001City, I'd like to call tonight's meeting to order. Ice 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. >> All right. So, we all have the agenda. There is no agenda as far as I'm aware of recommendation to approve. >> Second and a second. All in favor? >> All opposed. Agenda pass. First off tonight, we have a school spotlight with our junior optimist. So, Miss Patrick, you'd like to >> Okay. [clears throat] Members of the board, Dr. Williams, Mrs. Foster, we appreciate you allowing us to come tonight. Um, I do have three of members of the junior optimist and this is just something for the fifth grade. So, this is something that they do. Um, my
002sponsors, uh, Lindsay Brown and Christy Johnson are here as well. They're awesome and they give a lot of time to these kiddos to do some great things. So, I'm going to let the girls introduce themselves and they can go ahead and get started. I'm >> I'm Harper. I'm >> What is Junior Office? Junior office is sponsored by the Clinton breakfast office club. Includes 25 fifth grade students. Serve the community through service program. Develop leadership skills and life skills. Promote volunteerism. Serving the community. As of today, we have raised over $350 to look for the concession stands for athletic events. This money has dunes for hygiene products to give to families. We will continue to work in sessions in order to donate more money to colle organized toys and clean [snorts] humane shelter. We spent three
003Saturday mornings at the Park Humane Shelter. During this time, he cleaned up cat cages, fed and walked the dogs, and prepared the dogs for and fell home. >> Halloween spirit. We passed out candy at the van chunk or treat and we decorated a light pole on street for Halloween. Veterans Day. Last week, we made over 60 buttons to give out to veterans during the program. The Clinton Optimus purchase a button >> Thanksgiving Christmas food baskets. With the help of the local donation captain club, we will be able to put together 13 baskets for local. These baskets include turkey, gift goods, oil, stuffing, eggs, etc. All the items family need to have for a good Thanksgiving day. We will do the same for Christmas. possible possible volunteers in the 2026. Return to cake. Build and distribute
004blessing boxes at local parks. Deliver eastern meals, meal baskets to families. Mark more concession stands. Visit local nursing homes and spare. Clean up local parks. Consider suggestions for others. >> Do you guys have any questions? You have fun. >> You had to have fun there at the uh Jermaine. That look like a lot of fun to me. >> And you said there were 30 in your club. >> 25. That's nice. Just give you a little history. Uh about 20 years ago, my vice president of finance came to my office and said, "Bruce, I think you got a lot of time on your hands. How would you like to organize an Optimus Club in Clinton?" Great. [laughter] at that [clears throat] time he was on Optimus International and uh he was one of the the top
005dogs and they were always looking to expand their resources. So they we started coming [clears throat] people up here in about 45 days we signed up 50. You only needed 35 to organize the club and we never looked back. And this club has been one of the most influential clubs in the Indiana South District as well as across the nation. So you guys are part of a nice organization and there's a lot of resources out there that you need to take aware of, be aware of and take take advantage of. So just give a little history, little background. Uh you're part of a big organization making a difference. So, hi father. Thank you. [applause] >> Thank you. Great job. You're a busy busy bunch. Thank you for your service. >> Cora, go cheer us on
006to a victory now. [laughter] each other and I will add since then we organized the North Club and the Cington Club. So, it's a great organization. >> You're still involved? >> Uh, not in well, sort of financially, but I don't get chance to participate much. >> Not with those two Boston characters. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Moving on to our first um section for citizens comments. If anybody would like to address your opportunity to podium, state your name. >> What? All right, hearing none of close citizens comment. Um, we'll move on to our consent agenda. We have the minutes in our packet from our regular board meeting held October 23rd. Anybody have any comments or discussion on on those minutes to a motion? >> Motion in a second. All in favor of the amendment as presented,
007please say I. >> I. All those same sign motion passes. Moving on to finances. Mr. Williams. >> Members of the board, please consider approving vouchers 112826 through 11299. You have any questions? I'd be happy to answer them at this time. >> Any discussion on finances? >> Bruce a second. Second. >> All in favor of approving finances for vouchers 112826 to 11299, please say I. >> I. All those same sign. Motion passes. Personnel report. Mr. Williams. >> Members of board. I'd like to highlight a few personnel items this evening. Under resignations, retirements leave and terminations. I would like to recognize Steve Riley, custodian Bandai Elementary. Resignation is effective at the end of the school day on December 5th. 25 and Hannah Hoover's resignation effected at the end of the 2526 school year as her family will
