001Welcome to the March 19th board of educations for Kevin Local Schools. Thank you guys so much for being here. Appreciate your time. Um, I'd like to call this meeting to order. Davis, yes. Mr. Bowser here. Here. Uh, let's stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. Wait. Um, is there a motion to approve the meeting agenda? Second. David. Yes. Mr. Bowser. Yes. Mr. House. Yes. Yes. Is there a motion to approve the minutes from the February 19th meeting meeting? So move. Second. Yes. Mr. Bowser. Yes. Yes. All right. So, I'm going to change the order of the uh district reports and our special guests just because
002uh I know some of them need to uh take off um before we recognize them. But the first person I wanted to recognize and introduce to you is Deputy Mike here. School SRO. Um I think he's gotten off to a great start. Uh he's, you know, I I think joining an organization halfway through the year like this is a little bit tough because we're already running full speed and he's got to catch up to us and, you know, we forget that he hasn't been hasn't been here the whole time. Uh but he's come in um acclimated, I think, very well. It's multiple times a week that someone says to me, you know, I'm glad we have Deputy Mike now because, you know, and it's it's great stories and great reasons and and great ways that
003he's helped us. Um, so I wanted to make sure we got him here this month um to introduce him to all of you. And you'll see this familiar face. I'll tell you, he was walking down the hall and we all thought, "Oh, there's going to be an audience member this month." Uniform audience member. So, welcome there, Deputy Mike. It's been a while. Thank you. How's it been so far? How are you? It's been good. Been busy. Uh, yeah, we're doing we're doing good. Put up to work fast. Was that to work fast? You guys got him all the gear, too. The hat, the t-shirt. They're make you buy that yourselves. Well, so I have my wife and my youngest here who he is very involved in sports. So, I have for the last five years
004been pretty decked out Coventry Coventry. Good. Good. Well, thank you so much. We are so glad that you're here with us. Thank you very much. We've had a a couple emails that are like, "Can I just tell you how awesome it is that he's here?" So, thank you very much. Thank you. If you guys need to take off, that's fine. Yeah, we're gonna get the grill. It's sunny outside. I was excited. It's a nice Thank you. I do have a Coventry email, Coventry School email. So, if anybody wants to reach out, I have available that way. Thank you. Thank you guys. Nice meeting you. Nice meeting you. Next up, I wanted to invite uh Coach Clark to come up and join me here. I remember coming to Coventry four years ago and going to my
005first basketball game and, you know, kind of watching the everybody, you know, get ready. It's the beginning and then the uh national anthem comes on and I noticed that we had a coach that stood at strict attention during the national anthem. I these kids are in trouble. We have a veteran that that works on the coaching staff. And then I went down and met him and I thought, okay, he's not the heavy because you saw that big smile and over the years I've seen how much he connects with our kids. Um I've been blessed to be a little closer to the basketball team these last couple years and got to see Coach Clark in action. loved what they did with our kids this year. We had a great season, you know, ups and downs. Um,
006but I'll tell you the biggest down for me was as the season was ending, the word got to me that coach Clark is leaving us. Um, his wife due to her job is they have an opportunity to go to Texas. So, our game against Marlington this year was his last game coaching uh Coventry students. and he's dedicated a lot of time and energy and hours of his life and time away from his family um to do such great work for our kids. So, I just wanted to give him a certificate of appreciation. Thank you for telling myself not to cry tomorrow. Oh gosh, I've known Raj oh for years. 20 plus years we started coaching at Kim's football when I first moved to Akan and immediate instant connection just his drive and his passion coaching
007you know my future generation has been inspirational um he's made me feel a better father um mentor and husband sorry um it's just it's not going to be the same Um, we live down the street from one another. I mean, just our paths have taken, you know what I mean? The same way just trying to guide our our future and to men, you know, it's more than a game which we preach about. It's, you know, life lessons. We teach them life lessons off the court. And, uh, I'm not going to write a book on any better than Harry Potter trilogies. You know, the sequel is about him. Um, but it's just, you know, when I first when you first told me it didn't, when he told me he was moving and relocated, it didn't seem
008good until now. You know, until now at this moment and tomorrow is just going to be a whirlwind of just emotions. But I've been blessed and privileged and honored to have known him. You know, I told him I'm going to pop out to Texas throughout the summer time to visit him. Um, I just, it's still surreal to me right now because he's still here present at this moment. Um, but just the impact he's made in the six years we coached together. You know, when I first, you know, accepted the job and took over, he was my first call, my first call. Um, we coached high school football together as well here. He was my right-hand man in the box. Um, in 2019, 2020. Um, and I mean, I could go on and on, you guys,
009but I do thank all of you guys for the opportunity for myself and coach Rod to be a part of Coventry. and you know it's not going to be the same. There's going to be big shoes for the next varsity assistant to Phil. Um but his honor and presence just I mean undeniable. I mean words can't explain you know just how much he means to myself, my family and to our program and has been a blessing to love you to death. He's a brother to me and yeah so sorry I got choked up. was just it's starting to really set in and I got to off a little bit. So, got to prepare myself for tomorrow. Tomorrow's our banquet. So, uh yeah, I got to compose myself a little bit. But thank you guys for
010recognizing them, put them out here in the privilege. I appreciate it. It's been great here. Um again, I our journey started in youth football. Um I did 12 11 years and then I I got asked to go to Kim High School the last two years before they they closed before it was just Kimmore. Did the last two years and then my my wife got breast cancer and then I I took an absence for two years and basically you know being the supportive husband that I was supposed to be and I did that and then I went back for one year back to the youth to help because they they was down in coaches. So, I went back down there and then the call comes and it was more than one call because I I was
