001Good evening and welcome to the uh Twe County Board of Education general uh meeting tonight. And we want to welcome all of our uh guests in house as well as those who may be with us um online. Uh at this time want to call the board meeting to order. Today is June the 24th, 2025 and the time is 6:07. Come on in. Oh yeah, that's right. See, got tire. Yeah. Okay. At this time, you want to stand for the pledge of allegiance after which we will pause for a moment of silence. 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. Thank you. At this time, can I get a motion? At this time,
002can I get a motion to um adopt the agenda for tonight? So moved. Okay. The motion has been properly made by Miss King and second by Mr. Rouse uh to adopt tonight's agenda. Uh is there any discussion? All in favor raise your hand. Okay. The motion passes uh unanimously. Give me just a minute y'all. Give me just a minute. Bear with me here. Um trying to get this. Anyway, thank you. Okay. You've all had an opportunity to review the the uh minutes from uh June 10th. Uh is there any corrections at this time? If there no corrections, then the minutes stand approved as written. Um Miss Black, she is not here. Miss Miss King, do you have the ethics statement? Okay, she In accordance set forth by the Georgia Ethics Commission, it is the duty
003of every board member to avoid both conflicts of interest and any interest of such conflict. Does any board member have any known conflict of interest? Seeing none, Mr. Mr. Chair, we will proceed. All right. Thank you, Miss King. At this at this time, do any of the board members have any uh remarks or comments. Okay. Uh superintendent. Thank you, Mr. Chair, Mr. Vice Chair Rouse, board members, all of those constituents that are with us uh in person tonight uh and those that are joining us virtually. Uh we have a wonderful opportunity that we want to say thank you uh and congratulations to one of our uh longtime fantastic educators in Twigs County and we're going to have a presentation uh for her on this evening. That presentation will come in the person three persons uh
004Miss Shannon Dosikas then Dr. Griffin Stewart and Miss Jenkins. Good evening, Board Chair Car Starfin, Vice Chair Ralph, Superintendent Dr. Bullard, and to all of the board members and all of you that are with us this evening and those that are online. Um, we'd like to welcome you tonight. We would like to take a few minutes and recognize a special lady that has been with Twigs County Schools for over 30 years. [Applause] Miss Oats, please come on up. Miss Oats has worked with Twigs County as a teacher, as a master teacher. from this ups. I don't know everything, but we are just so thankful for everything that she has done for Twigs County and we are excited for her as uh she gets ready to retire and we do hope that she will um not
005be a stranger and hopefully we will be seeing her soon. Um Dr. Griffin Stewart has a few words she would like to say and then Miss Jenkins will come up and then finally Mr. Bacon will come up and have a few words. We'd like to shower her with some gifts tonight. And with that, Dr. Griffin Stewart, come on up. So, Miss Oaks, I want to say to you, congratulations. You It's welld deserved. You're one of the first teachers I met when I came to Twigs. and walking through your room, I was always just amazed by the teaching and learning that happened and how you had the ability and have the ability to get students to want to learn and love learning. So, I want to thank you for loving students and loving the whole child.
