001and welcome to the May 13th Board of trust 's meeting um at this time I will call the meeting to order it's exciting to have such a great crowd I can't remember the last time we have had this many people present thank you for being here at this time I need an approval of the consent agenda so moved motion made by Mr Guthrie seconded by Miss Bates any discussion okay hearing none we will call for the vote for okay and the motion carries six in favor one absent okay next on our agenda this evening we have our district highlights I suspect many of you may be here for that so good evening board chair Dr rly Dr Robbins and board members at this time I will turn the podium over to the following individuals to
002present the board highlights Brion packet followed by senior master sergeant retired Levi Bennett thank you good evening Madam chair members of the board Dr Robbins they gave me a script no I'm just kidding all right so I I won't be long-winded but the uh the hometown hero is proudly represented by none other than Miss Teresa rewitz she joined team dd2 for the 2324 school year she serves as the middle school science teacher teacher at Rise Academy while establishing a brand new program with a nearly new staff Miss c as she is affectionately called by her students has hit the ground running she's a pilot teacher author speaker volunteer mother and teammate she cares about her students and works closely with them to ensure their success she was nominated and selected out of several hundred candidates
003as this year's Hometown hero to fly with the United States Air Air Force Thunderbirds on behalf of team dd2 and Rise Academy we are proud to recognize Miss Teresa rept as our hometown hero so congratulations and and in addition the Dorchester 2 Educational Foundation with a photograph that Mr Brian Bohanan took we'd like to present this to you missy so [Applause] congratulations I'm retired so congratulations good afternoon everyone uh my name is uh senior master sergeant Levi Bennett and I'm a afjrotc instructor from uh Fort dester high school I'm also accompanied by one of my co-workers uh master Sergeant uh not maer and we are here to uh uh give recognition to our fabulous drill team uh it is an absolute pleasure to be able to announce this outstanding achievement of our Fort Dorchester afjrotc
004Mighty Patriots drill team uh first I'd like to say uh it is an honor and a privilege to actually be associated with this amazing group of cadets that are sitting in here in the crowd these students epitomize the key component of the afj RC model development of students of character they have dedicated their dedication and Superior performance has led them to accomplish a long sort after goal uh the Top Gun state championship on Saturday the 13th of April this amazing group of cadets traveled to Mcintyre Air National Guard base to compete in the Top Gun drill meet where they resoundingly beat 18 of the state's top drill teams after two consecutive years of becoming runner-ups they were tily to accomplish the top in the states the team earned five first place finishes two third place
005finishes culminating in a first place finish overall honorable mention to our armed exhibition team that earned a perfect score on all four judges scorecards which rarely happens at uh one of these kind of competitions uh uh I would ask that we all please uh give a great congratulations to these young kids for a job well done and [Applause] I want to ask that uh these Cadets uh come up when I call your name uh and receive recognition uh Cadet Laura Bond she's also the commander of the drill [Applause] team Cadet Diane Lynn she's the NCO for the drill team Cadet Nicholas La drill who will be the drill Commander for the team next year Cadet Paige Douglas Cadet Brook Moore Cadet Alexander Bach CET jquan Pinky Cadet Sophia [Applause] Crosby Cadette Tyler [Applause] Warren Cadette
006Evan [Applause] pow Cadet zakai Taylor and Cadet Justin [Applause] Garrett congratulations to you all for a job well done [Applause] one e [Applause] congratulations again guys and thanks for being [Applause] here okay next on the agenda this evening we have um public comments on agenda items and we have none so we will move into the board chairs report and at this time the only thing I wanted to mention to the board is that we will be planning a summer board Advance as Dr Robbins likes to call them um last year was very productive and um so if you will please check your calendars and he is also working on putting out some possibilities so we can all coordinate ahead of time to make sure we get something scheduled for that so if you have dates
007that you know you're not available or weeks that you might be out of town you can go ahead and send that to me too okay any questions or comments about that before we move on okay great thank you um so now we will move into our committee reports and first up we have the policy committee Miss Bates oh wait I apologize back up sorry I apologize I'm getting ahead of myself before we do that we have another thing to cele celebrate another instead of the district highlight we're going to be doing a board highlight okay if I could just direct your attention to the screen up here we have a little um thing to show to share with everyone case you can't tell who that is that is our none other than our our Famous
008Board member Mr Justin Farnsworth dancing for an amazing cause M Farnsworth would you like to say a few words as uh as I watch my performance there um I'm in I am in awe of myself we we had no idea you had those kind of moves um I he I don't know if you want to play music or if you want me to talk e either way um so this was this um past Saturday evening um a local nonprofit uh the Arc of Somerville really they Encompass a lot of the state amazing amazing amazing organization um they support caregivers um for folks giving care uh to those with Alzheimers and dementia um every year one of the biggest events in Somerville is is this event so it's Dancing with The Arc stars um and so
009they had asked me to participate as one of their quote unquote celebrity dancers um so again that event happened on Saturday Dr Robbins was there um I know Kenny frell's back there Ralph uh Mr Hayes was there um hopefully they enjoy the performance I I had a blast we I started dancing uh back in January um and and I put it out in a post today I I will tell you guys I do not have a dancer brain um so it took a lot to be able to do some so you can see I mean we got like tricks and acrobatics watch this I could almost kill her right there um um but I don't I jump over um we we just had a blast and so we ended up um we we won so
010uh my dancer Anna who is amazing if you don't know Anna Anna mcwain she works in Dorchester County Economic Development um so that's her day job um as a as a side gig she's a dancer she's a photographer um she came through dd2 she actually graduated Fort Dorchester High School um and has been dancing forever and so the arc had had asked her to be a professional dancer um for the competition so I got to dance with her since January um you can see here so this is actually kind of cool so we're the first dancers in this event um to bring in backup dancers um because we had to we it wasn't just good enough for us to dance we we wanted to win this competition um so my amazing wife Jessica you'll see
011her right there the tall blonde um she leads a group of backup dancers um where's Miss Taylor I saw Tracy uh she was there Miss Taylor was there she got to watch it um so there you go there's there's my um performance I I think it's fair to say you represented as well so thank you for that it is a great [Applause] cause all right well good luck following that Miss Bates with your policy man I feel like I should get up and dance now no um I don't really have anything for today our next meeting is going to be June 10th right yes at 4 or what did we decide time we're going to say tentatively four but it will be posted so stay tuned and that is all all right thank you very
012much um finance committee Mr cth super quickly uh we we met with uh our made our budget presentation to County Council this afternoon I think it went over well we didn't weren't asking for any Mill increase or increase money so it's always good to be able to tell them that we have a balanced budget as well so that was really good news so the budget process moves along okay okay great thank you very much Mr Guthrie and we have one final meeting is that correct in our process next Monday correct May 20th and okay and another Well correct the final yes so two more so one more um input and then the final great so May 20th for the next one thank you very much and next we have our facilities committee Miss fernworth um
