001[Music] H. >> Yes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yes. Cuz that's something I was interested in. >> Feel disorganized. Let's see. This goes here. All right, [Music] great. 18. >> I had another question. [Music] >> No. Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. That's a big help. That's great. >> That's great. [Music] Thank you. >> Like, are we doing that every time? >> Adding it to each. Yeah. Is that okay? >> Yeah. No, I'm just making sure cuz I look like >> I already asked her. I already actually probably She laughed. [Music] Okay, that's fine. I just was like that was me. So I want to make >> which again we still have a minute but >> no that's good. I appreciate all the help. >> Well, and then Summer remembered that it needed to
002be on board. So, we prefer it. So, she the one that Laura is printing is or signing is correct. >> Pretty much all those things. >> Get a little smart every year. Well, we'll be there by the time I've been here 20 years. Need to make sure I don't turn the water off the trailer. [Music] 5:45. >> All right, I have 55. I'll call the meeting to order. If everyone would stand for the moment of silence and the pledge. You face the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam recorder, you call the role, please. >> Chair Laura Harrison, >> present. >> Vice Chair Jeremy Bernett, >> here. >> Michelle
003Childs, >> here. >> Keith Actton, >> here. >> Deborah Thomas, >> present. >> We do have a quorum. I'd like to welcome everyone to our September business meeting. Dr. Horl, will you please lead us through our agenda? >> I will. The first item on the agenda is the opportunity for public comment. Is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> Hearing none. Next item. >> Next item is our reports section. Uh starting with the legislative liaison update. >> Miss child. >> I do not have an update. Um however, at the end we will be speaking about resolutions. >> Thank you, Miss Childs. Dr. Horl. >> All right. Uh the next item on the agenda is the superintendence report. Uh, and we have a very distinguished and honored and uh, unbelievable group of
004young men here today and at least one of their coaches. And, uh, with the board's permission, I'm going to switch the angle here on the, uh, live stream and step down and address them if that's okay. I know it's okay because the board loves doing this. I happen to >> the best part of >> Thank you. All right. Uh, well, to provide just a little context, if I may take a point of personal privilege. So, I've been in education 25 years and 18 of those have been in administration. And when you're in a school administration, you're a principal, you're a superintendent, you have things that wind up in the newspaper. Okay? So, that's happened a lot to me. I mean, it just has. You know, my name's in an article in the newspaper. And people
005wander up and say, "Oh, I saw this article about you." I'll tell you guys, one time it was when I was principal at Millington High School. This is all public now. And we had a young lady that was an undercover police officer and she looked just like a high school student. and she was there to see if anybody at the school was involved in anything that they shouldn't be and they made a bunch of addresses. So, that's just a warning. Check your girlfriend out and see what's going on. But anyway, uh but the only reason I bring that up is even though that story was out there, I did not have that story mentioned to me as much as I have had it brought up to me. Aren't you the superintendent of the school system
006where the guys went and won the state championship without any seniors? I can't tell you how many people brought that up to me. And I can't tell you every time I said, "Yeah, give them a round of applause. You're about to do that." And every time I did, every time somebody said that to me, I said, "Yes, I am. And I'm proud to be. It's an unbelievable team. It's an unbelievable accomplishment." And usually they would go on and share their own stories sometimes about how they almost won a state championship or their brother maybe won one. But I mean it's what you get out of that. My brother was a football player at Germantown High School. He was a state runnerup and he still talks about that. But he also talks about how different his
007life would be if he had won that state championship. And you guys did it. And uh the amazing thing is I know uh Miss Martin and Coach Godwin and your coaches and and your parents and certainly everybody for a lot of you, you started this journey when you were in middle school and uh in a lot of ways you made a commitment to a school that really I mean not really it it wasn't built out. You made a commitment to an idea and you made a commitment to an idea that if you guys stuck with it and worked hard and listened to your coaches uh that you could be the very best in the state and you made it happen. And uh just on behalf of the board of education uh I can't express to
008you uh how much that means to us, how much positive attention you guys have brought to the school system. Uh the way you did it, the team that you are, but also who you are, um the way you guys conduct yourself. there's a way that champions conduct themselves and we appreciate you guys taking that seriously and uh I know you're not done yet. Uh and we're excited about that too. But tonight again on behalf of the board of education, we want to honor the members of the state championship Lakeland Preparatory School High School baseball team. So let's have another round of applause. Coach Gwin, did you check your watch? I'm not going to talk all night. We're going to get to we're going to get to you. Don't I'm just kidding. Hey, I've been to
009one of your banquetss before. I know you you I've seen your speeches. I'm just going to take a minute here. All right. So, here's what we're going to do. Uh we're going to call each of your names. You guys that are here, we're going to call your name. And what we'd like you to go ahead and do, we're going to move over here. If you can, if family members, if you came to uh support these players, we'd like you to come on up. uh anybody that you brought with you. Uh and we're going to get a picture with me and the board of education and your certificate and Miss Martin and Dr. Deloso is going to come on up and uh coach Godwin in the picture as well. Yep. Thank you. I got my handler
010back there, Mr. Pagani. Make sure I don't miss anybody. Uh and then once we get done with that, we're going to have the whole team come back and get a group photo. Does that all make sense? All right. So, I'm going to call your names and have you come up and get your picture taken. All right. We're going to start with Wyatt Helton. Come on down. [Music] Everybody else hold your position. I mean, there >> I know. Next up, let's have a round of applause for Obie Snow. Oh, I started clapping. My bad. >> Next up, Mason Sanders. Come on down. [Applause] Got a certificate here for Mark Foster. [Applause] [Music] Thank you. >> All right, I think we got one of two in this last name category. Emerson Peeler, you're here, right? [Applause] I'm