008be relocated. We would like to thank both Steve and Hannah for their years of service to SV and wish them the best in their next step in life. Recommendations for hire position we just talked about with Mr. Riley being vacated. Mr. Jim Piper, South High School custodian, has requested a voluntary transfer to Vanine Elementary. This will be effective December 1st, 2025. Under extracurricular hires, I'd like to highlight one certified hire, Mr. Juan Montes, to return to the sidelines to coach the boys soccer team. And we also have a number of other classified delay positions for hires at Sydney. I would ask for approval at this time. >> Thank you. Any discussion on personnel? >> A second. >> All in favor of approving the personnel report as presented by Dr. Please say I >> motion. All
009right, that brings us to our discussions, I believe. All right, first one will be Dr. Bieber. Sorry. I'm very smart. Members of the board, Dr. Williams and Mrs. Foster. [clears throat] This evening, I'd like to present an update on assessment data that we've collected so far this year. Um, but start with the elementary data and looking back into the spring of 2025. At the last meeting when I presented data, I promise a little more in depth on Irene. Um, new legislation, obviously I say a lot. Um, we have an increased focus for literacy in the state of Indiana. new legislation kind of changed how we do things with those who do not pass. Um the state's pass rate, uh we need to be at 95% pass rate. You see our two schools pass rates there,
010sorry, [clears throat] by spring of 2027. Um the GCE means good cause exemption. These are students that get um an exemption from being retained, no longer an exemption from taking the test again. They used to be exempt from both. they they um were exempt on good cause, meaning um for reason which used to be just due to their IEP or English language learner status. Um they could still be promoted and not have to take the test again. Now they still do take the test again. Um and like I said last time, it is possible that hopefully we don't have this happen to any of our students, but it is possible to take the I read 14 times before seventh grade now. and that's new effective this year. That's twice in grade two. That's the spring
011window. And then the retake in what's called the summer window, which opens midmay every year. And then three times every grade after that up until 7th grade. So um that's the I read data that I wanted to share. The checkpoints um the iLearn assessment for grades three through eight has moved to a throughyear assessment. not not three through year meaning um they check in at different intervals throughout the year three times before the summitive occurs um in the spring. So this is formative assessment data. It is not used um for um accountability and you can see in I I added the information um in these two sections. Sorry, same screen as before, but um I added the checkpoint two and the checkpoint three standards that are assessed because I want to show you that this
012um this slideshow will grow throughout the year with the data when we do the checkpoint two for English and math in January and then when we do checkpoint three um a few weeks before we do the summitive but it's not the same test. Uh the state has divided up the standards throughout the year to let teachers know these are the standards that will be assessed on the first checkpoint. These are the separate standards that will be addressed on the second checkpoint in English and math. This is the math one. Um and this test was obviously administered in the uh month of October. So when you see the next set of scores um when I present in January it's not to look and say okay that percentage and they increased by that much percent really not
013a valid statement to say that that way because it's not the same didn't you're not giving the same test three times. So then checkpoint four by the time checkpoint four comes all standards have been assessed except for an actual writing which they which they would be then composing um constructed response and extended response writings. That one is saved for the summitive. So we go through and you have the copy of this slide deck and you can see um the different categories. So this is being used to inform decisions in the classroom immediately as they regroup for intervention time every day for math and English. Moving on to middle school assessment data. I learn checkpoint one is um in English and math. Now we do give the iLearn summitive for social studies and science. Social studies
014in grade five only. Science I learn is grade four and six and high school biology. But the uh science and social studies content areas are not part of the three-year checkpoints yet, just English and math. So, six, seven, English and math. Eight, English and math. And I'm really excited to show you what we do with the data when we have it, which is um coming through a lot sooner than it ever has in the past. It's it's there within a day or so. um and we can immediately start making instructional moves based on what we know. So, um, in the slide deck there are links and teachers have access to the I learn through SAT ELA blueprint and the math one and science. But really on the ELA blueprint, it starts at grade two I
