I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. We have public comment and Aiden Buehler, you'll have three minutes, Aiden, at the lectern. Thank you. February 9th was the last and only other time I've ever been in this room. There were at least 20 people in the room who were all filled with thoughts to share. And share their thoughts they did. I don't remember an extraordinary amount from that meeting.
However, there was one message from teachers, administrators, and every single member of the board that was made clear. Never stop advocating for what is right. And in the words of a teacher, "Sometimes there are things in life that are worth fighting for, even if you know you will lose." And that's what brings me here tonight. Even though I know the odds of anything meaningful coming from this are slim, at best, it's the hill I'm willing to die on. I've had the privilege of a lifetime to start a tutoring initiative through Interact Club at several Perry Meridian schools, namely Southport Sixth Grade Academy and Perry Meridian Middle School.
Before we even began tutoring, we sat down with a counselor at Perry Meridian Middle School, and he informed us about the one in five kids failing eighth grade math, except that was nothing close to the truth. None of these kids were failing their classes. They were all being failed. The number of kids I've tutored at both these schools that don't know their basic multiplication facts is staggering. No wonder so many kids are failing eighth grade pre-algebra. They can't multiply. Why are we moving them on? In what world does that make sense? Now by state laws, kids have to pass i-Ready to move on. Why is Perry not doing something similar to math?
To cut the story very short, these kids are behind, very behind. You know what this is like? This is like if you take your kid to the beach and walk into the ocean with them. You go a little deeper, and a little deeper, and even deeper, but you never teach them how to swim. Sure, they can hold their own for a little bit, but as that water gets deeper and deeper, their head is eventually going to go under. And then what? That's exactly what we're doing to our kids. We keep pulling them deeper and deeper without checking to see if they can swim. At what point can the schools stop saying the kids are failing and realize Perry is failing the kids? May I remind everyone that our township slogan is
"We grow kids," and that parallels really closely to plants. We take all these little plants throughout kindergarten to third grade, all the way through high school. Each step along the way, they get a little more and a little more. At least that's how it's supposed to be. What is happening with not just a few plants, but countless plants, is they get behind to the point where it feels like a bucket of water is drenching them. And do you know what happens to plants that get too much water? They die. Once again, these kids are drowning. And for my last anecdote, let me tell you about this one girl at Perry Meridian Middle School who asked for help again, and again, and again, and kept getting denied again, and again, and again, to be put in a class to get more
help. Some kids struggle with even asking for help, but she has advocated for it every step of the way and still can't get it. It got to the point where the only way she could see herself getting help was by intentionally failing iLearn. I wanted to tell her not to. Every part of me wanted her to do her best, but what is the point of doing your best when your best makes you worst off? One thing is clear, we are not providing the resources we need to grow kids. And I know I have said it a million times during this, but I just want to make sure you don't forget. These kids are drowning. Please, by any means necessary, do not just watch. Thank you, Aiden. We'll now move on to the consent agenda.
Do we have a motion? Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Lewis and a second by Mr. Shively. Is there any discussion or question? I would like to state that on the fundraiser requests, there is one for Southport Middle School that wants to use SnapRaise. And SnapRaise is an online platform that I know I've discussed in the past that allows people to make what are cash donations, and yet it is very hard to find on there how much SnapRaise keeps. Currently we have a
booster club that is doing it that we don't vote for, and I did a little research and it says 80%. They keep 80%. So. In the notes that we were provided, Southport Middle School is saying that they're keeping 90%, but... I just... As Aiden said, that's a hill I'll die on, and this is not the first time I've said this, nor will it be the last. So this is a hill Emily dies on. So. Anyone else? Okay. We're going to vote on the consent agenda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed, nay? Nay. Consent agenda is approved.