011going to go ahead and note I believe Eastston Peeler is not here. Is that is that accurate? >> Okay, but let's go ahead and give a round of applause to >> Everybody's so busy. I appreciate those of you that can come. You want to give that to him? >> Yeah. Same situation if I understand correctly. Noah Lindsay, come on down. [Applause] >> Then we've got Levi's certificate. You can even hold it if you want to. Brett Godwin, come on down. Great win Friday night. >> I brought up Millington earlier and half you guys were like, "Yeah, we beat them the other night." So, all right. Next up, TJ Looney. JT JT JT. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. It's a weird cursive. I read it wrong. I knew better as soon as it came out of my
012mouth. All right. Next up, Jack McDaniel. Come on down. Oh, you're here. Why don't you come up here? Oh, you're thank you for coming. >> Cooper rushing. [Applause] Next up, Colton Forner. Smile. [Music] Come on down, Khalani Evans. It's your turn. Bryce Thomas, come on. as the parade of champion continues. Breen boy DJ. And then finally, before we do the roof photo, uh also want to recognize the coaches of this amazing achievement. Uh and we're gonna the the guy that's here that's been here from the very beginning um of Lakeland Middle Preparatory School and now Lakeland Preparatory School and uh believed in this team and believed that if he had the right players and they uh stuck with it, uh that it was possible to win a state championship. and uh you've got to have
013somebody with that dream um to usher the team through. So on behalf of a grateful board of education and school system coach, we want to present you with this uh pin that is a recognition of state achievement. [Applause] >> Best Now players back out together. However many of you want 16 [Music] >> everybody hold up a number. >> Awesome. I think we're good. We're good. [Music] Oh, buddy. >> Okay, let me see if >> check the stream here. Okay, I'm going to give me just one second. [Music] >> Madam Chair, may I speak for a moment while he's trying to dial us back in? >> Yes, you can have a point of privilege. Okay. Um, I just wanted to, um, reiterate what Dr. Horl said. I think our secret weapon was that we were underestimated.
014Um, you know, nobody really had us on their radar, but now we are. Now we're a target coach. Um, I want to thank the coaches for all their hard work, all their time with the boys. And I want to reiterate what I told you I think in Nashville, Dr. horal which was um we were there for a week. These young men were the greatest representatives of this school and this community. Um, I know we've all been parts of organizations before where you've got some uh yahoos who go out and mess things up and these guys were um were gentlemen and were good citizens and good representatives of what what sports and um good sportsmanship are about. And I just wanted to have that on the record because I'm super proud of you as a school
015board member and super proud of you as your uh substitute mama too and your real mama. And I just wanted to say that. So um congratulations again. I'm just so so proud of you and it's something that nobody can ever take from you. You will always be a state champ. Let's hear it one more. [Applause] >> All right. And I'm going to make my regular uh comment disclaimer here. We are more than happy for all of you to stay. You are welcome. This is a public meeting. You can stay for the entirety of the meeting. You will also not offend us in the least if you all get up and walk out right now. Okay? Cuz we're very very proud of you. >> Yeah. if you if you need your credit for the honors uh
016if you need your credit for the honors diploma, you will have to stay. So, of course, I'm [Laughter] >> and as they're walking out, I'm I I neglected to do this. I want also want to thank uh Coach Benjamin and Coach Gore. They are not here, but obviously a huge part of this accomplishment. So, uh we will deliver their pens to them in person. Congratulations. >> All right. Dr. >> Okay. As we uh pick back up the agenda, uh the next item is the monthly financial summary. Uh we actually covered that during the work session. It is posted to the agenda. So, if there are any uh follow-up questions, certainly they can be asked at this point or uh >> anybody have any questions regarding the financial report for the superintendent? >> Hearing none. Next
017item. Next item is the approval of the agenda. >> Um, I'll make a motion to get this item on the floor. Is there a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion in the second. I believe there was an item we discussed last week that was not part of the publish agenda that we need to add tonight. >> That is correct. Uh, we discussed an item. It was shared with the board. Uh, so they had an opportunity to review it and I neglected to add it to the agenda. So, uh, requesting that it be added tonight. And uh that addition would be resolution 25/905, a resolution supporting a reduction in the number of evaluations required in the team evaluation system for teachers rated significantly above expectations based on either composite scores or TV scores. >>
018So I'll make a motion to amend the consent agenda to add this as item number 11. Is there a second? I and I >> we have a motion and a second. All in favor of amending the agenda to add the resolution that Dr. HL name I'm not going to go and read it again the Dr. Hal name to the is number 11 on the consent agenda say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes. We are now on the amended agenda. Is there any items anybody wishes to remove from the consent agenda to the discussion action items or any items anybody would like to add to the discussion action items on the agenda? >> Madam chair, I'd like to add uh under uh number five under discussion action item to be now number 12 under the
019consent agenda. >> So there's a motion to move number five from discussion action to number 12 on the consent agenda. Is there a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor of moving it say I. I. >> Any opposed? So item number five is now item number 12 on the consent agenda. Are there any more items anybody wishes to add, remove, amend to the agenda? All right, we are on the amended agenda. All in favor of approving the amended agenda say I. I. Any opposed? Motion passes. The agenda is approved. Goodness, that's a mouthful. >> Dr. H. Next item. The next item is consideration of the consent agenda. The consent agenda now has 12 items. >> I'll make a motion to get this item on the floor. Is there
020a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. All in favor of approving the consent agenda say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Next item. >> Next item we move into our discussion action section. Uh the first item on the agenda is the annual internet safety measures presentation by chief of technology Dr. Wanda Terrell. >> Dr. Terrell, the floor is yours. And just as she sets up, I will note uh this is uh this presentation is required by state law. Um and it has also been incorporated into Lakeland school system policy and uh this is the opportunity for Dr. Terrell to share on behalf of the school system uh with the public the measures that uh Lakeland school system board of education and uh Lakeland school system administration have taken to
