001too much like homework. >> I have a warm one there. >> I don't mind. [Music] >> You ready? >> Yep. All right, have a word of prayer and we'll get started. Dear Lord and heavenly father, we thank you for another day you've given to us. We thank you for the responsibilities that you give us each and every day to see to these students and and staff. We thank you for that. We thank you for the guidance and the wisdom that you give us each and every day. We just ask you watch over us and lead us and guide us all in Jesus name we pray. All right. student le presentations. I guess we've got that up first. >> Who wants to go first? >> Who gets to go first? >> Our robotics team. >> Hi.
002>> Can you tell us your names first? >> Uh I'm Joseph. This is Noah. >> Noah. Okay. Thanks guys. We're ready. >> Okay, so uh we are the first Lego League. Our team name is the Rock Spot and our team number is 4882. >> Our first Lego League team this year is big. >> Talk really loud. You got it. Our project is focused on providing awareness of issues for archaeologists. Our idea is to create a QR code to link to the school site with problem links list with with links problem list. We would like your permission to do this. >> We would like your permission to um Like we'd like your permission to like link our QR code to the school's website kind of. >> Seems reasonable. >> So >> yeah, >> I'm good. >>
003Yeah, >> the vote. All in favor of what was that again? Linking >> linking the QR code to the website. >> All in favor? >> I >> All right, you got it. So, I'm gonna out someone who might be in the back. I don't know if anybody can see this, but they work with our Mr. Matt in the back. And he's in there helping them. I wanted to share this, but I didn't get it time. >> Thank you, Matt. >> Yeah, >> he helped them create the QR code. Right. [Music] >> How was it working with Mr. Pool? Was it It was great. Can you tell me why it was great? [Music] >> Um, he showed us like how to do it, um, what to do and stuff like that. It was really great. Um,
004>> so you feel asking him for help again? >> Yes. [Music] I also have some choices for you that you can get a t-shirt or a hat-tick one that doesn't fit. You can come see us tomorrow. Um, on a side note, tomorrow I am on the junior um, drama team and tomorrow we are doing a showing of the Wizard of Oz. I am Dorothy as you can probably see >> and um, I'd be really happy to see any of you guys there. >> Thank you for the invite. >> Thank you. I love it. I guess we know why. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I love it. >> Good job, kids. >> We have another group. Our sixth graders in this uh new bank is gonna Do you need my dongle? [Music] Thank you, Miss Hopkins. We
005appreciate you, too, coach. If they're too big, let us know. Bring it back tomorrow. We'll get you a new one. >> Yeah, I know. [Music] >> Maybe he's gonna take it off. Guys, do you see yours? [Music] Okay. You want to move it into slideshow mode? >> Slideshow mode. [Music] >> Yes, please. Let me have that. I'll hand it back to you. Okay. So, our students have been working on a genius hour pro uh project or presentation in the middle school um 6 through 8 um and they were to come up with a way to stop bullying in the middle school as they saw bullying as a problem in our school. So, the winning presentations uh will be shared on our TV announcements the week of Red Ribbon Week, which is the last week of
006October. We have sixth grade winners, seventh grade winners, and eighth grade winners. but our sixth grade team was the overall winner. So, they're going to present with you this evening. So, I'd also like to recognize uh Sophie Cole and Michaela Kirk who won the eighth grade. And then Mr. Emmerick's home room class did one big project together um which was a really cute game show idea. Um and they won the seventh grade. So, with us tonight sharing their presentation are from Mrs. Harter's home room. I should have Lucas, Lane, Bentley, Wes, and Ian. Is that right? All right. So, I'm gonna let them take it over from here. This is our slideshow um for bullying presented by Lane, Taylor, Bentley, Whit, West Troutman, Ian Hovus, and Lucas Nifer. Uh how this is how bullying can
007make you feel. It can make you feel mad, sad, stressed, anger, or rage. >> Types of bullying. Types of bullying include physical hitting, shoving, verbal, name calling, threats, social relational exclusion, rumors, cyber bullying, online harassment and sexual bullying, unwanted physical contact contact or commons. These behaviors are aggressive, often involve a power imbalance and can cause signific signific significance emotional and physical physiological harm to the target. What bullying causes? Bullying can have serious and longlasting consequences for victims, including mental health issues, depression, anxiety, post [Music] to stress disorder, PTSD, low self esteem, and increased risk of substance abuse. physical health problems, headaches, stomach aches, sleep disturbances, and weakened immune system. Academic academic difficulties, decreased grades, difficulty concentrating, avoidance of school, and dropping out of school. Verbal bullying. Very bullying. Verbal bullying is using words to intimidate,
008belittle, or harm another person. Whether through insults, tr teasing, name calling threats or spreading rumors. It can happen in in a person or online and is a form of bullying intended to make someone feel powerless and worthless while sometimes dismissed as teasing. Per persistent verbal bullying is damaging and can cause severe psychology effects making it a serious issue in both children and adults. [Music] Cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is the del del del del del del del del del del deliberate use of elect electronic technology such as computers smartphones and the internet to harass threaten embarrass or harm another person often repeatedly over time it takes many forms including sharing private information or mean content but can also include excl exclusion imp impersonation and threats unlike traditional bullying cyber bullying can feel inescapable falling victims anywhere
009at and at any time and it public public nature can lead to widespread humiliation. Physical bullying. Physical bullying involves aggressive acts to that hurt a person's body or belonging such as kicking or steal hitting, kicking or stealing. It is characterized at by a perceived or actual power imbalance between the bully and the victim and can result in physical injuries, psychological distress like depression and anxiety and behavioral issues. Examples include punching, tripping, damaging property or even restraining someone. >> What needs to be fixed at Scholes Middle School? We need to stop bullying at Schulz Middle School because it can cause suicide or death. At this school, we do not want at this school. We at this school or any school, we do not want students to be scared to come to our school. We also don't
010want any part of bullying at our school. This is why bullying needs to stop. And it's not just here, but it's all over the world. >> Good. [Applause] Hey, that was very great of you guys. >> Nice job, guys. >> And we have Miss Eubank, we have t-shirts or hats for them. And Miss Molly said that they could trade in if they have needed different size or would like a different hat, but they was very brave of you and we want to thank you so much. [Applause] [Music] Now, if you were here with with the kiddos and you want to leave, we understand that you don't want to hear this boring stuff, but if you want to hear the boring stuff, we can't wait. >> Thank you everybody. >> Thank you. Thank you. We love
011having the the kids be uh here to present. [Music] >> Thank the parents do. [Music] >> Okay. Approval of minutes from the September 11th board meeting. Motion to approve. >> IA second. >> Second. >> Ethan. All in favor? >> I final >> approval of the >> Here we go. >> Final public hearing on the budget. >> I know everybody's excited about the budget. So, I'm going to do a little demonstration about our budget. [Music] Yeah, she's trying to get a hat. >> I'm trying to get a hat. >> So, just so everybody knows, [Music] we have these different buckets for our budget. Every all the money we spend has to be spent in the school. So most of our things that cost everything we spend that has to do with classroom teaches. The most the
