001call this meeting to order. >> Dr. Mr. Aaron >> here >> Mr. >> Here Mrs. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all the public participation. Hi, I am here on behalf of human. My name is Riley Strickler and I and I am our chapter president for the upcoming years. This evening I would like to report on some activities the chapter has participated in since the last board meeting and some upcoming events. Since the last board meeting, our chapter has elected new officer team. the 2026 2027 officer team with Bradley Strickland as president, Samantha Buckley as vice president, Brook as secretary, Vy as treasure, fellow reporter, Grace Marley, Maurice Mor. We are excited for our new officer team
002and everything they have in store. Our chapter sent 13 members to the young leaders conference. They got to learn valuable leadership skills and multiple keynote speakers. Our members also got to participate a service project for the dog foundation. Additionally, the week of February 23rd through the 27th was national week. To celebrate, we had a spirit week for each day dressed up for their theme. During that week, the chapter also ice skating and holiday night. Along with that, our spring skill CDs have started and members of the began taking their test in EL and Green. We had our first invitational contest where lifestyle gardening poultry naturation and we find all you needed. Our chat there's also some members to help out my math and science night as well as a PTO carnival. These were great activities
003and our members were happy to help. Over the weekend, several students also competed in the state public speaking CV. Freshman Jasmine Arvin competed in the pre- division and placed top in the state. Sophomores Riley Strickler and Grace M competed in the beginning prepared division in both place tops in the state. Troy Bush and Emma Strickler competed in the contemporaneous category where they champion finals. In the finals, Troy Bush placed second in the state and Emler placed first. This is a huge accomplishment and we are extremely proud of all our members. This weekend we are attending another invitational competition at Miami Trace to work on our spring skill series. We are excited for our upcoming competitions and are proud of our members for the hard work. We have a lot of activities coming up and we
004are excited to see what the rest of this year has in store for the chapter. We want to thank the board and administration for making all this stuff possible. Thank you. >> Hi, my name is Emma Ster. I have the student leazison report for this month. So on the academics and instruction side of things at the primary it is currently camp reader week where the students have special time to read dress up every day with a theme and then also the boy scouts came in to show them how to set up tents and excuse me they had several Fairfield County Parks demonstrations. Overall, they're having a lot of fun and we saw many students from the primary and elementary at math and science center. In the elementary, they're currently wrapping up the third 90s with
005benchmark assessments being taken next week. These assessments near the state test can show areas for improvement and growth as they prepare for these tests. In the middle school, they are also in the midst of SCAS and state tests are coming up in a month with the testing being released soon. Also, 43 sixth grade students and 12 7th grade students are registered to take the algebra extreme on March 16th. And the high school, the high school is also taking their first quarter exams this week. And the ASVAB has been rescheduled by Columbus MS for Thursday, March 19th, 2026 and will be taken by all juniors. On the student life and extracurricular side of things, winter sports are officially wrapped up and they're starting to have their season ends, but spring sports are now in full preparation
006for their seasons. This includes the JV softball, JB RC softball and baseball teams and the track and field teams. So, we want to wish all of our athletes good luck and regular seasons. And then our student body also has many different clubs that are keeping very busy right now. Our band and choir are currently preparing for their spring concert that will take place later this year. The drama club is in full preparation for their play. They're performing the box which is a comedy based on Greek mythology on April 10th and 11th in the cafeteria. There are five students on the passing group and six people in the backstage group. Our FFA is clearly staying busy and then the NHS just inducted new members on March 4th. These students are required to reflect the four pillars
007at all times which are service, scholarship, leadership and character. Also, the strawberries have been delayed, but they are coming in soon for anyone who ordered. And then our prom committee is also keeping busy as they prepare for the prom that will be on May 2nd. for community participation. We don't have too much going on right now besides that several students who have enrolled in the workforce workforce center this semester are fully classes. Um obviously the main talk was the expense and then the fee that we used to reimburse most the last two years so that students don't have to pay for breakfast lunch. Um the challenge with that is that the reimbursement come out to stay flat the last couple years while cost lunch reimbursement is 460 per student. being released in Brexit before you
008typically qualify for pay. Um the cost for for student even on the cost for breakfast. So I said that except for kids across two kids two students try to make it work. uh last year because we had a fair amount of carryover money from COVID money because everybody got the full reimbursement during co not just [clears throat] down last year. At the end of the year we have about $30,000 to fill that and this year it looks like it could be about 10 times that right now cost that gap and so the question to reduce costs or look at other options according to this I talked to the person this talked about We still want a school, but still with some struggles based on the cost and so forth. She said we try to use
009the commodity program as [cough] possible, but that's kind of hit me a lot of times in terms of what's available. Um we do have a lot more kids getting me those now though because of the cost to them. Two years ago we had about 63% of the kids who were getting lunch and now we're about 75% breakfast was 35 to 40% and that was over 50% or around 50%. So this is good certain meals. Uh again looking at some ways to maybe reduce costs. The one thing that she mentioned was that we were ever since they don't do actual silverware anymore. where we're at. We were doing like a whole packet of stuff which knife straw to this dispenser or so every day. Let's see. Looking at a couple different brands here. We got the
010fresh fruit and vegetable program grant which helped a lot of good vegetable stuff for students applying for it last year but didn't get it this year this year options again waste with that program too in terms of maybe not based on experience. Uh the other grant we're looking at is a salad bar to schools grant which would support [laughter] the salad bar schools cost to do that terms of cost for down the road. They had looked at last year and even gotten some estimates and so forth to replace the ovens. But uh in talking with some folks and some of you came and looked at her oven they actually look really clean and think they can do some things to stretch their life out a few more years. So that's kind of nice that maybe