006You help build confidence of our students and you just love them and I always appreciated that. I don't care when I came in your room, you were always teaching that framework. So, I thank you, Miss Oats, for always doing what needs to be done for our Cobras. I want you to know that I love you as an educator. I think that you are absolutely amazing. When you served as a master teacher for a couple of years, our teachers benefited from your expertise. In my book, you are a legend. You are you are a legend educator. You are you are a legend. And as the young people say, you are top tier. I hear the young people say that. So now I'm taking it. So So thank you for always being serious about the teaching and
007learner students. And I'm not saying it, but your data and your evidence over the years have proven that too. So you don't just talk it, you walk it. So thank you. And I know that we'll continue to meet in different capacities because we both love learning and so well deserve. I hope that during your retirement you do something you want to do. Be spontaneous and just enjoy life cuz life is short. So without further ado, we want to call our wonderful principal at the middle high school, Miss Jenkins. Yes, Miss O. It is truly a privilege and I just want to say a couple of things. Indeed, like Miss Aika said, you were one of the first teachers that I met. But most importantly, we talk about we get the credit for being a lifelong
008learner. As I think about the standards that have changed a thousand times over since you've been in this profession, leaders that have been in that building, the quorum that has been in that building, and you have stood the test of time. And so, I just want to say they don't make them like you anymore, but thank you for being a lifelong learner. And I do want you to go and have some fun, but we start school in August. And so don't y I don't want you to get too out of the loop cuz you know we need great leaders like you, great educators like you. And so I just want to say from the Cobra family, you are always welcome home and thank you for the millions of lives that you've touched here in Tweet
009County. Your work is unblenmished. Mr. It uh Miss Oats, the custodians wanted me to definitely tell you thank you for always making sure the kids picked up in your room. But but beha on my behalf and that of the operations team, myself, Mr. Austin, Brick, Michael, and all of us that work in operations, we want to say thank you and congratulations and along with our other two retirees. So we got your basket. [Applause] And Miss Oats, I just want to say a few things. Go ahead. Go ahead. I just want to say a few things. When I first came to Twigs County, the one thing that I noticed about you was that you took time with each one of our new teachers and you made sure they had what they needed to be successful. And
010I've never seen anybody that was that kind and that patient um working with new teachers. And it was it was refreshing to see that because that's what new teachers need. And um I'm just so thankful that I was able to see that and witness that. And I want to tell you this, Dr. Griffin Stewart said it and I recently heard a phrase because my daughter's getting ready to go to school and the phrase they have is where legends are made. And I just want to say Twigs County is where legends are made. Congratulations. And we do have a special gift. Um, I know you said you don't travel a lot, but guess what? This can be used to pack all that school stuff to come right back here in August. [Applause] Uh, Miss So, I
011have one uh suggestion. Change your phone number. Awesome. Congratulations, Miss Oats. Welld deserved. Before we finish, Miss Oats, we yield the floor to you if you would like to say anything. [Applause] I would just like to I would like to say thank you Twigs County Board of Education for giving me the opportunity 30 plus years serving the students of Twigs County. It has been awesome. Thank you so very much. [Applause] Awesome. Board members, my only other comment is just to as Miss Dose is already uh and Miss uh Jenkins already said, school does begin uh in August. Our uh open house is scheduled for Saturday, August the 2nd. So, we want all of our stakeholders to come out u and meet your children's teachers, walk through the classrooms, uh hear information about the curriculum uh
012that they'll be uh taught over the year. So, that's August the 2nd will be open house and then the first day of school is that following Monday, August the 4th, that will be the first day of school uh for all of our students. At this time, uh Mr. board chair. That concludes my superintendent comments. All right. Thank you, Dr. Bullet. At this time, we want to move into our business agenda. And uh Dr. Bullet, you have some district requests. Yes, sir. We do have district requests uh that we are seeking board approval on. Uh also, I'd be remiss not to remind uh the community that the school district will be closed. all schools and the central office in celebration and observance of the July 4th holiday. So Monday the 30th of June through this coming
013that 3rd of July, that Friday, the school district and all schools will be closed. We'll open the following Monday. We do have two field trip requests that we request your approval on on Monday, June the 30th through Wednesday the 2nd of July. The middle high school uh CTAE program will be taking about 15 students to Georgia Tech for a three-day camp. Uh this is rising 9inth through 12th graders and this is for the purpose of college and career exploration in high demand career areas. And also on Thursday the 17th of July, Miss Densen will be taking the FBLA officers to the FBLA slots officers training and that will be in Fort Valley, Georgia. And the purpose of this trip is for the FBLA chapter planning and officer training. We'd like to have your approval for
014those two field trips. Can I get a motion to accept the uh superintendence uh district request? I'll make that motion. Second. Okay. The motion has been properly made by Mr. Rousson, second by Miss Black Shear uh to accept the students uh superintendent district request. Uh is there any discussion? Okay. Then all in favor raise your hand. Okay. The motion passes unanimously. Uh Dr. Griffin Stewart Good afternoon, Chair Carfin, Vice Chair Rouse, board members, Superintendent Dr. M. Bullard, all of our stakeholders listening virtually and in person, I will be sharing some updates on our district attendance protocol. Before I can share that information with you, we are a district with a vision and a mission. Our vision is generating excellence, one team, one goal. And our mission is to inspire, challenge and prepare all students to
015compete globally. Strategic goals for this presentation is learning and wellness for all, excellence ahead, academics, facilities, and opportunities, and doing things the Twix way. Miss Rearen shared this presentation with you during our last board meeting. So, I'll be touching on a lot of things that she said before, but this is the attendance dashboard for the Georgia DOE, and it gives us a overview of our chronically absent students. So, if you look at our number for twigs from the previous year was 33.2%. The next one shows the surrounding districts and how they look in terms of chronically absent students uh as opposed to um our number. So, it's a comparison. But our district and school had goals and attendance has improved this year. At JEES, it was 15.8% of students missing more than 10% of school.