011like I was done. I didn't want to do it anymore. And then I get here come play basketball and all of a sudden want to play want to coach football. I'm like I really didn't want to coach anymore but I I end up staying and I and then just the journey the kids here even you know staff and and the parents has been great. I couldn't ask for the any to a coaching career at with this school here. So, I am very happy and blessed and thank you guys so much. And they were they I think just came from did you say a baseball game? Oh yeah. Yeah. We had track practice and I just went to the baseball game and had a fanatical end of the day here. I was like, I need you
012at the basketball. We got to lose some stuff. So that's I told them they could take off as they got to get ready for banquet tomorrow. Thanks so much. You guys see Austin. Okay. That's a busy place. such a good guy. Um, and then to follow that up to bring us home here will be the elementary school for their educational spotlight for this the last time this year. I I promise I won't be as long as our last spotlight was preemptively dismissing people just in case. We won't drag on today. I only have one guest. We don't have too much going on since our last one in December. Um, but I'm gonna invite Broco up first. Uh she, if you were not aware, was named the Summit County Rookie Teacher of the Year uh just
013about a month ago. So, we're extremely lucky to have her. She has been absolutely amazing. This is her, uh first year in our MD room, and she has just been such a proponent of full inclusion and getting those kids out and about in the growth that they've made is unreal. like from last year to this year like one kid would need to leave the room pretty much and now he is going everywhere walking and it's it's just it's astronomical. So I invited her to talk and highlight of what she does and the impact she has on your skills. Oh, thank you. That was so nice of you. Um well, as Mr. Savage said, my name is Kristen Bronco. This is my second year at Coventry, my second year teaching. Um, so I was a kindergarten
014intervention specialist last year. I'm uh in the multiple disabilities room this year. Um, and so Mr. Savage kind of asked me to talk about what inclusion is looking like for my students. Um, inclusion, I mean, I'm sure all of you have like a pretty good idea of what inclusion has started to look like. Um, but for the most part it looks like us integrating kids with IEPs as much as we can into a general education classroom with with the respect of their least restrictive environment in mind. So, always keeping their tolerance in mind. So, for my kids, it looks a little different um because of some of our tolerances are lower. Um, so two, I just put two little quotes up here and I promise I won't talk for a really long time. Um, but
015I do have that inclusion works the advantage of everyone. we all have something to learn and they all have something to teach and that's a big one I feel like coming from my kids. Um sometimes my kids being out is more of a learning opportunity for the peers around them than it is for my student at that time. Uh which has been I think really beneficial. Uh I'll get into that a little bit later with one of my pictures. Um and then something else is just unity not uh uniformity must be our name. Again we're not wanting by including my kids um or kids with disabilities we're not wanting them to be like everybody else. We want to be a unified front, show each other, not have a guest host feeling in our classrooms. We
016want them all to be together uh and unify. So, I do have um I felt like the best way to kind of show you some cool things that have been happening is just through some pictures. Uh so, I made a slideshow. Um I'm pretty partial to my children or my students. My children my students freaking fast. Um, I'll just give you a little synopsis of some of uh what's going on here. So, this is my student Luke. I had him last year as a kindergartener as well. Uh, if people saw him now and knew what he was at the end of last year, they would be like, "Oh my goodness, I can't believe it's the same child." Um, he was an alope member at the end of last year. This year, this little tag um
017says his name and it says, "I'm working on independence. Miss Bronco/Manda, who is his eight, knows where I am. Um, so he is now walking in the hallways by himself going from place to place. Um he started his year in Mrs. Carr's first grade room for a little under an hour. Um he is now in there for over four hours a day. Um academically not the lowest in her class. Um and he is getting invited to birthday parties uh of his like regular age peers, gen peers. Um he's pass these this is him passing out his popsicles for his birthday. used to have a social skills goal which he is going to work himself out of of his next IEP review which is really exciting. Uh and here's just a couple more uh examples of
018him not shy in front of the class partaking in their phonics lesson. And this other picture is actually in my room. We invited some friends um to play a site word game which was also really cool because it was me bringing those kids into his environment too. So again trying to get rid of like that guest host feeling um between our two rooms. So that's my little synopsis of Luke. Um, yeah. So you she made a comment that it's a learning experience for their peers, too. And the way that Mrs. Car's class has just like embraced him and yeah, it's just been amazing. Those kids have been so nice and learned so much. I'm a stop there. Where's Luke? Where's Luke? Mrs. Scar also is well she's just amazing all around but she did a
019pre-teaching on autism for her children before Ruth joined. Um it was like the second week of or second day of school. Um and she kind of gave them a little bit of background and I think that that's amazing because then her kids weren't afraid to ask questions and they were able to put a name with kind of what some somebody else was showing like different characteristics and it made them comfortable. Um and just knowing that he was the one they're so accepting of him it's amazing. Um this is a picture of two students who are one is mine, one is well spade as you can see on her desk. Um but he gets out of my room for reading hungry mentioned. So he's a little bit he's included in a little bit of a different