012largest piece of our education from our October 1st that was our first day. [Music] We get so much money. Our next fund that we really use a lot is our roof and buildings and all that comes out of [Music] this kind of bond that we have not determined what took out and they were selling that bond that the money bucket will determine how that is spent. And then we have a rainy day fund. And you know how you have a money stacked away? This is our very large money that stacked away. So I have these little things like if we're talking about busier, it comes out of operation. Now, what happens if my operation fund? Nope. If you don't have it, you have to go over here to the rainy day and say, "I need
013to borrow money." Uh, if we are going to buy 900 computers for our tech, this comes out of our operation fund. If I don't have the money in my operation account to buy the technology [Music] if we are um buying classroom material material they have to come out of our education fund. What if we um can we pay teacher salaries out of Everything has to come out of this education. Uh teacher salaries, all of our teacher assistant, all of our materials, anything that we purchase, anything we purchase has come out. [Music] And if we want to paint on our heels for soccer that paint has come out of our operations if we don't have money in operations fund [Music] anything that we are going to like tools that we're going to fix it with most
014of the time that comes out of operation textbook. These two [Music] public service money background about having the buckets always helps me to understand. So, as we come in and we finalize our budget hearing, this budget is represents the commitment to providing highquality education for every student in our district while being responsible stewards of the community's money. So, that's what I want you to understand how these buckets work. The proposed or the uh final budget aligns with our state guidelines and has been reviewed thoroughly to meet both educational goals and legal requirements. We welcome your questions and feedback as we continue to work through and serve our students in our community. And there are times that I run to classrooms or run down the hall or talk to Darla if I have budget questions or
015I have questions for you about things in your classroom. The documents outlined on our final budget for 2026 calendar year. They're in the budget packets or in our packets. Each year we have highle advertising to maximize the levy which refers to the amount of cash we receive and we share our bus replacement plan along with items potential products on our capital projects list. Those are wishlist items or equipment that has been evaluated by our maintenance team and they think they need to uh replace it in the near future. We post all of these things on our website and they are currently posted there now and have been for about two months maybe. The purchases of bus bus buses from our bus replacement plan and our project materials for our capital projects plans are paid for
016dollars with the operations fund. Excuse me. [Music] Also paid the um from the capital projects fund. Our capital projects fund is always tight and we do our best to save um a little bit each year so that we can afford some of the more significant projects that come out of that especially like our HVAC units and I think they've had to do some roofing work in the past. Our bus replacement plan uh it covers the five-year period and each year we set up aside funds to gradually because the state only provides one 12th of an annual cost of a bus. Over time, these funds will accumulate until we have enough to replace a bus. And we're actually getting ready to get one by the end of the year. Kendra started this process last year. Kendra,
017>> I think so. Yeah. >> Yeah. And there 18 months to get a to get one bus, but we're hoping and they keep telling us that the bus will be here before the end of the year. And we're I think we're excited all excited just to see the bus. The rainy day fund, as we've talked about, it's pretty self-explanatory. It allows our school to set aside surplus revenue during unexpected deficits. Our rainy day fund has not been touched in numerous years. Until this year, we did use some rainy day funds to pay um some debt that we had. The ISBA strongly encourages that we maintain a minimum of 25% of our annual budget in a ready day fund, which would be about $1.3 million for us. And we do not have $1.3 million in there,
018but we are um we continue to build up that a little bit at a time and it's um every year we are able to transfer a little bit to that account. Um the current year financial worksheet is a document in our folder. It's a key that um is a tool for our budgeting process. This worksheet is used to pro uh project our district's financial activity for the remainder of the year from July 1 to December 31st and it captures only six months of time frame. It talks about uh remaining expenditures, remaining appropriations, and estimated year-end balances for each fund. We also have to do what's called a form one budget estimate, and it provides details for each of these buckets that form one does. So, we have to have detailed line items breaking down anticipated
019expenses for the upcoming year. Excuse me. It includes projections for categories such as salaries and benefits, supplies and services which come from the education fund and then um it serves as a starting point for building our budget and helps us determine funding needs for finalizing appropriations and tax rates. Appropriations are basically this based on the expenses we have. this is the amount that we think or we feel like we're going to be spending for this year. And there are times such as this year, we will have to ask for additional appropriations to be able to get through the end of this year. We will do that next month, but based on projections, we anticipate and what that means is we just have to take some money out of our we have an education savings fund
020and we have to take the little money out of our savings account to put into the education fund. It's like when you buy something in your house that's a big item and you have to move money from your savings to be able to pay for that. It's kind of the same thing, but we have to get government we have to get state um permission to be able to move the money from our savings to the education fund. So, we will be doing that in the near future. Um our debt service fund typically receives the amount we appropriate. However, new state state legislation um the cash balance on hand is now capped. 15% of the annual payment for new debt and 50% of the annual payment exists for for existing debt. And our goal is to
021maintain a debt service rate of under$1 uh dollar and currently we're at one uh 109. So we are are well within our target right now. We're about 11 cents. [Music] That's all. >> Yep. >> If you have questions about buckets, I would love to have a conversation. >> All right. We need a motion. Guess we're we're approving this budget. >> We're approving the budget. Motion. >> Approving this budget. Eva's got the motion. I need a second. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Next year. Okay. Any comments from the patrons concerning items on the agenda? All right. Moving on. We got building principal reports. Who's up? Thank you. [Music] >> I don't have any little pretty pictures and all that. Very high school efficiency, I suppose. But anyway, >> um so we've been doing a
022lot in the middle school. Um as as I mentioned, the Genius Hour project is something they've been working on since our September half day and they've had a little bit of time in their home room classes. Um all grade levels worked on it. We had several projects, a lot of cute ideas. So you saw one one of many. So, um, in addition, um, we had our sixth grade students attended a STEM openhouse at Crane on T on Thursday, September 18th, and our eighth grade students attended the Martin County Alliance Manufacturing Day on Friday the 19th. So, our kids are getting out in the community and uh, seeing a lot of different opportunities for their future. um sixth and seventh grade students um in their PE class are working through the uh presidential physical fitness testing.