Moving on to items of information regarding action. Item 4.01: Consideration of Supplemental Personnel Report. Ms. Baker. Good evening, board. I recommend approval of the supplemental personnel report. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mrs. Hartman and a second by Mr. Shively. Do we have any questions or comments? There being none, all those in favor of the supplemental personnel report, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Item 4.01 is approved. 4.02, consideration of Magnify Learning
PBL Coach contract. Mr. Spencer. Good evening, board. We bring to you a contract with Magnify Learning that will provide a full-time project-based learning coach for our district as we begin our implementation process that aligns with our strategic plan and also our Lilly Grant application. And so learning from our work in literacy, we have, the last two years, had a CKLA-embedded coach that was not our employee, but worked in our district in support of the literacy implementation, which we've seen some great progress with. And so this will mirror that. And so this will be an employee of Magnify Learning that works in our district with
our coaches, with our administrators, and then eventually with our teachers as we start the process of rolling out project-based learning. And it is funded through the Lilly Grant. Move to approve. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Lewis, a second by Mrs. Hartman. Any questions or comments? So I'm looking here. I didn't see, as far as the contract terms. So is this based off of our school calendar, or is it a full 12-month calendar? So it will typically be our school calendar. We're approving it now because that allows them to go ahead and hire that position
and possibly have some part-time work that will be in front of the summer. If they hire somebody that's not a Perry employee, then there's some learning curve around NIET and just our structures and our systems. And so this gives us the flexibility to start that work now. It will be for five years, but the next five school years. Next five school years. So it will be a 12-month employment then. That is correct. Okay. And you mentioned if it's not a Perry employee. Obviously, all jobs are open, but are we targeting some people that we think would
be... We have posted it and are going to go through our process, so we'll see. Sharon's been great. She and her team have worked with Magnify. It's posted on our site so that our peoples can see it and have access to it, but it's not exclusive to them. They've also posted it through their channels. Perfect. Thank you. Okay. Let's go ahead and vote then on 4.02, consideration of the Magnify Learning PBL Coach contract. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Item 4.02 is approved. 4.03 is consideration of new course adoptions. Mrs. Pollard. Good evening, board. Tonight we bring to you a request for your
approval for the courses that we need to support our new Entrepreneurship and Innovation program. You can see them listed in your board packet. And of course, once these are approved, they're available for both high schools. So tonight I ask your approval. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Mertz, a second by Mr. Shively. Any questions or comments? Quick question. These courses are very interesting. I really appreciated these courses. However, quick questions. Is the course for only particular special program attendees, or it is available for all students?
That's a great question. So right now we have the Principles of Entrepreneurship offered at Southport High School, and we've had some conversation about continuing that program outside of the Entrepreneurship program. And right now it looks like we're going to ask that all of that be completed within the program. We'll continue to evaluate that to make sure that students have access to what they need, but that's the current plan. Great. I think these courses would help students who know closer to the work practical orientation and hands-on skill for real-world. Right.
Thank you. Right. So the work-based learning courses would be the exception to that. Both of our high schools will offer work-based learning as required by the new requirements. I know we do have work-based learning programs at both high schools currently. What's the difference between what we're currently doing and these new offerings? Yeah, that's a great question. So right now what we're working through is how to classify the studies that we have for the students, the opportunities we have available for students. The new requirements for graduation, a lot of that work-based learning is going to be embedded within coursework to meet those graduation requirement hours outside of the additional coursework that we have for work-based learning itself.
