I thought I thought that >> I didn't study them enough to figure that out, but I'm thinking they're 42 credits. So, is there any concern about are there going to be enough jobs out there because perhaps isn't the
049only school that's going to have this issue >> expecting Perkins Farms AND >> some milkers. >> I mean, realistically, I mean, you got Angola, you got Fremont, you got East Noble and Lakeland, and >> all in this area, >> I mean, that's a lot of potential students out looking for where in the past it wasn't. It's nothing like that, you know. >> Well, and when you read this too, it says complete 150 hours of work-based learning. It says may include multiple experiences that are paid, unpaid on site at Prey Heights because, and we'll talk about that in a minute, or simulated. They actually have like courses that they can take to get those simulated hours, too. Um, but even when it says um on site, okay, let's take your wife for example, those kids are
050what? making food for, you know, other students when we do the different, you know, rewards. That should count as ours. When they had all those veterans, you know, veterans come in and they're making food for them and serving them. I mean, it's now being creative, too. What can you offer within the school building, you know, we have a lot of student, not a lot. We have what, two or three that are employed over here is parapros and elementary. Those count. So, it's like they don't necessarily have to be paid, but what are some different things that we could possibly do here that are considered work-based? Um, yeah. So, reach out community. What can we do here? I don't know what simulated online would look like taken out >> farming simulator. Put PS5s in the school.
051>> Well, that could oculuses. >> Yep. >> Virtual reality. virtual simulators or work simulator. >> So, so a question on the collaboration communication. Do you think they would consider you being part of a sports team >> in that work that takes work ethic, collaboration, and communication? >> You know, that's a good point. They brought that down in India like well what we're working on now sports teams. I mean they said students are in sports meet many of those criteria and are definitely putting many of ours that >> but there's been there's no like decision or anything formally that's come out said yes that will count but yeah that was that's a good point >> and all those requirements are met if you're >> I mean it would be I would say it's up to the
052coach to say yes this athlete meets these things but that's I would think that should count I You know, we're talking about like even the theater performance this past week. They take that whole last week. They're there from what >> 4 to 8 or 9:00 week and even leading up to practices. I mean, yeah. And then you look at basketball, they practice every day after school. I mean, that's a lot of hours that >> definitely I would say simulates a lot of the stuff that they're looking for. Well, in the leadership contest as FFA, lot of public speaking prepared >> demonstrations, >> you know, like the Ron how they built >> for build trailers and stuff. >> How many hours kids put into that? Building trailers and >> so summer workers, all those things. Sounds
053like we just have to get really creative about how we do things. >> Yes. Yes. >> There are a lot of opportunities on site. >> A new a new mindset. >> Yeah. >> Jeremy, did I understand the only class that we're not offering at this time is the communication class. Is that right? >> Yes, that that is the only class right now >> that will be that isn't out there yet. It's going to be required. >> That's one that we've been looking into. Yeah, unless >> I mean going back to they could take TV2 class but requirements TV to get to the >> be nice theater. >> Are any of them offered on the online that you were talking about >> the communication? I mean, >> yeah, they could take it online through the Indiana
054University one or Yeah, there's online classes. No, I mean what is the one that like I know my daughter did it a lot in the summer because she was like you said like I need this diploma and this diploma. It's like good Lord just get a diploma. Um and she would take classes online in the summer. >> Oh, you're talking about Apex? >> Yeah. Is there anything in there? >> I don't think there's a communication Apex course now. I don't believe so. >> Yeah. Apex >> Caitlyn's taking that one online speech one speaking. That was interesting. >> Is she going through train or is she doing the >> train? I wish she was going through the ID1. That'd be great. But >> yeah, >> but it's interesting like she gets her computer out or whatever
055she chooses and she's records her speeches and she has to she has to watch other other >> Yeah, it's interesting. >> Yeah. >> Not warmed up any out there. that going back to like what we can I was going to bring this up later when we talking about uh Christmas stuff. One of the things that we just started in the high school is decided to create like a little thrift store because we had all these kids that were leaving like nice under arour shirts and sweatshirts and just leaving them athletic events or leaving them like when we would do fun things at the school like they played kickball one day and there was three shirts that were left and ended up with probably about 10 bags of just nice clothes and it's constantly get over
056announcements. If you left this, if you left this, you sat it out. Nobody claims them. Instead of what we tend to do is take them home to Goodwill, but uh Sue Crawford, one of our paras, um she kind of headed it up and created like in this back room a little thrift store where put racks up, hung up all these clothes and >> sell them back their own clothes. >> You know what? It's amazing the kids that are actually going in there because when they were free, when we were setting out, here's lesson. I don't take the clothes. Nobody would take them. But you put even a quarter to it. It's amazing. The kids that have went in there, bought clothes, the next day they're wearing the clothes. It's >> talked about that. That was
057mine. Well, >> sorry. I just bought it. >> So, we have a a store. Full disclosure that was brought up at the staff meeting. >> It was said Jeremy will handle >> come see me and all the staff if you come pick it up two months that we've been announcing this stuff. >> It was yours. We actually went to the good mall. You don't know. >> All right. Before we end this meeting, is there any other questions for Jeremy? We'll talk about accountability at another another date. >> Thanks, Jeremy. Yeah. >> Was that as much fun as what I had? >> How long How long did you set in on it listening to it? >> What? All this stuff? >> Yeah. >> Meetings upon meetings upon meetings. There's just so many moving parts and