015read and teachers can see the you can see the columns where you see the different checkpoints and exactly what standards are assessed and then you see what's on the summitive on the right. So, it's very easy to then develop your pacing guide, your curriculum map, and do instructional planning based on the data that's provided. This is an example of the fifth grade I learn in ELA, I mean. So, this is a really cool document that we have this year in 3 through 8, English and math. This is a snapshot of the fifth grade one. Names blacked out on the left. Oh, I don't know how that happened. [clears throat] Okay. Um, and let me try to reconnect here. Sorry. Screen mirroring back to it, please. Okay. Okay. I'll defer to someone smarter than I am
016to help me with that part. But that document is so cool because teachers are um looking at the data with our instructional coach and with their principles and the principles as the instructional leader of the school are then making instructional moves based on who needs to be grouped for skills. um one-on-one and small group. Thank you very much for that. So um this is a really neat document um and it's important actually the um the state provided created this document and it's accessible to all Indiana teachers in Indiana learning lab and it's already coded. We put the data in. You can see scale score column um first number there represents uh the grade level and then the score after that. It's pretty we're pretty excited to be able to look at this data um in
017a more targeted way moving forward. Um new K8 math legislation. Just like a few years ago, the dyslexia screener was a new thing for K2. Now we have math um focus for um for K2 and this spans through K8. So um we are looking at it this year. the state is identifying the type of um assessment that they want us to give for the 2627 school year and that means we will um assess students and if they're not on grade level at the beginning of your math assessment then we will have to um provide MTSS here's the great that means multi-tered systems of support sorry intervention um here's the great thing we're already doing that at South Vermillion at South Vermillion and we've been doing it for years that you it's It's not as common
018to see um an intervention model at the secondary level, but the middle school is doing that. So that means students who are not doing well, not performing grade level English and math, they get targeted support and we'll focus a more heightened level on math going forward. Now for the high school assessment data, we take the PSAT 89 in grade 9 and the PSAT NMQT in grades 10 and 11. We could choose the PSAT10, but we choose this one because the National Merit Scholarship Qualifier, which then gives our students a whole um opportunity for scholarships and other supports in their post-secary experiences. So, this shows you where um the high school meets benchmark. And there's not really like a passing score on uh PSATs or SATs. It is whether you meet the benchmark. And if you
019meet the benchmark, that means you would perform well on a college class of the same at the same level. And that's really important to be able to know. Um, so we're putting together similar data sheets based on this information so that this is more as a functional formative assessment that we can make instructional moves based on what our particular group of students need at the moment. So we've disagregated this a little bit into male and female categories um so that we can see how does this impact our scheduling for students? How does this impact additional resources we can deploy? And so the same blueprint exists for the high school for SAT math and SAT um ELA and also the ILR bio that they take at the end of whatever year they take biology. And that's
020the e that's the biology ECA with the um at the next meeting my presentation I will share um the new accountability rule which we're going back to school letter grades in Indiana and they'll assign that per building and per grade band and they're pulling in more data than they have in the past which is um attendance which we um are thankful for because coming to school matters and um science and social studies content areas too and lots of other factors like um credits of value, etc. at the high school level. So, these are the upcoming assessments that I'll be able to report on in the coming months. Do you have any questions? >> Um, I do. >> Okay. >> Um, just real quick on the proficiency percentages, is there a target goal that we're trying
021to hit? Like under the middle school, um, are [clears throat] we just trying to compare ourselves to state level or we do we have a goal in mind where we want to see ourselves? Well, it's always nice to beat the state, >> right? >> Um, but we want students to perform at grade level. So, we look at you have four performance level descriptors. You are below proficiency, approaching at or above. Um, obviously they're split then in two groups. You have these two that are acceptable and these two that are not proficiency. Uh, so it tells us then if they're on grade level and then we can change how we serve them based on that. So, as far as like a goal score, there are cut scores for each of those performance level descriptors, >> right?
