everyone would stand up and say the pledge of allegiance with us to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for
all. >> Welcome everyone. >> Do we have any comments on the agenda items? Yep. Well, then we'll get started. >> All right. Welcome. Again, this is my favorite uh part of the whole board meeting when it's crowded and we're
going to recognize some amazing students, especially in the area of fine arts. Before we do that though, um we are also going to recognize a tremendous sponsor in Bailey and Wood. And so, I know that um Mike Wood's here and uh
also um his daughter and uh so Bailey socks, right? >> Yes. All right. So, I got that right. Um, we truly appreciate both of you and appreciate your business. Appreciate your support. Um, I know probably over a year ago, we had the um, you know, the
whole recognition of your sponsorship for the next 10 years in connection with our our football scoreboard. And so, we just wanted to make it more formal and especially to do it in a crowd like this makes it even more uh, precious and and with gratitude. So, thank you so much. Anything else to say or you want to just
do some photo ops? I would stand up right now. I just want to say that for us it's really important. Love love love the schooloration. I love I love your energy. I love everything you're bringing the school for us. So I appreciate what you're
doing along with that. And I think that One of the things that reason why I get asked all the time why we want to give back so much. It's anybody that can graduate me deserves deserves a part of it. But ultimately, you got such an
amazing staff. You got amazing people. Community us. >> Thank you, Mike. I won't ask why you got a scooter, but I already heard. So, >> all right. Where do you want us, Jenny? Okay. >> For the record as a kid who's playing
knockout basketball. There you go. I think everybody say Let's give an hour. >> There we go. All right. So, now we're going to recognize some of our amazing students.
Uh, we've got three so far student of the months in the keyboard. When I call your name, please go forward. If I mispronounce your name, I apologize, but let's start with John Cal. How about Jackson Herald
Zachary? >> All right, >> put your hands up. All right, thank you for coming. Zack, obviously student of the month for precision machine. Excellent job. All right. Next, we are going to
recognize some outstanding IMEA honor choir and band. We're going to do choir first. And to my understanding, honor is like getting to the state level. So that's what we've been trying to recognize for the past couple years is when we get that state
level, we're going to recognize you here at a board meeting. So um if I mispronounce these names, I apologize, but when I read your name, come on down. We'll put you all right up here. And if your coaches are here or directors are here, we'll have them come up, too. So
not in any particular order, but I see Ray Cook. Come on down, Ray. I know your dad. I see him back there. Grace Ney Brown. She told me how. Sorry. Jasine Brother,
Clara Smith, Collins. Jaylen Roach, Jordan Smith. I love those shirts. Maya Turalyah, Ellie Crumb. Evelyn Mont. Ray,
Hannah, Joseph t Cessa, Sean Harris, Are any of the sponsors directors here? together. >> Are they going to sing for us? Make sure
this bigger board to keep this up. auditori. All right. Next is band. So, we have some All State performers to recognize. Uh, junior all state band at the middle
school. Charlie D. Rose for Abby, Stephan. Are any of their sponsors coaches here? >> Come on up. pictures. One more group. This is the high school
honor band from IMFA. And again, when I come on down, Katie W. Schultz, >> Carson Phillips, Chase Couch, Dylan Slow, >> Taylor.
Oh, choir is Taylor. Sorry. One go on each side. Round of applause. >> So, one more person to recognize and that is Miss Come on down. As you can see up there, she won the
2026 IMEA Middle School Music Educator Excellence Award in the entire state of Indiana. I I pop in. I see her in action. We've gotten to know each other lately. She is amazing. I don't just say that word. Thank you for what you do. You've grown the program. I know you
told me the history from when you came here to nothing to how many students now >> we're at 494. >> That's amazing. That's amazing. Thank you so much for your all right. So I think we have one more recognize excellence and please stay for that and then obviously you can go do
whatever you want to do because the rest of me is boring. So I want to introduce Dr. Scholoski and recognize excellence. Dr. Schlloski, >> thank you. I wanted to go through our recognized excellence for March 1. So from Whiteland Community High School,
Dave Hinan, Melissa Caliber, Jay Boyd, Alice Alino, Christophs, Julysa Castellano, uh Tracy Martio, Leah Miller, and Hannah Griggs. Middle school, we've got Thomas Turner, Kate Lang, Abby Ellinger, Katie
B, Carrie Harmon, Megan Burger, and Haley Simmons. Clark Elementary, Olivia Bear, Emily Art, Savannah Kim, Graham, Midnight Folks, Monday, Rachel
Paige, Randy Geeseki, Julia Reigns, uh, Ella Manger, Caitlyn Kendzer, and Marissa Kcker from Crossing. We've got Brian Earl, we've got Jenna Franklin, Nicole Edens, Jessica Hayan, and Matt
Machino. Here at the learning center, we've got Hashira Aella O'Hida, Melissa Harmon, Amy Bear, Stephanie Smiley, Tene Martin, Ashley Dicki, Victoria Stewart, Megan, Pam
