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WE WILL NOW CALL THE BEAUFORT COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION WORK SESSION TO ORDER.
THE DATE IS NOVEMBER 18TH, 2022.
THE MEETING IS BEING CONDUCTED BY A HYBRID VIDEO CONFERENCING, AND IT IS ALSO BEING LIVESTREAMED BY THE COUNTY CHANNEL.
PARTICIPATION WILL BE ACCEPTED OR WAS ACCEPTED THIS MORNING BETWEEN EIGHT AND EIGHT 30 BY SENDING AN EMAIL WITH YOUR NAME, PHONE NUMBER, AND TOPIC TO ROBIN WITH A Y CUSHING BEAUFORT DOT K12 SC.US.
AND YOU'LL RECEIVE A PHONE CALL DURING PUBLIC COMMENTS WHERE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SPEAK AND ADDRESS THE BOARD FOR A MAXIMUM OF THREE MINUTES.
ON ISSUES WITHIN THE BOARD'S DOMAIN.
THE FORUM WILL BE LIMITED TO 30 MINUTES IF YOU, IF YOU ARE IN PERSON, YOU MAY ADDRESS THE BOARD FOR ALSO A MAXIMUM OF THREE MINUTES ON ISSUES WITHIN THE BOARD'S DOMAIN.
AND EACH SPEAKER MUST FILL OUT A PUBLIC COMMENT CARD AND PLEASE SEE THE BOARD CLERK FOR A CARD.
SO WE NOW NEED A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA.
MR. EARL CAMPBELL, UH, MADE THE MOTION AND, UH, INGRID BOAT RIGHT SEC, THE MOTION.
ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? I.
KATHY, CAN YOU HEAR US WELL? YES, I CAN HEAR YOU.
NEXT WILL STAND FOR THE PLEDGE, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
WE WILL HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE.
THE MEDIA HAS BEEN PROPERLY NOTIFIED.
WE WILL NOW BEGIN THE PUBLIC COMMENTS.
AND I SEE WE HAVE, UH, ONE PERSON HERE, UH, IN PERSON.
AND I'LL JUST REMIND THIS PERSON THE RULES FOR SPEAKING AND I WILL READ THEM AGAIN, ALTHOUGH I KNOW HE'S VERY FAMILIAR WITH THEM.
CONFINE YOUR COMMENTS TO ISSUES WITHIN THE DOMAIN OF THE BOARD.
OBSCENITIES AND VULGARITIES SHALL NOT REFERENCE OR MAKE DEROGATORY COMMENTS ABOUT SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS BY NAME AND SHALL NOT COMMIT OTHER BREACHES OF RESPECT.
SPEAKERS MAY REFERENCE THE NAMES OF SPECIFIC BOARD MEMBERS, BUT SUCH COMMUNICATIONS WILL NOT INCLUDE GOSSIP, DEFAMATORY WORDS, OR ABUSIVE AND VULGAR LANGUAGE.
YOU MAY NOT EXCEED THREE MINUTES, AND THERE'LL BE A VISIBLE AUDIBLE TIMING DEVICE.
AND PERSONS MAY NOT YIELD THEIR TIME TO SOMEBODY ELSE.
AND BY COMPLETING THIS CARD, YOU AGREE TO ABIDE BY THOSE REG RULES.
SO WE HAVE DAVID, UM, COOK, AND YOU NEED TO TELL ME THE TOPIC AND YOU DIDN'T FILL OUT THE CARD PROPERLY.
SO WHAT'S YOUR TOPIC, SIR? I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT.
THANKS FOR GIVING ME A CHANCE TO SPEAK.
UH, IN PARTICIPATING, I WAS SELECTED, UM, IN THE, UM, RECONSIDERATION COMMITTEE.
AND, UH, IT WAS, WE HAD OUR FIRST MEETING LAST NIGHT, AND AFTER GOING THROUGH IS 38.
PRIOR TO THE MEETING, IT, IT SEEMS LIKE THERE WAS, THERE'S NO DUE PROCESS.
IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A, A LITTLE BIT OF A FRAMEWORK THERE THAT'S TAKEN FROM THE SCHOOL GUIDELINES OR SCHOOL LIBRARY GUIDELINES FROM THE STATE MAKES IT KIND OF ARBITRARY.
UM, WE HAVE FOUR APPOINTED, FOUR OR FIVE APPOINTED DISTRICT EMPLOYEES.
UM, SO YOUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS DON'T HAVE AS STRONG A VOICE IN MY OPINION, BUT THAT'S BECAUSE I'M NOT A DISTRICT EMPLOYEE.
UM, BUT THE REVIEW PROCESS IS A FRAMEWORK THAT'S OFFERED BY THE STATE AND IT'S HANDED DOWN FROM THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION GOES AGAINST THE GUIDANCE OF PUTTING AGE APPROPRIATE CONTENT IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES.
IN OTHER WORDS, THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T PROMOTE THE IDEA OF MAKING SURE CONTENT'S AGE APPROPRIATE IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES.
THEY SAY YOU SHOULD PUT EVERYTHING IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARIES.
THE BOOK THAT I GOT WAS SPEAK.
I'M GIVEN PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS OF SPEAK, BUT THERE ARE NO PARENTAL REVIEWS OR READER REVIEWS.
SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE BIASED THERE.
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REVIEWS WOULD BE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT THAN A READER REVIEW.UM, SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAD, UH, ASKED DURING THE MEETING, UM, WHAT GRADE IS THE BOOK BEING GIVEN TO? WE WERE INSTRUCTED THAT THE BOOKS WE'RE REVIEWING NOW ARE ACTUALLY, UH, REQUESTED BY EDUCATORS TO BE USED IN THEIR CLASS.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT GRADE LEVEL I'M READING FOR, BUT I DO KNOW THAT INSIDE THE BACK OF THE BOOK, IT DIRECTS READERS TO THE RAPE ABUSE, INCEST NATIONAL NETWORK, SPEAKING OUT AGAINST RAPE, NATIONAL SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESOURCE CENTER, RAPE TREATMENT CENTER, AND NATIONAL SEXUAL ASSAULT HOTLINE.