023Um and Miss Hoffman and Miss Harter had sixth grade students who have already mastered those standards right at the beginning of the year. Um so shout out to Ar uh Arian Wright, Ariel Kitwell, uh Aniston Taylor, Lane Taylor, Jet Hoffman, and Silus Curve. Um and uh Miss Hoffman awarded them with a sweet treat from Bowmax for their efforts um in that achievement. I would like to give a shout out to Daniel Turpin, Scott Fishbach, and Scott Carr. Uh these three guys help me a ton on lunch duty. And again, I think I talk about lunch every time I'm in here because lunch is loud in the middle school. Um, but we don't have any devices that it's good to see them mix and mingle and actually be social and learn those social skills. Some of
024them struggle with that, but we're learning. So, um, I appreciate their flexibility. Often times we, uh, almost every day, unless it's raining, we take the kids outside, even if it's for 10 minutes, just to burn off a little bit of energy. And, um, sometimes they play on sidewalk chalk, sometimes they're jumping rope, sometimes they're kicking a soccer ball, but it burns a little bit of energy and makes it a little easier to get back to it. Um, and these guys really help me with that a lot. Um, I also would like to give a shout out to Kelly Wman Kovi. She is an indispensable part of my team. Um, she is always willing to jump in and help. Um, whether that's serving in the cafeteria for breakfast every morning um or lunch when necessary. Um,
025she has a great handle on the pulse of our middle school student population and she works tirelessly to help solve the middle school drama that continuously arises as you might imagine. So, she also puts together an SEAL um curriculum. So, two days a week, we're working on middle school social and emotional skills. And she puts together little little nuggets, little videos, little things to get the kids talking about what's appropriate and maybe not appropriate at their age. So, she just is a wonderful uh contributor to the team. So, in terms of student programs, um we have a variety of things going on, but of course, our positive behavior intervention, um is led by Molly, and she did a wonderful job organizing yesterday's event. So, 133 of the 153 middle school students participated yesterday in a
026nature walk and a scavenger hunt competition. They did a sidewalk chalk. It was an album cover for kindness. If you were going to make a music album for kindness, what songs did you include? what that album looked like. Um, and then our sixth grade students had been working on these math review games. Um, and they got to share their math games with all the kids. So, they had a lot of fun yesterday. Um, and tonight we'd like to wish our middle school spell team the best of luck. They're off to North Knox High School tonight. So, a lot going on in the middle school there. Um, as you know, our athletics are winding down. Eighth grade volleyball finished the season seven and 11. Seventh grade was nine and eight. The girls soccer team didn't have
027much success this year, but the boys um season ended nine and four. They placed second in conference tourney uh and went to a two-1 tourney and unfortunately lost to Jasper. So um in terms of teacher accountability, um today was parent teacher conferences for our teachers and uh parents of our middle school kids. Um, my teachers were challenged to reach out to every single parent of the kids um, for each middle school kids and it had to be either an in-person meeting or a phone conversation. I asked for dialogue, not a notification. So, they've been busy and they were still up there making calls when I left to come down here. So um but I asked them to share a lot of information like grades, attendance concerns, discipline concerns um and we're also sharing assessment data
028like where where is your kid testing so that they understand that that um is an important indicator for us. Um so yesterday was our second professional development um day and the middle school staff did a deep dive into our I Ready benchmark data. Um, thank you to Danielle. Um, she came in and kind of led that. So, the teachers will use that information to determine the most critical learning objectives that need to be addressed in the middle school. Um, specifically for math and English, we will be adding science um, into the mix because sixth grade iLearn assessments will um, be something that we're held accountable to this year as well. Um, teachers also use that information to help write their SLOs's and their TLOS's for their RISE assessments. And again, thank you to Danielle. Um,
029she let she led that discussion. Um, and then in our faculty meeting, we discussed some expectations for grades, testing, and evaluations. And we also brainstormed some solutions to address some of the literacy concerns among our student population. So, we've got some big ideas in store to help boost um that that literacy number. So, um of course, we have fall break um coming up uh after tomorrow and then we got some big events coming up and you can see uh we have uh Red Ribbon Week will be Octo the week of October 28th. Um and we have some big things in store with the BMX bike show coming. Um on the 29th, we are going to take an adventure to Evansville for Junior Achievement Job Spark. And so all the eighth graders will be uh joining
030us for that. They're going to see a variety of professions and industries um just giving them a better understanding of what it what it means to get a job and how to develop a career. Um throughout the month we also had several teachers that are getting certified or reertified in crisis prevention. Um and so Heidi Hoffman, Kelly, Britney, Carrie, um all got reertified recently. And then we have a few more. Um, myself, Jackie, Daniel, and Christina will be getting certified in the coming months. So, lot going on, but we're having fun, I think. At least I am anyway. >> Thank you. Thanks. >> Thank you. [Music] >> Although I've [Music] So, I just want to start by giving a shout out to my high school students. Um, their attendance have, as I mentioned last month,
031has not been the greatest the last few years. and we started an attendance challenge and as of today when I ran the report we are at 95% since school started and the state wants um the goal for the state for our accountability that we're going to be getting graded on this year is 94%. So they're exceeding that right now. I hope this continues. And for the ones that show up tomorrow, um we I am getting them um either a small milkshake or a pop from Bowax. So, they knew they were going to get something. They didn't know what, but the deal was they had to show up tomorrow because So, but we'll be treating them tomorrow um to that. I want to give a huge thank you to this lady back here, Danielle Cornette. She