011in the ovens maybe for a few more years. And the other thing that might be done is the software and stuff of sale stuff when they pay this and so just one bill working through the house of 61 um to prohibit school. Um the background on that OSA is knew subsequently you know from our perspective thus far but that's committee. [clears throat] So, I'm excited. There's a preschool. We, you know, wait for that time. That's where licensing, state license will come in and inspect us. um where you have applying colors. So that's always one one piece that's always a good job with the team and [clears throat] one relief there. Um and then they also the licensing um recommended for the center to keep their full balance for next school year. So that's a great
012accomplishment for preschool. Um and with the data I was excited to share this this happened today. Um in the last board meeting I had shared that uh I forget what percentage it was a higher like 72 some 72% of our students knew um they're able to letter identify um letters you know the the A through Z and so they were um moving forward today reading level books to first grade. So preschool went up to first grade and read level book like their instructional books to them and I was like what a way to differentiate. I had to give a shout out to our little preschoolers for taking that and generalizing the skills and pulling that literacy piece together. Um, so I have that on the the board there. Um, and this one of our little
013preschoolers reading for first grader. And then for our stay tuned preschool art shows April 9th, which is always exciting because preschool art work is adorable. Uh, April 16th, preschool is 100 day of school. They're a little bit off because they only go four days a week. And then April 23rd is our walking field trip to the library. and then continuing with registration different from now to May 4th. And then we are um also in the process between preschool and kindergarten and working on writing um applying for a grant so we can do a kindergarten boot camp for our atrisisk students. >> All right. At the primary building um we've been continuing on with our ACES way and our PBIS um pulling tickets every other week for incentives for kiddos. They're still also doing their ACES
014way cards and scratching off incentives as well. Um, it's been nice to kind of have a full week, knock on wood, we can make it through the rest of the week. Um, so the students are really taking care of business and kind of working hard and playing hard. Those 70 degree days where they can get outside, play really make a difference for them. Um, this week has been right to read week and they have been really excited about it. Um, from the tents with the Boy Scout boys to um, getting in classrooms and seeing each other reading, they really enjoy all those pieces. one thing sometimes we've got to make sure that we're igniting that love for reading and enjoyment and excitement and that reading looks different for every single kid. So, it's awesome to
015see that. With that, I want to give a shout out to our literacy team and all of our staff for making those fun things possible. Um, and just continuing with what we're doing. Data, our second uh quarter attendance percentage, kindergarten was 94%, first grade 94, and second grade 95. We had some lots of little tummy and uh different things that we were working through. So hopefully we'll pass all that stuff. Um stay tuned. You know, we've got our Easter quarter awards on Friday. It's hard to believe we are almost through our third nine weeks um on Friday. So that's hard to believe. Uh field trips are coming up. First grade will be going to co-side. Second grade to the [clears throat] Franklin Park Conservatory and then kindergarten will be doing annual fishing trip as well.
016So lots of exciting things on the horizon. So let's keep it going. Now on to the elementary. >> All right. So I'm um the data for attendance I'm going to touch upon there. Um so there's a comparison summary between the 24 25 school year and the 2526 school year for quarter 1 and quarter 2. Um so there was a change for fourth grade of 2% um for the first quarter and then a change in the quarter two in third, fourth and fifth uh 1% 2% and 3%. So fifth grade saw the most significant growth in the second quarter from 92% to 95% attendance. um which we always think that's kind of the most difficult grade to get kids to come. We call it fifth grade itis. Um so especially in the spring as the weather
017gets warmer. So we are very happy to see that 95% from them. Um consistency. Fourth grade has been showing a steady 2% increase in attendance. Um and then third grade has maintained the highest overall attendance staying at above 95%. Um we have been also celebrating right three weeks. So read some more week. Um we we've had kids make tents and they read with flashlights under their desks today. Um, again, just making sure that that reading is fun and um, it sparking that love for holding a book. Um, I think that we've kind of gotten away from that. So, it was really exciting to see kids carrying books around. Um, want to definitely continue that one. And, um, Moana, the spring vocal music concert is going to be the 18th at 7 o'clock. So, if you
018all would want to check that out, it's going to be pretty amazing. Um, and then we have state testing beginning April 14th. So, keep us on your thoughts as as that comes on. So, all of our kids are [clears throat] pretty pretty excited about that to show what they know. >> I can just slightly touch on this. So um in the middle of the February attendance I just did an average across the month of February sixth grade um for attendance is close to 95% so 94.8 7th grade um 93.7 eighth grade and then 4.7 um 94.4 So that's just for the month of February. And then I always like to I put it in my weekly announcements, but I always look at what percent of our students are below benchmark and then how many students
019that is in grade level. So you can see um on the February and sixth grade we had 16 students who were below the 90%. In seventh grade we had 19 students. In eighth grade we had 12 students and um as opposed we have 47 students for month. And I will say that number does fluctuate a little bit week to week because we have students that are teetering the line. Um so one week they're you know 90.2 and then they might be at 89.7 or you know so that number does does kind of fluctuate a little bit. Um one other thing I just want to stay tuned on um our career day. So we Mrs. I should say I wasn't but Mrs. Letterly Mrs. McFarland worked on getting invitations out to community members. So, if you
020know anybody that would like to um come on Monday, May 11th, and talk to students, we have I think it was 22 classrooms. So, we're setting the goal really high. We'd like to have 22 presenters um you know, from our community to come out for about three hours [clears throat] and talk to students and talk about the session. So, um, if you know anybody or if anyone's interested, please have me email me. So, going um on along the lines of attendance um you'll see on the left there with perfect attendance for the month of February and actually one of our students here um had perfect attendance and won a gift card. So, that was I had extremely free announcements for those students. We had really great numbers of students who had carpet attendance which is
