tomato good evening everyone this is a meeting of the Southfield Board of Education and public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business and is not to be considered as a community meeting there is one opportunity for public participation during the meeting and comments are limited to three minutes
per individual the board will listen to comments but may not respond during the meeting if you wish to address the board please submit a comment card immediately roll call ashanti Bland board president you have Edward Deval vice president good evening good evening
Telicia Bel board treasurer good evening Jillian Holloway trustee good evening Nicole Densen trustee good evening Michaela Beckford student board representative good evening Eric Spraen student board representative for the record uh Trustee Smith Thomas
will be absent this evening jennifer Green superintendent recording minutes this evening is Miss Carolyn Foster technical assistance is being provided by M1 Studios may we all stand for the pledge of 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 board matters for the record Trustee Ammani Johnson is present at 7:02 p.m
thank you uh board matters um so the first thing that I am going to address is the fact that um our political climate is changing every day um I know many of
our staff our parents um our community have heard of the changes that are happening with federal funding uh we are very much aware um a couple of things are happening right now the first of which um we have been given um a heads
up regarding Head Start uh Dr green and her team are feverlessly awaiting um more insight right now we are pausing applications for our Head Start
program this does not affect Head Start for the rest of the year moving into 202526 right now we are not accepting applications for other legislative updates we are actually waiting on some legal opinions and we'll hopefully be
able to address them at our May meeting so I just wanted to be clear that um as it stands things are still up in the air but the only thing we know definitively is that we have put a halt on accepting Head Start applications oh forgot about that also
we have lost federal funding for all of our nurses inside of our buildings so um effective immediately we will no longer have nurses inside of our building that were appointed by Oakland County this is separate and apart from those buildings
that have um health clinics inside of their um schools so just wanted to make that clear that our funded um nurses through Oakland County will be no longer but we still will have our
health clinics that are uh funded by philanthropic dollars anyone else board matters no one wants to follow that wonderful um now we will pass it to the report of
the student board representatives you guys have a countdown this is your second to last board meeting um so um we will start as we normally do with ladies first and start with Michaela Begford of University K12 thank
you good evening good evening good evening everybody good evening all righty so throughout the month of March the student council hosted a daily trivia with questions ranging from book related topics to women's history month it was a race to the computers to submit answers and it was a joy to see students
debating and collaborating as a team the energy and excitement was truly inspiring on the 12th was our PD day which was no student or school for students then our scholastic book fair from the 17th to the 21st then from the
17th to the 21st was our spring break um the senior popcorn fundraiser was from the 21st to the 25th i believe we raised $5,000 towards our senior events which thumbs up to us um the 24th through the
23rd was our career week with daily activities special thanks to Miss Autumn Foster for organizing this impactful event and to the student council for volunteering their time and effort to help everything run smoothly your dedication made career week a success our first ever career week at university
was a huge success with where we increased the knowledge of over 900 students from grades kindergarten to 12 in exciting career career exploration on the 24th we had our first responder day which is first off thank you to our in-house officer Officer Jared for
always being alert and keeping us safe and also for first responder day uh the students learned CPR and what to do in a crisis and had a closeup interaction with police cars and fire trucks on the 25th was a day with Pathful Oakland
School's online career readiness program was implemented schoolwide this tool allowed students to explore career possibilities and planning pathways directly from industry professionals in a virtual setting giving them a sneak peek into possible futures on the 26th
was family career day where we were graced with 25 professionals who genu genuously shared their career expertise and journey and offer personal insights this day also allowed students to engage directly with experts from diverse
fields such as DTE teachers lawyers and even the mayor special thanks to the mayor of Later Village Mayor Mayor Kelly Garrett as a classroom speaker and all the others that came to talk about their careers then on the 27th we had a career and college exploration fair classes
came down to the gymnasium where they got to hear words from certain colleges such as Lawrence Tech and Eastern Michigan and other careers such as lawyers and doctors then on the 28th we ended our spirit week with a spirit day which was dress to success where students got to visualize their future
careers by dressing for success then on the 28th was our Grammys performance the senior class stole the show at the 2025 Grammy performance delivering electrifying tributes to icons like Sierra Glorilla Megan the Stallion
Soulja Boy Nicki Minaj Missy Elliot In Sync Rihanna and more from high energy performance to well-deserved awards the night was unforgettable a huge thank you to everyone who purchased V VIP tickets which included front row seats exclusive snacks and surprise giveaways like money
bubbles chains roses and more this made their experience so much more immersive and congratulations to all the talented performers and students for making this event a massive success then our MSTEP testing began on the 7th
and will end on the 2nd of May then senior dues our second round is due through goof fan on the 7th so pass due please turn in your money on the 8th was the end of the third marking period and to my seniors out there that means we are in the home stretch please do not
lose hope keep your heads up high and work twice as hard as you have because our days are numbered on the 9th we have our SAT and PSAT good luck to all the test takers on the 1st we have decision day and auditions for our performance
will be held in April please pay attention to the group me the UK12 senior page on our social media and our college advisor Miss Padet for more information on that on the 3rd we will have a senior banquet uh families gather to recognize
senior accomplishments then um on the 5th we will have our AP exams uh please check the college board to see when to take your test and then on the 12th through the 16th of May will be our senior week we will have events
such as senior Sundays SOA senior senior shirt signings student version and basketball games and more then the week after the 19th through the 22nd will also be our spirit week the days to be determined then the 20th through the 22nd will be our senior
exams hours from the hours will be in reverse 7th sixth grade on the 20th fifth and 3rd on the 21st and then second and first on the 22nd also on the 22nd is our senior clapout after secondh hour exams where the whole school will be there exciting and also also on the
22nd will be our senior sunset at Bell Isle on the 29th we will have our prom the theme is enchanted oasis from 7 to 11:00 p.m do doors will close at 8:00 p.m i understand we all want to make our grand entrance but please do it before 8
and on the 2nd we will have our graduation rehearsals in the auditorium also it will be our book and Chromebook drop off singing practice cap and gown pickup alumni shirt and yard sign distributions and then on the 6th of June will be our graduation at 2 PM
at the Artha Franklin Amphitheater and then also just some recent achievements and announcements our UK12 junior varsity and varsity cheer teams earned first place at the Southfield Middle School competition on March 1st congrats to them congrats to David Jackson the
11th in the 11th grade and Nahala Banks in 8th grade for advancing in the fine arts gallery Black History Month contest their artwork was featured in a special exhibit and recognized by renowned artists Michelle Stewart and Marcus Glenn our fabulous debate team as you
may know our debate team traveled to the Harvard University to debate and ended up in the top 20 and made it all the way to eliminations at the TLC digital event uh number three they competed and they were in the top fourth and third speakers and also first seed in the
prelim rounds and went 6 great job to Lola and Dalen also with our volleyball team the fifth and sixth and seventh and eighth grade girl volley volleyball team secured multiple wins this season coached by coach Washington and coach Tate and that is the end of my report thank you
thank you trustees does anyone have any questions or comments for our student board rep from UK12 dr green thank you Michaela um thank you board president for the recognition
recognizing that I'm not a trustee I would like to know is there something planned at the U for May 1st regarding your decision day to ensure that we are there to support you on that day yes so on May 1st we usually do an event in the
auditorium where students will come up to the stage they can do skits a little slideshow or certain things of that nature and announce to the school where they're going okay we usually do that in the mornings but if something changes I will let you guys know for sure if you can inform us of that information I'll
ensure that we share that with all the trustees of course thank you and now to our gentleman Mr ericens of Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology good evening um to board members
Superintendent Dr green staff families and community members i'm honored to share this month's exciting highlights and updates from Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology but first I do want to take a personal point of privilege to thank the board Dr green and Mr jackson for allowing me to serve
as the master of ceremonies for the state of the district it was a wonderful um honor for me to be able to be there and to be able to be the master of ceremonies thank you to start off with my board report um Glow Up for Girls workshop will be held
by the counseling department on April 17th 2025 from 8:00 a.m to 2:30 p.m southfield enters workshop a student centered event focused on wellness and empowerment for young women workshops include boundaries health and hygiene peaceful conflict
resolution mindful and mighty mental wellness healthy relationship power and pose and mom daughter mom daughter magic this event will feature free food raffles goodie bags fellowship and fun engagement sessions including a hustle time the initiative is is made to
promote confidence community and positive identity development among our female students um for number two all of our 18 inductees have officially been introduced and introduced um to the National Honor Society we are incredibly grateful and proud of their achievement
which represent both academic excellent and outstanding leadership additionally they will be hosting tutoring program during A and B lunches for all of our students and that will be provided for all subjects stay tuned for more information um in our newsletter for more information about that additionally
National Honor Society will be working to for their annual Say Yes to Dress which will be a free prom dress giveaway um for the students who are able to get prom dresses our student staff basketball game March Madness in March Southfield ENT held its annual student
staff basketball game during significant school spirit we were able to raise over $6,000 in that fundraiser and in that effort despite the absent of one of our key players on the staff team Mr eden due to her injury and Mr reese's so-called entering retirement this year
the staff team led by athletic director and girls basketball coach Coach Q prevailed once again so we lost at the students basically um but Officer Walker also participated in the event with a spirited reminder of our school pride um and they are actually calling for a
rematch so we will see if that happens before the end of the school year we are one pep rally is in the final preparations are underway for that we are one pep rally it is a joint celebration between south ent and university high school this collaborative event seeks to strengthen unity school spirit enter school
relationship whether permitting the event will be held outdoor on a football field and more information is to follow on that thanks to our partnership with Gear Up in the University of Michigan approximately 35 juniors participated in a SAT boot camp receiving focus
participation and preparation to help optimize their performance on the exam this was a viable academic enrichment opportunity leading into testing season additionally career fair and school tools event the annual career fair welcomed over 40 organizations including