Burton, Missy Harmon, Mia Ward, Laura Dalton, Alma Chavez, Pinosoa, An Pablo, Kimberly French, Sarah Sailor, Christina Gant, Lauren Good,
her gender carum ra Shelby Clays Megan Smallwood Hunum Goel Kiran G car and Erica Laker Grassy Creek we've got Jenny Sing Brook Bowling Low Monica
Morris Stacy Alexander Betsy Reer Teresa Gross Jennifer Hawkins Courtney Nory Jason Breeden Danielle man Wetland Elementary. We've got Amber Bowler, Jessica Thurman, Laney Buller,
Manfrey Jahal, Angela Simco, Tammy Connelly, Bright Graham, and Jamie Kidwell. Operations, Chris Doyle, administration, Krie Muse, Kayla Robbins, and Nicole Johnson. And from
Break Day Elementary, we've got Julia Zerone, Julia Perry, Mary Davyy, Courtney, Jenny Harper, Eric Eric Welman, Danny Ridgeway, Lexi Walters, Megan Concade, Amy Wagner, Brittany Hollowatch, and
Norell. Ray Crow, we've got Grace Bowler, Paige Lundy, and Courtney Wig. So, those are our March recognized excellence. Now what I would like to do is go through our winners recognized
excellent highlights from February. And first teacher from Whiteland Elementary School, Rebecca Graham. We have with us tonight. >> Next is our classified recognized
excellence winner from Clark Elementary School, Randy East. have special. >> Thank you, Dr. Sloki. We'll take a minute uh where if you have other things to attend, you may do so. If you want to stick around, you're more than welcome to do that, too. So, thank you again for
coming for those that uh were able to make it some of those. >> Thank you. I appreciate it. >> Nice. Is that the most? Is it really? >> That's the most. >> I know. We need to go back. We need to go back.
>> It's beautiful. >> Yeah. The way I remember >> Oh, yeah. I think two months ago we had We'll double check. >> Pull the tapes. And I watched that.
>> Yeah. I got seven hours. >> I'm like three days break. It >> is worth it. >> All right. So, we will now move um forward with the rest of the agenda. The
next item is a consent agenda. Let me go through each item and I am going to ask at the end for sections A through F that it would be approved as a consent item with the exception of one claim from B
mechanical that would need to be pulled out and voted on separately. That claim is in the amount of $31,167.70. So, let me go back up to A. Um, that is the minutes for our regular session on February 16th. B is the minutes from the
executive session on February 16th. C is the minutes from the executive session on February 20th. D is, as I said, the um annual or I'm sorry, monthly fund revenue and claims report. Pull out the one you will vote on separately that I just said. Under personnel report, um
it's a standard report. Um, after your approval, we'll pause and there will be some special positions and people that we'll recognize because I know they've got their family here. And then there is one contract to approve and that's with Indiana online and that's for our annual
summer school registration and contract with them at that discounted rate. Uh, that's it to explain for the consent agenda. >> Make a motion to approve the agenda as presented with one exclusion. Second.
>> Any comments or questions? All those in favor? >> Can I get a motion for mechanical invoice? >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Thank you very much, Madam President. So
now I would like to pause for a few minutes and recognize some of the positions that were approved in the personnel report. Not in any particular order, but I would like to introduce officially um our new Clark Pleasant Middle School principal for the next
school year, Mr. Justin Brownfield. Justin, please stand. I know you brought some special guests here. So, first and foremost, please introduce who you brought tonight. >> I got my wife, my kids, Hazel, Jude, and my mom and dad.
>> Thank you for coming. Congratulations. Next, I would like to recognize our new uh principal for next school year at Ray Crow Elementary, Miss Natalie Black. Please stand. Natalie, >> I see one of your guests. Who else would you like to um present to and and share
with us? are also watching from Florida. >> Nice. >> Thank you so much. Congratulations. Next, I'd like to also introduce our new assistant athletic director for next school year, Miss Samantha Sturgeon. Please stand.
>> Did you bring some special guests, Samantha? Did you bring some special guests? >> I brought my mom. >> Thank you, mom, for coming. Thank you and congratulations. I also want to introduce our next and new um high school ladies girls basketball
coach, Mr. Lucas Hayworth. Please stand. Lucas, >> I know you brought some guests, so please introduce them. >> Yeah, my wife and my son. >> Congratulations. I think I got everybody. Did I miss anybody? I didn't think so. All right. Thank you
again. Congratulations for um your new positions and I know you will do an excellent job. And again, if you want to stick around, you're more than welcome to. But if you have other things to attend, you can do that, too. You know, >> she's
>> Oh, yes. So pretty. >> You could have got that for >> a couple way. All right. So, uh, let's keep moving on. Under communications, um, we'll have a presentation. So, it's it's not an
actionable item, but it is a presentation by Mr. Brian Levelvel and even probably some of our elementary principles that are here. Thank you for being here tonight for um what uh we would like to pursue for next school year, the 26 27th school year um for third and fourth grade grading. So, Mr.
