for the meeting is now called to order roll call Mr Shapiro all members are present thank you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge aliance to the flag of the United States
next we typically have public comment but we have no one signed up this evening for public comment so then the next part of our agenda is our consent tonight the consent items are a Personnel report claims and payroll and as a reminder for
what the consent part of our agenda refers to it is a designated section where our routine business items are grouped together and we vote on them all together we consider them and then vote on them all together in a single motion so tonight these include Personnel
report claims and payroll do I have a motion to approve the consent items this evening I move to consider um the consent items 3.1 through 3.4 as a
block thank you may I have a second thank you Greg do we have any discussion on the motion item this evening nope all right we will all vote all in favor respond by saying I I I motion
carries up next we have our really fun part of our meeting this evening we have the workshop topic secondary Science Education Dr Dudley great thank you so this evening we're very excited to bring to you um to learn a little bit more about um what science instruction looks
like in our middle schools and our high school and so we're first going to start by I'll introduce Dr Ronda Peterson she is a director of curriculum in charge of Science and Math and her and Mr Grimes our um department chair at the high school is go they're going to start the
work off all right thank you and good evening thank you for hosting us this evening we are so so excited to be um showing off some of our brightest students in the middle schools and high school and they're going to do a little demonstration in a moment on what
Science Education looks like in today's classroom but before we start that we would u u Mr Grimes and I would like to give you a little bit of background on where we have been the last couple of decades and how our academic standards have impacted today's classroom so we'll
get started with that and so this is a sign science classroom of the past kids aren't we glad that we're in today um you can see students working individually not a lot of collaboration um they it looks like
they're doing some experiments that have a known result so duplicating experiments um that we already know what the results going to be so in the past um science uh curriculum was very U focused on content delivery so teachers
imparting their knowledge on students also is very teacher centered so lots of lecturing and um it was really um centered around discussions and not a lot of room for student inquiry and collaboration at that
time um not as Hands-On in the past science classrooms of today are a lot more Hands-On and collaborative and I'm going to turn it over to Mr Grimes and he's going to paint a picture of what today's classroom looks like and how our Indiana academics standards are
influencing instruction thank you these are just a few photos uh taken the last couple weeks uh at the high school just kind of what a typical day looks like at the high school um and and we've had the privilege of going to some of the middle schools and can say it looks very similar to there as well um a lot of
what you're going to see are yes we have Labs like before but these aren't necessarily just validating known results these are kids trying to identify something different each group's working on something a little bit different uh and trying to kind of solve problems um a lot more of what it
looks like is is collaboration um and this is just me really walking by taking no pictures of uh notes and kind of how notes look like in classrooms now um a lot more again problem solving um with groups of a variety of different kind of ways so it's really shifted from a
teacher being the sage on the stage to kids trying to get their hands on real world uh experiences and designing some solution so like I just said the goals today how things have shift is is making it Hands-On and making it real world kids don't need to memorize facts nearly
as much Google's taken that uh and AI has taken that job away from us so it's more about what you can do with things uh just like you saw on the picture students centered U the teachers are there to help facilitate and not be the home base for for the classroom uh and
again a real world uh kids also just this day and age are very interested in in what's going on in the world they are connected um they they want to know how this is going to impact them in their lives the big shift that's happened in all of Education uh throughout all of Indiana is we've now shifted towards
what we call ngss the N nextg gen uh nextg science standards uh the big things here are we really want kids to be doing more like we said it really kind of applies a process to that getting kids uh engaged with the science and engineering practices identifying
cross cutting Concepts and really just kind of being able to take science Concepts apart and seeing the big pictures kind of throughout them and all that involves getting kids in there and doing the science and not just reading about it um I can put the next because I know I'm kind of going long on this
sorry um and again this is about just the goal is getting kids rolling up their sleeves finding a way to connect with the science and and engage with it in a way it's going to impact them and their future and their world so it's really shifted from again me glossies in the back of the book Let's identify
definitions to how can we how can we make this uh work for you and then kind of leaning more into some of those like modern day employability skills anything you wanted to add to that yes so at this point in time we would like to introduce our teachers and
our students we have Mr Frank henkins here he is a physics teacher and he brought with him Luke Grimes which he may be related to Mr Grimes I'm just saying and Alex um is with him today as as well so and then we have our um
Department chairs from all three middle schools Mr Chris Bartley would you like to stand all right and Mrs Susie phelp and Miss Kristen Irwin and they have students here with them as well um and they also brought along with them some
teachers to help navigate the the activities so we have Mrs Sam trap and Mrs Tracy Krauss and Miss Katie Russo so in just a moment we're going to call the kids up so they um can begin
their activities we have four stations we're going to um complete a station in 10 minutes and then we will rotate so each of you will get to see all four stations um and this is our assignment so you'll start at the station that's
designated for you after 10 minutes I will call time and you will rotate to the next station so station one goes to station two two to three and so on um and we can go ahead and begin so kids come on up and teachers come on [Music]
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executive team and we will take questions from our students yeah well maybe my gosh or actually you could come up what's the right question yeah when there we're standing
there what do you want to ask uh tell me the question in case there you know either way yeah all right please join me in giving a round of applause to all all of our students they did an amazing
job all right hopefully you learn lots and we're able to see how multi-dimensional science classrooms have become they're very cross-curricular um we are acting as scientists do in serving and solving real world problems um we would be happy
to take um questions from anyone that has questions about our science curriculum that you saw today or any questions you might have of one of the students I just thought it was John and I were just discussing how science had been very difficult for us and to see
