direction of Mike Summers and McKenzie mauy the band program is considered one of the most successful programs in the state with several student musicians and have been selected to the All State band and the all count band over the past 19 years both the concert band and Jazz Band have won first place at every competition they have entered and they con or consistently receive Superior ratings at the annual ban assessment over the years the top bands
have performed at Orlando Magic games Disney World Universal Studios and other prestigious events in 2016 the jazz band performed in New Orleans at the Jazz Historic Museum BB Kings and Preservation Hall in 2018 the jazz band performed in Nashville at the Country Music Hall of Fame RCA recording studios and outside of the grandle Opry the
evening presenting Oakleaf this evening presenting Oakleaf junior high school and the oak leaf Community will be the top saxophone quartet as well as this year's Allstate musician on clarinet [Music]
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thank you well done guys Oakleaf junior high school offers three different levels of art courses the displayed work is from the beginning art one and advanced art 3 classes in all the level level classes the students create work in realism and Abstract by using multiple Med mediums while incorporating
the elements of art and the principles of design the Fine Arts have been proven to raise standardized test scores increase attendance rates enhance language skills and develop critical thinking and problem solving skills it also promotes social and emotional learning and builds self-confidence and resilience engaging in the Arts giving students a greater diversity of opinions and ideas and builds greater empathy and acceptance of others oleaf junior high
is proud to support the Arts and is excited to see a celebration of Arts throughout Clay County at this time we are going to have Pastor Tom Messer from Trinity Baptist Church in Oakleaf um lead us in the invocation and Pledge of Allegiance would you stand with me we'll pray and then have the Pledge of Allegiance Our Father we come to you tonight with humility ask
wisdom that you provide for us wisdom for those that'll be leading the discussions those that'll be participating in the decisions that will affect what happens here in the Clay County School System we pray Lord that you would allow us to demonstrate kindness gentleness and meekness as we work through issues that will in impact and influence
students and families we pray that in this uh great state that we live in this great country of opportunity that our students and families would flourish that they would be provided opportunities for growth they would be given what they need to meet the challenges of uh growing up and entering into adulthood equipped and prepared uh to live the kind of lives that would uh glor glorify and honor you we thank you
for people that have a heart a willingness and a desire to pour themselves out for the good of others and not just for the good of others but for the good of all of us for the common good here in this community bless this meeting tonight May there be a sense of guidance and wisdom as you help those that are leading to work through the agenda and items before them bless the schools the teach ERS the servants the
people that are involved in making education happen here in Clay County and we'll thank you for it in Jesus name amen join with me for the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all
I call to order the school board meeting for February 6 2025 welcome citizens of Clay County I want to take this opportunity to thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to attend tonight's school board meeting the meeting is our opportunity as your elected representatives to collaborate openly
and make decisions that will decide the future direction of our public schools and the education of our children here in Clay County if you wish to address the board on an agenda item there will be an opportunity to speak for three minutes please fill out a card located at the side entry door indicating the specific item number or topic you wish to speak about and turn it uh turn it in promptly to one of our officers if you have items that you would like to
present to the school board or superintendent please hand them to an officer who will distribute them accordingly speakers who wish to address specific agenda items will be heard following the recognitions and award portion of the meeting speakers wishing to address non-agenda items will be heard following the adoption of the consent agenda no additional cards will be accepted once the board moves to the public comment section under President presentations from the audience your
participation is welcomed and appreciated first up tonight we have recognition of students students selected for all state music performing groups Mr uh Chris Google from the Fine Arts curriculum specialist good evening school board members superintendent and community members this evening I'm excited to recognize the Allstate student performance that showcase their
extraordinary Talent within Clay County schools first I'd like to mention our recent all count performances from last week which included presentations by Band secondary choir theater and Elementary choir all of these events involved several Clay County students who went through a rigorous audition process showcasing their skills and Performing Arts knowledge students chosen then dedicated themselves to rehearsals meeting multiple times with teachers and clinicians including a full day rehearsal right before their
respective concerts the culmination of these efforts resulted in spectacular performances all under the guidance of exceptional clinicians and teachers tonight we extend a heartfelt congratulations to all the students who participated in these allc count events your hard work and dedication have truly paid off and we are proud you had the opportunity to showcase your achievements at these events this evening we also have a number of Allstate student performers to recognize from Clay County Schools through a tough
audition process or nomination process that took place last fall across the state these students earned their spot in Allstate honor ensembles by competing against others in Florida these Allstate ensembles are made up of the top students from across the state and acceptance into these groups is highly coveted and a distinct honor this year we are proud to announce that Klay County schools had an impressive 19 students selected to to participate in an Allstate ensemble in early January
they traveled to Tampa immersed themselves in lengthy rehearsals that culminated in spectacular performances these experiences are truly remarkable for our students and we are so excited that they had these opportunities students as I call your name please come forward to receive your recognition please remain standing up at the front for a picture at the conclusion of the recognitions
first from Lake Asbury Junior High adelyn Shawn Lake Asbury Junior High Sarah [Applause] fenel Lake Asbury Junior High Jaden Sims
Lake Asbury Junior High Abigail [Applause] Greenley Lake Asbury Junior High Laura [Applause] pton and Lake Asbury Junior High Lacy Bennett Lakeside junior high Roland Patton [Music]
[Applause] Oakleaf Junior High Emily [Applause] Summers Clay High Emily ganes Fleming Island high Luke Reed
and Fleming Island high Alexander Kirk Keystone Heights Addison Carlson Oakleaf High Cameron [Applause] Powers Oakleaf High Lila Davies
Orange Park High Benjamin [Applause] Kylie Orange Park High Marco garage via VIA vieno Ridge View High Michael Drina Ridge View High Lillian
Michelle and Ridge View High Janiah Francis let's hear it one more time for all of our Allstate students from Clay County thank you [Applause]
teachers we are going to take one picture after this with you or any admin who are present so if you'd like to come up by the podium we'll take these pictures quickly and then we can return to our seats
and before we can conclude I want to express our gratitude thank you to the
school board the superintendent music teachers principles and the families of these wonderful students your continuous support and encouragement Have Been instrumental in fostering and a thriving Fine Arts Community within our schools together we're creating an environment where creativity dedication and Excellence are celebrated thank you so much for being an integral part of our students artistic Journey [Applause]
congratulations and thank you all next up we have the res or um recognition of 20124 2025 School related employee of the year and teacher of the year and rookie of the year with Miss Carolyn crawl president of the clay Education Foundation and Kevy liry super supervisor of uh human resources
good e good evening school board members and superintendent brosi it is with great pleasure that I introduce three exceptional individuals who have made a significant impact on our school Community we're here tonight to recognize the teacher of the year school related employee of the year and rookie teacher of the year first please please join me in congratulating our
teacher of the year Miss Amanda [Applause] Watson Miss Watson is a sixth grade teacher teaching science and social studies at Orange Park Elementary School uh she's inspired both students and colleagues alike um Miss Watson's Innovative approach and unwavering commitment to Student Success have truly set a high standard for excellence in education personally it's been a joy to get to know Miss Watson as she's interacted with the clay Education
Foundation um constantly seeking out resources uh for her students uh through Tools for Schools and grants for great ideas so congratulations um next uh we have our school related employee of the year Misty Massie she's the principal secretary from Lake Asbury junor High School one of the quotes that stood out from her packet was from her principal Miss creel she said Miss Massie plays a key role in mentoring student AIDS
guiding them and building confidence and responsibility she actively teaches them critical organization skills the importance of completing tasks in a timely manner and how to communicate respectfully with adults on campus through our patience and guidance these students learn valuable skills that prepare them for future challenges both academically and professionally congratulations [Applause] and it's my pleasure to introduce a