013yep thank you madam chair and so the one item we do want to report out uh for the board and anybody else who would like to um come to that meeting this Thursday um 8:30 on Thursday morning I think is that right W yep so 8:30 on Thursday morning um here in the district office the facilities committee um will meet and uh just go over a a very high level um overview of facilities projects and and where we're at with facilities so again Thursday 8:30 thank you so much all right thank you very much Mr Farnsworth and I believe that is it for our committee reports this evening so next superintendent report thank you madam chair members of the board um I am really incredibly excited for the first report tonight I'm going to turn
014it over to Dr Gatson our executive director of special services and Kendra boffman who is this year's chair for our student uh special services parent the aison group which many of you know bore out of some situations last year they've been I'd be very remiss if I didn't say they've been an amazing group of people to work with to try to advance what we're doing uh for our students of need in Dorchester School District too and tonight's presentation is going to be a little bit about that but it's also going to be about some of the other things that are really exciting with these um fine group group of students that we have in our district with our unified track program and many others so with that being said I'll yield to Dr gats and
015let her take it thank you thank you uh good evening board chair Dr Wimberly superintendent Dr Robbins and all members of the board tonight I bring you greetings and good news from the office of special services um I want to thank uh the members of my team the special services leadership team members who are here those are the folks who work behind the scenes to make all things happen special services um but one of the main reasons we're here is we want to acknowledge um those who have helped us with all of our new initiatives for this year one of our initiatives as presented to you earlier in the school year was to create a stronger sense of community for our students and their families by stepping out of the classroom and into the community
016to bridge gaps in communication and to build relationships that would enhance the living and learning experiences for our students so on behalf of Dr Robbins I would like to highlight a few of our successful Partnerships first I want to acknowledge the Somerville May's committee for the employment of individuals with disabilities which was recently featured in the Somerville Journal scene for another successful year of fundraising that yielded $188,000 in scholarships for uh doorchester District 2 um students who learn differently the summer thank you the sumerville mayor's committee was established actually in 1990 under the leadership of Mayor Berlin G Meyers and mayor Touchberry participated in the presentation of the Awards this year and he was caught on record saying this is one of the best days since taking office so the Somerville mayor mayor's committee has
017work continuously for the enhancement and employment opportunities for people with disabilities and students who learn differently this year I'm proud to have served as a co-chair alongside Robin clevinger the chair who is a former Dorchester School District 2 teacher of students with disabilities the Somerville Mays committee delivered 12 Awards this year for current students former students nille Elementary School teacher Gina Leonard and businesses that support the employment of individuals who learn differently in our community and we look forward to the continued support of the community and business partners through our annual golf tournament held in the fall of each year and the awards lunch and held in May and secondly I want to acknowledge the uh second initiative the preschool task force in an effort that was uh initiated by the office of special services
018to enhance services for preschoolers with developmental delays by expanding our Continuum of services beginning with our littlest the preschoolers the preschool task force led by assistant director Michelle Jakes and supported by our principal Representatives our teacher Representatives as well as our child find School psychologists and Specialists has implemented an overwhelmingly successful year of our three 4K inclusion pilot classes that you all approved um and the preschool task force provided a series of trainings and informational sessions with preschool Community Partners who provide child care in our community that include students who learn differently thanks to all of them thanks to you Dr Robbins and his cabinet and all of you members of the board for supporting the approval of the 4K inclusion program this year so you will now hear from representatives of two of our
019new and successful Partnerships um that has really brought us a lot of Joy this year and a lot of support much needed support they are Tyrone dford our athletic director who helped us establish the Special Olympics UniFi track as Dr Robin said and Kendra boffman the chairperson of the special services parent liaison group and she's going to share with you all um shortly after Mr [Applause] drf to all of these people are here for Mr Drake bir actually actually they are here for dd2 yes we are so I'd like to start out Madame chair boy Dr Robins thank you for having us be a part of this this special special board meeting because athletes are far and Far in between each and every student but when you become a student athlete that is really something
020special and I think these kids that we have here right now are truly an example of a student athlete so with that being said we want to recognize our unified track teams from all three high schools Fort Dorchester ashler Ridge and Somerville now we'll start with ashler Ridge um it's coach Adrian Clark [Applause] here so ashler Ridge won first place in the 4X 100 which is um extremely hard to do CU it it takes a a lot of um teamwork a lot of commitment and everybody got to work together to actually come out on top um there was there was seven schools here for the low State and asid took first place so as I call these kids' name up can you please come forward we have John Richardson [Applause] we have Hunter hannaby hanburg
021I'm sorry Benjamin Scott and Grant [Applause] James as you can see they have their first place medals on as well [Applause] all right thank you Ashley [Applause] Ridge and next for Fort door Chester can we get is Lizzie goord she's the head coach for Fort Dorchester High schol School unified track team and for the leadership award we have Eric [Applause] King we have miles Simon Simmons [Applause] Gabriella de [Applause] gregoria thank you for door Chester High School [Applause] and now for sumerville high school give Miss Evan Atkins please come forward as the head [Applause] coach in first place in the shot put we have Mason Elroy [Applause] second place in the shot put we have Davon Gordon [Applause] third place we have a Max [Applause] Burkhart first place in the long jump we have Christopher
022Daniels [Applause] second place in the long jump we have Veron Ross [Applause] third place in the long jump we have Lacy [Applause] Taylor first place in the 100 meter we have D'Angelo gtis [Applause] second place in the 100 meter we have Jamaria [Applause] wearing in third place in the 100 we have nemiah brown [Music] and in case any of you guys did not know this is their first annual unified track state championship um so they had an upper State and a lower State and we were fortunate enough to host the Lower State here at Somerville high school so um without further Ado Somerville High School is the low State 2024 unified track field Champions so I'm not sure if all of the other kids are here or not but some of you had 19 kids
023on the team so these Awards go to all 19 of those kids and congratulations the dd2 and Somerville High School the Lord state champion they're got me to give ad yeah I didn't give none of coaches cuz they were standing up can can we get one photo can we get one photo where all three high schools since this is the very first year of the unified tracking field and we are the low state champions in [Applause] dd2 all coach young lady get in there I gotad cover your face [Applause] I think he was just going to give him the congratulations again to all our track participants and thank you for being [Applause] here ready good what an exciting act to follow Dr gadston I might be crying um so thank you for the intro Dr
024gadston and good evening Madame chair board members and Dr Robbins thank you for having me here tonight to share a report um for our year end of this first year of the sspl group or Special Services parently aison Group um as a brief reminder I've been involved in special services for about nine years now as a parent just this last week we celebrated our year mark of when I came and spoke to the board meeting um for the first time and I can't believe all that's transpired in the last year and all we've been able to accomplish as I reflect it back on the the year of what we've been able to do I'm very grateful that Dr Robbins came up to speak to me after that initial meeting to get the bow rolling I've