colleges trade schools and employers students actively engage with representatives to explore career pathways a lunch a lunch and learn follow-up is scheduled for April 15 2025 to reinforce the connections made additionally the school tools trade
exporment event was hosted hosted 221 students from both Southfield ENT and University High School attendees explored hands-on trade experience and a ver virtual reality via a 40ft mobile training lab both students and staff found the event informational and
inspiring here's a bit of a review for our testing week south En will be observing the follow schedule for testing week on Wednesday April 9th only the 11th graders will report to school for the SAT MSTEP and social studies in the afternoon 9th 10th and 12th graders
will it will be a remote learning day on Thursday April 10th 10th graders and 11th graders will report to school the 10th graders will work on a PSAT in the afternoon they will have enrichment the 11th graders will work on work keys in the morning and MSTEP science in the
afternoon 9inth and 12th graders will be remote learning day and then on Friday April 11th all grades regular class will resume and lunch schedule will also resume as well students who are not testing are reminded to follow remote learning protocols and please check
schoolology for assignments and submit them to be counted for daily attendance additionally I have a couple of updates from our college and career center students are encouraged to monitor the scholarship and college application deadlines closely the college and career
center which is located in room D201 is available for support in the following areas resume writing interview preparations scholarship resources college application and FASA assistant their office hours is Monday through Friday from 7:45 a.m to 3:45 p.m virtual
appointments are also available a very important deadline is that the fast submission deadline is June 30th 2025 at 11:59 not Eastern time but central time i also be hosting a financial literacy workshop April 17th 2025 focused on
financial responsibility for collegebound students here are a bit of our updates from our spring up um our spring sports spring sports are underway and our student athletes are representing South Ent with determination softball opened with a double header
versus Royal Oak one win one loss upcoming games include Renaissance and Farmington girls soccer despite challenging weather the team continues to show resilient they will face Harper Woods and River Rouge this week for baseball their opening day is scheduled this Wednesday versus Harper Wood the
team includes several promising freshmen and our track and field official season will launch next Wednesday our girls tennis is scheduled to begin matches this week pending weather conditions and our boys golf the team is prepared to compete and demonstrate continued growth
this season battle of the bands southfield will participate in the battle of the bands on Saturday in Oak Park more information is to follow on that student the staff profession development will take place next week on Wednesday so that means there will be no school for students in addition there
will be no school on Friday April 18th in observance of Good Friday additionally I have been notified by congresswoman received to lead she have recently launched a youth advisory council for high school students rising 9th to 12th graders who are passionate
about leadership and civic engagement this init initiative allows students to represent their communities and contribute to policy discussions at the federal level as student board representative I was encouraged that all Edible students should consider applying and I will make sure I forward that information to the board and to our
school leadership in closing as you know I am nearing the end of my term as student board representative while I'm saddened that my time in this role is coming to a close I am extremely grateful for the experience and relationships built throughout the year i'm looking forward to the next month's P board meeting where I will have the
opportunity to present my board project i want to sincerely thank the board members who have supported me offer guidance and lent a helping hand when needed your encouragement have meant a great deal to me and I promise to give you the best presentation possible to end my service with pride thank you and
that concludes my board [Applause] report thank you Eric does anyone um have any questions for Eric or any comments about his board report i have
one addition yes I do have one addition to add to both um of the seniors on April 30th of this year we will have a superintendent senior scholarship banquet it will be hosted at the Pearl
Center in Southfield it is for all seniors having earned an overall 3.5 or better grade point average to celebrate their success each senior will be invited along with two guests to the
event and the invitations will come out electronically on tomorrow families will have two weeks to respond confirming their space and we will enjoy celebrating your success on that evening
again that is Wednesday April 30th so all parents whose senior has a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher you can expect an electronic invitation between tomorrow and Thursday thank you Dr green and to our
two student board reps I know that um testing does not affect you um anymore or do you guys have to test i'm I'm thinking the answer is no um but if you do need to get out of here to take care of some things as you um embark on prom
season and commencement by all means you may um exit now you're welcome thank you good job you stay i have to stay for the Wayne State presentation oh oh have a good night
Michaela so moving forward um because the this is such a packed house and and I see Summer smiling cuz I think this is one of her favorite things to do um we have our math B participants
this evening so um reported the superintendent thank you board president this is indeed one of our favorite events um oftentimes we hear that children are not able to understand math and that it's one of the more challenging subject areas for scholars
uh we are here to disprove that myth this evening as you see all of these bright minds in front of you so without further ado I will turn it over to Miss Summer Codwell Kurthers our executive director of the infrastru instructional infrastructure good evening everyone good evening this
is my favorite thing to do board President um I'm going to ask the parents if they could step in so they can see their children get their um awards and their recognition we're going to start with third
place so let me explain the math be really quickly so we had a district-wide math be where um we used and what we did is set it to each student's grade level and they had to answer questions during a time window um
and the questions were hard they started on grade level and then they went above grade level and we um had to we took the students who answered the most questions right in their grade level so we have first second and third place per grade
level is districtwide not schoolwide districtwide so that is something wonderful to to be proud of and so we are going to start with third place kindergarten third place and so what they will be receiving our third place
recognitions will receive um a certificate a medal and we also made packets for them these are my um wonderful math coaches Miss Helen Jackson and Miss Celeste Johnson that led the math be they worked really hard on
this and so for kindergarten our third place winner is Missa Mr or Kaden Zen right is Kaden here come on up congratulations y
[Applause] third place for first grade is Austin and I don't want to mess up your last name but Austin Mass is Austin here congratulations
[Applause] you can stand right here second grade third place Addison Reed [Applause]
third grade third place winner Lincoln Snow woo fourth grade third place winner Van Ping [Applause] fifth grade third place winner Princess Jordan
[Applause] am I going to Okay we're a little slower than the children sixth grade third place winner Axel Castello Lozano
he was also one of our spelling bee winners [Applause] seventh grade third place winner Kimma Ka is Kima here is Ayadike
i'm sorry can you pronounce your name again i want to get it right kima Aayodike [Applause] congratulations and our eighth grade third place winner Jason
Taness and these are our third place winners districtwide and so they will get a math um workbook and they got some other goodies in here a medal and a certificate can we have Can we make sure to have
everyone um of our third place winners to kind of center themselves we're going to get a picture and can we get the math coaches up here if your principles your principles are in the building principles would you building leaders would you please come to the front and
take a picture with your scholars please oh look at all these building leaders i know that's right [Applause] perfect yes forgot that part all right one two three
[Applause] congratulations my third place winners and they answered a lot of questions in the hundreds wow wow second some thousands second place winners kindergarten Alex Row
[Applause] first grade second place winner Grant Brady [Applause] i know you can stand right over here
so when you come to the front to get your goodies then you can um stand right here to get your picture second place I mean second grade second place winner Ryder Batist writer here
okay we'll make sure a representative from the school from um university you know we're here no Tom i'm sorry it's not university yeah it's university dr howard you coming up [Applause] third grade second place winner Austin
Sims from university as well is Austin here come on baby away for Austin there we go come on up hey
[Applause] fourth grade second place winner Jordan Johnson woo congratulations fifth grade second place winner Jordan
Reed sixth grade is Jordan is Jordan here jordan Reed from Thompson sixth grade second place winner Hilu
[Applause] seventh grade second place winner Messiah Dickerson up here [Music] in eighth grade second place winner
Jaden Davis oh wait is Jaden Davis here from eighth grade bernie no university he's from university jaden what university come on up and accept it on Jaden's behalf all right
come on back that's That's all of the second place winners congratulations picture time one more time can we have all the building leaders if you have students in the um second place category would you
please come and take a picture with your students please ready okay smiles one two three one more one two three excellent
[Applause] and last but certainly not least our first place winners they will receive a trophy and as you can see they had some competition it was it was really fierce um on that day so our first place winner
in kindergarten David Sharp he answered 261 questions correct Mr sharp d this is for you good job yes for the kindergarten
yes first grade first place belle answer 722 questions correct congratulations second grade
Julian Austin from Julian Austin answer 52 questions correct and remember guys these questions are on grade level or above yes our third place winner first place
Rashard Jackson answer 893 questions correct summer did you say 89 i said 893 oh 93 yes i think they're having more
fun fourth grade first place winner Elijah Sartur answer 573 questions correct [Applause] fifth grade first place winner Violet
Jones answered 1157 questions correct is Violet here oh man Violet's at home doing math but Miss Eubanks is here sixth grade first place winner armani
Elos answered 925 questions correct is Armani here that's for sixth rate university you can answer you well uni well university will answer will accept
on Armani's behalf all right seventh grade first place winner Aaliyah Lane answer 1,060 questions correct aaliyah Lane
coming through okay armani is coming through armani is coming through armani is coming through oh yeah we let him through all right Armani come on through come on through come on through Armani is this Armani this who aaliyah oh Aaliyah aaliyah okay
okay okay so Aaliyah she's accepting on He's accepting on behalf of his sister he's accepting on behalf of his sister Aaliyah all right well this is your sister and she answered 1,060 questions correct here you want to put the metal
on too i put it on and last but not least our eighth grade winner Knowledge Williams answer 1,059 questions correct
yes [Music] [Applause] [Applause] congratulations our first place winners again take a picture could the building leaders from all buildings represented
at the front please come and take a picture if their parents would like to come to the front and take the picture at first grade winners first place winners hey Mr mel [Applause]
and I have one more thing i have one more thing congratulations everyone so last but not least we couldn't do this if we didn't have dynamic supportive educators to
lead this initiative and so I do have a little token of our appreciation to our educators that led the math be so is Miss Lisa Winston here if not Miss Lisa Winston's principal can come get her
certificate of course can somebody Oh Miss Miss an Andrea Frederick's from Antler is Miss Where's Miss Dean oh Miss Frederick's here there you go miss
Melinda Little miss Melinda Little is she here come on miss Hickman miss Kristen Monar University is this Dr howard dr howard
dean Balden come get Miss Bernardet pass this is you got to hug me like you look like you Miss Bernardet Pass all right