032wears so many hats in this building and um I would not want your job. Um, but I want to thank her for organizing and administering the PSAT. Out of 104 students, 101 made it in. And that was contacting all of our online students too to get them in here. So, it was a 97%. >> So, thank you um so much for that, Danielle. >> Uh students, they enjoyed sausage um this week during lunch from our very own Jug Rockck Farms. And I will say that they said that there is a difference in the taste between Jug Rock Farm sausage and the other sausage. Did you hear the same thing, Amy? Yes, they love they love the sausage from our farm. Um, and thank you for allowing our farm to serve that. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yes,
033I know my kids are excited when it's breakfast day in the cafeteria. They love that. >> Yeah, breakfast for lunch. Um, speaking of Jug Rockckrock Farms, they have had such a busy past few weeks. They hosted um a fall-f fil day for our littles and it is so nice because a lot of our littles, they don't ever get to experience something like that. Some of them might not ever get to go to Lark Ranch or anything like that, but they get to experience right here in their very own school. And just all the activities that they put together is amazing. Um they also um host a farm fair for Shaw students and LoDot students. And they also um and Washington and they also are doing a fall field day for LoDot and Washington. And I
034just want to brag again on our high school students. they are a big part of those days and they they amaze me every day because they are leaders and they are running these activities um at these stations and they are presenting and talking and I'm just I'm so proud of our high schoolers. Uh Wednesday's PBIS event for the month of October was a lot of fun. I think the high schoolers at first was like this is not geared towards us but you should have seen them. If you flip the page, you'll see a lot of pictures. They ended up having a lot of fun >> um creating the album covers for kindness and then going on a scavenger hunt which was inside the high school. So, they all did this with their rock solid class
035and they had to compete against one another and the one um that was the fastest was Reva Troutman's class and they all won something special yesterday. And then the winning album cover class will be getting donuts tomorrow. But they had a lot of fun doing this. I want to thank Molly Tharp again for organizing it. Um she's doing a great job organizing, coming up, being creative, doing different things each month for PBIS. I want to thank Cammy Sanders for organizing some fun pep sessions this week for our sectional sendoffs. Um although we soccer ended their season, we still have cross country who will be competing on the 18th at B&L and then our volleyball. They will be playing next Thursday night um at 7:30 at Lagod. And they have had an amazing season. I think
036they finished 22 and four and 6 and one for Blue Chip. So they um are doing amazing. I want to wish them the best of luck. Once we return from fall break, we will celebrate Red Ribbon Week with special activities and we will end with a special BMX air show performance for all students. They're doing a show for the littles and then they're doing a show for middle school and high school. And I want to thank Mrs. Eubank. She um wrote a grant for this. We will find out next week, right, if we get it or not um for this. If not, we do have the funds to cover it. But she did write the grant and I'm hoping so I want to thank you for that. um high school students. So, by law, we
037have to the whole district has to do an anti-bullying lesson of some sort by October 15th every year. And in the high school, we did um a lesson on what it means to be an upstander or a bystander. And it was really neat to hear the perspective of a high school student because we started out with a survey and a lot of them ended up being bystanders and we wanted to know why. And a lot of their answers were really interesting. Um, some of the things they said was that it's someone with they see someone being bullied and the reason why they're a bystander is someone it's someone they don't know so they don't want to get involved. It's none of their business. They don't want to lose friends over it. They're not sure what
038to do or they don't want to look stupid or uncool. So, it was really interesting to see high school perspectives on that. So they learned the difference and then they um watched a couple videos and then completed an activity over that. Um the last thing is really neat. Um I just want to our CT CTE program that we have here at Schles is outstanding. Um for a school our size, what we offer is just simply amazing. And we have large schools such as Washington and South Ridge called today. They want to bring their CTE teachers here for professional development. They want to their exact words, both of these schools were, "We want to model our CTE programs after what Scholes is doing. You've got it going on in your CTE um program." And that just
039hearing that from larger districts is pretty amazing. So, I do believe Southridge is bringing a team of teachers here Monday and then Washington is after fall break. But I just think that's pretty awesome for a school our size. Um the last on the last page is just a bunch of pictures. At the bottom is our Scholes catfish queen, Ellie Raider. She read to some of our elementary students this week and of course the little girls wanted to try on her crown. And then there's pictures of the fall field day farm fair and then the PBIS event. And this is not in here but um as a middle school parent I am very grateful Miss Eubank you are doing amazing job um and I just love having you as a part of our team. So thank
040you. Also, real quick, um I would like to give a short update on some grants, some big exciting grants that um have to do with our school. Our FEMA safe room project, which is our classrooms back here, a lot of construction is going on. Tuesday is going to be a huge day for it. Um they are bringing in a lot of large equipment and trucks that will be going in and setting these T beams. And the way they describe these TE beams, they say it's the same ones that they use on overpasses and bridges. And they said it it would be really neat for the kids to see, but it's also very dangerous. So, for the last like few weeks, they have busted their rears to get it where they could be doing this over
