001Yeah. [laughter] Chilling. Thank you. >> [laughter] [laughter] >> Are you ready? [laughter] >> [laughter] >> Okay, thank you. Anybody? >> [laughter] [laughter] >> Good night. >> [laughter] [laughter] [clears throat] >> Yeah. Yeah. [laughter] >> You guys know how you are. Will [laughter] it [laughter] So the leadership >> [laughter] >> All right, it's time to start. Oh, sorry. >> I'm trying too many hats. I'm sorry. >> Cook Solomon >> here. >> Jones here. >> Neil Snder >> here. >> Windsor here. >> All right. Next is the invocation. Brother Chuck Graham, you going to lead us in our invocation, please? >> Father God, we thank you for this day and this opportunity to come and serve you first and also the children of our county. Father God, I pray today that you press into our hearts the
002spiritual well-being of our children much more than the physical the eternal well-being of our children much more than their their place here on this earth. Father God, may we all have a hand in being concerned about their eternal well-being. Lord God, your word tells us that if we seek ye first the kingdom of God and your righteousness, that all things will be added unto us. We will have everything we need if we seek you first. I pray your Holy Spirit presses into our hearts tonight that main priority to seek you first and what you say, not what we think. Your word also tells us to trust in the Lord with all of our heart and lean not unto our own understanding. In all of our ways acknowledge you and you will direct our path. Father
003God, I pray that we don't lean on understanding tonight. I pray that we trust in you as sovereign and your words as the truth and nothing else. I thank you Lord for the feeling that I feel in this room. I thank you for the concern for the service of our board. I thank you for for their concern for our children. I thank you for everyone in here who has anything to do with our children and their hearts for them. Lord God, may you lead, guide, and direct us in all of your ways this evening. May we be kind to each other. If we disagree with each other, Lord God, may we know that we can do that and still be civil and kind. May that be on our hearts tonight also. And I pray this
004all in Jesus Christ's holy name. Amen. >> Amen. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [clears throat] >> All right. Before we approve the November, I make a motion to move to number eight. Second. All in favor say I. >> All right. Number four, approve the agenda for November 10th. >> Make a motion to approve the amended agenda. >> Second favor. Motion pass. All right. Welcome visitors. Glad to have you all here today. Um, we're going to ask to approve the minutes for the previous meeting 20 October 25. >> All right. All in favor? Any oppos? Motion carries. All right. So, public comment. Anyone who would like to come and speak, there's a form
005to sign out. And you're allowed to speak. You'll have three minutes. And first on our list, Brother Chuck Brown. Would you like to You're welcome to approach the way. >> Uh, you can hear me from here. >> [laughter] >> I humbly come to you today as a servant of Jesus Christ and nothing else. I am here speaking on the Sunday ball practice issue. I have nothing to profit from speaking here tonight except peace from God that comes from being obedient to him. Anyone who claims to be a Christian must know and live by the word of God. And his word plainly states the requirement of recognizing the Sabbath. The Sabbath is a day of rest for us Christians that sets us apart from this world. Genesis 2 1-3 tells us this. Thus the heavens and
006the earth and all the host of them were finished. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had done and he rested on the seventh day from his work which he had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. That means set it apart for for us. Set it apart in the ten commandments. The fourth commandment is this. Exodus 20:8, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all of your work, but the seventh day you shall not work. You nor your son, nor your daughter. We all know the ten commandments, and I can't I can't imagine if we would ever disagree with any of them, including the Sabbath. This is all moral law that Jesus said he didn't come to abolish, but
007to fulfill. I have nothing against ball or ball practice in any way. I believe it has poured into so many young women and men good virtues such as leadership skills, hard work, teamwork, helping each other, which are all biblical principles. My fear is that it comes before God. It becomes an idol. Anything that we spend more time and effort and resources on than we do our relationship with Christ is an idol. If we continue practicing ball games on Sunday, we are breaking two of these ten commandments. idol worship and not observing the Sabbath. The Sabbath sets us apart from the world. It draws a line that we have an opportunity to teach these kids about. I know these coaches are doing this from a good place in their heart, but are missing a great opportunity
008to teach these kids what a godly man or woman does and doesn't do. Exodus 16, God sent mana for the children of Israel, but it says there was no mana available on the seventh day. They were to gather twice as much on the sixth day to honor the Sabbath. He is warning us in this passage that nothing good comes by not obeying the Sabbath. There is no gain to be had in this compromise. Don't miss for Don't miss the opportunity to be set apart from this world. Don't miss the opportunity to do is what is right in the eyes of God, not of men. Don't miss the opportunity to be a light and a part of the of God for God. We haven't had the best of reputations in this county for years now because
009of past sin. I know God has given us a chance right now in this moment to make a statement to step up for him. Please don't miss this chance to be obedient to him and and and and I can't even read my own right and receive the blessings that will flow after we're obedient to him. When I was growing up, this problem didn't exist. The line was drawn and somehow we have stepped over what God says with how we feel. >> The boat's simple today. Ball or Bible. Matthew 6:33 tells us, "If you seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, then all of these things will be added unto you, you'll have enough practice in six days if you'll give us the seven." Give him the seven. Thank you for the extra
010time. I know I was home with you. [applause] >> [applause] >> I signed a piece of paper back there. I said, "I don't think I have three minutes." Shane said, "You got free minutes." [laughter] They know. I just want to say I remember chasing three boys, three sons, playing ball, basketball, football. space. I was guilty of that. Like brother Jud said, it wasn't as bad as it is now. It's critical, but especially I see a big concern and me personally changing my life and walking with with Jesus >> and trying my best to obey these ten commandments. I was wrong back then, but it's gotten out of hand. And I just I just want to say that uh I know I'm guilty of it, but change and I hope that there's change in this room
011tonight. Thank you. [applause] >> All right, that was all the public comment. Um number 10, we move to number eight. It's going to be Lake County High School student recognition. All right, [clears throat] boarding everyone here. We have some special students that we wanted to recognize for some events they have been able to accomplish. First off, we want to talk about Miss Caitlyn. This evening, I am proud to recognize this year's recipient of the Daughters of the American Revolution Citizen Award. This award honors students who embody the quality of ability, service, leadership, and patriotism. those [snorts] who constantly demonstrate outstanding character and deep commitment to their school. This year's recipient is Miss Caitlyn Ripley. Caitlyn is an exceptional student who is actively involved in several clubs at LCHS. She takes college level courses and works
012part-time in the community. Her dedication, leadership, and positive example make her truly deserving of this recognition. So, if you will please help me recognize Miss Caitlyn. [applause] >> [applause] [snorts] >> All right. For those of you who don't know, we have a new program. It's been at Vine County or excuse me, I'm sorry, Lake County for a couple of years. And it's called the Jag Tennessee. We're proud to recognize Miss Emma Morgan. She has achieved an astounding accomplishment. She's been elected the 2526 state president of JAG, Tennessee. So, our entire state and she will be representing us and JAG in Washington DC in December. All right. All right. Good. His her teacher is here. I didn't see him come in. So, this honor reflects her strong leadership, her dedication, and commitment to helping other students
013succeed in their education and career goals. Emma continues to demonstrate excellence through her academics, her community involvement, and service to others. So, let's please congratulate Miss Emma on. [applause] All right. Last but not least, at the end of October, our FFA chapter, they took 11 students and two chaperones to the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis. Now these students are going to give a very brief five minute presentation about what their experiences are, what they did, what they learned and basically to express their appreciation that the board allowed them to go on the strip because of course everything has to be is out of state. It uh has paid for and the board approved all this and they just want to let the board know some of the things [screaming] that they know. So ladies and
014gentlemen, they'll tell you about their roles and stuff. >> Hey, my name is Gentry Bill. I'm FA president here at the high school. >> Hey, my name is Sydney Guppy and I am the vice president of the FA chapter. >> So, I made a little slideshow. It's just going to show y'all some pictures of what we did. We had a lot of fun up there in Indianapolis. They had a expo and a shopping. We got to meet a lot of a colleges and brands and do a little shopping while we were up there. Oh, yeah. >> [laughter] >> Um, that session was actually at the Lucas Oil Stadium. It's huge. I've never been to Indianapolis, but it was huge in there. And the FFA people filled it up. And you see those jackets down there.
