I think we're gonna go ahead and get started I would like to call this meeting to order today the regular media negates the Park Board of Education today December 17th thank you for coming
roll call please here Christie shortly let's go ahead with the invocation pastor Barry David of Landmark Community Church will deliver the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance will follow so
please rise let us pray father we are in the season of celebrations the giving of the most valuable gift the world has ever seen that brings joy and love and peace thank
you for this Christmas season we are grateful for the first half of the school year and all that has been accomplished we thank you for our superintendent her staff for our Board of Education and their focused efforts
to work for the very best education possible for our students thank you for the heroes of the homeroom our teacher Corps for these proceedings tonight give
unity and wisdom in every discussion and may every decision be pleasing to you and we'll give you the praise in Jesus name we pray amen the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible can I
get a motion on the approval of the agenda commercial way to approve the agenda that has read what support I'd like to make a motion that we move the item a to the beginning to the next item
right we're moving then from this business up because we need to talk tester miler and he has a personal emergency to handle so we're gonna cover that first any other discussion oh can we get a second on that change
mr. sport roll call this example yes and yes mr. temple yeah Hammond's yes no yeah yes all right so with that change we're going to go ahead and start with
unfinished business item a which is the senior high application for cooperative swim and dive team thank you for making the adjustment in our agenda this evening we I have made a recommendation because of our low
numbers with girls swim to form a co-op with Ferndale high school their numbers are extremely low they have one returning swimmer for next year we have up to two and it's very hard to offer a
sport with one or two girls representing your school when other schools have up to 40 swimmers we have different options however this is not our only option we can offer swimming and hope that our
numbers multiply if they do not we can do what we did this year and have a co-ed team the thing that concerns me though if we have a co-ed team the girls swimmers have to meet the boys swim
times in order to make these state swim meet which I don't feel is fair to them it's torn what to do because there's positives and negatives to both sides whatever we decide to do and I
understand that there are some questions so I'm hoping that I can answer them to allow you to make a decision on which way you feel that we should move our program in so I know that you spoke to the swimmers that will be here next year
and and what was their feeling that they both communicated that they felt that you know co-op would be fine with them and then I did ask them if they felt co-op with work since we're moving to
the Mac conference if I should seek out a team because there are teams that have folded this year as well a team or two to combine and make one large team co-op with with Mac schools or if they wanted
me to seek out and away a school and they wanted to seek out a know a school because they felt that the competition in the oil and the swim schedule in the OEA was stronger and more competitive than what the Mac conference offers so
that's why yeah actually Shawn Butler the athletic director yet Ferndale and I have talked a couple years about this because I remember both of our numbers have fallen and swim as they have around in the tri-county area here in the state and
Shawn drafted off the paperwork and you know I think that copies were given to you in their packets so the proposal we have is to have a female swim team at with Ferndale and we would be with them
in the fall but if we were to not vote on that or do not take action on that then they could repeat what they did this year which is a co-ed team yes yes if our numbers were not up to an acceptable level we would just notify the MHSAA that we are not going to offer
swim this year that we were gonna combine any have a co-ed team I talked to some of the swimmers and and when you talk to them there must have been a change of mine but the ones that I have talked to they right now are okay with
swimming co-ed they're hoping to get a girls team but they're not really thrilled about leaving the school to swim that's not when I spoke with them last week that's not what they told me but so I guess do we have to make a
choice tonight or can we just leave it do we have to give a commitment to burn down now or can we wait well the paperwork needs to be submitted to the MHSA there's a deadline in order so if we file it and then we have a swim team we can keep the swim team here or are we
committed with them if we file it if we commit to having a coop we cannot back out of that for one year we have to offer that co-op if we submit the paperwork to the MHSAA I believe the deadline is in the
beginning the first week in February from that mistake and so we do have time but not a lot I believe since it's under unfinished business but you have to have it go down motion in others or deny it
at this time or we can always put it back on to a leak in it and then we can always put it back on the table we could put it back on the table for further discussion to get more information that was that would be the big question if we
sign what for now then the girls don't decided to go call we they couldn't swear or is that if we decide to have a co-op and let's say the fall comes and
our jumpers are not high enough to offer a team let's see I'm just using these numbers Ferndale hit two summers and we had three yeah between the two schools we felt that five girls is not enough for a team we then we can disband the co-op
and offer co-ed okay once we enter into the co-op and submit the paperwork to the MHSAA we have to carry that co-op out for the next season Amazo team is not offered
and I mean they would not be able to swim I go in they will be able to see for the cool correct the coop is for the Fall yes yes and the boys go it is for winner winter is what
they did I think the other consideration so I think the other thing you are looting too is if we go with the coop everything's at Ferndale so they practice there they are held there each oil supplies a coach there's that not
just one pose what we do about transportation is it's been again on numbers early that's something that we would have to talk tried to figure out then the other question is what parsecity matter what they get whichever school they attend so they would get up
up they would get a Hazel Park letter the Hazel Park students would get a Hazel Park letter pernil students would get a for all Ferndale varsity ok that was my biggest concern okay alright for what do you want to do we got until February can we take a little little bit
more all right so we need a motion to do that right yeah I make a motion we table it to the next one you only get further into it maybe we'll have a workshop with you days so we can give more information and work diligently so that way we can have a
better coming the January meeting sure thank you go support it any other discussion yes yes yes no yes yes thank you thank
you thank you all right we will now move on to public comment I have one here if you're wishing to speak we'd like you to fill out the form if there's any others
back there Bethany Holland at Pelham 3:05 West Milton Hazel Park want to talk about a couple of things this weekend I realized why I'm broke I attended the Santa breakfast and all
of these student performers there happen to be my neighbors so dance band dance band all these kids and who Heather I'm always losing my pocket change it was a wonderful event it's nice to have where we could have the entire community all different aspects of it come together
and highlight our students and it was just so cool the the dance teams I looked around I was mostly helping get everything set up but at one point the dance team the music was going and everybody in there was bopping their heads along with it even Elvis enjoyed it
second today I want to give a shout out to the staff at this programs that are run out of this building and specifically advantage high school for the last two and a half three years I've assisted with the Gleaners food distribution monthly and we have high
school students that are able to assist us and this year is a little bit different because I have the same team of kids the entire year and what an amazing energetic vibrant group of Future Leaders they they bring a lot of
joy to it and today Gleaners has really upped their game and I believe Lisa crout's Johnson our community rep is responsible for making these connections they they have provided nowhere have milk and eggs and I had two people from the community today tell me how
much that means to them that they'd love to be able to buy a gallon of milk or eggs but there's other things that the needs come before the wants and it's just you know it's just a huge bag of groceries but what a difference it makes and each of these kids get a chance to
give back to the community too so I want to thank you guys for offering this program and mentoring these children they are Future Leaders they are outstanding that's all I have tonight the next my house where Colin Houston I
might know it's in my phone as most people do right so I'm here to make a suggestion that we do a post survey after all let ik happens so like after football after soccer after swim that we actually get our students more involved
and I think our athletic programs are fantastic obviously both my kids have been involved in it and of course my son is part of swim and loves it so I really think that these post surveys can really be helpful and I would be more than
happy to be part of a committee to develop it I think that when you make a suggestion and then you walk away from it that's not always good so so some of these things that I have listed is and I'll make this very quickly as it allows our children to have a voice in the
program most of us think that the program is going okay but maybe we really don't know that it is I think it goes a long way to give our kids a voice in the program it doesn't mean that you always cater to them but what it does mean is that you hear their voice so
it's all about validation as we all enjoy right sometimes our kids do have great ideas sometimes we're just not listening as these great ideas can make our program better listen we don't know at all we might think as adults we do know it all but we don't we try to
pretend that we do especially as parents as soon as we stop listening to our kids we might fail I've had some really great we've had some really great responses from some of these kids that we've asked about surveys and they would be a part they would participate in those as well
so also to confirm that we're doing things right I think that our coaches certainly would want to know that they're doing things right and they want to be able to actually hear the voices it's also not just surveys with our coaches it's also with our students it's
also surveys with our parents and the coaches as well so I think it could really go a long way if we can actually hear our kids voices after these after they're done so that's just a suggestion I wanted to move forward with I think
it's a great idea dr. Kirby can you um follow up on thank you okay if there's no one else wishing to speak then we
will move forward with our special order of business so first up is youth assistance update Jeff good afternoon and Merry Christmas okay so I had our we had a few programs in
the past couple of months three that we had that we had a pretty good turnout actually our first one was back in October the ferret education class it was we later was called a positive discipline that teaches responsibility that was our lowest attended event only
had two parents there but it was very good our facilitator Lauren Davis has been doing these types of classes for youth assistants for years she also does her step program and she did a very good job had a lot of knowledge I was there for the full hour and a half two hours we were there learning different skills
in different ways to help with kids the two parents I talked with them after the fact and both of them said they learned a lot while they were there and they both had something they could take home and use at home after the program was done so that was really nice to hear and really really beneficial for them our
next event was the pumpkin painting where we went to four different parks in the usual park on two different Saturdays and had a bunch of little tiny pumpkins paint via Donuts insider and other little snacks for the kids and they would just we put up fliers around
the parks that we were having the event had and the kids could come to just it was a walking event free completely for the kids was extremely well attended we had to write around 75 kids show up and I think maybe 40 parents something something like that even the second Saturday which I attended it was very
cold and very wet but it was really good we had a we had parents and kids come out to that even we were able to put up our banner to block the wind as much as possible to keep them out of the cold but it was very very well attended kids had fun got really wet and dirty and painted all over the place and painted
themselves it was it was very fun it was very good in the parents seem to have a very good time as well so it was really nice to see our next event was actually this past Saturday the lunch with Santa at the Parks and Rec that was well attended as well there was right around 35 kids 35 kids and maybe 20 parents
that showed up for that where we had a Santa Lions Club helped with that too they helped with gifts and arts and crafts and things like that so I know the kids made ornaments the gifts were given I believe to each child while they were there they could talk with Santa another
lap and do all that fun stuff with Santa that was about a hour and a half this past Saturday so that went very well as well upcoming events this February we have our bulletin fundraiser our annual
Bowl with on fundraiser that is February 16th that is at a rate the time down no I did not that is I believe it said new yeah Madison Park Bowl correct that's a ten mile an hour for those who don't
know we don't have a flier yep except for that but when I do get that I will be signing that out to everyone anyone that I know that is put on by the fire department they do this every year they do a fantastic job raise a ton of money for both us and them we really
appreciate everything that they do for us and their help with all the fundraising just without them we wouldn't be right where we are today and helping the kids that we do every penny that goes to that goes right back into the community it goes right back to the kids goes right into the programs that we funded the classes that we have it goes into the skill building
scholarships that we give to the kids it goes into everything everything goes to the kids in the families that need an emergency needs anything and everything after that we do have our next step program coming up that is on March 13th is the first day it is a seven week
program that is at the Webster elementary school that's also again facilitated by Lauren Davis as she also did our parenting class in October again that's at 7 p.m. at Webster and they last about an hour hour and a half for
seven weeks I've got no flyer for that yet but once I have a flyer that will be sent out to all the schools the focus is around elementary aged parents elementary kids parents that is the focus that is focused on this year I'll be making sure that all the fliers