021keep uh students safe using the internet. So uh this is an annual requirement. We are grateful to Dr. Terrell for preparing it for us >> and he just finished one of my slides for me. So there you go. That's why I'm here. Um uh just a few things that that we do uh regarding internet safety measures. Uh our board policy requires that we control access by students to inappropriate manner on the internet and the worldwide web. Also that we um keep students safe while they're using electronic mail, chat rooms, and other forms of direct electronic communication. uh preventing unauthorized access including hacking and other unlaw unlawful activities by students online, unauthorized disclosure, use and dissemination of personal information regarding students and finally restricting students access to material that is harmful to them. So that is
022our policy and we get to make that reality. Um, some of the ways that we do that, we really take the approach of digital safety being a partner to physical safety. We put a lot of attention into keeping our students safe at school. We also pay a lot of attention to keeping them safe online. Um, it's more challenging to me because it's 24/7 365 wherever they are. Uh but uh we we have a lot of measures that we've put in place to keep them safe from the bad actors that are out there trying to get at at their identity. Uh certainly um educational institutions hold a lot of secure data. Um and we school districts across the country have uh become primary targets. Uh one of the things that um we do is we try
023to mitigate our risk. We we will probably never get rid of all the risk, but we certainly do what we can and balance that with the needs of the instructional environment. Uh a core approach to our internet safety structure is what we call the walled garden. Um it it compares it kind of how we limit people coming into our school building. So, we want to limit what comes into our digital environment. We want to limit what goes out of that environment, but we also want to have the capability to adjust that as needed. Um, and we do that by putting students in certain groups and allowing certain groups to have access to things that other groups don't. And sometimes we do that by grade level, sometimes we do that by school. We can do it
024down to the uh class that the students are enrolled in. And then we can even make custom groups as needed. >> Dr. Ter, I think the slide didn't advance the last one. >> It's because I'm doing two things at the same time. >> Um, okay, I'll go to the next one. Um, some of the software that we use to contribute to this safe environment is our we uh Google Workspace for Education Plus licenses which add a good bit of extra security. Uh currently our network on campus is provided by Educational Networks of America/Zo for Education. They keep kind of changing their name a little bit. Um but uh we have some internet filtering on campus with that. We also subscribe to light speeded filter which filters the student Chromebooks um whether they're on campus or
025off-campus um and it keeps a a comprehensive log so that we're able to uh to monitor that that activity. We also use another feature of light speed called alert which provides us uh more the the uh instructional technology facilitators get alerts when content on the the Chromebook may be considered bullying or possibly explicit material or harmful or objectionable content so that we have the ability to investigate that and address it uh if needed. Our teachers use Lightseed Classroom which gives them control of the digital environment in their classroom. They can limit students to certain websites while they're in that classroom. Um and they can also keep track of what the students are doing when the teacher's back is turned. Uh it it tracks that activity. We also use a service called Bark uh which is
026particularly useful for audio and video. If a picture shows up and it has something, even just a small bad word in it, we'll get an alert about that so we can address those things. Crowd Strike is free for us this year. This is our second year with CrowdStrike. This is on staff devices as a part of a Homeland Security grant, Department of Homeland Security grant. Um, and it's our it's our endpoint protection for uh teacher devices and for our servers. And finally, we we utilize what's called the student data privacy consortium, which makes it a whole lot easier for us to get student data um privacy agreements with the various vendors that we use. Um uh and so we we've been making use of that. So students are limited in a variety of ways. The
027Chromebooks are configured so that they can only use their Lakeland Google account. um their Google drives are are set up so that they can't share uh outside of the Lakeland school system domain. Um and uh they can share with their teachers uh and various grade levels have have additional things that they can do. Um we do not allow students to publish Google files to the internet but student work can be shared by the school and by the teacher um if the appropriate release has been signed by the parent. Um we don't have to use Google Meet as much as we did there for a while. Uh but we do have that ability if it's needed. Um Google chat is disabled for students. Um but uh middle school students and and high school students have the
028ability to message their teachers inside of Schooly. Um as well as um utilize parent square. Uh students cannot participate in online forums and communities. Um that is part of what we look at in our walled garden. We don't want to have any violation of furpa with uh private information there being being exposed. For elementary and middle school students, they do not have access to Gmail. So, even though they have what looks like a Gmail address, they don't have access to Gmail. Um, we have some websites in Lightseed Filter that we only allow for middle school and elementary. We find that the high school high schoolers don't need, you know, ABC, right? they may want to get on it to relax a little bit. But um elementary students do not have access to student square. That's
029one of the choices that was made at at le schoolers do have access to student square, the student version of parent square. We do have the ability when needed to apply what we call digital restriction which can either be done as a behavioral uh consequence or even by the the request of a parent if they want the student just to access the curricular material the things that are needed for class and not get distracted by the world of the internet. Um digital restriction is our our construct for that. high school students. So, high school students do have Gmail. Um, it is uh we we keep expanding the list of things that we find that they need to communicate with. One of the big things we did this year was add almost a thousand uh college
030domains to that so that they can email back and forth with those people. Even though we do encourage them to use that uh the the personal connections when they make those accounts so that they have access to that after they leave um after they leave Lakeland. Um we do have the ability when needed to add additional email addresses. We we do um we have found that uh some teachers encourage the use of email, some encourage the use of schooly messaging, some use parent square, but there's a variety there for for the teachers and the students to use. Um there there have been some things that we've given some students access to with uh additional parental permission that maybe we don't have data privacy agreements for. Um Parent Square has been very helpful in that realm.