022>> I think for state grading purposes and so forth. Yeah. And we know that every student is important. We're looking at overall percentages. But as far as targeting, we want to look at uh the special education population and see the growth that we can get there because that gets the most amount of points um as well as associated with economic. So, we want to really if we're looking at just letter grades, um those are the two categories you want to look at. that we're looking at the overall body which we want to do then we definitely disagreed last month by male female and all the other sex as well. >> Is it a fair assumption to say that we are seeing growth in math? look at grade level by grade level. We seem to be
023above state averages on math with the exception of this one outlier. But >> high level it looks like we >> however our English speakers >> and also they're going to evaluate us based on growth. So while it seems like a low percentage like how do you even have a chance they'll look at the growth of individual students and it is student by student. Each student will calculate a score for us and be averaged in with our group. Thank you. >> Anyone else comments? All right. Thank you very much. Um, moving on to it. Mr. [clears throat] [snorts] B. Okay. Uh before I get to parent square usage, uh last month I believe Dr. Williams gave you a mobility report that I calculated and uh shared. Did you have any questions over that report that we
024created? The main points I saw from it is that we had an overall net gain at that time of 30 students. Um, Vanine saw the largest number of u enrollment gains due to an influx of students from central uh due to the functional program and high ability. I believe it was 15 students. If you took away those 15 students, it was really a wash at 12 students enrollment, 12 students withdraw. Uh, central saw the largest uh loss again of a net three loss. However, again, 15 of those students did go to Van Dy. Um, Central saw the largest number of students withdraw. Again, a lot of those going to Van Dy. The high school um mobility, the largest reason or the number one reason was online school, both coming in and going out. 24 students
025uh enrolled from online school and 19 students [clears throat] left us for online school. So, we did have more students coming to us from online than we had leaving us. Okay. I also went through our parents for usage to see how we're doing as far as uh our numbers of parents that we're reaching. And uh the first numbers you can see color-coded by school. The number of parents that have email addresses registered. The number that uh re that are opting to receive email. It's pretty similar. Number of parents using the app is a little bit less. Number of parents with phone numbers about the same. And these are parents who have registered their contact information through Harmony during registration. The concerning numbers that we have are at the bottom. the uh members who've opted to
026receive texts. Uh this is a little bit of a confusion on our part by them registering their phone number. We believed that parents were already receiving text alerts and so this is something we're going to have to get a campaign out and we started that last Friday. I put it in the newsletter instructions on ensuring that they uh have opted in to receive text alerts. Now, if uh for example, when we had our 2-hour delay, if we send an urgent alert, those messages go regardless. So, um if they've if they haven't opted in, they're still going to get those messages. But for when we send a post, just a regular message, non urgent, they're not receiving those unless they've opted in. Uh they are getting the emails. Um but we still need to we need
027work as far as getting those numbers. And after I put it in the newsletter and put it on Facebook, I did check our numbers today and only one school increased by one percentage point since then. So, we did have a few people who have opted in since then. So, uh we like I said, we've got some work to do to get parents to opt in on those text alerts. This one you can see is skewed high as far as the direct messages which features we are using in um parent square but those are messaged directly to parents or to students similar to email sending those directly to a person or to a group of people likewise parents sending those messages back. It's a really convenient way we have a record of those conversations. So, we
028do have a very high usage. Um, and it looks like SVMS is leading on those direct messages there. But again, all schools are really taking advantage of that. Auto notices, that's our attendance notices. Those go out each day. If somebody wasn't called in and they're marked as unexcused, it automatically contacts the parents. We also have low cafeteria balances that are going out uh on Fridays. So those are the auto notices that we are using. Everything else is uh very low compared to that. But again, if you look at those numbers, some of those are getting to to about 5 500 750 for some of those uh for example. So again, that direct messages really skewed that to be able to see see the other options. But as far as using it for polls, the polls
029are a one question survey. forms and permission slips. We have very few using those at this time. Post, excuse me, post shared on social. I think what we have people doing a lot of is that they're posting it on Parent Square, but then they're also posting it on Facebook separately rather than doing it at the same time because if you if you post on Parent Square and say also share this to Facebook, it links to Parent Square and a lot of people don't like that. They want it posted directly on Facebook. So that might be how quiet it shows that way, but we still are using our social media a lot. And then the other items, calendar events, uh requesting RSVPs for calendar events, um items requested, I need gallon jugs for my classroom or