016And then at the middle school, we had 22.3% of our students. And then at the high school, we had 30.7%. Um the district was 21.5 overall of students missing more than 10%. So our improvement was 11.6. 7 percentage points. And so while we celebrate that increase because our schools were um very intentional about attendance, we still had 136 students through K through 12 missing more than 18 days of school. So this has become a focus on attendance at our legislative session. So, Senate Bill 123 is on compulsory attendance. And with that compulsory attendance, it defines chronically absent students as a student missing 10% or more days of school. Require school districts to reinstate school climate committees. Chief superior court judges will lead the committees, which must meet twice yearly. Committees must update the attendance protocol
017for each district by June 1, 2026. Each district must annually submit a report on absenteeism to the legislature and make the report publicly available. School districts with absenteeism rates for more than 10% must also create an attendance review teams to review the cause of high absenteeisms. and schools within the district with absenteeism rates of 15% or more must have their own attendance review team. It also requires districts with high absenteeism to establish attendance review teams that meet monthly and implement intervention plans. Um this plan it prohibits exposion solely due to absenteeism. It requires counties to convene student attendance and school climate committees by November 1, 2025 and at least twice yearly thereafter. Mandates written attendance protocols by June 1, 2026, including procedures to address tardiness and chronic absenteeism. Beginning in 2026, the Georgia Department of
018Education must submit reports on attendance and discipline trends. Additional legislation connected to is House Bill 268 and is if a student misses 30 or more consecutive days and their parents fail to notify the school of their withdrawal or intent to homeschool, the school will report the matter to the student affairs officer of the local RISA and the Department of Family and Children Services. At our last meeting, Mr. Rearen provided two documents board members and it was actually our attendance protocol and then the letter that parents would receive. So, our information includes a district attendance protocol. We're working with the attorney Andrew Davidson of Jones Cork LLC. District teams have been working, school level teams during the leadership retreat, senior cabinet, and the juvenile court judge Penny Snipes. Attendance protocol information item. The protocol aligns with
019board policy JB. It aligns with the Georgia attendance laws, includes clearly defined expectations around excused and unexcused absences, tardies, early dismissals, parent communication, and reporting responsibility. It will be included in the handbook if approved. um will be explained during town hall type meetings, videos posted on our websites and social media, parent meetings through our family engagement facilitator, Miss Samson and parents will definitely have a way to sign this information digitally um through our platforms. This is a action item this evening. Are there any questions? questions. All right, then. Can I get a motion to accept the district attendance attendance protocol? Okay. A motion has been properly made by Miss Black here and second by Mr. Rouse. Um, is there any discussion? Okay. The motion is on the approval of the district attendance protocol. All in
020favor, raise your hand. Okay. The motion passes unanimously. Okay. You you still look already reading and math and imagine learning quote renewal the vision and mission as well as the strategic goals have already been established. Just a quick review about I Ready because this is our fourth year using the I Ready resource. But the purpose of our ready reading and math is to provide personalized instruction for our students, assessing their individual strengths and weaknesses through our first diagnostic test. Teachers are able to tailor online lessons in both reading and math to help students achieve proficiency and it allows teachers to monitor and adapt instruction accordingly for students with curriculum and associates. The first quote that you see is for Jeffersonville Elementary School. This quote includes our consumable books for K through fifth grade for math
021as well as the digital platform. And then we also have the fourth and fifth grade ELA. Those are consumable and digital materials. And our K through third grade only have the digital platform because we use the Wonders core curriculum. Our total would be $22,140.83. The next quote you see is for the Twigs County Middle School. And in the middle school, um they use the digital as well as consumable materials for 6th through 8th grade. So it includes the toolbox. There is professional learning for both schools, but the total for the middle school is $19,18146. The last part is the professional learning that's combined that goes with schools. And so the professional learning that would be provided for teachers during the year is $6,900. So the total cost for JEES, the Tweed County Middle School and