I QUESTION WHY IS IT EVEN IN A SCHOOL? IS IT A SOCIAL WORK CLASS? IS A PSYCHOLOGY CLASS, IS IT A VICTIM'S ASSISTANCE CLASS? ANYTHING THAT'S CURRICULUM RELATED, I CAN UNDERSTAND WHERE WE MIGHT BE GOING WITH A BOOK LIKE THIS.
IS THE TEACHER USING THE BOOK A RAPE VICTIM? THAT'S NOT MY BUSINESS, BUT MAYBE THEY FEEL THEY STILL NEED SOME HELP COUNSELING, UM, OR, OR SOME TIME OFF IF THEY FEEL COMPELLED TO BRING IT INTO THE CLASSROOM.
UM, LAST I CHECKED, WE DON'T BRING OUR OWN SEXUAL EXPERIENCES, GOOD OR BAD INTO THE CLASSROOM, BE IT THROUGH CREATION OF A CHILD OR THE VIOLATION OF ONE'S BODY.
NEITHER EXPERIENCE IS BROUGHT INTO THE CLASSROOM, WHETHER HOMOSEXUAL OR HETEROSEXUAL.
IF SO, THEN WE'RE NOT TEACHING THE CLASS THE SUBJECT MATTER.
CLEARLY, STUDENTS ARE BEING SEXUALIZED AND TRAUMATIZED.
WHY AM I BEING MADE TO READ A BOOK? UNLIKE THE LIBRARIAN OR DISTRICT STAFF OR PRINCIPAL WHO MIGHT HAVE ORDERED THE BOOK, WE'RE THEN GIVEN INACCURATE PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS DIRECTLY FROM FOLLET.
WHAT LESSON IS BEING TAUGHT TO DISSOLVE THE NUCLEAR FAMILY? OKAY, MR. COOK, TIME TO SIT DOWN.
TO DISSOLVE THE NUCLEAR FAMILY.
IF WE ALL CAN'T HAVE A NUCLEAR FAMILY, NO ONE SHOULD HAVE ONE.
THAT CONCLUDES OUR PUBLIC COMMENTS.
NEXT UP WE HAVE SCHOOL REPORT CARDS.
GOOD MORNING, MADAME CHAIR AND BOARD MEMBERS.
THIS MORNING WE ARE PRESENTING A SUMMARY ON THE SCHOOL REPORT CARD.
JOINING ME IS OUR ACTING DIRECTOR OF DATA SERVICES, BR FRITZ, MELISSA MURRAY, DIRECTOR OF K12 LITERACY AND ELECTRONICALLY.
NICHOLAS FLOWERS, OUR DIRECTOR OF TEACHING AND LEARNING FOR ELEMENTARY, WILL BE JOINING US AGAIN.
AND I BRING FORWARD MR. BRAD FRITZ.
UM, PLEASURE TO BE IN FRONT OF YOU GUYS GONNA SAY, IF WE COULD GO AHEAD TO THE, UH, FIRST SLIDE IT UP.
SO I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT LOUDER.
SO WHAT YOU SEE IN FRONT OF YOU GUYS IS A COUPLE SLIDES.
THE FIRST TWO SLIDES, THEY HOLD THE SAME CON UH, DATA, BUT THE FIRST SLIDE IS GONNA DEAL WITH THE DEMOGRAPHICS.
THE SECOND SLIDE, JUST SO FOR, UH, IS A VIEWING IS GONNA HAVE THE SAME DATA AND IT'S GONNA HAVE THE MULTILINGUAL STUDENTS, UH, UH, STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES AS WELL AS PUPILS IN POVERTY.
SO WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT, UM, IS THE B C S D AS A, UH, HOLE COMPARED TO THE STATE.
UH, AND YOU CAN SEE, UH, BY THE AMOUNT OF GREEN THAT THOSE ARE THE AREAS THAT WE EXCEEDED THE STATE.
UH, THE, IF YOU SEE ANYTHING GRAY, THAT'S THE, THERE WERE EXACTLY EVEN.
AND RED OF COURSE, IS WHERE WE'RE BEHIND WHERE WE SAW THE MOST SIGNIFICANT, WHERE WE KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK, UH, COMPARED TO THE STATE IS GONNA BE IN THE CCR.
IF YOU LOOK THERE, THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF DIFFERENCE.
MOST OF THE TIME IT'S, UH, 10 PLUS, UH, PERCENT POINTS AHEAD.
ONE OF THE OTHER BIG PLACES THAT YOU'LL SEE IS IN THE SECOND SLIDE, AND THAT'S GONNA BE UNDER THE GRAD RATE.
UH, WE WERE ALMOST 10% ABOVE THE STATE IN WITH STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.
SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE LOOKING THERE.
WE DO HAVE QUITE A FEW AREAS OF OPPORTUNITY THAT TO LOOK AT WITHIN MULTILINGUAL, UM, AND THE HISPANIC AS WELL.
THOSE ARE WHERE THE, UH, THE REDS COMING
THE LAST DROPOUT RATE THAT WAS REPORTED IS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE FROM THE 2021 SCHOOL YEAR, UH, WHICH WE HAD 73 INDIVIDUALS, UH, THAT MET THE CRITERIA OF DROPOUT, WHICH REPRESENTED 1.1%.
UH, THIS IS NOT INCLUDED ON THE,
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UH, THE SLIDES.THAT'S JUST A, UH, A SIDE NOTE.
YOU'RE WELCOME, MADAME CHAIR AND BOARD MEMBERS.
I HAD ASKED MR. FRITZ TO BRING FORWARD TO DROP OUT RATE BECAUSE I BELIEVE IT WAS A QUESTION THE OTHER EVENING AT THE BOARD, UM, MEETING.
SO I JUST WANTED TO BRING THAT POINT FORWARD.
AND IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE TABLE THAT'S IN FRONT OF YOU, IT IS BROKEN DOWN BY OUR ACCOUNTABILITY AREAS.
IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE DEFINITIONS, WE, WE COULD WALK YOU THROUGH.
BUT I, AT THIS POINT, I BELIEVE YOU'RE, YOU'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE POINTS IN OUR ACTIONS THAT WE'RE HAVE TAKEN.
I DO WANNA TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY RIGHT NOW TO SPEAK TO THE ACTIONS THAT WE ARE TAKING WITH REGARD TO INTERVENTIONS.
THE FIRST PERSON TO COME FORWARD TO SPEAK WILL BE MELISSA MURRAY.