So we're figuring it all out. As we move along, I think it's going to look a lot of ways in the fall. Cool. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Let's go ahead and vote on the new course adoptions. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. 4.03 is approved. 4.04, consideration of the 2026/2027 secondary textbook adoptions. Mrs. Palmer, back to you. Thank you. It's that time of year when I bring to you the textbooks that our leaders have chosen for the '26, '27 school year and
beyond. And you'll see on this list that we have couple of things. One, we're working to unify some of our choices. So in our literacy from grade six through eight, we are adopting Amplify in the same way that our K-5 friends have done, in hopes that we can gain some consistency and skills as students progress up. And I'm really proud of the work that Dr. Brian Knight, our literacy coach Meagan Bates, and the secondary group has done with literacy because they paid a lot of attention in
grades 9, 10 as well. Amplify doesn't have materials that grow up that way. But the recognition that if we're going to make a consistent program in literacy, it's important that we continue that into the high school. So their recommendations are included in this. Just wanted to highlight that for you. We ask for your approval. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Shively, second by Mr. Mertz. Any questions or comments on 4.04? I got one quick question. These are for both digital and actual hardback- Correct ... paper copies? Correct. Typically, we would adopt digital curriculum when it's available, and then a classroom set of
the hardback books. That's typically how it works. And/or I would say there's one addition. A lot of our resources now, especially in literacy, are consumable materials where they annotate within the book. So those would be new resources every year- Okay ... depending on what the course is. Do you have any clue out of the number of classes that you offer, they actually use hardback paper copy books? I don't know off the top of my head, but I hear what you're saying. And it's interesting because a couple of years ago my answer would've been, "Oh, we're moving towards digital content. We've got all of our materials in Canvas, and we
really don't reference those." The more recent shift has been to those, especially in literacy, those materials where you can... That paper, pencil, we kind of want that back. So those are probably more prevalent than either the digital content or the hardback textbook. And textbook companies are trying to adjust to what learning looks like in classrooms right now. Do we have any kind of numbers? What's the best way to go? What are we seeing? I know digital might be cheaper or are we... When the classes have hardback books, do we have better grades versus using digital, do you know or? I don't have that data. I will tell you from a purchasing perspective,
one comes with the other. Oh, it does? Right. It's not something that-- Correct me if you feel differently but- It's one or the other, or they come with both? Once you get the textbook and you have the digital resource, it's not like we're out buying two resources per kid. Okay. Right? So we have agreements with textbook companies, and there's a lot of companies on here, so I don't want to be misleading to say everyone is doing this. But typically when we start working with textbook companies, we're buying the resource, and they will give us the additional things if we're just trying to get a class set or something like that. We've worked that out so that they have the resources and however it works for the kids in that particular
classroom with that teacher, they have the resources to do what they need to meet the student needs, if that makes sense. Yep. But I hear what you're saying, and I don't have any data on which way is best. I think it's a changing environment. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. Jane, I do have one question. Sure. Just stepping back to 4.03 on some of the new courses. I know entrepreneurship was one of them. Mm-hmm. What kind of training do the teachers-- Is there a specific type of training they go through for the teachers who would be teaching these new courses? That's a great question. So right now with Dr. Brian Vollmer's program, they have the three instructional coaches that we've
hired, and they are in the process right now of interviewing teachers for that program. They will work to develop the understanding that they need for the competencies that the students need to accomplish to show mastery towards the entrepreneurship and innovation, well, the entrepreneurship pathway. And they will be working all summer long on the professional development pieces of that, thanks to some of our friends up in AMP Lab who are going to support that professional development work. Okay. So I don't know exactly what that will reveal to us that we still need to work on.
Mm-hmm. But we're ready and prepared to meet the student needs and the teacher needs as they come available to us. Okay, great. Thank you. Follow up to the Kent question. Where are we in the progress of the changing the textbook from hard copy paper printed copy to digital? Have we discussed yet? Is it changing? Bookstores are closing, hard copies are not... So mostly digital is more favorable by younger generations. So where are we right now? Right. That's fair. So we've been evolving over the past handful of years, right? Pre-pandemic, we were just starting to dip our toe into
that digital world and developing Canvas courses, and textbook companies were responding with all of the digital resources, and we certainly were lucky to have those during the pandemic, right? Then when we came back, we had this little bit of a shift in textbook resources where people really wanted that paper, pencil part again, especially in literacy. So that's where the textbook companies responded with these resources that some of them now have for our students, where instead of what you and I may remember as the anthology textbookThey actually have some more paperback versions where they're annotating
in them, thinking that that enhances the learning, Mr. Lewis, as you were talking about. And so that's been a current shift. Again, the textbook companies realize that some people like those hardback textbooks, so they give us some classroom sets of those in case we get to a time where we need to pull that textbook off the shelf and do something different with it. So right now, we're lucky to be in a phase where we have access to many different modalities, depending on what the students and the teachers need for that moment. So right now is in the changing moment. And I think it would be a boss interest as well as students' interest to
study the significance impact, the student success rate versus the digital or paper book. Mm-hmm. And also, the availability cost way, I think digital is much less expensive than. However, we should really study good real data, study about how student success impact correlates to the textbook they use. Mm-hmm. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Anybody else? Nope. Okay. Let's go ahead and vote on 4.04. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. 4.04 is passed.