020way. He's going to a multi-age room that has a little bit um higher functioning students than with a more challenging curriculum than I teach all day. Um so some of my kids have modified curriculums. All of our kids are on an adapted curriculum. So he's included not fully into agenda like that. Um we're trying trying to build up tolerance to see what we uh like for the future what we can get. Um but he's doing really well challenging himself with his reading and he is also wearing a tad getting from place to place and he used to be a lover in both the fire alarms. So we are making like big progress with him. Um oh this is one of my students at the end of a concert. Um, I would love to take credit
021for getting him to stay on stage the whole entire time, but it was not me. It was the fact that he is obsessed with the kids in his genet class that he goes to specials with, and they were all around him, and he got to look at them, see what was happening, be I can do this. I did have gummy worms in my pocket, which may may have helped. Um, but he did extremely well, and it is because, again, he has these positive peer role models and he's made positive peer relationships as well. Um, I did have some new ones since you saw. Um, this is one of my students, Grayson. Um, he is, these were actually today. He was sitting outside on the bench during recess, uh, getting a break out of his wheelchair,
022um, with his same age peers. Again, this is an opportunity for them to learn so much more about Grayson as well. Um, and so back to that quote where it's my kid, my kids are not they're always learning something and absorbing something. I truly believe that. But this is such a good opportunity for my students to teach their same age peers things about themselves, whether it's like accepted acceptance or just like helping going a little bit of the extra mile. It's really nice like inclusiveness all around. Um because it affects my students and the general students. Um I do have one other thing to actually I will turn Oh, the volume's kind of on. I was going to say I can turn it off. This is my student that um Mr. Savage was talking about
023who is in specials bouncing basketball with one of his um with his attendant. He did not would not leave the classroom last year. Um specials were not his thing. Leaving the room wasn't his thing. Um he this year is leaving the room, going to specials every single day for at least a small duration of time. It's a really good example of inclusion not looking the same for every single kid. Um, it's also a good example of police restricted environment not looking the same for every single kid. We're working really hard in the classroom on building tolerance, but right now what we're tolerating is specials, walks, playground. We love the playground. Um, try and do things like going up and down stairs in the front of the building which were like a big a big no
024no last year. So his tolerance like so we're trying slowly trying to build it. But him being in specials in basketball was like made my year. So, and then um back to my one other student, Grayson, he um is so much more alert and aware this year. I've even had conversations with his um mom about that. We feel like he's so much more upright and aware and looking around and um especially when he's around his peers, he gets so excited. He somehow gets the straps off of his shoes and his wheelchair and he kicks his legs everywhere. get so excited. Um, and so this was new this year, which was a big win for us, just coming with awareness. Um, Grayson for the first time is moving himself by himself in his wheelchair, which is
025amazing. Um, we are doing a lot of circles right now because we're only using our right arm, but we are working on the left. Um, and this is something that I think for him definitely comes with maturity. Um, but again, he has so many more uh opportunities just being out of the classroom work. His attendant is really amazing getting him out. When he's in his stander, walking around building, he pops into classrooms and says hello. Um, I've had so many teachers tell me, specialist teachers especially, that they can't believe how much they see him now, which I think is like so amazing. And so, um, you know, I can't speak for as much as how it's going for all of the gened teachers. I mean I from the outwise but teaching kids with multiple disabilities
026is not easy and it's not easy to look and always presume competence but I think so far staff has done a really good job and is obviously a really big change in my students lives which is the most important thing I could ask for. So that's exciting. Um, just wanted to give a little update on our middle of the year benchmark testing. Um, that weed back in January. So the VOI stands for beginning of year. MOI is middle of the year. And so this is our percentage of students who are reading at or above grade level. Um, so you can see every grade has made improvements. Kindergarten jump. That's crazy. 33% came in reading on green level. We're at 75%. They just did some progress monitoring this week and probably in the 80s if not
02790s of kids reading on grade level. Um as a school we went up from 54% on grade level to uh 70% at book. So we implemented this year in comment time which last year when I was presenting our first grade team they were kind of we want to spearheaded it and they talked about how it worked for them but we implemented it schoolwide and it's just it's had such a nice impact not only on our kids who are below grade level but now some of our higher level kids are getting enrichment opportunities that they wouldn't have normally gotten before. So things are going good academic wise there. Uh along the same lines, we offer third grade tutoring um every February and March to get them ready for the third grade fall or spring OST. Um
028so we offer it in English and language arts and math. Um in the fall we had 56 students who were not proficient on the fall OST and of those we invited all 56 to come to tutoring. Um, of those 56, 26 are going, which I know might not seem like a lot, but it's a really good number to have. Um, it also kind of shows you kind of a a battle we fight that, you know, this is a free opportunity and a lot of our parents just won't take advantage of it. Um, it's two, English is two days a week, math is two days a week. They're there for an hour and it goes for a total of 10 sessions. Um, in math, we asked for the teachers to recommend kids because they don't take