031We've been able to push out parental uh permission slips and get that done in a digital way. Um, and I I I'd like to add that if if teachers do come across a website that's blocked that they feel they need, all they have to do is ask and we review it and if it happens to be miscatategorized, we can recategorize it so that it can be used. Dual enrollment students, um, this year we have 174 of them. Uh, last year was like 50 something. So, it's it's definitely a a fabulous uh program that we're using. Um, we have a custom group that those students are in so that they can access all their University of Memphis stuff, including their M email, all of the Microsoft stuff that they need. Um, and Miss Biddick is great
032about letting me know if a if a student's getting blocked on something that they need, she sends me a chat message through Google Chat and I open it right up and and we're good to go. Um uh we we are definitely committed to making sure that uh the students have everything they need to get through those those dual enrollment classes. Um we do have to protect that student data. Um staff are trained annually on FURPA. Uh our staff accounts which have access to a lot of student data have multiffactor authentication on them. uh we only allow signin with Google on the things that we have vetted and that we uh are sure are not going to leak any information. Um we use uh scrib scribbles it keeps changing as well uh kind of where it
033goes uh but we uh to try to be as secure when we're sending student data as possible. So even though students aren't involved in that, it is their data. Uh and we are continually evaluating our cyber security infrastructure to to keep that as safe as possible. It's definitely an everchanging um planet there around cyber security. I do two annual cyber security reviews, the NCSR and this the seesat. Uh NCSR is kind of measures your maturity level on a whole bunch of different points um based on the NIST framework and uh we're in our third review right now and every year we fill a few more gaps and fill a few more gaps and uh the Tennessee Department of Education uh cyber security program uh has us doing the SESAT the control self assess assessment tool.
034Um we we that one is a little bit delayed. We haven't gotten information on that yet, but um they they're very similar tools, so we do a lot of the double duty there, but um it's definitely given us a lot to think about and ways that we can tighten up that security. Staff is trained annually, including our wonderful board on uh fishing emails and avoiding clicking on those links. Uh we also do training during the fall in service. Um and uh the we are currently sending out those sample fishing tests every two weeks. Um and when we have people who habitually click, I reach out to them and show them on their copy this is what you could have looked for. So I do a lot of reteing there as well. Uh, I did also
035want to say that we we another service that we have the ability to use thanks to our our budgeting process is a a service called CISCloud, which backs up all of our Google Drives, including all of the student Google Drive. So, if they accidentally delete that paper and empty their trash and they're like, I know I had that paper, I can go find that paper for them. Um, so don't say you can't find it, cuz I can find it. um >> if it existed but actually >> uh parents every year um have during the registration process receive the student user agreement parent guardian permission form another long name um which uh gives permission for students to use the internet uh but it also details acceptable use rules of online behavior um access to the privileges
036and penalties of violations and such. Um, parents also have access to through our Lightseed system what's called the Lightseede parent portal where parents can sign in and they can see their child's online activity um either during school or after school and you can see every URL that they visited. Um, there is a weekly summary that comes out but if the parent chooses to make an account they can get in there and see the details. It also gives parents the ability to pause the internet for their child when they're at home. So, if any parents out there are like, "My child just will not get off that Chromebook at night." All you have to do is go in there and turn off the internet on their Chromebook. It does not affect them when they come back
037to school. So, just know that. Um, we do want our students to get good sleep. So, that we we definitely encourage the use of that feature. anyone can report violations of these internet safety measures. So if it's if it's a student that wants to tell on another student, we take those. If it's a parent saying, "My child accidentally saw something, here's something, we will research that. I'm I'm gotten very good at uh forensics there, digital forensics." Um but I I am one thing I am proud of in my job is that that we have very few instances of those and very frequently once we've researched them it was a false alarm uh with the student tending to act a little guilty when there was nothing to be guilty about. Um so all of these internet
038safety security measures are are there to help provide a safe, secure and focused learning environment uh for our students. We are constantly reviewing those logs, reviewing the configurations, adjusting when our very creative students find ways around things. Um and we know that the internet changes every second. Um, and so we just try to be as proactive as possible um, and keep all of our our students and their data safe and that is what I have. So I'm available to answer any questions um, now or anytime. But um, and that's it. Thank you, Dr. Terrell. Does the board have any questions? So I I'll start with Miss Childs and we'll go down the line. >> When you mention we have 107 I'm sorry. When you mentioned we have 170 dual enrollment students, is that individual? Is