Moving on, 4.05, consideration of secondary transfer students. Mrs. Pollard, tonight's your night. Tonight is my night. Finally, as we do every year, we are required to ask you for your approval as we set capacity for our middle school numbers, specifically because that seems to be the place where sometimes we can get a little bit over capacity. So tonight we bring you the same number we've brought the last several years, and that's 675 per grade level at each school. I ask for your approval. Move to approve. Second. We have a motion by Mrs. Hartman, second by Mr. Lewis.
Any questions or comments? About how many students per teacher is that? That's a great question. Between 25 and 30 would be our goal. Okay. What have we seen the last two, three years in the transfer students? Has it continually gone up, down, stayed about the same as far as requests? Oh. I don't keep track of that in totality, but I haven't noticed a significant increase or decrease as far as requests coming in or going out. It did show up in the demographic report a little bit-
Right ... but specific to the middle school level, I haven't noticed. We did anticipate last year on the Southport side that we would have a large number, and we didn't see that come to fruition, so that might be an indicator that it's a little bit down. But the demographic study, as you guys know, tells us we'll probably remain pretty consistent on the Southport side, and it'll be a couple of years before we see that impact at the middle school and high school level on the Perry side. Any other questions? All right. Let's go ahead and vote on 4.05. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Nay. 4.05 passes.
4.06, consideration of acceptance of donations. We'll start out with you, Mr. Fencer. Thank you, board. Clinton Young would like to accept a $300 donation from Julie Orme to be used for their outdoor education camp. Douglas MacArthur Kindergarten Academy would like to accept a donation of $417 from Fiesta Ranchero. They did a Dine to Donate. Our elementary robotics program would like to accept a donation for $2,134.58 from Jeremiah Gray's PTO. That came from concession sales at our robotics events. Glenn's Valley would like to accept a donation for $3,438.81 from the PTA.
It will support fifth graders attending their camp. It will give scholarship opportunities for those students that their families may be in need of that. And then American Legion Post 355 donated to Glenn's Valley Elementary, $1,500. These funds will be used for student need. It could be school supplies, uniforms, or the cost of field trips. Homecraft Kindergarten Academy had two donations, $255 from Mr. Keith Nordstrom, which will help cover an upcoming school-wide field trip to the zoo, and then also $645 from Prince of Peace United Church, that also will cover that school-wide field trip to
the zoo. Mary Bryan and Rosa Parks had small anonymous donations for the music festival. And then Southport Elementary School had two donations of $50 from a community member and $35 from the Dilk family to support their fourth grade trip to Camp Rancho Fermosa. And then they got $1,500 from Phoenix Material Management Group, which will purchase Math Bowl T-shirts for the Math Bowl team, and also support their upcoming camp. And those are the donations on behalf of elementary. For Perry Meridian High School, they received a $2,000 donation from Michelle Cunningham to be used to support the DECA Club, $518
donation to support the choir from the Faulkner Restoration Group and an anonymous donation, and the boys' volleyball team received $350 from Nuangsuex Thong and Alicia Bade. Southport High School received $1,000 donation from the Point of Hope Apostolic Church to be used to support that scholarship, a $50 donation from Smith Vending for student activities, and a $526 donation for their DECA Club from an anonymous donor, Avid Exchange, IMCU, and Bubba's Grill. Perry Meridian Middle School received a $500 donation to be used to support their PBIS from
their PTSA, a $1,000 donation from the LaZin Family Orthodontics to be used to support the athletic programs. Southport Middle School received a $1,060 donation for their athletic program From the basketball club and from an anonymous donor, and a $500 donation from Indiana University to support their PBIS incentives. The Compass Education Center received a $150 donation from Bring Change to Mind to be used to support that program within their building. And I turn it over to Mr. Samson. Thank you. We recommend acceptance of a $1,000 donation to the Perry
School Police Department from Derek Duth. Derek is a former employee in our business department. This donation is made in honor of his father and his family. The funds will go towards ongoing training of our police officers. Please accept all donations as presented. Move to approve. Second. Have a motion by Mr. Lewis, a second by Mr. Mertz. Do we have any questions or comments? There being none, we shall vote on item 4.06. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. 4.06 passes. We'll move on then to board comments. Start with you, Mrs. Harmon.