015And then the last one, people were from all over. All over. And there was Nebraska and I see California. And it was it was amazing seeing that many people in there. and getting to talk with them and hear the different accents they got. [clears throat] >> That's actually how many people were there. It was a crazy amount. >> But we really had fun. There was our picture at the end and we seen Mr. Mark Dader, our old welding teacher up there. But yeah, we had a lot of fun and we were glad to go. you have anything else to say? >> I just wanted to share my appreciation that we got to go. Um, it was really fun and I'm glad that I was able to experience that again. Um, especially with this amazing [cough
016and clears throat] [applause] move to next order business would like to speak a little bit about Emma. Uh, I just want to say there are 44 schools uh that have the DAG program um from West, Middle, and East Tennessee. So, this is all over the state. Um, and Emma was chosen to represent the state. So, like it wasn't just some small town thing, but Middle Tennessee, East Tennessee. There are five schools, six schools that have Jag in it and Lake County as president. >> Wow. [applause] Could you explain a little bit more about the [clears throat] job? >> All right. Jag is jobs and can help me. You want to talk about your program, I can. But if you want to brag on jobs for America's graduates, so it's a life skill, job skill, soft
017skills. You know, we learn resume writing, financial literacy. She's been in my class several times uh teaching financial literacy. Uh we practice basic stuff. Handshakes, eye contact. I tell the kids I want them to be able to leave Lake County High School and be able to live alone. I don't want mama have to call to make their support. [laughter] Um so I have them ask them. I have them they do all the call. There's a call to be made there's a story to be gone into. There's somebody to meet. U I had Officer Snider. He was there. He came in and helped us with our what we call GNAP. So all [clears throat] of the kids should be able to give you a greeting, their name, their association, and their purpose. So they expect you
018shake you shake your hand, look in your eye, tell you exactly who they are, who they're with, um, and what they're here for. So um, we just do that. It's called jobs for breakfast graduates. I think we're in 44 schools. Um, in Tennessee, we have 51 instructors. Um, and then but we're all over the state. So there's a state convention that she'll be going to. I mean a national convention that she'll be going to in December. I think she'll be there December >> 3rd through the seventh. >> They have competitions as well of the Miles taking a group next week to actually do some competitions and it's just teaching those life skills that you know we take for granted that things that we don't realize today that these kids have a hard time doing. So
019it's really this career exploration and how to speak to people you know how to speak in front of here, how not to be scared to stand in front of all these people here. Yeah, for me. [laughter] >> All right, thank you. [laughter] All right, our student representative. >> Good evening, members of the school board and people in attendance. My name is Mariah Valentine. I am the student body president at Lake County High School and I'm here to give the monthly report about what's been going on at LCHS. So, these few weeks have been busy and successful at LCHS. Our CT Fall Fest showcase was a great success featuring a soldout food truck, cakewalk, junky house, snow cones, cotton candy, pony rides, and more. We had a great crowd and hope to make it even bigger
020next year. The Marvin Newton trickor treat event that we host at Lake County High School also had a strong turnout. Congratulations to the sophomore class for donating over a 100 bags of candy and earning a ice cream party. We also hosted a costume contest later that day uh rewarding cash prizes for first, second, and third place. Uh with the sports going on, the football team ended the season with a five and five record and basketball season has officially begun. my favorite season. Uh with the first practice and triyouts held on November 3rd, FFA students proudly represented LCHS at the National FFA Convention. Seniors retook the ACT and while underassmen completed a practice ACT. Uh students with two out of two out of the three following all A's, perfect attendance or good behavior enjoyed a reward
021trip to Apena Park. During hosta week host week last week, we hosted guest speakers and Dber State brought their training trailer for hands-on learning experience. Our CT clubs have been pretty busy preparing for the regional competitions this month. I just took my DECA test last Friday and in about a week or so I'll know if I qualify for regional competition and then if I qualify for regional competition I get to go to state and if I place in state I get to go to nationals. So, and then senior Zamaya Coleman and I attended NTSU's True Blue reception in Jackson, Tennessee, where Zamaya was one of the lucky recipients to win a $1,000 scholarship. And then a group of seniors also visited Austin P State University for a campus tour. So, looking ahead at LCHS, juniors
022will take the ASBA military test tomorrow. The basketball jamberee will be held at Dais High School this Saturday with the girls playing at 4:45 p.m. and the boys playing at 5:30 p.m. That same day, RCT Holiday Mark will run from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. showcasing student talent and creativity. Finally, we're excited to host a night of music on Tuesday, December 9th at 6 pm. And we invite everyone to join us for an evening of musical performance and celebration. Thank you for allowing me to come speak again. And if you have any questions, let me know. Thank you. [applause] [snorts] Next on the agenda is Michelle Avery Sunday [snorts] student activity. >> Come up there or can I say here? >> Wherever you're more comfortable. You're more than welcome to come on up. >> I
023think I'll stay right here. [laughter] >> All right. Good evening. Thank you for allowing me to speak tonight and voicing my concerns. My oldest son is 11 years old and has been playing sports in Lake County since he was in preschool, which would be eight years since he is in sixth grade now. There have been issues and concerns that have come up that have not always agreed um with the coaches, but we were always able to come to some sort of understanding or an agreement. This past football season, the coaches and my family had an understanding that we would not attend Wednesday practices due to the practice running into our church time. There was an understanding and an agreement that my child Colin would not be penalized for missing practice. While Colin was not physically
024penalized by doing any extra exercises, he was punished by not knowing what was taught in the Wednesday practices, which led him to not being able to play in the following game due to him not knowing what was taught in the previous practice. The same assistant coach for football, which is Isaiah, is the same assistant coach for basketball. the co this he Isaiah informed the head coach of the basketball team that Colin was known for not attending Wednesday practices due to church. On the second day of basketball triyouts, I received a phone call from Bosen's basketball coaches asking me if they allowed Colin to be on the team, he would need to attend Wednesday practices. Because of our previous instances with football, I understood what they meant. I understood that if Colin missed Wednesday practices, he
025would miss out on learning the things that he needed to know in order to play in that following game. So, I compromised. I told the coaches that if they could give me their word that my son would be out of practice on 4:45 on Wednesdays, I would allow him to attend. This would give him time to come home, get a shower, and eat before we had to be at church at 6:00 p.m. Both coaches agreed, and they have kept their word on that. In the same phone call, I told the coaches that as long as they didn't hold Sunday practices, Colin would be there for every practice that they had. The head coach informed me that he would never hold a Sunday practice. I believed him. This phone call was on October the 14th. Um,
026and on October the 17th, I got a team reach notification that there would be no Friday practice that week and they would hope practice on Sunday from 2 to 4. I called the head coach and voiced my concerns, but he was adamant on having that practice. He said that he would not change the practice and reassured me multiple times that college would not be punished for missing. While I understand he isn't being physically punished, isn't not being able to play in the upcoming game because he doesn't know what was being taught in the last practice a form of punishment. In the Bible in Exodus 20 8-10, which pastor already mentioned, it says, "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is
027the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter." Sundays are a day for us that we go to church and we pour into our family, both our immediate and our church. Sunday is our Sabbath day. I don't understand how we can pride ourselves on standing on Christian beliefs but also expecting our children to practice sports on Sunday. [clears throat] Where are our priorities? Do we expect our kids to put 100% into sports? Something that is extremely rare to gain anything from past your 12 years of school and just get to church when we can? Do we expect our kids to give up fellowship with other like-minded believers? Do we expect our kids to give up family time so that they can attend
028a two-hour practice? Do I understand that there is an argument that the practice is held in between church and it does not affect our ability to attend church service? But let me ask you this. If our morning church service is from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., our evening service starts at 6:00 p.m. and practice is from 2 to 4:00 p.m., how much time is that in between in order to eat, shower, and spend quality family time? How would a family be able to eat together after a church service if there's practice? How would that child attend any fellowship that may be planned for in between church services? There should be one day out of the week that we as Christians give to the Lord and are not expected to work or labor of any kind.