021really great. Um and we'll [clears throat] do another gift card here in November this month. [clears throat] >> Um one other piece there. So Mr. Dennis and I looked at activities over the LA this year and the previous two school years. So the bar graph on the left you can see um the blue is the 25 26 school years our current year. Um and you can notice this this graph is a little bit harder to see because the percentages are um you know jumping from 80 to 100% there. Um you'll notice that the blue in every um quarter is higher which means our attendance has been better [clears throat] this school year um in comparison to the last two school years. And I've got a breakdown on the right. So the line graph there um
022again the blue represents the school year. So, if you look at quarter one, our quarter one intended was significantly higher. Um, well, over 1% higher, which is that's a a real big deal um for quarter one to start off the school year and kind of set that um set that pattern there for the rest of the school year. You'll notice that the line graph, even though it decreases throughout the school year, um with the blue, um we're still above where we were the last two years. And quarter three notice um is always our lowest quarter of attendance. We come back from break but as historically gets the essay every year it's our hardest quarter. Um I don't know if it's just the winter blues or or you know what what what it is but it's
023a hard quarter for students who renovation into spring. Um so um just some key takeaways. So middle school attendance remains very strong. So we're above the 90% attendance average for the 25 25 26 school year. Um [clears throat] in comparison with quarter one attendance has remained consistently across has remained consistently strong across all three years. In our current year this year again it rose 95% a seventh rate. For quarter 2, we had a slight decline from quarter 1. Um, which is typical midyear. Um, and our current year is the highest. Again, our 93 homes for quarter three. Our I just mentioned attendance historically dipped in from quarter three. But despite the dip this year, we're still outperforming the previous two school years. And then lastly, um, previous [clears throat and cough] school years, 91% attendance
024rate for the fourth quarter school. Um, you know, as we finish off the school year, I'll probably come to probably the May meeting with that with that data. And I'm not sure [clears throat] things. um the um ACE ways kind of looking at the the behavior kind of that that piece for this moment. Um I didn't even the numbers I should put the numbers it looks like a lot but our ninth and 10th graders as always are our highest percentage of office referrals. That's just the way that goes. I've been on this for 20 mentioned for the last some years and that's just the way that goes. It looks like a lot of numbers, but there's lots of pieces there, but our referrals are actually not very high. We've had a low number, pretty low
025number of of referrals as far as discipline. So, I've said it a couple times to people that I don't know that people teachers, we realize how good the kids are that we do serve and they're a fantastic student body. do a wonderful job implementing and helping be good citizens. And it just shows our attendance um you know for the last up until this point is really hunger but we [clears throat] are still above 90% in all grade levels. Um and that's that's a positive thing. Um ASVAB's coming up. Um, that's an opportunity. People people talk about the ASVAB, but mostly it is people are thinking it's a military tool to figure out what you might be using for the military. It's actually a very good career planning tool [clears throat] and give students a good
026indication of what skills they have and what job categories they might be inclined to. We use results with um Rachel Jones or her career exploration class or gene will use those as well. Spring testing's coming up. Um we have kind of a condensed testing schedule [clears throat] uh this year a little bit all done there. Um, PLA submitted on the 20th of April and then we'll probably with all of our math tests on the 27th, biology on the 29th, and history on the 1 of May. Students that are not testing will be in a slight delay. If if they high school kids, if you can get arrival, they can come in a little bit late. So they have as many teachers as possible having smaller groups so they have less distracted test environment. So everybody
027if you slide it down if you don't mind to the next item you're seeing almost the same story as you saw at the middle school. Um the attendance comparison the last three school years uh we are performing in some cases two almost 3% better this school year than the last two school years including three school years. Um we had actually a little bit a buck in the trend for this current third quarter. Um our attendance point is actually up versus but we are seeing I think significant attendance improvement over the last two years and that's about the same thing that Amy said it's almost identical what she said. So Thank you. Motion to approve tonight's agenda as present. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, she was roll. Yes, >> Mr. M. >> Yes, going to communications superintendent.
028>> So, things just start here. Um just quick update construction. Um last month I talked about damage that or need of repair to one of the crane rooftop units at the fieldhouse. That repair has been completed. Um summit is yet to get us um updated warranty information and and all the followup that it has been repaired. Um, one piece you may or may not have heard, we've had a bit of issues with some choice draining up at the KK2 building. Um, and commend our preschool wing. They've been very gracious in working with us through that. But, um, Summit has been on site. They were on site today to work through figuring out what that issue is. Um, and they should be giving you an update tomorrow of what we find. Um figuring out one of
029blocks. Yeah. Yeah. So it was one side was blocking there two lines came out. One of them was back. So figing out what's causing that line that was that was part of where the intersection. Um we talked about the emergency response system installation and the athletic facility or the fieldhouse. um that was in progress last time we spoke. Um that has been completed and we have an updated um survey of the um communication what what is available in that building. U still on schedule for April for the new equipment. And one last piece is we have started a couple pilot accounts for um expanding access where some of our um programs would have access to CSR scheduling into the um some of our facilities. So open that up and can use our equipment or our
030software to so that different coaches can see what is available and um so the uh exciting part of tonight is that um we have students here to talk to you about their experience and what they've been doing over the past several months. Um on your table there are copies of this presentation as well. So you may uh want to reference that to read that due to your fabulous working. Um if you recall um we worked through October there was the the initial discovery. Um later on October we had extended discovery where we went out and talk more with students, staff, community members uh and parents. Remember the initial discovery team had students, administrators, um staff, board me, two board members and um parents and students. Um we brought that information back together, analyzed the data.
