001It is 75. Kansas Right. >> Call this meeting to order. Our meeting for April 2026. Please stand and join us in the pledge. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. First item this evening is a recommendation to approve the agenda. And Dr. Williams, I don't believe we have any agenda. Is that correct? >> That's correct. >> So I would entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> So I have a motion second to approve the agenda as presented. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All members in favor signify by saying I. I. Those opposed. Same sign. Eyes have it. Ocean Caries. Uh, next item, school spotlight,
002and this month is the high school, Mrs. Skinner. >> Good evening, members of the board. I have with us this evening two of our board exchange students. Um, and I'm just reflecting on a conversation that Mr. Beersley and I just had right before this meeting. And you know, as we get to this time of the year and we see so many seniors kind of catapult into that next uh stage of life, um sometimes I think we lose sight of just how daunting that is to go out and have to find your people for the first time in a really long time because they've all grown up together. So, with that in mind, I'm sitting here watching these two girls interact and thinking of how much courage it would take as a 17 or 18year-old um
003student to completely remove yourself from everything that you know, language systems, everything, and go out and find your people not just in a neighboring town or city, but in a completely different country. So, you'll notice one of them is here in a softball uniform. Um, so she is probably going to talk first. she's going to get back to her softball game. And I will say that's one of the things that I absolutely love about having foreign exchange students is they are so eager to get involved and really kind of throw themselves into every group club opportunity we have to be involved. Um, so that's a really cool thing. And as much as I'm sure this experience has had an impact on their life, I'm a very firm believer that it has a huge positive impact
004on our students lives too. if you know of anybody that has been in the high school within the last three years. I think we've hosted 13 or 14 foreign exchange students now. Um, and I guarantee you every student has had a personal story or connection to one of them. Um, so I really do think it goes a long way kind of broadening our world perspective also. So, thank you girls for having the courage to go outside of your comfort zone and join our family for the year. Um, so I'm going to have Angelina start so she can get back to her softball game. um they're going to talk a little bit about um life that they know in their home country and then how it compares to their life as a high school student here.
005Thanks. >> Okay. So, hi everyone. My name is Angelina. I'm the foreign exchange student from Germany and I have a presentation about my experience here and how it is different from what I have known so far. And uh yeah, first of all, I have a little daily life of me in Germany. There's a picture of me, my friends, and my school. And that's the main building. So for us back in Germany, we spend most of our day at school. We don't always have the same schedule as we do here. We have different classes, different days of the week, and we have one period for 90 minutes, and then we'll break the 90 minutes again. that repeats throughout the whole day. And after school, stuff like sports we don't really have. We go home immediately after
006and we spend most of the time either with friends or doing homework because German schools are a little harsher, I would say. And then um here in the US, I feel like it's a little more easygoing and you have more time for yourself and for friends. So, here's a little bit of my American life as I experience here. Um, I have I go to school every day. I have the same schedule, which I actually kind of prefer. It's easier and I have like more time to do like the stuff throughout the day and not stress. Um, I go to do sports after school. As you can see, I'm playing softball right now. I played soccer and basketball and I wrestled as well which I really love. I wish we had that in Germany and if
007we did I would love to play sports but we only have like clubs and they're not very school associated. I feel like school here is also like more laidback and less stress and there's a whole thing with the school spirit and sports games and I feel like everyone here is like closer and the whole school is like a very big family. Um, a question I get a lot of times is what do I like in the US and what do I miss from home? So, first of all, my US favorites. First of all, the people. They are so much more talkative. They're so much more friendly. I could just like go down the street and talk with anyone and they're so friendly. Um, I love the food here. Everyone's Everyone's always like, "Yes, food." And
008I'm like, "Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I love the US food." I also love the school spirit, as I just said. Um, all my friends I got to know here, the whole culture that they showed me. Um, such stuff like school sports. I love pepperellies. every time we have some from the school and I watch people like go up there and like do some stuff like just for the whole school. It's just so fun to watch. Um I also love the senior activities that I got to join in on like the senior trip that we had yesterday. Um the senior sunrise or sunset that we will have the graduation. I'm very excited for that. It feels like a little part of a movie. Um yeah, thank you guys for listening. I als Oh, wait. Yeah, I
009don't know what size, but I also have like some stuff I miss from home. Um the stuff I miss most I feel like is um my family, which kind of obvious. I kind of miss my mom sometimes and my friends, but people are sometimes like, "Do you miss your food?" And I'm like, "Not really. Do you miss your school?" And they're But yeah, if I could, I would love to stay here longer. I wish I wish I was a student here for longer. >> But um yeah, thank you guys for listening for my little presentation. I'm sorry that it couldn't be longer. I just tried to do I have a game to go to. >> Yeah. Thank you guys for having us. >> Yeah, good job. >> Thank you. Good luck with your game. >>
010Hello everyone. So my name is Lena and I'm from Tunisia. Um it comes from North Africa which is a little bit new to everyone um here and not only here but from the US because normally exchanges are from like Europe and not usually from North Africa. So um so I just started my program which is the That's going to be rubber exchange and study program and it's actually a scholarship. So I got here after like a process of selection in my country and I was selected with other 27 students from um my home country and I came here which was a really fun process and I was really excited to come and experience the US experience because I only seen in movies and I thought it was really cool. >> Um so first of all