remarkable educator uh who has made an outstanding impact in her first years of teaching so please welcome me in congratulating our rookie Teacher of the Year miss Sierra Harden science teacher from Bannerman Learning Center Miss Harden quickly became an invaluable member of Bannerman School Community demonstrating a high level of empathy for her students and enthusiasm for teaching when asked what advice she would give to a firste teacher she said
first and foremost build relationships with your students the foundation of any successful classroom is trust and students need to know that you care about them before they care about what you're teaching couldn't have said it better myself Sierra we're incredibly proud of Miss Harden and excited to see all the wonderful things that she will continue to achieve in the years to come please join me in celebrating all three of these remarkable individuals and their contributions to Klay County district [Applause]
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thank you all all very well deserved uh next up we have U recognition or recognize schools earning the Florida Department of Education purple star School of Distinction with Miss Kelly gilfoil director of climate
and culture thank you so much good evening board and Community the purple star schools of Distinction designation was established by the Florida legislature to recognize schools that support the unique needs of military families the criteria includes systems in place that help military connected students navigate critical challenges provide resources for military connected students when transitioning to a new school providing a extensive staff professional development centered around
the unique needs of military families and providing additional activities to those families of military connected students it is my privilege tonight to announce that three Clay County Schools have completed the rigorous application and eligibility process will be awarded this distinct honor at this time it is my privilege to introduce the Naval Air Station Jacksonville commanding officer Captain Greg dwin and the Bay School liaison officer Terry Wanamaker
uh good evening Mr superintendent board members uh families thank you for having me here it is a distinct pleasure and a privilege to be here um to present these Awards I think it was already said um it is so incredibly important for the military families who come to serve at Jacksonville to have a place a choice where they go and I can tell you standing here after 33 years of service I have not
found a better partnership for military families so I would just like to say thank you on behalf of all the family so thank you uh as I get ready to read the uh the names of the schools this is in no particular order so uh everyone is uh is right up there for the family so first I'd like to recognize purple star school of Distinction swimming Pen Creek Elementary
School please please come on up I will hand you the certificate afterwards I'll read it I'll read out all the schools please second Oakley Village Elementary School and
Coppergate Elementary School [Applause]
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[Applause] all right up next we have Safety and Security quarterly report from Mr Matt boak director of Safety and
Security superintendent honorable school board and members of the Clay County Community per section 101 21213 C Florida Statutes the office of safe schools is required to provide quarterly reports to each district school superintendent and school safety specialist identifying the number and percentage of schools including Charter Schools inspected or reinspected during that quarter and the number and percentage of inspected schools that that had no school safety requirement
deficiencies the school safety specialist shall present each quarterly report to the district school board in a public meeting our results are as follows in the second quarter of the 2425 school year the Clay County district schools had 15 schools inspected or reinspected by the FLD dooe office of safe schools this represents 34.9% of our schools 11 of our 15 inspected schools or 73.3% were found to not have any school safety requirement deficiency gencies this brings our running total to 15 out of 19 schools
having no compliance issues on the year to conclude I want to take time to applaud our school leaders teachers and support staff for all working together on a daily basis to keep our schools safe I am very proud of everyone's efforts and know we will continue to make safety a daily priority finally I would like to let the public know how seriously their Schoolboard and superintendent take school safety I greatly appreciate their passionate support and guidance as we continue ously go above and beyond what is legally required to keep clay schools
safe thank you and stay safe thank you Mr boak next up we have Career and Technical education uh presentation from Miss Kelly Mosley supervisor of Career and Technical education have to move this down a little bit following Matt up good evening and thank you for this opportunity to share about career and techn technical education in CTE month
and with the Super Bowl looming this weekend we thought that we would share our playbook for career in technical education in Klay County and so the first thing I wanted to talk about is our uh coaches and our trainers and so in Klay County district schools we have um in RCT Department we have Alice and myself as supervisors and then we have Mimi Hall who's a specialist in our ministrative assistant Mary along with seven College and Career coaches at each one of our Traditional High School which we're very fortunate to have and they
play an extremely important part in our graduation rate and supporting all of our incer and Tech teachers we have over 120 CTE teachers in our junior high schools and our high schools and we work really closely with our new teacher coach uh coaches out of the professional development department and uh Robin bosinger shop to make sure that those CTE teachers are supported and have the tools that they need to be successful because many of our c teachers actually come from industry um they didn't come
through a College of Education um like some of us did and so we have to help them learn how to become teachers as they're masters of their craft they're wonderful engineers and nurses and and carpenters and welders and so we work very closely with um the new teacher coaches to make sure that they they have the things that they need to be successful in the classroom so in terms of recruiting our teachers as well um we're also going to have to keep thinking outside of the box like our partnership with Clay County
Fire and Rescue and so I want to thank you guys for approving that um thatou last month and I personally want to thank Miss Troutman and all the work that she did in HR for helping us because that was something that we had never done before but we've already seen in the past month the great work that Lieutenant krider has done and we know that we're off to a great start there and keeping that uh fire and rescue program alive there at Orange Park so in terms of recruiting our students this
time of year is the time of year whenever we have all of our our College and Career coaches in a lot of our high schools that visit the eighth graders um we also have um we send out emails to all the parents and students with our CTE video and make sure that we have a link to our book um that we have shared with you guys you can check it out it has Pages for each high school and my favorite part of the book is the chart in the very middle that shows all of our different CTE programs that we offer
over uh 35 of them the different schools they're offered at and then the um industry certifications that each program is working um on students getting each um each year so we also have our College and Career coaches they go out to the junior high schools to promote their programs and then the school counselors are going to go out next week with the course selection sheets um so that they can decide on what they want to take in high school so in terms of training our teachers how
do we do that we have lots of Summer um curriculum planning sessions where they can get together with their colleagues across the the county to plan um we have PLC times every uh every month or twice a month on Wednesdays and that has if if there was one good thing that came out of covid I guess it was our ability to use Google meet and so for us in CTE we would always hear from our CTE teachers we wish we had more time to get together with the other culinary teachers or with
the other health science teachers and so fortunately we're able to do that on Wednesday afternoons and with their content plc's and they're able to get on a Google Google meet and collaborate with those teachers across the county uh and so also um our Florida Association of Career and Technical Educators they provide courses for our student or for our teachers there's professional development from doe and then all of our ad advisory boards that we have um they
are able to give us if if teachers need some Technical Training or things like that we're able to address that in our advisory boards we have 14 different advisory boards that meet two to three times a year most of them are virtually and they range anything from Health Science agriculture it digital design Keystone Heights High School has their own Advisory Board um for for all of their CTE programs and those teachers are able to um join their content area
as well but also in preparing like what are we going to do for the future every two years we have to have a comprehensive local needs assessment and I know some of you have participated in that um exercise whenever we go through that um Alice has been working hard on our Cape our career and professional Education Act strategic plan and then we also have curriculum Frameworks from doe that our teachers have to go by um in terms of thinking about what new programs to add we also reach out to our
regional Workforce and economic development Partners particularly Jack's USA to find out what are the areas and the jobs that are going to be coming forward in Northeast Florida to make sure that we have programs that align so that our students have a pathway after they leave Klay County district schools so who are who are our fans you know who are the ones that are that are cheering us on um and so some of those are our business partners and the way that we know that there are fans is because that