031So all of those conversations provided us data. We went back and forth, went out, got data, came back, analyzed it. That created more questions. Then we would go back out and ask clarifying questions. Um we work through uh analyzing the data, coming up with some goal setting. So, as an administrative team kind of processing that and the last thing in February, February 12th, we brought the discovery team back together, which I said consisted of parents, students, administrators, staff members, and board members back together um to say, "Hey, this is what we think we've heard." Um, and as we work through it, is this is this match what you um you thought from the beginning? Um, and then tonight of course is our presentation of a draft of where we've been and what we pulled together
032uh with the final goal to hope uh hopefully have the board through um this at the April meeting. So the first uh person I'd like to introduce is Sandy Jenkins with the center. Um she's here. She's going to give a little bit information. I also want to uh give a quick recognition to our students. So, um, Emma Strickler was part of the team as a student. And Addie Addington is back there. Addy was, uh, on that team. And, um, Avery, Avery Winston right here. Avery is a freshman. Uh, Josiah, Josiah here. And then Anna Lynn, which Mrs. Cochran had mentioned earlier, was also a student on that team. So, they're going to be sharing a little bit of their insights and what they pulled from it. And the thing that we found out is um
033if we weren't really listening, the students would tell us. They would say that's nice, but no. Uh which is the best part of students being engaged in this process. Um as Sandy would say, they kept us honest. Um I also asked Sher Peters to come. Um she's a parent that was part of that process and I like her to give a little bit of feedback and reflection on that process as well. So Sam, >> yes. Um as Dr. said I'm Jenkins. I represent the Schlucky Center which is a nonprofit organization from Louisville, Kentucky. We were founded in 37 37 years ago by Dr. Philip Schwey who was a farmer in Arcan Ohio. Then he became an educator, a writer, he um did all kinds of stuff and he formed the center and all of this
034work is based on what is the most important thing that happens every day in the school community is what happens inside that classroom. And so from there, the Schlucky Center for 37 years has developed lots of frameworks, lots of ways to help people think. And um the strategic change agenda that your district um chose to participate in is very much um somewhat similar to strategic, you know, planning, but it's a little different because it helps us see about what's really going on. And that's the capacity audit that we'll talk about later and what could happen in the future. And so the product that comes out of strategic change agenda is really future focus. This is what we want to be like in the future. What I was most impressed with as I did the extended
035discovery that meaning talking to lots and lots of folks um there's so much alignment of the beliefs of the community, the beliefs of the teachers, the belief of the students. They all want the same thing, but how do we get there? And um as we go through this process, you're going to really see how the structure with what we put together. And all the board members have a little booklet in front of you that um is the whole structure that we went through the process that the students, parents and staff were involved. And so it is quite different in the sense that it is about design and it's about the data and the most important data is voice talking to all kinds of folks and um Dr. Greg would kind of share how that data
036came about. But the hard work you're not going to see because that's this team, administrative team coming in over and over and over and over again. Files and files of well, we thought this is about this and we thought this and then now we're closer and closer to a process and a product that will propel your district into what you believe everyone in this room and everyone in the community believes it could happen. So on behalf of the Schli Center, I was so happy and honored to work here and so impressed with the alignment of everybody who really wants the same thing and that is students to have meaningful work every day so they learn what we want them to learn because it is about the learning. So that's who the Schwei Center is. I'm
037proud to be here. >> So we talked about the timeline just a little bit ago. So to recap, one of the first conversations and and we kind of made a a visual version of our journey over there on the wall, but we started out talking about um just where we've been as a district. So we physically lined up in the room based upon who has lived and been part of the district for the longest time. I think Mr. Sharp was on the far end of the room possibly. But uh anyways, those were great conversations because we were able to reflect upon and again dive into some of those core values of our community of where have we been, what do we celebrate, where what has the journey looked like for our district. Um next we
038talked about what's up here which is the images of schools and ultimately we want our schools to be that learning organization where students are workers and u volunteers and knowledge workers. So, we had conversations about not only how do each of those groups feel like the district as a whole views that group, but then also they were able to reflect on how do I how do I as a student, how do I as a teacher feel like I am viewed and and in my current role. Um, quickly we went into um the 10 standards. So, we were able to assess based upon those 10 standards where are we at? We ask ourselves two questions. Um, are these things are these standards in place or not in place? And are they not understood or are they
039well understood? And you can see based upon the numerals up there um where each of those standards, for example, if we collectively felt like standard one, developing a shared understanding for a need for change, we felt like that was a little maybe not so much in place and maybe not so understood. So that gives us a a catalyst of okay, what do we need to do? And it helped drive some of our next steps. Again, going back to that timeline I talked about the the the back and forth process where we collected information and um I want to let our students give a little bit of information. Um so through this process we came up with we feel like our our vision our vision centers around three pieces purpose belonging and excellence. That's what our
040vision is that those three things happen every day. That's that's where we're going to be. We're going to our mission is to prioritize meaningful learning to prioritize belonging through relationships and to prioritize excellence and character and success. Um from that we broke down and said okay what are what do we feel like our values are? Now some of the conversation earlier was we went through the strategic planning process um six years seven years ago now and um there was a lot of great work, great conversations and input that came from that and you'll see some of the parallels from that work and we wanted to honor that work. But let's let's go back take another uh litmus test so to speak of of where we at. Is this still aligned with what our all of
041our stakeholders feel? And then give that an update so that it it propels us forward. Our values, shared responsibility, we value the whole child, we value belonging, respect, we value engaged learning, and we value growth and readiness. So that that's kind of our our that summarizes our vision, mission, and what we value. But really the work goes into um what we call our ACE actions. So our ACE actions center around four different pieces. Um [clears throat] our first one with culture and belonging. Um Abby, I think you want to talk a little about about why you felt like culture and belonging was important to you. Culture and belonging is important because these people you're growing up with in these schools, you're creating bonds with, you're growing up with these people yearly. Sure, some of these