025also had the great opportunity to work with the district leadership in various ways as well as make new connections with the families that are in our community we have an incredible group of 15 Liaisons that are special needs parents that I've grown to admire and they've offered so many wonderful ideas suggestions helped address concerns Solutions Etc and we meet about every other month to go over and collaborate things that we can do to help make dd2 special services better um in the beginning our mission statement if you will said this our purpose is to facilitate supportive connections between special services families and Dorchester District 2 in addition the group hopes to offer guidance resources and information for parents as well as assist with any concerns or questions they may have with that in mind I
026hope you'll allow me to share a quick review of the things our group has done this year and what we've been able to accomplish so piggybacking off of what coach drer just shared we assisted in and offered support to the creation of the Unified sports program in our area these events were the most fun things to attend and I invite everyone to come to them this year uh or come this next year and we had a lot of special help from various entities we had buddies that ran with the students we had volunteers that ran concession stands I believe actually one of our sponsors Mr Phil p undergrass if you'll wave stand up um he owns Tiki's ice cream truck and they came to the Lower State Championship and provided all of the athletes with
027a treat after their meet that day so we really appreciate them doing that as well um excuse me um the number two thing we had we helped bridge the gap of communication between parents and the district three we became known across the district as a helpful resource to both schools and families four we helped promote more inclusion and awareness five we volunteered at various school events six we made sure the district was aware of several situations that could pose an issue and help think through options to be proactive instead of reactive seven we partnership or we partnered with the special Serv Services Department to offer education sessions to parents on various topics throughout the district um to include also Community vendors that would come and attend those which are great resources for our families eight
028we help parents know where to go for help and guidance when a challenge would arise nine we developed a social media presence to share both Community Information as well as promote District Communications and 10 and the final one that I would like to say is we um and I also have a brief presentation after this we created and implemented the first ever sped staff appreciation day which included raising over $10,000 worth of donations from our local businesses so special thank you to them as well as we were able to raffle off prizes for teachers and gave every sped staff member including bus driver and everyone that we could think of um a special gift on that day and kind of going with that the presentation that I mentioned earlier to thank those donations or sponsors
029throughout the community we created a artwork contest if you will um to make thank you cards to give them and this student that won the artwork contest to be on the front of our cards is here tonight and we have a special gift for her her name is Madison Edgar and she is a student at Somerville high school and her piece was chosen because our theme this year was heart of the matter so if I could have Dr Dr Robbins Dr Wimberly Dr gadston lots of doctors here Miss Gina brigh um come up we will present her with this thank you gift [Applause] and thank you everyone for that and I wanted to just quickly close by saying we have lots more plans and ideas to bring to the table able in in the future
030um to continue improving the connection that we've built between our special needs families and the dd2 school district I'm very excited to see what next year brings and the new things that we can do to help the improve the community as a whole and bring awareness and continue to grow those relationships lastly I felt the utmost support and accessibility to Dr Robbins and Dr gadston and several others in the district and wanted to thank them for everything they've helped with as well as all of the board's support thank you for your time [Applause] tonight give me a second thank you so much you guys have been amazing I know Dr Gatson feels that way um we won't be without our challenges but it's all about progress and we're stronger together and you're a big part
031of that so I look forward to next year as well I just wanted to say thank you to I I follow you on social media so I get to keep up with all this stuff and I feel part of the community too and um I know that you know I got to come out to the Fort Dorchester unified track meet and I think I was like boohoo and celebrating and it was just such a wonderful wonderful time and I look forward to seeing what you continue to do and I appreciate you bridging that Gap with us and continuing to have that open communication because it's been really really awesome just as a board member to be more accessible and to you and back and forth so I really do appreciate you yeah I agree I
032just want to say I feel like one of the things that I've really seen since I've I've been on the board is that there's so much value in Partnerships and and we've all been a part of some really good ones but I am telling you this is one of the best that that we've had yet it's an invaluable partnership and we appreciate all you've done and your entire group and just your collaboration you know your willing willness to work with us and I think I've seen it firsthand so many times what you know when you get parents families community members involved it just it makes all the difference you know I guess we really can't do it without you but even the bigger part is that we don't want to we want to do it
033with you so thank you again we really appreciate it and I just want to am I on okay I just want to say from the day you step to that Podium and you started talking my heart was so full because that is one of the things that I envisioned happening we don't have all the answers but you as a parent and your group got together you saw an issue that could work and you continued to work with it you involved you know Dr robins and um Dr Gadson and everyone and every time I see a post I just there's a big smile on my face because I said it's working and I know if we get all of our parents to just look at it as a partnership as Dr rimbley has said it's not
034you against us and we're against you the children benefit and I can see that so I just say kudo to each and every one of you and hey don't you think about going anywhere else because I mean you're on to something and I want others around the state to understand what has happened in dd2 so congratulation thank you Kudos okay so moving on um in the academic report I've got really three things uh for the board tonight um one will be an action item the first one is just a little update we've been talking about elementary recess and there's two really main reasons that we're working on the elementary recess piece one is is research based that at the elementary level resar recess is really important for students it helps with behaviors it helps them
035focus in the classroom and so we can sometimes as I look at my elementary Educators get really tied to instructional minutes um but it's important to understand that the non-instructional minutes sometimes can make us more productive with the instructional minutes we have now I am biased I have a a health um background and that has been you know my research throughout the course of the years but we're working on that to see if we can't uh come up with a good solution one of the things we found we could do uh automatically was to get at least 10 minutes back um through the modification of going back to our original U bus schedule times that we modified a couple years ago and we feel conf confident that we're um able to you know gain that
03610 minutes back to put in towards recess to get us those two minutes blocks of instruction now what I've given you tonight is very generic very generic U because within that you'll have your Fine Arts rotations um and you'll have several things going on in an elementary school when you're looking at um kindergarten through fifth grade and how that that will work and function what I really wanted to show you is the 10 extra minutes that we're getting back by increasing that at the end of the school day and then I've tasked the academic team with putting together um the foundation within that and what that looks like with our rotational schedules and our pullouts it's not easy it's a little challenging um when you consider it's U six grade levels within that building and
037trying to um ensure they have their Fine Arts rotations but it's doable um I've seen it done in other districts and and it's important for our young ones to have that recess time moving forward happy to answer anybody's questions I did and and 100% I I agree with you I think the recess time um for sure that that non-instructional time is is extremely important especially with uh the development of the the child's brain during that time period the couple things the the one that I the one thing I see up there that I notic The Lunch Period of 45 minutes at the elementary level um I I would and and really it leads into the second thing maybe however we take this this to the end users to the field users I.E the teachers that