they are involved in our advisory boards they are they serve as guest speakers to our programs they host field trips to their facilities they serve on mock job interviews we have a lot of programs through their advisory boards that they make that one of their goals is that Juniors and seniors will have an opportunity to have a mock job interview and I know that several of you have served as mock job interviewers along with our business partners to help our students prepare um we have internship opportunities with viistar with Garber
and many other business partners Klay County Utility Authority and then our business partners they even Provide support it could be competition judges it could be financial support for our career and um technical student uh organizations we feel like our families are also our fans because we're able to provide scholarships uh field trips career exploration through our Career Fairs internships work based learning opportunities uh industry certification
dual enrollment options I mean what is not to love about Career and Technical education when you look at this list so when you look at the numbers like what is our score sheet what is what does it say on the scoreboard for Career and Technical education so last school year we had nearly 2,000 industry certifications earned by Clay County students for the 2023 2024 school year which is up over five certification over the previous year and we are extremely proud of that number and that's a
testament to the hard work of the teachers um preparing those students and those are nationally recognized industry certifications from Adobe from CompTIA from a AE ASE they are earning their CNA from the Florida Board of Nursing these are not these are not certifications from the Department of Education they're nationally recognized um and they are very very important as the students are developing their resume as I said we have over 120 CTE teachers we have 35
different programs in the school district you can see that from that chart in the middle of our book there's over 11,000 students enrolled in CTE programs in junior high school and in high school and those Junior High programs they will take a semester class so they they have many different options that they can take to explore what they want to do in those exploratory Junior High courses before they move on to high school we hold two College and Career events we hold one in September along
with um and we work with Klay County Education Foundation on these events and the event in the in September the families are able to come in the evening and then in each February during CTE month we bust any students who want to come to the fairgrounds for the career fair and that is during the school day so they have two different options to check that out and um we have nearly 70 businesses post secondary institutions and Military options that are already
registered for our career fair next week and we have almost 300 students that have registered for that event as well and we also offer two different Community tours every year each in the fall and the spring we open up our CTE program so that business partners can come and check out our programs and so we had uh rid viw in the fall and then in March we will have Keystone Heights High School that we're going to showcase for our spring Community tour so who were some of our MVPs you saw
several of them at the Apple Awards as Christy Fields was a top five teacher of the year finalist she teaches health science at middleberg high school and then Lane samples he teaches a out at oaklea high school he was a top 10 finalists um McKenzie Stone she was a u finalist for rookie teacher of the year she teaches a um at Lake Asbury junior high school and then this summer we basically cleaned up on all the facty the Florida Association of career and technical Educators Awards where we had several of our teachers that were
recognized as new teacher of the year um community service recognition and then Satie Durham who is a tremendous partner from Ascension Clay County she was recognized Statewide as the business partner of the year and last year Maria binkin from Lake Asbury Junior High School she was the national technology students of America adviser of the Year another one of our MVPs and this is an area that's very close to our heart Alice um me me and myself we were very
involved with our ctsos when we were teachers and so these are our Career and Technical student organizations and these these organizations give students opportunities for competitions for scholarships for field trips for leadership development and we are really proud of our ctsos as we have students that have competed locally and regionally and so in every one of these ctsos we have students that have qualified to go to State and so we
expect some of them to even compete for Nationals um skillsusa they're having their Regional competition tomorrow and Jake um Jake Allison at middleberg high school he said on Advisory board meeting today that this is the best automotive student he has and he thinks that we're going to have to pay for him to go to Nationals so Alice said bring it on we're ready we would love to see that so what is our draft plan for coming years so look Ming forward we are adding Advanced manufacturing at at
least two high schools and we're going to be starting with Orange Park High School um this upcoming year and then we're making sure that we keep updating equipment and Facilities through grant funding sources and so we have automotive equipment updated at um Clay High School middleberg and Orange Park as well as our business labs and a couple years ago we were able to add health science at ridg viw and then this year we added health science science here at Fleming Island high school so every single one of our high schools
offers Health Science to meet the demands of Healthcare in this region so what is our goal what is when we're looking at our scorecard our draft how we're recruiting our goal is to prepare students who are College and Career ready and students who are going to enroll enlist and become employed and we want to make sure that that you guys understand that is one team one clay our teachers our students our College and Career coaches our school counselor administrators business partners and so all of us together help our students to
discover Endless Possibilities thank you thank you Miss Mosley if it wasn't for the CTE Department neither my husband nor I would have the careers that we have so graduates from middleberg high school and uh I was in hosen he was in skills USA so and not to mention the the trades he has that carried on that is outside of his work um so thank you guys for that and all
that you do you you do an excellent job next up we have our School showcase with Oakleaf Junior High Principal Dixon good evening superintendent and board I
am principal Dixon wira Dixon the proud principal here at Oakleaf junior high school with my awesome Administration team we have Mr ellia as our assistant principal Mr Freeman and miss lafontant all a part of our Dynamic team here at Oakleaf Junior High School Oakleaf junior high is the home of the yellow jackets we often referred to it as the hive and part of the team that works with us we are for fortunate to have three school counselors one licensed mental health counselor we have a
military family life counselor a school social worker and we have athletic directors we have one position but we split it so we have two individuals who support our student athletes as well so at the hive we focus on honor integrity value and Excellence students here it every day those are our expectations and we think about how many times how often should we introduce or share those or remind students of those expectations every day and so with honor
be respectful to yourself teachers staff and peers and that Golden Rule of treat others the way that you would like to be treated integrity and to be honest and intentional in all that you do making those great choices those good choices all the time find Value in others and peers and then looking at you know as our students continue to grow we are in junior high and we make mistakes finding value and learning from those errors as well and we are there to support our kids and Excellence showing your best in
every way every day students hear that here at Oakleaf Junior High School we are proud to as I move into the academic highlights uh we were recognized at the principal's meeting for our attendance 93. 98% is our average daily attendance that's top for all junior high schools in the district and so at the hive here we think about honor integrity value and Excellence it's the school is a building right and everyone who comes to work and shows up for our students every day they
help our students feel like they're part of that team that really pushed that culture so students are excited to be at school and those engaging classrooms as we walk into every day that's very important so we're proud of that High attendance rate there so as we look back at the previous year the 24 uh 23 24 fast results we were excited about our Ela results as we were the top junior high school with a 14% increase in our proficiency 8th grade ELA we showed an
11% increase in proficiency from the previous year look at the algebra 96% proficiency and of course 100% proficiency with our geometry classes and of course there's a picture there you know we push students to go beyond the classroom and participating a little more and so we had the Veterans Day essay contest that was um presented by our the Orange Park our clay historical society and we had a winner
and so that's a picture of one of our students we were able to go into the civics class and present that award for our student there so let's look at this year so we we have the fast assessment we have that Baseline at the beginning of the year and then we completed our midyear assessment back in December so as you can see that you know with seventh grade ELA we've had a 7% increase from performance uh oh goodness uh that progress monitoring Baseline schol score in August to our second assessment in December so we're still
plugging away there you can see the eighth grade ELA an increase an overall proficiency from 47 to 56% you see that we're trending we're 8% above where we were last year at this time seventh grade math we've had an overall increase in proficiency from 18% to 34% so we're up by 6% there and you'll see the increase in our eth grade math from 21% to 49% and of course geometry an increase from the Baseline to midyear 38