030so forth. These are some areas that are extra and we probably need to do some more professional development on as far as making sure people understand how to use these additional features within parent square. But we're doing really well on posts and direct messages. Parents interacting with us. It shows here how many RSVPs. Uh looks like middle school has used RSVPs on an event. Uh requesting volunteers. We've had a few. Again, direct messages. These are the number of parents who have direct messaged us. And item sign up. Again, those gallon jugs for a classroom or so forth. um parents who've completed forms and permission slips. Looks like Central has used that quite a bit. And then there are some polls that look like they've gone out from Van Dy. Uh distribution as far as use
031by grade level. Uh take in mind this isn't just classroom teachers that are sending these, but also from the school level. But if you look at this number right here, the prek, um, they're going to town. And if you think about it, one post a week, we've been in school how many weeks? 14. >> 14 weeks. Um, so we're approaching 150 there on prek. Those kids are also getting district posts. They're getting uh school posts and so forth. Kindergarten at Central looks great as well. really everybody does because I'm thinking, you know, 14 posts, everybody is above that, but it's also taking into account school posts as well. Maybe some grade levels we might need to be checking back with and asking if they're needing some additional professional development. You look at fifth through 12th
032grade, that would include any groups that they're in. It would include also the school posts as well. I have created for the principles. They'll get these tomorrow by every teacher how many posts they've created for every class. Um I've also created um every group. So all of our extracurriculars, how many posts, if we have some extracurriculars that haven't posted yet, any classrooms, we do have some classrooms that have zero posts so far. So we need to be checking in with those teachers and find out why are what what help do you need to make sure that you're using this? you know, we really want you to use it at least once a week to give important updates in your classroom. And then these are our top authors by school. Um Amanda McClenn at Central, um
033she's not at Central. She's at the high school for the prek program. However, we have to put our prek program at Central because of the grade level. So, she's she's up there. Donna Gilman, she posts for Central. Um but also for her kindergarten classroom, posting quite a bit. Ryan Jenkins, Tiffany, another kindergarten, Jesse, um, first grade teacher, Van Dy, we have Marian who posts for the school, Lisa brought our high ability, Stacy Ham, kindergarten. Tory Kilgore, third grade, Ashley Downs, kindergarten. Middle school, we have Morgan Kilgore, who's an eighth grade teacher, uh, who's actually on maternity leave, I think. Is that right? So, she she's done quite a bit of posting there. Um, Matt Sebastian, our athletic director. Kristen um posting for the school, I'm sure. And then we have Maria who's our STEM teacher.
034And then Nathan was our band director. Uh SVHs. Haley, she's our choir. Well, she's looks like Donna Lawson and Cara Skinner there. Um Justin's posting for athletics. Haley choir and girls basketball. And look at Ron Stler for wrestling. he's uh he's really adopted it and is is doing a great job there. And then post distribution. This just shows you how many posts by for the school by classroom and then by groups are extracurricular uh groups. But you can see here classroom post central quite a few classrooms um really excelling there. Um, and then middle school groups, uh, high school groups, and then school posts. Uh, we're pretty even there. And that is it. Any questions on how it's going? >> Seems like the parents like to use feedback on >> Yeah, I think it's very
035user friendly. Um, you know, we we do our weekly newsletter here. Um, you know, we keep trying to think of different things that we can include into it. I always include Dr. Williams and Mrs. Foster's weekly in case people didn't see it. Um, but I I think there's a lot of insight into it. There's things that I liked with the previous system. There are things I like better with this system. So, just getting used to it. Um, and just getting parents to adopt to it, especially before um, weather hits, you know, getting this this first one. I sure wasn't thinking that was really going to hit us the way it did. >> I think for us with as far as athletics or ECAs go, we really want to push the use of this and not
036like grouping messages or something like that. So we always have you know betrayal if something's [cough] inappropriately or something like that. Well, I know a lot of our people have their favorite or preferred apps that they would pref that they would rather use or so forth. And I always try to explain, think of it from a parents perspective or from a student's perspective. If you have five teachers and two coaches and you're a parent and you have three kids and they have five teachers and two coaches, how many different possible apps you're asking parents or students to use. And so it's important that we all adapt and we all use one it just to make it easier on families. So, um, I think most people have been pretty receptive in in making that switch. >>