042students will come and go, but also some of them will also stay there and you're connecting with these people daily. And it's not just the students, it's also the teachers. you're creating things that many others may not have experienced. And it's also important to make sure that you also share that with other people who may not know how to connect with others because once you can join together, it creates a good community where nobody feels left out or anything negative really. >> And one of the things that you had talked about was you came here in what grade? >> Fourth grade. and and you talked about your perspective was we won't disclose what school you're driving for but you you were impacted by um coming in and being part of this and you wanted to
043be part of it and you felt that sense of community and and and belonging whenever you came here and that's resonated with you and and it's meant something as you went forward. Did I put the right say the right words? Did I summarize what you said earlier? >> Yeah. >> Okay, perfect. Um you'll see over at the side there um the the four larger papers together that was a summary and that was some of the summaries that we went back and forth. The next step is we um engaged our staff. So we went out and said okay these are the summaries that we came up with the data that we were getting and we asked our staff to reflect upon each of those things based upon that data that information we said okay as an
044admin team summarizing all of this these this is what students said hey don't forget this this is really important to us it's really important that we think about our learning experience we talk about our relationships and the support for that which Patty described and our curriculum what we're doing. We don't necessarily we want to want to make sure that it's student centered. Our community um they identified things that said hey don't forget about this. Um our parents they had shared some of the things um such as technology. One of the things there was okay we want to be make sure our students are prepared and moving forward and they're ready for the technology but let's not get so reliant on every piece of the day. making sure that we have a balance of that engaged
045learning uh them the parents becoming partners in learning and how can we develop a partnership with them and character and our staff members you'll see some parallels is very unique that our staff members and students a lot of times said the same thing um they wanted to make talk about you know mental health behavior time and professional development so these are all things that we try to make sure that we remember as we uh put these together. So part of this that makes a little different with the selective center is we have our culture and belonging. Our first ace is about culture and belonging and we develop a picture of success. So if we're able to achieve we're able to build a culture of belonging, pride, shared responsibility where students develop character, contribute to their
046community, and demonstrate excellence in their learning and actions. This is what we think it looks like. Our next ACE action meaningful learning and that was and you want to talk about >> so every student learns different and some students may learn better on hands-on activities other than having the teacher do not for instance in science class we did a poster or a glacier and I learned more about doing the poster than doing it and every every student intelligence is different. So some people like to be some people are visual learners, some people like can just read something and just remember >> so we were talking about we're ensuring every student participates in meaningful learning experiences but build academic skills, collaboration and personal responsibility. So kind of again keeping that student voice in there and we
047said okay that if we think that if we're able to do that this is what that picture of success will look like. Um I keep saying that this one's the boring one maybe um operational effectiveness. Um it wasn't the flashy wind necessarily, but um Lana loved the operational effectiveness, which she should. Um [laughter] uh we maintain a culture of shared stewardship by working uh collaboratively to care for district resources, make thoughtful decisions, align facilities, finances, and investments with the goal of supporting student success and sustaining a high quality learning environment. We talked about [clears throat] what that picture of success um would look like and um vision. Finally, vision and purpose. One of the things that we heard from different people, different stakeholder groups, whether it was students or parents or community or staff, it
048went back to that clear direction, making sure everybody understands what is our vision, what is our mission, what are our values, where are we going? um but being very purposeful in that. Um we'll talk a little bit about your experiences. >> So with purpose um I noticed a lot of the students especially in my just want to understand why they do certain things in the classroom or just overall their experience. in Los Angeles was going around um engineering students, staff members or mainly just the students um in my group and students came up to me because they recognized that I was a part of your study team. They said, "Well, what is this for? Why are you doing this? What is this going to lead to? What is the purpose of this? Boom. Bilingual." And
049they just want a clear understanding of the purpose of what the school does for them. And not only that, but they want to see that reflected onto future circumstances. >> So overall, that gives us our four aces. And Jos, I'm going to come to you in just a minute, but we'll give you a chance to kind of process for just a second. Okay. Um, but Emma Strickler was part of that. And I asked Emma to just kind of give an overall what did this process mean to you? And she's a senior this year. Um, so reflecting on, okay, what how do you think moving forward will this impact the school that you're getting ready? >> Come back. >> Maybe [laughter] come back to >> Yes. Yes. >> Hi. As Dr. Edward said, I'm a senior
050here at Amanda Creek and I got to be on the strategic planning committee. So I think from the senior perspective I've seen a lot of different educational faces here at food creek but I believe that this strategic planning that we're going to implement we'll be able to create a classroom and community environment where everyone can thrive. So we spent the beginning part of this process reflecting on the past of our school district and where we started and then Dr. Edwards already talked about it a little bit, but I think that a very eyeopening activity was the images of our school where we got to see where we are now and where we want to be in the future. By taking all of these things into account, we were able to create a final product that
051clearly reflects the goals of our school district and a program that will benefit the entire community. So, I kind of wanted to hit on all four points like Dr. Edwards just did. Um, through a culture and a native peer group that values belonging, pride, and shared responsibilities, we will be able to help students develop their passion and then pursue that passion as active members of their community. Not only that, but these students can come back to their community and become leaders that strive to create an overall better environment. I think from the culture aspect, one moment where I really saw the culture of the planet come to life was at the girls basketball district finals game. We had a great turnout for a game that was an hour and a half away, but there were
05240 students on the pet bus. I think that just really reflects the culture at Amanda Fair Creek. Students are proud of what they have done. And then next, through the meaningful learning thread at Amanda Creek, we can help students succeed in the classroom and then go on to use their specific learning style to bring innovative ideas to their community. I think that meaningful learning welcomes communication in the classroom through questioning, working with others, and applying what we learn to real life situations. And then another point I wanted to get on is that student success does not just happen in the classroom. It happens outside of the classroom as well. So when we use operational effectiveness, we allow the students to showcase their talent in more than I think the perfect example is our stadium. stuff.