THIS MORNING, I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE WITH YOU A DISTRICT LEVEL OVERVIEW OF THE INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES IN PLACE TO SUPPORT OUR LEARNERS KINDERGARTEN TO 12TH GRADE.
AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL, WE CONTINUALLY ANALYZE GRADE LEVEL DATA AND SCHOOL NEEDS TO SUPPORT INSTRUCTION WITH RESOURCES AND INITIATIVES STRATEGICALLY SELECTED.
ALTHOUGH WE ARE STILL WORKING, LEARNING, AND GROWING OUR INSTRUCTION FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS, WE CONTINUE TO IMPROVE AS MEASURED BY SC READY.
AND THE EOC BRAIN RESEARCH SHOWS THAT LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE IS NOT A NATURAL PROCESS LIKE LEARNING TO SPEAK.
IT REQUIRES EXPLICIT DIRECT INSTRUCTION WITH ONGOING OBSERVATION OF STUDENT WORK FOR EVIDENCE OF LEARNING, AND REQUIRES A VARIETY OF TOOLS TO MEET A VARIETY OF NEEDS.
SO STARTING WITH ELEMENTARY, I'M GONNA TAKE YOU THROUGH WHAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE IN OUR SCHOOLS.
AT THE TOP OF YOUR LIST, YOU'LL SEE LITERACY BY DESIGN.
THIS IS OUR STATE ADOPTED INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCE FOR ELEMENTARY, UM, THAT WAS ADOPTED IN 20 12 11 OF OUR SCHOOLS SUPPLEMENT WITH SCHOLASTIC LITERACY.
THIS RESOURCE FOR TEACHING READING FOCUSES ON TEACHING STANDARDS SO THAT STUDENTS CAN APPLY THE THINKING AND LEARNING ACROSS ANY GRADE LEVEL TEXT, PERFORMANCE BASED LEARNING OBJECTIVES, ACADEMIC VOCABULARY, AND SUPPORTING LEARNERS TO HIGHER ORDER THINKING THROUGH STANDARD BASED GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS, WE ARE IN YEAR TWO OF UN UTILIZATION OF SCHOLASTIC LITERACY.
AFTER IT WAS REVIEWED WITH THE STATE DEPARTMENT GROUP TO FOR APPROVAL, IMPLEMENTATION IS BEING SUPPORTED THROUGH STRATEGIC PD PLANS WITH SCHOLASTIC LITERACY AND OUR DISTRICT LITERACY COACH, ADRIAN SUTTON.
BELOW THAT, YOU'LL SEE OPEN COURT PHONICS.
EIGHT OF OUR SCHOOLS THAT UTILIZE SCHOLASTIC LITERACY.
WE'RE ALSO SELECTED TO BE PART OF THE LETTERS TRAINING OFFERED BY THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
THIS INTENSIVE TRAINING IS TEACHING OUR TEACHERS HOW TO TEACH READING THROUGH PHONICS, PHONEMIC AWARENESS AND OTHER FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS.
ALTHOUGH LETTERS IS AGNOSTIC TO A CURRICULUM, THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REQUIRED DISTRICTS TO SELECT A PHONIC BASED RESOURCE.
BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT WORKED WITH THE STATE DEPARTMENT TO ADD OPEN COURT PHONICS WHILE KEEPING SCH.
THE SCHOLASTIC LITERACY FOR READING OPEN COURT HAS A STRONG SUPPORT FOR TEACHING PHONICS INSTRUCTION.
SO SCHOOLS IMPLEMENTING NOW SPEND 30 TO 45 MINUTES PER DAY, K THROUGH THREE WITH EXPLICIT PHONICS INSTRUCTION.
BUT WE GET TO MAINTAIN THE GRADE LEVEL STANDARDS WORK THROUGH CONTINUED IMPLEMENTATION OF SCHOLASTIC LITERACY.
WE ARE IN YEAR ONE WITH LETTERS AND OPEN COURT.
THE LETTERS PD IS INTENSIVE FOR TWO YEARS WITH EMBEDDED QUIZZES AND ASSESSMENTS TO MONITOR PROFICIENCY.
THE NEW LEARNING IS ALSO BEING ADDRESSED THROUGH SCHOOL BASED PLCS.
BELOW THAT, YOU WILL SEE IREY IREY IS A TIER ONE DIGITAL RESOURCE FOR ELA.
THIS IS A COMPUTER ADAPTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL TOOL, 45 MINUTES PER WEEK, LEAVING TIME FOR TEACHER CONFERRING IREADY PROVIDES SUPPORTS TO STUDENTS BASED ON RESULTS OF A GRADE LEVEL.
DIAGNOSTIC SCHOOLS ARE PROVIDED ONGOING PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT WITH THIS TOOL, WE ARE IN YEAR TWO OR THREE IF YOU INCLUDE THE PILOT YEAR.
ADDITIONAL TOOLS AVAILABLE FOR TIER ONE ARE VOCABULARY AND WORD MASTERS.
THESE RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE TO TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TO ENHANCE VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION AND ACQUISITION.
EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS ALSO HAVE ACCESS TO READING A TO Z AND HEAD SPROUTS.
THESE TOOLS PROVIDE AN ELECTRONIC BOOKSHELF FOR OUR STUDENTS WITH THE TEACHER, THE TOOLS TO MONITOR AND SUPPORT STUDENTS READING AND COMPREHENSION.
HEAD SPROUTS IS THE PHONIC SIDE OF LEARNING A TO Z AND OFFERS STUDENTS GAME LIKE PRACTICE.
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ON THE SAME LEARNING CONTINUUM.WE ARE LEARNING WITH LETTERS AND UTILIZING WITH OPEN COURT AND SIPS.
AND SO SIPS IS WHERE I'LL TRANSITION TO INTERVENTION.
SO TO SO FAR, I'VE TALKED ABOUT ALL OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN AT TIER ONE, WHICH MEANS IT'S UTILIZING STUDENTS WITH A WHOLE GROUP LEVEL.
LITERACY INTERVENTION IS IN ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS AND HAS BEEN UTILIZED, INTERVENING WITH STUDENTS WHO NEED COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT WITH READING BEHAVIORS TO PROGRESS THROUGH THE READING LEVELS.