and Miss Mner she's gonna take both of them okay all right miss Rachel Caven from Bernie all right come on bernie miss Marber Brown naisha Murphy Desiree
Turner University Angie Twist Angela Twist McIntyre Kamar Busby Gun no surprise there mara Era Benson University Arab Benson okay
look good job tiffany McFersonson that would be you okay miss Gains Donald camila Nelson miss Pass Corey Turner
Mr miller Adam Perry and last but not Oh see Tina Magdan and Erica Muhamd erica Muhammed
is up thank you so much teachers for taking this under your wing and making this happen we really appreciate you thank you who's Naisha Murphy
naisha Murphy is University and my math coaches Miss Helen Jackson and Miss Celeste Johnson thank you so much thank you board president Dr green and um thank you to you Summer um this
has been quite a encouraging year of spelling bees and math bees so thanks to you and your team you did a great job thank you so much you're welcome [Applause] okay I'll help Dr green out oh I'm sorry on to the next award yes on to the next
award and unfortunately Miss Hope Blocker could not be with us today she did send her apologies for not being here this evening however she stated that she is extremely grateful for this recognition and we look forward to having her at a board meeting in the near future moving on to our partner of
the month i was extremely excited to share this award with this individual because this individual is the child of one of our former employees who spent many years with the district and retired from the district in great standing so without further ado I would like to
recognize Mr andrew Gone for our partner of the month is Mr gone here this evening hopefully he's here with his mom it's quite crowded so he might be in the lobby is Mr gone here oh I am see well let's see the video
while Mr gone is coming in okay hopefully he's here go ahead Miss U foster please it's It's us okay uh unfortunately I don't believe Mr gone is in the crowd this evening however we will accept on both Miss Blocker and Mr g's behalf we
are extremely grateful to him and the parent that I referenced was Miss Nancy Gone who worked in our finance department for many many years prior to her retirement so there's Mr gone there in the team Amast shirt you can see that our IT team even buys into all of the
programming we have at our school and they have joined houses although maybe not the correct house nevertheless he is in the opposite house of the superintendent and other people so we're grateful that they are all here oh wait
there's Nancy gone is they're all here come on in i was just singing your praising praises Nancy come on no you're not coming up but your son is coming up let's recognize him andrew is very shy [Music]
how are you you're supposed to go up and say a few words you want to Can we play his video will it go nowhere i'm trying to see if this video will go yeah a man of a few words
all right uh I love working here good place to be all the students here so thank you for recognizing me i really do actually appreciate that that's um that goes a long way for me um say hello to my wonderful mother the legendary Southfield employee two years
retired and that's that's uh that's all I got thank you andrew if you'd be so kind as to stand up here by all these trustees to take a photo we'd love to have Nancy and Todd join the photo it's a big family reunion tonight so come up and join the photo
mike will take the photo see if the video can play one more time if we can get sound on there hey I know Andrew how are you son how are you good how are you good how's your mom she's great good she could have been here today because she'd be so
extremely proud of you because you are our partner of the month for the entire school district [Music] [Applause] [Music] so you were actually nominated by Miss Jordan who's teacher over at uh Bernie
she said "Not only are you kind and considerate but your explanations are extremely thorough and you're always prompt in responding to her tickets." So we just wanted to thank you for being our partner of the month hi my name is Ninetta Jordan i am a K2
ECDD teacher here at Bernie Elementary School and I nominated Andrew because Andrew is always on time he's a very friendly mannerable young man he makes sure that all of my needs are met when it comes to the IT the technology he
trains me and he's really a very conscientious person that makes sure that the kids are always taken care of first all right thank you Andrew we know that that was a lot for you but we appreciate you
all right next on our agenda we have our wonderful partners representing Wayne State C2 pipeline at this time we'll have Miss Tracy Spencer join us [Applause] i need to use this and Eric don't be
nervous i'm not going to be nervous good evening parents board members Superintendent Green i uh had Eric stay here with me because he is one of my students so I am always amazed at everything that Eric does it's it's
nothing that he cannot do in my eyes so Eric is also going to uh give you his view of C2 pipeline first of all C2 pipeline is a college and career readiness program in uh South Ent we've
been there for I want to say at least eight years but I've been there for three this will be my fourth year hopefully you spoke about government government funding it's up in the air right now so we don't know what's going to happen with C2 pipeline hopefully we have
enough funding to move on because I have one more senior class that I want to see move on and after that Miss Tracy Spencer should be retiring for the second time i will um let Eric do the honors here of the
PowerPoint i know i thought you knew how to work these are some statements from students that attend and that have been attending for the last four years uh Lillian and Savannah are seniors um
Farah just joined this year these are some of their testimonials that um I had them write i also had them do the PowerPoint i like um the parents and staff to see what the students are capable of during our programming at
C2 these are some of the activities that we have done um and we empower students through leadership our activities are driven by creativity collaboration and initiative um recently we just took a field trip to um I was gone when I was
in Den not Denver in Phoenix um with the students i want to say they went to the dental lab at U of D they were given a tour of the school where they were able to make um models of teeth showing them how to do that as a possible career
choice this is our youth action council that consists of Eric um Savannah Lillian and Brienne the top students are receiving awards they are also C2 pipeline students that are part of the band um they youth action council makes
all of the all of the decisions for our program at South ENT if there are questions or parents that want information it is very studentled i let all students answer all questions so that they can get the feel for public speaking and
furthermore this year we um partnered with um Grand Canyon University in Phoenix our staff attended a activity there in January we were given tons and
tons of information to bring back to Southfield ENT all counselors are able to go to this conference every year i have brought back that information to give to P principal Ree who will possibly be sending counselors there next year they do online tutoring they
do um entrepreneurship in order to get the kids accomp accomplished into getting ready for that next phase in college this year just last week uh we took I took the students to Phoenix for
a college tour the students must have three point or above to take this college tour once they come to this college tour they're they're actually handpicked they the college pays for them to go through Delta Airlines they feed them they put them up for room and
board we are just chaperones once the kids attend we of course take them there through airfare the air flights and then once they're there we don't see them anymore the purpose of that is to give them the college feel without the parent
without the the teacher on your back to see what you would do in college even gaining that freshman 20 that most of them did while we were there for that whole weekend so um that's another piece of what we do at C2 Pipeline we are hoping
that uh C2 Pipeline is around for another year or so a lot of the students need that tutoring after school it is from 2:30 p.m until um 5:00 p.m i do have students that linger after i do stay with those students and tutor them
i am u vigilant in ELA not math to my math teachers that may want a job you may come and work and teach our students uh those tutoring skills that they may need these are some of the other activities as the students are doing around the building these are just some pictures of the students with Principal
Ree and in these two top photos the students are building robots and that is me Tracy El Spencer site lead for Wayne State University C2 [Applause] pipeline trustees any comments or
questions for Miss Spencer i just have one um thank you for your partnership you are present in our district for everything from enrollment fairs state of the district in the high school i'm hopeful that our funding will
continue because to lose you would be a great loss in this program so thank you very much i hope my directors hear that for sure um anyone else hearing none thank you Eric and thank you Tracy great thank
you i appreciate you and Miss Spencer if we need to put that in writing for your directors let us know we will be more than happy to do that thank you board president moving right along we have our esteemed colleagues from the
McIntyre Elementary School led by Principal Orlando Bogen come on [Applause] up drum roll good evening everybody i am not principal bogens
however you will see him in just a second before we start our introductions and our showcase of McIntyre I invite you to move your attention to the screen for a very short video thank you as we take a moment for technical
difficulties I would like to remind the audience that on Thursday May 8th we will have our spring enrollment fair it will be taking place from 4 to 7:00 p.m at Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology thank you [Music]
heat heat [Music]
[Music] i love you i thought y'all were taking our jobs for a minute and gonna be you know I didn't know what was going on good evening everyone good evening so it is a great joy to stand before everyone
in the spirit of excellence and what we've seen of how all of our students who have achieved so much and received their certificate and their awards it is a real honor that we as the staff of McIntyre Elementary School stand before you to give you a quick snapshot of what
our school is all about and so to Dr green to the esteemed board members we say thank you thank you for this opportunity because we believe that we are doing some wonderful wonderful things at McIntyre however we want to be
able to showcase to shine and let the community know what we are doing so I just want to stop for a second before we move into our presentation uh for some reason there's a strong presence of green shirts here and with that we know
that we have a community a community of believers a community of investors a community of stakeholders who have sacrificed so much to be at McIntyre and come each and every day to deliver partner and ensure that we are doing all
what we can to make student achievement a priority so with that being said if I can all of the staff members from McIntyre please stand and just so you all will know this is instructional staff and support staff so
we have our clerical our food services and others and we're just really grateful for them and to the ones that really really make a significant difference with us to our parents and students they have on green shirts too so if you all can stand that are present
thank you all so much for again sacrificing your time we understand that a lot of you all are parents and you accepted the invite to be here in order to help join in sharing the good news the great the great things here at McIntyre so we're going to go ahead and
get started we do realize that we've been asked to capture uh this within a certain time limit we're going to try our best [Laughter] uh I don't see it working am I pushing the right button
[Applause] for some odd reason we do believe in unity so t-shirts is our thing so we like to have strong presence of t-shirts and with that you will now receive a PowerPoint presentation that will
include in and out of school activities that will include a strong presence of academics as well as partnerships of what we believe in and so again we're going to capture so much within this presentation however at the end of the presentation there will be a QR code
that you will be able to scan and then you can look at it at your own leisure so we wanted to make this user friendly for everyone real quick McIntyre's profile so as we all know that uh we are a small elementary school that includes second
through fifth grade so you have a breakdown of the enrollment based upon boys and girls and by grade as we look at the staff information uh me as the principal we have seven self-contained teachers and as you all see I know
everyone can read so we have a title one teacher who is doing a magnificent job as she is doing her pushin pull outs and have a record score of increasing students from her pull in pull out pushin of 38%