029For us, this day is Sunday. >> That's right. >> So today, I ask that there be a vote on placing a rule into our district policy that does not allow open gyms and or sports practices on one one day of the week, which I am asking to be Sunday. I don't feel like I'm being unreasonable when I'm only asking for one day of the week to be off limits, which happens to be on the weekend. The packet that is that was handed out to you has a copy of my request letter um that I was asked I mean that I had to do to add be added to the agenda. A few biblical references. A printed out page of the Clarksville McGomery County School System handbook where they prohibit Sunday practices. a printed out page
030from the TWSAA where they did not say anything about Saturday or Sunday practices which let me know that those days are left up to the district to decide. A printed out copy of the Oan County school handbook where they prohibit Sunday practices and petitions from Lake County residents stating that they agree there should be no open gyms and/or practices held on Sunday. Thank you for your time. >> [applause] [applause] >> When you when she came to me and I started asking questions to understand what had happened, it became clear that voluntary practices on Sunday had something that has happened in the past over the many years for different reasons usually under extreme circumstances but they had happened and so I would assume that the reason that it had continue is because it was part of
031the past. With all that said I called the SBA and I said give me perspective on [clears throat] policy if you want to negate any sort of student activities on Sundays. So from the attorney he said there are districts just like you pointed out that have banned those things. He said however here's the other side of it. If you put it into policy there have been state tournaments that have been played on Sunday because of some circumstances because of weather. There's travel ball that takes place that people are leaving on Sundays. So there are some circumstances in which if policy is not written correctly or doesn't give you latitude, you can end up prohibiting students from playing really important games. So in no way form fashion am I saying we shouldn't let it there be
032a day of rest for the family. That's fine. However, if you put it into policy, there could be some circumstances five years from now that could become a problem. So, what he was saying to me was is if you give it back to the director to say we can tell the coaches there is no practice on Sunday unless [laughter] there is permission from the director to because of certain system. I don't know why we didn't practice on Saturday. Maybe not even talk about it. I don't know why that didn't happen. I assume that there was a good reason. So you can put it to the director of schools or you can go to a policy. It's just with the policy, just know there could be some loopholes in there that or if we didn't have
033loopholes in it, students could get they be prevented from participating in something that there's both sides of it. So, do you want to leave it to director of schools to say there's no Sunday practice unless there is a circumstance beyond y'all's control that allows so because it's not just practice. I assume that we're also talking about traveling to and from. We're talking about tournament play that's out of county. Any of those things could happen. >> Um can I can I speak I'm sorry. I don't mean um games [cough] if [clears throat] it is like playoff games or something bigger than our county. That's that's apples to oranges. Um also, um travel ball is not school ball. I feel like that's kind of >> we have a tournament on Monday. >> Who meant travel? >> I
034meant it in the sense of you have to travel to play. So if it's out of state, it's out of county, it's going to require travel on a Sunday to get to wherever you're going. if it's part of that activities part [cough] is it specifically just practice or is it getting to tournament but that's the examples the attorney gave depending on how you word this it could prevent students from playing [clears throat] so >> and I did try to follow up I did speak to the um principal the coach the athletics director I did try that before [clears throat] I did here >> she did so like I said it's been an extension to the past of practices and it happened And you know, now it's a situation that depends on how you want to
035do it. >> Dr. I didn't think about this and maybe we can get somebody to pull this off. >> I'm assuming we have policy for extracurricular activities. >> Yeah, policies. Yes. >> So I don't have that in my packet. Is there any way we >> No, no. What I meant is is so when I talked to the attorney, he said at this point it's just what's the board's wish. So there's not a sample copy of what that would it was do you wish to seek out to put policy in place because they would build that policy and bring it back. So it was how far do you want to go at this point? You're just hearing from somebody in the community and what their wish is. [clears throat] Do you want to put it into
036a policy or do you want me to tell the coaches we don't do practice on Sundays? The only way that we can is by the director's >> we could do it. Could we not incorporate like a special circumstances that would have to have prior approval >> right like football games or travel to and from special activities. You you can ask put in policy but you don't I'm saying is if we had handled it before [clears throat] said we don't have to practice if you have to practice if you have to do something on Sunday if the board wants to put it in policy I would give it to what Ben [clears throat] said is those policies were built not by us those were built by those districts because it was there's other issues that are
037involved in that and that's what he was he was being cautious about because not everyone protecting a day for rest for families. I think that's great. What he's telling me is is not everybody's rest day is on Sunday. Some folks observe it to be on Saturday. So that's where he was offering caution. [clears throat] You just have to think about that. So Sunday's a day of rest that you want to observe. It's fine. I would say that what we need to do is to put it in a policy. I think we have one. I guess I should have tried to pull it up. Um I mean obviously our our coaches are forcing the issue with our kids. I don't like that. >> Well, why don't we do like Dr. Burton said and take it out
038of their hands. Leave that up to the director under certain circumstances to where it would we got a state championship on Monday. We might on Sunday under that circumstances or have to travel to Knoxville and have a game Monday. We have to travel on Sunday. That's where he >> Yeah. So my point to is because [snorts] it had [clears throat] been an extension of our past. This is what we had done. This wasn't a this year habit. We had done this in the past. So this was an extension. So we get it to the point of it had been a program byprogram decision inside the buildings. So that's an issue. So you just want me to say I'm happy to do there's nothing wrong with having that protected day putting into policy beyond this school
039year because if the kids want to participate it would require board approval to do something different which means you would have to convene. >> I'm okay with that. I I respect you your decision either way, but I do feel like if you guys are saying leave it up to the director and I I tried to do that and I got nowhere. >> I think we need to add it to our curriculum policy and that's what I'm trying to do. >> What did you do to go to the director? >> I reached out to first I talked to the coach um to Greg Ross. That's the coach we're currently dealing with. Um and his his response was that with his team, he would do what he wanted. Um that's what he's done all these years. So
040rightfully so to him. Um when I didn't get anywhere for that, [laughter] we went to the principal. Um and he talked to the coach. Things were going to change. I assumed um it did not. Um then Mr. Moore called me and we talked about that and he he gave me the understanding of it. you can't really tell the coaches what to do. Um, that's that's not really something that you want to get into. >> Forgive me, my understanding. >> I'm not talking about athletic. [laughter] I'm talking about >> Okay. So then whenever I did put my letter in to get on the agenda, nothing happened then either. >> So when you asked to meet with the board, I honored that request. >> Right. But we met too before I ever come here. You wanted to
041[snorts] meet with me to ask me why I was sick giving my letter. >> So I just thought that you wanted to go to the board at that point. So and here we are. And that's fine. Like I said, however you want to do this. The director of schools could have done it six weeks ago and said, "Hey, we're just going to protect the Sunday." As I said, it had been a culture [clears throat] that that's what we had done. This is not new. And now it's obviously the the community wants it to be protected and it absolutely can be done. It could have been done before, but we had allowed coaches to make those decisions [snorts] to make it voluntary. So [laughter] I'm trying to find our extracurricular activity policy. Where is it at?