029the fall math OST. Um, and of the 26 that were recommended, 12 are participating. Um, we give them snacks, they work with their teachers, and it's had a pretty good impact on their spring score. So, we're hopeful when we test here two weeks that we'll see really good results this year. Um, Mrs. Brew, I think, alluded to it last time at the December meeting, but um, she's been amazing getting us partnerships with a lot of these outside organizations. Uh, and Child Guidance and Family Solutions is one of them. Um, and so we have been able to use them for two programs for our kids. Um, in fourth grade, they get the two good for drugs program and they have that at the middle school. I think they have it at the high school, too. Maybe
030a variations. um talks about life skills, everything like that. And then the second grade is going through what's called the incredible ears program. Um this was kind of presented to us midy year is more geared towards kindergarten age, but our second grade is very active, challenging grade. So we thought it would be very helpful to have them there. the uh child guidance comes every Wednesday, meets with every class for 45 minutes, just again life skills and everything like that. So, it's been great to have these partnerships. Um Spru's been amazing setting them up. Been child guidance society reaching out about let's what are we going to do next year? So, it's been really nice to have them just, you know, another voice for the kids to hear. We preach journey of comment. Um it's always
031nice for them to hear from somebody else, too. This one's fun. Last Friday, um, we had the Matt Chimera Irish dancers come in. One of our first graders, Kallet, it's right here, is part of the Macra dance troop. Um, and so it's probably before Christmas, her mom came in and said, "Hey, you know, every St. Patrick's Day, we always tour school." Said, "Why don't we tour here?" And I said, "I don't know. Let's do it." So we set that up. So they came Friday. Um they started at Nollie Friday morning. They came to us. Then they went to Green for six shows. Um and then I think they had one more maybe at Lake and it was just it was amazing. The little kids were obviously super cute. And this was Ken's class that was
032posing with her. They all gave her hugs afterwards. But some of the older kids in that dance troop were national champions and go to Ireland and do the Irish dancing and they were doing it on our stage. Our kids were just like amazing. Every kid was trying it at recess. It was so funny. But the one kid that was the national champ like this leg kick was pretty much vertical and it was crazy. Like I believe my waist all the way up there. But it was really fun. The kids loved it. Nice little way to get us excited for St. Patrick's Day. Last night we held our second annual kindergarten registration night, the future comic carnival. Um it's kind of our way to try to get kids registered early so that we have a better
033idea of how many kindergarters are going to be coming. Last year we had a good turnout and then 50 more kids registered in August. And um so you know it was still a fun event. We wanted to get our resident people in see the building. Uh we didn't have a great turnout. We probably had about 30 families come. Um but you know spreading the word getting them registered. So we had to play advocate for that. This was my favorite station. This is the kindergarten signing station. They sign a little certificate welcoming them the class of 2038. They can take it home. We have a big pencil that they can post their pictures with. um the middle school student council. I was reaching out for volunteers. I guess the high school they couldn't get very many
034for spring sports. So I reached out to Mrs. Burns and she had probably like 20 kids there volunteering and they were so amazing. She said, "I think my kids had more fun than the the incoming kindergarteners." So we let them have popcorn and play the carnival games and everything. But it was a very nice partnership and we were very lucky to have them there helping us out here. I also wanted to spotlight our brand new teachers this year because as you know we hired a lot and they have been absolutely amazing. I I think we hit the jackpot hiring every little bomb. Yeah. And they every single one of them has just been absolutely amazing and has come in and hot like they've been teaching forever. They've brought a very fun energy to the building.
035They're, you know, the Tik Tok generation. They make Tik Toks and sometimes they con me into being in them, but it's really fun. Um, they just the activities that they do. Mrs. Gibson is always doing stuff related to her CK knowledge. She had a in the medical unit or the human body unit. She invited some people in that she knew that were in the medical profession and every kid got scrubs and doing all sorts of different medical things. Miss Helms, the art teacher, she is amazingly talented. This is a kindergartenner who made that picture. Um, so she, and this is obviously more advanced, a fourth grader in the art club, and just the stuff that she has been able to have these kids do, it's amazing. This is in Miss Ganzer's class. Again, they have
036a human body unit in their college lessons, too. So, she invited some outside friends in to present. Excuse me. But they're just they're fun. They're energetic. This jet on Monday at Miss Johnson, the leprechaun came and stole all their chairs. So, she had her kids on a scavenger hunting clues. And it was they were just they were talking about it all day. They're still talking about where their chairs were. The leprechaun. So, we definitely hit the nail on the head. Um, everybody, as far as I know, is returning. We've even had some people turn down job offers to stay with us just because they love teaching here and the friendships that they've made. So, we're very, very lucky and just sort of highlighted that. Then, uh, my last little bit, this is Reth organized a
037staff scavenger hunt. This is a little get to know you building activity that she does every year. And staff members that wanted to participate gave a clue about themselves that people wouldn't know. Something that's something that people wouldn't know. And it was a way to encourage everybody to get to know each other more by having conversations to figure out who the clues were about. So I think we had about 30 people participate. I narrowed it down to five of the clues so we can play a little game to see who you think are these people. So, Miss Johnson, me, Miss Jen, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Richley. These are the ones that I picked. Um, five different clues. First one, my son and dog were in a video on an episode of America's Funniest Home Videos.