uh we have the one classroom in our building with the ASD resource room the only one in the district and that is Miss Ber who was acknowledged as the teacher of the month employer of the month uh also we have our special Mai teacher we have uh support staff members
that are present each and every day and let me just say we have 99% highly qualified certified teachers on our staff [Applause] i'm sorry i am the proud principal Orlando
Bogen i didn't introduce myself i'm so sorry so moving forward here are some of our points of pride so if you could peruse that list it includes what we believe in each and every day and we're truly excited about the work that we are
doing so again we wanted to make sure that in a bullet point format you all will see the work that's happening uh each and every day it is not where anyone gets tired in their work no let me take that
back i'm sorry our staff will get tired of the work but not in the work if that makes sense to everybody so we enjoy doing what we're doing each and every day and it is just a true true uh example of champions for educators to
work with this group uh I came into this building by choice and at the same time uh with the roller coaster that's been with McIntyre opening closing and things like that i just assumed that it may be a staff where they were happy unhappy
however when I walked in day one I promise you uh being a man of God and I don't want to connect that but the staff received me we've worked together we've laughed we've cried we have made sure that we give no matter what we have
think outside of the box we have been creative we've been partnering with so many people and so with that it makes me just feel very very special to lead uh a staff that are committed to education and educating any of our students with different types of lessons so as we move
forward through this you will see that we have our students and our parents providing some testimonials and again these are things that you all will be able to see if you scan the QR code uh that will be provided at the end so we have Monica Mochi at the top i love my school because McIntyre has teachers
that make learning fun the lower uh right corner hello my name is Arya Hawkins i'm in the third grade at McIntyre i love my school and my teacher Mrs ctori so there are a number of testimonials that we have from students and parents to capture what is happening
and then anyone who is in education will realize we can do newsletters we can do different types of shows we can have a PTO but we all know the true marketing for any school would be your parents and your students and so we wanted to capture that so that you all could see
some of the things of what our parents had to say uh one of our honores for this evening uh the Mr snow so him and his mom who are present uh they included some good words as well this is a third grade set of twins and we love them
because they're not identical so we can easily identify them so moving forward as we are going to go through this process I want you all to know that McIntyre definitely fosters a safe space for all of our students we encourage each and every day
to build a community of learners and creating fun and engaging learners and so with that we don't do it by ourselves we do it with the partnership of our literacy and math coaches so we thank you all for spending time with us mcintyre would
definitely shaping the different le differentiated lessons so that our students who may below who may be below grade level at grade level or above grade level level have lessons that are catered to them and so we are
intentional with everything that we do so with that here are five key areas of focus that we concentrate on engage instruction that is where we are making sure that we're just not following a scripted uh curriculum guide we are going beyond what it is saying so that
our students can learn bringing out different supplementals and moving forward family connections PTO our parents we have them involved in the building at trips and everything like that school climate we all know that students have to come to school to learn reading math science and so on but if
you're not making it fun then they want to go somewhere else they want to go and do some other things so we're trying to make sure we continue to capture their excitement social and emotional learning i believe we all know since co that has been a very very sensitive uh intricate
part of what we're doing each and every day not just in education so with that we make sure that we are intentional with having small groups uh with social and emotional learning restorative practices uh our call me room our call me exercises uh our daily announcements
and just things like that that really shape and showcase what we're doing for SEAL then rigor and fun we know that we have some students that may not be at grade level but we create some passionate uh rigor that will help have our students to metriculate to the next
grade level and so we're excited about that all the time because even though some kids may get frustrated oh I can't do this or some kids feel like oh it's too hard we do not accept that at McIntyre we believe that any and everything we do it matters can you all
say that with me on three 1 2 3 it matters and so as we move forward with that we are making sure that our students can have that embody that embrace that believe that and know that everything that we are doing in our building is for the greater of them so
now I'm going to move to Mrs sock one of our fifth grade teachers going to talk about our academics good evening everybody um as Mr bogen said I'm here to talk to you about our academics um first we want to talk to you a little
bit about McIntyre's proficiency and how our students have shown their academic success between the first and the third card marking if you look at the graphic that's up on the screen you will see that in our first card marking for math
our students were at 61% proficient and they had a growth of 13% into the third card marking for reading they were at 63% in the first card marking and they showed a 14% growth for uh the third
card marking period now this might make you question how we accomplish this what are we doing to make this happen and as we move forward and we step into some of our future slides we hope that you'll understand
that we are diving deeper into content and our content learning that is showcasing our proficiency across the board so we utilize our district's envision math program and as our photos show our teachers frequently
differentiate lessons um in an effort to meet all learning styles our fifth graders are shown in the two far in the center and the far right they are using base 10 blocks to learn to work with decimals and we have our wonderful math
coach Miss Jackson demonstrating a lesson as well mcintyre definitely would be remiss if we did not thank our illustrious coaches that come in they do some modeling of lessons with us team teaching with us and really help us get
a feel for our district's curriculum as we move forward um my myself this was a new curriculum to me so I've been very happy to have Miss Jackson pop in and assist as we move forward um our next
slide shows Miss Bush that's Miss Crtory doing kinesthetic learning with our third graders with the area model and then over on the left we have Miss Bush using hands-on manipulatives with her second
graders next we have mystery science and this program is wonderful as it fosters um fun and engaging activities such as Miss Party and Miss Deubberry's classes when they were making lava and learning about volcanoes um our scholars really love
watching the videos when they um start a new lesson we are also able if you look in the far right corner we have the lovely Miss Esh working with some of our scholars she's one of our paras that's able to push in to provide academic support to some of our
students when it comes to our ELA program Fontes and Panel finds our scholars using um vocabulary cards working with our literacy coach Mr mhowski um we place a strong emphasis on vocabulary as we work through in small
groups and as whole group instruction as well our social studies lessons you'll frequently find our scholars working in small groups as they learn about the 13 colonies or the different regions um we allow especially in our fourth and fifth
grade we allow our students to have preferential seating if they want to sit on the floor because that's where they learn best flexible seating we let them do that our academic and resource support team can be found tailoring our methods to best meet the needs of our
students at McIntyre our top corner has Mrs payne in her resource room working with small groups down below that is Miss Avery our title one teacher who's working with students and as Mr bogen's alluded to um she has been able to
increase some of our testing scores over 30% as she's pulling students out for small groups or pushing in to work with them as well um we have the other two pictures are Miss Bacher our ASD resource room instructor and she
utilizes meditation and yoga to help our students focus and become the best person that they can be our McIntyre Elementary is uh one of the only schools within the district that has a media specialist our Mrs cthrell
takes care of our scholars during their weekly visits to the library on Thursday and she is always making it very exciting by going above and beyond most recently uh Miss Kathrell had a schoolwide competition to see what the
best and most favorite book was of our scholars and as a way for her to unveil the results if you will she dressed up as the Grinch and because just dressing up as the Grinch wasn't enough Miss Cuthil
also baked the most I don't know if this is a real word i'm sorry the most scrumbidumptious cake that I've ever had uh so that was absolutely wonderful miss Cthrell um next we have Miss Miller our art
teacher and she is famous well famous in our building anyways um for showcasing her student artwork as you can see um showcasing our student artwork on the walls throughout the school she also offers an afterchool art club for our
scholars to attend um under her guidance we had 12 of our scholars that submitted pieces to the Oakland Schools Art Show Open House miss Miller next we have Mrs alt our music
teacher and this is a glimpse into her classroom she uses rhythm glow-in-the-dark rhythm sticks with our third graders she's currently working with our fifth graders on their graduation pieces and we would also encourage everybody to attend our spring
concert on May 14th to see what our scholars are doing uh McIntyre participates with the Sorian Scholars afterchool tutoring program open to students in grades two through five for reading and math uh our students meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays for two hours
they enjoy activities and some learning experience that are not always found in your traditional classroom whether that is a one- on-one with one of the instructors or fun games that is helping them really hone in on some of those skills that they may be struggling with
um this allows them that smaller setting that they really are thriving in and I'm going to hand it over [Laughter] Good evening i'm Brad Levik i'm the academic engagement and social emotional
learning officer at McIntyre at McIntyre everything we do is always very very intentional and so when we look at our assessments specifically I
ready that drives our instruction throughout the building and one thing that we are extremely proud of is a friendly challenge throughout our building that we created this year that
talking sta to staff members throughout the district talking to educators throughout the state we haven't seen this before and we call it our I Readygo schoolwide challenge and what that
entails is tracking the lessons passed each week by our students and it's a friendly competition between grade levels if you see the picture on the right hand side it is the chart in one of our hallways that's tracking it each
and every week and we it's it's somewhat funny to us because we we hear a lot of the students talking back and forth about where their class or where their grade is so it really really enhances
their learning and their work ethic within Iread and in the classroom so we have seen so much growth because of this challenge and we dove deeper and compared our scores to last year's
scores which you will see on this next slide we compared our winter tests this year compared to our winner test last year and this graph shows the progress
that our students are producing towards their year-long goal but let me remind you this is our winter score so it's just halfway through the school year last year in reading our students were
81% towards their year-long goal this year in reading our students are 95% of the way there in math last year our students were 65% of the way there at the wintertime this year our students are
69% of the way there which is fantastic just increasing that growth and let me remind you again it's only halfway through the school year and this is measuring a year-long's growth so they they are right on it this second
graph is showcasing the students that at this point in the year have already met their year-long growth so last year in reading at this time 43% of our students met their year-long growth at this time
this year 48% so almost half of our building has already met their year-long growth and their year-long goal in reading this year which is unbelievable unbelievable we're so proud of them last year in math 27% of our students hit