INTERVENTIONISTS HAVE BEEN OFFERED TRAINING FOR YEARS, AND WE ARE AT A POINT WHERE WE CAN TRAIN AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER.
SINCE 2019, WE HAVE BEEN STRATEGICALLY ADDING SYSTEMATIC INSTRUCTION AND PHONICS PHONEMIC AWARENESS AND SIGHT WORDS KNOWN AS SIPS.
AT THIS POINT, ALL SCHOOLS HAVE THE SYSTEM AND ALL SCHOOLS ARE PARTICIPATING IN TRAINING.
AND WE ARE STRATEGICALLY AND ACTIVELY SUPPORTING IMPLEMENTATION BECAUSE THIS IS THE TOOL THAT IS NEEDED FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO APPLY PHONICS AND PHONEMIC AWARENESS TO HIS OR HER OWN READING WITH EFFICIENCY AND ACCURACY AND OR NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO RECALL SITE WORDS WITHOUT HESITATION.
ADDITIONALLY, SOME OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS UTILIZE READING PLUS.
THIS IS A DIGITAL INTERVENTION TOOL THAT WILL, I WILL GO INTO MORE DETAIL WHEN WE MOVE TO SECONDARY, BUT FOR ELEMENTARY, IT IS USED AS AN ADDITIONAL TOOL FOR AFTER SCHOOL OR AS AN ADDITIONAL INTERVENTION TOOL.
SO THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE, UM, IN PLACE AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL FOR ELEMENTARY.
MOVING INTO SECONDARY COLLECTIONS IS OUR STATE ADOPTED RESOURCE FOR BOTH MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL.
THIS RESOURCE IS THE CORE OF OUR CURRICULUM MAPPING WORK.
WE HAVE PACED OUT THE UNITS FOCUSING ON STANDARDS BASED ACADEMIC VOCABULARY, PERFORMANCE BASED LEARNING TARGETS, AND LESSONS THAT MEET THE HIGHER ORDER THINKING REQUIREMENTS OF OUR STATE STANDARDS.
PLEASE NOTICE THE VERTICAL ARTICULATION OF FOCUSES FROM ELEMENTARY TO SECONDARY.
WE ARE UTILIZING A COMMON ACADEMIC VOCABULARY DEFINITION AND STANDARDS BASED INSTRUCTION TO INCLUDE HIGHER ORDER QUESTIONING AND THINKING.
WE FOLLOW GUIDANCE FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT'S OFFICE OF ASSESSMENTS AND OFFICE OF STANDARDS TO ENSURE OUR INSTRUCTIONAL AND OUR AND INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUSES ARE TARGETED.
IN ADDITION, ALL SECONDARY SCHOOLS HAVE ACCESS TO NO RED INK.
THIS IS A TOOL TO SUPPORT EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS AS WRITERS.
IT IS IMPORTANT THAT STUDENTS WRITE OFTEN AND PERVASIVELY NO RED INK OFFERS SUPPORT TO STUDENTS THROUGH THE WAY THE WRITING TASK IS BROKEN DOWN INTO SMALLER SECTIONS WITH OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT WRITING EXPECTATIONS.
WE ARE IN YEAR TWO, BUT THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE POSITIVE PUSH.
ALONG WITH OUR WRITING PLAN, WE HAVE STRATEGIC PD BEING OFFERED AND OUR DISTRICT LITERACY COACH, FREEDOM MECHANIC WILL, IS WELL VERSED TO SUPPORT SCHOOLS ONGOING.
AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL, THE STATE HAS APPROVED ANUITY AS THE TOOL FOR CREDIT AND COURSE RECOVERY.
THE RESOURCES WITHIN HAVE BEEN REVIEWED TO ENSURE CORRELATION AND ARTICULATION TO OUR STATE STANDARDS.
NEXT NUZELLA IS A TOOL FOR OUR EDUCATORS THAT OFFERS THE SAME TEXT AT DIFFERENT READING LEVELS.
THIS ALLOWS A TEACHER TO MODEL A TEXT AT GRADE LEVEL AND PROVIDES STUDENTS TEXTS THAT ARE AT THEIR INDEPENDENT READING LEVELS.
EDUCATORS ARE ABLE TO SELECT WHEN TO USE THIS BASED ON THE NEEDS OF STUDENTS.
MIDDLE SCHOOL LIKE ELEMENTARY HAS ACCESS TO VOCABULARY AND WORD MASTERS TO SUPPORT VOCABULARY ACQUISITION.
THE WORD MASTERS CHALLENGE IS A NATIONAL COMPETITION FOR STUDENTS IN GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT.
THEN ENCOURAGE GROWTH AND VOCABULARY AND VERSATILE REASONING AND HELP STUDENTS TO LEARN TO THINK BOTH ANALYTICALLY AND METAPHORICALLY.
SO NOW WE'RE MOVING INTO OUR INTERVENTION.
READING PLUS IS AVAILABLE AS A STRATEGIC INTERVENTION FOR STUDENTS WHO NEED PRACTICE READING FLUENTLY AND EFFICIENTLY, OR THE FLUENCY IS IMPACTING THE STUDENT'S COMPREHENSION.
READING PLUS CAN ALSO BE USED FOR ALL SECONDARY STUDENTS WITH A FOCUS ON READING FLUENTLY.
AND SO THEY CAN HOLD ONTO COMPREHENSION LEVEL.
LITERACY AND INVENTION IS AVAILABLE IN SOME OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE INTERVENTION POSITIONS FOR INTERVENING WITH STUDENTS WHO NEED COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT WITH READING BEHAVIORS TO PROGRESS THROUGH READING LEVELS.
AND AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL, IREADY AND CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES.
ASSOCIATES IS THE SELECTED RESOURCE FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION AND PROVIDES GUIDANCE FOR EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS BASED ON THE DIAGNOSTIC RESULTS OF INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS TO SUPPORTS OUR SCHOOLS.
WE HAVE A LITERACY PLAN, MONTHLY COACHING MEETINGS, AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS.
THIS IS HOW WE MESSAGE AND SUPPORT SCHOOLS IN INTEGRATING AND IMPLEMENTING THE AVAILABLE TOOLS.