Levelvel, thank you for being here. >> You guys, thank you for taking some time to let us talk through this this evening. So, we just wanted to provide some updates on some grading things that we're kind of proposing for next school year based on some things that we implemented this year, kind of see how
they would go. So, last time last about this time last year So, last time this school year, we made some um proposals about how we could update our fifth grade reporting. So, we looked at this new updated report card that allows us to be able to actually
translate um standard scores into letter grades, helping both our families and parents, teachers be able to have that communication with students. So, um this is kind of an updated version of the report card that we have been utilizing this year in fifth grade only wanting to
be able to kind of translate again into letter grades. You can see for language arts, writing and math, we translate their um standard scores into grades each night. And so the grades are still based on the standards. We're not basing them on points, not basing them on percentages, but based on their
performance on each standard, we were able to then translate those into a letter. We did also add with the 34 card homework and classification. Definitely was a feeling that assessment alone is not always the full picture and so we wanted to be able to capture in a
little bit about where homework and class participation fits into the overall picture of what a student is doing in class. So we got lots of feedback on this. We implemented this um have all year and so after the end of the second nine weeks we collected feedback from both our
teachers and our families. So from teachers we kind of asked them you know utilizing how important is it we continue to utilize the standard scores we got some feedback on there is as a four like this is significantly helpful to continue to do this versus
the red being not helpful I feel like teachers really respond it's helpful to have standards based scores in addition to that being able to then translate that into a letter grade has helped them be able to communicate with families and students and so we continue to take that feedback we als also asked about
homework and class participation. Definitely teachers felt like that was helpful to be able to show, you know, sometimes when their scores aren what they're thinking, it's because of what's happening on a daily basis. This helps capture the daily basis, what we're seeing out of students versus just an
assessment stopping to assess what's happening. So just a couple of I won't read through all these. One to highlight some feedback we got more kind of the narrative that we got from teachers. And again, I think what we're highlights here this happened. We had two sets of
parent teacher conferences and I think most most teachers saw this made it a lot easier for them to be able to communicate with families on what was happening in their classroom. So, not only does it help them be able to talk about how this relates, but it also helps them be able to create some urgency of hey, this is where everything
kind of comes together. So, we look at the standard scores alone, everything kind of sits separately. The letter grade helps us look at everything combined together in those higher areas that we progress throughout. for parents. Same thing. We sent this to
all of our fifth grade parents um actually in four different languages. We were able to do that. Um our feedback was a little low a couple times, but the feedback we did get parents saw this as extremely helpful too. They like having the breakdown into the standards so they
can see what how students are performing on the skills. But I know, hey, it's not just a matter of they have a B in that, but I know what skills they help with in that math area, but then they also appreciate the letter grade being able to help translate. Okay, what is do I need to worry like is my student doing
well as overall or is there something I need to be concerned about? So some parents comment feedback we got again helping them understand where I think they again like the fact the scale score helps them identify skills
in addition to the overall. So that was the feedback we got from this year. After we did this with this fifth grade, we kind of also looked through just the distribution of grades. So kind of getting an idea of are we seeing what we should be seeing out out of this piece
of the puzzle? And so looking at both our quarter one and quarter two grades, how do they stand across? So one of the things you probably quickly noticed that we noticed and we have some conversation about is we have kind of grades here. You have lots of students sitting on the top, lots of students, not as many
students And so we have an idea about that I'm going to talk about in just a minute. But that's kind of what we noticed for students at fifth grade. What we wanted to do is then see if we were to change this in the third and fourth grade. What would this look like? And so we did that same
I will go there. Um this is a piece I wanted to highlight first for fifth grade. So one of the pieces that we did is looking at our checkpoints. So as you remember I learn checkpoints are kind of I learn testing is now happens basically once a quarter. Checkpoint one,
checkpoint two, checkpoint three. We're getting ready to take a screen. What we wanted to see is are the letter grades we're seeing for students correlating to what is happening on either check and the answer we got was 100%
90% yes right so they are correlating to what's happening. So what we did is we took um a sample size of students looked at what their grades were and what their checkpoints are and are they in that same category and for the most part yes so this was a encouragement to us to say
okay what we are assessing the skills that we we've chosen can't report out on all four standards that fifth grade has right so we've chosen those key standards and what we're reporting out on are the key ones that are helping us identify our students performing on
those prepared for testing and so those correlations came back very high. >> If I can interrupt, I said this to to Mr. Levelvel that right there is so significant statistically. Anytime you're above 80% that is a super high correlation that really does show there