039that separate 170 students or is it like my son, he's in two dual enrollment classes? >> 174 different students. There are going to be multiple enrollments for some of them, but there I have 174 students in that group in my light speeded filter. >> 174 individual students that are taking one or more dual enrollment classes. So that's like almost 50% of our 11th and 12th graders who are the only ones are eligible. That's remarkable. Is that like a um >> I I don't have a comparison to another district, but I when I counted the number, I'm like, "Let me double check that." >> And I pulled another report from Skyward because I want to make sure that they're all in there. I was like, "Wow." >> Yeah. And that doesn't count like the the 9th
040through 12th who are also AP students. Um so that's >> Yep. This is just dual enrollment. >> Yeah. I would just ask Dr. H at some point. It's not like urgent, but if you could get the board um like uh um comparable numbers if that's like a um an average that a school has that many um and then also um like how many students are in AP classes. It' just be interesting to me like point of reference because again we're all new to the high school game. This our first year having >> or even in mult dual enrollment classes. >> Yeah. Thank you, >> Mr. Bernett. >> Dr. Terrell, thank you for coming. You know, I always have a couple of questions for you. >> I love it. >> Um, one of them is is
041I'm going to age myself when I give this analogy, so which I think you might appreciate it with the lights alert. Um, and in monitoring the content, I go back to my days of when flash first came out and you couldn't really mine inside that app. Uh, even though it was a web app, it was hard to do that in those early days. um what's your comfort level with some of those publishers apps that we use both for the child's dual enrollment comment as well as any of the other content products that we've approved in in regular curriculum. How comfortable are you that we're actively being able or that system's actively able to go in there and monitor that and look for that? >> Very confident. I'll never say it's 100%. Um the various tools
042that we have kind of layered in each one of them kind of has better things. Um one of the reasons why we keep Bark even though we've got more detail from the other services is that it's really good on catching anything that might have gotten through. Um the the settings in Lightseed are fabulous. Um maybe I have to do a lot of massaging to make sure that that certain things are available. Um but the the ability of the product to be able to do that allows us to have the environment that we have. Um, I I don't have access to the curriculum and stuff like the dual enrollment classes are, but any content that shows in their Chrome browser gets gets logged and gets filtered. So, if something did happen to come through, we would
043get those alerts. Uh, I mean, we get an alert if they type a bad word in a Google doc. So, you know, yeah, >> I probably only have two more. Um, >> and then I know you made the comment about adding all of the the those institutions for the Gmail for is it a thought and just a thinking out loud which is dangerous to just add.edu is open for because we know thatus are you have to be a qualified educational institution. it's regionally accredited or nationally accredited by COE to even have aedu >> the the the way that the Google uh the Gmail compliance setup is inside of the admin console is give us the domains and so Miss Biddick um she was fabulous I said if you give me the domains I'll add them
044and she gave me this spreadsheet that had all of them and within five minutes we had a thousand of the colleges and if she she has come across a few here and there um that weren't on that list and she emails me and I put it right on the list. So, it's worked well. >> Said you had another. >> Actually, you already answered that one in in your fir in responding to your first one. You answered my third one. Thank you. >> Okay. You're welcome. >> Mr. Actton, Miss Thomas, >> I I think you already answered my question. My question was going to be I know when they're using the common app that has to talk to Navvian, right? And so my question was going to be about institutions. If there happens to be one
045that's not on the list, you said Miss Biddick can immediately let you know and you can immediately add it. So that that was all I needed to know because I as we're finding out at my house, there are a lot of colleges and universities out there and some of them you may never have heard of. >> So I just wanted to make sure um and and put that message out to parents, too. If you're in the common app um app, if you're in the common app and you need um to be able to to get it to talk to Naviance, just let uh Miss Martin or Miss Bedick know and they'll get that opened up for you through Dr. Terrell. >> Absolutely. >> Um making sure. Okay. I had two questions. One was about I
046know you mentioned dual enrollment and having those approvals. I know some of our AP classes have their specific websites, too. Do they have their own grouping to where they can all be approved as one or is that >> most of them don't need anything beyond what we already have in our domain. Um we do have a few extras like the third year third and fourth year marketing students are utilizing Canva. We don't use Canva with all the other students but so I I have those in a group so that they have access to that. Our film and video students are using various Adobe products and so they need that extra access. Um, our third and fourth year art students are doing some things with Adobe. So I have a a variety of different groups layered
047in there, but it's easy if something did come up. If it's something that's not harmful to the high school, I add it for the high school. Um, very rarely for the AP classes do we come up with something that we only need these few students to be able to get to. And the next question I had was so the graduating class, one of the things I've had two graduate from Arlington, actually three, um, if you count the really older one. Um, but so they be able to take their product with them like their, you know, that they'll do like their resume or, you know, there's times where they've written their college essays on their do we have procedures ready to go for them to be able to download their materials and take it with them?