038Somebody was a model when they were a baby. Somebody is a former Guinness World Record holder. Somebody has a motorcycle that they love to ride and it's nice out. Somebody has been over to over 375 concerts. They're backstage at multiple shows and has sang with a few performers during some of the shows. So, any guesses as to who any of these might be? I'm gonna say Miss Lawrence has the motorcycle. Lawrence has the motorcycle. Ask me. I'm gonna say you were the model. That's not true. I'd say Miss Jet was the world the Guinness World Record holder. So, I was just We did this for about two weeks. People going around conversating and then Mrs. grandma had a little social after in her room with snacks and a big reveal and every every single thing
039that was revealed and it's like oh my god like I didn't even know. So here's our big reveal. My son and dog were in a video on America's funny videos was Mrs. Rich this is I'm sorry. Yeah, you I was like I want everybody to be Miss Jet was the model. She was she was a model for some grocery stores. I was a former Guinness World Record holder. Uh, in college I worked for the Cavs at a marketing company and we held the world record for most people wearing wigs at the same time. Yes. One of the promotion nights that they had brown wigs and I we had another one. I couldn't find a picture was most people wearing Snuggies at the same time. Those I think both of them have been broken but not
040my vlog. Miss Johnson has the motorcycle. She loves to drive this nice sound. And then that leaves This is Lawrence who has been to over 375 concerts. This is actually her singing with Let me get the sound back singing with Stephen Tyler. This is not the She said this. to sang with him multiple times. the Denver concert service. Some of her notable shows, Michael Jackson, YouTube, Tina Turner, Aerosmith's her favorite. She goes through a lot of them with her mom but been to so many of these that's didn't know that about her. So it was really fun for us to get to know each other a little more doing all of that. So I appreciate Mr. Rol for putting that on. And just to wrap up some upcoming dates tomorrow we have our March kindergarten
041first grade and second grade PBIS assembly with Mrs. Rnell. Then we have our first grade music program tomorrow night and want to see some really cute program about animals. Um they have been working very hard and I think Mrs. GMO is worried because they have a long rehearsal tomorrow because today's rehearsal is not up to her students but they're in first grade. That's what I tell her. It'll be cute no matter what. Um then on Friday we have our third and fourth grade BS assembly and they're going to perform the first grade is going to do their program for the school at 2 o'clock. So everybody's welcome to come if you don't want to come tomorrow night. And then when we return from spring break uh we have our share the fair coin wars. This
042is put on by Mrs. Wolf a little fundraiser for our book fair or spring book fair so that every kid is able to purchase a book at the book fair. And then on April 10, Miss Helms has putting on our art show, our annual art show. She has already started setting up for that. It's probably our most attended event at CES. We might get more people there than we do at open house, which is crazy, but it's just she'll have our all over the school type of talent that is there already at this age. It's amazing. That is all I have. I wouldn't go too long like last time. appreciate the opportunity to share a little about what's been going on at Catal. Awesome. Thank you so much. Before we go on, I just want
043to second what Mr. S shared. I think you saw it with Mrs. Barco there. The energy that our first and second year teachers have brought. I don't not to the building, but just to all of us. um you can't help but be around them and be excited and it's just um just contagious what they've brought to our district and we're happy to have all and those are all of the items uh under district updates citizen participation anyone uh board of education I I watch these things. See, I being a being a high school teacher, I have a hard time getting into it with the little kids and all that kind of stuff. I don't know how you guys do. I bless your arts and how you do that things. It it What is the date
044to your art show? April 7th. So, that's a big event. Yes. Super troublemakers are performing which is our fourth grade show choir. They'll be performing there too. Good. Yeah, I I enjoy listening to everything and I like your testing feel. You're increasing reading and and you're doing your math tutors and your LA your land charts tutors and stuff where we go get them ready. Yeah. So, I just have one super quick thing and maybe you haven't even an update, Mr. Savage, but Miss Elgen was here a couple months ago about the comic cruisers and that little running program. Yeah. She just mentioned that last week that some of those kids have already run a marathon, several of them. So, yeah. And Nicole, the cross country coach, she uh gave us the information for all of
045our members of the common cruisers to do the clock tower 5K for free. So that's going home with them tomorrow. They can register. I'd say of the 50-ish kids we have, maybe 15 run the time that they're there, but the other ones are walking and socializing. Yeah, but they're still a goal, right? I mean, they're out there. Yeah. Something they're together. It's cool. Yeah. You know, and Miss Breathmail, too. I mean, it's just awesome. And from what I heard too, like for the clock tower run, like some of the teachers, more of the teachers now. I know some did it last year, too. But I well we did it last year. But are you gonna be doing it to walk? Are you Yeah. Doing you doing it to walk with some of the kids or
046to run with the kids, which is awesome, too. So yeah, it just sounds really cool. Yeah. So that's still going on. You're still like a lot of involvement. I just think that's awesome. Included for sure. Thank you for your presentation. That's fantastic. I love to see everybody. This warms my heart. Also special thanks to Mr. Clark. Um, he's just been just a great role model for our young guys and how to handle himself. I've never seen him lose his lose his school. He always seems to be very even. So, thank you. And um, two couple things. Um, band and choir both went to OMA last Friday night and both of them uh, the large group band got a one which is fantastic and they'll go on to state May something, May 10th, May is whatever.