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LITERACY COACHES AND I VISIT SCHOOLS TO SUPPORT ONE-ON-ONE BECAUSE EACH SCHOOL HAS INDIVIDUAL NEEDS.I REALIZE THAT YOU'VE HEARD SOME OF THESE PIECES, BUT I HOPE THIS STARTS TO SHOW YOU HOW OUR RESOURCES WORK TOGETHER TO SUPPORT A VARIETY OF INSTRUCTIONAL NEEDS.
SO, BOARD MEMBERS, AS WE'VE WALKED THROUGH ELA, I DO WANNA MAKE NOTE AS WELL IN WORKING WITH OUR SPECIAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, THE OG OR, OR GILLINGHAM, AN INITIATIVE THAT WE'RE PUTTING IS ALSO HAVE THAT AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL, WORKING WITH DR.
WHITE AND JAMIE, JAMIE WITHIN THAT VISION.
SO I DO WANNA SHARE THAT AS WELL.
MARY, WE, I JUST DOUBLE CHECKED ON THAT.
WE HAVE, UH, OVER 200, UH, STAFF MEMBERS TRAINED ON THAT.
NOW THAT WE HAVE A A LARGE AMOUNT OF ELEMENTARY, WE WANNA HAVE MORE AND MORE SECONDARY.
SO THAT IS OUR FOCUS IS ACADEMIC YEAR.
WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO BRING FORWARD ON NICHOLAS FLOWERS, OUR DIRECTOR OF ELEMENT OF ELEMENTARY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING.
HE'LL WALK US THROUGH THE PROCESSES IN MATH THAT ARE OUR CORE INSTRUCTIONAL TOOLS AS WELL AS OUR INTERVENTIONS.
SO FOR THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL, UM, WHICH IS IS THE SLIDE BACK ONE, UM, FOR THE MATH ASPECT THAT OUR, OUR MAIN CORE, UM, CURRICULUM PROGRAM THAT IS IMPLEMENTED IS OUR, UM, THE READY MATH, UM, CURRICULUM, WHICH GOES WITH THE SAME COMPANY THAT DOES IREADY, BUT THEY ARE TWO SEPARATE PIECES.
AND SO OUR READY MATH REALLY FOCUSES IN ON DEVELOPING THEN THE CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF CONCEPTS THAT BUILT INTO THAT PROCEDURAL FLUENCY ASPECT OF IT.
UM, AND REALLY HONES IN ON, UM, KIND OF THOSE WIDE RANGES OF SKILL SETS THAT WE NEED STUDENTS TO DEVELOP AS THEY MOVE THROUGH IT.
AND THEN BUILDING IN, UM, SOME OTHER TIER ONE SUPPORTS THAT, UH, ARE GOING TO SUPPLEMENT THEM, REALLY THAT, UM, PROGRAM SUCH AS VOCABULARY, UM, DISCOVERY EDUCATION TO PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS.
AND THEN LOOKING AT, UM, SOME ADDITIONAL TIERS.
THEN YOU CAN GET INTO THOSE IXO DREAMBOX THAT ARE AVAILABLE, UM, FOR BEING ABLE TO SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS THERE.
AND WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL, WE ARE MOVING INTO, UM, THE BIG IDEAS IS THAT REALLY CORE AREA AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL.
UM, AND THEN YOU START REALLY GETTING INTO YOUR SPECIFIC HIGH SCHOOL COURSES THAT ARE, UM, SPECIFIC TO THE CONCEPT BEING TAUGHT FOR THAT MATH AREA, BUT PROVIDING THEN THOSE WIDE RANGE OF, OF RESOURCES THAT TOUCH INTO YOUR TIER ONE SUPPORTS.
UM, THAT CAN PROVIDE SOME VIDEO LESSONS OR SOME SKILLS THAT THE STUDENTS MAY NOT BE RECEIVING JUST BY LOOKING AT THAT CORE TEXTBOOK PIECE INTO IT, UM, TO REALLY BE ABLE TO EXPAND.
UM, ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS WITH THE MATH THIS YEAR IS THAT WE'VE REALLY BEEN STRATEGICALLY PLANNED OUT HOW WE'RE GONNA WORK WITH OUR NUMERACY COACHES, UM, FOR THE DISTRICT.
AND SO HONING IN THEN ON, UM, FOUR KEY TEACHING PRACTICES THAT, UM, THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR TEACHERS THAT MATHEMATICS HAS, UM, IDENTIFIED, THEY'VE IDENTIFIED EIGHT OF THEM, BUT WE'VE, UM, FOCUSED THIS YEAR ON CHUNKING THEM OUT.
SO INCORPORATING THEN THOSE ESTABLISHING MATHEMATICS SCHOOLS TO FOCUS LEARNING, UM, STARTING THERE, MOVING INTO THEN REALLY POSING PURPOSEFUL QUESTIONS IN MATH, UM, BUILDING PROCEDURAL FLUENCY, UM, FROM THAT CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND THEN HAVING THAT FACILITATING MEANINGFUL MATHEMATICAL DISCOURSE.
SO, UM, THIS YEAR, HAVING THOSE FOUR KEY INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES WITH THE TEACHING AND LEARNING, BUT ALSO CIRCLING INTO INCORPORATING STRONG, UM, PRACTICES FOR THE SEVEN PROCESS STANDARDS.
UM, AND REALLY MAKING SURE THAT YES, WE'VE GOT OUR STRONG CONTENT, UM, INSTRUCTION HAPPENING WITH OUR, UM, TIER ONE, TIER TWO, TIER THREE PROGRAMS AND RESOURCES.
BUT REALLY PUSHING TO INCORPORATE THE PROCESS STANDARDS STRATEGICALLY AND PURPOSEFULLY.
SO NOT THINKING THEM AS I'M PROVIDING CONTENT INSTRUCTION AND I'M PROVIDING PROCESS INSTRUCTION, BUT REALLY SHOWING HOW AS YOU PROVIDE YOUR CONTENT STANDARDS INSTRUCTION, THOSE PROCESS STANDARDS GO HAND IN HAND TO DEEPEN THE UNDERSTANDING WITH OUR CONTENT STANDARDS.
AND AND I WOULD, SO FLOWERS, WOULD THAT BE WRAPPING YOU UP? YES.
YES, THAT, SO BOARD MEMBERS, THAT WRAPS UP
THANK YOU FOR THAT NEWS FLASH.
I'M GLAD I'M IN THE LOW COUNTRY.