048>> Yes. So that the plan is probably starting about midappril uh maybe even the beginning of April. Um, we'll we'll allow those we'll put those those senior students will have access to what's called Google Takeout, which allows them to download what's in that Google Drive and transfer it to a personal Gmail account essentially. Um, we're going to encourage some cleanup of the drives before they get to that point because most personal uh drive accounts limit at 15 gigabytes and some even less. Um, and we want we we want them to clean out the the minutia before they do that because it makes the process a lot faster. Uh, but the ITFs have already started talking about that. Honestly, we've been talking about it even at the middle school level just trying to keep things clean
049in and drive. Uh, but uh, Mr. Parker, the uh high school ITF is is thinking through the various steps, but our plan is kind of we don't want to do it too late, but we also don't want to do it too early. But yes, they will be able to take all of that work with them. >> Fabulous. Okay, those were my two questions. Any more questions for >> Sure. Can I just make a couple comments? Uh first of all, I I want to again acknowledge I know it's obvious, but Dr. Terrell has really been thinking ahead on so many of these things um since the founding of the school system. obviously takes uh cyber security and the protecting of students very seriously. Uh but I also want to acknowledge which the public may not know
050uh board members and Dr. will not I know uh you know regularly give feedback on things that they may hear in the community community community members come to them about what what what we have access to and what are some processes and especially this is a theme but as we've built this high school things we needed to look ahead to and be on top of and I just want to say we appreciate that feedback and I think that's helped shape uh where we are and that's one of the reasons we're able to have uh you know 174 DE students and I'm I'm sure the number of AP is staggering and and folks getting EPSOS in general So, uh, just thanks to everybody. It's definitely a group effort and, uh, very proud of what y'all have
051done and where we are. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you for being here. >> Thank you, Dr. Terrell. >> Dr. Horl, next item. >> All right. Next item. Uh, we have two presentations in a row here, and I'm going to have to step down and, uh, just ceue up the other one. Uh, but just so you guys know, the next item will be the five-year strategic plan update. Uh, and this will be from Miss Tammy Wilson. She is our director of strategic programs, which is a new title. Uh she she was the federal programs director. Uh but she supervises uh federal programs, including English language, but is also the person that's going to directly work with me on uh supervising the implementation and monitoring and updating of the uh the board 5-year strategic
052plan. So, I'm going to step down and switch out her slideshow here. smoothly. >> All this talk about technology and I show up with paper. >> Honestly, I'm a fan of doing that. I've been there where it doesn't work and I need a paper copy. >> I've done it many times. >> That is why we have paper. >> So, you'll just use the arrows there. Oh, sorry. I just wanted to test it out. >> Uh, good evening, Chair Harrison, members of the board, Dr. Horl, and Dr. Dooo. Thank you for the opportunity to share an update on the progress of our five-year strategic plan. Tonight's presentation will highlight how the district and our schools are advancing the objectives that you, the board, set to ensure every student can learn, grow, and lead. And >> can
053I I don't want to get in your flow. Can I say one more thing? Yes, sir. Uh I have asked Miss Wilson that the strategic plan as you guys know because you developed it and it it's dense. There's a lot to it. So I have asked her to give a very broad overview to the board. Obviously you guys can dig into anything that you want to. I will note to the board and to the public this is a living document. So if at some point the board said you know we don't think that's relevant anymore or we have additional things that are relevant that could be placed on an agenda at a future item. But I I did want to just note that I did ask Miss Wilson just to kind of give it a
054high level um overview um of the strategic plan. So, >> okay, >> let you pick it back up. >> Thank you, Dr. Horl. The 202526 priorities were shaped by a thorough review of data and are reflected in annual plans for both the district and our schools. Some build on existing practices while others mark the start of new initiatives. And like Dr. world said I was hoping to high just hit the key highlights um if that's okay with everyone. So we will start with broad goal one enhance academic excellence. Sorry my hands my right hand and my left hand clicking are uh that's a new >> click for you. I can do that if you want. >> Can you click for me Dr. Hor? >> Can you take this? >> Thank you. Thank you. You got
055it. >> Okay. A key focus of objective 1.1 is supporting the implementation of highquality instructional materials. Instructional teams will conduct classroom observations to evaluate the effective use of curriculum and provide actionable feedback to teachers. This strategy was implemented to support math instruction in the 24-25 school year and will be expanded this year to include additional content areas. We will also conduct ongoing curriculum audits using a variety of input, including feedback gathered from parent surveys and our community feedback nights. Our most recent survey indicates that 84% of stakeholders agree the district provides rigorous, well-rounded programs, a slight increase from the previous year. Our goal with objective 1.1 is to continue to build on that stakeholder confidence. Objective 1.2 2 expands access to advanced coursework and CTE programs. As you just heard, we have 174 students taking
056dual enrollment courses. Um, this kind of explains where that opportunity comes from. Uh, this year alone, we have added nine AP courses, five dual enrollment, six honors, three statewide dual credit, and the level four workbased learning course, and five of our six CTE programs. Survey results show that 89% of stakeholders agree teachers are dedicated to student academic growth and development. We believe continued investment in our educators is one way to increase confidence in this area. The instructional coach model, which includes a total of 10 instructional coaches and 10 teacher mentors, provides leadership opportunities for teachers and creates more ways for them to learn from one another. We are also committed to providing professional development at the local, state, and national level. In objective 1.4, our work emphasizes using data to support students learning needs. In