011I just wanted to tell you about like um My country is very small. Um, I understand sometimes that people don't really know it because it's really a small country. We only have like 12 million people living there. Um, and it's North Africa on the Mediterranean Sea. So, it's if you know Morocco and Libya and Algeria, we're next to that country and we're really close to Italy. Um, specifically Sicily. Yeah, I we're very close to Sicily. We're about to touch. Um, so next, um, I just want to tell you about my roots. just because um I want to like give you an idea of what who is a North African. Um so we're considered Arabs as Tunisians but we're not 100% Arabs because um we're Romans where we have we're French too. We have a French
012influence. We'reians and we're also um Jewish people which is Otman back in the day. So that's the reason why is because like we had a lot of people come to Indonesia and it was like a process of I don't know mixed roots. So I'm very mixed. I'm not only like North African and when you go Indonesia will like see it even in the faces because we're very we look very different. It's just diversity. >> Um so I also have I want to give you a little bit about food. So food is basically like the dream. Um we have a lot we eat a lot of spicy food. Um we have different tastes like different sweets and it also goes back to like Why we're mixed is like we kind of have like a lot of
013things. You could you could find like Turkish sweets as Tunisian Indonesian way. Um you can find couscous if you ever heard of that. Um it's my favorite food. Yep. Um and next I wanted to talk about the weather. So I wanted to compare the weather specifically from um my daily life here in America, well Indiana and back in my home city. So um as I always Somebody ask me where I'm from. I say I'm from North Africa, Tunisia. They only expect like desert and very hot weather and which is not true because we have it all. Like we have snow. So I didn't like a lot of people asked me if I first like here but I actually saw snow before and I live in a city where it snows a lot and it's really
014cold. It's not Indiana cold but I still thought the weather is very confusing. And um we have like snow. We also have a lot of green spaces um in mountains. Actually Tunisia is called Green Tunisia and which is an area between um it's because we have a lot of green spaces. Um we also have a lot of beaches and tourists love beaches. They always come in the summer. Um, I always found like from a lot of places actually met few Americans in Tunisia before and I really found it very fun to like have like a lot of tourists in there and they really enjoy the beach because it's very clear and it's very like um and the people are very welcoming so they really enjoy it there. We also have like something called like Greece.
015So sometimes like whenever I show people these pictures, they just like expect to like it's Greece, but that's because we had also Greek people in Tunisia, we have like the exact same place that they have in Greece, which is also a very like um touristic spot. Tourists love to go there because they find it like as similar as Greece. Um yeah, that was the weather, but um we also have the desert. So that's very common in Africa, but we have it in south. And as like a Tunisian person, I've never been in the desert. I live up north, so I've never been there. I really want to go there because it's really cool. You could like ride bikes and do all that crazy stuff. And I never did it. And I want to do it.
016Like I know I want to do it. >> Um and yeah, my life back home. So basically, I live in the city at work, as I said, and um it snows a lot there. The weather is cool. It's not very hot, which I love. Um, in the summer I don't like like to sweat a lot. I don't I don't really like the heat. Um, we're very famous with like the um music festivals and uh we also have a lot of spaces and I also live in the capital city for um for um my life back home too. Um so I love the mountains back home and my dad loved to take me always hiking. Um when I was young, he just took me there and like we just hiked and it was so terrifying for
017me because I was like, "Oh, I'm going to fall." But I had my brother with me like just sticking my hands and I made it all the way to the top. That was my first picture if you could see it. My first picture making it to the top for the first time. It was very fun and I like it. I still like hiking up until now. Um so after that I have my friends. So back home we spend a lot of time friends more even than family just because our school life is um basically our schedule is very busy so we spend um from 8 to 5 p.m. At school, we have a lot of breaks, yes, but we spend a lot of time with friends. I rarely see my family on the weekdays. I
018I mean, I go back home, I eat dinner with them, and we have fun, but it's just busy school day, so I'm always with my friends. Um, so they have a big part of me. I like I have a lot of fun with them. Um, yep. And um, yeah. So, as I talked with Miss Skinner, I wanted to tell you more about education more than everything just because I thought It's like the perfect location I guess because it's school um board meeting. Um so how high school works is very different. We have very different system and um I would say I like both the American system and my system. Um and I will tell you what I like more in each system. So for me in Tunisia we have like three different type of schools.
019We have like a public high school like whatever like a normal public high school. We have elite public school which you go in um after taking test if you want to. They kind of like hold you to um like a higher standard. Um and we have also like different systems. We also have the American high school systems there that people who people like like to go to. We have Canadian and French um school systems. But for me, I go to an elite public school um which uh is a small school just because it's elite public school. like 500 people like the exam exact same here and after that so subjects and schedule for this one I didn't put any pictures but because it's mainly like um I don't know talking about stuff um so for
020our time table as I said we usually go from 8 to 5 we have like 2 hours lunch break sometimes we don't even like we don't study from 8 to 5 because sometimes we have like 2 hours PE class which everyone has to take unless you're sick or unless you have certificate from a doctor to PE. Um but we um we do it from like primary school to high school and each um like how do you say each stage have like different sports for example we we learn a lot of gymnastics and basketball handball volleyball we kind of learn all that in school which that's a difference because here like it's after school activities so we kind of like go to whatever interests you so that's what I like more you're not really obliged to
021do it you're just like oh I and we try it. So that's what I really like. Um so for the subjects we don't also choose our subjects. Um we kind of choose our sections. So like if you're interested in doing business after school like if you know you have an idea um you can go like to economic section at the beginning of the high school and then you kind of go like four years of high school or if you could go literature, you can go scientific. Um, you can go also if you're very interested in sports and you want to be an athlete, you can go to like an athlete section. So that's how we um I guess that's how it's different because here you choose subjects but you don't choose like the whole section.