is alignment with the A throughF grades. So it's not inflated but it does align to the standards which then is aligning to the testing of what the benchmarks are that we have to do through iLearn. So, thank you for doing that that data
uh disagregation and that that right there struck volumes to me. I know I'm a math nerd, but that's big. >> Make sure we're seeing what the grades we're getting are not off. So, we did the same thing I talked about
earlier with fourth and third grade just to kind of make sure we're having the same idea. Are is the grades that we're getting if we were similar grades in a similar fashion? We're not having a place, you know, These actually are a little bit more spread out across the skills than fifth grade was. So fourth
grade, we can see that the grades kind of lay out pretty in a similar fashion. And so we have some spots again has to do with average. So if you look at a report card for a student in a particular quarter, they may be reporting out on three to
four scale. And so when you start averaging three numbers, right, the high, you're going to be hard to have every number. And so one of the things that we're going to recommend for as we move forward, we like to continue to use standard scores and letter grades in grade five, but we want to update the
number of standards being reported out each quarter to help increase opportunities for students to improve their grade. And so one of the things we noted is there are some spaces where there may be a limited number of standards being reported out. And so we want to be able to report out more to be
able to help each other. And that could be taking a skill that we looked at last quarter and carrying over into the new quarter or maybe an additional skill here. And so our proposal then also is to add this letter grade to work hard for students to grades three and four. We feel like this is a students who are
at a point where the academics is a key. It's not foundational skills anymore. It is putting it all together into an academic setting. And so we feel like three and four having that kind of correlation. We've also add homework and
participation into that also capture what's happening in the classroom. So that's our recommendation. We kind of work with principles, our coaches kind of work through this and so just want to lay out.
>> How do the third and fourth grade teachers feel about this? >> Third and fourth grade teachers are I think they're nervous. How do we kind of I think one of our goals here in the spring is to be able to go in and have conversations, ask
questions, lay out some philosophing, this is what this looks like. How do we make sure that you feel comfortable for this? Our feedback from that point is what are questions? How do we make sure we're prepared for it? >> Thank you. Yeah, Brian, I I have a couple things.
I've I've been on this school board for 11 years, and this has been the number one complaint that I've received is elementary grading, no ABC, B, C, D, or F. Because parents understand that. The
complaints that I've always had is how can we explain to our kids when we don't know how it's done? And I said last year that, you know, doing it in the fifth grade was good. I wanted to do it in the third and fourth last year. But, um, I
thank you for getting this done and I think it's a great change. >> Any other questions? No. >> All right. Thank you very much. All right. Next is um Central 9 uh monthly report. Miss Posel,
>> uh, C9 met March 12th and we saw a presentation from auto service technology by a recent C9 grad who was now has a career with Toyota and he credited his education at C9 for giving
him a leg up for a direction in life and pointing him to a successful satisfying career. He now returns to help at C9 wherever he can such as their annual car show etc. Um the business meeting
included the cons regular consent items out of state travel request donations and contracts. Um since the um C9 edition has been completed, they um the board approved a final landscaping to be
done by this C9 students, saving thousands of dollars over professional contracting while providing a valuable experience for the students. Uh, director Kovac reported uh meeting with
Job Ready 360 to look at ways to capture workbased learning hours on an app on the students phone that can then be reported um accurately to the state. And also last week 80 students were inducted
into the National Technical Honor Society. As reported, Whitland High School had three students of the month from um various programs and following the report on finances and enrollment numbers at in adult ed, the meeting
adjourned. >> Thank you very much. Uh redevelopment commission, Mr. Bon. >> Yeah, the RDC for Whitland met uh last Thursday evening at 6. Um the only major
note is um the patch development which is portion of the tiff district the only one that has started the clock um is actually falling short of their guaranteed pledge for tax um in the tune
of about $10,000 annually. um they voted to um forgive this first year due to the past two years being over the predicted revenue. Um but that's no guarantee that next year if
they don't hit the predicted revenue that they may not make the developer >> have to actually pay out of their pocket if the tax revenue is not >> based. So that's really the only major development. >> Thank you for that. Um city of Greenwood RDC Mr. like >> the RDC meeting for the city of
Greenwood lasted 14 minutes. So, I have three really quick things. Uh they allowed for an extension some for some paperwork for a business that had not filed it on time. Uh they were late getting it in but had to deal with the
amount of uh personnel that was supposed to be in that business that they had not met yet, but but will. Uh the second thing that uh they dealt with is they are going to have a new tiff district
and that tiff district is along 135. So it does not affect us at this time. And the third thing is, and I'll get the exact figures, but uh in the East TIFF district, which is all of Clark
Pleasant, they still from the tax dollars they've collected, they still have an excess, you know, of about it's over $30,000, but uh they've taken in almost two million in that >> in that tiff district in all the years.