038and really the the dutyfree staff because they're getting the unencumbered lunch now however we get their thoughts behind it I would really want to see what their thoughts are because and having been in a lot of elementary school lunchrooms um they're they're done in like 10 minutes well let me be let me kind of clarify that that 45 minutes is a placeholder that's not 45 minutes for like a first grade class that's 45 minutes for the block of time so you'll rotate those kids through for example K1 2 3 4 five um and it'll go through in rotations but we set apart 45 minutes to do that and again this is a rough draft of what this looks like that's not 45 minutes for like little Shane to be in the cafeteria okay so that
039that clarifies that perfect um you know again I don't know if what's the name of that the thought exchange right I don't know if something like this to me I think it would be valuable to send out to our elementary folks um to really again because that's going to give us all the feedback they're the ones that use this programming day in and day out they know it um we know it but they really know it and so it might just be a good opportunity for us to get their feedback yeah yeah and I think it's also an opportunity for them to understand there's different ways to skin a cat you know so we can look at um being broad at our look if we've not done it um then we're going to have to
040be creative it's not necessarily what we know but what are the pitfalls absolutely 100% but this is just kind of an update of where we are I mean it's only May and so we've got you know several months to get ready for you know next school year to get this in place but yeah 100% And Dr Robinson um as I understand it's not putting an extra burden on the teachers the classroom teachers from all discussion that that is correct and so it'd be uh kind of a rotational work schedule right um where you may have recess Duty for a week um but you may only have it you know twice a year it's however that building particular building can operate okay but it's really kind of designed to give teachers a little more dutyfree time
041on top of what they already have at the same time provide students with that much needed ability to burn energy so that they can focus when they are inside the classroom so will the um at each in each school will the building like principal and min rators will they have a little bit of autonomy to tweak the schedule I mean obviously I know we want all the schools to have the two recess periods which I think is fantastic but they'll have some autonomy based on their numbers and and that size and that sort of thing yeah yeah so what we do at Somerville Elementary School may be a little different than at Beach Hill and sandill just because of the size of the the building and and yeah yeah I know sometimes that scheduling can
042be and there they know their population and their you know how what works best so I think yeah I think well you know I'm a huge proponent of this I'm super excited to see this I think with what we're dealing with in the classroom behaviorally mental healthwise social emotional wise student Focus lack of ability for students to get outside after school due to technology or unsafe neighborhoods this is absolutely huge science supports it and I just want to like clarify and draw attention to the fact that this is only going to change five minutes five minutes because if we're going back to the old schedule that's 10 minutes we already have 25 minutes so that's 35 minutes it's finding five minutes I think we can find five minutes in our day to make sure our
043kids social emotional physical mental health is taken care of yeah more to follow on that I'll follow up with the board I just want to give you an update let you know where starting those conversations excellent thank you uh the next thing I have tonight is uh and I'm going to ask um Christy seander to come up it's the local board approved courses it's an annual submission that was in your board packet that we present every year um to you and let her walk you through that and answer any questions and this is an action item Madam chair good evening uh board chair Dr Wimberly Dr Dr Robbins and board members I would like to present for you a list of the local board approved courses to for Renewal this year there is one course
044that I would just like to highlight that we have had it on our rosters for a long time but it's been a few years since we've used it and that will be African-American studies one CP at this time we don't anticipate a need for a level two although that is one that is available in our um in our history and then the other courses that you see on the list are various um elective courses for middle school and for high school and I'd like to offer um answers to any questions you might have okay board members do you have any questions okay um do I have a motion make a motion to accept the uh local board approved forces as presented motion made by Mr fernworth seconded by Miss Powell okay again any questions or
045discussion at this time okay hearing none I will call for the vote the the entire list sorry there's a little bit of a delay with the system thank you for your patience okay and the motion carries six in favor and one absent thank you thank you thank you Miss neander uh the next item I have for the board tonight is uh our academic presentation we're presenting on Ed mum and as the academic team U makes its way up or maybe they're sending Mr dhy up here by himself okay you got this Mr dhy I see everybody else sitting over there but I do want to say they worked on this together as a team to provide you all with some very good data uh one of the things I will bring to your attention is
046we've been using uh tools part of these tools bits and pieces uh for several years and when I came to the district one of the things in South Carolina that was really important was during covid we realized we had to have a unified Vision on how we address not only credit recovery but our Virtual Academy students and and some of those other needs that we had so we went to a unified vision for a couple reasons one they're going and and Mr Dory will share with you it allows us to have data that's very usable um from across all components of our district the second thing is it is financially more effective for us to use a tool like this because we can um train effectively our staff use it in all of our buildings
047and again I shared with our staff my very first um convocation back in 2022 when I said to them it's it's not the tool rather it's how well you're trained to use the tool so this allows us to focus the training reduce the cost because it's not the software that's going to make us or allow us to continue to be world class it's our teachers and so we're trying to minimize the distractions they have and allow them to fine-tune their skills so with that being said I'll turn it over to Mr dhy Madam chair Dr Wimberly Dr Robbins and members of the board it's going to be very hard to to upstage the uh special services I don't know why he did it this tonight for this meeting Dr Robbins but we will go ahead
048so uh that was a great uh presentation by Wanda and Tyrone so anyway with Ed menam a little bit on this uh kind of a little bit of timeline of Ed menam how it's been used in the district um the district has used Study Island exact path and courseware gives you kind of the dates um you can see 20 8 to 24 for Study Island exact path is 2018 to 2024 uh courseware 2022 to 23 and then Apex um we were talking about that uh with our admin team was what used to be called novanet and novanet was bought by Apex and so we think that was back probably even around 2000 so uh we' used this quite a bit and so what does it do what's that edham site doorchester District 2 look like
049um who's it used for um you can see exact path used for first through 10th graders course Weare is 9th through 12th study island is used for 3rd through 12th now you will see Study Island exact path you will see some kindergarteners first and second I'll show you some usage reports later on and then you have the Ed options Academy use from sixth grade to 12th grade so what is edmentum and these are the two big programs that we are using using a lot exact path in Study Island it's a k through 12 um and you can see here it meets students where they are um they can show growth it's student driven and if you can see there um and I'll go into some more detail about study island and exact path but again