041fall break and it would not interfere with students or staff. Um, I want to thank Ben for that because he's been in contact with the contractor. Uh, we do have meetings every two weeks with the architect and the contractor. And yesterday we got to pick out flooring for the classrooms and that was really exciting for me because I felt like I was picking out something for like a house or something. It wasn't too exciting for the men, but I was excited for it. Um, also in April, as everyone knows, our track was fully submerged underwater, which caused um, a lot of damage. And unfortunately, it wasn't covered by insurance because it sits in a flood plane. And in order to repair it, we were looking at over $300,000. And that's a lot of money for
042a school our size. Um, Dr. Lam just explained how the budget works. So, someone had mentioned to me that FEMA could possibly help, but they said, "Good luck." That that was their exact words. They said, "It probably won't go anywhere. It's a long shot." Um, and I took that as a challenge. So, after countless hours of meetings and lots of paperwork, and I've had to go to the courthouse and meet with different FEMA teams, um, I found out last week that they are going to pay up to 75% of the cost to get our track replaced. So, that is very exciting for us. Um, we will only be responsible for 25%. And then I was notified earlier this week that we were only one of nine schools in the state who received um a rural
043and low income grant and it's for over a little over $20,000 that can go for anything student achievement wise. So, I'm still working on that one, but that was exciting that we were one of only nine in the state to get selected for that. That's all I have. Thank you so much. >> One of the things that I I had on my uh superintendent report was the building. Also, each of those 14inch blocks, they're first they're made custom made in Jasper. They built them, but they weigh 86 pounds a piece. >> And then I don't know the beams that they're going to put up. I they they're bringing a crane in to do it, but I it's fascinating to me. >> Can that be recorded for the kids to see? >> Yeah, I'll get out.
044I'll remember to go out there, darling. Yeah, I'll do a video on it. >> I'll I'll video it if you remind me on Tuesday to go out. >> Are we on track for January still >> and under budget? >> So far. >> I'll believe it when it's done. It's been a long project getting that getting that started. remember when they years ago when they had the track >> remember the in 200 what was it 2006 or seven we asked FEMA to pay for the track that time and they got we got denied then so I'm glad that you were able to be persistent [Music] >> thank you for that >> yeah thank you >> all right new business personnel items got Jeff Callahan as athletic director consultant Logan Waggler as the fifth grade boys basketball
045coach, Tyler Marshman as girls varsity assistant basketball coach, and a clarification that Sam Perry is the boys JB basketball coach, not the girls varsity assistant. Uh Jamie Marchman and Alyssa How as girls basketball volunteers. Resignation of Glenn Fry. Glenn Fry, sorry, Glenn Gray from full-time custodial position. Approval of Vicky York as substitute custodian. Approval to transfer Amanda Wilson to full-time custodial position once her current cafeteria position is filled. Approval of Kelly Boyd and Melissa Broen as food service substitutes. Approval to transfer Karen Ray to the cafeteria once her current elementary aid position is filled. And Chad Gibson as volunteer coach for elementary boys basketball. Motion to approve those folks. >> Motion. >> Ethan second. >> Natt. All in favor? I >> personnel continued. Heidi Hoffman and Travis Brett as fifth grade girls basketball coaches. Andy
046Purdue will not be coaching this grade level as previously approved due to scheduling conflicts. Mallerie Wagner as high school robotics coach. Mimi Hawkins elementary robotics coach. Approval of Renee Albbright as substitute teacher in the middle school, high school, and as substitute custodian. Approval of Tiffany Whitmer to full-time with benefits to meet the needs of multicat students. Elementary principal requests approval for Cassie Brazine to transfer to elementary title one aid position, primarily assisting first and second grade students. Uh, this transfer would take place on her replacement in her current position. Approval for Tyiana, I guess I said that right. Graber to shadow Mr. Burkhard or other admin during after school events to obtain observation hours for a degree in athletic administration. Um, I would like to know a time frame on that if possible at some
047point. Um, approval of Deanna Smith as a classroom substitute teacher. >> Oh, okay. Sorry. I thought you with my >> Yeah. Okay. You slap me or something. Uh, motion to approve those folks. >> All motion. >> Eva. Second. >> Laorna. All in favor? Hi. Hi. >> Fundraisers, beta clubs to seek community support with different sponsorship levels. October 9th through June 30th. High school rockets to host the yearly donation calendar fundraiser October 20th through November 3rd. High school cheer team to sell old uniform pieces November 25th through December 19th. Beta Clubs will host the annual Beta Club light show on December 12th and 13th and Daddy Daughter Dance hosted by the parents of the class of 2028 on January 17th. Motion to approve. >> Motion Ethan second. All in favor. Trip request high school FFA to
048Feldon Purdue A Center in Bedford September 23rd testing competition media yearbook editors to VUJC on October 1st for just website training high school spell team North Knox High School on October 9th for a blue chip spell motion to approve those trips. Laura second. >> I'll second. >> Ethan, all in favor? >> I some more trip requests. Fourth grade to Spring Mill. It's tomorrow, October 10th. High school FFA to the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis on October 29th. High school band to Barre High School November 4th for the annual festival of of bands. High School spell bowl November 3rd, destination be determined. Second grade to Moringo Cave on November 7th. Elementary beta Evansville November 13th for the state elementary beta convention. High school English class tot in Indianapolis. December 3rd to watch a Christmas Carol play.
