001tired because In fairness in the in the in the retreat you ask for so that you can hold us accountable what we're do well that's what this does I told him I said so this creates an agenda for you all to report out on where we are because it's all fair game once the board approves the Strategic work will there be any um timelines included or a lot of talk so where you got we we talked ourselves in and then we talk ourselves out so this is a fiveyear plan going in 2030 the complexi of this because nobody wants to lie about where they are in the progress if you have teachers that are two years in and if a new teacher comes on and I say that they have met that goal no we
002have to go back through that continuously as when we When We R our mind this is about continuous Improvement so what we want to do is be able to report out on where we are but there's people involved in this and some of them start in January we had that happen this year they're not all going to be in the same place so instead of trying to say that we're going to hit a goal and we not all be where we want to be we didn't think that was fair so we wanted to just give you updates as we move along clarifying statements with the work there's some pages missing in the version that you got here there only odd Pages here okay so sent you the even Pages were there as well but I
003feel like when you look at the bullet point they're order and that's where we got lost was okay he exactly right we had two teachers that started in January this year when you look back I can't with good honest say yeah we're here 0% of our teachers might be here but not 100% so is that a check marker or not so we kind of decided that we're going to do an action plan and you'll get an update every so many months we even talked about doing it monthly where we are at each strategy just to kind of moving forward starting next school year to have a clear picture it yeah so it was all in there with fall 2026 spring 2027 and something doesn't feel right very good this something we have to vote on
004yeah we we will need as a board need to vote and approve the Strategic plan because it goes along with the mission and the vision that we created if you want to keep it and then we can put it on the you want to add it to the a whatever you want to do and I know sorry about the front back the actual copy that sent you does have it all in there but and I'd like to have a clean up version of it it was so important that we got I wanted to subject matter we said hey I'll have it by March well we got it but we didn't say how pretty so there's no artwork so is there any way we could put on here like by the end of school year 2026
00580% of the teachers will put me say this go I could but then whenever we have turnover I can't say the same thing that's the issue that's what felt dising genous I know what you're saying and I wanted to commit to it as well but we signed be the truth in the off I think that's what we were talking about is you're starting all over I think you getting updates on the work as we go I'd rather you hear from them and there say this is what we're doing and I can give you this we had six brand new teachers or four brand new teachers and this is where they are didn't know how to put that into a narrative because I don't know if who's going to be or not and we just didn't
006want to do this is smok in yours cuz I'm the guy that put the dates in there that was that was me okay I understand it's going to be another thing I lift up is we're not talking about just one body working together there are four layers so you've got District level work happening got school leader work happening got teacher work happening and student work happening and so are we all moving at the same time this pace and we're not that's where the dates got so difficult to try to line them up because yeah we'll have students that'll surpass other students we have teachers that'll do different things and how do we put a date intive date on that that was part of it I I would say that I met with three Math teachers
007at lar Kendall about three weeks ago those ladies are a few steps ahead of some other folks and they got letters from me that just said I appreciate the vocabul they using is far different it's no and so to a point that group's going further along there so it would get down to those different plc's and where they are they're not there's a lot of effort going on don't get me wrong it's just some people further [Music] if you want to get if you give me a chance to give you a pretti version yeah I think this was just introduction I just wanted you to see what and if you want to I know we can print out a cleaner copy of um she's doing a really good job so I said hey there's front
008and back and so the way it printed out it just miss so would you like yes we'll put we'll put the Strategic plan for April all right next is the superintendence report so Dr ell go first all right yeah this is our report from Lake County High School a few weeks ago uh we conducted a drug search at Lake County High School as part of our ongoing efforts to ensure a safe drug free learning environment for our students this search aligns with our promise to tackling and growing issue of vaping and drugs our schools and we remain dedicated to holding students accountable while while providing education support to substance I want to sincerely thank Dr Burton and our local law enforce officers for their professionalism and partnership and keeping our school safe their support is
009very important as we work together to create culture where our students and parents can focus on their education without having to fear drugs anding in our schools a promise May will be at promis the testing season is upon us on April 1st our students will be taking the ACT a critical test that opens doors for college scholarships and career opportunities then beginning on April the 14th we will start our end of course exams or our EC's which measures our students Mastery and key subjects these tests matter not just for the individual student but for the overall growth and success of our schools next I want to take personally would like to congratulate our Junior shfs for placing fourth in our state competition this is a huge accomplishment and we are so proud of their hard
010work dedication and skill thank you very much Miss K for leading that charge their success showcases the strength of our CTE programs Improv that our students can compete in their highest level I want to extend my gratitude to Dr Cook at Dyersburg State Community College for their plans to establish a junior college opportunity for our upcoming junior class this partnership will allow students to earn both a high school diploma and an associates degree at the same time at graduation giving them a tremendous Head Start in our education and careers this is a gamechanging opportunity for our students and I encourage everyone to take full advantage of finally as spring arrive we are excited for the start of baseball and softball season I want to wish our teams the best of luck as they begin their
011season we look forward to seeing their them compete grow and represent Lake County well wherever they may go I also would like to wish all the teachers and staff at Lake County High School a very happy and safe spring bre thank you thank you yes it's the beginning of [Music] may look my notse look a little different than his we do have spring break coming up um Miss Tara and Mr Steven are doing some tier two behavior training this week which we appreciate very much by the way um with some of our tiers two students who have some behavior issues and I will shout out to charl and Amanda for really helping us with some of our our students um this week we're continuing with our HQ and our plc's this week we're actually preparing