the level of Engagement and their enthusiasm was really exciting so I you all did such a wonderful job thank you so much you made it really understandable and you could really tell that it wasn't just simple regurgitation
but they had really they really understood the lessons they were doing it was wonderful thank you in the presentation yeah thank you so much that was a lot of fun makes me want to go back to science class and
memories reminds me of why I didn't stay in that field when I was going to school um the uh during the presentation you had mentioned that um rather than uh focus on Breath You focus on depth and so how are these topics areas of science
chosen that you really want to do the Deep dive into yeah H they are chosen because of our Indiana academic standards so we try to find curriculum that is associated with the standards everything launches from our standards so um we went through
a pretty intensive program review at the middle school and we chose amplify science um which you get to see this evening that closely relates to our academic standard so that's how it's chosen thank you yes I just want to repeat the thank
you to the students and the staff that um participated tonight and take taking your personal time to come here I really really enjoyed it where are we in that process like what year is this what you seeing yeah this is year one actually
yes year one so isn't that impressive had some open houses right on the curriculum adoption materials last year that's exactly right last spring we had an open house and um the community could come and preview the curriculum that view you viewed this evening yeah that's
great I I really like it and I hope that you're getting a lot of positive feedback I just wanted to uh thank the students for coming and also the certainly heard from the seventh and eighth grade students consistently that they are in joying science more this
year than they did before which I think is the resounding feedback you want when you switch curriculum that it is more on and engaging um and I you know would agree with Mr Brown it almost makes me want to go back and repeat science which was not my strongest subject so thank
you guys for being here I appreciate it thank you thank you again thank you to all the the parents and and students who have come out here this evening to demonstrate that to us as well as the teachers and other school staff I just this was really good this board is is
moving towards really being focused on student outcomes and this this helps us literally see the outcomes because the students are excited and they are demonstrating things to us that are real world problems at real world situations and again for most of us I think that
vastly different than what we experienced in school just looking at a textbook so um this just seems like a great curriculum and we we appreciative that you came this evening thank you okay we appreciate your time again thank you and I realize it's a school night so
if there's any of you that needed to to go ahead and leave we can take a short break or or you are also welcome to stay and watch the rest of the board meeting yeah one item yeah wouldn't be right if we SLI down would
it we are thank you Chris for bringing this to my attention we are going to go back just a little bit to our consent agenda because we voted to um we voted to approve grouping the consent agenda items together so now we need to have a
motion to approve the consent agenda consent items thank you madam president uh and I'll make that motion to approve the consent agenda items 3.1 through 3.4 as a group and I'm sorry to be picky
I just want to make sure everybody gets paid and there's never any questions no we appreciate that so again the motion um from U Miss wheeler is to approve the consent items 3.1 through 3.3 do I have a second second thank you Mr Shapiro any
discussion this time seeing none we will all take a vote all those in favor signify by saying I I I motion the actual motion carries for the consent agenda thank you the next item up then is our update
our superintendent update Dr Beford all right I really appreciate tonight's uh uh Workshop it was pretty cool if I tell Mrs B that I can now tell you that light travels in a straight line and can trans MIT and reflect and then if I said that I can also do a simulation to predict
tsunamis and then I can also explain to you how protein in spider silk can be used to replace my elbow tendon and then whatever that thing we did with the BB was um I think I call that science math physics uh that she'll
probably think nah but what a great night it's great um hey tonight I am representing um the cherry tree Patriots and I thought it was only appropriate that I would wear a hard hat because cherry tree of course is under
construction and uh and we're doing a lot of exciting things there so that was the uh that was my stick for for cherry tree but the Patriot Nation is uh pretty amazing with their incredible principal Mr Peter English their awesome assistant principal Amanda bman and of course
their talented staff and parents and of course their Superstar students uh the Patriots are under construction so I had to wear my hard hat but uh some pretty great things going on at Cherry Tree uh and um we've already had the first um group of students move into the newly
renovated side and and that rotation is going to happen throughout the year it's pretty special so so big shout out to them uh I'll try to keep this pretty quick um I had the opportunity to go to the uh night of show choir and I know Mr Shapiro did and Dr ostri anybody else
make it to that but absolutely amazing four different show choirs performed and uh it's Broadway quality just amazing and uh I can see why they're doing so well in the competitions and uh if you ever want to U see something go go see
the show choirs um also I went to taste a caramel on Friday night and got to not only overeat but also uh got to donate do some donations for a great cause the uh the foundation caramel Education Foundation really is kind of like the spice of life they really bring
a lot to our teachers to our students uh just to our community of the little special things that they do and at every grade level they they've got their uh um they make a positive difference in getting our kids to enabling them to do some things that are pretty special like
uh Biz toown and and some of the Job Sparks and different things like that it's really really good uh my bell ringer is uh the boy swimming team won the state championship in swimming and uh that was their 11th year in a row and so now I can end my career in swimming
with having all state championships all seven years which is a lot of pressure and I'm glad that it's moved on to someone else um but uh but uh it was pretty special meet they had the second highest score ever by a team in the in
the state meet and uh also um I think they had 20 was it 21 swimmers in the finals uh and they had in the fast heat of the finals and then they had I think two
more swimmers that were in like the the consolation heat in the state meat and you can only have 24 swimmers in the meat so we had 23 of 24 in the finals and 21 of those were in the the fast
heat so it was pretty amazing performance and uh and one of the cool things that we get to do on the last event is to go down on the deck and so when you're up high you can see they're going very fast but when you're on the deck you can see that they have a wake much like a motorboat those guys
those those guys are moving some water so is just amazing so congratulations to to them on their uh on number 11 and uh and just a great win for the for the Greyhounds and with that I will hand it back over thank you thank you Dr Beford may I have a
motion to adjourn so moved may I have a second second second thank you meeting adjourned