022So after that we choose a section and we need to like study the subject that they gave us. Um so for me I chose science section. So I'll be studying third year mathematics. Um and we also have 13 grades. So one more grade than you guys here. So I'll be graduating not this year next year. Um yeah. So after that the grades the grades is also a little bit different because we don't we don't get graded on assignments which I also find very like better here because you get graded as long as you study throughout the term. For us we get graded on exams like we have two weeks of exams. Uh one week is like um exams for easier subjects less important for you for your section and then one week is like um
023each day one subject. Of course they don't like the more than one subject a day to test you on it because you kind of like get tested on everything. You study for one like semester or one term. Um so that's how we get graded. And for me, since I'm in a lead school, you have to kind of like um leave, how do you say, you kind of have like to have a certain grade for you to stay in that lead school. They don't extend you like they don't expel you from school like immediately if you don't u but you could go to like a public high school, but you need to have like a certain um grade to stay in and leave school. Um, so after all, I kind of find that part a little
024bit boring for this like but we also talk a lot of languages. So in Tunisia we talk Arabic, we talk Deja, Tunisian and we talk French and we also learn another language. So English, Arabic, French and we choose another language in high school which is Spanish or German most common or we also could learn like Japanese or um Chinese or Turkish. It's kind of like your choice what you want to learn when you're a bigger person. But I know um French, Arabic, and English. And I really like that. Every time I tell someone here how many languages speak, they just um they found it very fascinating and they like keep asking me how to speak Spanish different languages. Um which is interesting. So, but I think everyone like gives me that of like, oh, I
025want to learn more languages and stuff like that. Um, so I found that part really cool. And after that, so sports circular. So I know you might be wondering what like do you guys only have school back home? You don't like get to enjoy yourselves? You don't get to have fun or circular activities or sports. We actually do. So I've been at gymnastics for 11 years before. So I started being doing gymnastics since I was like five years old um or four years old. And I also mainly did dance too for two years. I don't do gymnastics anymore just because um I kind of like lost passion for it because I've been doing it for so long. But I really loved it. And how I used to balance my life in school is that I
026used to like gymnastics during the weekend. So it was a little bit intense or like after school activity that like we really appreciate sports back home. um they're as big as in the US, but I feel like in the US you still have more space for those sports in real life, which is I really like that's the part that every student appreciates when they come here uh in the sports because I really love how you guys um like you give an opportunity for the student to not only study and learn but also learn through exercising and doing different sports and discovering a new thing in themselves that um interest them. Um so yeah, we have a lot of athletes like international athletes from Tunisia and we actually have a lot of swimmers too in the
027US competing with you guys. Um so we also have clubs they kind of like always clubs are more than sports in Tunisia um like related to school related. We have like music clubs, we have United Nations, all United Nations clubs um we have theater We have um astronomy. We have a lot of clubs and it's kind of up to you if you didn't want like if you didn't find a specific club in your high school kind of can open like another um club for yourself if you want to. You can create any idea you want. Um so for me I did um I did a lot of theater pieces because I used to like I sing. I know how to sing. So I got um a lot of roles and musicals before. Um we also
028have a lot of um music club as I said music in Tunisia is very big. So we um we have something a club called Tunisia 88 and each state has at least I think five clubs of that or like 10 clubs in there and um each high school makes like a video clip and you compete on national level which is really cool. We got I think this year we got the first place in uh in making a video video clip for my high school. Um and it was called Steam and I was really proud of them. Um yeah, and then yep, that's it. That's it for school curriculum. And fun facts about Tunisia. Um actually, if you don't know that Star Wars was actually filmed in Tunisia and it's a really fun fact I really
029want love telling people about. It was the first inner country to all slavery. Um it's also the northern most part of like point of north Africa. So like kind of the highest um top of Africa. We're top exporters of olive oil. Um we have also the fourth holiest city. Um we have millionyear old ganga estate and we also have salt and jer station. So thank you guys for having us. Um, thank you for listening to me and taking your time to um, listen to what I've said and shared with you guys. Um, I really also appreciate that you um, accept exchange student in your high school because it's really becoming rare right now um, that they don't really um, get to have like exchange students in high school. They don't really accept them, but um,
030I really like that South High School gives that opportunity to kids. I also like how you guys let them um do sports because a lot of states they don't let them do that or bigger schools and that's really a big part of um an American like American high schools that student um loft experience. So thank you again. >> So impressive. Um I also have something called I actually um made this when I was in the capital of Tunisia and I wrote let me show you. >> So I this is like kind of something we do in Tunisia. So I >> love it. Thank you. Wow. >> Gary, you want to close that up? >> I don't know how you talk that. >> Yeah. I mean, just and to think that's not their first language, you
031know, like the thought of getting up in front of a room for us is daunting and the language and the people that we know. So, I just have so much respect for their courage and they just go out and take the world by forms and I love it. >> She did a great job. >> She did. >> You know, I love this program. Yeah. >> Uh I uh >> and I I applaud our parents in the community that have hosted uh and I I really think >> you and your leadership, your team for for endorsing. >> Yeah. And I think there are some schools that have had a bad, you know, sometimes you don't know exactly what kind of student you're getting, but we have only really had great experiences. So, um, I was a