049and middle school and high school beta clubs to veter purchase food for local food pantry between December 1st and the 31st. Motion to approve those trips. >> A motion. >> Eva second. All in favor. >> Okay. Stockings for 2526 school year. Approval for Rebecca Rollins to receive a stipen as a mint and coordinator. And our table the approval for Tracy Lerno to receive a stipen at this point in time for the deaf and heart of hearing coordinator and approval for Daniel Corette and Allison Taylor to receive stipen for assisting athletic department. Motion to approve those that second. >> All in favor I operations fund funded projects approval to replace the track with a FEMA supplying 75% of the cost as Ker just talked about. >> Motion to approve that. >> Motion second. >> Second. >>
050Ethan. All in favor? >> I. >> Approval of Huddle Technology Systems. >> Motion to approve that. Make a motion. >> Second. >> I'll second. >> Ethan. All in favor? >> Uh, couple approvals to post. Approval to post and accept knowing bids for 2628 through 28 and approval to post for full-time custodian. Motion to approve those postings. >> I'll second. We got the second. All in favor? >> I >> events coming up. Grandparent celebration elementary on various dates in November. Elementary elementary students caroling in town will select dates in December. Special community guest readers throughout the months of October through December. Redemption Church to offer lunch club for Scholes Elementary fifth grade students for 25 26 school year every other Wednesday and I'm making sure on this is it Mada is that correct? >> Okay, I
051just want to make sure with the family health center and the good choices program to visit second grade once a week for positive choices lessons. Elementary music program to be held on Friday, December 5th at 1:30 in the high school gym, Friday, December 12th as a as a makeup day. Motion to approve those events. >> Motion. >> I'll second. >> Ethan and Eva. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Approval of Travis Brett as high school boys basketball volunteer. Approval of Ryiona Royston as substitute teacher upon completion of required paperwork with a positive outcome. Approval of Charles Mike Schartzer as elementary girls basketball volunteer. Journey Chastine to serve as paid CTE intern and Cali Ferman as elementary beta sponsor. and um employee comp time paid out to her estate. Motion to approve those personnel items.
052And that second >> second >> Ethan all in favor and a couple more trip requests. Preschool students to Lark Branch on the 21st of October. high school students to IU October 24th for college visit. Motion to approve those. >> Motion second. >> All in favor? >> I think that's it. Leave anything else. >> Okay. Making sure. All right. Superintendent report. You're up. >> I'm up. >> You're up. >> I'm excited. So, I can't u I second everything that um Kendra and Carol had talked about with the kids. It's been a great experience. I love having my office in the middle school and I love seeing all the activity. I love to go down to the cafeteria and see kids uh in the cafeteria chatting. I came down to the pep session the other day, watched
053the cross country team race, the volleyball team, that part of the pep session, but they everybody was engaged and they were doing a great job. Um, I want to kind of we're coming upon the end of our athletic season and our athletic teams have entered into post uh season play and we're proud to recognize their hard work, resilience and sportsmanship as they represent our school. And it's been great to watch every I think I've made it to every level, every type of sport. And on Monday, um, the boys soccer team faced Lighthouse Christian Academy in a challenging match. Um it was their sectional game and they it was raining the whole time and they were probably having a ball out there but uh despite the adversity, our players showed some really impressive determination and they
054they were kind of there were some issues on the field a little bit and they really they stood their ground and they had maintained that positive attitude and I I appreciate that. Um their grit and perseverance throughout the game. Soccer's a demanding sport and um physically and mentally and our athletes they rose to the occasion every even the middle school soccer just watching that was just fantastic. Um I have to say a special thank you to the whole entire team and coaching staff for perseverance and commitment throughout the season using you know the micro was you know um out there mowing grass mowing fields and they're watering the grass and it's just been great to watch our our coaches go above and beyond for our kids and it's wonderful. I do have to give an
055incredible a shout out to the student section at the boys soccer game. For those of you who might have been there, there were about 12 kiddos standing in the rain the entire time and they were so positive and they were they kept it I I was sitting right next to them, but they did a they were just they kept cheering. They cheered to the end and it was it was wonderful to watch. Um I think they had a lot of fun and they had a lot of horse voices. Um, and then on Tuesday, the girls team, they competed against Tel City at Fourth Park. And what stood out the most to me was their ability to play as a team. Um, they showed unity and their effort and determination. Even, you know, you could see
056the fatigue set in and it was warm and it was, you know, they were playing on an astroturf field, which I had they played on an astroturf field in. >> Yeah. So, it was incredible and they weren't really intimidated. That facility to me was a little intimidating, but they were they did a great job. Um, and I can't wait to to continue to watch all of these teams continue to grow. Volleyball uh season is coming this next week. We have the volleyball sectional and everybody's excited. I think people are cutting their trip short to make it back for Thursday night's game 7:30. Um, so it's it's going to be exciting to watch and everybody, you know, the talk is the potential to >> but I won't say it out loud. >> So everybody's very excited
057about that and so I can't wait to see everybody in the stands at the game. Um, I want to just say congratulations to all coaches and players just because of the marks of dedication and sportsmanship and teamwork and you know as mentioned um these sports it's a long season. Most of these sports start in the summer, so it's been a long and it's hot sometimes. So, just uh the strength and determination has been great and we're proud of all of them. Um, so last Saturday we uh they had the softball tournament out here. It was part of it was here, part of it was down at the field. It was very successful. I popped in a few times and it was great to see people from all over on our campus and they um complimented
058our fields and our facilities. So, it was really good and and they it was also a great fundraising experience for a family here in our in our district. But it was also 10 days and it was a great experience. My first hind days, um I have to say thank you to um Amy and Megan because the night before the volleyball game, I'm like, where do I to set up? And uh Amy jumped in. Megan jumped in to help us get things organized. I had a carload of things and I was like, oh, I'm not sure I have enough stuff. And then Megan rolls in and she has all these games and and things um to for kids to do to set up in our space. So we had this giant um connect four game and
059they had this giant Jenga game and then the string game where you throw you have to loop it around. I don't know what it's called but the Jenga pieces were a hit because kids built things and then um we had books there for title one. from Taiwan. We had a lot of people take books and we had a craft. So, I brought each of you a craft. Uh I have to thank Melanie Hawkins for I You need two. >> I need two. >> Um and so Melanie Hawkins, her STEM class helped us all the components to your um scarecrow in the bag. >> Thank you. >> The kids had a blast. They >> played We have a lot of kids at our booth. Kendra was there. I I have to thank all the volunteers who
060helped set up the booth, take it down and and was there during it was fun to stay in our booth. There was so many days and the food was wonderful. >> Yeah. Yeah. It was right across from us. The caramel >> um kettle corn. >> Um I had to talk about the FEMA update, but I I'm excited to get out there this week and watch them do that. And it has been really great to work with um uh Balden Construction. They've been a they've been a great um team and also with Lancer Architect. They've really done a good job. Those every other Thursday meetings, they're really uh Kendra and I just can't and listen. But I I know enough to know how things are going out there. And they are they're doing a great job.