SO WITH THAT, I DO WANNA ADD MATHEMATICALLY AS WELL TO SOME SUPPORT THROUGH THE EM A GRANT, WE HAVE SUPPORT THROUGH
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S CRB TO SOUTHERN RE REGIONAL EDUCATION BOARD.THEY ARE DEVELOPING MATH MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS FOR TEACHERS WITHIN THOSE SEVEN SCHOOLS, AS WELL AS THE DOEA GRANT THAT SUPPORTS, UM, THE COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE BEING INFUSED AT THE ELEMENTARY.
SO WE COULD BUILD THAT CAPACITY OF OUR EDUCATORS.
SO I JUST WANNA ADD ADDITIONAL RESOURCES THAT WE ARE UTILIZING IN THE DISTRICT.
AND AT THIS TIME, THIS CONCLUDES CYBER GRANT THAT WE'VE GOTTEN AS WELL.
IT IS A CAMP THAT I WROTE ON THE SIDELINE THAT IS A CAMP THAT MATH TEACHERS CAN SIGN UP FOR THE GEN CYBER GRANT THAT ALLOWS OUR TEACHERS TO, AGAIN, LEARN CODING, WHICH TAKES MATH INTO APPLICATION.
AGAIN, AND I MAY HAVE SHARED THIS WITH YOU QUITE SOME TIME AGO, IS THAT IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO REALIZE THE PURPOSE OF ALGEBRA, BUT I REALIZE ALGEBRA IS A LANGUAGE AND THAT LANGUAGE HELPS ACTUALLY IN DESIGN AND TEXTILES AND APPLICATIONS.
SO THAT IS PART OF THIS GRANT AS WELL ON THE GENY IS THAT APPLICATION COMPONENT RIGHT.
SO WITH THAT, THIS CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION BOARD MEMBERS AND MADAM CHAIR.
UM, I WAS GOING TO START OUT BY SAYING I HAVE SEVERAL QUESTIONS, BUT YOU AND DR.
RODRIGUEZ ANTICIPATED MY FIRST QUESTION ABOUT ORTON GILLINGHAM AND THE APPLICATION OF IT IN, IN, UM, SECONDARY.
SO I UNDERSTOOD YOU TO SAY WE HAVE OVER 200 TEACHERS TRAINED IN OG RIGHT NOW.
AND IT IS BEING PUSHED INTO MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL.
THAT IS REALLY GOOD NEWS CUZ IF STUDENTS HAVEN'T LEARNED TO READ BY MIDDLE OR HIGH SCHOOL, THERE'S PROBABLY A REAL PHONEMIC DISSONANCE GOING ON THERE.
SO THAT TAKES CARE OF ONE QUESTION.
SO MY SECOND QUESTION IS, UM, MAY I YES.
CAUSE THAT WASN'T REALLY A QUESTION.
AND THIS IS A WORKSHOP SO WE HAVE MORE TIME A DINNER COMMENT.
UM, OKAY, SO I UNDERSTAND THE NEED FOR LOTS OF TOOLS IN THE TOOLBOX, OKAY.
DIFFERENT KIDS, DIFFERENT TEACHERS, ALL THAT, ALL DIFFERENT BUILDING NEEDS AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
BUT, UM, IF YOU COULD ELABORATE A LITTLE BIT ON IT, BECAUSE IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN, WHEN WE HAD OUR TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, I THINK ONE OF THE POINTS IN THAT ASSESSMENT WAS THAT PERHAPS WE HAD AN ABUNDANCE OF SOFTWARE PROGRAMS. OKAY, SO THAT'S ONE PART OF IT.
YESTERDAY I HAD THE PLEASURE OF ATTENDING THE TEACHER FORUM BREAKFAST AND THERE WAS, UM, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE PALMETTO STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.
AND A RECURRING CONCERN OF TEACHERS IS THE AMOUNT OF AS ASSESSMENTS, NOT JUST SUMMATIVE, BUT FORMATIVE.
AND OBVIOUSLY OTHER THAN MAYBE VOCABULARY, I'M NOT SURE, BUT EVERY ONE OF THESE SOFTWARE PROGRAMS WOULD COME WITH A LOT OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS IN ORDER TO, TO CHECK YOUR PROGRESS.
SO CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT GENERAL THOUGHT? IT'S NOT A CRITICISM, IT'S JUST WHEN YOU HEAR TOO MUCH TESTING, TOO MUCH TESTING AND ALL THESE PROGRAMS ARE ALIGNED WITH TESTING.
SO CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THAT DR.
ACTUALLY YOU'RE GETTING A LITTLE AHEAD OF WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE LANDING AS A TEAM.
SO ONE OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE A READING FLUENCY TEST, THAT'S A REQUIREMENT, RIGHT? RIGHT NOW WE'RE UTILIZING THE MAP READING FLUENCY AT THE LOWER GRADES.
ONE OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS IS UTILIZING IREADY.
IT IS A STATE REQUIRED, UM, APPROVED TOOL FOR READING FLUENCY AND, UM, IDENTIFYING DYSLEXIA.
SO WE AS A TEAM ARE LOOKING AT HOW TO NOT TO HAVE REDUNDANCY, HOW TO GIVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO REMOVE OFF YOUR PLATE AND START INFUSING THE FORMATIVE TESTING THAT WE HAVE AS A DISTRICT STARTING AT THE SECOND GRADE BECAUSE WE DO WANT OUR STUDENTS TO BE READY FOR THAT AS A THIRD GRADER.
AND REALLY HAVING THAT DEEP DISCUSSION IS, WHICH ONE OF OUR ASSESSMENTS PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY NOT ONLY FOR STATISTICAL PROJECTION, BUT ALSO PROVIDE INFORMATION BY WHICH THAT WE COULD UTILIZE FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING.
SO THAT IS A CONVERSATION THAT WE ARE HAVING AS A TEAM, INCLUDING OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS, INCLUDING OUR PRINCIPAL INPUT.
SO WE'RE PROBABLY AT LIKE THE FOURTH LAYER OF THAT DISCUSSION IN ORDER TO OPEN UP AND LAND SOMEPLACE THAT WE COULD SAY, LET'S TAKE THIS AWAY, LET'S PUT THIS IN.
BUT WE WANNA ASSURE THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO REPORT DATA POINTS.