047We'll figure that out. And then, um, the, uh, large group that went with the choir also got a one, which was really fantastic. And, um, a lot of those kids have never been before because it was a combination of different choirs all put together. So, special thanks to them. And our kids just show up. They are professional. They I am so proud of them. Every time we go and we watch them do um, perform. Also, the taste of Coventry is coming up on the 22nd of April. Um, if you guys are interested in need tickets, you can contact me. You can contact school and get tickets to go to Taste of Coventry. Super fun night. Come hungry, leave full, and win some prizes. Get all the money for Taste of Coventry. It goes to the
048elementary schools foundation which then um gives uh students or uh senior senior students scholarships. Usually they give four or five or six of them depending on their their budget. And then also it's teacher grants. That is a big deal. And every year they give all the money that we raise goes back to our teachers uh between you know up to $1,000 to different projects in their classroom. Very cool. Good event. All right. Yeah. Thank you guys for the presentation. Looks like great stuff happening. Um I did see a flyer come home with Ellie that was um a fundraiser for Lily Memorial. So is that school? Our some of our fourth graders um wanted a way to remember Lily who passed away back in the fall. Uh and so through Mrs. Wrathwell and our CCP, they've
049organized a little fundraiser to purchase a memorial item for the playground. Um, we don't know what that's going to be. It's dependent on how much money is raised, but Mrs. RML has been able to be in contact with police and parents and kind of work with them to figure something out to remember out there by That's great. Thanks. Um, I just wanted to mention it's something that's passed, but the booster club did a really nice job on their fundraiser the other night on their raffle and I saw Dan there. But you didn't win big, did you? Did you win a big prize? No. But anyways, it was a wonderful dinner at Chennowith and um I don't know how they how much money they raised, but they worked really hard to get things and it was
050a first class event. Mr. Fisk, you were there. Did you win lots of money? Nothing. Oh, sorry. But anyways, it was a really nice time. nice to be with people outside of meetings and and the people there, the parents there worked really really hard. So, just wanted to um comment on that that I thought they did a great job and appreciate their hard work. That's it. All right. So, this is the point in the meeting where you can stay. You can stay or you can leave. You're okay to do either of those things. We're gonna go on to our, you know, No, there's no uh Thank you guys. Thanks. Thank you, Mr. Can I go back out of order? Um I forgot to mention that um you had asked for an update on the projects.
051Um, so I put in each of your seats um the projects that we've um kind of budgeted out over the next few fiscal years. Um, Lisa put this together. I think it's a great way of seeing colorcoded um the different projects that um we're trying to accomplish in this fiscal year and next fiscal year and the ones that we're uh we're hoping that the budget will support in future fiscal years. Um so I just gave that to you as just an update on where we're at. A lot of these you've already approved or you're already aware of for this year. Um, but just to give you an idea of some of the things coming up in the future that we'd like to get done. So, apologize for being out of order. I should have done
052that for just a couple years. Um, so under superintendent recommendations number one, certified personnel. Uh, A1, resend coaching supplemental. It's recommended the board resend the following coaching supplemental contract approved at the February 19th, 2025 board of education meeting. And number two, uh, supplemental coaching contracts for 2425. It's recommended the board grant and or reissue the following supplemental coaching contract for the 2425 school year. Non-staff contracts are contingent upon receipt of a clear record of the required background check. Um, and this change is occurring um as uh Mr. Long there wanted to find a way to get more people involved in the program. So, he was willing to split his supplemental so that uh we could get more people involved. Number three, supplemental coaching contract 2526. It's recommended the board grant for reissue the following supplemental
053coaching contracts for the 2425 school year. Non-staff contracts are contingent upon receipt of a clear record of a required background check and we're excited to have Mrs. Fooler joining us. Um she's a Coventry alum and attends a lot of events. I see her all the time. Uh so it's great to have her joining our coaching staff. Number four is extended school year espee speech. It's recommended the board employ the following speech pathologist for the 25 the 2025 extended school year speech services up to 60 hours at the corresponding hourly rate during the summer months of June and July. Those are all the items under certified personnel. Is there a motion to accept these recommendations? Moved. Second discussion. Davis. Yes. Sir Bowser. Yes. Yes. Yes. Uh number two, classified personnel recommendations. Number one, resignation. It's recommended
054the board accept the resignation of the following employee for the position indicated, and that's Mr. Spindler. Number two, employment. It's recommended the board employ the following for the positions indicated contingent upon receipt of a clear record of required background check and drug screening. And that's Miss Stacker as our two and a half hour lunch recess assistant at the elementary school and that's effective March 10th. Number three is uh temporary summer clerical help. It's recommended the board employ the following individual for temporary summer clerical position effective 61625 and that's Miss Bailey who previously this year had built in um a fertilla while she was out. Number four is temporary seasonal help. It's recommended the board employ the following individuals for temporary seasonal help positions effective June 2nd 2025. And these are laid out as we um