So, >> good to know. Thank you very much. All right. Under old business, there is one item and it's a second reading of our social media and engagement policy. Last month, we did a first reading. There were no changes in the language.
So, um I'd recommend approval of this. >> I make the motion to approve. Motion as presented. >> Second. >> All those in favor? I >> All right. On to new business. First item is some donations. Mr. Pendleton
will present those. I have three donations for consideration tonight. The first one is $1,000 from the Johnson County Foundation Elementary. Second one is $100 financial
high school $500. >> I make a motion we approve the donations submitted. >> I'll second. All those in favor? >> I >> uh next item is some transfer of funds. Mr. Pendleton will present those to you.
>> We have four transfers. Three of them are cultures club. First $221 from theational club account to the Spanish account. $121.96
from the club to account $21.95 account and then $3,3198 fund activities. >> Make a motion to approve transfers as present. >> Second.
>> All those in favor? Thank you very much, Brad. Um, item CD and E I'll present individually, uh, but Brandon Wright could not be here, so I told him I can still explain it, um, and answer any questions on his behalf. The
first, um, item is C, and that is a recommendation for purchasing staff replacement devices across our district. Um, in the, uh, quote, you will see that it is with the company CDWG.
Uh we did go um out for bid and did all the proper advertising. Um they were the winning bid um by over $50,000. It does replace about um 830 for our staff and that's a total of 792,000
approximately. That unit price is 922. We went with the Lenovo laptop which is significantly cheaper than the Chromebook by at least 200 I think if not a little more from my memory. Um the current Chromebooks are over 5 years
old. Their um warranty has expired and so therefore um we would have to find money out of our own budget to make all the fixes. And when warranties expire, which is again is a five-year basis, that that means you should have it in your cycle, your rotation cycle, which
we do. And this again comes from our geo bonds that have already been allocated. >> I make a motion we purchase the staff replacement devices presented. >> I'll second. >> Any questions or concerns?
All those in favor? >> I. >> All right. Thank you. Letter D is very similar. This is um purchasing devices for our students at Whitland Community High School. Their rotation is up. Again, we've got that five-year
technology plan that has been created uh many many uh years ago. Um easily probably pushing 10. So, a little bit more detail. This again is about 2,300 um for our entire student body. It's not just the Lenovo cases as
you heard is is a better rate. It's also including the Google Education curriculum upgrade. Um more durable cases and then extended batteries. Um again that is in the total of approximately 923,000.
Same thing as what I just told you for teachers. These devices are easily 5 to six years old. No more warranty coverage. We're getting a lot of breakage. So, it's their turn. Like year or two ago, it was elementary's turn. So, this expense is already been allocated out of our geo bonds, not our
annual budget, but geo bonds. >> Make a motion to approve as presented. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Okay. A letter E is the last um
technology U item here and this is for our new academic wing at the high school and it is interactive display displays. It's that right there. So um that that is a very large smartboard that can be
used in addition to the whiteboard. Um it's actually made by the company New Line and I have played around with it. We've had um high school administration play around with it. high school teachers. We did a little little session there. Brandon, it's amazing. I wish I was a teacher again. I would be even
more motivated. So, um it is it is just um very interactive and and very helpful for a teacher to pull up a lesson plan that they have been able to create or pull off of the internet. So, um it's just got so much capabilities that that will help learning, enhance learning.
Um, I would also say that uh this is going to come out of our soft and loose equipment money. So, not our annual budget. It's in um the range of roughly $297,000. That includes training
um right around 100 devices. And again, this will look super sharp and professional in our brand new classrooms that's part of the academic wing. And then we're even putting somewhere else. Dr. ship. Help me remember.
>> Thank you. So, not just high school. >> I make a motion we approve the board as approved. >> Second. >> Any questions or concerns? All those in favor? >> I. >> Uh, letter F is consideration of CPMS um
preparing for college and careers proposal. I know Principal Reinhold's here. Thank you for being here Tim to answer any questions where the quick explanation is that it is really taking that PCC course which is an entry level
foundational course to to the middle school to 8th grade potentially even lower. Um as you're aware just in the last couple of weeks the state accountability model was released by the state board of education with significant changes. We knew that that
was forthcoming. Uh those changes deal with pathways. Those pathways are even um kind of determined with graduation plans at sixth and seventh grade levels. And then when they get to the high school, they have to get through those
pathway get into those pathways I should say. Um and get those foundational courses quote unquote out of the way. Um, therefore, there's going to there's a need for a more of a streamline, more of that quote unquote trickle down effect to the middle school to have those foundational
courses um completed. So then when they get to the high school, there is flexibility. They they can advance quicker through a certain pathway. Um Tim, I didn't know if you wanted to share anything more. Um that's really what I'm seeing.