032little hesitant at first, especially when they really kind of started rolling in. I think one year we had six and I was like, I don't know. But I'm like, really, why not? Like, every single one of them branches out, makes connections, and and I know for 100% that our kids' lives are touched and they start to see the world differently. So, Well, thank you, Mrs. Skinner. All right, we'll uh that concludes the school spotlight and we'll move on to citizens comments. If anybody in the audience would like to address the board this evening, now be your chance to do so. If you're interested in addressing the the board, please approach the podium. And seeing no citizens comments, we'll close citizens comments. Move on. First of all, consideration of minutes. And these are the minutes of
033the regular meeting that is held on March the 26, 2026. I'd entertain a motion. So move a second. >> I have a motion, a second to approve the events for the regular school board meeting held on March 26, 2026. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All members in favor by saying I. >> I. Those opposed. Same sign. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Moving on to finances for the month of April. First of all, vouchers. Dr. Williams. >> Members of the board, please consider approving vouchers 113670 through 113835. Any questions that you have answered at this time? I'll make the motion to approve battery to 113 835. Second motion second to approve vouchers 113670 through 113835. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All members in favor signify by saying I. >> Those opposed same
034sign. >> Eyes have it. Motion carries. Furthering on under finances, the 2026 Q1 financial report. Dr. W. >> Yeah. Members of the board, I emailed you the first quarter financial report uh for the calendar year 2026 at the beginning of the month. Uh I'm going to go over a couple things and then I'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have on it. Our fund balance for the education fund as of the end of March was 2,225,867.61. operations fund was a negative 239 15837. Remember that we operate out the last three months of the fiscal year and the negative there has taxes come in in June. So that is not out of the ordinary. Um also the rain day fund has a balance of 347,94819 and our remaining balance for our 2024 excuse
035me 2025 first mortgage bond is 1,35,324.98. student count as of March 31st was 1,429 students. This is a decrease of 368 students since 2012 and uh this year since October uh down near 31 students um can be attributed as we say to online uh schooling and the declining population in the community. We are projected to meet uh the new 65% rule for teacher salary and benefits. Um, so that means that every certified teacher that goes into that of what we received, 65% should go out to that. We currently over the 70% mark. Um, and I would be happy to answer any questions that you have at this time on any of this or any report that I sent earlier. >> What was the midterm number? >> I think around 11 or 12. Yeah. So, a
036little less than half that declines. >> All right. Anything uh else regarding the financial reports hearing? None. Let's move to the quarterly transfer resolution. Dr. Williams. >> Yeah. Members of the board, uh this is a recommendation uh for the quarterly transfer of $300,000 this time uh from the education to the operations fund. We can transfer up to 15% uh each year and we cover about the seven or 8% mark. So I would ask for your approval for that and then also we will need that resolution signed at the end of this >> resolution is before you. I would entertain a motion. So move >> second. >> I have a motion and second to approve the quarterly transfer resolution as presented. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All members in favor signify by saying I.
037>> I. >> Those opposed. Same sign. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Moving on. Personnel report for the month of April. Dr. Wes. >> Yeah. Members of the board, I'd like to highlight a few items under personnel under resignations, retirements, and terminations. Kim Husel has retired from his duties as head swimming and diving coach. He will continue to teach at this time. He's done a lot of great things for our swimming and diving program over the many years. He has led the team and is consistently one of our top performing teams after retirement from your coaching duties. Other personnel items, Amanda Myers resignation effective added food services director on July 17th, 2026. Amanda Mclenn termination prek teacher effective March 30th, 2026. Vicky Brad in retirement bus driver effective at the end of the school year. Nancy
038Dreer resignation bus monitor effective at the end of the school year. Thank each of you for your service uh to South Vermillion and we wish you the best in your uh future endeavors as well as retirement. Under extended leaves, Alexis Richardson 20 days maternity leave beginning April 16th. This is from the CBA that we added earlier in the year. Under recommendations for hire, Tasha Leech, South High School that involuntary transfer to the full-time teaching position. Amber Faulk, South Carolina Middle School cafeteria, effective the 2627 school year and Jeffrey Renahan, South Korean high school custodian effective August 1st, 2026. Under ECA hires, there are a couple assistant positions listed for your approval this evening. I'd be happy to entertain any questions. You know, we I think we've had this discussion before, but the South American swim
039coach and aquatics director position, we've only had like two or three people in the last 30 some years that those people come here and they they just spend a lot of time here and they're very successful. Every one of them. >> Well, I can tell you Uselucel came here when I was a freshman in high school. Been a while been a while. >> That was a rough three years. >> And that was and that >> but what you must coach Swisser before that right before >> Yeah. He was >> I believe there was somebody before Swisser, right? The very first year with you were here. >> I was I can't remember his name. He was a tall guy. >> I don't remember his name. Yeah. >> Yeah. But that's interesting. We just don't have a
040turnover in those positions. >> That's right. >> And they all went on to be successful. >> That's probably, >> if I remember correctly, >> that's probably Oh, you mean each >> each one of those? Yes. >> Yeah. >> I would uh I'd entertain a motion to approve this personel report. So move. >> Second. I motion a second to approve April's personnel report as presented. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All members in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Those opposed. Same sign. Eyes have a motion carries. Moving on to the discussion and reports section of tonight's meeting. First of all, curriculum instruction and assessment. Dr. Bieber. >> Thank you. time. >> Members of the board, I have um shared with you a few documents about our accountability uh familyfriendly sheets that we shared with the
041community recently. Um and a teacher asked a specific scenario. Can you tell me what a score would be for a student based on these sheets that I shared? We have an elementary version, a middle school version, and a high school version. Can you tell me what my if I give you some data on an example fifth grader? So, um I sent this to uh middle school teachers last week. Um we have the pretend student Fifi the fifth the fifth grader and just this really helped um showcase what it means for each child to represent us in the accountability model. Fifi has in purple her um English um language arts data and in the orange her math data. So she does give for the fifth grade and the uh fourth through 8 grade band um for