022the professional learning is 48,222 and the funding source is BLOSS. Now um a packet was provided where you will see a detailed breakdown of everything that includes. So I left that packet for you for our ready reading and math as well as the next imagine learning. Imagine learning is our egenuity platform and the per the primary purpose is to provide online and blended learning solutions for K12 education offering courses for credit recovery, supplemental learning and test preparation. We use egeneuity to support our students um to help students that make up failed work and recover credits needed for graduation. Um imagine learning does a lot of things. ingenuity. It provides personalized learning for students, supplemental learning. Teachers can use the resource in the classroom. It offers test preparation. It addresses the diverse needs of students. It
023helps us with academic integrity. It offers a feature that helps with um plagiarism checker and generative AI detector. And so then it's college and career preparations. And so his class is included for CTAE. This year we will continue with our Ingenuity and um the good thing about Ingenuity that they have new software but we're grandfathered in the old software that we've been using. The total for the Ingenuity platform is $28,643.35. This platform is primarily used for sixth through 8th grade students and the funding source is SPLS. And this is an action item this evening. Are there any questions? I have one. Um we've had this these programs for a few years. For we've had the reading for three, the no the the reading for four and the math for three because we picked the math
024of the second year. I'm asking about the professional learning. Um, do we have so much turnover that we have to continue to provide professional learning or is the software having major upgrades that uh yeah the professional learning is to keep us up to date with the changes. So like for example, right now we're moving to new ELA standards. And so with those new ELA standards, they've sent the crosswalks because I asked them to send that so I can know what the correlation is for next year. But they give us updates there. Then they help us with um looking at our data and they and then we they help us with different reports and those kind of things. Well, this year we won't have a lot of new teachers come aboard, but when they do come
025aboard, that's a resource. And so the principles um are free to call the representative as well. So that professional learning really helps us move throughout the year. Are there any other questions? There no other questions. Uh, can I get a motion to accept the uh renewal of the uh Ingenuity and the I Ready uh programs. I move that motion. Second. Okay. The motion has been properly made by Miss Blackshere and second by Miss uh King. Is there any discussion? Okay. The motion is to approve the renewal of the Ingenuity and I Ready uh programs. All in favor raise your hand. Motion passes unanimously. All right. Thank you. Thank you board members. Mr. Boston. Good evening, board chair, vice chair, board members, superintendent Dr. Bullard, constituents in person and virtually. I am presenting information as it
026relates to our fiscal year 2026 tenative budget. It does support our mission, our vision, and also all five strategic plan goals. We've exhausted all of our public hearings as of 5:00 today. We have advertised in the legal organ. It has ran consecutively since June. So we have provided enough notice in the newspaper. It's posted on our website and also on our social media page. So legally we have met all requirements to present a balanced budget in the amount of 10,716,535. At this time um it will be my recommendation to the superintendent to present um the FY26 budget for approval. Okay. Can I get a motion to uh approve the uh FY26 budget? I would like to note uh that the um this year's budget is like 300,000 plus less. than last year's budget. I assume
027those are cuts and so on. Yes. Um continue to look for the cuts. Yes, sir. But don't cut anybody's throat. Um again, uh is there any discussion? There's no discussion. And can I get a motion to accept the uh fiscal year 26 budget? I made the motion. Okay. Second. All right. The motion has been properly made by Mr. Butler and second by Mr. Rouse. Uh again, is there any discussion? Uh the motion is to approve the FY26 budget. All in favor raise your hand. Okay. The motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Mr. Alustin. Yes, sir. You're welcome. And you have Okay. You have a tax and what you call it a tan. Yes, sir. Tan. All right. So, we've established protocol. Um our vision and mission supports the operation for our tan and also it supports
028strategic plan goals one through five. In the past we have offered bids to several banks in order for them to provide um an interest rate or any other fees for our stated amount. the past two years, the banks that we've invited has declined to um offer a bid and so Bank of Dudley has our primary accounts and I would imagine that relationship is beneficial for them and the reason why they continue to offer us a tan each year. So we do not have a board policy that states we need to invite other banks for a tan. Um I do believe in the past we've been very gracious to banks in county and out of county for that opportunity but typically if you do not have uh depository relationships with the bank they tend not to