042because it would be simpler to add something to our policy. >> It's probably just general situation attorney >> when we can leave the door open to say with this exception >> I'm I'm [snorts] fine with not practicing. >> That's great. >> [clears throat] >> That's what Shala is asking for. You You're asking no practice on Sundays. And I think you understand that with special tournaments or whatever that I mean. >> Yes, ma'am. >> No practices or open gyms. >> Yeah. And I'm >> What do you mean by open gyms? >> It's like you don't have to >> They're voluntary. Okay. So voluntary. >> Our coaches says like you don't have to come, but you really [laughter] [applause] I don't want to write policy that eliminates the option >> so we do have students who are
043very athletic that earn scholarships tournaments where these these athletes are highlighted. I understand. I mean, is there not something we could put no Sunday practices or open gyms unless there are special circumstances >> which gets us back to >> approval through I would give that approval through schools >> because it could have been without it even going into policy. That's what I'm saying. We could have done that if we had understood this become an issue at this point. We absolutely could do that. just to whip one of this not be able to participate in something or not be able to travel because to me this is student activities because it's not just about sports. It could be about CTSOs. It could be about other activities if we're just focusing on the sports because right now
044that's the only issue at hand. But just as you saw FFA, I don't know if it was a travel day on Sunday or not, but that's still student activities that they're expected to, [snorts] you know, special. I I still think it needs to be put in the policy because the kids are going to end up and I think Miss Avery has alluded to this because they're not there. They're being penalized, >> right? >> And we need something to protect those kids from that that happened. You weren't here. You didn't learn that to you weren't here. You didn't learn that. So, they're not being able to participate today. >> I like this right here. Mandatory Saturday practice left to the discretion of the coach. Coaches will refrain from practicing on Sundays. Permission for extraordinary circumstances must
045be obtained from the building. It says principal, but I would say from the director of school. >> Can we add to our [cough] [clears throat] in the handbook for county school? So if you'd like reach out to TSD and ask them to draft that insert that policy. >> Can we define practice though? >> I mean because there's a whole lot that goes in athletics more than just practice too on the weekend. Any activity >> any activity >> so sports activities student activities >> student activities >> travel meetings practice games special approv >> I'll make the motion I love sports anybody But there's no reason for a coach coach. [clears throat] >> That's what we're doing and that's what we've done in the responses is comparing apples and oranges. >> We're talking about practices here. We're
046not talking about state championship games. Not talking about, you know, >> we're talking about leaving the door open, >> right? I know that. That's what I'm saying. But in our responses, we're we're giving examples that are special occasions. >> Ain't nobody on this board going to deny >> There's nobody on the board going to deny >> them doing that on that Sunday. >> Well, if you write a policy and don't wear it, right, it don't matter whether you deny it or not. I agree with you. >> So, you were going to make a motion. >> I don't mind. But what I'm saying is would you rather have a policy? >> Usually when I bring a policy, you don't have to make a policy. >> I didn't question. No, I make the respect. >> Mandatory Saturday
047practice is left to the discretion of the coach. Coaches will refrain from practicing on Sundays. Permission for extraordinary circumstances must be obtained from the director of schools. >> So, just for clarification, that is being added to the We're going to have a draft. Well, that so the coaches will refrain from practicing on Sunday. So, right on through. So, so the Tennessee School Board Association, TSBA, the attorneys, they're the ones that draw up our policies. So, we ask them to do it to make sure that it's straight. So, I'll ask them to do the rough draft of it and then we'll bring it back to the board for them to >> So, it has to be written. >> We have to get a draft and then we'll vote on it. Put in >> That's what we're
048going to have to put in. >> Is there a way that you can tell them not to do it before the policy? >> Sure. Absolutely. Sorry, I was trying to catch what you were saying. Yes, I understand. >> Did we find Mike's definition? >> Well, Mike, yeah, my question was there's a practice is the definition is instruction from a coach, but there's so much more that can happen on a weekend. Player gets injured, comes up to the fieldhouse on Sunday to get therapy, to get in the hot tub, get in the ice bath or to watch film. Those things that's not practice. Would that be in this too since it's not instruction from a coach? That's what I call >> that's that's what >> yeah that's a Sunday activity >> realist all in argue circumstances.