037Thank you. >> My student services report for Mrs. Foster. >> So, at your place setting, you have the attendance insight, [clears throat] the most up to date last Friday. So, it gives you the overall attendance for state corporation at each of our buildings, our chronic absenteeism rate, and our try rate as well. If you have any questions, [snorts] >> thank you very much, Mr. Zuka. Any update on facilities? Um just a couple quick updates. Nothing major right now. Um the hot water boiler at the high school, uh Sycamore has confirmed that the equipment is at their facility. Um hoping that they can get started. They've already started a little bit of preliminary work, but really hoping they can hit the ground running after Thanksgiving break. Um still planning on that being over Christmas break and
038trying to get that that downtime minimized. Um, also with the high school, I met with our final contractor for the upper gym wall up in the blue gym. Um, he actually took around a look around the entire building, kind of looking at the structure and just kind of giving me an idea of what how the overall building looks. Um, so hopefully I hear back from him later this week. Um, hopefully Friday by the latest. That way I've got three quotes so I can kind of go through and see what the best solution will be and how we need to move. Um, the rental chiller over at the middle school was disconnected on the 14th. um they've taken that away. So, we are just running off the heat. Um I do anticipate there is going to
039be one final prated bill for that rental. Um but it' be nice to get that off the books and not have to pay that monthly fee anymore. Uh the new chiller is slated to arrive and be installed in early January. So, plenty of time to get it ready to go and before winter breaks, we'll be good to go. Um recently completed. We had the roofing repair at the middle school. Um that has seemed to have stopped any any more water leakage coming through on that hallway. Um, so custodians have replaced the tile and that shouldn't be an issue moving forward. Uh, also the repairs at Central were completed. Few repairs there, guttering issues like that. Um, Chris Rabbit with Future Homes confirmed that that was done last week. Uh, just couple other small things going
040on. Nothing major. Just little repairs here and there. Um, yeah, that's all I got this month. Any questions? I'll be happy to answer. >> Thank you. >> [cough] >> Okay, it's that [clears throat] time of year that we start discussing our academic calendar for the next year. >> Members of the board, I have uh two calendars in front of you. One for 2627, one for 2728. I would love to [clears throat] recommend most of those first reading and come back in December for a second reading and approval. Uh we met with the vision teams with parents and community. We met the staff member vision team. So we narrowed adoptions down uh to a couple of school calendars. We took those calendars uh to the community for basically a poll on Facebook and our parents square
04160% of the parents and community members out of the 126 who responded um and agreed with the option that the staff wanted. Um basically that looks like um I met with also the RCT staff superintendent. We realize we'll be off a few days like we always are um because they will go ahead and start on August 3rd with our teacher day. We will wait till the 6th and we've moved uh half of the end of the year teacher day to the beginning of the year so teachers have more time to prepare and usually that last half day uh we're ready to get ready for summer break anyway. So we'll start August 10th. Um we will have two weeks for full Christmas break. Um the main uh discrepancy or difference between the two calendars was uh
042the Christmas break starting on the 22nd which was a Tuesday or on the 21st I'm sorry school ending on the 18th or ending on the 22nd. So uh the vote was to go ahead and have a full week before Christmas for prep. And then the following 2728 calendar uh is the same calendar year just be a day off. So that would be the first reading for those calendars. Um 26 27 academic 27 28. We'll come back next month um to have those recommended. I'd be happy to answer any questions at this time. Have we done a poll before you ask >> if we had done if he had pulled like I knew that that I thought that was a new thing just asking what the fac and the families preferred as far as school. >>
043I like it. >> And I I like I said, I wanted to do a two-year one. So, if you on vacation and so forth, um we also added back the 4 day week weekend in February for President's Day weekend because that seems to be, you know, middle of January to March seems to be a long time. So, will we be voting on 2728 next month as well? >> Yes. >> All right. >> So, no more changes. This is >> this is what it's going to be, right? >> Well, I can't guarantee that. [laughter] >> No, that's where that's where we're leaning right now. Uh I think, you know, falling going 27th 28th, we would be looking at starting like on August 1st or August 7th. I think that's kind of too early. So, Um the
044next uh first reading which we'll bring back to you uh in December uh since this is a policy change in our classified handbook um there always seems to be some kind of uh talk about the two-hour delays and if uh classified members um report to work on the time or they have to make up their time or certified teachers do they have to be here. And so we're going to change that and I I've got a cat or a chart on the uh boards here that I will ask for it to come back in December for a vote. um since it is policy change, but I would like to add letter J to the uh classified uh staff handbook where it says uh under J and I I checked with the state board of accounts