029lend to you. So this is why bank of has been consistent there. Our cash flow implications t happens between July and October of the new fiscal year. So the TAM will support those particular months uh for payroll and operations. The payback period according to the repayment terms in the loan is December 31st of any calendar year. We have paid the TAN before December 31st of any given year in the past. So we always been on time with our TAN paybacks. The amount that we're seeking for the calendar year 2025 is 875,000 which is 25,000 less than last year. It has a 6% interest rate and there's a $500 admin fee to be fully executed no later than July 31st of 2025. Tonight is for information. We'll bring it back to you all for approval on
030July 8th, 2025. At that time, are there any question comments about the process, the amount, or the cash flow implications? Any questions? Thank you, Mr. Olson. Yes, sir. Mr. Bacon, a lot of questions about handbooks, so hopefully you'll answer some of those. I hope so, too. Thanks for the introduction. Um, tonight I'll presenting um on the 220 202526 student handbook updates. Um, but once again, thank you board chair Chrisen, Vice Chair Ross, board members, Dr. Bullard. But first, I'd like to remind everybody we are district with a vision generating excellence, one team, one goal with the mission to inspire, challenge, and to prepare all of our students to compete globally. Our strategic focus areas this evening is learning and wellness for all excellence as well as excellence ahead academics facilities and opportunity. Why update the
031handbook? One, first we need to align all our handbooks with the 2025 U amendments to Georgia code 20. That's the code in the law that deals with educational institutions like ours. Specifically this year, um you've been hearing about attendance and discipline to ensure uh consistent expectation and consequences districtwide. That's something that we've been working closely with this year on the handbook. We want to increase our transparency for our families and staff of what we're doing, what's in the handbook, and how it applies to them. And we want to leverage technology for real-time communication of those things that we're doing and information going out to parents. uh unified discipline policies and outcome. We've seen an increase over the last uh couple years in and discipline spikes, especially the use of tribunal hearings in the district. So
032we wanted to create a uniform discipline code for the district so that things seem and are fair and everybody understands where the punishments derive from when decisions are made and the authority under which those decisions are made. Um we created in our new discipline format um three discipline levels matched to the three behavior categories for clarity which are level one, level two and level three just like the state categories and you'll see that in the finest um the finished product that we will present to you. progressive discipline, flow, um clarity, age appropriateness for for um to be considered when giving out punishments and also um principles discretion under the law to issue punishments and how does that work and what a uh authority and discretion do they have under the law. In this year's handbook,
033we are working on the to explain the detailed due process. And that due process is that that students know their rights, parents know their rights, and the administrators know their rights. So, we wanted to spell that out clearly in the handbook. Um, and that's something that we're working on. Um, and we'll we'll get that through, especially when it comes to our tribunal hearing process. Where does that come from and what to expect uh in the handbook? So you'll be seeing that uh in the next rendition when we give you um our handbooks, key attendance protocol revisions. Um Miss Rearen and now Dr. Griffin Stewart has been going over the key um Senate Bill how 123 which will affect how we do attendance, the liability of parents, the legality of what may happen to parents if
034their children don't show up. In the past, like she just read, we would just take kids off the record if they were not in school. We would just take them and withdraw them ourselves. But now there's a whole law and they have to be reported to a whole new office, the RISA, the RISA, as well as defects um and other things that we must do. So those things will be clearly spelled out. Early alerts at 3, five, and seven as required in our our new protocol. We'll have tiered interventions before legal referral. Um because since we're dealing with judges and things like that, we have to clarify what it is that we need to do and make sure that those things are done first, that we have clear documentations of the contacts and things that