get all to all of all the elementary schools to get as many parents as possible for that additionally we have the and I just found this out today so I believe it's April remember the date it's another Saturday I want to say that the 13th comes to mind I don't remember that 100% I will
know for the next time is our brunch with the Easter Bunny which is very similar to the lunch miss a note we just had this past weekend again it's about an hour and a half with all the kids the Lions Club helps with that as well I believe the kids do an Easter egg hunt
have some food and have a good time doing that I believe I got I believe it's April 13th I'm not gonna remember the time I just figured upon this out today and they didn't have a time forming when I asked them all right never never got back to me how's that so we've got that in April and then lastly we have our youth recognition which is
May 9th I believe I said this last time too but I just wanted to make it as a reminder that is that 6:30 at the junior high the theme is hats off to youth the nomination forms I know in the past have been a little late getting out to the staff we're planning this time to make
sure the nomination forms get out earlier so I mean get as many nominations as possible for as many kids as possible so again that's May 9th at 6:30 at the junior high and that is all I got well it sounds great thank you for the update that's really
helpful to know everything that's going on yeah thank you have any other comments no thank you all right so moving on to our next item is problems don't update with Kayla
everyone so I am very very excited well I'll talk about a couple things first then start the exciting news and then let Bill finish the exciting news jeiza other than the kid grad was very brave bringing them and them all the way to
the front so other than then the so winter 2019 promise zone scholarships students should send their winter tuition bills for me air to me as soon as possible that's if they're attending any school other than OCC as you know as I always
say OCC will bill us for students costs but if students are enrolling at OCC this winter for the first time they should let me know right away so that we can ensure that the necessary paperwork is all on FIYA promise on application for class of 2019 the scholarship is
available to current seniors already seniors who have completed this online form will receive a confirmation email with next steps right after the first of the year and they will get the final signature form in April by April possibly at a little bit earlier we usually release it during our college
and career days during the statewide testing we have a FAFSA completion pizza party being held on Wednesday so that's been led by Maddy burns our college advisor it will be open to any student who show Maddy complete proof of FAFSA
completion by tomorrow morning so we're at about 50% of seniors who've completed their FAFSA and so trying to boost that up by a little bit of I guess bribery might be the wrong word but trying to convince them with pizza and she's also doing candy bars anytime a student shows
her proof of FAFSA completion she gives them a candy bar so hopefully it'll be a little bit of extra if not incentive or bribery at least excitement and you know telling them thank you for doing it and keeping them on track for doing the right things then the so one other thing
before I get into the most exciting news we are excited we don't have a date yet but I'll make sure you have that in January we will be holding our annual fundraising dinner this year in March and we're excited that it'll be hosted by UAW Chrysler at the turn Center where we have students enrolled in the skilled trades training program
so we thought this would be a great way for community members to be able to see where our students are in these classes we're hoping they'll do some level of tour of the space but it's located on nine mile between Ryan and Dequindre and it's really just an awesome space and they're just absolutely amazing so we're
so excited to be able to host it there now what I'm very excited to share is that we have received some funding that will allow us to make some pretty cool changes to our program by adding something swalot built I'll fill in if I
need to just one moment hearing this report on the girls activities when mr. Patterson's father and I were on the school board many many many many years ago we only had intramural sports for
girls and they passed a federal law that they had have equal sports and so as Jimmy this his sister and my kids got to be in junior high we decided it was time for a girls sports and so as board
members we had a threaten the board as a whole that we were going to sue the school board for equal sports in the Hazel Park and the board finally decided to come up with some money and we started with one girl sports I think
basketball was the first year and each year they added on one so that's how we ended up with girls sports in Hazel Park but so that reminded me of Jimmy's father and I as we were board members threatening the rest of the school board until
they finally found some money I'm pleased tonight to announce that kayla has worked real hard on one particular person who has been a friend of hers and this friend was chosen to be on staff of
a foundation here in Detroit and she kept talking with this gal and she got a chance to go to a meeting a couple of weeks ago and then we were received a letter that Hazel Park was I think the only School District or any just any
foundation outside of Detroit to get special funding and we are getting two hundred and ten thousand spread over in three years also there'll be 70,000 years of $70,000 a year and here's what we're going to do we've evaluated our
program over the last couple of years and one of the frustrations we've had is when kids go off to college they don't always get the help and they have problems and there's nobody out there to really help these kids or the give them direction as to how to find money or how
to do different things so we're going to have a staff person this person's responsibility they'll be at Oakland Community College at least two days a week they'll it be attending the other colleges around the state at least once
or twice a semester during the year to all the colleges where we are the promise zone has students there and they'll be working with these students and in addition we've allocated some special funding for funds for
emergencies when kids have emergencies of different kinds whether it's a car breakdown or something that they need special funds for the staff person and Kayla will be authorized to approve a small amount of money to help them and
so this will be set aside for Kayla to to help kids in their first or a couple years of college that work helping to sponsor in them from the prom so so this person will be the post-secondary success coach to help
these kids make the transition from high school to college and I remember when I made that transition it was really difficult I had a dad pop for money when I needed something but so some of these kids don't have that ability and so we're hoping to be able to help them
with emergency funds and to help them when they need help on campus the staff person will get to have a knowledge of who is on each campus there were to help them in different aspects of their needs as problems come up so this has been a
problem or a need that we felt for the last couple of years and so we're real pleased to be able to announce it I would like to say the superintendent coupie has been real helpful on our
promise zone she's made most of our meetings she's been able to help us with suggestions and we didn't know what to do in some certain situations so you certainly been there to help us and give us direction to try and help as much as we could as a promise zone and so I
appreciate her prior superintendent I think I might have seen him once or twice in two or three years or we never saw him but she's made most every one of our meetings and it certainly she's just been like a staff or board member to help us in many many ways and we as a
board appreciate that I just thought I I should have been representing the board to say that how much help the superintendent has given us in the last couple of years and Thank You superintendent I'm gonna add two less pieces so that is the most exciting news definitely that
bill said so the post-secondary success coach we cannot wait to hire it sounds like it'll be in January and so that'll be someone at least on staff for three years hopefully we'll be able to extend the funding but that's at least three years that we'll have someone specifically to work with our students
who are in college if a college adviser will continue to work to get them there and then once they're there they'll be able to have this other resource to hopefully help them all the way through to graduation and then lastly or actually two more things sorry so one is that another piece of good news so for
students as you know students at Oakland Community College are fully covered by promise on scholarships but at non OCC colleges and universities it's been 1,000 dollars a semester for four semesters that effective immediately will increase to $1,500 a semester so
that will take a total students total promise on scholarship eligibility from 4,000 to 6,000 over two years which we're very very excited about and are hoping it'll just be the first of many steps until we can hopefully our goal is to eventually be able to cover a four-year scholarship anywhere students
want to attend we will also be extending eligibility to use that funding to six years from four so currently students have four years after high school graduation they'll now have six or after active-duty military so that's something we just hadn't
considered before and our eligibility but if students do go off to the military they can use the promised home funding when they get back or they can use our resources to help them secure GI Bill funding and then lastly we will be launching a promise zone mentoring
program with the class of 2019 and so this will consist of pairing new Hazel Park graduates with volunteer mentors and so ideally we'd be able to match every student who is interested in participating with a mentor in their career field that they're interested in we'll do that as much as possible
depending on who volunteers as mentors but at least some mentor will be recruiting mentors in January and February so if anyone is interested we're looking for any adult who is willing and able to assist these students and so what that will look like is a commitment from May
through May so right before students graduate from high school through their first year of college mentoring can be anything from meeting them for coffee to just text messages hey how you doing hey good luck with finals it doesn't have to be a huge commitment we're asking that people would commit to monthly touches
at least what they're meant to mentee and the promise zones success coach actually will be coordinating the aspects of this program and will send reminders and kind of resources to mentors every month just to say hey just so you know FAFSA opens this month students must complete FAFSA every year
they're in college make sure to remind your mentee to do FAFSA this month so just to provide some guidance and make it as low lift for mentors as possible while still being impactful through their relationship they'll be able to build with students so we're excited about all of these kind of additions and
very very thankful to the funder who we will be sharing more details about soon any question thank you so much thank you
so much you were you the one that was instrumental in the crampon mm-hmm do you know anything more about it yeah our students that is accurate so we know a little bit so when we first ended
up getting building that partnership we were told that they were able to so it's a combination of so that program is kind of funded partially by a federal grant program called Upward Bound partially by private resources through Cranbrook and so when we first were able to bring
students in they said that their private fundraising would be covering our students because their grant fundraise or their grant funding was specific to Detroit students so my understanding is that changes in their funding structure
or how much is being given by private fundraising changed who they could bring so when we were talking to them each of the past I think three years we haven't had students they said that they were not able to take students from outside of the city so we're staying in contact with them any students who started the
program while they were still recruiting from Hazel Park are able to finish so we have a few students this year definitely some seniors I think some juniors but nobody younger than that so we're hoping that they'll be able to recruit from Hazel Park again but at this point we're not sure when they haven't closed the door they always
say we're still interested in going back but we haven't been able to get a set timeline or one that might be okay unfortunately so we're still we're working on it though thank you all right
next special order of business is the Hoover laundry mmm this is Debbie DeMuth good evening my pleasure to be here this evening and so highlight some positive things that are going on at Hoover first of all
I want to thank my staff for coming it's really big time we have such a great positive staff at Hoover we have so many new teachers and everybody is is really all in all the time they are doing such a great job and I thank each and every one of you for coming tonight and for
all you do every single day for our students you're fabulous thank you so what we wanted to focus on this evening was was PBIS and specifically our pact meetings so if you know the the premise for PBIS the first thing that you do is
you establish some behavior expectations so you think that the staff gets together and then we figure out what it is that we want how we want the students to behave then we teach those expectations to the students and then we acknowledge those students continuously and at our school we use pot points to
do that so we're very specific when we hand out those pot points over here my thing up but I have you know most of us haven't hooked on to you so if you see somebody doing something you notice them doing something behaving the way that you would like them to behave then you give them a ticket and you let them know
exactly what it is that they did they use those tickets then - they earn their way to a celebration at the end of the month that's pretty standard across PBIS the other thing that's another standard part of PBIS are the Monday morning meetings our monthly meetings and that's where
you usually examine different character traits positive character traits and so for the last two years at Hoover we've been doing Monday morning meetings so the first Monday of every month if you've been if you've seen the Husky happenings you've seen so we all of the students gathered in the gym and some of
the students did a presentation or the teachers did a presentation we sang songs this year we the PBIS team decided to change it up a little bit so we're doing PAC meetings so the PAC meetings are still on the same Monday and what we do in the PAC meetings we've
divided the entire staff up so every adult in the building we have 23 packs so every adults in the available adult adult in the building except for Nancy because she's she needs the list you'll get to that in a second we have 23 packs and our students I'll go to different packs so each pack has
kindergarteners first graders second graders third graders fourth graders and fifth graders all the way across and they all meet on this monthly a meeting now I do have to tell you it's really improved because the first day I mean we had everything we do be not people have lists and everybody knew what we were