042South Middle School and the district as a whole. Uh so we get three actual grades um in different areas. So each student though gives us two an English report card and I I I keep telling myself to stop saying report card, an accountability card and a math accountability card. So based on her reaching approaching fifth proficiency on the English I learn test um in the spring of fifth grade, she gets 45 points. She moves over one success indicator because she passed social studies I learn at grade five um with proficiency. She gets another category uh jump for success indicators because she was only absent four days. So she met that 10% um 94% threshold not missing 10 or more days. And then she jumps to the third and final success indicator column because she um
043demonstrated growth on ELA I learn. So there are three ways to demonstrate growth on I learn. You could have one year of um growth which is which which means you're in the 45th percentile. You could have two years of growth um which is called accelerated proficiency and that's about scoring in the 65th percentile. or there is what's called excellent growth and that's moving from um not passing I learn to passing I learn. So there are three categories. She met one of those. Um so she gets 90 points for English and then for math you can see the same thing is repeated down below. Um with she gets to she scores above proficiency. So she's at the top row there. And then social studies I learn counts again on her math accountability card. And then her
044attendance counts again on her math accountability card. and that was it for success indicators for her because she did not obviously have growth on the math I learned. Maybe she was at the same above proficiency in her fourth grade year. So there wasn't that growth. Um so when you average she has 92.5. What I wanted to share with you um at the heart of my presentation this evening is um some data that we're collecting on the throughear assessments. you received this as well and I'm saying through year um not three years sometimes I feel like I don't say that clearly this is representation of all the grade levels testing I learn at central three and four and then bandine and then at the on this window we have um the middle school so this is
045blacked out because those are teacher names under there and you have multiple rows because you have at the middle school level you have a gened in that content area and then you have a sped teacher and then over Here you have um the blacked out sections are the teacher names and the gray bars across going horizontally. That means that um that teacher listed on that line does not teach that content area at that grade level in that school. So that means they could be departmentalized. One teacher might teach all the students in the fourth grade math etc. You won't see gray lines here at Van Dy because in the third grade at Van Dine they are not content area grouped departmentalized speaking. They are ability grouped. So you do have the three four high ability
046split and then you have one third grade teacher uh two third grade teachers teaching gened and and the students are ability group based on that. So those teachers teach those you know subjects exclusively um to their own students. If I zoom in here a little better you can see checkpoint one two and You can see the past percentage for grade three. This happens to be uh the central category. And then you see the states pass percentage. I have I wanted to show you that I have linked in here uh for all my five minutes. Hold on. >> Okay. Sorry. Um we'll give you a little evaluation. This is so cool. This is actually the coolest thing. Um Rebecca Cookoo meets with teachers regularly. This is the checkpoint 3 data from central. We have this for
047each of the three checkpoints. The students are listed on the left, blacked out for this evening's purposes. The scale score is here. And this is the score that the you can get on the um iLearn checkpoint result page online. Um and parents can access that that this year too for the first time. So watch what happens in these columns. Pretend this student in this first row uh performance varies. This student this is below proficiency. um approaching proficiency. The green is at proficiency and blue is above proficiency. This is the standard that was assessed on checkpoint three uh to third grade ELA. So teachers have access to this document and they meet with Rebecca Cookun and the principal weekly or every other week to um really target down and to identify interventions. So when I look
048at that standard RC12, so see that standard right there? I'm going to click on it and then um this is just truly incredible uh data to dial down into. If I go and click here, there is RC12. This was created by IDOE. This is called the blueprint. Um I go here to this document. This is called the instructional framework for that particular standard at grade 3 ELA. And if I scroll down and see come across a blue bar um I can start seeing um this one is if you pass that level, if you're on track or if you're at risk for passing. So these are the proficiency level descriptors. Teachers can use this. They didn't have to create this. It's created for us by IDOE. Teachers can create like questions to practice in class and
049that's what they're doing during intervention time. That's incredible um because they can really dial down to what the specific students need. In closing, I want to point out that these numbers here, the zero and the zero mean that this student on this line missed zero questions of the questions that were given to that student on that test that the questions were designed at the below proficiency, readability, and cognitive level. So then that student missed zero questions um on any problems that were designed uh and geared toward the depth of knowledge of approaching proficiency. This student did not have any questions let that were presented at the at proficiency or above proficiency. Look how many blanks you have in these two columns. And then look what happens when we go over here to these two standards
050um in the writing category. All of a sudden, we have we have questions given to students in the at and above proficiency column. And you know why? Because there's an E right here, which means the state says these are essential standards. This standard is more likely to be on the summitive that they're taking this week and next week. So, I just wanted you to see that real data that the stu that the teachers were digging into to to group their students and the groups change frequently. Um, pretty cool. And we have this for all three checkpoints. And I'm really proud um of the teachers for making these authentic groups. And the uh the middle school too. Sorry, I thought Kristen was right there. Kristen uh the middle school does this as well because we test