061They're very professional. Um they're out there early. They're here when I when we as soon as it's they're able they're out there with um their headlights on. So, we're going to continue to provide updates on the project as it continues in the following uh through the stages and it's exciting. I we were just we had a safety committee meeting today. We were talking about um you know how we have all our plans like our this is the path you take if you go outside in a fire drill. This is where you're going to go if there's a tornado or things like that. But in December, we're going to have to rewrite that whole plan because of our new space and we're all excited. Um, we've also been working on developing a new evaluation tool for
062our teachers and we have a team of teachers that's um, working with us and we're really coming up with some great ideas and some great collaboration. It is going to take a long process for us. So the state has um given every school district the um opportunity to create their own plan now and you no longer have to have highly effective effective need improvement. So they've given us the autonomy to do that. So our team is working to really create a good plan for um and we've kind of we're looking at our pillars and our PBIS and we're kind of tying it all together. So, it's been that was a great meeting we had last week. And then um we um had also had some meeting and conversations in in the next couple months about
063what happens on snow days and what that looks like. So, we have a team of teachers who are making those decisions right now. Hopefully, we don't have to have that conversation for a little while, but um we did have a two-hour delay and it's pretty successful the way we um the bus drivers handled it well and the way Kendra helped me with the process at five o'clock in the morning. Um, so I have to just say thank you again, Kendra, and our team. They're all working together collaboratively to make things happen. And the board has been very supportive of me these past couple months, and I'm I'm very thankful, honored, and blessed to be here. So, uh, with that, I'm going to turn it over to our amazing curriculum director. She's going to give you
064some data information. pressure. The pressure you put on her. >> Well, I told her today I said as I'm making the buckets, I said um because she's very organized and very she is, >> you know, very like she's way ahead of the game and I'm the last minute going, "Hey, let's try this. Hey, let's do that. Hey, >> right, Danielle?" >> I I like >> She messed you all up, didn't she, Danielle? I said I I occasionally will say, "Um, Daniel, you think we can do this?" What? How about that? Would you like me to push the button for you? >> Okay. [Music] Well, I have a packet here that you guys That's fine. Wonder who that is. Matthew to the rescue. [Music] The two girls just want their picture up. >> Nothing about that.
065Sorry. I got you. All right. So, just some testing updates. Um, Miss Hovish, she talked about this, but um PSAT all um sophomores and juniors last Thursday and then the makeups were on Monday of this week. Um took the PSAT. Um they should have the results by the end of the month. So, the end of the month, the students will have the results emailed to them as well as me sending out to the parents. Um, a special thank you to St. Vincent Depal for donating the snacks for sophomores and juniors. They always ask me, are we going to have snacks while we're testing? That's their expectation. So, thank you to them. Um new this year for um iLearn we have um we all know we have the iLearn at the end of the year that
066big um assessment but new this year is the state required that we also have three checkpoints throughout the year plus the big test at the end. So iLearn checkpoint one is going on right now. Um it ends November 14th. So grades three through five have completed both the ELA and math checkpoint one assessments this week and grades 6 through 8 will complete theirs after fall break. Um new this year too from the state is parents now have access to see their child's score like day of or next day within 24 hours with an access code. So the teachers helped me out today during parent teacher conferences. each um parent that they met with got a flyer access code to see their kids score so they can see it that day which is pretty cool. >>
067Um the parents that did not show up I'm able to pull their email from Skyward and I have been doing this today of the parents that didn't show up and sending them their access code that way through Tide. Um, KR, this is new to us this year too, is the kindergarten readiness assessment. And that testing was completed August through October. October 3rd was the last date for it. And those reports are expected back in two weeks. So, end of October, we should have those reports back as well. I sprout, this is kind of new to us this year, too. So, I sprout state requires that um all students in preschool that have IEPs have to be given Ice Sprout testing. But we um as a school corporation last year made a decision that all preschoolers
068are going to um go through iceout testing. And it's not your traditional testing where you're there on a computer taking a test, answering questions. It's more observational. So the teachers are observing their behaviors. Um there might be questions about what's this letter, what's this number, stuff like that. But it is a good assessment tool and it will make sure that the kiddos in preschool um are kindergarten ready. So we're excited about that. And all these teachers who give these assessments, they've had to take training. So, a big shout out to them for taking that training, serving as test administrators and proctors for all the state tests. We couldn't do it without their help. So, data updates. Um, RI ready is our um benchmark testing. So, we give this to students K through eight um beginning
069of the year, middle of the year, and end of the year. And this is just to see how they grown throughout the school year. Um, we can also see, like Mrs. Eubank said, we can see what standards they're struggling on, what standards they have high achievement, and um, the teachers can plan their lessons according to that data. So, that data is really helpful for that. So, both middle school and elementary teams, they participated in a data dive to analyze those results yesterday. and um elementary, we also focused on the I learn one checkpoint since they have their results back as well. Um a big thank you to Mrs. Eubank and Mrs. Gibson for welcoming into their meetings and to be able to share and discuss that information. And then looking ahead after our meeting, me
070and Mrs. Eubank after that one yesterday, we're like, let's do another one in November for November's PD and cover. So that's our plan for um the November PD is to cover a data dive on iLearn. The next one is DEX reports. So these are state reports. Um they are all due tomorrow. So membership, pupil enrollment, staff employment and the other employment reports have um been completed and will be certified tomorrow. And here's the update of our enrollment numbers as of today. Um total enrollment K through 12 is 566 and total enrollment um preschool through 12 is 594. >> Yes, we did. It doesn't count on that October 1st though because it was after October 1st. But yes, we did. >> There's a there's another count day >> in February. Okay. >> Yep. Yep. In February.