doing I literally ended up Nancy can attest on the ground laying there like almost in tears because it was just chaos with kids are going everywhere well we've got it down pat now I think we did pretty good there's still a couple of kids that don't exactly know where they're going for their pack meetings but we've each month they've
gotten a little bit better and this month we decided to focus on kindness it's just one of those character traits that we really feel like is so important and you can see across the the wall all of our each pack usually makes an anchor
chart as they is they you know gather information through their discussions and I think we're gonna actually keep the kindness theme going on through January as well I just talked to a parent today who was frustrated by some things and he was saying that he
believes that social media is really having a negative impact on our society including our kids you know it's really hi easy to hide behind those screens and shoot-out me you know nasty things to say and so we really need to get past that it's almost like you know when you
see a movie when there's some violence we've you know you numb yourself to that so we really have got to start to really be thoughtful about kindness so this month in addition to like so the first month we did responsibility we just did they made the anchor chart and teachers kind
of mentioned it this month we're doing a little bit more we bought several books on kindness so teachers are trying to read a book about kindness every day and have a class discussion I'm going around the school and reading to every class Ordinaries marries extraordinary deed and in this
book the little girl she does something it's kind of like that for those of you that are old like I'll tell two friends and so on and so on so remember the Clairol commercial well it's five friends so we're gonna do the the students will then be making a chain of kindness so they're gonna come up with five links to the chain and we're gonna
try and build it around the school or and but what I want to do I think Darrin can hear me I have I wanted to let the students and the staff tell you a little bit about our staff meetings and how they are our PAC meetings and how they how they feel this is my first shot at a
movie great so this year we're gonna be different for Monday morning meetings with respect to PD is what do you think
about our technique so how do you think those are these meetings aren't improving or do you feel like as a stance do you feel that these meetings are cheers Monday morning meetings yeah I think that the students are more engaged
because it's a smaller group and I think it's nice to get the older kids working with the younger kids I've really seen them show patience and tying that it's really good our people it's so great thanks for sharing your thoughts we appreciate them good afternoon mrs.
Pierce all is how are you doing today good mrs. Pearson is our speechpad and I just want to ask her how do you feel
about our Peck meetings this year great enemy has commissioned zone in the past we've always done the like morning
meetings where the whole is our school is gathered in the gym we've had some students do some presenting or we show some short video clips which which of these options do you think you whatever do you feel about the pec meaning is versus the Monday mornings
[Music] character traits that we're trying to teach alright great well thanks I'm Saran of the PBIS community is very excited that everyone seems to be still excited about her panties so thanks for sure are you good who are your teachers
in the fifth grade so how are you enjoying our big meetings this school year are you gonna do you like them better than that money like meetings that we did last two years and why do you like those better that's what that's
what our focus has been on this one is kind of so important why is it important to try to make others feel happy good
afternoon can you tell us your name Hailey's dog it's not great you in fifth grade is your homeroom teacher miss : so Kaley you know that we've been doing Monday morning meetings for last few years here at Hoover and this year we
switched it up what do we switch it to you explain a little bit to the people to all of our community what are those
pink means look at what are they good and so how do you feel what do you think about those crappy do you think that you like to pick things better than our Monday morning meetings that we held is
an assembly good and so let me ask you a question because really right the whole purpose of is to make Hoover a a kinder gentler better place to learn what do you think what do you think what do you think that
our tech meetings are will do more for that or do you think that we should go back maybe to the Monday mornings what do you think and half June feel I would
say that when you see your other pack members around the building like at lunch or when you're walking in the hallways all right cool well thank you so much I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts with us have a great day Tara when second grader Jordan has to
say about our pact meetings yeah who's your teacher in fact one of the second teacher about when you're in your pack movies time as we've been talking a lot about kinda stuff you been reading work
looks about pregnancy profession as well have you enjoyed them now what can you tell me about why is it important to be kind well that's a really good thing thanks Jordan from the mouths of babes okay good morning how are you good can
you tell us your name Riley ravage teacher mrs. champion isn't she still nice she's very kind isn't she well we've been focusing in kind this month yeah teachers have been reading lots of stories um I also wanted to talk to you
about pack meetings how do you feel about our pack meetings what do you think about if you like them you like them a lot or just a little a lot why do you like them you mean fun books what
else do you do you make stop hey think about being it it's kind of different than your regular class isn't it why is it different I think about the kids that are in there because they were kids a look at you like that
yeah do ever see any of your bigger pack friends and get on the playground or in the hallways yeah did you say how you do that yeah good all right okay well thanks we are so excited that you like
our pan paintings have a great day reading stories that about kindness does anybody have anything they want looking at tell me what do you want to talk just with each other
great hi how you doing today good can you tell me what your name is tell the community what users trying trying to eat teacher today it's a new class when I read that book ordinary meri extraordinary Dean
how do they help us think about kindness in a little different way how can we say
that kindness is kind of like a cold [Music] what I was trying to teach you I'm so proud of you that's awesome and why do you think about our kindness chain that we're building that's what we're gonna
try to do we're gonna try and make it go across the whole school maybe we can make you cold press levels over twice what you think cool all right hey do you like the parents yeah good it's pretty fun isn't it yeah take it do you like being with the older
kids all right we'll have a great day thanks for sharing your information all right all right so that's it that's our that's our presentation does anybody have any questions or like a pull thing back to our pack Danny
really yeah so super cute and kind is one of the cuff that lost to you so yeah I had to cut out so he started talking about mrs. Hughes and she he liked her so so because that he teases him about you of them I'm like yeah but you got
the right shirt all right next item is our PBIS update with mr. Daly DB board
it's a tough act to follow I've got the Smith twins they're all the kids at Hoover and mrs. Dimas Christmas did come early for you all because I sliced a 90 minute presentation down to about 10
minutes for you one of the great things that I get to can be involved with at Hazel Park is on the PBIS leadership implementation team we're not so long ago we brought PBIS into the district to
implement it with a lot more fidelity it always been done but had been done with like matrices on the walls and some haphazard tickets and tokens being handed out but as you heard from Hoover this is a thriving thing that's kind of taking the district by storm in a real
positive way I'm joined with dr. Michelle Krauss Jen carpus and Emily MacDonald on the leadership implementation team so we get a bird's-eye view of how PBIS is cascading throughout the entire district I'm real honored and privileged to be able to be speaking on their behalf this evening
when we've met as a PBIS team we've kind of said you know our gray hair starting to touch a lot more than what they used to and when we back and put things into a timeline about how much work we've actually put into and how much work each buildings put in since the beginning of really digging into the my Blissey
cohort and PBIS you know here's a couple notable things for you in a very short amount of time since March 2017 to this evening's presentation we've done a considerable lot of work at trying to communicate desired behaviors to teach
desired behaviors to acknowledge those desired behaviors and align a lot of those expectations in with the old building level and you know even some district level policies so you know that's just a nice list for us to kind of take a peek at while we've done quite a bit of work and yone as a leadership implementation
team we really have to acknowledge the work that's been put into from all these school leadership teams you know all headed by staff members including teachers including social workers including principals kind of overseen things you know and the work and some of the data that we're going to be sharing with you not just today but in a couple
of their installments throughout the year is on the is on the shoulders and on the on that hard work that those groups have been doing so we want to thank them publicly for their work as we kind of close out the 2018 calendar year so some of the accomplishments that
we've done since up to this fall is 100% of the schools across the entire district have implemented Tier one you've heard about the blueprint safety net you've heard about you know multi-tiered systems of support well tier ones that very base level of every student gets expectations
communicate to them every student gets the desired behaviors taught to them every student gets acknowledged or has a system within their building to acknowledge the desired behaviors so it's a really great thing that in a short amount of time that works been done at the high school I'll give you
some vignettes about how that worked at our building yeah we did that as collaboratively and if the guy behind the screen can actually go back to the previous slide that'd be great thank you a guy behind the screen we did that as collaboratively with our staff as possible where we said I came up with the acronym if you see the example there
for the high school we use Viking pride students are prepared they're responsible they demonstrate integrity are dedicated and engaged you know our staff defined what that means across their entire building we came up with different areas where we want students to exhibit pride and then we said you know what are those behaviors that we're
looking for that same works been done at every level in every building across the district uooo has soar students are safe and healthy on task always respectful and responsible advantage uses climb with cooperation live responsibly have
integrity like that integrity word and make a good choice and be respectful Edison also has soar and there stay safe on task act responsibly and so when we go throughout the building one of the tests that we look for is a leadership implementation team is can 85
percent or more of these students or adults in the building recite what your acronym means and so given our elevated score that we've gotten from our first initial diagnostic in the spring to what we did on September 11th this year we're really proud to say that that is an area
of great growth and you know that if you're being taught something you're gonna be able to teach it to somebody else and part of things that we look up with PBIS is if you know what the acronym means you're more likely to behave and act within that and so that's a big point of pride for us not to be
funny for our item either also since in the fall of 2018 we've begun work on developing tier two teams so for some students not just knowing the acronym demonstrating the behavior being acknowledged what that behavior is works
for all kids so that next bump goes into tier two how do we work with students that may not be getting what everyone else is getting and they need to have some refreshers on what their expectations are in the building so a big hallmark of tier two PBIS is using a
check-in checkout system so our school leadership teams have gone through training on the check-in checkout system what that's going to look like what are some of the credentials and qualifiers for a student who might need it to your to level support how do we know when it's working so that way students can
exit I've tier two supports and then go back into the mainstream with K and everything else so that's a big part for us and I mentioned that the growth in our district capacity assessment from February 26 2018 with a score of 43 percent and then from February until
this last September we went to 74 percent so that growth that we've done is just kind of a bird's-eye view of how well are the expectations for how PBS needs to be implemented is taking hold and aligning itself with district systems aligning itself what needs to be done at the buildings and then seeing
network that's going on at the building level so down that growth is is definitely part and parcel to how well each individual building is working within the system and collaborating communicating its needs back to the implementation team and then us trying to support and guide that work at the
building level so not to talk too much about the great things we've done but another thing that we get the opportunity to reflect on is our school climate surveys the school climate surveys get sent out and to parents to staff and to students and each one of
those surveys looks at in measures you know how well do or how welcome to do people feel within the building in a couple different areas one is how do people feel about teaching and learning how do they feel about overall school safety how do students parents and faculty feel about interpersonal
relationships the institutional environment when you come into the school does it feel warm and welcoming does it seem like the place where you want to be where you feel safe where you can take intellectual risks where if you have a question it gets answered and then the last question is all around parent involvement I've taken a couple
out and so that works been done and we're gonna show it like as a year aggregate so we did it in the fall of 2017 surveys went out again in the fall of 2018 there's a couple things that I want to highlight so if Darren can go to the evening the guy behind the screen not to give up as identity I've
highlighted a couple schools in particular one of which is Hoover and we heard mrs. Dimas talk about you know their packs and their meetings and kindness and the readings and how organized they're with that it's really of no surprise that out of a four point rating scale they've stayed very
consistent from last fall to this year she look at those different indicators and those subgroups at the bottom the darker green or go green east lansing green versus the lighter teal green you know it's about getting a plugin whenever I can it's all about college
readiness if mrs. Smith was here we could you know plug that also versus the green of mr. hempel shirt that's the 2008 teen numbers and that's just the family data so self families feel about things going out at that building so web you know again very similar and webs