055made a little modification to our program from last year where we were only hiring six individuals. Um but there are three individuals that are going to do job sharing and that's all broken out um to show that they would still be the same total amount of six people um each pay period. How how long does that how long is that for? They run right up until about the time school starts. Is that right, Miss B? How long do you be budgeted till right until school starts? And those are all of the items under classified personnel. There a motion to approve these recommendations. I'll second any discussion. Yeah. So, just following up on the temporary season. So last year I remember like there was kind of a fiasco where like all a suen just everybody was
056just gone. So that's like been addressed. Yeah. This will make sure we don't expend the budget prior to the end of the summer by sticking to the kind of crazy last year. So that's great. And then like I'm putting you on the spot but I just with the so if you don't have the information I get it but the um the busing situation is just reminding me again like what is the current status of like busing and the bus drivers and like so we're extremely low on bus drivers. Uh we have one substitute which is Joe our mechanic. Um we ran into a situation where we were having a very difficult time combining a route that had opened up uh recently. Um, and Mrs. uh, Linda Denko, um, who is retired and has been helping
057us basically since her retirement. Um, she stepped in to help, uh, the route that we couldn't condense because of where it went. Um, but I will say our staff is um, they're really getting worked hard. Um, I'm really concerned about um, just their mental well-being um, because we're stretching them so thin. Is Joe still like, excuse me, driving like every day? pretty much anytime somebody calls off, he has to drive because he's our only sub. So, that's a pretty veteran. Well, they this thankfully um our bus drivers are super committed. Um and in spite of even some of their health issues they may have, they still are coming to work every day because they know how much we need. We really need them. So, if they're going to be really trouble, we would Yeah. Joe
058would have to drive every day and if one person called off, we couldn't cover all of our routes. All right. Yeah. So, we're very thankful to Stano came back. What a crazy problem. I mean, everywhere. Yeah, it's not unique to us. No, I know. Prior to um Mrs. Denko coming in, um Mrs. Smith, our transportation director, called every area school to just see if we could borrow somebody just to the end of the year, just temporarily. Um and we had a lead on a local school, but um that person had another job that they did during the day. Um so, they declined. Um, but we call everyone just to see if anybody would help us out. Everybody's in the same boat. Thank you. Any other discussion? Yes. Number three, other business items. Recommendations. Number one,
059a contract with LLA therapy. It's recommended the board approved the contract with LLA therapy for a 2025 ESY program for students with an IEP that is approved for ESY called Stars and Stripes. The cost is $395 per week per student for up to six weeks per student. If a student needs one-on-one support, the cost will be an additional $25 per week. The period of ESY is June 17, 2025 to August 7th, 2025. And just a reminder, I'd mentioned ESY on a previous one. That's extended school years. So those are students on an IEP who the IEP team feels if they um if there was a lap in their instruction for the months of the summer, the child would regress academically. Um so that's determining factor what students qualify, which one to. Uh number two is
060a contract addendum with tees. It's recommended the board approve the contract addendum with tees for up to an additional 30 hours to be contracted with St. Francis to sales for psychological services. The school psychological services will include completing initial evaluations and re-evaluations for special education as well as holding meetings to gain consent for evaluations and review results with the parents and team. The hourly rate for the school psychologists will be $97 and this is paid with non-public portion fiscal year 25 IDA funds. Number three is a contract with Justins. It's recommended the board approve a two-year contract with Justins to be our exclusive yearbook provider for Coventry High School. Number four is a contract with Parent Square. It's recommended the board approve a service agreement with Parent Square for classroom management software and additional cost
061of $6,457.50 from September 162 through 91526. And as the note states, this is replacing um a very highly used uh program in our district called Remind. Um the principles use it, the teachers use it, our coaches use it um to communicate with uh the community and their uh their athletes and their teachers and um students. Um we've had an introductory presentation about parent square. It has a lot of um applications with it. Um, and it appears as though it'll be um much more better communication tool than we're um than we're losing with mind. Mr. Savage, you sat through that. Yeah, I'm going to be getting whatever. Mr. Savage was very excited, so he jumped to be the initial person to implement it. So, we'll see how it goes for him. Uh, number five, service plan