053We put money towards beautifying our stadium and then we have students who bring their talents whether it's in the band or on the field athletically to their facility. Um and then finally by having a clear vision of purpose, belonging, and excellence. This allows students, families, staff, and the community to understand the steps we are taking to support our school district. Students can work to find their passion and use it to contribute to the community. The staff can work with students to determine their learning styles and create an environment where they thrive. And finally, families and family members can contribute to the goals of our district and the overall culture of belonging as a whole. This plan would positively impact students by giving them space to succeed and become the best versions of themselves. Overall, the
054community plan shows students are proud of where they come from and want to give back to something themselves. Thank you. Um it's it's funny whenever we go back to vision uh the vision. Um Mrs. Fairchild was even challenging some students today that you know after this as a doctor to come up to me in the hallway and say Dr. Eric what's your purpose today? Um just to challenge me and and kind of throw that back. And so again again for that to be something that every day we're all students staff over 18s and under 18s every day it's what is our purpose of belonging and we have excellence. Um, Miss Peters, um, kind of a reflection and response about your experience to this process. >> I mean, I it's been great to be a part
055of it. I think, um, throughout the whole process and and you mentioned it, the voice of everybody involved, the the students, the parents, the community members, I think, is a key component because it takes a community. Um, and I really appreciate the school kind of leaning into that piece of it. Um, and I think I forget where in the process we but parent partnership throughout this whole process is is key and I think we heard loud and clear from the parent sessions that I sat in on that parents want to be the partner um in this process and I think there there's a huge opportunity as we kind of lean into this to to lean on the parents and I think that and the community as a whole and bring them along and in hearing
056all this messaging and kind of what is the the purpose, the belonging and the excellence of of the school. So, just really appreciate the opportunity to be a part of it all. >> Um, and then Josiah, Josiah was great about keeping it entertaining throughout [laughter] our meetings. Um, he would be one that would be like, I don't know about that. So, Josiah, if you can tell us a little bit about your experience with this. Um, so I feel like in my experience, it's great to be able to be a part of this because I don't get very much into the school and all that. So like when you get a student's view of it, it's very different than my parents and his parents might think it's this might this >> Yeah. And it was great
057to hear that that that voice and and you know we divided up into different groups and moved around and we were able to really enjoy the feedback we receive from each other. Um so one of the things you might ask is u okay well these are our goals you know we have a goal or a um you know a action an ace action around vision and purpose. Well is that measurable within a strategic plan? is not necessarily measurable. We have a one plan for the state and um that is more of the measurable we will raise by this percent blah blah blah blah blah um which we're conveniently in the process of. So everything that we do in our fund plans requires in the state is going to go through the lens of our strategic
058change agenda. Um so the strategic change agenda is really more about where do we want to go? Where are you going to make all of this happen? What does that look like? And then what are the action steps that we have to do to make that happen? One of the examples like Miss Beer said was parents developing parents as partners. That may not necessarily be the action steps. It's not necessarily measurable as much as what are the action steps to not only put that partnership in place but make the parents feel like they're partners and um to bring them on. So, uh, administrative team, anything that you would like to share from this experience? >> Honestly, giving props to all the students. Um, it it takes a lot [clears throat] of bravery to stand up
059and sit in a room full of adults and be honest. Um, and it was important, but you did it every single time you came, even when it made us all feel a little uncomfortable. I'm being honest, but you got to you got to dig out the truth. And, um, we appreciate you for that. So, can we give the students a round of applause because THEY um our next steps would be uh we have a partnership um Alex Hills and Communications um company out of Columbus and through our partnership with the selected center um they have agreed to work with us at no cost to develop our uh final product. And you remember I showed you early on about that final product. Um a a school near us Ling Heights has also process and I shared
060that was one of the examples of the finished product um that they had. So we will have an initial conversation with them on March 18th to see what steps we need to get in place. Um our goal would be to have final board approval April 18th. our action steps um to the ACES action, our ACES, our four aces um will be aligned to our one plan which we'll be finalizing this spring. Um we will produce that final food product. Um we will deploy that to staff, parents and community. Um we will work through continuous monitoring of indicators of success of working towards that picture of success and then ultimately um each year you will be adding in action steps and refining expanding your actual action steps to continue to move forward like Sandy said it's
061very future focused >> and if you notice up there that indicators of success what you do from your ace to your picture of success which paints a picture of what it's going to look like in the future what tells us we're being there and then you know those are the papers of success but what strategic actions do the adults in the community need to focus on to cause that to happen. So that's where it kind of again moves um beyond strategic planning because everybody involved especially the adults have a part in it to make it successful. So, and we work with as um you know, Licking Heights is one of the models we looked at. Bivia out west is one we looked at. Um Northshore outside of Chicago, we looked at lots of models to