050it allows our teachers not to test again it can take their data from NWA and that will their RIT score and then will'll provide a um personalized learning plan for each student and we'll assess them and give small assessments to see how they're doing on their skills and so this is these two programs do help impact and help our teachers again as Dr Robin said it's a tool um and it's something to help our teachers to differentiate in the classroom and we'll go into more detail here so what is exact path it's linked to NWA with the student RIT score it helps students with personalized learning plans teachers with differentiation skill based to help students grow academically it supports the student and the teacher it supports our ninth and 10th grade intervention classes at the
051high school it only supports English and math and we use it for our summer reading camps and grades three through eight are tested on SC ready and it's aligned to the SC ready assessment so it's using helping students um grow their skills and when they're going to be assessed on SE ready this year's first time SC ready will assess growth and achievement so this is big for all of our schools because when you're looking at a student that is going to hit that achievement bar those students are always going to hit that achievement bar but they have to shore growth so if you're somebody that's a high uh high flying student this will also help with enrichment and help those students with their skills as well I'm sorry can I ask a question before you
052move on so I know grades three through eight they use SC ready for testing so so what does that have to do with the exact path it the correlation there okay so exact path basically when you're looking at this exact path will go into NWA all of our all of our teachers use NWA and that RIT score so I have a 214 RIT it'll go into NWA it will then personalize a learning plan for the skills that I'm deficient in and also my strengths so then NWA is correlated with SC ready as well so if that helps so like it'll be based on the test scores from last year looks at each individual students uses those to tell the teacher what the student needs to work on that is correct what they're deficient on yes
053and that takes a lot of the guess work on what teachers have to do and prepare lessons and here you can kind of see some of our usage report for exact path you can see the skills assessed and skills mastered throughout the district um you can see we are using it in kindergarten first and second grade you can see the usage um you can see there that the gray is skills assessed the green is the skills mastered that is on the right hand side and on the leand side you can see that language arts mathematics and reading with exact path but this gives you an idea of how much usage you're seeing across the district so study islands so study islands a little bit different offers Ong grade level questions are aligned to SC ready
054as well in grades through 3 through eight it supports two additional core classes um science and social studies so it supports the four core areas language arts math science and social studies it gives them targeted practice the teacher assigns it um and it does some spiry review for independent practice and so here is our usage report yep oh okay well this kind of goes with the usage report you may you might be about to answer it but so are they required to do a certain amount of time on it Study Island no no no somebody will some teachers will actually have some trophy challenges with with the program but the district doesn't require it for the okay no if they are going to use the only thing the district has asked our teachers to do
055is use this program rather than purchase another program so we're using Fidelity and we're talking about looking at scores we're comparing Apples to Apples here when we're looking at programs sorry thank you are these taken on the computer just like maps and the rest of them yes and they see their scores immediately yes okay so you can see the usage report for Study Island you can see we don't use it much in K through one um but you can see in 2 third fourth fifth 6th sth and eth we're using quite a bit of that um but again it supports all four core areas and those teachers that teach the four cores science math social studies and English so courseware in Flex assignments uh provides online curriculum for our middle school high school and the
056Rise Academy includes core and elective courses it gives us a little bit more variety and so we can offer classes that we may not have an active teacher in it's used for recovery options unit quarter Credit Recovery along with initial credit so this is big when you're looking at uh seat time requirements and those things when students need more options um and they can make up this is where they can actually get it here and courseware so benefits we also have Homebound and Homebase instruction these are all accredited courses so again um this does support the the standards supports a blended learning approach it's an online resource with a teacher and there's targeted remediation intervention enrichment so so this allows so when they do the recovery credit recovery and things like that it's actually relevant
057to what the student it targets what the student actually needs that extra support in right by using this that is correct it's standards based it's tied to that curriculum yes and then far as evening school so when you're looking at evening school um from Apex courses this is what's really helping our graduation rate when you look at this your High School Credit Recovery initial credit course is completed this year evening School 76 credits earned by students at Ashley Ridge Fort Dorchester High School 123 credits Su rville High School 155 for a total of 354 total credits and that's helping students you know get over the over the line for graduation so this is huge for 2024 2025 and we're not done yet and you'll see a lot of these students will go to summer school
058as well and they'll still use they'll use this Apex software as well and that's all I have at this point any other questions well I taught um using study island and I'm sure it's been upgraded several times since then but I truly did enjoy using the program well thank you thank you Mr dhy and to the academic team I appreciate all your efforts and hard work that you put into that um Madam chair next thing I have is just real quick referendum update um tomorrow is election day so um polls are open 7 to 7 and I'm very happy and proud of all the work that's taking place just to at least demonstrate why it's so important I even had you those of you were at the County council meeting heard me um I had
059a chance to even share a little bit with them on you know why this is um so important for us and so we um we probably presented to 50 different groups um and really close to a thousand people um on the importance of it so anyhow tomorrow's election day um I would just like to thank you for the time and effort you have put into those presentations because I know that it's been a lot of work and I've heard your presentation several times it's it it's very good information um and I think that it's very impactful so thank you for taking the time to make sure that um our community is educated we appreciate that I've got a question um so because we the voting took place in one location but now we're going to
060have at least 30 locations available are we allowed to no can't say that okay all right thank you that's why I asked thank you so and I apologize but but just to tag on a little bit um and I also want to commend Dr Robbins um miss m you will not see Miss Pet out front um shouting from the rooftops uh she does an amazing amazing job um a lot of times behind the scenes and and we don't give her due credit um so whatever happens tomorrow I just want to say thank you guys um it it is a heavy heavy heavy lift for the board uh to ask this of the district and and just from an education perspective to ask the district to get the education out on this referendum um is is
061a heavy lift and so I just want you guys to know that we are very very very appreciative no matter the outcome tomorrow um and yeah to miss um Pal's Point um all the precincts so for folks listening tonight um you will vote at your normal voting Precinct tomor for the election tomorrow to S get out get out get educated and uh go vote thank you all right well thank you everybody so the next item I have on my agenda is just a really um kind of a quick update uh for you all just to let you know that um we have had two meetings of our recruiting and retention task force uh have Miss pal here she can Echo any thoughts and sentiments but it's been the first two meetings were designed to be
062about 30 to 45 minutes and they went an hour and a half each time uh I shared with you all um kind of our work in progress slide deck of our strategies um and just all the brainstorming that's taking place and so you know we really came up with nine components we were focus on and that was our recruitment strategies making sure we have comp competitive salaries and benefits our PD opportunities supporting a work environment with strong School leadership work life balance career advancement opportunities mentorship recognition and then just increased avenues for feedback you know some of these things are ongoing um we agreed when we first met that it wouldn't be a oneandone thing it would be a group that would continue to focus and meet uh as we try to bring these recommendations