>> Yeah. I know you said well kids just need more. So it's an opportunity and there's quite this isn't new to it for next year as a product that I think will help us
with the current high school sequence will allow us to go a lot deeper. A lot of kids have interest in things they're about. They don't really honestly have a clue what's out there. So with regard to just a based discovery, there's an
opportunity for them to learn what they're good at and what they're interested in and then pair that up with something. >> Thank you. >> Make a motion to approve as presented. Second. >> Any other questions?
All those in >> favor? I >> All right. Thank you again. Next item is G. Consideration of um WCHS virtual school proposal. I know Principal Lines is coming forward um where he wants to
share with you a vision to start this um virtual school for next school year. We have some special guests I know he'll recognize that's been helpful in the in the planning of the last several months for tonight's proposal. Um, last thing I'll say is, you know, this is an
opportunity for us to capture those students who may want to choose other virtual choices. I'd rather them stay with us and that they give us an opportunity whether it's um for disciplinary reasons that they may have to seek an alternative type setting or
if it's just um even a a learning environment. I mean kids learn differently now whether it's traditional or virtual and so I won't steal any more of your thunder. I'll just turn right over to principal lines. Go ahead. >> Thank you Dr. Zel President Crawford.
Thank you for the time tonight again. I am joined here with Indiana folks CIC which is the service center which we're a member of so it's utilizing services we have
and assist oversee this as well from high school um so again it is in full partnership with CIC and uh they are fully accredited in this as well institute
So it is not something that we are launching brand new from the ground up but rather utilizing their stewardship and their skill set and their experiences and there is that opportunity we are talking about high school tonight but with their program
there's opportunity to expand this 6 through 12. So I just want to make that future seed as well. Start with the why. Why are we considering this? This is to expand those learning experiences and opportunities and students and families who may want something that is different than the brick and mortar experience
that the traditional school setting provides. It is also an opportunity to retain and attract families. So the two bar graphs that you see here are fall transfer and spring transfer data from community high school to a virtual
option and this was something that was shared with us talking with Dr. Ship and Dr. You'll notice real quickly that you're looking at that approximately 400 to 500 students that are considering something
other than So as we do that study that those are students that we should be hoping to retain and or attract back to community high school by offering something like this. The caveat of what this actually looks like though is significant. So if
we talk about you know 200 plus students we're going to be looking at potentially bringing back to high school within that virtual setting. We have to also pay attention to from an Indiana code standpoint anytime a school exceeds the
enrollment of 100 students, you have to have a separate department of education code for that school. So what this will do upon your guys's approval, we will Dr. Ship and I will work to apply for that code department of ed and that
window to apply is for March 31st. So again approval our next steps will apply for that code because if we are going to start marketing to 100 plus we want to make sure that we have that code in place so that that you know exceeding understanding of that enrollment cap is
not something that is in our way for the how again we're going to be partnering directly online to offer all of their services for our students come on down to speak to the specific >> we have a full staff for all of our
students through specifically on oures content experts in the state of Indiana teachers and instructional designers to build out our courses and refine our
standard changes throughout the state. Our teachers are all licensed teachers with three or more years of experience in the courses that they're teaching. So these are seasoned educators. They also receive
specific development online teaching course offerings for students. We do offer live format on Zoom with their teachers social. We do have a lot of intervention
protocols put into place for our students that start with the teacher from an academic standpoint. Look at their progress with their learning. Very to the report card that we saw earlier. We look at their standards approach and their assessment scores and
we are able to provide students on their Wednesday. I need for students with our asynchronous we still include that inter
teachers meet student at the beginning of their course even if they're working at their own pace we make sure that they connect and know the human on the other side of the screen that's there to help support them throughout the semester throughout the school year our wraparound services continue on
beyond the teacher we have a services team comprised of counselors and students specifically supporting students with accomodations. They are there to help students who need support transitioning into that online.