WE'LL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE A DIRECTION OF WHERE WE ARE GOING SO WE CAN'T THROW EVERYTHING AWAY.
SO THAT'S ON THE LARGE COMPONENT CUZ YES, IREADY HAS TESTING READY, MATH HAS TESTING.
I THINK IF I, IF I WOULD ADD ALSO, UM, WHEN YOU LOOK AT, UM, WHAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU HERE, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS, UH, I PAY ATTENTION TO WHEN I LOOK AT IT IS WHAT'S THE TIER THAT IT'S ASSOCIATED WITH, RIGHT? SO I SEE,
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I'M GONNA PUT THIS BACK ON, I GOTTA GET USED TO IT ON, CAUSE WHEN I TAKE IT OFF, I CAN'T SEE A THING ON THIS PAPER.UM, WHEN I SEE TIER ONE AND HERE, HERE'S WHAT WE USE SPECIFIC TOWARDS TIER ONE.
ALL OF A SUDDEN TIER ONE INSTRUCTION ISN'T OFF TO MAKE SURE THAT A STUDENT MASTERS THIS PARTICULAR PIECE.
MAYBE THERE'S A, UH, SOMETHING ELSE THAT A CHILD NEEDS, RIGHT? SO YOU HAVE A TIER TWO AND A TIER THREE LEVEL INTERVENTION THAT, UH, YOU MIGHT UTILIZE.
SO IT, IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE SENSE TO DO MORE OF THE SAME TIER ONE INTERVENTION THAT HASN'T MOVED THAT CHILD NECESSARILY ALONG, RIGHT? SO THE, SO THE ADDITIONAL INTERVENTION, UH, UH, MAY BE PRESENT THERE.
I THINK IN ADDITION, WHEN I, BEYOND THE TIERS, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO DIFFERENT ASSESSMENT COMPONENTS, WHAT'S IMPORTANT IS TO HAVE A BALANCED ASSESSMENT SYSTEM, RIGHT? YOU HAVE SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS.
THOSE ARE YOUR SC READY, YOUR SC PATH SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT AT THE END.
UM, THAT DOESN'T AFFECT, AND, AND THAT WAS THE POINT THE LADY WAS MAKING YESTERDAY FROM, UH, FROM ETT TEACHERS THAT THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY AFFECT, UH, VERY MUCH, UH, THE INSTRUCTION, RIGHT? BECAUSE, BECAUSE BY THE TIME YOU GET THE RESULTS RIGHT, IT'S OVER AND DONE.
WELL, THERE'S NOT A LOT YOU CAN DO, BUT THAT'S WHERE YOU NEED YOUR, YOUR DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENTS THAT, THAT ARE PART OF, FOR EXAMPLE, IREY.
OKAY? AND THEN THAT'S WHERE YOU NEED, MORE IMPORTANTLY, STILL ARE YOUR FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS THAT MAY BE A LITTLE MORE FREQUENT SO THAT YOU CAN SAY, HEY, I JUST SPENT TWO WEEKS OR THREE WEEKS ON THIS INSTRUCTIONAL CYCLE.
YOU KNOW, IF IF WE MOVE ON, UH, IF WE, UH, UH, KEEP GOING, WE HIT ALL OF A SUDDEN JANUARY, RIGHT? AND THEN WE GET ONE OF THOSE DIAGNOSTICS INTERIM TYPE ASSESSMENTS AND WE SAY, WAIT A MINUTE, WAY BEHIND, RIGHT? SO TWO WEEKS OR THREE WEEKS, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN, YOU CAN ADJUST WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ORDER TO TRY AND MEET THE NEED.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT SIX MONTHS, UH, TO SORT OUT THAT, THAT WITH DATA THAT IT'S NOT, THAT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY WORKING.
AND I KNOW THERE'S OTHER TYPES OF DATA SUCH AS MY CLASS, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE MY KIDS.
I, I ANECDOTAL, I KNOW WHAT I KNOW AND WHAT I SEE, RIGHT? BUT, UH, SO THERE'S VALUE TO ALL OF IT.
THE POINT IS TO GET TO A BALANCED ASSESSMENT SYSTEM THAT ISN'T OVERWHELMING, THAT ALLOWS TEACHING, UH, INSTRUCTIONAL TIME, UH, IN THE PROCESS OF IT, BUT THAT THERE'S SOME DATA THAT'S AVAILABLE TO INFORM THAT INSTRUCTIONAL PROCESS.
AND MRS. FRI HAD, AND, AND I'M MELISSA WAS ATTENDED THE MEETING YESTERDAY FOR MYSELF, THAT WE'RE NOW ALSO LOOKING AT 23% OF THE ENGLISH TWO E O C BEING BASED ON WRITING.
SO THAT NO RED INK COMPONENT THAT SHARED THAT ACTUALLY GIVES IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK AND FORMATIVE INFORMATION BACK.
WE HAVE TO REALLY BUILD THAT CAPACITY UTILIZING ASSESSMENTS FOR LEARNING.
RODRIGUEZ SHARED, IT'S SE READY, IT'S ALREADY DEAD DATA, RIGHT? SO IT'S A MIND SHIFT.
COLONEL GEER, THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR OF, WE CAN'T HEAR OBVIOUSLY, OBVIOUSLY A TEACHER'S GOING TO LOOK AT EACH TOOL AND, AND FOR EACH STUDENT, SOME, SOME TOOLS WILL WORK FOR SOME STUDENTS AND ANOTHER TOOL WILL WORK FOR ANOTHER.
UM, SO THAT TEACHER HAS TO BE TRAINED AN EVALUATION OF WHICH TOOL IS BEST FOR WHICH STUDENT.
MIKE, QUESTION IS ALL THESE TOOLS, DO ALL OUR TEACHERS KNOW WHICH TOOL IS BEST TO USE? OR IS IT A TRIAL BY ERROR? YOU TRY ONE.
IF IF YOU DON'T GET THE RESULTS, YOU TRY ANOTHER.
AND THEN DO WE HAVE A OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS CRITERIA
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TO SEE, AS TRICIA MENTIONED, ARE WE USING THESE TOOLS TO THE BEST ADVANTAGE? DO WE HAVE TOO MANY? DO WE HAVE SOME THAT WE START AND WE SAY, WELL, THAT DOESN'T QUITE WORK.SO, YOU KNOW, I I I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T HAVE A TOOLBOX SO FULL OF TOOLS THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S ONE TO USE AND WE'RE NOT REALLY TRAINED ON ANY ONE OF THEM AND WE JUST THROW 'EM OUT THERE AND WE KEEP PURCHASING.