063to the board for implementation some of them the St uh the competitive salaries and benefits obviously we're working on and working really uh hard on those for this budget cycle uh when you look at the supportive work environment one of the things we talked about was um giving back the gift of time and so any opportunity we can to have that dutyfree opportunity for teams to meet and work um looking at you know modifying and doing some things different with our plc's right now we can do that with our middle and our high schools but our elementary schools really struggle with finding that time so how can we look at you know some type of PLC within the schedule U maybe we've discussed an early release not a half day but an early release so
064that our teachers at the elementary level can work in their plc's and then eliminate or minimize the number of after school meetings and responsibilities they have and so culture and climate is really important it's something I think we do really well um but we agreed that we need to find other avenues and opportunities so miss pal would you like to add anything just would say that we have a very excited group that's working with us and um they come ready to throw any and everything out there so we can see what's going to work and um one of the things as I've always said whenever I did my listening sessions around the district a lot of times the teachers that have gone elsewhere will say they just love the fact that in dd2 you felt
065like the people were concerned about you personally and they appreciated um the fact that we were that welcoming and we are doing what we're doing now with the task force we're trying to find out how to make life better for our Educators instead of just continuously piling on more things for them to do so um I believe we are really on the way to getting some things done that the teachers will appreciate all of our educators will appreciate y um I had a question so one of the things that you and I talked about when we did our um teacher appreciation video was feedback from the teachers so I know that's something that you're planning I don't know we're going to use the thought exchange or okay do we have a timeline for that do
066you think that we'd be able to get it done this school year I do because yeah once people go into summer break it's hard then to get them to participate and to Mr F's worst point you know when we do something uh to Garner feedback back what may seem like I I call them the good idea fairies what may seem like a good idea may in actuality not be and so that will be one Avenue for us to Garner feedback as we're looking at ways to give the gift a time and and look at what we can do for what I call working conditions and so that's outside of you know um salaries and benefits what can we do with working conditions to improve the thought exchange is something that I think this group will
067be able to levitate to and use quite a bit and so we have a meeting in two weeks I believe we have our third meeting in two weeks and so we'll we'll address that and you know the County Council brought up an idea for us to throw on the agenda as well this next meeting and and consider ways to save money as a possibility so yeah absolutely and answer your question long story short yes okay yeah no that's great I look forward to hearing that so will we have like actionable items going into next school year year in the next meeting or two like some specifics of what we're looking to accomplish and that we can put into effect for next school year yeah I think so it won't be in the next meeting or
068maybe not even the next two meetings because most of what we'll look at is working conditions um and so once we do some type of thought exchange then working through those things that's probably going to be something that we look at at our board Advance you know so we can look through those because because the the monetary piece to this is being addressed in this current budget so we can kind of strike that it'll be more of the operational things we can look at is the thought exchange going to be more specific stuff or is it going to be kind of like a general like what would improve culture and climate and then let everybody go from there or are you going to look for like hey what are things teachers would like to see
069taken off their plate to improve working conditions and then let people kind of thought exchange that idea and then thought exchange maybe a different idea um like how do you envision doing it just out of curiosity can I just say Yes it doesn't answer my question no um I we'll use the task force to kind of figure that out the one thing I will tell you that the thought exchange will do for us and I don't know if Miss Troy is um here or she's our yeah so we've worked with the thought exchange before and they will listen to what you're trying trying to accomplish and then they will create the um the two or three comments to get the thought exchange started based on that so probably what we'll do is try to refine
070this in the next meeting and then call them and set up a establish a meeting on how that thought exchange would look and feel and then try to get it out definitely before teachers and and employees head home for summer vacation could you send the board a approximate timeline be to maybe get some actionable steps that we're going to take like by this board meeting you're going to have some actionable items to bring to us for next year I really think that's probably a board Advance conversation to have timelines on based on what the thought exchange generates um and then what is reasonable and feasible for us to do um because I want you all obviously in the conversation of you know I could come I could come to the board with four or five
071different ideas and timelines but really that's not the best approach we need to share with you the results of the thought exchange you know the work that the task force is doing and then say all right what are your two or three priorities based off of this once we say you know once you identify that then what we'll do is operationalize it and backwards play with a timeline so we can we can expect that at the board Advance like specifics of things and then we're going to kind of decide what then the board can decide you know what's priority for you yes ma'am thank you you don't want to just come up with a lot of ideas and then they don't work and you know even when you bring it to the board we see
072some fallible issues going on with that so we want to make sure we have whatever it is that we put together and then bring it to you all uh bring it to us so that we can talk about it before we present it publicly yeah definitely I just want to make sure that going into next year we have Act actual tangible actionable items that are going to improve culture and climate in our schools whether that's one will be everything but it will be a something we've started yes a step in the right direction of actual action taken yes and I think to miss Powell's point the the what we have to be careful of is that we understand this is a continual process it's not something where we're just going to say hey we have
073one or two great ideas we're going to implement them and now we're done ET this this is a a continual process for our school district as the world changes as Society changes as our Educators change um that we will continue to bring good ideas and and bring those forth and again we we put a lot of autonomy in Dr robins's hands um because a lot of this stuff I to be honest I I don't know that he needs the board it's it's stuff if it's a good idea and it works for teachers and Educators and he's vetted it with them make it so sir yes and I absolutely support it being an ongoing thing I just think it's important going into next year there's something we're telling our teachers like hey XYZ will be different
074and I think that we need to continually evaluate that never said that we shouldn't I understood exactly what you were saying that's a good idea we don't want to but we do need to have something and we will I I think it's great that this board is so passionate about it because I I feel the same way I mean we all obviously see the value in keeping our teachers our Educators and um it's important and I appreciate how much everyone cares another thing that I've seen just from my perspective on this a little bit and I know Dr Robbins has as well I'm sure others of you is that um we are getting a lot of community support you know we're having some really good conversations with people out in the community in our our