049She's talking about practices, >> right? >> That's what we're talking about. >> You know, we, you know, when I talk about, you know, you got to do them things what might be said. >> The bottom line is is we need to keep the Sabbath. >> Amen. >> [snorts] [clears throat] >> Can I have a date of when I I'll come back for that next >> board? Monday. >> Okay. >> All right. So, [clears throat] we're going to get a draft from the PSBA drawn up. We'll have it ready for the next board meeting. >> Any other questions on [snorts] this matter? >> And Dr. Burton, you're going to direct the coaches to cease and disease. >> All right, moving on. No further question. [snorts] Moving on. Number 11, cyber security contract. So, Dr. Squist has
050been working with providers for security cyber security and it requires a contract between the group and our provider. And so, she's here to give a brief overview what she's asking for. Okay, I'm kind of reviewing a little bit from some stuff that happened back in um February and March when I received the rate pilot grant. I was [laughter] one of um 10 or 11 10 schools out of 11 in the state and was receiving this grant. This is the first time for this grant. I'll give you that background of that. I brought this to you then to let you know that we had won that. It also won a state cyber security grant that was free to us. We're utilizing that fee. That's what this first page is. And then of course the announcement was
051also in the package just kind of recapping what was there. The amount of money that's listed is a projection per year. This year is the first year of that grant. not spend any money on it. I requested money to go through this to do this to do this. There's only so much fun to us. Um I also included a bid sheet of how I did the priority was given to any vendors who could do all the services we had requested on the actual bid. If you wanted to look at my bid sheet, that's available as well. Okay. And then I wanted to show you the letter that I sent and it's highlighted the requirements. Hopefully you can see the highlights in your copy. I don't know if you can or not, but the requirements were
052board approval rate funding approval and then I can issue a purchase order for services. There are some other additional things. It's got three years to spend the money out. So it's not all this year, not all next year broken up. and the contract is um can be voided if he rape cancels the program. So, it's all pending and all that kind of stuff. And then I gave you a copy of the contract that I have um agreed with with Central Technologies who was aw winning bidder, but again, this is pending your approval. I had to secure their services to guarantee the rates. Okay? But [snorts] this is not a contract as in it's we're done with it. I have to have your approval for that. Okay? And the totals are on that. But I also
053did a little spreadsheet of some items of some suggested ways we could do this. But you can go through and see all the things we're doing. And one of the things that I really appreciate from Central Technologies, we currently have a contract with them for network services and they're including that service as part of what they did on this contract. So, they're going to they're going to add services without charging us extra to monitor this system that we're going to be doing. And what it is is basically it's a system that's going to monitor all of our transactions that go in and out of our network and a system called forinet. And what it does is it it's um we call it looks at all the packets coming in, looks for dangerous things. It won't
054let them come in saying the things going out. So, we have someone who's trying to do something from the inside, it won't let it go out as well. So, it's protecting both sides of the system. Okay. [clears throat] As well as some switches and things like that that also have some additional security which also boost a lot of our connectivity. Our switches within the network are getting older. So, this is a project that would take over three years. And I have some suggestions on things that could be done. Of course, we can vary it. You guys can change however you want. These are just some suggestions if you wanted to go ahead and approve spending money [snorts] that I haven't got in my budget. I've given you that suggestion of some options as well as
055if we waited till next year to spend out the money over the two years that are left of the contract. So, what I need from you first is approval of of the contract and then if you wanted me to go ahead and start the project this year or wait till next school year and try to get the money through my regular budget process. Could you explain - passed through? >> Well, - actually pays directly to the provider. They are a contracted provider. We do not have anything but 15% that we are required to pay. Um they provide services to um districts at different rates depending on what their student population is. And it is um paid through the SEC. That's those service charges that you pay on your phone bills and things like that that
056funds this program. And this is extra funds that that program has done that we had to bid out for and I have I was awarded the uh grant for that. So this is something that they actually have to go through and approve once you approve it and then our provider sends it to -ate with our contract and says this is what we're going to be charging and see is what they approve. This is based on their current. Decades ago, it was recognized for students to have access to internet technologies far exceed what a general purpose budget could provide for the infrastructure. So the FCC has provided grant money year after year after year like she said 15% on us and the rest is on that [snorts] grant so that we can get the infrastructure in
057place so that students have access to technology. We do have to enter into a contract so that [snorts] we can secure that way that money passes doesn't pass through. It goes directly to the provider >> and we only pay the portion that we're required to to the provider. They they get the rest of it from the rate. But we have we have to get an agreement first and then they submit it to rate and they have to approve it and then once that's approved then we can start working. [snorts] >> Thank you. >> Does anybody have any questions about this on the board? Yeah, you just you've done it every special actually. This is over and above what we get from this is for cyber security only where normally this our stuff is through our
058regular network type stuff as well as our internet. So this is over and above what we would normally be getting from them. What we had done in the last one was an actual what we call category two which is upgrade some of our infrastructure and that's a limited fund based on a percentage of our five-year agreement with our internet provider and that was what we had agreed to um last year and I I I got all of the access points which is what boosts our signal for Wi-Fi in all the buildings upgraded with that money and we have we had 15% we paid that this is over and above what we would normally get from that. So, this is extra. Don't call that a gift. >> It is a gift. Does anybody else have any
059other questions? >> And this is this is not going to require us to go into our general fund budget for anything. >> That's going to be entirely up to you if you wanted me to try to get monies through the budget for the next two years to pay for it. I can I can apply for it to be out of my budget the next two years or you can choose to do out of your choice. >> So we can wait. >> We can wait. That's right. I'm just giving you an option. >> Motion made by Vivian. Second roll call. Do a roll call. >> Sure. >> Aren >> Jones. >> Yes. [clears throat] >> Neil, >> Snider, >> yes. >> Winder. >> [laughter] >> All right, more questions on the contract moving on board policies
060board members that was asked to review the cell phone policies and then to also get input from the board [clears throat] and there were three that were provided to the principles. one was very overreaching. Best way to describe that and uh anyway the [snorts] speaking to the principal side I check they agreed to the one that I sent you which has the grade bands in it. I know that Lar Kendall still wants to be able to take up the phones. Um it's not in the policy. I think that's going to get into worrying something outside of the policy about us taking that up. That's the policy in itself. TSBA had written it and so that's the one with the bra that accept [laughter] the middle of it. So kind of go to the end. There
061are three. Yeah, you got >> the old one was included. [clears throat and cough] with Laura Kle. Laura Kendall, do we need to add that they're going to take those up? >> I think that's going to be a if they take them up, it's going to become a liability. What I heard from the attorney was it's going to become a liability on our part when we take the funding. So, $1,000 iPhone to say that we're not going to be a different fight for a different day. But >> and also I was thinking >> if if it becomes a problem, say we take it up, you know, it has to be taken away from student whatever and put in the office student. The first time the student can do it. second time the parent has to
062kick it and then say if they break policy again the third time they can't bring it at all or we you know we can also put a fine on it a lot of schools do that you know if you [snorts] break the policy the first time you come pick it up second time pick it up and then you start paying a fine every time you do that and of course parents have to come pick it up anytime after that and pay a fine Because if you get the parents involved, it'll stop. If they take time out of their day to deal with something their child's not supposed to do with, I [snorts] think it'll be a faster way to stop it. >> So, Dr. What is the first right now? >> Lake County High School.