Thank you. I will just make a small comment about SnapRaise again, because it's my frustration. SnapRaise is a company that is an online platform. It makes it very easy to receive donations to fundraise. My issue is that it is not transparently communicated to those who donate that a portion of their donation will not go to the school, it goes to SnapRaise. Whereas when we're selling T-shirts or wrapping paper or popcorn, I think everybody knows you have to
portion of what you pay, pays for the popcorn or those kinds of things. So we have kids who are asking grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and some of whom are donating 100, 200 more dollars when 80% of that is going to a company. And if it was explicitly written or explained that way on SnapRaise's website, I would have no issues. But because if people know they're going to give $100, that $80 of it goes
to the program and $20 of it goes to SnapRaise, then that's their choice. But, I feel as though it's not very transparent of how much money, and you do have to dig because I was digging this past weekend. So that's my frustration and my point with SnapRaise. And I think in the past when I've complained about this, there was some sort of workaround, so maybe that can come back up again so that SnapRaise isn't taking a portion of our funds. I am thrilled for the contract with Magnify.
I think that the base coaches here really enhance our experience, and work well with our team. So I applaud you on that and thank you for that. I'm also thrilled that it's, you said five years or six years. So it's a long enough time that it's not just... It'll be here for good. So, and once again, thank you to the Lilly Grant for making this possible. Okay. So then I will also say that for those who are watching or asking, we have to
explicitly use the funds for things that we ask for in the grant. So we are following through with what we wrote in that grant. My last thing would be to thank PMT Lawn Care. Our schools look great. And it rained a lot there for those few days before Easter, and it was kind of hit-and-miss. But as I drive around, and there's a lot going on at Holder Field, and yet the elementary school area looks great. So PMT Lawn Care, thank you very much for taking care of our
buildings. Yeah. Thank you for everyone. One thing I would like to highlight, school district is the open to change. In biology, we studied it, animal that can adapt, changes, survive the evolution. And the change today generation so fast. And I think this is really critically asking question ourself from a board perspective and staff administration. This evening we hear from student perspective, and that's really we need more communication between student perspectives and staffs and
both where we could improve and allocate resources. I think we got everything it takes for success and adapting change and becoming a competitive school district in nationwide or global scale. And thank you for administrative staffs and superintendent and everyone getting involved in adding additional courses and whatever we can do, available resources. I think this is the way to go. And I'm sure that in this room, everyone, student, staff,
that we try our best wheninput the maximum effort to do our school district the best. So I think however, there's always a space to grow. If we say we reach the maximum, then we stay behind then. I think always research investment in research and discovering where we could do better and where people are running, in what area we stay behind and what area we are ahead of other people in. I think this is unusual. Of course, every generation have their own challenges, and I think there's more
challenges in the upcoming AI and digital age. And this is really, we need to open our hearts and minds and invest more research and investment where we can do better. So thank you very much. I've nothing for me tonight. Aidan, thanks for coming out and speaking to us tonight. It's appreciated. Last weekend, my daughter participated in the cardboard boat race over at Perry Meridian High School. And if you haven't ever been to one of these things, it's thoroughly entertaining. The enthusiasm these kids had, it was off the charts. It was really fun to watch,
to see them build these boats out of cardboard. Some of them floated, some of them sank immediately. But it was truly a really fun event. So if you ever get a chance to go to one of these things, it's pretty neat. I didn't think cardboard would float. They proved me wrong. Even Mr. Boedeker participated. Evidently, he has a patented dive or cannonball he does every year, and it was, on a scale of one to 10, I would give it a nine five. So excellent job. Friday night, I don't know if you're aware, but it's the grand opening
of Holder Field. Big Perry Southport softball, baseball game, so hopefully everybody comes out. If you haven't been out there yet, the field looks tremendous on both sides. You go to these other schools, and you see what they have. We're right on par with what they have now, and it's really nice to be able to go out there and watch a ballgame. So hopefully everybody comes out Friday night, and should be a good time. Thank you. Aidan, I want to thank you for sharing that with us and that you have your tutoring initiative, and that you saw a problem and are trying to fix it.