035we needed to do. Hence why we're trying to do things a little bit more electronic electronically. Infinite campus auto notifications to parents and students. So that's something Mr. Basley uh and the team have been working on to make sure that we upgrade and understand um how our infinite campus our student information system will work to help and solve some of these problems um that we dealing with with chronic absenteemism electronic distribution via infinite campus. The handbook will be embedded in the c um campus uh Infinite Campuses parent and student portal. um we have about 295 students um who do not have a campus families do not have a campus portal. So in the beginning of the summer we got with our CIS coordinators um along with Dr. Griffin Stewart and we started to call and
036contact those folks so that we can get a head start on everybody getting a portal access um before school starts. Of course, during the open house and things like that will be available to help everybody sign up. Digital acknowledgement replaces paper signature. Push notification and updates and reminders of information. Limited printed copies will uh for families without internet access. We know that everybody doesn't have a smartphone. Everybody doesn't have smartphone access. We are planning to do a 100 copies printed for each um of the schools so that they will have printed copies for families who do not have smartphone access or internet access. So we we do have a contingency for that. As you know once again this is um we're putting in our handbook our retention policy. Um Dr. Dr. Griffin Stewart went over
037our retention policy with you, going over our new requirements that we have or the requirements that we have for students being passed on to grades based on their performance on end of grade and end of course test, them being at the developing learner stage um throughout um or their Lexile score meeting the correct reading band. So, we're putting that in the handbook. We clarify that for parents so that they can understand that it's a one-pager. So when you read it, it's so that they understand that these tests are not just something they take. They will have a implications on their passing to the next grade and also if they are invited to a summer opportunity program. So some of you see some of the things that my colleagues have been talking about all year will
038manifest itself into the handbook uh in a digestible form for parents. um our implementation timeline and next steps. Um tonight we have the board review for information items and you got our first draft. Things are you're approving even tonight you're approving the attendance things are changing and you know laws are changing lawyers are looking at things. So we're hopefully um get all that information into the book. On the 26th the admin review handbook changes and all of the the paperwork and all of the different laws that we put into the handbook. On the 30th, we'll have our final handbook revisions. On the 1st, the final handbook will be sent to you um with all these changes and and a small note highlighting where they are. So, you can quickly look at some of these highlights,
039discipline, attendance, retention, and and our um other things that we we've changed in the handbook. On the seventh, finalized copies of the 2526 handbooks for review, and July 8th, board approval of the student handbooks. So that's our our timeline and we want to stick to that so that way we have enough time to make sure we can get it out to parents and and and everybody so everybody has a copy. So at this time we'll have the school level um do you have any questions for me before I I allow the school level um administration to come up? I have one question. Yes, ma'am. Um you said you're going to um provide 100 copies to each school or to as a whole district. 100 copies per school. So it'll be uh 100 for JS and
040100 for the middle high school that they will be able to have on hand for parents who who do not have internet access and and request a copy. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Yes ma'am. Okay. If there's no questions from me, um Mr. Mr. Wilshire from JES will present their changes. All right, good evening. Protocol has already been established. So, I'm going to start out with our strategic goals and it is aligned with learning and wellness for all, which is number one, and number three, doing things the twigs way. In addition to the changes that Mr. Bacon has already discussed, one of the other changes that we would like to make is um to our electronic devices. and that's we're trying to um go ahead and acclimate our families and students with the distraction-free education act
041which will go into effect on July 1st 2026. Some of the things that we already have in place at the school level in the fourth and fifth grade students they are when they come into the in their classroom the teacher has pouches for the students to put those devices and then at the end of the instructional day the students can come back to that teacher to retrieve those devices. One of the things that we want to do is implement some of um the consequences for the students who have who are caught with those devices out those personal devices. The first offense will be the device will be confiscated and it may be picked up by the student at the end of the instructional day. On the second offense, the device will also be confiscated, but