051through eighth grade. Do you have any questions? I'll work on my timer. >> Okay. >> Thank you, Dr. >> Thank you. >> All right. Moving on, instructional technology for the month of April. This is FYI. >> Hey board, I am presenting to you tonight the first reading of the student AI policy. This is something that uh we've been planning and working on as a team, both administrators and our computer science teachers, our STEM and STEAM teachers uh in addition to some additional high school and middle school teachers. The policy that I shared with you uh provides clear guidelines for when and how students can use AI tools. Uh we permit AI for learning support such as tutoring, brains, learning, research, and skill practice, accessibility. Uh we do prohibit AI for cheating, um submitting work that
052is not their own and passing it off as their original work. And we also are promoting that students protect their privacy uh that they should not be sharing their personal or any other students personal information on AI platforms. Uh we are also um insisting on maintaining academic integrity that when students do use AI that they learn how to disclose and attribute that work and what work that they put into assignments with both AI and their own um thinking and output. We also are going to work with students on digital citizenship when it comes to AI and using critical thinking that they verify the information that AI outputs recognizing bias and making sure that they use it responsibly. We are this policy applies to all four of our schools. uh most likely our younger grade levels
053won't be using AI, but as they get older become introduced uh into what AI is and be using with elementary teachers uh in more of a guarded fashion. We do have safeguards installed through this policy so that it's written that students must disclose their AI use and document their own learning contribution. We also have the privacy protection through the policy. Again, they cannot share their personal information, photos or school records, also those of other students uh or other staff members as well. We have consequences built in as well. First violation would result in grade penalties in additional digital citizenship training. Repeated violations would escalate to disciplinary action for the code of conduct. Uh policy 5500. As time goes on, we may need to tweak that and be more specific in disciplinary actions, but at this
054point in time being something new, we're going to refer to that code of conduct. As far as preparation for the policy that was written, we had again a group of administrators and a group of STEM and steam teachers who came together. We through the central Indiana service center, we attended a virtual AI planning meeting where we talked about what does the policy look like. At this point in time, students are not allowed to use AI with the exception of the few teachers who've worked with us. Um, our staff and steam teachers and then those middle school and high school teachers who've signed on to pilot. Uh, the one AI tool that we have available for students, it's through securely which is our content filter. They also have an AI tool that teachers can monitor. They
055can monitor exactly what students enter into the AI tool. They can see what those outputs are. We've tested it as far as if students try to put in how to answer an equation. It helps them work through the steps as opposed to just spitting out the answers. Same thing if a if a student puts in an essay prompt, it won't just give them a written paper. it will help them compose an outline and work through that. Again, the teachers are able to see exactly what students asked and what that information is. So, we feel confident that starting out with a securely AI tool is the right step for our students. Um, teachers u have been giving feedback students are really enjoying the alternative assignments. I had one middle school teacher who instead of doing a
056poster on the water cycle, which is something that they do every single year, the students came up with a song about the water cycle set to popular current music. They recorded music videos with their iPads and said that they had a ball. When can we do this next? So, they're still doing the same assignments, but they're just applying it a little differently using AI to kind of help inspire their song choice or such. So, uh, didn't do the work for them, but it did kind of help them with their inspiration. Um, we will continue with professional development in the fall at our back to school PD where we will show our other teachers that are interested in in using Securely AI how to use the tool and continue throughout the school year. We do have
057an AI policy that we will be introducing for staff as well. Uh, we're still trying to work through some of the that we felt like our student policy was ready to go. If approved, it will go in the handbook along the student technology responsible use policy in the iPad agreement. >> Any questions? >> Everyone on my head you you've addressed. So, >> I feel like it was comprehensive. some points were repetitive but >> the uh the interesting one would be uh as we go forward if if you have faculty members that embrace it and want to you know want to use it and >> at this point in time we we're not limiting staff with AI and we haven't said these are the tools that's kind of where the debate is is back and forth
058on which tools are acceptable and do we say to staff these are the only tools >> and the tools today that are out there are different than they were six months ago they will be different six months from now they are today >> and so that it's that do we only allow specific tools or do we say we only support specific tools um and then one of the other key points of this is is privacy student privacy and not putting that information into into the AI so >> we learned a a lot as we went through this process. >> Yeah, it's kind of scary and exciting at the same time. >> I mean, it's amazing. I It's kind of replacing it. When I first started my job, Google was the big thing back then. And
059I remember >> WW. But teachers were terrified at that time is now how am I going to teach now because students can just Google the answer and now we have AI and so it's it does just continue to open up the world and make us kind of change the questions that we ask and how students are learning. So we're getting there as far as getting prepared. So we'll consider this first reading and uh we'll look towards adoption next month. >> Thank you. >> All right. Moving moving on. Uh the next report for the month of April is student services. Mrs. Foster >> at your place settings. I have given you the attendance trends for um the corporation as last month. We just updated with this month's information of the overall attendance, the chronic absenteeism and
060the try for each building, our corporation compared to the state. Also, last month I informed you about the unfiltered um what every parent needs to know about the digital world. That'll be this next Tuesday, a week from tomorrow from 6:00 to 7:30 at South Marine High School. a free masoli dinner following the presentation. Very informative information will be there on how to protect our children um using the internet. It's for adults only because of the content information. However, we will be doing a convocation at most high school the following week I believe. Um that content will be studentbased and informing them of how to protect themselves and what they need to be aware of. So just that will be next Tuesday. And then also May 7th, we are honoring all the retired Sapper Million staff.