to 66% there so we are proud to have a lot of the electives I know Miss Mosley mentioned early CTE we our students part of their day the academic day includes electives and so we do offer Aerospace agroscience where we do have a large group of students who participate in FFA or Future Farmers of America program we have our business Ed education classes career clusters coding digital information technology now the next two are family consumer
science and fashion design classes are a hit and so they go we start the first semester with family consumer science kids sign up for it because now in the spring they are in our fashion design class and there's a weit list and so students love that of course uh there uh technology introduction to technology and of course band you heard um our band from our band this evening we're so proud of our band uh business keyboarding our music appreci appreciation courses physical education
and we're excited to offer an introduction to Spanish exploring Spanish for our eighth grade students to give them a little bit of a an opportunity to learn a little bit before they move into the high school so that is a class with a weight list our kids love that class and we have an amazing teacher there and of course our television production and yearbook so what do we do to prepare our students for the uh the move up into junior high so this year looks a little different as we're all aware but what we
had in place last year and the year before is that vertical collaboration with our feeder schools and so it's right now we're in that process We Begin that in January and it goes through February and March where as an administrative team we actually go to visit our feeder School admin teams and it's an opportunity for us to have that discussion of our expectations what the daily schedule could look like what our electives look like of course to get feedback from the teachers at that school and to provide information
because there are a lot of questions about how uh they could best prepare they're Rising a seventh grade students to us and of course for the upcoming year Rising sixth and seventh grade students so one thing that we did last year that was a hit we had the opportunity to get buses for students who were moving up to us students were able to get on a bus from our feeder schools come spend a few couple of hours with us and so as students got off the bus our course they were out there they
had a chance to hear from our course as students entered the cafeteria they had the opportunity to hear three pieces from our band and then they could meet key individuals Administration team coaches because they're all excited about sports and so they have a chance to meet our coaches as well and key members on staff and we end the uh the visit with a tour through the school where our seventh and eighth grade students line the hallways and sidewalks welcome them Che the kids on as they get back on the bus to Headway so we felt as
a team it was so it's so important to yes go over to the feeder schools and talk to them about what we expect but it's it takes that edge off for kids if they have a chance to get a sneak peek into the school walk the campus before the first days or the summertime and of course we do have our buzz and Web Camp a buzz Web Camp in July where students who are new to Oakleaf Junior High get to spend four hours with us and it's an opportunity to meet our eighth grade students who are trained as mentors we
have a lot of collaborative activities where students can make connections with their peers from other schools maybe some kids who are coming from their current school as well but then during that time students have the opportunity to follow a schedule learn how to open locks and lockers they have the opportunity to learn about life at the hive and our expectations and then of course orientation orientation for students will occur in August and of course our
open house so let's go beyond the classroom what can students do because at the beginning of the year with my first newsletter as a team we encourag families to push students beyond the classroom focus on the academics but what can you do outside of the classroom because we say our students have infinite potential and it's an opportunity we have American sign language which is huge this year it's new and so it was a Pex classroom so at 8:30 in the morning we had to take additional Chairs into the classroom
because kids were so interested and of course when we think about that vertical alignment the cadet Color Guard where we collaborate with Oakleaf High School where some of our students are able to participate chess club is a big hit um we have our comic Club crew Dungeons and Dragons Future Farmers of America our lady Stingers which is a mentor group on campus our math Team National Junior Honor Society Robotics and student council in the of course that picture up there is um a picture from one of the meets at uh we went over to St John's
County to Patriot Oaks um Academy to uh compete and so our students had a wonderful time there and there are some up close pictures there of our kids at that robotics competition lot of dedication there the kids arrived at 8 and the competition ended at 4 on a Saturday and they've had four opportunities and they love it of course you'll see a picture there that's in our gym our kids are working on on planks at during PE and then of course you'll see some pictures from our
Buzz webcamp the one at the top is our it's our teacher working with students training eighth graders as mentors for our students and of course you'll see the gym there where we have had students on campus for four hours during that summer day which we will follow up and have again this year we have a variety of sports here uh beyond the classroom as well uh we'll highlight our basketball team our girls basketball team um last week District or
Conference champions as well and so right now we are proud to say that we're one of two junior high schools to offer cross country it is a huge program and we're fortunate to be a part of that as well we just selected our baseball and softball team so those seasons are coming up so feel free to stop by and check out some games and of course our track and field team as well and of course there's a picture there um our girls soccer team made it to the finals and a picture of our
conference Champion team uh our basketball team pictures from our cross country team there so fun times here at the hive so you had a chance to hear a little bit from our band kids enjoy band and our CH concerts we have our family engagement nights where we have an opportunity to connect with families outside of an open house or orientation or parent conference it's so important for us to make those connections with families and
students in a different way um our game nights our trivia nights field trips Washington DC our students had that awesome opportunity to go last year we took 93 total students last year and we're getting ready for another trip coming up here soon and an awesome we were able to add a day trip to Anapolis and so students are getting ready for that week-long trip as well we have a trip coming up to Kennedy Space Center so our language arts team collaborated with science and we're looking at those
standards to support across the curriculum so kids have an opportunity to attend Kennedy to attend that trip SeaWorld is coming up and of course at the fair we have our FFA Future Farmers of America students participate and of course we have our eighth grade grad Adventure we celebrate our students for their accomplishments throughout the year with honor rooll celebrations during our lunchtime because I tell kids they have that one job and it's tough as a kid especially in junior high and so we do work hard to
celebrate our students for those accomplishments uh we do have the lady Stinger tea that happens in the spring we were so excited to participate in the second annual Oakleaf Community Christmas parade we participated last year and so we were able to participate again so it's so important for us to make those connections within the community beyond the school building we have picnics throughout the year school dances we actually have a dance coming up on tomorrow night and um we've had our skate nights and our spirit weeks where students and
staff collaborate and have a lot of fun together so as we look ahead The Hive will expand to include sixth grade students next year so we're moving from three feeder schools to five where we will welcome students from Coppergate Elementary Discovery Oaks Oakley Village Plantation Oaks and tin's Elementary at The Hive I say we have a team of professionals who actively collaborate to provide a safe fun
engaging and learning environment for all students the results core content academic area success awardwinning academic team award-winning music programs and sports programs we have an amazing community of students with infinite potential and we start the year with this bulletin board just in case no one told you today hello you belong here and we believe in you you're awesome so important for our students to hear that our staff to hear that and as I tell my team and we told them on Wednesday it's
the folks it's it's the people who are in the building we work hard we show up for our kids we love our jobs every day and we appreciate the opportunity to serve the students families and our community here in clay so in appreciation of our superintendent and board members we have a token of appreciation for you and so um we will just a token of appreciation from The Hive I'm a moment to
here you got okay
thank you for your time and your service to us and it is our pleasure to serve as the administration team at Oakleaf Junior High [Applause] thank you very much uh at this time it
will be the last call for comment cards last call for comment cards and seeing none for um the consent agenda we're going to move on and there's no special action for um A or B we're going to open up the public hearing for D3 to uh approve as advised the 2023 2024 through 25 2026 policies and procedures
manual if anyone would like to speak on this um you can come forward you don't have to have a comment card please state your name and address