012for after spring break so we're kind of working ahead with that we do have teac Camp as he mentioned April 14th starting so we're working on that schedule we do have house on Friday I think we're doing a little kickball the kids no that I'm sorry y'all look I've already messed up a secret this morning everybody's mad at me my faculty staff I go ahead and tell you I will admit we did Undercover I don't know if yall know the trend on Tik Tok soed up separate we Pi all these five days so today was blackout day so we all black well I announced over the intercom did y'all notice anything this morning and apparently supposed undercover so stay tuned for the rest of the week things I didn't know I was supposed to tell
013I'm sorry post yes so we'll have to post everybody was decked out we had one fourth grader come up say why are y all black the only only kid that picked up on it that said anything uh we do have the opportunity thanks to miss sunny for kids first uh coming in we have a math consultant that's working with our Math teachers and I've learned a few things from her as well so we're glad to have her with us several days a week and I believe good evening um this week's faac meeting we teachers is focusing on emergency procedures and looking into if the weather is getting warmer with how we're going to do our fire drills and do some alternate routs of evacuation with the students um the Monday after spring break we'll be
014recognizing autism awareness and rocking our socks and that's going to be on March 24th as a welcome back um our current accente is right is about 29% higher than what it should be and so my teachers are calling and trying to combat those things so if you have parents and school age children um pleasing Carriage School however first grade did win the attendance challenge for quarter three and they will be awarded with extra recess on the announcement you can hear them down the hallway they won second place went to the infant room so we are looking and trying to figure out what we can do for their award for um last week we had a total of 22 readers for read cross America week um it was a great start to March being the national
015read all right so last I would say on the screen right the the meetings I've been able to attend in the different buildings with the teachers the collaboration that is going on the discussions about lesson prep un prep we're starting to have discussions about and that's a huge step in our progress in being back and there's no scoreboard you don't know where you stand so teach are starting to ask questions about what is the data showing us then what are you going to do about it and that's a great next step that's happening organically and naturally that could be ground so it's good work i' say the district is doing a really good job in working towards an improvement um next is other business um so the board I'll just say this the board has
016received another anonymous letter I understand last month there was uh an anonymous letter that was read out loud um addressing concerns um obviously we want to address any concerns that our citizens have um so to say that we do have a public comment that is available to all of our community to come and speak at our meeting and we encourage anyone with any concern to please come and address the board on this matter we do have policies in place um of regarding complaints um against staff Personnel um about any members um we do also allow public comment for the community to come to State their concern um so we did receive an anonymous another one tonight does anybody have any comments or because we do want to address these concerns um and we do want
017to hear everybody out I think we are put in a position that until we adopt a policy to address the is that it's that we have to read what we thought um I didn't think the anous letter should have been read last month but because it was I said president so we can read this one but I do think we need to adopt a policy to address this um as you said we we have ways to address things for people to come up they can publicly speak that can request to be on the agenda um you know there's there's ways to address it um I think I really would prefer people just come and talk to us or at least talk to your board representative [Music] but I think we're the position where we have
018to I personally think we shouldn't read n's letters we didn't read staff members letters that s a staff member letter I agree I agree we had two of them and we didn't read them a l then we go to read the nymous letters I think really I just don't think you should read know but we all everybody knows how to get a hold of everybody on here somebody's call you know email come to me um think it's really bad you you send in you set yourself up when you go read nonl that's just my opinion so we didn't read the staff members in S I know yeah you got you got you got oh okay he worked here for 10 years okay his letter he worked years so there's things we could do we can
019create a policy to stay that we will not read Anonymous Letters Out Loud we can get you tsba to help us create a policy feel this need to be a board decision and board discussion I ran out of time today I wanted to go look at when you sent us the text that we would be see this letter I wanted to go look atba policy if there's anything in print yeah is no there's no wall there's no wall against [Music] anous but I do think [Music] and I agree with [Music] you just like you did last time operations right I scaned it also person so just things to think about [Music] did you get one so if there's any questions all right so any other questions so would you like me to work with tsba
020with J White and that team to have something drawn up or was the board attorne drawing something I will follow up with I will follow up with tsba okay to create a policy or if we can amend one of our current policies I was looking at the [Music] rules I had a chance to to read the letter as well there's always concerns and there's there's questions in there about the impact of my ability to lead and I made a difference legiate questions you should ask question hopefully I'm answering Those Questions by being in the work every day by being at a board meeting by having the team members be able to they're always fair questions so I appreciate y trying to grow and have the form in the board it makes a difference and it
021feels I appreciate so the accountability for me I'm still trying to grow and get better at this as well so I'm not ducking out of any of that so I appreciate yall trying to do what you're doing forward to this dire I don't know think it should go in the Rules of Order the rules of yeah you know um a couple weeks ago Jody Jody reached out to me she said said hey I have a parent and it was a concern she said what would you like me to do I said if you could let that parent know to talk to me I appreciate and so in that moment in time it empowered Jody to say I have direct access to the director of schools and so it helped deal with that issue and so
022the anonymity party wasn't it was here's a parent they said who they are do you want this help or not it empowers you as a board you have direct access to me I'm giving people my phone number but when they go to you you become that conduit that bridge to me that's that absolutely the right way and so this person had those same concerns I wish they would just go to you and say Here's my concern and then we can have a meeting three of us who and we are supposed to do what JY did she referred the parent to you right that's what we supposed to do well I guess it depends so I think that was a perfect example where helps themselves helps the citizen allow me to problem um all right so
023I will follow up with TBA about adopting a policy uh for anonymous letters is there any other business anybody want youru [Music] me