notable also because they've made some gains since last year in 2017 they had a hundred and eleven parents reply this year they had 47 but those 47th parents seem to be a been pizza night or something but they feel very comfortable and very accommodated at bat Webb let's go on to
the next one please Hazel Park junior high again well above an average score across the country you're seeing gains in some areas but the main thing is that you're seeing some consistent results from one year to the other you know it's real difficult to go like you know a 3.5 or above but
the fact that that number is staying fairly consistent throughout some of these is just great and again as we do more and more surveys as we get further and further into you know PBIS and communicating expectations educating our families our parents and our community about how this works you know we hope to see some gains in these scores another
thing that the you know with this knowing and reflecting on the stet these data points is making sure that if we get new students or new families in toward district or into our buildings that we have a you know a one-stop shop go to brochure for each building about how PBS works in their building it's a
little nuanced the high schools therefore than the junior high secondaries different than how Elementary works because you know where kids are different right and our buildings work a little bit differently so we want to have that one-stop-shop for hey here's Viking pride that need to know so every building is gonna be tasked with by the end of February I
believe to come up with that brochure so that way anyone who you know put it on the website here it is here's what you need to know about PBIS so man behind the curtain if you go on to the next one so our next group is going to be all about how our staff in the building not just teaching staff but you know
custodial staff front secretarial staff our ParaPro staff you know everybody how do they feel about how PBS is working in those major areas overall staff corrected 'no setup for learning school safety and so on and so forth so again highlighting hoover you've seen some
some pretty consistent if not growth areas within those different subgroups for the school Climate Survey and same things true of web so when you look at the downward trajectory which is a little bit different than how the families are feeling about things you know Webb and Hoover had that similar
shape of their graphs as well so it might look a little shocking because it's different than what you saw when families responded but the questions are a little bit different right so when their parents are reflecting on parents is different than when school personnel reflect on parents that last subgroup there then you owe to
give you a little bit of soaring credit there as well and this is great too because you see some really notable gains from the 2017 school year fall to 2018 so there's probably some secret in the sauce to what miss Grassley is doing over there and I think we end out with
the Hazel Park junior high numbers as well thanks dance go to the next one please so something that we get a lot of accolades at through our work with my Blissey in PBIS is where PBIS resides within the district and so a couple
pieces of schools that say they're doing PBIS just hang a matrix on the wall turn off some tokens and say hey good job on announcements every now and then but when we rewrote and revised the Student Handbook PBS lives and breezes in the
handbook which is an important thing because it's going to be all in on modifying and correcting and acknowledging behaviors it has to live within the kind of the hello documents of your district so PBS is found within the goal statement first school climate and
culture emphasizing the positive school climate and culture piece that you know we talked about regularly but it's also found predominantly in Chapter five of our Student Code of Conduct so one of the goals that we do with behavior have with behaviors that it's evidence-based strategies PBIS is within that eveson
evidence-based vein so that comes with a great deal of training right it's always been given like incremental e you know what's the best way to eat an elephant one bite at a time right and PBS is the same way you have to understand how students learn and then you know being at the building level as a principal yet
also think about how adults learn because the adults are on the front line of trying to work with the kids the kids that need to have the behaviors as it is communicated through your expectations so attendance and tardies are kind of a big thing right and so at the high
school I've highlighted a couple data points for you about where attendance resides as far as how we use that within PBIS so attendance is you know not just a staff member's responsibility but the principal's got some skin in the game also as noted in Chapter five of our Student Code
conduct where principal's responsibilities must include but not limited to acknowledging students with exemplary attendance so we do at the high school on three week increments so it happened to be that in the first because we have sick of the six week grade periods in the first three weeks we had homecoming so we looked at students who had perfect attendance in
the first three weeks I think we had somewhere around 100 plus kids we selected them by grade level and I think we did five kids per grade level got a free homecoming t-shirt that week they're already printed and it was no cost to us they're donated by the classes congratulations we acknowledge
20 kids with perfect attendance we got to the six week mark which coincided slightly with Halloween what do you know trick-or-treat you get a bag of candy you get your name announced or the announcement so it's a really wonderful thing for our kids because at the high school level no kids beyond getting some
sort of public recognition so it's worked out really well for us if you go into the next one please thank you and then tardies right I mean we always have concerns about getting kids to class on time so I pulled a little bit data from our side of things just so you can see little bit more about the high school and I can kind of walk and talk to you
our way through about how we address that through a PBIS system so not only do you know we as a building look at data but our professional staff members have a responsibility also right they have to acknowledge students when they're doing it well they have to communicate concerns when someone's not doing it correctly but then build that
relationship you know we go back to evidence-based research for what is great for about modifying behavior yes that acknowledgement piece and it's that relationship piece between the adults in the building not just teachers but custodians and people in the cafeteria and you know our people at the front
desk and our front office staff about forging that relationship with kids and then obviously the principal has a role in it well to make sure that everybody across the building is within that system let's move on to the next slide please then our school leadership team goes back and looks at data and this is true of any building just to see that daily
announcements are developed reinforcing expectations and that's one of the most powerful things like when you hear it all the time and you see it places and the adults are communicating it we're excited about doing it you know it's getting in students minds before they know they start reciting it on their own setting up building wide goals we look
at tardies and so on and so forth right so these are all things that live and breathe within the doctor of the district which separates us from other places that say they're doing PBIS but we're a little bit more invested because we put it in print so dents go the next one this is the example from a high school announcement again
reinforcing communicating those expectations today's Viking pride folks is being dedicated which is the D and Viking pride in hallways public areas and bathrooms honoring the passing time and not going beyond that designated time which is different than before so it's
like the first time in three years we've had like a real organized messaging system across the building before it's like you hear papers rustling in the background like hey you got something to announce well now it's a little bit more organized in our school leadership teams done a great job of matching desired
weekly behavior based on Viking pride up with daily announcements and people on the school leadership team have written these from scratch so I'm not a mathematician but you do Viking pride I think pride has five letters in it five days of the week you know five times five twenty five I mean that's a lot of
writing and our school leadership team has done a great job on it so we think about you know the principal's supposed to say this stuff because you're supposed to say that stuff but when it's coming from teachers and it's coming from other staff members it's really communicated a message of importance it has a lot more gravity so if we go into
the data what does the data say the top number might be a little shocking because we looked at our data we had 227 students in the first six weeks that were tardy and I said that's like 1/3 to 1/4 of our building that doesn't feel
right so I dug into a little bit deeper and we looked at 68% of our students in the first six weeks were tardy dat first hour we looked at that in the second six weeks and 79 percent of our students were tardy - first hour when I took those students out who were only tardy
in first hour it was less than 10% of our building was closer to 6 or 7 percent of our kids you know had a significant tardy concern or even had one tardy within that time frame so we take this data back and I take it back
to our school leadership team for PBIS we take it back to our building Network team and say so what are we gonna do about this like if we have Atkins and this is problematic and we all agree that we want kids to get to class as quickly as humanly possible what are we willing to do to make that better
so part of the presentation tonight is just being real about what the data shows us right now but then the skill in what we do is in school leadership team is going to come off and the next time we get to present because we should see some significant improvements in this let's move on to
the next one please and then since this is a district level presentation and not just the high school even though I can monopolize excite a lot without the high school we want to show you some district level trends in student behavior so these are the top behaviors across the
district and it's the three DS disrespect defiance and disruption so what this information presents to us is if you look at each building across the district's behavior reporting how many of those behaviors are in common and
five out of the building five billions across the district have disrespect is their number one problem so I'm kind of touched by the kindness thing right because what's disrespects most you know threatening attribute kindness so it's
nice to hear that that's a big thing it's not just a hashtag so then the second thing we look at is defiance right so if we go back there we go thank you if we go back defiance is the second most common behavior that's you know most problematic behavior in common across the district then we have
disruption so we take this information as a school as a implementation team for the district and say while we have so many common threads what sort of advice suggestions data points problem-solving do we need to do or recommend to try to take on these issues
let's go out the next one please so it really should be no surprise that we look at locations that most of the behaviors are occurring in the classroom which is a great thing if you are worried about tardies that means they're not happened in the hallway because kids
are in class so that's a double-edged sword so when you start thinking about this logically it's like okay if kids are displaying most of the negative behaviors in the classroom and they're supposed to be in class most the time how do we empower teachers that interact with kids the most in the classroom when
they're there all the time to do the right things with kids to change and modify this behavior and again it's got to be a lot more than just some convenient talking points I splash onto a PowerPoint it's got to be something that we as a staff work out together that's building specific because what's gonna work for mrs. Dimas and miss Grassley it's gonna be completely
different that what's gonna work for Michelle's and our self at the high school right I mean the other notable part that when we think and reflect on this the second most common location across the district for problematic behavior is in the hallways and
breezeways so presence is important right being out and being visible and I don't mean to be rude to some of my meetings that overlap into passing time but I'll say hey I gotta put a pause on this real quick because I need some hallway time and we'll go out at hallway time and yet hall passing we're you know
Ken and dr. mile art and myself and we kind of work our social workers and as well as well as our counselors where if it's like not life urgent and critical we'll go out and be visible in those spaces as well and so the last slide and last data point I have for you is
motivating factors so most commonly the motivating factor that influences the undesirable behavior is to obtain pure attention so if you make Viking pride cooler than misbehavior then you're going to see this decrease you're gonna
make kids believe in kindness and you know reach their soar potential and do their pack work you're gonna see things change so many of much of this is just a reference point right and some of its informational but this is also you know we're very kind of young into a lot of
this where I could show you a lot of data but doesn't have a whole lot to reference back to I could show you stuff from the high school of when I first got there but we didn't have a behavior referral process that was aligned with Swiss definitions which is what all the behavior is reported to we didn't have a
common understanding about what's the difference between pure attention versus avoid adults we didn't know you know locations pretty obvious we didn't know the difference between like a minor behavior in a major behavior so some of the work that we've done in the last
year and some change has all revolved around having a common and shared understand of you know what is defiance versus insubordination what is a major versus a minor and all of that institutional knowledge and things that we build into our staff is what's gonna align this
process so that way it's not just words in a student handbook but it starts becoming stuff that we live and breathe every day so I think the last slide our questions and I forgot the question mark my apologies I didn't forget the logo
there any questions that I could answer for you were wondering Zoar things that I could take back to our leadership implementation team and very very impressive isn't the great really great presentation a lot of thought put into
it I know we don't have enough data points but very impressed with where we've come in a short amount of time I think that's been demonstrated in I think it just goes off - hats off to all of our amazing staff that work for us our administration our superintendent
our teachers our secretaries or custodians everyone has a hand in this and I think it's very well played out when you go to the school if you see the signs and you hear the kids and I think that it's just so moving to see a
district who who hasn't moved in a long time moving like a six month period very rapidly and so it just kind of inspiring tonight as we're as looking into like closing up you know calendar you're 18 and going into 2019 in so thank you dr.