hi Bruce Freedman address on file um regarding policy and procedure changes again this is the fifth time since I moved here make sure that the policy which includes the desire to protect children from harm is aligned with the procedure so that there's actual action I could read every book in all your life libraries if I lived forever shouldn't be on my plate at all they should have
already been read by your very large staff Mr fredman I I just want to stop you real quick this is for ese policies es yes sir I'm going to drop the ball here thank you for your time thank you sir anyone else see none uh can I get a motion to approve the
advertise 2023 2024 through 2025 2026 policies and procedures manual I'll move approval I got a motion from Miss Hansen can I get a second second second from Mr Alo any discussion see none all in favor signify by saying I I any opposed motion carries 5
and we're going to continue with the uh a Gabel out of the public hearing and continue with our um consent agenda uh the board has a
proclamation 25-9 procla uh proclaiming February 2025 as Black History Month and Proclamation 2510 proclaiming March 2025 as Career and Technical Education Month uh and before we adopt the consent agenda I just want the record to reflect that c19 has been withdrawn on from um the consent
agenda can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved I got approval from Miss gilen can I get a second I have a second from Miss Clark any discussion seeing none please signify by saying I I any um opposed any opposed sorry none motion carries 550 Miss onora I clicked the wrong button if you don't
mind correcting that for me thank you I voted I for the record and at this time we are going to have um presentations from the audience first up is Miss Judith um Chapelle and then on deck will be Mr
Nova good evening Judith Chappelle and my address is on file after watching the workshop and listening to your discussion concerning teacher and student interaction over social media I would like to address the board on this issue I'm not speaking to you as e8th grade Michaela's grandmother because she's not allowed on social media she does not have access to
Facebook Snapchat Instagram Tik Tok or any other social media platforms I know it's old school parenting forgive me however I would like to speak to you as possibly 10th grade 11th grade or 12th grade Michaela's Grand mother Michaela does have access to
Synergy Google Classroom the band app that A Chorus teacher uses and to me for protection and privacy of both the students and your teachers I would like to advise you to ask your teachers to refrain from contacting students on any personal or social media
apps it is in my opinion an appropriate no I take that back we are all aware of what is considered inappropriate that's not what I'm talking about here I am talking about what is seemingly becoming an improper it is improper for a teacher to
be liking a teenagers a teenage students pictures being a teenager it is improper for a student to be a teacher's Facebook friend and therefore intimately connected to every personal
aspect of a teacher's life I would implore you to ask your teachers to refrain from contacting a student on a personal app every organization has a Facebook way of communicating every political every church and every organization I'm a member of all of them and all of them have ways of being
contacted for the protection of our students and for the protection of your teachers do not have them contact anyone on a personal means of communication thank you Mr Nova
hello echon NOA address on file I have a couple of points uh that are somewhat related I'll try to move through quickly uh the first is on the um issue of all the recent ice advancements um I would uh from my own political standpoint encourage that we just ban ice from our school grounds
entirely but I know that a lot of school districts have been providing guidances to allow them on grounds based on certain U procedures and things like that so at the very least I would like to encourage that those laws and procedures be followed to the very letter uh because I consider the existence of ice and other enforcement dealing with these issues as bullying harassment by the federal government um and that needs to be
counteracted um um it's traumatizing to not just students that are being affected by it by but by all students um who are having to deal with the existence of potentially a police and military State the second one also relating to the executive orders that um also doing the ice stuff is with all the trans existence bans being done by the federal government we need to push back on all these it's one thing if it was being
done by the state as has been done for the past few years but now with the forway of the federal government behind it it is a genocide against my community and we need to push back against it um any action not taken by all of us hurts all of us um and my community does not need need to be relegated as a second class citizenship ESP especially trans girls um in regards to things like sports and inclusion and other activities
um something that I've been noticing in the past few months has been the push back against uh including links in books um things about like Trevor Project and other organizations for my community these spaces are for us to exist outside of the normal system that has been um in the past we need these spes protected
um pushing back against these um organizations and these books that exist in the library um really just says that we don't exist at all um and we cannot have that um I think that's all I have for now so thank you
thank you and I would just like to say Mr Brasi you can correct me if I'm wrong but we're going to follow the laws of the governor and the president um here in Clay County yes ma'am that'd be correct in fact doe has put out a um information related to that thank you sir next up is Miguel
hello good evening uh Clay County District board leaders in the community I just uh the theme would be transparency and accountability as I make this speech sir can you just state your name and your address Sor my name is Miguel last initial o my address is on file okay thank you yes um if you visit the school district uh website and click on the menus button you will see a picture of a beautiful blond headed young girl BL blue or green eyes with a metal utensil smiling as she eats her food
from a white plate I'm just curious on when and where that picture was taken out of field teaching chapter 102 section 42 mandates that the school board notified the parents of all students in where an out of field teacher is teaching in in an area outside of their field of expertise my last Point here is to inform this District School Board that I intend to formally address all the procedural violations in our child's individual education plan under the
individual with disabilities Education Act specifically that the current and past IEP contract lacks meaningful short-term objectives or benchmarks for the measurable annual goals which are essential for ensuring our child's progress under a federal law an IID IEP must include short-term objectives or benchmarks for students taking assessments these bench benchmarks are crucial for breaking down annual goals go into manageable steps also they provide a clear framework to evaluate
and track our child's progress as well and ensures that IEP reflects our child's unique needs the only reason our child has a set of short-term objectives on their current IEP this year is because I spoke up when I saw the area for short-term objectives was being left blank I it was my request to receive a copy of the IEP seven days in advance before the yearly meeting that I was able to catch this and table this discussion if it were up to the district's way of doing it the draft IEP
would have been presented the day of the meeting along with the expectation that the child's parents signed that sign what the district has proposed without objection when I asked the I is specialist SL IE case manager slse instructor yes it's one person with three titles when I asked them why they don't have measurable annual when I asked them how can we have a measurable annual goal without any me meaningful short-term goals or objectives their answer to me at the meeting was that's
not how we usually do it which to me was not acceptable and shows me the whole thing special education is a sham at Short shortterm objectives are where the rubber meets the road and where the work begins so in closing the same way our child's IEP lacks meaningful short-term annual goals and objectives is the same way this District lacks transparency when it comes to disclosing out of field teaching assignments the same way that the picture of the elementary child is eating a nutritional meal for lunch thank
you Mr fredman Miss Hig Botham you're on Deck thank you again Bruce Freedman address file um there's a small child sitting in front of me and made sure her mother
covered her ears not going to say any profane words but these are words found in a book in Clay Hill Elementary the dreaded Office of the Knight had only one function it was to check out accusations of homosexual sex the penalty public wh whipping Exile castration death by burning someone had anonymously accused four men of having sex with a male prostitute itute again none of those words are going to get the book thrown out of the library but all
of them should have led someone some level of oversight and supervision to move it away from kindergarten get it out of the elementary schools this community has had numerous lessons in failed oversight and what happens as a result there was a news story recently where someone's bad adult Behavior was blamed on a porn addiction where do you think that starts clean up the mess I've submitted one formal challenge we'll call this an informal challenge you do what you do have a great
day M hi Botham good evening constant Hib my address is on file um I want to talk about what the U CL education retired is doing and uh for teachers and for students this month we will send out our
third n weeks motivational letters for new teachers in Clay County and it's simply a letter that gives them tips for running the classroom contacting parents phone calls and Etc based on the experience level of the teachers in the retired local uh also I'd like to talk about we are this month conducting our Black History Month essay contest for grades four through six we're anxious to see those results and hand out the awards for that next month we'll be doing women history month for senior high schools and um hand out awards for that we uh recently participate in the