062say, are we are we going to have a product that would really move us to the future? Um and these folks here, they probably got just tired of me saying back and saying, "Can you rethink? Can you rethink? Can you rethink?" And if I take out every piece of paper that we worked on, they'll probably go around the school because it was never quite what we wanted. But today, I think we're almost right where you guys want to be with that. The ace, which again is a goal, but we like to say it's an ace. So people understand that and then what's it look like? And that picture success was developed because some of us in the room were in the room when that was developed, but most of your folks were not in the
063room. So, we want them to have a picture of what's it going to look like in the future? What's it mean to me, to my child, and so forth. >> So, um, our next step, board members, um, initial questions or or comments or how did you get there? What is this name? Um, type of thing. It sounds great, but it sounds like there's a lot of uh knowledge that went into it, a lot of questions, a lot of indepth identification of what the steps are. I'm very eager to hear what those actual looks like, what those strategic plan are. So, it's one thing to talk about versus being able to have metrics for it and be able to train and understand and clearly see and those metrics over time to see if we are achieving
064it. And some of the things that you'll see in some of the examples that Sandy talked about earlier is you know one of the first steps maybe just okay let's dive more into what this could look like or let's dive more into how can we better you know just maybe the first step is the information and equipping ourselves with how we how do we better those next steps. Um, a lot of the examples they will have one or two years of action steps out, but then it's they're continuously adding because they have that that that end goal of where we want to be and you look at the, you know, the gap where you're at part of the whole process at least the beginning of the one last not so much on the >> same
065which funds >> the sandwich. Yeah. Um was trying to make this and I was probably the last strategic as well. Well, we had some good goals that came up with that. I know beforehand took over kind of looked at that to see, you know, what are some of the things we want to do to achieve those goals, but it wasn't so much to where you could just go around the community or students or whatever. And so, what are you going to lab or whatever? This one very much had a goal of like some little thing and so forth. that we could actually take and run with try to, you know, whether it be things in the hallways or whatever else or things that we're discussing so that hopefully over time students and parents regulate so
066much or whatever have those those thoughts in mind and hopefully filter each put together a lesson plan or whatever kind of filter the thought through when they're creating that one is um while doing his own schools and screen not being so much seems to be a common thing. So some interesting things came out of it to kind of guide things to see how it gets implemented and so forth. At least in terms of a communication standpoint, there's a lot more potential messages and so forth more common amongst the community, not just >> um and you know, Mr. We will have metrics. So they're not going to be like the smart goal metrics because the um you look at the culture of belonging you might say we're going to increase the number of participation of the
067community through these action steps and so everything will be measurable but just measurable differently you know and it's always going to tie back into the one plan and Dr. Edward said this is the umbrella we're going to look at. So we want to raise reading scores with the smart goal by points. So then we go back to well how's it how do we do that with a culture? How do you do that with meaningful learning experiences? So, some of those strategies maybe we've done in the past don't really make sense, but our strategies for a smart goal to be um in for the smart goal to happen is to go back and look through each of these and is it about the purpose and is it about belonging? And so maybe some of the strategies
068you used in the past you may not use because it doesn't align with now the vision of the the district. Um but you you can measure everything. We do need metrics. They're just different metrics. And when we talk about data, the data that we collected because of talking to so many people really filtered out to everything that this district's about and we had over a thousand statements that we then looked at patterns and trends. And so that's the kind of data that this is built on with people and Mr. Sharp communication. We're so fortunate that outer hills can help us share that story because their vocal goal as a company is to help shape the story you want to tell because that story becomes everybody's and not just in your room or in the superintendent's
069office. I just don't students are wonderful. Um always have to have students in the room when we do this work because they do keep us honest, don't they? >> Yes. >> Okay. Well, I appreciate uh your uh contributions and and and your work through this process and you know being that voice out to your peers and being able to get some feedback from this. >> Thank you guys. >> [laughter] >> I said this this is kind of with we're getting it into that operational effectiveness type things. So you guys are welcome to stay have to but I appreciate Moving on to consent agenda number one. Um to accept the minutes from the previous meeting which is January 18th um approve the substitute list by a paperwork and to accept donations. We received um over books
070valued at $1,900 in memory of Carol and S. um don't don but she was a fourth grade teacher here for many years I believe the comment was she wanted to put a book in everybody's hand so it wasn't just a donation to the library she know what it was I know there also was some myer gift cards donated for project read more that's right I love Can I have a motion? >> Second call, please. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Dr. Mrs. >> Yes. Number four. Treasury recommendations. Financial status reports. reports. Okay. Um obviously February is a short month. Um so our revenues um it is a month where we receive um property tax advantages. So our revenues were 3664,922 um which is state foundation and we investment loans. Um we were
071our revenue was increased um because we need to actually receive two property taxes only one um so it's very popular but we did receive the further advancement um our interest earnings were 56 maybe um depending on if the Fed moves that should stay pretty consistent Now, as we have pretty much spent our construction funds, so that should pre um we still do have some money. This will be the last well March will be the last month probably to have any investments. Um we do have I do receive the very last um pay app for some construction. So we should be done with that and then we'll move the time to our regular general which um future interest um today we've received um approximately interest um expenditures for the month were 1,755 5,000 typical checks written