their year-long goal during the winter test and but this year we raised that to 34% of our students hitting their year-long goal which is amazing absolutely amazing and we like to celebrate our
students and in celebrating our students we love love love to have some fun now we had to get Mr bogen's over here to agree on something but he did cuz he likes to have fun
too and we celebrated the students growth by taping Mr bogens to the wall thank you Mr levik we appreciate that my name is Denise Bush good evening
everyone i'm a second grade teacher at uh the illustrious McIntyre Elementary School i'm very happy to be back in Southfield public schools i was asked to speak about the school climate and culture and I said to myself hm why
would he ask me well it's because that's what I love i love to make sure that our climate and culture is one where we are purposeful and diligent in the instruction that we give yet we temper it with love with caring and making sure
that every kid feels seen heard and and loved and so that being said why would school climate be important you might ask miss Avery could you answer that yes and I am Miss Avery title one teacher at
McIntyre school climate matters it impacts student engagement increases academic achievement and it improves morale and retention not only for our students but for the staff as well we got
you this year we started a new thing it's our fifth grade leadership program and our fifth grade leaders as you see here they are in charge of our breakfast brigade so they are helping the younger students with their breakfast in the
morning they are hall monitors making sure everyone is going where they're supposed to go and they're walking while doing it they are our dismissal delegates notice the important names and they are helping with our younger students to um dismiss quietly
and get to their parents safely they are reading buddies so they are reading with some of our younger students as well and they are our daily announcers they do announcements in the morning and before dismissal because at
McIntyre can you turn around we are building leaders one student at a time very quickly before our time is up we just want to highlight some of the fabulous programs we had a grandparents day where uh we know how important it is
to have our families engaged within so we invited grandparents as well as parents and they spent time making arts and crafts and getting a keepsake to take home which they loved then moving
on back excuse me moving on Miss Avery we love to give our children new experiences so it is our goal to take them on a field trip at least once per month this is one that we had in I think
it was January the exotic zoo so our children were able to see touch and smell exotic animals animals that they won't see every day in the neighborhood they had a wonderful time and the exotic
zoo happens to be owned and managed by one of our parents at McIntyre then we have led by Principal Bogans in honor of those that are fighting the fine fight for cancer
make sure that our students give back to the community understand what impacts our community and why we wear pink because this was not just a McIntyre thing this was a schoolwide day that we had a pink out so
we made sure they understood the importance in November we had a World Kindness Day celebration in our building our teachers uh decorated around the building different bulletin boards um children were talked um
were well we communicated to them the importance of being kind to each other so they were passing you know notes to people that they don't normally talk to the teachers were leaving notes on each other's desks and gifts it was just a
really really nice day at McIntyre i would be remiss if I didn't tell you that Principal Bogens provided salmon croquette and grits so he was very kind to Miss Avery one of the highlights of course of the
year was in February for our Black History um Wax Museum where students embodied uh people of legacy historical figures in the past as well as in the present you can't know where you're going unless you know where you came from and so we
instilled in our students to pick someone that they looked up to that they admired and you can see from our student that is here and her mom and her parents that uh embodied Cynthia Orio all the way down to doing that song in the movie
Wicked to sports figures and the like and we this this um initiative this activity would not be possible were it not for our fabulous phenomenal administrative assistant you don't very
often hear about a a secretary or an administrative assistant stepping out and saying I want to take the lead in this so I'd like to publicly acknowledge Miss Amber Armstead thank you Miss Armstead you are amazing
who's in for Ashley almost want to talk about literacy jason Rhonda we are seeing some temperatures that are really really on the cool side out there this morning we're in the 20s and 30s now that's our second grade class at McIntyre Elementary teacher Mrs bush
welcomed me yesterday it is National Reading Month it is closing out and we have had the opportunity to visit schools all across Metro Detroit and these students made this sign for us saying that they love us well we love you too McIntyre Elementary so for anyone heading out to school this morning you want to make sure that you
are All right at McIntyre we strive to involve the community as much as possible engaging our stakeholders can play a role in a in decision-making by offering resources expertise and support for school initiatives additionally community engagement helps bridge the
gap between schools and the outside world ensuring that education is relevant and responsive to the needs of the of society one example of uh McIntyre Elementary School involving the community is inviting celebrity readers
for March's reading month we had Southfield Police Department Southfield Public Schools present Alpha Cappa I Alpha Kappa Alphasai Fraternity Incorporated as well as WDIV which we just heard from
the top left picture is the Southfield Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alphasai Fraternity with our special uh principal Bogans yes he's very special to us
um at the bottom left we have executive director of instruction Summer Codwell Kurthers we have literacy coach Dquetta Chapman she's representing but we had all of the literacy coaches and math coaches come and uh read to our students
and we have deput deputy superintendent Dr freeman top right we have Southfield Chief of Police Baron and Deputy Deputy Chief Hugaly and then again at the bottom right we had Ron Hillyard for
local 4's weatherman who um featured our children on channel 4 and I would be remiss we would be remiss if we didn't thank all of our u teachers administrative team and others that have reached out we know that literacy doesn't just happen in March
but it happens every month so we look forward to having our fabulous superintendent Dr green who's going to come and close it out for us so stay on the lookout secl now please so as principal bogens alluded to
at the beginning of this presentation social emotional learning seal is so important to us our building and everybody that walks into our doors and seal is a constant at McIntyre and
it's not something that we just do each and every day like inner explore navigate suite 360 our extra partnerships like big brothers big sisters and love laces seal is something that you feel and that you
see when you walk into our building each and every day from the way adults communicate to students the way students communicate to adults adults to adults and of course students to to students is
unbelievable at McIntyre i'm very excited and proud as we are all proud to say because of the learning and the practicing of our
self-awareness our self-control self-confidence and problem solving our behavioral issues have decreased since last year our refer our office referrals have
decreased and our suspensions have decreased as well this is just to showcase this a snippet of this year where we had 12 suspensions in the first quarter but as you see we went down to only three in
quarter three very proud we have zero suspensions so it's working it really is working and just a little snippet of an example of our seal and mindfulness that we practice each and every day here is an
example of our third graders when I look up I see the shine when I look down third grade along with all of our grades practice this mindfulness breathing each
and every day and this is a song that they sing every single day so as you all have heard from our staff members about the wonderful things that we are doing and again it's a quick snapshot we wanted to share with you all some of the plans of what we have for uh
next school year 2526 so number one more community partnerships we believe in allowing uh community groups to come on in and be a partnership with our school whether that is being a donor uh chaperoning some of our trips with approval as well as donating any uh
educational materials that can help further our student body and student and so we want to just stop and make sure that as we engage with different communities throughout the Southwood area and within Wayne County we want to always have an open door
policy and understand that everyone coming in will know our vision understand our key areas of focus and believe in children and be a champion for uh education with our youth and so that is definitely something that we have started to look at and we have a
list of those we will contact uh number two we want to start to offer advanced curriculum classes to our students what does that mean well we want to honor we want to offer honor classes to our student body we want to bring in perhaps global languages where our students can
learn some different types of language we all know that we have the grammatics and we have the um ELA curricula however why not start early if the desire is there the children want to learn the parents have expressed that concern so let's go ahead and move forward if we
can with providing some different classes i had a third grader tell me the other day as we were walking the hallway "Principal Bogens I'm doing geometry you doing what?" And so it is just always amazing to hear and see uh where our kids can advance and so we shouldn't just stop at what uh is performed or
asked to be performed let's go beyond and if we stay within our box we will just remain there and so our goal is to take it to the next level uh after school clubs and activities we do have some but we want to increase that we're looking at pretty brown girls boy scouts girl scouts uh additional mentoring
groups and so they will come into our building and just definitely have a presence and we will understand what they're doing so that if a student can stop and explain to us it lets us know that there's ownership it lets us know there's the buy in and we always want to have something positive to remain in our
building so that's really really crucial for us so uh as we get ready to close these are just some quick snapshots of some of our staff just being outside inside the classroom and I promise you these happy faces are there every day
every day and so to the board members we ask that you all feel free just to simply come and visit you don't need an appointment or anything like that just come on into the building we welcome you we want you to come um excuse me and it's really really important that you all have an opportunity so that our
students can see you our staff can see you and do know we welcome you at any any any given time uh as we get ready to close we talked about the QR code so here it is if anyone would like to take that scan it so that you can see the presentation on your own and just really take your time uh to peruse that that
would really really be uh great on everyone's behalf but the names there are the individuals who have helped with this presentation uh but we have one other special teacher who name is not there i think she is the McIntyre police officer uh but she's the volunteer of
any and everything from the doors opening to being outside at the bus depot with four hats three coats two scarves on uh she never complains i've never seen her complain uh she's outside at dismissal running all around she's a
parent of a Southfield kid her child is enrolled in um McIntyre and she has a real passion for education because she's our resource room teacher so parents have her cell phone number uh they're calling her different times different hours of the day just to make
sure that they're doing any and everything and she has also been one of our uh conflict resolution individuals because she will go in and calm a situation down in a heartbeat and I know that her husband Mr payne has probably said "Get somewhere and sit down we I need you here however I got to have Mrs
payne stand up she does a number of things at our building." And I would say if we went over time it's her fault cuz she was our timekeeper when we were practicing uh and in closing I just want to say again to all of our board members Dr green we
appreciate your help your support um and my last last I I have to say that coming to this new school you got it we practiced yeah we did
okay i'm from Lynwood okay so um coming to this new school I didn't know a whole lot i simply just wanted to come start fresh and it has been more refreshing than I could ever
explain and it has been a warm welcome we've had bumps you know and that's life but we have prevailed beyond and so to the board members do know that even though we know the tenative plans of the plan for McIntyre we're strong we're here please talk to us let us know how