One of the reasons that I joined the school board was because I saw the scores in our township, and I was shocked. So I think we may really need to make sure we aren't losing the plot. I don't know how to say that in a different way, but making sure that we are actually getting those great foundations for every child, not just half of them. So because you have to know those basic facts to succeed. And another point that I had made earlier was, would I know as a
parent if my child passed on to the next grade, would I know that they didn't have the basic math skills? I would probably assume that they were doing a pretty good job and would be able to pass the test. So just making sure that those things line up with our grading and our assessments and making sure no kid is... We're not just passing every child through and that they're actually getting the help that they need. And making sure those systems are in place and that we're actually being really thoughtful about that, especially with the amount of resources that we have. I think we can be doing a better job. So thank you again, Aidan.
That's pretty much all I have today. I'd say the same thing, Aidan. I'm really impressed by your initiative, as you said, in seeing a need and filling it. And one thing we do as a board regularly in the summer, I want to say, is we will have data presented to us. What were our scores? How did we do last year versus this year? How are we doing compared to neighboring districts in the state? And so, I appreciate your perspective because you're seeing it firsthand. And I'll just say I have a fresh excitement, would be the word, in having that report this, again,
typically in the summer, at that work session. So thank you for your perspective on that. I had the opportunity, maybe I'll stop short of calling it a blessing, but to present at the National School Board Association conference with Dr. Spray, and Jeff and Jane. And I just wanted to highlight a couple things from that experience. We presented on, the title was, and I'll read it so I don't mess it up. "AI-Powered Leadership: Crafting a Streamlined Admin Hiring Process." And the idea was, how are we using tools at our disposal to make the best hiring choices that we can? And really, what impressed me started even before
our presentation, when I got to work with the three of them behind the scenes. You hear us talk all the time about how well our team members work together. I actually got to see it firsthand. And what's even most impressive about that was not just how the three of them, and pulling me along in the process, worked so well together, but they even knew that they could outsource to people on the home front, Dr. Knight, in making sure that our formatting and everything looked top-notch. But really what stood out to me is, with things like AI, it's a time shift, is how I've kind of thought of it is,
we're all busy people, and we are going to fill the time with something. And so what this team has done a nice job of is leveraging tools to make sure the hiring process is more efficient. They're still working hard. They're still doing the multiple steps that they had done before. This makes it more efficient. I think we are now able to go from receiving applications to offering a position in two-ish weeks, fair to say?And so the two things that I took away as a board member is they really honed in on the
candidate profile and the performance task. That they're not just hiring people for a job description, but they're really tying what we believe in as a district to the needs of the job. And so people coming in really know either, "I'm the right person for this job and I know what I'm going to do," or, "This is not for me because of the high expectations here." And I had a couple of contributions in the presentation, and it was a pleasure to be able to share. It's not just these people on the stage that know that this is working. We had some candidate testimonials.