063If a student has a cell phone, the teacher keeps it for the remainder of class. Hands back to the the students. Second time it is given to the office. The office keeps it for [snorts] the remainder of the day. Uh the third time the parent comes and gets it and when the parent comes and gets it um it inconvenience the parent. However, the fourth time that's in his subordination that means that's intent [snorts] and so they are prohibited from bringing the cell phone back to the if they are caught with the cell phone [clears throat] after the fourth attempt then of course that's coordination. >> [snorts] >> So what do we do there? >> That's three days in school suspension. >> In school suspension >> and then we contact our SRO and possibly there's something
064we're not doing right. >> We have some children I know school [snorts] suspension doesn't intimidate at all issues there. What should what might be a corrective action? You might want to look at it. >> I know you don't, but I'm just saying we escalate after that. What do we >> think? I think they should be suspended out. >> So they can be given out of school suspension. The issue is is because of how policy got changed. It's the out of school suspension that get you chronic absism. So being in a smaller district, if we had an alternative school is in a separate setting. [snorts] So they end up going to the alternative school which is just like the in school suspension. We haven't tackled an alternative school that's in a different setting because >> so
065we we just got to make sure whatever corrective action we have on this is making a difference. That's not making a difference. It's not action. >> Anytime you have to have parental involvement that's going to make a difference. I guess my concern is and principles I'd like y'all's feedback and maybe you too Miss Charlotte is how many parents do we have that refuse to come to school [laughter] >> we might legally I don't know [clears throat] individuals I have when I was in middle school $20. [clears throat] >> I'm not sure about that. Anyway, so the ask is is to you know this this policy also you can tell students medical needs access for 504. [laughter] So it does make it more robust and protects the students ability to use their technology. I make a
066motion to adapt the TSB policy of use of wireless communications. >> Have a motion made by Vivian. Second. I'll second to adopt the use of wireless communication. Aren >> Jones, >> yes. >> Neil, >> yes. I'm sorry. Snider, >> yes. [clears throat] >> Yes. >> [clears throat] >> move to social media. So, this next policy did not exist in our current policy book. [snorts] So, I reached out to TSBA and I explained to them what I got out of our last meeting was we want to protect staff members as citizens, but then also to protect students. So, they heard that. The thing that I brought to your attention in your email was in the section before because of there's so many different ways that students and staff are intertwined either that not even but just
067because of [snorts] close proximity. [clears throat] The wording in here is strongly discouraged not prevented from or shall not. And that's what I wanted to bring to your attention. You want to word that differently or you want to keep it or was anything else? [laughter] >> Look at the healing house. >> Yeah. >> Sorry. You look at number four. And so when you get down to line number 25, it says employees are strongly discouraged from including current students as quote friends, followers, or any other similar terminology used by various sites without written permission from the student's parent. So strongly discouraged. So we're going to make a form to parents that will that be across the board. I think it would be I don't know about you can create a form. Sure. That the parent is
068so like in you talk about coaches and we talk about sponsors to do it that way. for the social media part. We can [snorts] I know this is absolute oranges, but I mean I got nieces and nephews out there. I mean, I'm not their mom or daddy, but I'm friends with them. Do I need to go out for not my child? And so strongly discouraged. So, but I think that the language helps protect >> Yeah, >> it helps protect from some of the issues that we're >> Yeah. I think it would be understanding if my wife was friends with her niece Facebook. So there would be a lot of permission. >> See then [clears throat] can I use you for an example? Yes ma'am. I know that you used to teach Sunday school [snorts] but
069I know you and I know you had students that would be Sunday school participants. So what would happen with the policy the way we have it written if that were still the scenario because she would have contact with them at church. I don't know >> why I that's why I think strongly discouraged if if we ended it with or any other similar terminology used by various sites and you handed it cross out without permission from that. So the so line 25 employees are strongly discouraged from including current students as quote friends, followers or any other similar technology used by various sites. Period. And then we omit without written permission from the student's parent because at the top the second sentence in line 23 the same relationship exchange interaction information or behavior that would be unacceptable
070in a non-technological medium is unacceptable when done through the use of technology. So, it's guiding the staff to understand that you shouldn't be friends with because you're not friends with them outside of, you know, your knowledge of them is through the classroom or through the school. You're not friends with them because of church, some other type of sports. That's what I was talking about. So, I think that's where it would make sense in our small town to last. >> I like that. Is there anything else? [laughter] [snorts] >> This also requires that any of our staff to that want to use our logos. They are not allowed to do that. So it doesn't give me the ability to give them permission. They are not allowed to use it. That's in number two. Why would a
071staff use our logo on a web page? Would that be >> so on their own personal site just to have Lake County Pride and they have their name on there and they've got the the Falcon on it or the LC that shows that somebody wasn't aware. >> They thought that was an official representation of the school that they were a coach, but it's a personal sign. [snorts] Exactly. Do you want to keep that on there or do you want to remove that? >> I'm trying to think about that. >> So the idea was is if they write something in there that is not flattering of the school district or their employer or the school itself, they have that logo on there makes it appear that they are speaking on behalf of this. you could already
072back for such a small district like a cheer coach on her page. >> So if if it's the cheer coach and it's the actual cheer page, >> but not her person, not the person. So that their comments and their opinions are of theirs back [snorts] into that you have rights as a citizen your opinion. It's just not with our But [snorts] this is exceptional. [clears throat] What if my son hits a home run and my wife takes a picture with him in his uniform at baseball game posted on her page? >> That's not the use of the logo on the >> page. But he's in >> I got you. >> I don't know. >> I don't think that. >> We got to be careful how we word it. That's all I'm looking at. Just be
073careful what >> Can we take another bring it back on? I mean, >> well, I mean, I'm good. [clears throat] >> What about texting back and forth it cover this and that >> the same relationship exchange interaction information or behavior I think that's been that number four >> okay >> there's a difference in texting because >> non techchnologic meeting is unacceptable when done through technology so if it's inappropriate to have done it face to face it would have been inappropriate to have done it they're not in the same social circle But we can add texting. It's just we can do it that way too. So exchanging >> because you see a lot about the personal websites and >> so employees from socializing with students on social networking and texting. Social networking websites and we could
074add and texting or messaging. Okay. So add it and messaging >> reach for coaches and stuff that's >> but that's fine >> but as far as you know like messages >> Snapchat and all that phone by phone. >> So did y'all want to bring it back in? [snorts] >> I'm tired y'all. [laughter] >> Okay. I think I think this is good if you had >> so omit the without permission and then add the end messaging and go with number two has this shall not include again the intent is so it doesn't look like they're the official sponsors of the school district as they voice their opinions so me as the director of schools if I said p you come to my office let's talk about what you posted and then why do you have the
075LC I'm okay. >> Make a motion. Anybody makes a motion pass on social media with the amendment of the texting. Second. All >> in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> All right. Number 13, out of state travel request. I got married. This is it. We have some travel. So, Missouri, Kentucky, Hney County, Kentucky, Golden City, Kentucky, and Missouri. Those are the dates signed. And so requires I make a motion. All in >> favor. [laughter] Sorry, I missed that. Miss Suzanne is going to present part of the requirements. So, she's going to give us highlights. to breathe talent. [laughter] >> So MTSS is the tier support system that we use here in the county multi-tered systems of support. And this work is based on prevention and intervention uh for students academically and behavior. And when
076I say behavior, I don't mean just behaviors, but anything non-academic. So attendance, medical issues, um as well as just behaviors within the school and the classroom. So, we're looking at all of those pieces. So, you probably have heard the terms MTSS, RTI, PBIS, the Falcon Way. Those are all the same things. They're just different names for that work. [cough] So, multi-ter systems of support has been around for well over 40 years. The PBIS work as a a following of that. It's the same work. That's just the branding for the PBIS organization. And then RTI A and B are Tennessee's branding for that same thing. And then within our school system, we refer to that as our Falcon Way. And I'm sure you hear your children come home and talk about Falcon tickets and Falcons and
077all that, but all of that is the same work. So in our system um we have created matrices for all three schools that cover um schoolwide behaviors and it's setting expectations for students and modeling for those students what those expectations look like. So what does it look like to be ready, responsible, and respectful when you're in the cafeteria? There are guidelines for that. What does it look like to be those same things in the hallway or in the classroom? So those matrices are developed by the school teams. They are taught to the students at the beginning of the year as well as reinforced and retaught after every major break. So after fall break, after Thanksgiving, after Christmas just to remind the students and to model for them what their behavior should look like. Um we
078have HQIM. I know Miss Sunny has talked about that quite a bit. That's our instruction there. And then we follow up with RTIA and instructional coherence to make sure that our stu all students have the skills they need to be ready to access those high quality instructional materials. So within RTIA, if a student is lacking some basic skills that they need to access that standard, the RTIA interventionist is working on those skills with that student so that they are ready for that grade level material. So, I've already talked about the a lot of this. A A is refers to the academic. B refers to the non-academic. Um, tier one, anytime you hear us talking about tier one, whether that's academic or the behavior piece, those are things that apply to all students. So, like the