what we can do to continue something so that we are not letting this go the parents are beating our doors down to see what's next and when you have something this good this powerful with the academics that are prevailing that are succeeding that are breaking numbers our ask is that we could please have
conversation that's all uh but in closing if I can have Dr freeman to stand thank you thank you thank you uh keep standing keep standing keep standing um when when we when you are a principal
even in any job or career I think that support should be the number one piece of where it makes the team to grow and I can share that at any given time that I have called Dr freeman emailed her put a bat signal in the sky she has stopped
literally dropped and rolled she got about five bags when she come to the building on the phone but she has been there for McIntyre and for me and that means more than I think you could ever know and understand so please receive this public thank you for all that you
do for our staff and for our students with that thank you all we appreciate you i'm sorry you know people know how I am i am my dad John Boens all day long you don't go to his house without getting a gift or leaving out with something a plate of food or anything so board
members we wanted to stop Dr green Dr freeman and provide you all uh with a special token from McIntyre thank you [Applause]
thank you McIntyre in the interest of time um we are going to move to the staffing presentation and I am going to shorten um the things that I have to share for the remainder of um this evening um that being stated Miss Foster
if you can pull up the staffing update board trustees you have a full copy of the staffing report in your binder um I will not go through all of it this evening i will address one particular school i think we have some transition
but I would like to um lift this if you could go to the first slide for me please yes thank you um that being Adler Elementary um I would like to acknowledge the team that was here this evening principal
Dean was present this evening is she still here there she is principal Dean um and I had an in-depth conversation and we wanted to collectively share with you all that we are extremely sensitive to our fifth grade
class having recently lost one of our amazing staff members after 25 plus years of service we wanted to assure our families that we are providing some consistency and continuity there in that fifth grade classroom it is being
covered not by one substitute teacher but two substitute teachers and those two substitute teachers were hand selected by the fifth grade teacher who is no longer with us so that class and those scholars will be taken care of for
the duration of this school year before we post that position to anyone else and we acknowledge this at the study session which is not highly and heavily um attended by the public or televised but I do want to
while she's here let Principal Dean know that although that situation was one of the worst we could ever hope for um your staff you SF I I I really um Principal Jackson
Principal Eubanks the way that they came together and the parents that received the call Good job for sure [Music]
um so Dr green thank you for that um I know we have um some other updates coming up um we are going to respect everyone's time uh Dr green there was one thing for the legislative update that you wanted to clear for our ISSN
families out there yes so um board president as you mentioned earlier today the federal funding that was providing support by way of Oakland schools for our district nurses has been eliminated um that being stated our ISSN nurses are
still in place so I wanted to assure our intense student support network families that their scholars will still receive those nursing supports um for the duration of this year and into the next school year so those are still in place you can close out the staffing report all other staffing updates are in the
board's binder lastly but definitely um not least I want to acknowledge one of our very own you know we we have these meetings every month and we talk about the great things happening throughout our district but we also have great things happening here with our trustees so at this time I'd ask that everyone
join me in recognizing our board vice president who achieved level four master board certification [Applause] that means that she went to a lot of classrooms and she is now practicing those skill sets here on our board so
thank you vice president where Duval for your continued leadership i believe that that brings us to the busy director's report and as Dr dr thompson is transitioning to the podium i'd also like to clarify that while the Head Start programs are continuing throughout
this year all of the regional offices have been closed and their doors have been locked there is an interim there are two interim individuals that have been assigned to DC one is a program specialist and one is a fiscal analyst again they are trying to service the
country so I'm not sure what support two people will be able to provide but we are working through this process and we will continue to keep you updated that being said Dr thompson good evening board president good evening um board of trustees and Dr
green so this is um April is the month of the young child and we're celebrating that now um April 5th through 11th is the week of the young child as well so we're busy celebrating at Busy with that so this is the April 2025 um report and
reporting um March numbers so for family engagement we had a wonderful kindergarten signing day which was March 18th 2025 um this was a beautiful day our elementary K8 K12
partners came and they did presentations we had families from outside of the district as well as families from inside um from busy to come for the kindergarten signing and to sign up for um school for kindergarten for the following year so it was a really great turnout um thank you to Dr green for for
coming to support and Dr freeman as well and then all of the principles and the kindergarten teachers um for March's reading month we were quite busy as well we had um central administration finance grants curriculum supervisors instructional coaches and the Southfield
resource officers to come and read um we had continued to have family volunteers our families are really engaged and helping to support the program so they've been creating bulletin boards assisting in the classrooms um they've been doing the handwashing so we get um
the daily living skills in the morning so we get in from that and then they've been reading books as well so we've gotten a lot of ink kind from our family engagement uh they continue to do the link sheets as well which are the resources that are provided to parents and they are aligned with the classrooms
uh classroom instructions to extend children's learning experiences from the classroom to home and so there's a few pictures from the kindergarten signing day with Dr green presenting Dr freeman and then Dr kelly Wash who's our um education
manager and then representing there's Adler and University K12 and then some of the people who were at the actual presentation and then this is for March's reading month uh Dr freeman April Rogers came we had u some of the
uh resource officers came as well the instructional coaches Mr ingram and there's April there and Mr ingram and one of the um officer um Walker was there as well so it was a great turnout for March's reading month the kids really really enjoyed
it so for enrollment um right now we have we're full for Early Head Start we have 16 enrolled we just transitioned u we just added some new kids and transitioned some new students transition students from Early Head Start to Head Start we still have 10 on
our um early Head Start waiting list um for enrollment for Head Start we have 80 enrolled and 16 um vacancies and we have increased the enrollment this month already and then for GSRP um we've filled 69.5 slots and then we have 10.5
slots that weren't filled and then for drops for the month of March we didn't have any drops for um the March uh average daily attendance it there was a decrease and that was because of illnesses there were lots of illnesses um child family as well as our
teachers as well and then um the URSA team is continued to process applications for the 2024 20 for this school year so we can get all those slots filled um and as I said students are transitioning from Early Head Start to Head Start and new
students are enrolling in early Head Start and Head Start programs for the current year for the CACF um the child adult adult care food program we served 5,947 meals this
time and then with children receiving support services we're making gains with that we continue to get referrals but the new referrals for uh March we had four well four with um IEPs or the individual family service plans we had two new referrals we have one in process
for an IEP and then we have the one read so the review of existing evaluation data so prior to the evaluation um for Head Start the compliance is 10 and early Head Start is one so we are making gains i did get another referral today
as well so for curriculum and instruction um we continue to implement the high school curriculum we're in data collection three right now so we'll have more data um in May June um the education manager
continues to share weekly tips for teachers um several of our teachers participated in a virtual high scope 2 training and that was um in the evening so it was a three-hour training and teachers were they volunteered to do that so it was really great um and this
was with Oakland schools and with other people within the county and then uh again this is our March's reading month um readers we thank all of them for staffing um in March we had one teacher at GSRP teacher vacancy and then five um
assistant teacher vacancies and then that's our inind number and we're doing pretty well with income based on our spending and our upcoming event this Saturday is our parents versus staff basketball game so we have a ton of parents who are going to come out to try
to beat us because the staff has won two years in a row so they're So this is going to be held at the Southfield High School anti auxiliary gym auxiliary gym sorry and that's all trustees are there any questions for um
Dr thompson this evening um hearing none i think there's a larger conversation um that that will be happening surrounding Busy and his start of course um with with some things that that we have learned and of course
with the federal situation so um we will address those at a upcoming date thank you thank you or president i'd also like to share that um I have been in conversation with Oakland schools uh relative to the information as we
receive it on a daily basis um interestingly enough South Public Schools is the only public school district in Oakland County that has a head start program according to Oakland schools so there are a lot of other early childhood programs happening throughout Oakland County um so Southwood is unique in that regard that
we have Head Start GSRP and some other programming so we're looking at the possibility of looking at um blended plans braided plans and whatever other things that we can do to ensure that our young scholars still have an opportunity to be successful in the future um more
information will be forthcoming understood thank you Dr green public participation if if you wish to address the board regarding a school related issue that has not yet been resolved by school administration please submit a comment card immediately comments are limited to
three minutes per individual as a matter of fairness speakers with complaints against individuals are asked not to mention any persons by name complaints concerning employees pursuant to board policy 9130 should be brought to the attention of school principles or other administrators before coming to the
board of education your cooperation is appreciated marie Banks miss Banks please state your address for the record good evening i feel like the energy is low but it's it's late that's it but come on you got this okay my name is
Marie my address is 29506 Andover Boulevard Farmington Hills Michigan um first I wanted to say hello to everyone but I wanted to speak real briefly on University High School um and I really wanted to speak to the parents and to everybody here but everybody
online um as a mother of a senior who started off new to Michigan new to Southfield public schools when my daughter entered in the eighth grade at university high or university high school and middle
schoolmies i have to stand before you saying that I'm grateful and I think a lot of parents in this district don't understand the jewel that that school is as my daughter is
metriculating into college and qualifying for major scholarships and meeting with top colleges they all assumed that University High School Academy was in a
white district or a private prep school i even had a DEI officer tell me at the number one liberal arts college in the country Williams College in uh Massachusetts say to me you know I know
it's pretty white here but you're used to that because I know I'm looking at your transcripts and the rigor that you've had unfortunately we can't get those at predominately black schools we only
could hope to find a black student at a prep school like yours and that was the second time that Kristen has gotten that and she said "Actually no my school is not a predominately white school." He said