072for 2,558,000. Um that is a little less than what we've seen over the last year and a half and that's under construction. So that's about where we are normally. Um most of our expenses were exactly the same as 25. So we have any um we pay our fee for our the one if you look on your report that's actually stage you'll see that we did all the art charges in one month typically because installments all at once so that threw off the private categories so it gets a little Our incentives were up about 58,000 which is what pretty much the salaries were monthly. So overall our general fund revenue exceeded our expenses by 1,99,000 salary investments were about 83% of our monthly expenses for our largest expenditure and the current general fund balance is 12
073million60,14 we have in conferences which is created payment of 1,924,000 our available cash balance is about 10 million 145,000. We still do have funds in the 07 capital fund and those are 28,000 with 48,000. So our balance in that is about 747,000. If you look at our C our period of balance cash policy, we are about 39% of our projected expenditure for fiscal year 26 and it was updated this month because we did do the forecast in February. So our new projected funding general funding expendations for that. about 49%. And I've I've said before, the good part about talking about this every month is you guys will be able to clearly see how cash flows seasonal because of income tax, property tax. And as the state has put more emphasis on that cash balance, it
074obviously comes in close throughout the year. Once we get through January and February or first February, it starts growing again until we get through um summer and then come falling until January is usually our last month for actual match. Great questions about that. Motion to approve the financial reports. Dr. Roll, please. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Song. >> Yes. >> Mrs. >> Yes. Item C is to accept the rates and maps from Pico County auditor for 2026. You don't have a question. UAL um resolution that we do for the county auditor that basically says we are asking you to collect these funds. Um this comes from the tax budget that the tax commission reviews. Um the tax commission did not make any changes to our um collection request. um
075as has been topic of discussion and all the funding form um and the amounts that they will collect is also in that resolution. If you have further questions now tax year versus collection tax calendar year or school year >> tax year. So the tax year is that the tax year 2025 is obviously calendar tax year that translates because it's not a school year. >> Correct. So it spreads over to technically two years. >> Yes. >> So you're saying this was not affected any legislation that passed. >> No, we will not see that affected until >> but they don't have any projections that >> they do. I presented those at the last meeting and that was what was in the forecast. So we do have the projections and the reductions. >> Okay. That was the >>
076Yes, >> that's okay. So, but this does not reflect those numbers that are actually in our forecast. >> These numbers are the same as forecast. So for 26, these are what we're >> Yes. So it'll be um next fall before we will see and it's because >> so we counties that have 24. >> Sorry about that. And it's very confusing and that was one of the reasons the tax budget document traditional tax is very confusing because it was provided because the tax is not the same and so the collection would be half and half and so the document was written half a do let's do something that makes more sense. Mrs. Song. >> Yes. >> Dr. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sharp. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Personnel um to accept the resignations and or
077retirements. Um, we have a retirement schedule for Halloween the end of the school year. She has served for 10 years as an educational aid with the business school district. Another retirement is Susan Tette um at the end of the school year and she has served for 20 years as an educational AC for their service and two other resations um to B is to approve contract um as listed as listed. Yeah. >> Okay. I'm sorry. Um, approve the supplemental employment for several coaching positions. Approve classified contracts. Approve classified subs. Approve volunteers for 2526 for um these are all athletic category, but we thank everybody that volunteers. HS appreciate it. Do I have a motion? >> Second. Any discussion? >> Mrs. Mr. >> Yes. >> Dr. Buffalo. >> Yes. >> Mr. H. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Jones.
078>> Yes. On to new business. Approve the Hannib class of 2026 listed graduates as listed. There's a big list. >> How many's on the list? [laughter] >> I didn't countund on the list. >> A little bigger than last year. >> I'm sorry. >> It's a little larger than last year. >> Nobody's giving up. >> [laughter] >> Do I have a motion to approve the list of graduates? Dr. [laughter] Dr. >> Mr. Mr. Mrs. Yes. Item B is to encourage the FFA trip to Washington DC leadership conference June 23rd to the 226 discussion Mrs. Song. Yes. >> Dr. Mr. Hing. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Young. >> Yes. Item C is to approve a menu with State Community College for college credit plus courses for fiscal year 27 discussion pre using these specific
079rates. Yeah. >> And for some reason, so we have students that contract. Yeah. The rate per credit hour is the statuto rate and it's just what? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Yes. Item D is to approve the master service agreement with meta for fiscal year 27 discussion Dr. >> Mr. Yes. >> Yes. E is to approve staff leave without pay as listed. Motion roll. >> Yes. >> Dr. M. Yes. Mr. >> Yes. M. >> Yes. and we'll go to board discussion for policy updates. the first three um for as those listed those three policies as listed these are >> so the first the first one I'm trying to scroll down but the first policy actually um just was enacted into law recently and um we had to call and get a
080copy of the policy um that is supposed to be in place. So the first one has to get this brand of foods and cultivated protein free products. Um so essentially very basic but programing those items. The second one this is just related to the definition that's all. Um and the third one is related to students who are gifted. Um and this is just updates from state law um within language and then also ensuring that the chart matches what we're doing. You'll see that in mathematics that was 336 and it's changed to 27 to expand inside mathematics services through cluster briefing and just other pieces related to wall. One of the was that matters. >> Dr. Mr. Song Mr. >> Mr. Mr. Dennis, will you end our live stream? >> Thanks. Appreciate it.