Kirby for you know bringing this to us tonight and I'm working with these teams and Thank You mr. Daley and the PBIS team and thank you to all our principals and everyone who's had a hand in all this because it's hard work and and I
think it you know what 15 slides and I can't wait to see what's happens next year and then the year after that cuz I think we're on we're on fire and I think it's great thank you SRS s is a survey tool that all buildings have you well the high school
and advantage high schools used so far and what does every staff member sits down with a certain group of kids so at the high school we chose second hour and you had to answer 12 questions that looked at internalizing and externalizing behaviors and students so then that data
gets added divided and multiplied you know fancy calculus that involves an abacus to identify students that should be at risk that then need additional levels of support intervention so this tool works well for our work with NIJ the National Institute for justice to
identify students that might need there might have some behavioral mental health concerns but also overlaps really nicely with what my Blissey and PBIS needs to identify those same students so what's great about this process is it's not just a hey let's do it one time a year
let's let's do it three times a year because we know that students needs change just like my weight fluctuates students need to change as well these pants will not feel nearly as great in March as what they do right now as I'm coming off the fall of doing lots of
moving and walking how can how can our parents at home who are listening this presentation help out you know a lot of that you know is how what can they do at home to positively continue this kind of what we teach in the school for those
seven and a half hours what can our parents do to be a little more to help it to help their student be successful not only in the classroom but in in society in life when when they leave here you know i we're constantly talking
about how do we protect them from all the other elements that are out in our society today and what you know we can only only have so much time with them and so what can our parents do it no it's a bit loaded question and so answer it the best you can that was until I
need to be here for 10 to 15 minutes you know what this is this is really just like as the Board of Education supports us in the building and you set a vision for the district and you allow dr. coupie to you know implement that vision and then communicate that to us and our teaching staff you know that those same
values and those same ideas that we're trying to get to our kids as students you know need to be upheld within pair in the household as well so I think number one would be you know asking your principal about you know what are the Viking heard that Viking sorry my bias is showing you know what are your PBS
expert is and maybe what parents could do is a fun brain activity for holiday break is ask your principal or ask your student what's their PVS expectations and maybe at home they come up with their own column for what is your PB s expectations look like in the home which
I think would be a neat act no I say neat but my nerd sides showing I think it'd be a meaningful and enriching activity for kids at home and their families to begin that dialogue right another thing and it's always to put a plug in for the parent roundtable that we host at the high school I would
welcome our high school parents to at least show up or if they can't show up then at least find out what we talked about and provide feedback to me you know via email because we've presented our matrix a couple of occasions and our behavior data to our parents that show up just because we're not trying to hide
anything right you know we own where we are because I'm really excited about the work that we're doing to make it better so you can't get better if you don't acknowledge the areas you get better at so I welcome that feedback from our parents about what it is that we want to do collectively to try to bring our kids
to a better place that's a wonderful answer thank you all right thank you very much all right thank you thank you for your opportunity to talk to this I appreciate it all right that ends a special order of business I do want to
acknowledge that I did the full account for the special order business I have several agendas and my the other way around so I apologize I apologize if I missed anyone up for that and also we're gonna we're gonna move into the consent agenda and I do want to acknowledge that as part of consent agenda this month we
have the superintendent evaluation dr. Kirby has done a great job for us we have we conducted an evaluation we have results here she had an effective reading of three point five five nine I want to thank her for her tireless
efforts to support the students for making hard decisions that are in the best interest of our students we're thankful to have her here she's put through a lot change at the request of the board she works really hard for this district and so I just want to thank her for that as
we move into the consent agenda well she did approve the consent agenda as written second no yes yes yes all right
so with that we will move on to our new business and we have a Kingston student representatives here so from kids brooke high school at robin ginger ski give us a high school update good evening it's
been a while since I've been able to be here I apologize for that so I have quite a bit for you guys tonight so I'm gonna start with VOD VOD has been very busy in the past month with our annual turkey challenge and winter wish week thanks to the students and staff who donated we were able to give 9
Thanksgiving dinners to families in the community who needed them the class that raised the most money towards the turkey challenge was rewarded with a movie in the auditorium last Wednesday which ended up being our sophomore class I think they ended up excuse me I think they ended up watching elf maybe or home
alone and I'm not sure this week we'll be going to multiple schools in the district and participating in various holiday activities with the students we're supposed to be going to I know for sure the junior high to do like cookie decorating with the sixth graders during
their lunch and I believe we're also going to Hoover to work with the art students on like holiday crafts and projects as part of our yearly winter wish week giving we were able to provide gifts to 23 students as well as provide
holiday meals to two families and we are very excited to be able to continue this tradition in the district at the high school we have started our very first annual winter spirit week with Friday being the holiday assembly where we will recognize our winter athletes and kick off our holiday to encourage student involvement all of
the classes are competing against each other with bolts with both spirit wear and the decoration of the comments in cafeteria areas each grade was assigned an area and given a movie theme to decorate their area accordingly the freshmen have the Polar Express so they have a whole train and cloud set up it's
really cool looking the sophomores have home alone and they have like toys strewn all over the ground and like a broken glass type thing going on they didn't actually break glass it's like paper the juniors have elf featuring mr. Daly he's dressed up his buddy the elf
it's pretty cool and the seniors have how the Grinch Stole Christmas ours kind of actually fell apart this morning it says that was sad but we would like to thank the board as well as the community as well as the community for all of the support and encouragement as bo d
continues to reach students and their families district-wide the National Honor Society has been hard at work volunteering for the last few months our NHS students have worked at United Oaks and Webb Elementary for their Thanksgiving and holiday events and the most recent event being a movie night
hosted at United Oaks this past Friday students worked the games craft tables and concession stand and assisted in the setup and cleanup processes as well we are always looking for ways to help so if any volunteers are needed for an event please do not hesitate to contact
us at HP HSN H HP HSN HSA supports closed org our drama department put on the play The Miracle Worker the last week of November and it was phenomenal I went to see it the first night it was really really good they did a run-through for the junior high students
as part of the junior high score column they were actually reading the book so they went to see the play during the day and then they performed for the general audience the rest of the week and the casting crew worked very hard and put on a very good show the band concert was on December 6th that was very successful with Miss
lengths she's doing a great job it was actually the first time that I've been in band for four years at the high school and it was the first time that we've ever had a whole concert where we had the Symphonic Winds play and in the concert band play and then all of us played together I thought that was
actually really really cool we've never done anything like that before and then in other general building news on the 14th of November our generous athletic department rewarded the fall scholar athletes with a catered lunch in from Qdoba and each athlete was awarded a pin and a letter from dr. Mahler expressing
the appreciation the school has for focused and successful student athletes our winter sports are now in full swing as practices and competitions have begun obviously we'll be on a break this coming week for holidays but and then the Gay Straight Alliance has begun
regular meetings again on Mondays after school from three to four and they are an all inclusive group for LGBTQ people and their allies and they talk about LGBTQ rights issues and they share how they live their own lives and what experiences they've had I hear it's a
very uplifting group I've never been to it but I have friends who do go and they they've all given very positive feedback they are currently looking for funding for their organization they don't really know exactly how to go about like getting a budget or funding for what
they're doing so I did ask someone about that and then Miss burns has returned from her College advising conference that she was gone all last week I know a lot of my senior friends and I were like what do we do without miss burns we now have 51 percent completion among
the senior class of FAFSA which is really cool because fast is really good and she said that if any parents have questions about completing college applications or FAFSA or any post high school plans to contact her two four
eight six five eight five one eight six or Madeline burns at Hazel Park School org and then last but not least the acts of kindness club put on a family feud event after a half day I don't remember which half day as a reward for count day
so if you were at count day you were allowed to be part of a family feud event I participated it was really they also did drawings for gift cards for people who are at the in attendance that count day I think they mmm excuse
me I think they were $25 gift cards as well so that was really cool and I believe they are still doing a coat and clothes drive for people in the community who need coats or clothes I know last year they had it in all of the English classrooms I think this year it's just in the office but you can
donate coats or any clothes so yeah any questions well thank you for that very thorough there's a whole lot that's happening I want to know what spirit what day is tomorrow for spirit week tomorrow is character day each grade has
a different character so the freshmen are elves they're gonna dress up like Santa's elves the sophomores are dressing up as snowmen juniors are reindeers and seniors are Santa and I believe this staff was told they could dress up as their favorite holiday character it sounds like fun did you
have to get dressed to come here because I know today was I kept my I kept made Christmas leggings a little but they're cute all right anybody have any other comments a question thank you thank you
all right do we have a report from his pocket vanish as well how do you pronounce your name Alaia Alaia sorry thank you um okay so Monsieur she has been assessing her students on the reading levels this past week ah
students have moved up from at least one level or two or three levels they are excited that they are getting closer to the girls room in September the elementary students finish their opinion writing pieces they work very hard throughout their entire writing process to share what the arts are an important part of our community and in life school
students learn to make and may give such as ornaments and snow globes and a middle school student inventing new products and use our new knowledge of volume and area to market our products they've even made 3d models of their marketing products and all sorts of shapes and sizes and with the 12th
graders we made like graffiti like saying how we live with our legacy at his apartment and we didn't put a new graffiti on the building so we just made it like little papers and we decorated them and we spray-painted stuff and I'm a middle
school students did an egg drop with miss Wilson and in high school they did the DNA models some stuff when I enter the team building activity with the ladies they want to win except prom and they have five minutes to escape and
middle school students decorated the classrooms for the holidays and it was like a lot of teamwork and full of fun and on Friday December 21st we were provided holiday meal for all of the students and on behalf of all the students at advantage and all of the