"What where where is this school again?" And I had to explain to him right outside Detroit and as I'm going with her they want more information on our school because the fact that she's taken 11 AP
classes the fact that she's passed the AP exam the fact that she has a 4.4 GPA but she's not the only one in her school these kids are getting accepted to Yale they're getting accepted to Princeton they're getting accepted to University of Michigan they're getting accepted to John's Hopkins and all these other
schools that are prestigious schools right here and the course offering at university is not offered at many at many schools in our county algebra is taken in the eighth grade and university and that prepares you for AP calculus in the 12th grade
when parents leave universities saying I got to go to another school because it's a better academic institution that is a misunderstood statement because there is no school that will prepare you that give you the opportunity that you will receive at
university so I thank Dean Williams i thank Prince I thank Principal Bogens thank you i thank Dean Balden for all they've done for my child thank you very much [Applause]
michael W mr win would you please state your address for the record my excuse me my address is uh 20635 Bradford Court i am delighted to be here and let
you know that this is the month of financial literacy april was passed in 2004 as a month of financial literacy due to the fact that personal finance questions throughout the years has been
so bad that even currently Americans are only 57% financially literate through that process when I got involved 25 years ago I've been a financial expert auditor for years i'm currently a um fiscal monitor consulting with the
Department of Education unfortunately we're losing our superintendent but we had jumpstart financial reserve provides money for us to learn how our finances and how we can increase our households because children come to schools with
certain knowledges knowledges that are passed down with them and this uh Saturday um I had been invited back to Southfield Library for the fourth time with financial literacy um presentation i've done probably 15 over the years
that we started financial literacy month uh involved with Wayne County in Detroit and to ignite understanding about how important it is those tabletopic discussions how we get together to determine how our credit scores and how
we save and we budget it is a a a area that is somewhat boring or technical sometimes so in light of that we try to always bring enjoyment to it so this Saturday we will we have that umbrella of understanding first of all I'm also a
fraud examiner and we are faced with a tremendous amount of problems with AI system ai is great i use it every day but it's also manipulous tool when it comes to you know using it in the wrong
way so this umbrella of thinking and to engage with people more high school students and college students is to bring light to a budget and we call a budget the bat in the book is to have a budget and understand savings surplus
insecurities have the bat to swing at bad credit scams and fraud and have that book of understanding legacy and clarity comes with sitting down quarterly and going over the things that you have the legacy move is at the end of the day we
have something that we can go to in the event that somebody pass away that you have that information and understanding of how important it is because you see cash app is not a bank and goofme is not an insurance policy and if we can engage
with people more and more and hear their understanding I believe that we can change people one time each time that they think that way so thank you and if you can join me that's the 1 to 3 at Southfield Library and um we'll have a a
lot of information to pass on thank you thank you [Applause] Betty Robinson miss Robinson will you please state your address for the record good evening i am Betty Robinson um my address is 21889 Glenn Morris Southfield
Michigan and just to correct the lady who just spoke about the university William was principal at the university that school was number one of number 10th in the USA number 10 one of the 10 in the United States okay now we
are 800 yeah I I checked it we're not the 10th like we were when Dean William was here so we way way down the list secondly um yeah in the United States of America secondly I wanted I my r main
reason was to speak about McIntyre and you've heard the presentation from the parents and the students and um I just want to implore the board to um make sure you know what you're closing mcintyre is an excellent school i've
talked to parents who live in that school who live in South LA whose children walk to school and they walk to school because it's safe they don't have to cross Evergreen Road to go to the school and it's an excellent school and it always has been excellent school so I
implore you to try to keep that school open if that's poss if at all possible it's your decision to keep it open you can find ways and find monies to keep it open so please consider secondly um Plet Anderson is a
secretary here and she has been the school district secretary of over 30 years and she will be retiring this year so I want to make sure that she has given her just due make sure that she has the best retirement party that we
can give her because she's is welld deserved anytime you need anything Pette was there for you you know I was on the board for 12 years and uh she worked with everybody so she's an outstanding individual uh thirdly I got an article from the
Oakland County Times uh regarding enrollment decline and um our school district enrollment has dropped and um we went from like um now now they consider us 165 and uh we one of the
lowest in Oakland County and we need to address that we need to find out how we can get more students to enroll in the school district most of our students from Vandenberg are going to Berkeley school and most of our students who live in Lether Village they're attending
Berkeley School why that shouldn't be and well also our kids are going to Farmington School and West Bloomfield so we need to find out a way to keep these students in our school district because we need that okay our tax dollars are
expensive in Safia if you live in Sopia you know that and I understand from this article that a lot of our students who attend South Public School do not live in our district that's a problem when parents realize how much money they're paying for education and it's not
supporting the majority of our student so please discuss that and address it thank you so much action items consent agenda approval of minutes for March 11th regular meeting march 18th special meeting march 20th
special meeting is there a motion on the floor to open and approve support it's been properly moved and supported is there any discussion or amendments surrounding the consent agenda hearing
none vice President please call for the vote yes yes yes yes
motion carried thank you um report 6365 personnel action report is there a motion on the floor once reviewed to open and approve the personnel action floor
it's been properly supported u moved and supported um does anyone have any questions surrounding the personnel action report offer the vote yes yes myself yes yes
yes motion carried thank you information items report 6366 Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology roof trustees we have had these conversations
surrounding our bond um projects i'm pretty sure that either Dan or TJ are here tj is in the audience and Dan is probably in the lobby tj is right here um yes and we are excited to see that we are moving forward with the re-roofing
of Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology it is long overdue we also have joining us this evening Tyler Bowlinger um a new face to some of you but uh not to those that have been working on the construction projects he is also part of the Barton Mow team and
will be of a presence here moving forward so um without further ado Miss TJ would you address our bid process for the Southfield High School for the Arts and Technology roofing project not at once okay good evening
Southfield um It's exactly second phase second year i'm sorry can we adjust the his mic and you need to speak up sure i I don't know if um I don't I heard you but I'm not sure if everyone
else heard you so if you would please for the vice for the design project there will phases for the construction the first phase would be for OH house replacement of that entire then the second phase would be for active part of
the school during 202026 year understood and trustees I do want to note um given that we've always put it on the agenda but it's missing that this is a bond funded project so it does not outline that on your agenda
printed prior but this is funded by the bond trustees is there are there any questions surrounding the Southfield ENT roofing okay board uh president yes sir if it is the pleasure of the board giving the
timesensitive nature work um action to ensure that request of the superintendent wish move to make report 6366 actionable by
opening and approving it that we open and approve report 6366 support it's been properly moved and supported is there any other discussion surrounding this hearing none vp please call for the vote
yes yes yes motion carried thank you board president also um this team will be here to speak on the Stevenson Elementary site work that we need to have concluded prior to
us doing the ribbon cutting this summer as we welcome our scholars back to their Lasser location um this as you see in your report is a little over a million dollars and again this will be funded out of the bond as well dan TJ anything
I missed yes some of that work will continue throughout the summer and complete in the fall but the primary objective is to get majority of that work completed prior to ribbon cutting i I want to be clear on this one though
because report 6367 says school playgrounds and I I just want to be clear that this is really the report that's online yes so the report that's online does reflect site work again Miss Foster printed these prior to making the necessary so it is the site work which
is the asphalt and the drainage for that to speak about this during the study session as well so I just wanted to give clarity our board members um as you remember our one board member like myself was uh feeling under the weather so I wanted to make sure that that
clarity but thank you for saying that that's online but I'm addressing what's inside of this you're welcome um I'm assuming that uh this too is time sensitive as it pertains to getting this work done because we want to get our babies back in Stevenson that's correct
and so I'm assuming that we're being asked to make this actionable as well that is correct board President Trustees report 6367 Stevenson Elementary School asphalt site work site work asphalt specialist
is the name of the company so for clarification it is not just that of asphalt it is the upgrade of the storm water management system replacement of the site concrete as well as asphalt paving and the drainage improvements that are required not only by our plan
but also by the city's codes is there a motion on the floor it's been properly moved and supported trustees is there any other discussion surrounding report 6367 question sure board President Dr green
um will um report 62 6367 so that has been corrected in the advertisement or in the agenda that is online it was not printed properly in your packet so the one that is online
does say report 6367 is Stevenson Elementary School site work and that is the report that you actually have in your packet trusty uh Holloway so it has been corrected the correct copy was not placed in your
binder it is online for the South Public School so if any of our uh viewing audience does go online to our board minutes if they go online for our board agenda it has been corrected yes thank you any other
discussion hearing none vice President whenever you're ready please call for the vote yes yes motion carried thank you very much thank Thank you all president as we transition to the next
um item on the agenda I I would ask the board's permission to address some things that were lifted this evening for clarification not to respond to public comment but just for some clarification for our viewing audience i'm receiving some messages from our
staff um one of which is the ranking of our schools there are several ranking systems that are utilized by the state of Michigan we have national rankings etc so I strongly encourage individuals before making statements that they check all of the figures relative to where our
schools are positioned um also I would like to address the fact that we do not announce anyone's retirements until we receive something official from individuals that that is their intent so any information that you may hear that
has not been shared with our HR department is should not be disclosed publicly so at this time no information having been received by the human resources department um has not been included in your updates so I just
wanted to clarify that piece as well lastly there was um an additional comment relative to the schools that we have i do want to again remind everyone that the information that was included in our pre PQ app which was submitted to