061So we sent that out. Um so anyone who's retired from Sacramento million in any capacity is welcome for lunch on Thursday, May the 7th at 11:30 here at the superintendent's office. >> I thought that was a great idea. >> Thank you. >> It's first one she's had this year. That's a great idea. >> It's like he's endorsed. >> Any questions for Mrs. Foster? >> All right, moving on to facilities. >> I was going to say I I do not see Mr. >> Y. Okay. All right. So, we'll move on to last uh discussion report for the evening is teacher valuation handbook. First reading, Dr. Williams. >> Yeah. members of the board. We started this process back in probably November, October, November. Um, and any teacher in the corporation was invited, the administrator was invited, we
062met in the basement a few times. Um, and we sent out a survey in regard to the teacher evaluation tool that we used. Um, and so 97.3% were comfortable with the new language. Uh, they like the open dialogue observation, more of a coaching method. um 100% response on that. Um I won't go over all the results, but over 90% were favorable of the new evaluation system. Uh there's 10 basically made it very simple. Uh five areas in planning, organization, and instruction, five areas in school leadership and culture of the building. Uh before, you know, there were multiple 24 principles. Uh you know, it's hard for them to get through everything, evaluations, so forth. Long story short, we decided to come up with a new evaluation. all those evaluations. Uh we separated special education teachers out
063from the regular certified teachers because they have responsibilities. We have SLPs, counselors, and so forth. All included in the handbook that was sent to you before. Um and then this handbook basically outlines uh the fact that with any legislation changes last July 1, we don't have to use the highly effective, effective, uh ineffective, and needs improvement categories any longer. Um so throughout the handbook um the proposed language uh the new uh schedule of observations and all that are are listed for you. So this will be the first reading this evening. I'd ask for feedback again one last time um and we consider it before the second reading next month. >> Very good. Any questions for Dr. Williams? >> Thank you. We'll move on to decision items for this evening. First of all, SV gives back
064for the month of April. Dr. Yeah, Angela and Audrey are here with us tonight and uh we are happy to give back and this is uh our month where we go over $20,000 and SB gives back from the inception in August of 2023. Um, and so $848.37 presented to Walbash Valley Cluster 83 who do uh so many great things for our school uh and our community as far as you know we've had them here for free laundry days. We've had them here for the Wildcat stores all those different things they do for us. So we happy to get back to them this month and I would ask for approval at this time. >> So move second motion a second approve the SB gives back donation for the month of April as presented. Any further discussion
065hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. Those opposed. Same sign. Eyes have it. Motion carries. >> So we'll stand in re a brief recess for check presentation. >> Is that the 840? That's the biggest largest. >> It is big. Thank you so much. >> Thank you >> from our team to yours. We appreciate your support and your confidence >> for us taking care of your this precious program. also recognize we recent I mean family that had a fire I mean they step right up and help the family that experienced a house fire too >> anytime we can help we want to be there >> thank you for everything >> we appreciate your partnership >> thank you >> be safe byebye >> and I want to say some of the
066kids here like Bailey and uh Victoria Crouch they help us out so much. And there's some um homeschool kids that help us too with our helping with the programs. And I want to thank you for your um involvement with our fundraiser because South Pavilion was really um represented during the fundraiser. We did very well and that goes towards helping the kids too. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you so much. >> You take care. All right, moving on to summer school recommendation. Dr. Williams. >> Yeah, members of the board, this is just a recommendation to approve uh the summer school program this year. Some of the the state level have changed, but we will still continue to hold it and Dr. Ver included all that information in the attachment. So, if you have any
067questions, you can refer those to her, but I would ask for your approval at this time. I'll second. >> I'll have I have a motion, a second to approve the summer school uh recommendation for summer of 20 2026 as presented. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none, all members in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Those opposed, same sign. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Moving on to the KIC food service bids. >> Yeah, members of the board, uh we received the K12 was leading Indiana cooperative uh food service bids for next school year. Um we ask for your approval of the attached bids for our food services department this evening. This helps as we go through the audit process and making sure everyone is involved and so forth uh with the situation. So I'd
068ask for your approval of the food bids attached in 7C. >> So move. >> Second. >> A motion a second to approve the food service bids as presented. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All members in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Those opposed? Same sign. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Moving on to approval of the stipen. Dr. Williams. >> Yeah, Mr. Considering the next couple of items on the agenda are due to personnel changes in the wildat den recommendation to approve a $1,500 stipen to be paid at the end of the school year to Dr. Melan Beaver for her added hours every day in the morning to open the wildat den. I would ask for your approval at this time. >> So move motion a second to approve the stipen that Dr. Beaver has
069presented for the wildcat did duties for the rest of the school year. Any further discussion hearing? None. All members in favor signify by saying I. I. >> Those opposed, same sign. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Uh, moving on. Dr. Williams, another additional compensation request for the prek classroom. >> Yes. This is a recommendation to approve Mrs. Caitlyn Laznik's hourly wage based on the classified employee handbook as half of her day will be taken on as the teacher role in there. So we would ask to adjust her hourly wage per the half day for the rest of the school year. >> Second. >> Do you have a motion? A second to approve the additional compensation recommendation for Caitlyn Lasnik as as presented. Any further questions, comments? Hearing none. All members in favor signify by saying I.