079Falcon Store, the Falcon points, um, tier one instruction, those are things that are based on the needs of all students. And then we have tiers. We have tier two. We have tier three. Those are the supports that we put in place for individual. [cough] So in a minute I'm going to talk about how we determine who those students are, but we want to make sure that they have those supports. [clears throat] All of the decisions that are made by these teams are based on data. So every week or every month, we are looking at data. We're defining what is the problem that we're looking to to solve. Why are we seeing issues that we're seeing? Whether that's attendance, behavior, or academics. We analyze that data and look at it. We look at multiple sources of
080data. Then we decide what intervention are we going to implement for that child or that group of children to try and help help them better be supported within the classroom. And then after we implement that, we we gather data based on that. And then we evaluate our processes. Every month we go back and we look at we put this intervention in place for this child. Let's look at the progress. If they're making progress, then we make the decision. Should we continue the intervention? Maybe we should change the intervention. Maybe they're not making progress. So those are the things that we handle. The SWAT analysis is just a a way it's just a tool that we use to do a deeper dive where we look at the strengths of the situation, the weaknesses of [clears throat]
081the situation, what are the opportunities and tools that we have within our district that we can help and are there any threats. So sometimes there we consider a threat something that we have no control over. It impacts the child at school. There's really nothing we can do about that, you know. So we look at those things and try to make the best decisions for students. So this kind of gives you a hierarchy of the problem solving process. So we have academics on the left and behavior on the right. Um when we meet we have a team that meets monthly at the Henley House and we look at all data. We look at academics, attendance, behavior, discipline and we from that data we may refer when we meet with the schools following up that we meet
082with the schools and we bring we've already examined the data to school. The school team doesn't have enough time to sit in their meeting to not only decide about the intervention but to pull the data. So, there's a meeting every month at Miss Charlotte's office and a group of people pull all that data and we look at that. There's also a form that teachers and staff members can fill out if they feel like they want a child's name brought up in those meetings and us to look at that student data. Then there's a referral process for that. We um work then to align the appropriate intervention and then there has to be training for the staff, the student and sometimes even the family about what the intervention is, why we're doing it, what the goal
083is and how we're going to measure that goal. So that training process happens and then we actually implement it. We gather the progress monitoring data. We do fidelity checks to make sure that it's being done correctly. If it's not being done correctly, then that again that involves more some reteing to go back and then we analyze that data and once again we determine should we continue the intervention [cough and clears throat] stop the intervention has the child made progress and no longer needs intervention which is our goal for that child should not need those interventions anymore. So these are um just to give you an idea of the team structures. There's a district leadership team that is comprised of uh assistant principles, principles, district office staff. They meet four times a year. We look at
084um data from across the board. There's a district data team that I that was the team I just discussed. They meet twice monthly. There's also a student support team where they will um call in families and try and help the family problem solve. Specifically, [clears throat] if it's attendance or medical need, we we try and work with the families and pull them in to get their input because they know more about their own child than we do. [cough] School level teams, they meet monthly. There's a school level tier one team and that's where they're talking about all those schoolwide things. So rewards, staff rewards as well as student rewards. What are the expectations at Lar Kindle? They have the house system. So that's a piece of all this. [cough] It all works together. And so
085that team meets monthly and makes those decisions. Then there's a tier after that meeting there's a tier two and tier three team. And I'll show you the difference between the team members in a moment. But that team meets monthly or more often as needed. So at any point a member of that tier 2 tier three team if we see that a child is struggling they can call a team meeting. We had one last week that was specifically about one child. They can call that meeting and then we get all the right people at the table. Whoever is going to be involved in that and those um sessions again are academic and behavior. [cough and clears throat] So, who are your team members? For your tier one team, it's going to be your administrators. There are
086teacher representatives, nurses, support staff, special education staff, counselors, and then district MTSS staff, which is usually myself, Jennifer, and Amanda. And then you, if you look at this list, the tier two and tier three members, this is where we're really problem solving for individual children. So, we've got social emotional support personnel that we would bring into this, our counselors, teachers or pair professionals that work directly with the student to give that input about what they're seeing in the classroom. Nurses because it can very well be a physical or mental health issue. Uh the district RTI lead, attendance coordinator, the school psychologist, and special educator. So this is a more specialized group of people that are looking at specific incidences. So we [cough and clears throat] utilize our school-based resources. Um some of those are listed
087up there. I'm not going to read all those, but those are things that we already have within the school. So when we're needing these resources, these people are already there as well as some of the interventions that we're already using. >> [clears throat] >> These are our outside partnerships. So when we meet with that tier 2 and tier three team and we're trying to problem solve and help this student or their family, [clears throat] we look at these and determine, all right, is there an outside resource that could best help this family? And then we make connections with those outside resources to get um services for those students. That's a very comprehensive list. when you think that our our children we have access [cough and clears throat] to all of those different you know different
088resources that we can connect our families with. [snorts] So our progress over the last this is the u fourth year that we're um working with this as we [clears throat] we have our schoolwide expectations and reward systems in place. Schools just met Friday. We [cough] partner with Vanderbilt. We met with them on Friday to um analyze their schoolwide discipline plans. Um and I do want to say sometimes people when they hear PDAs they're like, "Oh, it's all feelgood and there's no consequences." No, this is prevention and intervention, there still has to be accountability and consequences for students that continue to not make efforts. We try to put things in place to teach them, but ultimately we all know there has to be some accountability. So this does not say there's not accountability. But we have
089partnerships with outside agencies. We work very closely with our partners at Vanderbilt. They provide training for us. They provide resources for us. And so that's just some of those things where we've made some progress. Um this gives you an example of our three. This is our three-year chronic absenteeism comparison. I know you've talked about that at other board meetings. All these things that we put in place have helped impact these numbers where you see that there has been a decline each year in chronic absenteeism numbers and we are anticipating another decline when that data is released this year. >> That's awesome. Oh, I just uh recognition for the work that has been done. This is the work that the school teams have done and the district team has done. I I really want to tell
090you how important the school teams are and how dedicated those staff members are to this problem solving process. And they they take it seriously. They um they send off [snorts] the time. They are very thoughtful when we're trying to decide what intervention for our students. So in 2022 23 the district was awarded the groundbreakers. Last year the community builders award and just this past week we were awarded with the changemakers award. So that's by the department of education. And that's it. Any questions? The school systems near us have this extensive a program as we have. >> Um, some some do. Yes, ma'am. >> But not necessarily. >> Not necessarily. And I'm not as familiar with, you know, what everybody else does around us. I know that that there are some districts near us that do
091um a lot of especially a lot of the tier one type things. I don't know how deep they get into the problem solving process. [snorts] Yeah, it's a it's a big load of work, but it makes a big impact. >> Thank you for your time. [applause] Members, if you recall back in February in a retreat, you your ask was was for us to create a fiveyear strategic plan. The truth of it is is in e plan districts are required to submit plans. Many times those are out of compliance and we never wanted to do anything strictly out of compliance. We want to get best practices. So came back to the team and we put that plan together. This board approved it and as I said we were going to do we were going to give
092you updates. So just have to keep in mind this will be short and brief, but I just wanted you to understand what we have accomplished to this point of work that we're doing. So let Sunny speak about the instructional parts too. >> Hey, when you um look at our strategic plan, goal one, I'm encompassing goal one and goal three, I believe they are, but just walking you through where we are and what we're doing with HQIM. Um my part of the plan with um building capacity in teachers is very heavy on training and professional development because we are dealing with permitting teachers who didn't go to school to be teachers and then we have other teachers who are new into the profession and need that support. So um one of the initiatives this year was
093bringing kids first to help support us with um content understanding content knowledge about foundational skills so that we have teachers who understand when you have a standard what are the things that bleed into that standard that students need to know. Um we're we're dealing with some struggling students who have holes in their educational foundation. So we're trying to as we're teaching new content we're trying to remediate and intervene in what they didn't know before. So there's a lot of work and there are a lot of things that go into play there. Um, Kids First has been tremendously helpful. We started that program last year um just in a pocket at Lar Kendall with math that has expanded this year. They are currently in every building for math K through 10th grade. Um we are dabbling.