062with Summit Educational Service Center. recommended the board approve the service plan agreement with the Summit Educational Service Center for the 2526 school year. And I I don't have the exact number, but it was a little over $3,000 increase uh for the service plan compared to last year. Number six is a deletion of inventory operations department. It's recommended the board approve the following deletion of inventory from the operations department and that's as listed. And number seven is accept donations. just recommended the board accept the following donation uh which was a donation for this school year in the amount of $180 and it was just completely anonymous. The person just um donated the money and asked that we use it to support the kids. Very nice. Uh we're very appreciative of that. And those are all of
063the items under other business. Is there a motion to approve these recommendations? So moved. Second discussion. I do have a couple of questions again and maybe the first one I'm not sure if it's for George or Lisa but about that that the idea and all those funds I should know this by now but I can't remember is that like reimburseable like how does that work? Do we have the money? Like I'll defer to Mrs. Blau on that one. I'm sorry you like the idea of PE funds and that kind of stuff. Do we spend it and then we request reimbursement for those? Yes. Okay. And so has so far has that been going we haven't done anything the last few months to request reimbursement? Oh yeah do it twice and there's been so and there's
064been no problems or no like what IDA correct? Yeah. Yeah. the whole federal program so far just just operations is more possible and then the other one is about I'm just asking because of the bus you know it's on the list and not necessarily right now but maybe like in the next sometime in the near kind of near future in the next few months if you get an update on like the kind of the bus program and like the replacement program and like you know now we're getting rid of this old beat up one you know But but we're getting, you know, to that place where we're going to have to start doing something, I think, you know, right, to start swapping things out or whatever. So anyways, if you could just give us an
065update on kind of the status, what the plan is going forward from here. Thank you. On the the parent square switch from is it is it mostly functionality the reason for the switch or is it cost? I don't know how much Remind cost at all. It was a It was um being phased out by our pay site. Was that what it was? Was it neonet moving away? It was either that or the Senate bill. Yeah, it was. I was see I think it was a mutual um there was a Senate bill that was passed last summer that um really protects the data of any students and this is a data intensive application. Um so I agree with Mr. Savage. believe it was neonet because of that Senate bill change and reminds policies not matching the
066requirements we had to find a new provider. Okay. But this seems to be a positive switch if uh if we can make the most use of the uh the different abilities of this program. Gotcha. Thanks. For um number five, the service plan for the Summit Educational Service Center. Can you amend that and add the documentation for that? So you weren't sure how much it cost, but you want to Oh, it's right there. I see. Just add the the cost in there. I can Mrs. B sent that to me this afternoon. And you don't remember off hand what that was. Do you see? 795 per day. The final cost for the district would be $128,427.71. questions. Davis, yes. Yes. For the treasury, we have item one. It is recommended that the board approve and place on
067file the February 2025 financial report and reconciliation per exhibit T1. Item two is recommended that the board approve the POS over 5,000 per exhibit T2. Item three, it is recommended that the board approve the contract for the district to participate in Shakeley's group retrospective rating program for workers compensation during the annual year of 2026 for exhibit T3. And item four, it is recommended that the board approve the then request associated with the purchase order outlined in accordance with exhibit T4. Is there a motion to approve these recommendations? second discussion. I do have questions. Sorry, but I just But so the goose, I think it's great. I'm really glad to see that on there. But it just says the stadium and the the middle school courtyard. But the track, the new track that looked so beautiful
068when it was done is literally like just cut. So is there a way to do something also at least at the practice field around the track to just kind of preemptively like reduce that at least? Oh, this is Kendrick call. Please go check if check it out or Gary can check it out. But yeah, I've been running there and it's like just crazy. I mean, it's such a nice look so nice and still nobody's going to break their ankle on it, but you know, still Yeah, it is. And then the HVAC repairs, those heat exchangers, are those two that went out or is this just kind of like are we just recycle recycling through? Those are two that went out. and they were they made sense to fix u Gary's perspective it made he made
069sense to fix them rather than look at trying to replace them. That's what I was wondering because again you know that is just a huge older just hanging over us all those units and someday it's just going to drop. So okay Mr. Carlson's really trying to stay to get as much life out because he agreed, we all agree that that has a huge liability financially. So, he's trying to do everything he can to make sure the maintenance stays up on them, that the belts, everything is we get as much life as we can. Sounds great. Thank you. Yes. The next section is board recommendations. We're going to table that at this moment. Is that all I need to say? Is there a motion to did I say that? Is there a motion to table? Second.
070Yes. So the next um we're we've completed our meeting here and we will be going into executive session. Um executive session is the for the purpose of deliberations only. No action would be taken during an executive session. Reason for this meeting may include matters matters required to be kept confidential by federal law or rules or state bound sheets. Is there a motion to enter into executive session? So move second. Yes. And there'll be no action after And there will be no action after No.