staff we would like to thank dr. croupy and all the board members fall of their hard work and dedication we want to wish you a happy holiday season and a prosperous new year thank you thank you so moving on to item B personnel recommendations so our personal
recommendations are broken into groups to accommodate some of the conflicts on the school board so first one is the HPA si can I get a motion please the Board of Education accept the administration's recommendations for the HPA si employee
group is presented support discussion so I just want you to notice that we have hired our new principal for the jardim vocational program and she will be starting on the 19th and we're really excited to have her join us is it going for the Macomb area Gracie in the
audience tonight yes well make sure we get hurt here in January all right roko no yes Hannah yes yes yes
yes HP EA and I can I get motion for that group like emotionally Rudy it was written for the HPE support any
discussion yes yes yes yes no yes yes yes next item is for the paraprofessionals hppa can I get
a motion please I move the board of education accept the administration's recommendations for the hppa employee group is presented support discussion no yeah hint then yes mr. Hempel I'm staying due to complex
Hammond's yes miss abstained in a familial conflict no abstained your familial conflict yeah yes item D is our secret base our secretary i uo e group can I get a motion please I move the board of education accept the administration's
recommendation for the i uo e employees represented support any discussion robot black yes no yes and then yes yes Hammond's yes yes i can abstain due to
familial conflict item in the unaffiliated employee group I mean the Board of Education accept the administration's recommendation for the on affiliate employee your beds presented port discussion yes I'd like to introduce our recommendation for IT
manager Brad Wilkins brad has been a very involved person in our community so we're really excited that we're able to find someone that is highly qualified to be our IT manager right here that's been very involved in our very own community
brad has a master's degree in IT an extensive IT background let us say a few things pajama spot thank you we're we're really thrilled to see this position filled as well because I know but there's a need and this is this is
great himself question what's the difference between a manager and director because was in Jerome a director well I understand you but I mean what's the difference between the
two I thought we were looking forward to right there yeah okay okay right so what is this hiring day tomorrow today I don't have I don't have
the okay any other discussion okay yeah no yeah
yes mr. Hamill yes yes yes yes welcome Brad yes thank you got to work with your wife all right so I think that's the end
of that we can move into Staffie item C first item is a literacy math coach can I get a motion please I know that the Board of Education approved the hiring of one additional literacy math coach as requested I support the motion
discussion so in our previous recommendation you saw that we had a resignation of our literacy coach and given the cost of that current literacy coach and the extra dollars that we have in our thirty-one a grant we are
recommending that we move to try to fill two litters literacy but also make it a math coach it's a conversation that we've been having for some time needing a math coach and if we are able to fill the structure then each elementary building would have a part-time literacy
slash math coach if we could build it you know ideally it would be best to have a full-time one in each building we truly can't afford that or nor do we have the grant dollars of time so we would look to have and if we fill it from internally what we would do
is wait until the positions behind them could be filled so so for example if a coach was shared between United Oaks and Hoover a full-time person would be shared and then they would be able to support the teachers back and forth with flexibility we also know that at the
junior high they could benefit from having a literacy or a math coach as well it's able to go into the classrooms yes so currently so we would be replacing the current literacy coach and then adding additional coached and that
would be split between the two yes correct okay and we would be using this out of 31:8 entitle dollars yes okay and my final question how will this impact our students if like we can have this person come through well we know that that
would be focused on the scores so currently what we did is we have one person going between all the elementary schools which is virtually impossible we know what the third-grade reading law that this is very important and in with thirty one a one of the focuses that we
need to do is on the area mathematics so if we find so last year one of the things that the legislature pushed off was the change in your at-risk students in the 31a so you have to be able to show there's growth and so if not you're gonna have to be using 50% of your 31a
funds anyway focused on MTS s what your coaches are going to be a part of so we're gonna have to see if that's what comes into play this year but really that's what your thirty one eighty dollars are supposed to be used for vocational MTS s math k3 reading and you
can use them for at risk secure and security as well okay so this coach is doing what in the classroom how are they assist so there they go in and they support the teachers in the area of reading right now is what mrs. delude had done so it's asking what is the
support so they go in and they watch sometimes they model for the teachers so that the teachers know how to the instruction and so especially with the amount of new teachers that's that's very helpful so this is a what is
supported across the state of Michigan if you look at the instruction for literacy as well as for math and they're looking for coaches there's a huge instructional coaching grant that's given and it's given through the ISD and so they're giving us a very small
support of a coach but it is a common practice within school district to have instructional coaches within the school district but a literacy coach ever like I get there therefore the teacher would they ever be able to take a student and work one-on-one with them that's not the purpose of halitosis the coach's purpose
is to coach the teachers and support the teachers okay I have a question are they gonna be designated certain days or they're just gonna float like Monday will be who vertues it or will that you will not do that to them they will work with the principal and the teachers based upon that and the reason that's
good right is that if you need to be with these new teachers on this day then you can split and go to these so what happens is they work their schedule out with the principals and with the teachers on a weekly basis and they send it out but they would they might want to go in the morning one week at one school and then the afternoon to hit the other
teachers of the other school being that we don't have enough we don't have only how are they gonna cover this and I want them to be available that's needed so and then they work with the principal so when we do our performance management on a monthly basis we look at the areas of
goals that need to be focused on and so when we look at that data we say here are some of the concerns we have we're gonna have to build that math capacity but we know that math is an area of weakness across the state of Michigan and in an area of here as well and we need to focus on it math so that's why we're wanting to add in the math and to
build in that capacity right if there's no further discussion then roll call no yes yes yes yes all right
next request was for an additional resource room teacher can I get a motion near the that Board of Education approved the hiring of one additional research room teacher as presented as a board discussion I need to make one correction that this position will not be funded through thirty one eighty dollars this
will be funded out of the general fund that dental health with reimbursements for a special education funding so I thought I apologize I thought this one was corrected I think it must have gotten uploaded ahead of time I mean the reason we don't want to take it out of 31a funding is that you want as much
special education funding put in the general fund for more reimbursement for special ed funding so our numbers and special Adam of grown extraordinary and so mrs. Dillard sat down with a special education resource staff at the
elementary school and really worked hard to try to say given the data we have he's there anything that we can do to not add another teacher and there really isn't and we have said we need plan a and Plan B and Plan C and that is because we know there's an extreme shortage of special education teachers
so it's been a really difficult for us to find a special education teacher but we're going to get up there and look for one I mean if there are school districts all around us who's special education teachers are are not filled but our numbers are extremely high caseloads are extremely high for our teachers our
numbers have grown exponentially so we really don't have a choice because we're going to be out of limit for what our teachers can hold on their caseload plus the minutes are exceedingly high for our students what's the cost factor well it
could be anywhere from thirty one thousand to fifty five thousand dollars depending on the years of experience in the potential of getting some of them back from I can't answer how that cost
goes that so possibly well you do get a closet based of high no it's not a center program this isn't the general fund this is oh yeah no the general fund we use as a special education there's a possibility of getting monies from their case of different different Center
program is very very different there's a different special ed reimbursement formula that goes on the amount you spend for special ed you get that back so it has it's very separate from the center fund programs is a very different fun this is special
education in our own programs and because we've reduced every year our special education funding we've received less special end reimbursement yeah but not it's not central part of the center what you're saying is there's a
possibility getting in fact in special education but not sure what percentage that we will so based on that and there's possibility it's does some of it
comes out of general fund and some comes on a special education thank you all
right okay no yes yes yes yes yes all right moving on to item D for professional development can I get a motion knew that the Board of Education approved their Krusty's 3180 grant funds
for professional development is needed in the amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars a second any discussion yes we would like to utilize some of the dollars that have have not been
allocated in 31a that after our finance department has kind of taken a look at our thirty one eighty dollars and see about providing some professional development outside the school day paid for teachers one of the things that's become exceedingly difficult is to
provide professional development during the day because the barrier to doing that our substitutes and so and we're hoping that we we can provide some reimbursement for teachers to attend some things that they identify that needed outside the school day and pay
for that that they will be able to come and so we've taken an allocation that might not necessarily be all spent but give that opportunity for them to be reimbursed for attending some high quality professional development outside the school day with topics yet to be determined based upon some identified
needs any discussion how would you identify those needs what you do like a like a like a little do a goodwill survey and reach out to them plus we you know we have our district network media in the morning they're gonna be identifying and talking about some things that they believe for the new year
and then we'll be reaching out with some other groups as well and asking them what they may be looking for I think it'll be great I think our teachers are looking for some knowledge so this is to send our teachers to class not for to help the students yes this is for after-school professional development
for our teachers yes yes yes yes next item curricula work motion can I get a motion please knew that the Board of Education approved they used the funds 131 a grant funds to be used for
curriculum adjustments as needed in the amount not to exceed $10,000 support in discussion so this is the dollars to be used for curriculum work during the summer time to pay our teachers at $27 an hour that's not been allocated anywhere else in the budget okay I think
it's great I want our curriculum to continue to be adjusted as it with suggestions and improvements based on what we're learning so it's nice that we can set some money aside to help get that done by our people you have a discussion Thank You coupie do we have teachers
currently using the curriculum forums currently are they like submitting their information and I can't answer right now what's been submitted but I can certainly get that back to you pretty great thank you sorry roko no yes okay good yes
yes Hammond yes yes yes item F cannot track services with Detroit Institute for children can I get a motion please whoo that we approve the administration's request to use a contractual agency for the special education department evaluations in the
amount not to exceed $20,000 has presented support discussion so as you are aware we lost our school psychologist about a month and a half ago to another school district and we also had an exceedingly large amount of