045on this and ask for clarification and they did say it's a local level decision and as long as you have a policy in place, uh you're fine. Um, so we said that when the school corporation has a two-hour delay, school closure related to safety or another safety situation that the superintendent or designate determines to fit this category, then the superintendent or designate design may grant a waiver for lead time. The lead time will not be deducted on the lead bank of the employee. The waiver will be submitted to the board of trustees for approval at the succeeding school board meeting. So, if we have a two-hour delay after um if this is approved in December and we have one, you know, January 14th, then I would come in February to the board meeting and say
046we had a 2-hour delay on January 14th at SG wave the PTO PTO time for our classified staff so that we get just there's so much confusion on who reports when and so forth and I think it's a minor that money is budgeted and if we can do that, it's it's what we need to do. Um, with that being said, on this chart I have every employee group uh from administrators uh in the first group there and food service directors and all your directors all the way through there. And you can see that this is a chart saying if we have a 2-hour delay, this is who reports um and this is who will be granted the waiver or this is who may uh on the e-learning days may work remotely um so forth. residual
047staff is aware that you know if we have snow or weather then they'll have to report at the normal time um and maintenance staff as well. So um I think it's a small token of appreciation we can give to all staff members um and I don't think it's nothing that's cost money as the money is already there for budget. So we'll bring back that back in December. Any questions on that? [snorts] Okay, thank you. >> Um, moving on to our decision portion of the agenda. First item up, we have SD gives back to the Clinton Public Library. >> All right, we're ready guys. So, SD gives back. Um, we like to put this on the first item of the decision. Um, we'll take a brief recess uh afterward makes the motion. Uh, and we just
048wanted to say thank you for everything you do for our students and the after school programs you provide and so forth. Um, the students and staff are happy to be giving you back $815.38 this month and we appreciate everything you do. So approval at this time >> second and a second. All in favor, please say I. >> I. All same. >> [clears throat] >> You can vote. >> I'm not a picture guy. [clears throat] >> So, >> both of you can >> [cough] >> Thank you, Ashley. It's very appeal. >> [clears throat] >> Okay. Next item is administrative contract increase. >> Members of the board, uh, classified staff received their increases in July. The certified teaching staff and collective bargaining received theirs in October. Um, we're asking for administrative contract increases for all administrators besides
049Mrs. Foster and myself as we in our first year of our contract in a daily, it's the same daily rate amount as the teachers receive. Daily rate for teachers was 1351. Therefore, I took 1351 multiply by the number of days that administrator works and that was the raise I've asked for approval this evening. >> First second. >> All in favor, please say I. >> I. All same. passes. >> All right. Field trips. Dr. Williams. >> Members of the board, this is a recommendation to approve the field trips that are listed in attachment 7C on your agenda. Once approved, we will email the groups and let them know that field trip has been approved. I ask for your approval of this. >> So, the first second in favor of approving the field trips say I. All
050post. Motion passes. Next item is donations. >> Members of the board, this is a recommendation to approve the donations listed in attachment 7D, Bandai Elementary, anonymous monetary donations totaling totaling $450 and 10 coats for students. Central elementary, $50 in memory of Marley Wilson, and a number of different supply donations. The middle school donation from Mark Kelly for $100 to the van. and the high school donations to student activities, athletics, FFA, band, and FCA totaling $25,738.54. We would like to thank all of our community partners and parents who had part in this and I ask for your approval at this time. >> All in favor, please say I. >> All motion passes. Next item is surplus. Members of the board, this is a recommendation to approve the surplus of the high school arts department's risers as
051the music department got and the girls basketball jerseys. Ask for your approval at this time. >> Those risers couldn't be sold. >> Well, we will. I mean, that's we'll put them for surplus and then we'll put them for sale. >> Okay, >> we have surplus first. >> Okay, >> I'll move. >> I need a motion. I'll second it. Thank you. All in favor for posting those items, please say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Motion passes. Next item is board policy volume 38 number one. Mrs. Foster. >> Last month you received the first reading of the policy updates. So at this time I ask for your approval. If you have any questions first. >> All in favor please say I. I >> all opposed. Motion passes. >> Last item is the K4 science curriculum adoption.