075chamber and other um leaders and and I think that we're raising awareness that this is a problem you know that um supporting our Educators and giving them um you know the respect that they deserve is something that um should have already been happening but you know we're we're making strides and I feel good about that and I feel good that we're you know we're we're taking steps and I get what Miss Bates is saying it can't happen fast enough I'm with you trust me and I agree with Mr um forworth too that we're not going to stop this is going to be ongoing this we are not going to stop we will continue we're going to continue to look for ways to make this you know the best District to work in and for teachers
076to want to come here and to want to stay so thank you for for everything that you're all doing I really appreciate it very much so thank you thank you madam chair um next that I have is our finance report which really the finance report is the budget buet and we've kind of shared with you where we are in the budget we have the uh May 12th public input meeting and then the budget will it's or May 20th did I say 12th 20th it's been a long day uh May 20th and then we'll have the recommendation in June so feel very good again um thanks to U Miss man and the finance department we have worked um very tirelessly together on trying to present you with a budget that going to this going to be
077historic raises in this district for um our staff and um we feel like we've U tried to minimize expenses and put money where um it belongs and that's with our people so one of the things that I shared at the County council meeting for those of you were there was 88% of our budget is in SES and benefits it's in people and that's gone up and that's because we're making such a big investment uh again this year um even more so than last year so again that's where we are financially um and again if you have any questions on the budget I know you've seen it several several times it's a balanced budget uh and we feel good with what we're recommending moving forward I'm an Tina's here we can both either one of us
078can answer questions okay um I will turn it over to then Mr souls for our facilities update and I know he's ready for tomorrow too the excitement is in the air yeah good evening Madam chair members of the board Dr Robbins before I get started I want to ask Mr farnworth was that the uniform you wore on active duty no sir but funny story um super quick the the I did three costume changes that night the First costume was actually my original uh Navy dungies my boot issue my boot camp issue dunger that somehow I still fit into my hats my hats off to your seamstress getting into the facility is part of the game uh so lot of lot of moving moving Parts this time uh we got a lot of moving on just
079about every project going on uh the HB upgrades at span they're about to wrap up the lighting part at Knightsville they've already they're about 95% at span they've already got all the HVAC equipment purchased they're just waiting for the students to leave the building and when Elvis leaves the building they're going to come in and knock out all the HVAC units clean all the duct work and get everything back in service in a very short summer uh the roofing Replacements uh we' already had the ifb out to advertise we've got the bid opening is this week so we'll know more about that for the 100700 building at Greg and the kindergarten Wing at span uh the media center to Kate conversion over at Fort norchester high school a lot of moving Parts in within that
080one project and the first part the first step of that is moving the existing media center from the high school to the county library facility that we have right next door that's going to take place at the end of the month and then we will be able to begin construction within the new or the the office area the reception area of Fort norchester high school that's our priority to get done we know we had a little glitch in theou so that extended things so they should be through with the uh Media Center portion of that converting it to the Kate portion where they're going to have the the Esports and all that other things that we're want in there that should be completed sometime around September October so that's that's what we're looking at there
081uh the track replacement we had the we had the pre-bid meeting on on May 1 for that uh had a good turnout of folks to come out we had to pause that because all the folks all the vendors they wanted uh to to be able to be able to meet our requirements for a warranty they wanted soil borings and a geot technical survey for that track and quite honestly it's probably a good idea so we can get a good warranty and then when we get that I've already got that scheduled and uh so we should have those answers back those uh bids back on that track sometime early June can I ask you a question about just so is that because of what happened with the other track yes ma'am so is it just because
082of the the the quality of the do we know like you explain why so so we don't know we have no idea what is beneath the track surface right now okay uh so if we go in there and we say Hey you know put us another surface on this track they're going to give us the same warranty we had on the last iteration which is we will warrant they'll give us a warranty on the top part which they put down they will not put a substantial warranty on anything thing if they don't know what's below it which is the asphalt below there two layers of asphalt below it and the subgrade below that which if I was building you a track I would want to do it from the ground up myself because I can't
083give you a 10-year warranty on something that I have absolutely no idea what's beneath it and that's why we're going through the extra steps to get it done because and and neighboring districts they've had the same track files for the same reasons I I did had a have a question I was going to wait till the end but um what what does this do for the timeline and for next track season for Fort Dorchester High School so we should be they we talking about October November completion so they won't have it again for next season will that yeah I guess yeah okay yeah they start tracking like January so January you're right yeah when they finish up this fall it'll be a done deal everybody we will have a and there's two different surfaces latex
084surface which is out there and that's a five-year warranty but if we go with a poly surface we get a 10-year warranty so we've asked for pricing on both services so we know exactly what we're going to have when we get done at the end of the day perfect no I I appreciate you doing the extra due diligence that should be done in order to ensure that it's done right thank you absolutely uh as Mr frell told you last month uh the vendor notified us several weeks ago that the there's been a delay on the mobiles for Sand Hill um we're very hopeful that we will have those in service for the beginning of the fall semester uh the wing addition at Sand Hill we actually I actually had a uh teams meeting with the
085uh design team and OSF last week which is very very good uh we got through a lot of things we're already going to the design process where it's already designed but we have to make some rearranging because of the orientation of the wing and how it will fit onto Sand Hill so there's a few few minor things we have to do before we get a final design for that uh the Community Learning Center renovation adult head renovation is going well they're uh hopefully they were they're done with demolition they were done with the walls they have had a third party out there today to inspect the uh inground plumbing and in the wall Plumbing all the rough end stuff so we're knock going with a c we're we're several days ahead of schedule now and
086hopefully we'll gain another day next week and hopefully we'll gain a few days along so we can get this thing knocked out early to mid July instead of middle to the latter part of July the bus maintenance facility at Oakbrook uh we're uh on the cusp of having those design documents submitted to OSF for review and uh hopefully we'll have that done before the end of the month and have something ready for bid by the 1 of uh July June uh the Oakbrook middle school edition uh those designed documents were uploaded to the OSF portal today so I expect a a review with OSF sometime in the near future probably the next 5 to days uh the elementary Edition is about about two weeks behind that we we finished up the uh feasibility Study last
087week we've got uh nine classroom Edition uh for for kindergarten and prek in that building and and uh we're working very closely with Miss botin out there to make sure that we're meeting the needs of Oak Brook Elementary uh Greenway Boulevard sidewalk uh we had to do a complete survey of Greenway Boulevard they finished up the survey last week um hopefully we'll be issuing those final documents sometime this week or next week so we can go out and then start getting the permit process and and we can have some concrete on the ground before the beginning of the school year and that is a wrap questions Madam chair I do have a question not about this um have you gotten any requests concerning deos and where the roof basic there was an issue with the