referrals for special education there is a mandatory guideline and timeframe that all of these evaluations need to be completed then with only having one psychologist on staff that has been exceedingly difficult we needed to reach
out into a private agency contractual agency we don't want our new psychologist who starts in January to and our current one we need to lighten that load and to balance it off so this contractual agency will help facilitate
getting some evaluations completed we will use thirty one eighty dollars in this but it'll help to balance off the number of evaluations that need to be complete make sure that we are not overburden our new psychologist as well as our current psychologist that's really having difficulty completing
things within the time frame and make sure that we stay within the mandatory guidelines of completing evaluations within the 60-day time frame yes this company this contracts with them is this
a one-time or is it opened up to 20 you are doing permissions not to exceed $20,000 but if we get the caseload by January I would like probably more or less at a timeframe when it's done it's done because if we're gonna be hiring two staff people once the caseload is
lowered there's no reason to be even using it well we wouldn't continue but I I can tell you that it'll take a little while 60 days at least school days maybe more to complete those we don't have enough school psychologists in our school district two is not enough for the
number of case studies that we need to have completed in the number of evaluations any parent or teacher can request a case study and the teams have to decide whether or not they can evaluate them or if they should be evaluated and they a number of valuations exceed them the amount that
two psychologists can complete within that time frame and so that's that's the problem that we have on our hands you give us a permission to spend up to five thousand which is why this is brought to you with an app to exceed twenty thousand so what would happen is if we
got to that point and we weren't still be able to live within our timeframes of getting things done in a timely manner to meet our guidelines to keep us within the guidelines of the law then we would come back to you and say listen and these are the these are the timeframes
these are how many of Valve's need to be done and we're not able to do it I need to ask you for something else so we wouldn't go over twenty thousand without your approval you you've given us that blessing and that's it if we knew more we'll come back to you how could a parent use a doctor's evaluation like if they paid for their
own outside a medical evaluation is different than a school-based evaluation so even a doctor can't say you must have an IEP or what have you an educational evaluation is different than a medical evaluation so doesn't mean that they wouldn't qualify it just means that an
educational evaluation is much different and so the only person that decides is an educational team here in the school district that has many different players involved psychologists social worker the general education teacher has to be involved the special education teacher
and any other related services that have to be involved and of course the parent the parent can include that medical evaluation to be considered but it's to be considered not necessarily definitely a part of that
any other discussion Roka no yes flat yes anything yes mr. handful no it's Hammond's yes yes yes all right
item G tankless water heaters any emotion please at the Board of Education approved the replacement of tankless water heaters at Webb Elementary in Hazel Park High School as presented support discussion did you want to speak
to this joy and speak to you you have to buy it you have to be by microphone please thank you I'm happy to do it you want me to I was kidding the tankless
water heater sir is something that I guess the district has been working on for a number of years there was the number of failures both of these with the high school there's six actually units in place that web of elementary there's five currently it right now lab
there's only one functioning so there's been some difficulty getting the manufacturers to warranty these units we got to cover breakthrough within the last three weeks to the point where the manufacturer is now going to honor the agreements that were in place so the net
cost to the district to repair the 11 tankless water heaters across the district it's just over twenty twenty three thousand dollars now both of these projects were slated in our sinking fund five-year plan one for a hundred and eighty one thousand and what that was
going to do is replace the heaters themselves with the traditional tank and replaced some of the system itself and againt the high school we're looking at expected cost of two hundred and fifty three and year in year three so again this this is going to allow us to use
sinking fund dollars more effectively replacing the units that we currently have and have been functioning to some extent over the last seven or eight years and again allow us then to repurpose sinking fund dollars into other projects that are going to benefit the district
yourself any questions so we are buying new ones are we preparing old ones they are actually coming in and replacing the old ones because the current ones do not function and are we gonna get a warranty yeah they way they will be again warranty from my understanding it was
just the talking to the right representatives to get this project previous when they first put him in know was the fight with the warranty people in ordered we had to find the right plumber that could come in and do the right change in order for them to come
back and do the full warranty if you remember we had over $200,000 slotted in the sinking fund for this project and this is going to considerably save the project and the sinking fund that we had planned undoing yeah this is great news
thank you to those that work to get to the right person or warranty on oh if it was ready crash crew being diligent this is saving us and I'm sure that the sinking fund can be used for plenty of other projects this is taken over a year to take place so really kudos to Greg
for finding the right person to get this done and thank you to the company for following through on their promise to us to make sure that they fulfill the
warranties yes yes yes yes yes all right next item was a January so our January 2019 regular board meeting date we
needed to change it so can I get a motion I move that the January 21st 2019 board meeting being moved to January 14 2019 support so we are moving a date because it fell on Martin Luther King
Day and the pastor spent some school or a professional development day but this year really schools are all closed and so we feel like our board meeting of a week because I had already been voted on we had to amend it in January we'll do our forecast for the whole year of our other dates I need other spectrum the board so
what date did we move it to January 14th I thought we were doing the know we're doing the seventh for absorbing okay only work at Nate's in here wrong okay yes oh my god hey it's a tradition here
in the school district and I have another 21st [Laughter] it's just informational at this time that'll be kind of balancing I think what's really important is our February couch which is our second important count date that makes that helps talk
about our count date for the fall so that'll be a really important cut all right moving on to Superintendent update first item is Michigan Department of Treasury letter yep so I'm really excited to share with the public and
Hazel Park schools and congratulations to you as a Board of Education that this week mr. Miller mr. earnest and I went to or last week not this week because today is really hard for us to go but it
felt like we'll talk about that a little bit later so we're really excited to announce that the Treasury has released Hazel Park from oversight they really so that congratulations really needs to
go to the staff of his Oh Park because without that those tremendous cuts that the staff of Hazel Park has taken and continues to take we would have never gotten to the point we're at but that doesn't mean is that we can just go off
on our own what that means is that we have the ability to make decisions on our own we have the ability to approve contracts on our own make decisions that are all because they believe that the Hazel Park Board of Education and
administrators are fiscally responsible and will make good decisions on a monthly basis we will still turn in our heed up which shows that we are still moving in the correct direction it has expected that at the end of the year we're still following that lead up plan and we are still reducing that
deficit so kudos to you as port numbers and because you have led the school district and also kudos and thank you to the Oakland ISD who has guided us and and helped move us in the right direction over the last three years it is a monumental task to reduce four
million dollars in debt over a three year period of time and I look forward to supporting and guiding and working with our new finance department which I can already tell is going to keep us in the right direction and making sure that we continue to try to reduce that four
million dollars hopefully in if the state works with us right in maybe three years four years a period of time as well at the same time why we give back to our staff as they so duly deserve yes
what happened to the 12-year deficit plan if we're gonna do this in three or four years this was fabulous I love this but so so I will I will let's talk about that and let's talk about as we always have we have a 12-year deficit plan
it's in place and the purpose that we did a 12 year plan was to give us the broom and we said that at that board meeting to give us the ability let's talk about this year for example this year we have a change in a governor and we have houses divided correct we have
Republicans and we have Democrats we don't know what it's going to look like for the budget for the following year we'll have to make some decisions at some point in time what's going to happen there may be some years where the state gives us more money or less money
you as a board and as the unions work together and those that are not in unions will have to make some decisions how much you want to reduce that deficit from one year to the next we know there's a teacher shortage in a staffing shortage if you choose to go too far and
you don't compensate your staff members back we're going to run into a situation where we're going to be competing with other school districts and not be able to get staff because there's such an incredible shortage it took us over three weeks just to get an applicant for
our early five classroom in years before you used to be able to find kindergarten and early five teachers a dime-a-dozen right because everybody wants to be a kindergarten teacher that would not be a class that we would have to worry about so we need to find that balance as a
school district about how fast so if we continue to do well as we are and we might have some other revenue things that we come upon we would hope that we could do equally as well as we have in the last three years and reduce that but
what the 12-year deficit does is give us the opportunity if there's some stumbling blocks or some things that are happening in the financial world so we have 12 years if it takes us three that's wonderful if it takes us four that's great but in the meantime there's gonna have to be decisions that are made
by the school district about what we need to do to make sure that we retain and keep highly qualified staff members in Hazel Park schools I inquired I brought that up because I was confused when you said it would be three or four years I was just
asking for clarification and I'm not against not having money and not giving teachers more money had nothing to do with it I was really pleased to hear you say three or four years when I know we've talked 12 and I'm like what happened so I just want a clarification
thank you I think I think that's wonderful providing the extra knowledge from our community I think that we talk about it all the time and I think we know it what I understand from this and that that's the clarification I want to know is that they're releasing it for us from their oversight with asking
permission to do the contracts and different things like that we're still having to follow the eat up with our monthly reporting requirements correct yes we turn in the monthly eat ups to show that we are still being fiscally responsible and I want to clarify we
would hope that we could continue down the same path but the 12-year EDA gives us flexibility to take longer and so we need to Evan flow based upon what the financial outlook is in Michigan and in the economy the twelve year plan hasn't always will give us the flexibility to
do what we need to do so that we can keep and retain teachers and and I know in way in any means by the question and want to intimated that anyone does not support teachers because that that is certainly not my mean that you mean that
what i truly am saying is that if it takes us three years that'd be great but we could take up to 12 years this this school district has been a deficit as you guys all know for a very long period of time I have a big thick folder of it certainly is everybody's goal to get out
but we don't want to get out on the back of not being able to keep our teachers our students deserve the very best qualified teachers and our teachers deserve and our staff secretary's custodians maintenance you know I don't wanna leave anyone out paraprofessionals