So we're there to help support students along One of our favorite things is that students are still at the end of the day. That diploma says on it still let
Thank you so much. We have right now because this is a virtual student charge you per student because you're part of the academy. We will tear down. My guess is only
for some reason. >> All right. So, so we're kind of approached approach first. As I mentioned earlier, we talked about those transfer students that were originally with us school district and have chosen to go to
another school. We have already identified the students that are going to be our rising seniors, juniors, sophomores, and freshman. So, currently we've identified those students. We're going to immediately approval that
sending them information. We drafted a letter that explains the launch of this program, how we want them to come back to our school. And so the second phase of that would be
potentially looking at our current students. We might have current students based on circumstances, whether that has to do with anxiety, behavioral discipline, etc. that may or may not benefit from that virtual option. And again, that is not something that we're going to be
hard pushing for those students. We just want to be mindful of naturally. There wasn't there was a need or pause that those previous that we mentioned left for that virtual school. We wanted the students where they're at now to not
have them feel like they need to leave, right? So, we want to meet them where they're at and recommend And then third, attract potential new students and families from out of the district and have them go through the same process as we would with other
students who transfer into our school system. So they would complete the out of district transm. So again, it is a three- tiered approach. We're trying to be as selective and intentional as possible, but also recognizing that circumstances are what they are and we need to embrace
our students families and potential students where they're at. But when the timeline essentially is upon said this earlier, we would go and do the application for that school code and start utilizing those services that I
just mentioned. We would spend time after spring break throughout the summer to advertise to those families, get students registered and signed up. We also go through our handbook season right now for all of our buildings naturally launching a new virtual
school. Virtual school as well. This information is just for you guys to see and and have as well. There two minutes here. There's one for the website that Jenny's on. I appreciate your support and putting this together that way again when we're
ready to launch this input as questions that students, families, etc. might have. And then a student uh potential student contract and Mr. Holman and our grade level teams come into play. So partnering with Indiana online, the teaching and learning is
handled through our partnership with Indiana online. However, they are still a member of our school and we're going to include them in our cohort and we're going to make sure that they have a great counselor and any supports that need as well because naturally just like
sometimes school students in a brick and mort might going to be on the top of our progress monitor. So just like we treat any student at our brick and school, we will treat them the same. So we will
on board them and then monitor throughout that process as well. >> One question then I want to provide a little more financial clarity for the board. Um with the grading scaled, is that going to align with our current scale and what the teachers on?
Very good. Yep. >> Makes sense. >> Follow it. Thank you. So again, for some more financial clarity, um, on average, don't quote me, but I'm I'm going to be in the ballpark, per pupil expenditure
for us is 7,600 typical. I'm not counting any additional expenditures for different um uh special needs um increases and and and some of those um variances, but on average for a typical
student, we're at 7,600. So you do a little math, you take 85% of that, that's roughly 6,400. And then if you take a kid who gets five courses, that's 14 or that's 1,600. We're still netting anywhere from 4,000
to 4,800. Uh could even be a little bit more. That's better than zero dollars when they're leaving us. So that's that's still a financial advantage to us to partner. Um even though they're taking a percentage, you can see in that simple math that, you know, we're we're
netting 4 to4,500 per kid on average based on our per pupil expenditure. And that per people expenditure remember increases every two years when the state redes the the bianium budget. >> Would we be be buying them Chromebooks?
>> Great question. Good question. >> Yes. Yeah, that's part of our FAQ and they will be treated just like a community high school student >> the activities that we have such as clubs >> that's Jenny's FAQ I just read through them
because my questions were in choir and that's addressed and yes they can sa was a no, but inter mural sports and clubs is a yes. The graduation walk is a yes. C9 is a yes as well. So yes, props
to Jenny for already having all that information is a yes. as long as there's not again we recognize like and like ISMA and those things but as long as they don't have anything in their file procedures that say so the
separate code IHSA says you can't >> always check the policies >> do we see that changing >> no do you think that's going to change where it's going to help that was hurt
or whatever it could >> I'm going to say it makes no difference now because we're in the highest classes 6A 5A and you know 4A and stuff like that but these these kids count for our uh enrollment right
>> but the HSA won't let them participate Correct. >> So to clarify they'll >> separate enrollment. So we will have a separate we will have a separate enrollment and that will count for right. >> We will have we talked about accountability briefly. We will have a separate account for this as well.
>> It's a separate school. It's community virtual school. >> So it is a totally separate school. >> Okay. >> Once we get over 100 students. So, is all the all the classes being taught the same on virtual that they're being taught in the classroom? >> Is it the same structure?
>> It is going to be different because again to what Melissa said earlier like it being taught by Zoom synch online is certified Indian teachers. They are professionally developed and trained to environments. We might have some
students that are doing some of the asynchronous pieces. We have some students right now that we utilize online potentially just because we don't have the credential staff member. >> They're used to it for summer school >> summer school. So, it's going to mirror that. So, we and if we have a student
that's taking one class or two classes, they would still be on our student. It's when they hit that demarcation that makes them considered a fullity. >> Do do we have a rough guess? I mean, I know this is kind of vague, but about
how many you think might be signed up to do this. >> So, we're gonna So, just again, >> I mean, just as a ballpark, >> we did we ran the numbers again when we said 200 here, 200 there. We're going to start that roughly 150 plus students that are
still, right? That's our first I would like to think that word of mouth is also going to happen naturally after something like this gets approved and we're going to have some we might have some current students that want to have a meeting with myself
>> but again we really want to focus on that first tier first. So I can't tell you that tomorrow 150 students are going to want to sign up for that but we are going to be on a pursuit intentional pursuit to say that hey this was something that you guys saw as a need and
We can offer this here. Please come back home to your home school and graduate school. >> Question for you. So say we have a kid that has something in life happened, medical, behavioral, whatever.