042this time a parent or guardian must pick up that device. And then our third offense, if it happens, we hope not to get to this. Um we haven't really got um after this last year, this past last year, we only had about a handful of student that we had to um have a parent to come pick up those devices. But the third offense will be the device will be confiscated confiscated and the parent must pick it up and we will also assess a $25 fine. Now th that $25 what we will use with those $25 would be of course PBIS incentives, attendance incentives, um academic incentives and any celebrations that we will have at this for our students. And that's all the changes for JES. Thank you. Good evening. And just as Mr. Bacon has
043shared, a lot of these efforts have been collaborative. You understand that and know that we are a district with a vision that we're generating excellence, one team, one goal, and that we have a mission to inspire, challenge, and prepare all students to compete globally. And in many ways, many of those opportunities stop and end at Twigs Middle School. And so we definitely operate with a strategic plan that you all have worked really really hard on focusing on learning and wellness for all excellence ahead focusing on academics, facilities and opportunities. And all of our handbooks have something to do with academics, facilities and opportunities. Again, doing things the Twigs way in a premier first people organization. The handbook changes that we want you to note for Twigs Middle High School is that first to explain and
044understand why we have are making these changes at the high school. We want to ensure fairness and a consistency in the rules and consequences, clarity and expectations for school behavior, attendance, and academic integrity. We want to strengthen school safety and promote a positive learning environment. We want to provide clear guidance about the GPA calculations and graduation requirements. And we want to support the school's mission, values, and commitment to student success. So, one of the first changes you're going to note in our handbook deals directly with cheating and our academic dishonesty. And so, as we contend with the everyday world, and we are appreciative of AI, we do know that it is invading everybody's campus, every college campus, and in every world. And so we just want to make sure that students are aware that we
045call AI, if you just use it as a direct representation of your work, we call that cheating. And so if you are cheating using an AI resource, we included this because we want to be um current with the times that that is included as cheating. I also want to share that our teachers are very well aware of how to introduce safely AI and we're doing that as a campus, but we also have to be proactive and noting that students are very savvy and so the opportunities are there. So that's one of the changes you're going to notice in the handbook. Another change would not be new to us, but just want to be very definitive and clear in our handbook about principles honor role. The main ingredients here is that that 90 percentage that 90
046average for the core classes. That was a number of conversations as we began our years. But just know that it's relying on English, math, science, and so social studies. They must have a cumulative 90 average. For principal principal's honor role, it would be 95 and above. But again, this is 95 average in their core classes. For a honor role, it will be the same collection of English, math, science, and social studies, those core subjects. And it has to be a 90 above, but it must consist of all A's. When you look at AB honor roll that is any combination of AB but again our core math, science, social studies and English and they must have an average of 90 but again here you can have an AB honor roll. We also added because we definitely
047want to prepare our students for various settings a dress code policy and the dress code policy would share that we want our students to dress in business attire. That would be a combination of black and white for all of our ceremonies. Students are required to dress for appropo in our appropriate colors. You know that anytime you go to any type of cere ceremony, there is a dress code that is enforced. And so we want to do that. Our families don't need to shy away from this or be uncomfortable about this. Remember, we have several partnerships that help us make sure that our kids are outfitted. And so when we think about communities and schools, they can help us with this notion. We have many of you that would donate if there was a need. And
048students are more than welcome and they converse when there's a need. And so this has not been a challenge for us. We just want to establish this as a norm because our students will be leaving our campus moving into the big role and sometimes our attire has to showcase what we're representing. We have not discussed the two items that are here. So we're going to move forward here. Continue at the middle school. contending and being prepared for the changes that are coming down the law and being ready. We want to just make sure that our cell phone policy doesn't necessarily mimic the elementary school policy in terms of fee, but we do want them to know that we take it very seriously. And so students at the middle school are not allowed to have cell