So Aaron Provis and Julie Wolf were two that we were able to pull from to say... And I think even a audience member said that when you get to this point, we're not hiring for a job. These people are accepting our jobs, I believe is how they put it. Where it's, we've come to an agreement of it is the best fit. So again, just wanted to make that quick plug. First of all, that they would include me in that process, but also just to say, again, seeing behind the scenes, we're not just up here saying sunshine and rainbows. These people work well together. I saw it firsthand and it was impressive.
I have written down almost exactly, Aiden, what he just said about how impressive that was with your initiative, and your presentation was great. I think you stated your position well, your anecdotes were very good. We don't want our kids to be drowning. And please stay up on the hill, okay? Keep it going. I like this kind of undercurrent we had in several of the items on the project-based learning, the courses that were there, the entrepreneurship and innovation,
work day learning. A lot of practical, real-life skills. And even with the textbook, I really like the one with financial responsibility. I'm seeing way too many that don't know anything about financial responsibility. So I think that that whole idea of the more that we can get that out there, the better we are going to grow our kids. Last thing with the donations, we're at that time where we're seeing more of the school trips and so forth. But I also like that we're seeing the importance of
the PTA, PTOs, the clubs, and their donations, and if they're not using SnapFundraising. And we saw a continuation of the corporations, churches helping out here too. And I love, thank you, anonymous donors, for everything, even the $2 one, the $4 one. It all is important, and especially really, really nice for the $1,000 donation for the police in honor of the father. Last thing I have is echo the invite to Holder Field. Please come out.
It's one heck of a place. Dr. Spray. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Shiley, for already plugging in SBA. I was going to do that. I'll have the presentation linked in the notes this week so you can take a look at that as well, board members, and for Mr. Lewis for Plug-In Friday, as well as Mr. Hernandez. I don't have to go through that. I just want to make a comment on these next six weeks as we go to closing the school year towards graduation. It's a really, really, really busy time for everybody, parents, kids, the administrators, teachers. This week we have our board meeting. We have our event on Friday at Holder.
We have the art show, which will be Thursday and Friday nights as well. Math bowl tomorrow night for our elementary folks. Southport will also be having their senior awards on Wednesday evening, the Star Awards. So that's taking place at Southport High School. So just a lot going on. Quick thing on the Innovation Entrepreneurship Center, pub, whatever, we got to decide at some point, right, Jane? But one piece that we didn't mention with regards to direction and how we're going to approach the learning for the students is the use of an advisory council of people who are doing the work as
their profession and in the real world. And so we've been trying to identify those individuals who are going to sit on the advisory council and walk the journey next to us. And I believe that first meeting we've had set in maybe May, and so we've sent out some invitations. So we're excited to begin that work, and get that going as a part of what we're doing and make those connections with community, as Mr. Hernandez checked. Speaking of, on Thursday last week, I get a random email that Mister Fuel Travel Center there at 69 and 465 has been getting rehabbed, and is about to re-grand open, and they're going to donate
$10,000 to Perry Township Schools. So we're excited about that. I passed that information on to our Education Foundation, and we're going to have the money go through the Education Foundation. But it was really nice that we have businesses in our community. Sometimes we assume that those national companies just take. But it was on their own fruition to reach out and give that and want to have a partnership. And we're thinking about internships and virtual employment for our kids and those kinds of things. So, at some point, buy a gallon of gas there or 10,
if you go by. So, and lastly, just real quick, the state transfer report that we get every year is how many kids who are attending us organically, how many transfer to us, how many transfer out, kids who are in non-public schools or charter schools and that kind of stuff. The transfer in and out has been pretty steady, okay? So we're not losing a lot more to transfer out to other public. We're not bringing a lot more kids in. So just for your information, and we can get some more supporting documentation to that. So,
thanks again, board members, for tonight. Thank you to our audience members. Did she write the speech? Because she's sitting there pretty confident about- ... with her little sharing and back and forth. But thank you, Aiden. I appreciate your time. All right. One last thing. Next board meetings, we have a public work session, April 27th at 6:00 PM, and then next regular board meeting, May 11th at 6:00 PM right here. And I think that does it. We are adjourned. Thank you very much.