070>> Those opposed, same sign. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay. Moving on from the month of April. Donations. Yeah, this is a recommendation uh to accept the donations as presented in attachment 7F on your agenda. Total amount is $400. 300 from TriCappa for the art show, 50 from Linda Palmer for the FFA, and 50 from Christina for the FFA. I ask for your approval at this time. >> So move. >> I'll second. >> Motion a second to approve the donations as presented. Any further discussion? Hearing no discussion. All all members in favor signify by saying >> I. I. >> Those opposed. Same sun. I seven. Motion carries. Field trips from the month of April. Dr. Williams. >> Yeah. Members of the board. Uh there are a couple of these that are retroactive here. Sophomore Middle
071School 6th through 8th grade FFA. April 17th to Cloverdale High School. South High School senior trip to Kings Island on April 19th yesterday. Uh to Cincinnati, Ohio. South High School Art Club. April 30th 2026, Glass Arts, Indiana. South High School and Middle School drone teams to Flint, Michigan. Uh on May 15th and 16th at Peter University. And finally, July 28th through 30th, 2026, the South High School cheerleader summer cheer camp at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. I ask for approval this. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> I have a motion in a second to approve the field trips as presented. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all members in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Those opposed, same sign. eyes have a motion carries. All right, that concludes our regular portion of tonight's agenda
072and brings us to our last comp citizens uh comment period. So, anybody in the audience like to address the board before we adjourn, now be your chance to do so. You're interested in addressing the board, please approach the podium. And seeing and hearing none, we will close comment period and conclude with first of all Dr. Williams comments and then board member comments. Dr. Williams, >> seems uh pretty hard to believe that this is our last board meeting before graduation as our main board meeting is on the 26th. Graduation is on the 23rd. Our last student day is on May 19th. This year seems like it has flown by. Um we're making sure that we are fully staffed next school year as we're receiving some resignations here at the end of the school year. Um we
073have probably three or four hires to make classified wise at this point. Uh our theater is in the final stages of preparing for their opening night sound music on April the 24th. So we ask this weekend is uh if you're able to to come out and watch that. Finally, I'd like to thank our German exchange student Angelina and Tanisha Lena for their presentation this evening. Very eye opening on the different cultures. So um appreciate it. >> Thank you Dr. Williams. Let's start there with Mr. West. >> I think I'm good for you. >> All right. >> You know, I we'll make one statement. >> All right. >> I used when I was still employed, I was part of an international ally team that traveled all over the world and I was part of a team
074put together from folks from all over the world. It was interesting that I was the only one on that team that did not speak several languages. Most people on that team spoke five languages and some of my team members spoke seven languages. So to see what these young ladies talked about, how they're being prepped, u we're falling behind. We need to think about those kind of things and see how we can push that forward because like I said in the business world the only the only place in the world we got stumped was South Africa and and all the folks on my team had no idea about those folks and of course it's Dutch descendants and they just didn't didn't know how to you know speak So, but we went everywhere else in the world
075and we were able to navigate. But >> only because I had all that expertise around me. >> So, just want to throw that out there. I was thinking about that when the young ladies were talking. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Gner. As always, just thank everyone for the presentations this evening on the day that you presented us to double up on the exchange students. That was a great presentation. Great opportunity for them to get to speak in front of a group. They they showed themselves very well. I'm sure our students get as much from their presence as well. That's all. Thank you, Mrs. Staylor. >> I don't think I >> Thank you, Mr. Siss. Same with me. >> Well, it's down to you, Mr. Grimsley. Um, thank you again for the presentation and Mrs. Skinn,
076that's a credit. You know, they mentioned the family atmosphere that they appreciate. That's a credit to you and your staff and what you foster at the high school. So, congratulations on that. And then, of course, uh, Mr. Mucil, have to mention him. Um, you know, not only has he been a great leader of our swimmers, but he's taught so many kids to swim in the summer who may not go on to swim the high school level, but just an important skill, obviously a survival skill, and something they enjoy, but he's done a great job here. >> That's great. Can I add one more thing? >> Sure. Uh, Governor Braun uh visited last week and Mrs. Skinner and Mr. Newbie at the high school director. I think really he said he hadn't been catered to like
077this before between the snacks in the conference room. He seemed to like Mr. Good Bars. And we also had his own parking spot made for him by our RCT classes. Um he was impressed with the welding lab as well as the house being constructed here across the street. So it was it was a neat experience for our kids as well to get to interact with them. So note worthy for sure. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um I I don't have any comments on I already made my comments at the meeting. I guess uh we do have an executive session immediately following and we do need to sign the resolution along with all the other routine paperwork. So with no further ado, I will entertain a motion to adjourn.