094We did a um a cycle in high school for English one and English two. We had planned on doing some ELA before Christmas this year, but our coach who was serving us was in an accident and so she's on medical leave right now. She is going to be okay. So, we're having to kind of regroup there and we'll again in January, but we have lots of support going on and that work is really really um doing well. Um PLC's are a huge part of building capacity and teachers and helping them to get through their materials and understand what's offered there. That is also where we are providing access [clears throat] points and supporting our teachers to help recognize what's in the materials that we can use and support our students. So we are engaging in
095PLC's that are being led by school leaders. We've got new school leaders in our um district. So they have learned and we are this week looking at those teacher those principles and assistant principles leading those PLC's with unit prep and that process will continue. So that kind of looks like me I lead those the principal and assistant principal are with me when they're comfortable they take over the next time and I'm still there with them supporting them and help me um thinking about um making sure that we're providing access for all students. Our big goal this year was to make sure that when a student comes into a classroom, it's not about what they have an IEP or if they're in a tier two or tier three. We're looking at all students every day, all
096day. So we have partnered with Teresa Nichols who is with partner ed solutions and she is coming in and supporting our special ed teachers in um building capacity and providing working with our principles and administrative teams to understand what the ins and outs are of supporting um special ed students and we're bringing our gened and our teachers together to do the PLC work so that we're all at the table talking about goes into what Suzanne was talking about getting everybody at the table, recognizing what student needs are and attacking it and addressing them in the moment. So, it's it's really powerful to sit in and to hear and we're in the early stages of this. The conversations are as rich as they'll be in three months. It's just getting teachers comfortable, sit at the table
097and talk about it. Trying to think if there's anything else. I thought professional development. We are getting ready today's Monday. Wednesday we have our principles collaborative that we will work with principles to determine what our professional development days will be in December. Many of those will be around access points and student supports. Um we've got Teresa Niggles that day. She will work with a group of gened and special education teachers to plan together and administrators [cough and clears throat] will do that work in the morning as well. I don't do have any questions back [cough] >> so the PLC is centered on four questions. What do we want students to learn? How are we going to know that they know it? How are we going to respond if they didn't? And how are we going
098to respond if they didn't? We don't have all of the answers. those teachers come together and they share information, share ideas and that's how we get better. Thank you. Support you want. Mine is very short. Just want to say thank you so much Madam President for making this job so much. [clears throat] Thank you so much. I do want to reiterate that we did take the ACT before the students the division students actually took the test whereas our division actually practice test we are waiting those and that is it. >> Oh [snorts] mart Holiday Mart is um Saturday >> so be sure and come out and shop please. >> Y we've had a lot of fun things going on and a lot of be in a lot of classrooms. We got kids perch there. As
099Sunny mentioned, they're doing great work with our teachers and really helping improve instruction. They're modeling. They're also giving advice like, "Hey, try it this way. Don't be afraid to do something different." And that's going a really long way with our teachers in our classrooms. On Friday, we talk about the house day. Suzanne was talking about, we do have some fun activities planned this Friday for a house day for our students. I guess they will have academics first. We'll have some fun later. Um, progress reports are going to go home on the 13th, which is Thursday. And um we're also working we had the meeting Friday was here a number of our teachers on on in this building in this room and we talked about ways to improve staff and student recognition above and beyond what
100we're doing. So we've come up with some really ideas that were provided to us by Tintan and I just feel like it's it's heading in the right direction and we just continue to work on student behavior and find the best ways to support our kids and our teachers every day. That's what we do. All right, other business. >> Can I say something real quick? >> I just wanted to send out a invitation to all the board members to our Thanksgiving dinner on the 20th. You want to show our appreciation for what you do. What time is it? >> Um, you can come between 11 and 12 just at whichever school you want to go to. >> Thank you. Excuse me. I sent an email to the board members as well as to uh members in
101the district. We do have a veteran state program scheduled for tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. in the in the gym. All right. >> Um, yeah, I guess I need to start this uncomfortable conversation um with the fact that we voted not to continue Dr. Hart's contract. We need to start a search for a new superintendent. In my opinion, we don't, you know, the last time that I was involved in a superintendent search to um >> there's processes. There's many processes that we can go through to do this. Go through the SBA. I don't know if you have ever been involved on this. That's something we need to discuss together on the approach we want to take about getting information out there. Something we need to talk about how we want to approach that and move forward
102from there. >> Yeah, I think TSBA usually provides those services for us. I know they usually charge us a fee if they make recommendations. Um people apply to us through TSBA as I understand that's correct. >> It's a more broad way of reaching out more access for people to be able to apply conditions. Um, as far as the TSBA, does anybody need any information about either lodging, any other information about programming? >> What time do can we check in? >> Yeah, it's at least three. Second thing is is um the bathroom. So, good use. Other than the automatic vents that are in that second grade hallway, both of those bathrooms are working. Michael Cap's worked this weekend and he finished it. So, they are completely done, but as I said to you on Thursday, there's
103a lot of work still should be done. And I am suggesting that the board come and visit Margaret Newton on Thursday the 20th. I had written five o'clock. I know that that doesn't let all of you get there at that time, but Thursday the 20th at 5:00 pm. Would you like to also attend time? >> And if there's another day that you want to come by, you don't want to do it on that day, I can walk you through. So, Thursday the 20th at 5:00 p.m. take you through those bathrooms because you can see then the pipes as I described it. Not trying to be over dramatic, but the pipes are going to deteriorate. You're we're going to have a bigger problem. um and or the accessibility of just the bathrooms themselves, the saws, the
104fixtures because it's going to be a major project. >> I still say we just put some ouses out there. >> Hey Dr. B, did you get a chance to look at those that stuck in the playroom? >> I did. Um so it's a question of take the slide off, but if you take the slide off the kids could fall off and then I would say that the wood is actually rotten. It's a pretty big piece of equipment. Um, and there's also the one that held the tires running. So, I'm gonna ask that we remove both. I don't have anything to replace it with, but I think it it is a safety issue. >> Thank you. >> Any other business? We going to laugh.