088roof and um over where the band room is in that area not aware of any okay well I I'll I'll just have to talk to you afterwards um because I was over there and I just noticed that apparently some of the ceilings is out um and question is always what's the work order number pardon my first question is always what's the work order number okay ICT I know that I'll have to check into that to make sure but with the rain and all that's coming and all and um you know the mold issue I'm I'm sure I'm sure Mr Brinkley's team has already submitted the work order and I was out Friday so and it it rained really well Friday rained a lot Friday and so I just want to make sure that um we're
089addressing that oh we're not we we're not going to keep driving by if we know where there's there's a roof leak sowhere I'll promise you that I'll check with the school and then I'll get back with you thank you yes ma'am oh and we're glad to have you back you were on vacation for a minute uh I was I was on V well you deserve that and so um we missed you though I enjoyed myself that's really what matters Co Miss Bates uh I noticed that under most of these in our packet it basically says how it's going to be paid for apart from the Green Wave Boulevard sidewalk is there any update on that is that us is that do we know where's that how is that being funded that's a great question and
090uh you know at this time uh we're going to fund that it's it's our students it's and it's our our responsibility for the security and safety of our students and and unless somebody else steps up which I haven't heard of anybody jumping up and down saying we'll fund it so we're going to have to fund it I just wasn't sure if there was any that came out of past meeting so I just wanted to get an update and so we did uh reach out to the Cog and I think they sent us an application very recently like last week or two weeks ago but but if those applications I think take about a year or so to get approved so we need this now so is that traditionally that's the way it's funded by the
091school district if they are in need of having a safer um crosswalk for the students [Music] so in talking to some folks outside some other entities um if we if I go and build a Walmart somewhere it's my responsibility as Walmart to make sure that all my customers can get to my store safely because I created the traffic build a school somewhere is pretty much the same situation we if we I don't want to go down a rabbit hole but yes ma'am I think I think I think we need to take it upon ourselves to make sure that our kids are safe if if no if if we can't you know uh talking with you know the other entities uh we are being helped by the county it it's a it's it's how is that
092thing it's a County Road in the town of Somerville the county is willing to give us give up the RightWay the town is willing to permit it and we're going to do our part and and put concrete on the ground yeah I agree the safety of the our students is what's most important but if we can get some money definitely to take care of it we're always looking for for ways to fund things other than going to miss mun okay with a hand out yeah I'm thinking back what did we how much did we pay for the sire sidewalk you remember that you you're talking about Chandler Creek Boulevard the entire roundabout and everything I I don't remember hundreds of thousands that was close to I'm you know I'm not even going to speculate I
093know that was started in 2015 and we finished that up and turned it over to the town in like 2019 so that's a town asset now but we pay for it thank you thank you Mr Souls yes ma'am thank you the last thing I have um tonight is the Personnel report and student enrollment recommendations and those were uploaded into your board packets okay board members um as for the Personnel report um if you are okay with it we will do this in Open Session minus um the one recommendation um that's listed there under the execu executive content we will do that in executive session so at this time if everyone is okay I'm going to ask for a motion regarding just the um classified and teacher recommendations and resignations so moved okay motion made by
094Miss Bates seconded by Miss Crosby any discussion or questions okay we'll call for the vote okay thank you all for your patience here we go all right and the motion carries six in favor one absent all right and moving on next we also have the student enrollment recommendations in our packet is everyone okay with doing that an open session all right do I have a motion motion made by Miss Bates seconded by Miss seconded by Miss Crosby any questions or discussion okay hearing none I'll call for the vote on that as well all right thank you for your patience again the motion carries six in favor one absent all right and that completes your report Dr Robins yes ma' all right we are now moving into our public comments on non-agenda items and this evening
095we just have one and that is Mrs Mary Rita Watson bring in the team good evening I'm Mary Rita Watson I am the last time I'm saying that I am a fourth and fifth grade re 1880 teacher at Oakbrook Elementary School and I'm also the president of the Somerville Education Association and behind me I have the new team which has been part of the team all along um and I'd like to introduce them to you real quickly they didn't want to come up here so I'm going to do it quick and we're taking advantage of Jean day just so you know that's why we're all on jeans they're like I have jeans on I can't go up there I'm like yes you can so um our president is Michelle Meyer she works in Special Services
096here at the district office you want to wave so they know who are um vice president is Kiana Mullins and she is an English teacher at Alon middle school and we have Sydney Shaw who is our secretary treasur and she is at East Edisto middle also teaches English so we have lots of English people oh sorry what do you teach math oh so sorry she teaches math I thought she taught English sorry um okay then we're very well-rounded um I just want to I want you to know that we um you know part of our job those of us who were here from the beginning when we started this Association back up was to find new leaders and I feel really good about walking away and knowing that these people I'm getting emotional flare knowing
097that they're here um I also want to thank you you've all been great you've worked with us um you know listened to our concerns you've helped us when we've had problems with different situations and so I I hope that we continue that partnership um you talked about Partnerships tonight and so you know we we were all about the recess Bill and or the recess um initiative and helped get letters out to our membership and just kind of spread that word as well as the referendum and so I as you said working together is you know what we need to do to do what's right for our students um we've been very busy so we've had a lot of things going on um we've had our Schoolboard candidate search and a training with the Nea we
098um have done the letter writing that I mentioned we've had our signing dat day where uh that was at w maker on Friday big hit lots of people and I spoke to the media about how great it was to be able to work with the school district that will listen to us when we talk about contracts so I it was on channel five and it was on channel two I'm not sure that they put that part in there but I didn't watch um but we did make sure that that was out there and we do appreciate that we're working with early enrollment right now and so any me any um person who works in public school system can be part of the sccea um at no cost it's deferred until September 1st we also plan
099to work with the new teachers and to um assist with new teacher orientation so again thank you very much I've loved my ride and um look forward to great things from these people thanks thank you Miss Watson and team we appreciate all that you do okay at this time I need a motion to convene into executive session for personnel related matters so moved okay motion made by Mr Guthrie seconded by Miss Powell any discussion okay all in favor um I think it's we are going to have an electronic vote for this as well please okay and the motion carries six in favor one absent at this time we are in executive session and we will return e e e all right at this time do I have a motion to convene reconvene return to open
100session so moved motion made by Miss Bates seconded by Mr Guthrie any discussion all in favor favor signify by your hands six in favor one absent okay we are in Open Session and do I have a motion to accept the Personnel recommendation as presented by Dr Robbins and his team okay motion made by m farer seconded by Miss Bates any discussion all right hearing none all in favor again signified by a hand raise Mr Crosby you in favor yes yes all right in favor and one absent motion carries okay and finally at this time do I have a motion to adjourn motion made by Miss Bates St night second seconded by Mr Guthrie any discussion all in favor okay you want to stay I need to stay six in favor one absent motion carries we
101are adjourned have a great night thank you all