the state of Michigan in 2022 did outline the things that we were committed to do in regard to the bond which is what we told our community we were going to do and we must adhere to what was approved by not only our
community but the state of Michigan as well understood thank you Miss um Pette Gardner we absolutely love you moving forward report
6368 bus garage environmental cleanup i do believe Joe Cororus is here and I have signed multiple documents within Oh Lord I'm like Listen I'm like "Oh this is the environmental cleanup." Okay this we've been talking
about for quite a while and if you all remember um this group of people came before us um twice yeah so um good evening board good evening and this is our compliance with the uh the state of
Michigan to test the groundwater water quarterly in that area and to submit an analysis to the state of Michigan to make sure we are in compliance with what we said we were going to do so the $38,000 is for the quarterly groundwater
sampling that will need to be done uh starting in April and every quarter for the next uh uh for the next year uh the balance of that uh amount is uh to actually revise the final assessment
report to the state uh it is 90% musta reimburseable it says 99% in the report which is an error i apologize it should be 90% uh but the numbers are right so
uh 55,000 49,000 is reimburseable uh from MTA it's something that we'll need to do uh this month i would ask that we approve uh this it is not bond related it is understood
yes um so trustees this has come before us multiple times um we know this is something that we have to do our uh COO has asked that we make this an actionable item um as a
reference we received all of the documentation regarding this about 4 months ago um and and we went over it extensively in a study session as well um so I just want to remind you that um
outside of this meeting we have received all the documentation and we knew this was coming is there a motion on the floor to open and approve report 6368 i move that we open and approve report 6368
it's been properly moved and supported is there any other discussion surrounding report 6368 yes board President yes ma'am um the Joe the um Can I call you Joe you You may okay thank you the sampling it's going
to be just at the bus garage or is it going to go to a certain distance out beyond it just in the area where the tanks were exumed uh many years ago so it is in that bus garage area it would be basically from
uh where the school bus is parked now that green belt there yeah and in that general area okay you never go it never goes further out no it doesn't if I may add Trusty Holloway um a few years back we removed an underground storage tank
from that area where the fuel was held we were one of the last districts to do that we now have above ground storage tanks for our fuel so there is a requirement that takes us out so far that they test every year for the next I think it's for 10 years that they will
test the ground to ensure that there was no seepage into the surrounding area we're close enough to the Rouge River that they make us through that they make us go through that process every year thank you sir you're welcome you're welcome
ma'am trustees any other discussion hearing none vice President whenever you're ready please call for the vote trusty Johnson yes trusty yes
yes yes motion carried thank you thanks Joe 46369 staffing and payroll services for early childhood education subhub and board president um I am asking that we
lift this for information and that we do not make this actionable tonight but that we come back in the event that we do get additional information relative to our early childhood programming that being said we did put out an RFP this year regarding our staffing services and payroll for early childhood and this is
the recommendation of the committee that interview reviewed all of the RFPs interviewed the various committees they are recommending that we move to EC ECE Subhub which does operate not only within Oakland County but Wayne County as well um they have um a lot of early
childhood experience so we're hopeful that they will bring that expertise south of public schools in addition I did review their contractual language the proposed contractual language because we have not entered it into into an agreement um to ensure that in the event that anything changes relative to
funding sources we do have a clause to exit any contract that we may enter into the future relative to federal funding so those pieces are in the proposed contract again it has to come before you i'm asking that it be information only this evening and that we come back at
the study session for approval um in the event that we get additional information in the coming weeks understood so um at this time we brought it for information um as I spoke before we will most likely
have a committee of the whole meeting um this is a lot of information to process we have some other things already on the table for our study session so we're going to have to deep dive this um at a later date so Dr green thank you for
that uh next on the agenda our financial report and monthly bill dispersement uh board treasurer thank you board president i'm going to make this really really quick this evening um I just wanted to point
out a few risks um that we can't really assess at this time um just because of the changes in the federal funding um is too much uncertainty but that would be listed as a risk um I think Dr green has done a good job of keeping us a breast of what's happening but it is a risk um
to the district um on the very very positive note I want to tell um say thank you to um Mr ingram for implementing that electronic process for payments um I know that there are still a few kinks um I am a parent of a fifth
grader that paid for a fifth grade trip $180 using the system and it works so thank you thank you thank you so much for that um I know we're still working on reporting and all of those great things but thank you for implementing that um that's for cash collection
that's the best process that we can use instead of kids running around with hundreds of dollars so I just wanted to publicly say thank you for that um and I'm going to end on a really really really good note um Dr green um let us know that we've um maintained our S&P
rating of the credit score of a A um which that means nothing to a lot of people but it's a very very big deal in these uncertain times and it takes a lot of hard work so I want to publicly just say that to Dr green for people who know what it takes um to get this rating and
to maintain it in these times that is amazing work so we have um kept our A rating and that's great for our district for so many reasons and that concludes my financial report for the good of the order um as I announced earlier um we will be having
um our spring enrollment fair taking place May 8th am I correct that is correct um and I believe that's from 4 to 6 or was it 5 to 7 i believe it's 4 to 6 4 to 7 4 to 7
4 to 7 i I got it all mixed up um 4 to 7 at Southfield ent um we have a ton of um programming happening in all of our buildings as we approach the end of the year um please check your Remind uh the
district website all of those great things um did anyone else have anything for the good of the order um I just wanted to lift as we are approaching the end of the year it is important that we continue to get our scholars our students to school on time
there is some serious instruction that is handed out in the first few minutes of class so the 10 minutes 20 minutes 30 minutes is really inappropriate it is vital that we have our school our kids to school on time and I just wanted to lift that to all the the parents grandparents we have to continue to work
and show them that this is important education is huge especially today's times we need to make sure that they are where they need to be and in those seats is that that is the location thank you through the chair yes sir um so we all know that I care about our environment
our planet and the health of our children um and you know school districts tend to be really heavy polluters in communities um so previously we had started the sustainability committee and I really want to continue that work um and having
trustee Joyce leave the board i did receive interest from another trustee and I wanted to um I believe our bylaws say that they have to request to join a committee so I wanted to give that trustee an opportunity at this point in time to do so it's on
it's on um after speaking to Trusty Johnson I would be interested in joining the sustainability uh the sustainability committee i have no issue with that um it does not require a vote um you will send out
information on committee um meeting times and dates and then you all will report out um during the next board meeting after you have your first meeting um how we will proceed um so thank you for that um I know that the environment clean air clean water all
all of the things will be important um especially as we talk about food and what's happening with our federal funding so I appreciate you lifting that thank you anyone else for the good of the order yes ma'am
thank you um did I did want to acknowledge that our summer discovery applications are well underway the application deadline is May 1st for parents to submit to enroll their children in our very robust summer
programming we always get to the 11th hour and parents forget that they the applications are due we do our staffing plan we do our um extracurricular activities we do all of our planning based on the number of students that will be enrolled in our program so it's extremely important that we make sure
that we have those applications in um through myar they can go into their parent portal do the application it's a very simple process if they are unable to navigate that they can reach out to our instructional team specifically Summer Codwell Kathers she will be able
to help navigate them through that process also we have um testing as you heard Mr spragggins mentioned earlier and Miss Beckford me mentioned earlier therefore uh to piggyback on what vice president where Deval said it's extremely important that they get here
on time these exams that are state exams are timebound and once a scholar arrives late oftentimes particularly with the PSAT and the SAT they cannot start the exam they have to be here at the time in which the exam starts we do provide them
with breakfast we provide them with snacks throughout the process as well as hydration um but they cannot engage in the process if they are not here on time so I did want to lift that as well thank you and on that note I just want to be clear um because I heard some students
discussing it on um a call um in my home will and where is Summer Caldwell well Kurthers the guru of all things testing will our students need their Chromebooks for testing they cannot use their individual iPads laptops is that correct
that is very correct okay and I want to make sure parents know that because some students use their MacBooks things of that nature so parents please if your Chromebook is stored at home charge them up they will be required it's just not that we want them to they will be
required to have those in school starting next week correct this week this week this week tomorrow on Yeah okay so second week of May so parents every evening our children will need to
charge the Chromebooks put them in the backpack um we know that some schools do do have duplicates um but if every student decides not to bring theirs come on talk to me Miss You come on up to the mic
while we still have parents because I did have someone text me regarding that and it was it is a good question so thank you Miss Cwell Cors clear us up thank you board president so K5 does not have to bring their Chromebooks we have Chromebooks in the classroom for our K5
but our 6th through 11th graders they need to bring their Chromebooks because we do not have enough um inhouse to supply everyone and so 6th through 11th graders need to bring their Chromebooks charged with them every day for testing thank you thank you so much and um to Dr
green and our communication staff I see Tyler just opened up his laptop i do believe he's reading my mind um I would ask that our communications team send something out reminding our parents reminding our scholars on our Facebook
page Instagram pages this is what's required cuz you will see a ton of parents running up to the school tomorrow trying to get Chromebooks to their children and while we appreciate you it is disruptive so if we can do it tonight we appreciate you thanks
everyone future meetings Thursday April 17th Friday April 18th this isn't a meeting we all had school um Good Friday this is our Easter break um Easter break it's not a full week um we are out of
school Friday April 18th um and that is no school for Good Friday tuesday April 22nd special board meeting study session at 6:00 p.m wednesday April 23rd there is no school that is
professional development again Wednesday April 23rd no school professional development so your kids are off that good Friday they come back Monday and Tuesday then they have another day off on Wednesday April 23rd sorry parents i know y'all be going off on me when we do
stuff like that um Wednesday April 30th superintendent senior scholarship showcase at 6:00 p.m taking place at Pearls as you all heard Dr green State uh scholars with 3.0 and above 3.5 and
above um will be getting an invitation to that event um if there is nothing else we are adjourned at 9:26 p.m have a good evening everyone thank you