K2 literacy night here at Fleming Island High School great success the kids were fabulous they uh completed a literacy activity they received a free book and a free backpack from the retired Educators and um some uh in fact one particular little boy came back to the table five times and he said if I do another activity can I get another book so that was just really heartwarming as a former educator um also we attended the science fair and were scores graders judges whatever the term is and uh had a fabulous time there
the the enthusiasm the presentation level the knowledge level everything was just wonderful for those children we as an organization give a pride of the it's called Pride the spirit of the fair award for $100 to one student out of the group and we were so moved by all we saw we will be giving two Awards on the 10th at Richview high school so thank you for allowing us to be part of the Clay County School Board project thank
you all right thank you uh seeing no more cards we're going to move to Miss Vicky Kidwell with the ccea update
good evening um thank you for the opportunity to share the voices and experiences of your Educators in Clay
County district schools last week um CCA made a social media post about veteran teacher salaries and that upset some people in the district we were accused of sharing inaccurate and misleading information I agree that the information was upsetting to see in print however I assure you that it was accurate factual and designed to Spur conversation determination and we hope action tonight I want to share some additional information about teacher veteran
teacher salaries I'm sharing all of this data not to diminish in any way the gains that Klay County district schools has made in raising salaries for educators I'm going to gladly pause right now and acknowledge with gratitude and willingness the willingness of this school board and the district to stretch and agree to significant salary increases over the past years I also gratefully acknowledge your willingness to fund insurance premium increases in
order to prevent Insurance costs from negatively impacting salary gains for everyone but current salary data for veterans still paints a bleak picture there are a lot of teachers there are a lot of factors that have brought us to where we are today with salaries many are outside the control of the district and of ccea our salary schedule is an entryonly salary schedule where an employee is hired they are placed on the salary schedule for
their experience level but after that that schedule has no impact on their salary automatic salary increases for experience often called steps are were eliminated over a decade ago when the legislature mandated performance pay be the criteria used for salary increases each year when the salary increases are B bargained our negotiations are often Bound by rules and mandates that are passed by the
legislator I have given you copies of the salary schedules from the 200920 contract and the current contract so you can view them once on the back of the other I want you to pay attention to the highlighted salary lines year 25 26 and 27 the E the CCA Facebook post was a comparison of a 27-year teacher on on the 200920 salary schedule with a salary of 60,000 and a 27-year teacher on the 2425
salary schedule at 545 you can see that counter to all we know about economics Clay County District school's salary schedule over the last 15 years has actually decreased because the salary schedule doesn't share the whole picture I'm also sharing actual salary data from the 2425 salary rate report using the data from the bargaining session in 2425 we can see a real picture of how
veteran teacher salaries compare with starting teacher salaries recall that the 2425 salary starting salary was raised to 485 data for teachers working 27 years shows that 68% or 23 of the 34 teachers that are at that 27e Mark had a base of 56 250 at 27
years now I'm not going to go through all the data that I gave you on the next page but I want you to really look at that because we had one of our crack mathematicians that works here at clay she's a great teacher go through that data and give real data about real salaries these are real people's salaries that you're seeing there in December 2023 the inflation adjusted median household income in Florida was
66776 based on the US sensus 2023 66776 median income it may be unpleasant but it is necessary to focus our attention on salary data that reveals a disturbing reality for veteran teachers the goal here is not shame and blame but instead to bring understanding and spur action this data does not lie it paints a
picture of the financial struggles contributing to the anxiety and the dissatisfaction of Veteran teachers in clay thank you for being brave enough to see it I had several people reach out to me and these are their comments in their words I'm a 21-year educator in clay this year my salary was 52,000 that's 3,500 more than a brand new teacher with no experience I've been in the district 22 years and my salary is 53 knowing that I
am worth a mere $3,766 more than a brand new teacher to our district it's demoralizing I'm a 26-year teacher and my salary is 55 559 55590 I work a night job I teach summer school I do all of that just to pay my bills I looked back at my contract at 29 years my contract pay was
57,000 this year I've completed 32 years in Clay County and my current contract pay for2 2425 is 619 when I recall that 15 years ago I looked at the salary schedule and I thought it would make 60,000 at 29 years it's very depressing 32 years 61 it's discouraging I entered drop after 32 years when they averaged my top five years for my drop
retirement I did not break 60,000 thank you for listening thank you and I encourage all veteran teachers especially um but any teacher to uh partake and listen in our bargaining meetings uh next up is our s update Mr Lonnie Roberts don't see him present so we're going to hand it over to
superintendent Broski for his update and presentation I'm excited I'm excited so let's go we'll go quickly through this schools of the month let's go ahead and uh our very first one is McCrae Elementary they do a great great job out there SBJ is doing fantastic also we appreciate the work out there February is family February get on there vote for for your favorite school thank you to Community First for being a good Community partner and sponsoring that event they get the big pencil that
you've seen at many of the schools in the front office as well as a a lunch involved in that my favorite thing to do is when I go out to visit students this is Lindsay from shadon Fantastic student out there at shadon they're they're kind of a little shy like uh when you first see them in there and certainly Lindsay was the lady on the left um angel It's Kind of a Funny story that's green That's Green Cove Springs uh junior high and that night
usually when I give the student the uh the sign and the certificate and all that I usually joke with them and I say hey I'm going to drive by your house and see if that sign's out there kind of thing is a joke and they laugh and all that well I got a picture on my cell phone which I don't know how this happened but there was a picture of Angel in the front yard with the sign and I tracked it down it was Frank Jenkins who was a custodian at um ridw high school for many many years and
somehow had my phone number and that's his granddaughter so it's kind of like a small world I'm like who's stalking me on my phone I was worried like oh who had this happen kind of thing uh great kid and then and then Christopher at middleberg high school um not sure quite what to say about Christopher his character he's he's involved in um he's the manager of several sports teams over there and the kids have really taken a liking to him and brought them in and it
was a it was a really special um visitation there literacy week fantastic week you know I couldn't do it without without you know kind of showing this trying to show a little bit about reading I try to talk about a little different each time you can see the eight eight strands of reading so if you look at reading typically visually it's easy to see it all forms into a rope the thing like to point out about it is that each one of those skills are individual right so in theory you can go ahead and
assess students to figure out what area they're not as strong in and then you work to improve that we do that through our mtss process by which we assess students and say okay if a student has a particular deficit then we want to work to improve that deficit it's kind of a common sense almost like a doctor diagnoses and then provides a um a remedy for whatever the diagnosis was okay Florida has a little different system they only go by six so you can
see the six areas of reading and we're talking specifically about the science of reading which was a big Push by the state you can see the six and then you see the plus4 four forms of assessment and then students are either in tier one tier two and tier three and as a student uh has more difficulty they would move up the tiers providing more support so the students can in fact fact read better reading is not a be all end all you don't read or not read you read at
various levels of reading and that's dependent upon how strong your rope is and how many of the skills within reading you have so that's my best two minutes of reading uh instruction uh it was fantastic all the students out there you see uh they're all evidence-based curriculums that we have out there students are provided targeted support and small small groups in order to close the gaps uh our annual early literacy night I I think I spent
like uh six different event nights with Miss Hansen out there like almost in a row it was you me and Sue yeah so so she was there playing Legos with a kid I didn't get that picture though uh on the floor there of the uh right here actually right there she was doing that that was a fantastic event thank so thankful for everybody that uh gave their time to put the event on uh then we had some celebrity readers the left is is Aaron Bean our
Congressman he was out at op and also at Patterson Elementary I don't know who that guy is in the middle but I sure I'm enjoying that moment because that that little guy right there with the glasses on was ABS absolutely precious and when we did a group photo he like got he's like put his arm around the top of me but he wasn't tall enough and it's kind of like awkward looking but uh you know just to see the excitement in their eyes as a secondary