071So, the same membership report will be ran in February to make sure all of our kiddos are going to safely and account for. Yeah, >> she's ready for me yet to be done and tomorrow because if I go into her office one more time and say, "Let's count today." It's an everyday conversation, like the groundhog day for her every day. >> And then, um, a high ability update. So, I'm currently working on scheduling um Kogat testing for grades kindergarten, second, third, fifth, and sixth. Usually, this is just done in kindergarten, second, and fifth grade, but because of all the flooding, snow days last year, and we had to get an IL testing NWA. Um third, third, and or second, and fifth did not get tested. So that's why we're doing third and sixth this year
072so that we can test them this year since they did not get tested um last year. And that KOAT assessment is just the first step in identifying students for um high ability services. So some other steps would be like I learn scores looking at them um looking at I Ready scores and um teacher recommendations. So, and also, um, since I took that over this year, um, I'm going back to school right now and getting my high ability license. So, I just completed my first, um, class and have three more to go and I should be certified in May. >> So, yeah. >> Thank you. >> So, that's exciting. I'm learning a lot and hope to apply a lot of it to building our high ability program. So, I'm excited. The next one is just um
073I learn checkpoint um one ELA data that we've received from the state for grades three, four, and five. And then in your packet again, the next one will be um math for grades three, four, and five. And none of this um data or from checkpoint one the state does not hold us accountable for this. So this is just checkpoints making sure that the kids are on track. It will print us a four-page report saying hey this standard you might want to look at this for this kid. Oh the standard they're excelling in. So it gives our teachers a better idea better understanding. Um, so this does not count towards any state accountability. The one at the end is the one that is still state accountable and all goes towards our letter grade. >> This is
074just for our benefit. >> Correct. >> And and you said the parents see all this see all this information as well to see how their kiddo is doing. >> Yes. and our teachers um grades three through eight will they will communicate that and I will also be sending home something to them even if they don't access code and have that. So yeah. Yep. We're covered multiple ways where the parents and I know the middle school teachers are going to talk to the students about their data, sit down with them, show them where they're at, where they need to go and have those conversations to hopefully try to improve scores as well. And then the next one, I don't have it on there because it would have been really tiny. >> Yeah. >> Um that's our
075I Ready data. So that beginning of the year benchmark that they took um in August, they had the month of August to complete it. So the first one shows um elementary, so K through five. And then on the right hand side is a cadence learning beginning of the year. And that one is um testing um comprehensive reading. So that's like our dyslexia. So that's how we um and Mrs. Sullivan, she's our dyslexia specialist and is really great with running all that data. And then the last one >> information here. >> The last one is the um I already beginning of the year data for um sixth, seventh and eighth. So middle school and I mean this data even goes beyond where like Mrs. Eubank was saying it will give the teachers and this is what
076we had with the teachers. It gives every student's name um the standard where they're testing at whether that's mid, sixth grade, fifth grade. each standard um whether they're mid, fifth grade, sixth grade. So, it really is a detailed report that really helps us to where know where they're at and where they need to go. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yes. >> Yes. >> Yeah. And like I Ready, it will even do a print out report for um the parents where it will tell you what your kiddo's good at and what they need to focus on and um how to help them focus on that too. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> And then the last page is just that access to the family portal. So, this is what the um parents got today is along with their little
077information access code so that they can log in. And thank you to Matthew. It is also on our website so if any parents um have questions, they know it's on there and they can contact me and I'll help them through it, too. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. >> Great information. >> Hey, we forgot to wish everybody well wishes for fall right next week. Well, you still got time. >> I hope you all have a great fall break. >> Yeah, >> we want happy and safe and adventurous. Safe adventures. [Music] >> I think we have [Music] >> anything else? Anything on the financials? I know you went through the budget all >> went through the budget and talked about the appropriations and we will talk more about that in November. >> Okay.
078All right. We need approval for leave of the county report for September 25. Motion to approve that. Lauren a second. >> I'll second. >> Ethan. All in favor? >> I >> and approval of claims. A motion for that. >> A motion. >> Second that. All in favor? Anything else? Any other discussion? >> Okay. Dear show school board, Dr. Lam, Kendra, and staff, with sincere thanks, Mike and I would like to express our gratitude for your kindness, love, support shown to our daughter Tammy. Your attendance at at her viewing and fina was appreciated. Also, the blue and white floor arrangement with the Jug Rock was so appropriate. She would have loved it. Tammy loved her job and making sure meals provided for the children. Respectfully, my You will be missed. [Music] >> Anything else? We are
079ajourned. [Music]