057our most recent survey, 82% of parents agreed students have access to the resources and interventions they need to address their individual learning needs. Nearly a fivepoint increase from the previous year. A couple of ways we are continuing that progress are expanding the data studio and revising our PLC structures. This year's addition of the director of instruction for grades 9 through 12 has significantly increased our ability to support PLC teams in planning for all grade levels. We have already taken steps this year to advance objective 1.5 and build our college and career readiness program. As you know, our health sciences students uh currently enrolled in the workbased learning for uh therapeutic services are preparing for the certified clinical medical assistant industry credential. The director of CT and special programs has also contacted 20 local health rellated
058industries to begin laying the groundwork for partnerships for the health sciences CT pathway and two internships have already been secured for a with a Lakelandbased architecture firm for our students interested in design and engineering. To further promote college and career readiness, we will host a variety of college and career events across grade levels. So, moving into broad goal two, as part of objective 2.1, the district is strengthening student support programs across grade levels. This includes uh we hired an additional high school counselor this year, and we're expanding our focus on positive behaviors. Nearly 86% of stakeholders agreed students have multiple opportunities to engage in positive behaviors. To build on this, the district's behavior transition facilitator is developing district-wide behavioral standards to be included with lesson objectives. Uh these are they're called ROAR standards. The ROAR
059standards will uh let studentu will allow teachers to um to let students know how they want them to demonstrate me. I got to over say it. I got to look at it to say it. Respectful, outstanding, accountable, and responsible behavior in the classroom. Um, so we're really excited about that. The student services department is also creating a behavioral support hub. They'll use one of our internal Google websites to create this to provide teachers and school counselors with resources. To advance objective 2.2 two. By increasing student support and access to mental health resources, LPS is introducing student workshops on emerging needs, including a series on the health risks of vaping and informed decision-making. The director of student services will also develop presentations for students and parents on how to use the Stop it anonymous reporting system
060to promote respectful behavior and a safe inclusive culture. We will gather student input to identify programs similar to the house system at LPS that could be introduced at other grade levels. Um here's some data. Nearly 70% of stakeholders agree that administrators take bullying and harassment seriously and respond effectively. That's an increase of almost 11 points from the previous year. To further improve in this area, the student services department in collaboration with school administrators and counselors will create gradeband appropriate anti-bullying workshops. Here's one we're in the early stages of uh creating a structured mentoring program for the 2526 school year. will begin with establishing a team of staff and community representatives to design the program um just to make sure it's something that's sustainable and uh effective. We are primarily continuing our existing practices to support
061student health and wellness. We did increase daily physical activity for K4 students to 40 minutes and the staff zinden has gone mobile to be available to staff lounges across the district. Right. Broad goal three. Strengthening community engagement and communication. Cleared accessible communication with families remains a district priority. Recent survey data indicates 89% of state stakeholders agreed that the district communicates effectively nearly a fivepoint increase from the previous year. Last year's addition of the district communications manager has improved systemwide managing messaging and building on that progress we will begin to administer stakeholder surveys twice a year and we're going to keep the questions specific to communication in the survey. Recent survey results show strong gains in how stakeholders view district communication and input. Agreement that stakeholders are wellinformed about district decisions increased to 74% up more
062than five points from the previous year. Those who agree that the district actively seeks feedback increased to nearly 72% a gain of over 15 points. An agreement that there is a clear process for addressing conc concerns grew to 70% up more than 14 points. To continue making progress, we are increasing community feedback nights to twice a year uh beginning with the first in October and we will provide stakeholders with summaries following each of the events. To advance objective 3.3, we will build on our existing partnerships and also increase our outreach efforts to form new relationships by inviting colleges, universities, and community partners to participate in school advance school events and advisory opportunities. For objective 3.4, Four, we want to build on the strong volunteerism already happening in our schools by creating a database of opportunities
063that captures the key details needed to connect students with service events. We will also develop a training program to prepare students to serve confidently as representatives of the district and the community. similar to the baseball team. Uh for objective 3.5, the district will review existing student ambassador programs and make updates as needed to ensure those programs continue to grow grow and serve students well. broad goal for stakeholder confidence in our facilities is strong. Um, this I don't know if this can get better, but I wrote in here we're going to try uh with nearly 96% agreeing that our facilities are well-maintained and conducive to learning. An increase of almost seven points over the previous year. To ensure we maintain or even improve this standard, the superintendent and CFO are compiling a facilities list for review
064at the board retreat in November. Stakeholder feedback shows greater agreement that the district makes thoughtful decisions about facility improvements at nearly 76%, an increase of more than six points from the previous year. Over 90% also agree our facilities support a wide range of activities to support the next steps in facilities planning. The superintendent will recommend an ad hoc committee to the board. Stakeholder feedback shows continued support for technology integration with 89% agreeing the district supports innovative teaching methods and classroom technology. To support this objective, our instructional technology facilitators will provide ongoing training and support for teachers. We will also continue the use of the incident IQ ticketing system to expedite technology support to faculty, staff, and students. The platform also provides an additional source of data to inform future technology needs. All right. Broad goal