person every time I go to an elementary school it's like a new uh a new Awakening when you see young people and just joyous to learn and then you see Miss Hansen Dr Hayward out there for the big event at Wilkinson she really throws throws out the gauntlet for reading out at Wilkinson uh Elementary School for sure uh one of the things you don't know is that's the older students go down you know older students from the high school if you're an athlete at the high school when you go to elementary school you're
a big deal you're a big deal if you show up with your football jersey on or that kind of thing so the students see those students they come down there they're integrating in there uh in fact they probably listen to them better than the other adults right because they're closer to their closer to their age so thank you for that cross curriculum CTE month no doubt I I was going to say this while Kelly and Alice were still here our CTE program is second to none in the
State of Florida uh it's renowned by all of the counties uh because we've got the the mix of having our CTE program strategically spread out among our schools and there's virtually nothing that we don't offer in Clay County schools for a student to get a trade I'd also kind of point out that um if 40 4% of students wind up uh taking the fast friend are going to go on a College Bound track that would mean that the
vast majority of students do not go on a College Bound track so what are you doing for those students and so that's why CTE is is such a great uh opportunity I think that that might have been my signal but I'm going to tell you anyway 19 Skippers saying she told them to do that so I don't know if that's true or not but I'm going to find out right no I'm kidding I watch they're doing that she like she said the 1900 uh industry certifications fantastic career fair um
that's February 13th 8:30 to 12:30 at the fairgrounds uh be out there for that I've been to that and I've seen parents walking around with their students and kind of trying to get their job get them a job there that's kind of interesting when you're trying to push the student out uh out the door so one thing we are need of you know that they're looking for professional clothing all the high schools are looking for professional clothing so if you cleaned out your
closet and you find any of those items LA and navy specifically dress pants those kinds of things for mock uh mock interviews etc for students we put that plug in Florida Prepaid scholarship you know we have a a um partnership with Florida Prepaid we give out two scholarships a year they're valued at eight 8,000 each if you have um you can enter until February 14th I'll tell you
I've got two boys we did both of those I I thought it was valuable to inflation proof college education so if you started now it's as low as in the 20s let's see $29 would be what it would be now upcoming events uh we're actually we have a collaboration with ccso and the FBI and it has to do with smartphone safety you know one of the things that parents have talked about is how the
electronic devices that students have sometimes the safety of those uh their ability to operate those is far superior than the adults that supervise them right so teaching the parents what uh cell phones are used for and some of the things to look out for uh with your child in regard to their use of the cell phone okay so it's a great collaboration it's going to be at ridw high school Thursday February 27th we appreciate the
partnership with ccso on on that very important information for young to protect young people when it comes to cell phone safety you could also see it's Black History Month and CTE month National School counseling week um interims are available on February 7th it's also crossing guard Appreciation Day National SRO day on February 15th President's Day uh The District spelling be Elementary early dismissal there's no
shortage of things if I could let me just address salary and some of the comments related to salary you know one of the things that uh I think Miss Kidwell was trying to do at the beginning might have been drowned out a little bit was the recognition of the work of the board in recent years so I'll give you a little a little data this is data that I commit to memory over the last four years the district had has provided an additional $54 million towards compensation of our employees if you go back in the entire
history of Klay County Schools that's more than double any other four-year period in Klay County school so I I appreciate the recognition for that I'll also say and I think every board member would also say that we think that vetan teachers is an area of focus that we all need to focus on okay and I guess when I look at it um I do that and then I say okay yeah there's more work to do and um
I think we're all committed Partners in the work to do that uh but also want to stress the um the amount not only the insurance last year that was $2 million plus the others and when you add it all up it's more than double what any other four-year period was and I'm proud of the board proud for your support uh related to that and I just wanted to to recognize that so everybody would see that are there struggles uh with it yeah AB absolutely you know I'm not denying
that there struggles with it I'm just merely trying to point out a lot of work by this board has been done um recently so I appreciate that thank you so much thank you so much rosi uh we're going to move on to Schoolboard attorney remarks any all righty now we're going to move to school board member remarks we'll talk uh or we'll start with Miss Hansen that's okay okay sorry started
love to go first um thank you Mr Broski for recognizing the work of this board with the district um I made a few comments and I guess I could say I'm going to push back a little bit because when I was a teacher and I've had to say this before but let me tell you why I'm going to push back I've been visiting schools and by the time we have our next board meeting meeting I would have visited 22 schools I make myself available after school in the media center for an hour
of these 22 schools because I understand the importance of listening authentically listening to administrators to teachers about their students this board is undertaking a giant task with the district on updating every single policy we have including the addition of new policies we never had it is important that stakeholder input is heard and
valued on that note many teachers who talk to me have talking points similar to what we heard tonight and when I tell them what this board has done in the last couple of the years they're almost in disbelief what happened during the years and I'm very very passionate about this so I'm going to beg for your forgiveness ahead of time for 10 years when I was a
teacher in Clay County I didn't get a raise that was a different board a different time when I retired in my n my 20th year I had never made $50,000 ever so I do not want to sit and here because the problem was created long before I fought to have this job and this board sits and it is the easiest thing in the world we as a
united front to talk about veteran teachers and make sure they are the focus of this board and so I'm kind of I get a little bit bothered by the fact that we're talking about it now when I didn't hear a word about it for 10 years when I didn't get a raise I even went down one year probably had something to do with Healthcare I talked about this the last time I was at a meeting the messaging is wrong we have to do a better job because I believe our veteran teachers a couple years ago and I'm just going to say I believe on this the top of the salary
scale when I retired was 50,000 veteran teachers not this salary schedule and I believe now that has been improved I want to say it's back up to 55,000 for regular teachers not this schedule so I will do some research on that and I will make sure I make a clarification if I'm wrong that's the doing of this board another thing is not only are our
teachers valuable they have great ideas I'd be um pleased to let the board know that I've taken a lot of notes over the last couple of weeks and will continue to do so feedback on what they would like with new policies our teachers are actually brilliant they're great communicators they care a lot about Klay County schools and Klay County students the other thing I wanted to say was that Klay County Schools after a
week I I spent more time with Mr Broski than I have um with my husband in the last month he is at Fort Brag but I just want to say uh Clay County schools and all the activities they do from supporting Eagle Scout ceremonies literacy guest readers five Fine Arts fine arts program a very fine fine arts program with all the the
directors and chorus teachers it almost makes me a little emotional think how much time our faculty gives to make our kids great so in the future I'd like everyone to understand that when this board goes behind closed doors it's all about our veteran teachers it's not about our new teachers not at all actually I'm just going to tell you when it comes to money for me it's not about the new teachers I
believe every dime that we can afford to go to veteran teachers and I'm just going to leave it at that lastly I wanted to say that I'm going to have some office hours on February 13th in Keystone Heights at the library from 3 to 5 o'cl but miss wat could you help me out I don't know how somebody would sign up um How Will I let them know is there a place to go on the website ye or yes what we can do is we
can take that Google form link and we can link it up to the Schoolboard page and um maybe we can even add it we have on our website now if you scroll to the bottom you have an event so we can link it there as well so we can put it in two places okay because um whenever I have time I want to do that and I just want people to know so it maybe we can link it under the Schoolboard page it'll be on the Schoolboard page and then it'll be considered an event okay um so it'll
with our new website that is going to be at the bottom and then people can add it to their calendar if they want but it will include the link for interested citizens to sign up for a time to meet with you in 15minute increments okay I appreciate you because it's a new website and I had no idea what to say yes yes um and lastly for the parent who advocated for their ESC student as an ESC teacher with a masters in ESC thank you for always advocating for your ESC student that's it Miss