049phones in their class. They're not allowed to have cell phones during instruction. They can be awarded cell phone opportunities through our PBI celebration. It may be teacherled celebrations, but we want to continue with the notion as we think about legislation that's changing every day relating to cell phones in schools that at the middle school, we're very definitive that students are not allowed to have wireless devices. This is earbuds, um the eyeglasses that have the recording devices, etc., etc., in our classroom without prior approval. Are there any questions besides this? Let me just add this. Field trip changes. We talked about this a number of times. You all approve a lot of opportunities for us to leave campus and we have to be very mindful that when a student leaves campus to go and participate in
050anything that will be extra outside of our building that they have met the three requirements which means that the students must not have any unexcused absence. Everything has aligned with the state rules that we've been talking about. Can't miss a number of days and then come and show up and go on a field trip. The next thing that student must not be failing any of their core classes. Keep in mind that they are at the end of their journey in many cases and they need to stay in those classroom get those extra opportunities from those teachers and so students are not allowed to go on a field trip if they are failing any of their core academic classes. In addition to that, the students must not be have received a referral. We want you to
051behave at home first and then allow you to be able to venture outside of our campus. And then most importantly, we want to put this responsibility on two parties here. not only just our parents but our students and the sponsoring teacher must help that student be aware that there's a standard before you leave this campus that you can't have any referrals you can't have missed a number of days and that you have you must be in great academic standing and so those are some of the changes that many of you are aware of we just want to make sure that we add it into our handbook we have any questions questions Thank you, Mr. Jenkins. Okay, that uh concludes our um general session business agenda. At this time, we will move into executive session where
052we discuss personal matters or future acquisition of properties or pending or potential litigation in school safety and cyber security. Can I get a motion to move into executive session? Motion to move into executive session. Second. Okay. A motion has been properly made by Mr. Butler and second by Miss Blackshere. Uh, is there any discussion? Okay. The motion is to move into executive session. All in favor raise your hand. Okay. The motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hello. [Music] Down. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music]
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054[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Okay. At this time, uh, entertain a motion to return from executive session. So, move second. Okay. The motion has been properly made by Miss, uh, King and second by Mr. Rouse. Uh, is there any discussion? Okay. All in favor of returning from executive session, raise your hand. Okay, the motion passes unanimously. Okay. Uh, can I get a motion to accept the superintendent's recommendation for a transfer uh 3278? I make that motion. Second. Okay. The motion the motion is been properly made by Mr. Rouse and second by Miss Blackshere to
055uh accept the superintendent's recommendation for transfer 3278. Is there any discussion? Okay. All in favor? Raise your hand. Motion passes unanimously. And now, um, can I get a motion to accept the new hire 5135? I move to accept new hire 515. Second. Okay. The motion has been properly made by Miss King and second by Mr. Rouse that we Is there any discussion? Okay. All in favor uh raise your hand. Okay. The motion passes unanimously. All right. And now, can I get a motion to accept the uh new hire recommendation 5165? I move to accept uh C number 5165. Second motion. Okay. The motion been properly made by Miss King and second by Mr. Rouse. Is there any discussion? Okay. Uh then then all in favor raise your hand. Okay. Motion passes unanimously. And now, can
056I get a recommendation to accept Can I get a a motion to accept the superintendent's recommendation for new hire 5223? Okay. Um, no motion. Okay. Well, this not this recommendation is u is dead. Okay. Is there any other um business discuss? Okay. Now, can I get a motion for uh this meeting to be adjourned? Second. Okay. The motion been made by Miss Blackshere uh for the meeting to be adjourned and second by Mr. Butler. Okay. All in favor raise your hand. This meeting is adjourned. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music]