052Dr. >> members of the board, you have um [cough and clears throat] recommendation request uh before you for K4 science curriculum. In spring 23, we adopted where we went through the K12 science adoption process. And we chose at that time not to adopt a curriculum for science at the elementary level because of the standards that were covered in our project lead STEM class and our reading curriculum and the health standards taught by counselors at that time. We did agree to revisit once the DOE's rep prioritization and reduction of standards occurred and then we had data after that. Um the elementary curriculum review committee um convened in September and expressed the need for a science curriculum um still. So um I would like to recommend this adoption for four years to put us with the K12
053science adoption science. Um and also with the accountability model um science will be the science scores will be part of the measure. So, it's just really important that we hammer down on the science instruction. Any questions? >> A motion. I'll make a motion. J. >> All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Motion passes. Thank you. Okay, that wraps up our meeting pretty much. This is the second section for citizens comments to address the board. Chance final chance. >> Sure. [snorts] >> All right. I'll turn it over to comments. I would like to recognize the outstanding performances of our band Fire and dance teams during our Veterans Day program. Uh Mr. Lee has done a very nice job of stepping in for the transition for the band. Uh and I think I've
054heard I've heard several comments. I was there for myself. I saw it for myself. It was our student body the way they responded and behaved as well. It was great for all of our programs. So, great job to all those involved. Thank you to Mrs. Deleport and Mrs. Crumb for organizing the Veterans Day program at the high school. Thank you to our junior optimist for the presentations, Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Crabtree for leading Harvard, Mandy, and Cora. So, thank you for your presentation. >> I don't have much. Thank you for your report. I like seeing the data and it'll be interesting to see how we use that and progress over time. and thanks for the spotlight. It's always good to see the kids out have >> I just got a question for Kristen
055and Aaron. Your your procedures for the pickup and drop off of the kids looks to me like it's feeling great. Are you guys satisfied with that? >> Yeah. >> When the cold weather hits, still be the same. >> Not happy. >> What? >> Um, >> if I can stand out there. >> Yes. I mean, >> I mean, that's the plan. I didn't even know it changed. It's uh It seems safer to me. >> Is it like a morning drop off? >> And it's just more organized. >> It's It is. It's nice. >> Yeah. Well, thank you. >> Good job. [laughter] Good job, both of you. That's all I got. >> Well, thank you for all the numbers. I know Kelly, I'm sure. Super, but it is nice to kind of, you know what I mean,
056just like see up there. So, thank you for that. >> Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Can't wait. This month is seriously over my body Christmas shopping. [clears throat] I do. [laughter] >> Well, thanks again for everyone that presented tonight. Uh, you know, starting out with the junior optimist. I thought that was a great opportunity for those young ones to get out in front of the public to actually speak. And that that's a tough skill, right? When you're talking to a group of say like your parents, anybody even older than your parents. So uh I commend that it's great to see that participation again just the different presentations for the data very good like see the progress of the map obviously so very informative and appreciate all your time putting work into this >> Mr. West. >> Thank
057you. Um likewise on the Veterans Day program, uh I've had about a half a dozen comments come back. People were really impressed with the program. >> Uh when people take the time to reach out, that means something. >> So obviously our our staff and our students did an excellent job and >> I hope we continue that. >> Um Dr. I I do want to thank you for turning the staff loose uh on providing metrics and reporting. I think uh their hands may have been tied in past years. I know we have asked for a lot of things like this and we didn't always get it. And uh I think they're doing a phenomenal job now. And I from what I can see, I think we're doing a good job. I think uh it's good what
058we're doing. And uh I think you can only get better by knowing what isn't working well and what we need to tackle. Uh if you're not doing anything on February 21st, our dance team will be hosting an Indiana High School Dance Team Association uh invitational. Uh you'll see uh anywhere between I think right now they currently have 30 teams scheduled with the weather. We could end up having 100 120 teams here. You're going to see some of the best dance teams across the state, including South and the defending middle school state champion. So, that's the 21st. And if you can make it, good for you. It'll be a time well spent. Happy Thanksgiving and everybody be safe. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you everybody. Um, I'll give a quick happy Thanksgiving. Um, just
059gonna put this out there. I heard that Mr. Williams will be in a full on turkey costume Friday. [laughter] >> They won't be here because we open school. [laughter] Dr. will share uh some new communication uh form of communication that he's working on and and I think when he shares that to everybody, you're going to be really impressed. >> Well, we we uh worked on it because it's uh so it's an AI generated video where you put your picture in and your voice and so forth and then Jason and Jane worked on recording it. I got it when I was at the ISU meeting last Friday. That's how sends out his meetings summaries or reviews and so I did it today and it's a little monotone and a little bit I it's okay. So I
060went ahead and actually did a regular one instead of the AI but >> I I did like the content I mean that that's really where I think everyone's going to be impressed is content >> what he was putting out there. I'll make a motion.