Clark I just want to quickly say thank you to the staff of Oakleaf Junior High you you all do a great job and the positive attitude that's what we need more of for our students thank you and I also want to thank Mr Taft at Green Cove junior high for always getting the annual naturalization ceremony that is always amazing to and we had 50 new citizens
from 29 different countries and it's just always amazing to see it done the right way so my last uh I really try hard to promote the CTE and what Clay County has because we are Head and Shoulders above or of surrounding communities and it just amazes me how many people will say well why don't we do vocational Ed and I'm going are you kidding me but
it it's great when I can go to the other brokerages here in the in the county and take these books that Alice will get me plenty of and share the different programs from Veterinary to nursing it's just you know we've really got something special so there are a lot of parents that don't know about any of this so anytime you have a chance to let them know please do thank
you Mr [Music] ala I'd like to share that I've been working with T stock and children Tak talking children is a Statewide program that helps kids with low coming from lowincome backgrounds who have limited career opportunities we provide them with the chances to join careers and Technical education after they graduate from from high school or if they decided to go to college we also through take
stocking children we provide the funding that they need to be able to continue a you know a career we also I want to also thank you Clay County fire department and jackville fire department because they are working with me to be able to provide children that interested on join the first responder career they are providing mentorship and and opportunities to join the academy while take stock in children and provide the funding and thank you guys for coming to
school board meetings R go January's been a busy month um you guys have hit on a lot of the things that um were highlights this month I think celebrating so much success um with our teachers and teacher of the year and our support staff support staff of the year um just it's been a month full of Pride watching um athletic competitions and visiting schools um getting to enjoy
books with children at just personal note there's nothing more fun than that for me um and I've been KN deep in it in my day job too um developing A literacy initiative where I work and um just seeing kids fall in love with literature um there's a quote I came ac across in the last couple weeks my favorite author personal note CS Lewis um one of his quotes about literacy is that we read to know that we're not alone and I think
that's so important um as we celebrate literacy this month that um books draw us together and help us find common ground and um that's all I have for tonight January has been a very busy month and when I I jokingly say it but I'm so serious I don't think I was home for the whole month um we had had a lot of celebrations here in Klay County and I I I got I missed a lot of them from not being here however I had very unique
opportunities from um training experiences that I I had down south um getting the opportunity um to meet with several elected officials asking questions on Where our education system is headed um what the plans are I don't really know that many people exactly know um what what's going to happen but um that was a unique opportunity I I got to experience um but I wanted to say um and I know
superintendent Broski touched on it um but we had Congressman Bean come to our district to not only read for lit early literacy um week but he came to celebrate our district um I don't know if many of you know this but he was our um he was the former chair of um the education committee for K through 12 and when he found out that um we were responsible for a number one school here
in Clay County and an um number 10 he was excited and um very anxious to get here to celebrate clay uh there's a lot of work that goes into that teachers staff um but ultimately our students uh we as a board have to provide those tools for our teachers so that our kids can succeed and um they've done a phenomenal job at that and
um it was a unique experience no matter what side of the aisle you're on but Congressman Bean had the opportunity to share um on the floor of of the house uh the recognition of our two schools so that our nation can know that Clay County um is doing well well and and and we're here doing doing our job so I thought that was very unique and uh a pretty cool experience he gave U the
schools a flag that flew over top of the capital um I'm very patriotic I come from a patriotic family so that was a little emotional for me I thought that was very a very wellth thought out gift um but speaking of board training I wanted to discuss with our board uh what date do do we want to do the full seven hours and one sitting for our Master board training reer recertification with
our new board member and for those of you that don't know um we took masterboard training and um now that we have a new member we have to up that training so we have seven additional hours that we need to complete so I need direction from you all do we want to do it in one sitting do we want to split it up and when do we want to do it so miss Gil what is your thoughts we'll start with you I'm either way I can make it
work with my schedule um I know we had talked about doing parliamentary procedure as well so if we do those two things together would it be 7 hours still or would we be extending that they are two separate right entities so um it would be separately okay so you don't want to do them on the same day that would be I mean we could do a full day of that yeah I don't know how long the part parament Parliament parliamentary procedure um training would actually be so that's something that we may need to find out but um that's seven hours plus
whatever that would be okay I just wasn't sure if it would be worth splitting those into two days and then putting the Parliamentary procedure on one of those days or if we should do them separately I don't I like I said I can make it work either way I have a question to the board we're going to be going over maybe redoing some of our protocols is that something we can do all one day I mean talk about them change them type them up or is that something we want to talk about change them come back and finalize like can we
actually I know last time when we worked on our protocols uh we kind of took our time with those and we had some time with the documents and came back together and made our changes what do you think about that part so maybe in that light two days would be better than one so Miss Clark yeah I think cramming had all into one would be a bit much I think we need to at least make it to Mr alier yeah I agree to days I think two
days would have worked best can just split it down divide seven and a half okay now what day would you guys like to do it all do we have um availability from fsba um I think our Direction was we were going to give the days and then because they were very open correct okay okay
okay okay let's start off with two dates that we are okay with doing and do you want to do it afternoon would that be better for you um probably morning okay so I have the oldfashioned calendar here because you know what happens when you get my age I don't use a little digital calendar but when I was looking through here I know that in March I we have a lot of right as of right now a lot of free available open days and the first two weeks of April um look pretty empty so did you
want it sooner or would that be okay I mean last two weeks of March first two weeks of April I am out of town uh the 14th through the 23rd of March which is spring break so we would we would just not do spr not I'm talking about 2th through the 28th are any of you available mhm any of those days on what days the 24th of March through the 28th any of those days I'm
open every single day except for the 25th it's a value adjustment board I have to be there okay Mr Alo is okay Mr Alo is available the 24th I can do the 24th okay because the 25th we have a workshop MH okay can you do the 24th with SK I can um I don't know the length of the workshop would you guys want to combine four hours of this with
a workshop day I mean I to to me that would save some I have to attend I'm mandatory attendance at the value adjustment board at 1:30 on that day after the workshop okay they had to move it for me y okay so the 24th so the 24th in the morning would be better for me if we morning any anytime in the morning as long as it's after 7:30 okay so can we do you guys is 9 too late for you okay so you want to do N9 on the
24th and we'll see the 24th at 9: and then um so March 24th at 9:00 a.m. for the first half and then the second half would you want to do the next week which is April um the 31st through um the 4th so are we going 9 to 11:30 or 9 to 12:30 yes
yeah the second okay I'm open the second has anyone open the second the second's fine for me hold on I'm adding this to my calendar you said April 2D April 2D misses are you available April 2 okay I can do April 2nd but it have to
be morning at 9:00 am yep okay can we do April 2nd at 9:00 am as our second let's start with those days and see what they say and then we'll we'll rediscussed okay so to be clear March 24th at 9:00 a.m. and April 2nd at 9:00 a.m. and then miss Bonnie will let us know if that does not work out um and then lastly just look for look for our school board
flyer it's coming out we're going to do a uh monthly or quarterly flyer and um oh yeah I'll let you do that and then lastly um I saw today the governor had requested for more teacher pay so that's um that's exciting news Mr so one of the things that was voted on today was the change to the student schedule as you know we've had several uh hurricanes and now winter
storm so we've exceeded the uh the number of days that we couldn't mess with having to make them up so the day that's now going to be made up is fair day will be a school day uh so we'll get the word out it was just voted on tonight we'll put it out everywhere we can put it out but start spreading the word that we'll have a regular school day on the day that was formerly fair day so thank you so much thank you this meeting is a journ