we deserve to have highly qualified staff most drivers administration no IQ if you are excited on this and I think it goes to talk about to your leadership coming here dr. Crippin and the administrators here and that almost aren't very educated people have managed
our programs very well we're a very complex district and so uh hats off to you guys around the table and and like I said I work ahead of us so yes we don't what we're doing it's not I make it as a poster and put it up find a great news moving into 2019 excited when do we
approve to twelve years ago June May or June and we're still under the twelve year well I understand I didn't know well I'm not looking for trying to figure out why we did this all right next said it was holiday basket
update donations right so we've listed on here for you on all the individuals that gave and I'm sure there's more of it gave financial or gave pieces we've written letters for them signed by Lauren myself can I tell you what another success for holiday basket some
if you were able to come and set up and and kudos and thank you to our holiday basket committee and all or Weidman was here earlier Sheree you are here and we'll leave anybody out the Nagy's are here thank you so much for continuing Brad and
Angela the holiday baskets what a certain wonderful gift to the community to continue with holiday baskets and we could not do it without the community of Rosie's on that holiday basket committee but but without the support of the
community you know it comes through I was very worried about the number of cans that were out there but in the end it was a beautiful thing we ended up with about twenty three baskets that were not picked up and those this week are being sent out to the various schools so that our principals can give
those out to families that are in need by their choice and so it is just a wonderful event it was heartwarming on Friday to that to have the junior high students come and help out as well it's just a great event and thank you to my administer that came in to the teachers that were
able to come and we had retired individuals that came back as well try an administrator some teachers it's just a delightful event and some alumni came as well it's just really kudos that we
were able to continue that I happen to also be there and one of our staff members parents came and she works for the Salvation Army that also shared that their numbers were down this year in the Salvation Army and who you were chatting about that for a little while and their conversation was they think that there
are so they don't think that the the need is down but there are so many organizations that are now offering holiday baskets or dinners or things like that they think that that's why people's numbers are down because there's so many organizations now because there are so many people that care for individuals
that that's why numbers are down because now there are so many places that do this you are certainly on the forefront here in Hazel Park of doing the wonderful holiday baskets and thank you for allowing me to to be a part of that so beautiful event the total number we
had this year that all right um last item hon here was the Ruth Cassie fund we didn't he did have another family that we were able to give some money with for the Ruth IC fund and we paid an electrical bill for a family that's what
so another wonderful thing so thank you for allowing us and I believe you asked me before for the dollar amount and it's in excess of twenty thousand dollars so we still have a good amount of money yes in there so we're really grateful again to be able to we're fortunate to at this
time to to still have a good amount of money to give to those families in need and I appreciate my committee members Bev and Rosie that are very supportive and helpful thinking through all that process when we have a family that's in need thank you alright so number
administration comments I do my kids on the swim team and we had our parent meeting which was really great the swimmers were told though that they couldn't wear their warm-up uniforms to
school I told the parents I would ask at the meeting I don't understand why they are not allowed to wear the four of their warm-ups basketball worst or t-shirts football wears their jerseys cheerleaders wear their outfits I don't
understand why the swim team can't advertise swimming so well I'm certainly think that that's something that is a parent group they could take to mr. Meyer and have that conversation it's not really something that it wasn't good here I don't do at a board level I do know from the past that the basketball
team was also asked not to wear their warm-ups that's probably as far as I know I had another parent call me and I said that I would look into talking with mr. Meyer but that's really done at a building level at the athletic department so I'm I will ask I will inquire to mr. mile art and then maybe
we can send that to the parent group but they said we're gonna do a workshop with him swimming maybe we can just incorporate maybe that together I'm sure if the board would like to have that workshop on swimming we can incorporate that building based
decision their information sooner than the workshop date oh no I just told the parents that I would ask because she got the phone call whatever sport it was I don't know if it was this one it was I
mean it was really easy for mr. mylar to respond to this to the parent group okay because their weight loss um I just
wanted to acknowledge the sad news this weekend and let everyone know that the arrangements have been made I'm the first visitation is Thursday from 5:00 to 9:00 and then Friday from 2:00 to 9:00 and I said eh Peter's
Funeral Home in Warren and the services will be a Saturday it's two times here there's 10:00 and 11:00 a.m. both at st. Mary Magdalen so I'm sure that the information will be corrected but you know please consider supporting this wonderful family of longtime Hazel Park
residents and just a wonderful child that it's very tragic that we've lost him this weekend I just want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and we'll see you in the new year yeah I
know I think I think every year I think we securely reflection as we go into the new year and I think we have a lot of really exciting news that was shared tonight at the table but it doesn't you know doesn't mean we don't have our work cut out for us I would like to say that
the evaluation process and sitting a little more ironed out and we appreciate dr. Pope you very much she's a very trying year with us some of her family with her family and
appreciate that crapine are our single one employee and allowing you to get beat up on social media along with the other seven of us so thank you for that as we as we teach our kids kind of to be hoping in the future parents that as
well so as we look into tipis you know county your night team positive thoughts keep this energy moving behind our students as much as we can and I I'm thrilled going into this and I'm thrilled that we won't have any other floor meetings in the next two weeks
please so please have a safe warm happy holiday Amir Christmas and a a wonderful new year and we'll see you guys in January I have about four items number one I'm happy to
announce that Hazel Park will be getting a twenty thousand dollar grant from Oakland County as in conjunction with United Way and I give you this pamphlet because what are the conversations when I met with Samantha today and the United
Way is that Hazel Park led the way in breakfast so if you can remember a year ago during breakfast breakfast week we had a bunch of legislators since and County officials that came to Hazel Park because of the breakfast carts that Samantha was put in place that were given to us through United Way well
Oakland County is now putting aside a half a million dollars as well as another organization in Oakland County two hundred thousand dollars and there will be schools that will be given five thousand dollar grants to put those breakfast carts in place to emulate what
Hazel Park Schools has done we have pictures of our students that are on these pamphlets and flyers in the front of United Way of our children in Hazel Park because they're so proud of what's happening in Hazel Park in feeding of our children today I was at the junior high and over 200 children we're having
breakfast because we have those breakfast carts out front so we're really excited that Hoover we're really excited that Webb Roosevelt and the alternative school will all be receiving some kind of $5,000 donation to do for breakfast to enhance breakfast
they also challenged us to look at best practice and to think and to consider changing our breakfast model to inside the classroom and so I put that out there not to say that's what we need to do but say that that's the way MD the state of Michigan is really
encouraging and the reason that they say that is that if one develops a bigger community inside your classrooms it takes the first 15 minutes of the day and helps people sit inside the rooms and eat together there's a case study on the right-hand side of the research about why it's important to have
breakfast as well as why it's important to eat together as a community inside the classroom and research about how it calms the children together to start off their day together and other children that might not eat together then would eat together and they develop better relationships with children so they're
challenging us to think about that is the state of Michigan we'll be encouraging school districts across the state to have breakfast inside the classroom every morning so kudos to Hazel Park and kudos to a United Way for to continuing to shine and Hazel Park
and they said they'd be happy to come in here and have that conversation with you about Paul Hazel Park has led the way and I said I'm gonna be more than happy to do that right at night I would not take that moment to not do that another thing that I wanted to say was to really
think our amazing teachers and administrators for we had great things going on we had a great high school play someone stole my thunder great concert we had great crafts and crafts still going on the holiday baskets to senior
concert I did think too late but I did live streaming and if you didn't see Elvis pick that up on my Facebook page he was awesome and sitting on some of those seniors laps it was hysterical it was really wonderful and on later on in my second part of my presentation you
can see a little guy from our schools singing Merry Christmas and here comes Santa Claus and his eyes lit up when Santa Claus got up on stage and even better our own music teacher sherry writes singing oh holy night that brought tears to my eyes and so if you
didn't have a chance to see that she was simply amazing and really the cheers that were in the audience were outstanding and our high school students were quite active as well and you'll be able to see that on my Facebook page but people really um I didn't think about it but people that
weren't able to come we're joining that live stream and enjoying that so I need to think a little harder on technology maybe somebody knew from technology will help encourage um I do want to point out
the passing of Turin that's very difficult because my house is the same it's all family waked up in baseball so really tough I know that this
community is way behind that family and finally I am really grateful to have such an amazing administrative team secretarial custodian staff and maintenance paraprofessional and teachers and it's together that they make this haze of our teamwork so thank
you [Applause] okay I want to say thank you to Lisa Crouch Johnson for all her hard work for the senior concert yes it's called the senior concert but everybody's invited
because everybody has a part in it and the sing-along was excellent and sherry did an excellent job she's also our volleyball coach and so thank you to everyone that participated in our cook
she did an excellent job we had delicious cookies thank you thank you Merry Christmas Merry Christmas to all presentation kids are priceless and you here yeah that was fabulous and we've
heard United Oaks we've heard Webb great things going on with with our teachers and our kids and our schools it's it's good it's real good mr. Dailey loved that information too I learned more from you tonight than I've learned in six months of what's happening with behavior
and and so I mean it was concrete I could see it it wasn't for it so thank you that that took some time and just want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas Happy Holidays and get some rest I will echo some of the same sentiments so
sorry to hear about the passing of Turin I know this community really tried has been following that health battle and really a loss and I hope that the students were able to get the support they need it I know that several letters went out to try and help them I was able to attend the high school band concert
was excellent I enjoyed it as well as Robin indicated they they did a new thing with joining the bands on the junior high concert band concert also was fantastic I enjoyed the senior concert so I've been trying to push in some of the things I can and love the kindness posters I feel like there's
love and here today thank you cheered us up with those and happy
holidays day did I read that returnees
to do the city we have mr. Patterson is now going to administer the oath of office those that were elected do you solemnly swear or affirm that you will support the Constitution United States and the Constitution of the State
and that you will faithfully discharge the duties of office of member of the school district of the city Hazel Park I believe according to the best of your ability