>> And they join the program for one semester, >> then they've got things going. Say second semester comes around and they decide, hey, I'd like to come to brick and mortar. Is is that is it pretty much just like any other like a transfer? >> Yeah, just come right.
>> So that's I mean you guys can answer specific because you guys experience this a lot more. The quick answer is yes. We can transfer them and enroll them there and then and then bring them back. >> Well, because to me that would be one of the benefits. We can use this almost
like academy or as a tool >> to once that kid or child is ready maybe they can come. >> I appreciate you. Yeah, we will still have as well, >> right? >> But it's just like an additional tool, you know what I mean? Just another way of looking at it to say, hey,
>> maybe this option gets them back on track to where and if they're still part of the clubs. >> Yes. >> And the organizations and the things they still got the connection, but then hey, we can jump back into school. >> And again, that's the that's the beautiful part about us having our cohort system, having that great deal.
They're going to know those circumstances and Hey, maybe for a semester it really isn't beneficial because this >> Yeah, that's my thing. I say a kid has something happen >> and they do this for one semester and they want to, you know, it's just
>> it helps keep them >> part of the part of the warrior. >> So, who who pays for the the kids that get approved for like uh reduced books, that kind of stuff? So we get it's all
in the state funding formula. Okay. Yes. Yep. That's what I thought. It's all that goes to our education fund. >> That's what I thought. So I take the fall semester and I'm in this school. I get my life back together. So the spring semester I would like to come back to
the brick and mortar. Am I eligible athletically? >> That's where I would go to the transfer rules and all >> all the things. That's a great question. submit that all to HS IHSA and they make that decision. >> So I would say following procedures
procedures obviously athletic department >> and this does not cost the student any money whatsoever. Is this correct? >> That's correct. >> So those kids that are getting homeschooled that are paying a big tuition to be homeschooled, this would
be a better, you know, thing for them because it's still being homeschooled to them without the cost. >> Yes. So you could see this is giving our families choice. We believe in choice wholeheartedly.
>> Do I have a motion to approve? >> That was first and a second. All those in favor? >> I thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you for the doing this. >> All right. Next item is an annual uh recommendation for a stipen of uh $1,000
to advance placement and dual credit teachers. It's existed for quite some time here. It's a very good incentive. >> I make a motion to approve as presented. >> Second. All those in favor? I I >> I
>> um for I and J, I'll say them together. If you want to um approve them separately or together, then that would be up to Madam President and whatever motion would be entertained. So, it's really just another annual uh procedure that um we seek your approval with
respect to summer school staffing and summer school programming. And it's for our secondary elementary. You see a lot more of the details in the actual proposal from doctor ship. Elementary reading, social skills for special education, kindergarten jump start,
extended year for early learning, um some high school studies, and then you see the staffing too. >> I move we approve both items I and J for the summer school programming. >> I'll second. >> All those in favor?
>> I >> All right. Thank you. Uh K is three field trips u for your approval. The first one is for our academy students. Um and the Simon Youth Foundation funds this trip. It will be April 12th through the 16th to Washington DC. Uh that's an
annual event. Then you have the high school cross country training camp in Bloomington July 14th through the 17th this summer. And then you have the FFA, Indiana State Convention at Noblesville, um June 16th through
uh the 18th or no, it's wrong through the 18th. Just mistyped up there in our board packet. So, um that's 16th through the 18th this summer. Um that's it. >> I make a motion to approve all three trips as requested. >> Second.
>> All those in favor? >> I >> All right. Last item is a first reading um that really just needs to be discussed and any changes um I would take. And the first one is um updating our restraint seclusion
seclusion policy and the really biggest change is at the last page in respect to training requirements. So it just meets the letter of the law. Um we've had one, it just needs to be uh revised. Uh so that is policy 4410.
Policy 6250 is prepayment of invoices and claims that is um expectation from state board of accounts to have as a policy and that's just really allowing the CFO to uh make
claims or pay claims and invoices prior to formal board approval. That's done. It just needs to be written in a policy. And if I'm not mistaken, the 6250 is just nothing more than a policy. It's nothing more than that we have always
been done. And if that is so, I would like to see if we could do this as a first reading and a second reading and approve that tonight. >> You can um you could just suspend the first and second reading as a motion and
then see if it passes. >> So moved. >> Second. Elizabeth. >> All right. So, we'll bring back policy 4410 uh next month. And that is um all we have under new business.
>> And I have nothing under superintendent report. >> Do we have any public comments? >> Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> I make a motion to adjurnn. Second. >> All those in favor of adjourn. I >> meeting.
>> Thank you.