065five as mentioned just mentioned uh with objective 4.3 89% of stakeholders agree the district supports innovative teaching and technology to build on that we are establishing an innovation team that will guide how we explore and implement future practices and technologies. Objective 5.2 2 is an exciting initiative to give students the chance to design and lead their own products projects, excuse me, with support from the district. While the innovation fund will not be established until the 202627 budget, we will begin designing the program expectations now and once it's underway, we will highlight student accompl accomplishments and showcase student work. The district is committed to creating clear processes and support transitions from elementary to middle to high school with meaningful experiences at each stage. We will collect feedback from students and parents to guide improvements and review
066our structures to make adjustments where needed. All right. So tonight's update on the five-year strategic plan is part of the progress towards objective 5.4. It reflects the work of a team of district leaders, our school principles, um, Dr. Dlo and Dr. HL. Moving forward, these updates will be provided twice a year with the next one coming in the spring. So, this concludes tonight's presentation. Um, I want to thank you specifically for developing a plan that guides our work and creates opportunities for all faculty, staff, and students to learn, grow, and lead. and I'm happy to take any questions. Board >> members, does anyone have any questions? Miss Childs? >> Yes. So, I'd email I guess it's more of a comment. I emailed Dr. Horl earlier today. Um, and I'd like to have it on our
067agenda next month just so we have time that as board members we can give feedback to it if that's um, you know. >> Yeah, I look forward to it. >> Any other comments? One thing that can you um or Dr. Coral, can y'all email us like the percentage trends? I know you I was trying to catch all the trends growth. This one went up, this one went up. Can you email those to us so we can see how which categories grew? I I'd love to see that too. Like >> I can you'd like them align to the strategic >> like this one went up 7% this one to to whichever ones you were talking about. That would be great. Just so I could see that visually. It'd be wonderful. And if I may, Miss Harrison,
068I want to acknowledge Deborah Thomas, who the the the last two times that we've done these surveys, she helps us uh um aggregate the data and put it into themes and uh makes it very easy to compare year after year. So, that was a that was a board approved uh her board appointed position and uh appreciate her taking that work seriously. So, thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Thank you. And thank you for the team's work. I know there's been many community feedbacks. I know there's a lot of work that goes into this on a regular basis. So, thank you for all y'all are doing to bring this forward. It really helps us basically guide the vision of where we're going so that everybody understands and we're on the same path. >> Yep. >> So,
069all right, no more questions. Thank you so much for being here. >> Thank you, Miss Wilson. >> All right, Dr. Horl. Next item. >> Uh, the next item is a discussion on the preliminary legislative agenda. So, we approved our let me see approved resolutions and did we not already approve our >> Let me make if I may I if I can uh I'll just make the distinction here. We're actually way ahead on this. So, this is one just to introduce the concept. There's a couple of deadlines. One is to get and it's September 16th, Miss Childs. Is that right? That's to get our resolutions to TSBA um so they can go through the process of uh either being approved or adopted uh by the the TSBA general assembly uh and then promoted to the the
070legislative assembly. Uh but there's a second thing where we actually update our legislative agenda. I have sent that to you. We're way ahead of schedule on that, but we just like to introduce the concept. There's not unless Miss Child has something specific she'd like to say or have. Uh we just if you if if you would review what I sent you last week and uh give your feedback to me. Um a lot of things carry through there. There unfortunately there are things we're always kind of working on and pushing for u but there may be new things that are uh it's really they're more general than the resolutions which tend to be specific. >> So this will come back on our October agenda for official approval or do we have to take action? >> It's
071really not until what would we decide? It's uh it's on the annual agenda, not till what? February. >> I'm not even sure. But I mean, I think it would probably be good if we did it like maybe by November because we do usually try to have um the legislators visit in December. But yeah, I myself even got confused last week and I was like, "Wait a minute, were we supposed to already do this?" And I was trying to come back to it. And anyway, so um but yes, we are way ahead. Um, and of course some of the things that will um, form this will be the resolutions that we all approved tonight to make sure that those are reflected. Um, but yeah, I don't know. What do you think? >> I think this is
072one of those that snuck up on us one year, so we added it well in advance on the annual agenda. This board's good about their annual agenda and and it helps us keep us all straight. So, uh, I think we could I think November would probably be an appropriate time to finalize it. >> Okay. So, if you could make sure it's it comes back on our November agenda for a formal approval by the board of our legislative agenda. And if there's any items that are missing from your review or that you would like to see specific items, please send and we'll add that to the legislative agenda so that we can approve it officially or reaffirm it or whatever the appropriate term is in in November. >> Right. >> All right. Next item. >> Uh
073next item is discussion on the TSBA annual convention and delegate assembly. So this is this is where we decided we don't have to vote on the delegates this month or we do >> I think >> no we don't have we >> do it next month. That's right. >> Okay. So this will carry over to our next month and everybody has let um >> I think the travel's booked. >> Is travel booked like so we're okay. So everybody's good and you've let them know your travel arrangements and all that. All right. Next item. >> Uh next item. Uh there are no further items. Look at that. >> Are there any announcements? No announcements hearing none. Is there a motion to adjurnn? >> So moved. >> We have a motion. I'll make the second. All in favor
074say I. I. Any opposed? We are ajour.