THESE ARE EXPENSIVE, UH, SOFTWARE SYSTEMS. SO THAT'S KIND OF A LONG INVOLVED INVOLVED QUESTION.
BUT, BUT HELP ME UNDERSTAND THE TRAINING PROCESS AND THE EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION PROCESS FOR THESE TOOLS.
SO BEFORE I HAVE MRS. MARY JOIN COLONEL GEIER, I DO WANNA ADD THAT WE WENT INTO ONBOARDING MATERIALS TWO YEARS AGO.
WE RECOGNIZED AS THIS DISTRICT THAT THE STATE HAS NOT UPDATED THE ELA, AND I'M SPEAKING SPECIFICALLY RIGHT, THE ELA THAT ELA STANDARDS HAD NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE 2011.
THEY HAVE NOW GONE THROUGH THE PROCESSES OF COMPLETING A READING OF AGREEMENT.
SO WE WILL BE SEEING AN UPCOMING NEW ELA STANDARDS COMING OUT, PROBABLY MAYBE THIS YEAR OR THE FOURTH COMING YEAR, RECOGNIZE THAT WE WERE BEHIND AND LOOKING AT OUR DATA POINTS WHERE WE WERE THREE YEARS AGO, IF NOT FOUR YEARS AGO.
UM, WE REALIZED THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO BRING SOME TOOLS ON BOARD.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE CHART FROM THE ELEMENTARY, IF WE LOOKED DOWN, THE FIRST SIX ARE IDENTIFIED FOR ELEMENTARY, PREDOMINANTLY AT TIER ONE INSTRUCTION.
THE ADAGE OF OPEN COURT WAS FROM THE STATE THIS YEAR, AND THAT IS FOR OUR PALM LITERACY SCHOOLS.
WE HAVE WORKED HARD AT PUTTING COACHES IN PLACE TO CONTINUE AT BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF EDUCATORS FOR EFFICACY AND MOST OF A FIDELITY OF PRACTICE.
THOSE COACHES ARE IN THE CLASSROOM.
THEY'RE PREDOMINANTLY IN SCHOOLS, I HAVE TO SAY ALMOST FIVE DAYS A WEEK.
I GET TO SEE THEM MAYBE FOR HALF A MINUTE, ONCE A WEEK TO SAY HELLO BECAUSE THEY'RE IN THEIR BOOTS ON THE GROUND WORKING WITH, WE HAVE TWO CONSULTANTS WHO WORK AS WELL, ESPECIALLY IN OUR HIGHER NEEDS SCHOOLS, TIERED SCHOOLS THAT THEY'RE IN THEIR BUILDING, BUILDING CAPACITY, NOT ONLY FOR LITERACY, BUT ALSO FOR NUMERACY.
BUT WITH THAT, I BRING MRS. MURRAY FORWARD.
IF IT HELPS, I'LL TAKE YOU KIND OF THROUGH WHERE WE ARE WITH SOME OF THESE AND THEN MAYBE YOU'LL SEE HOW THEY FIT TOGETHER.
AND OUR SCHOOLS DO HAVE A ONE SHEET FROM THE ELA DEPARTMENT THAT SHOWS HOW MANY MINUTES WHERE THEY ALL FIT IN.
UM, AND NOT EVERYTHING, UM, IS NEW.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY I CAN HELP LAYER THAT.
LITERACY BY DESIGN HAS BEEN IN OUR SCHOOL SINCE 2 20 12.
SO, UM, THAT IS FROM, YOU KNOW, THE FIRST ROUND OF STANDARDS, UM, EVEN BEFORE THEY DID THE REFRESH.
SO THAT IS ONE WHERE, UM, SOME OF OUR SCHOOLS STILL UTILIZE, UM, BUT THEY HAVE THE EXPERIENCE AND THE BACKGROUND AROUND THAT.
UM, SCHOLASTIC LITERACY, AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE IN YEAR TWO.
UM, THIS YEAR THOUGH, EVERY SINGLE SCHOOL THAT UTILIZES SCHOLASTIC LITERACY HAS FOUR DAYS.
UM, WITH A CONSULTANT THAT IS AT THEIR SCHOOL BASED ON WHERE THEY ARE, WE DO A BEGINNING OF THE YEAR AND A END OF THE YEAR WALKTHROUGH, UM, ABOUT WHERE THEY ARE WITHIN IMPLEMENTATION.
UM, AND THEN OUR DISTRICT LITERACY COACH OR MYSELF ATTEND ALL THOSE MEETINGS.
UM, AND SO THEN WE CAN DO THE WORK IN BETWEEN WHEN A SCHOLASTIC LITERACY CONSULTANT COMES TO SUPPORT.
UM, AND THAT'S IN SERVICE OF SCHOOLS ARE IN DIFFERENT PLACES.
AND WE WANNA HONOR THAT AND HONOR THE COMPLEXITY OF THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING WHILE STILL MAINTAINING THIS POSITIVE PUSH TO GET THIS BEST PRACTICE.
UM, THE OTHER, THE OTHER PART TO THAT IS IT TIES VERY NICELY INTO A GOAL AND WHAT WE KNOW FROM SC READY, THAT THAT ASSESSMENT IS GOING TO, THE QUESTIONS UTILIZED IN THAT ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT ARE GONNA DIRECTLY CORRELATE AND USE THE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE FROM OUR STANDARDS.
SO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS KIND OF A WIN-WIN IN THAT SENSE BECAUSE THIS CURRICULUM USES THAT ACADEMIC LANGUAGE.
SO THERE'S THIS GOAL THAT WE HAVE HAD AND NOW WE HAVE THE TOOL THAT REALLY KIND OF HELPS US GET TO THAT POINT.
STRATOS MENTIONED, OPEN COURT IS REALLY IN SERVICE OF THE LETTERS TRAINING.
UM, THAT IS A REQUIREMENT OF MANY OF OUR, UM, EDUCATORS.
I THINK THE, THE LAST TIME I PRESENTED, WE WERE AT 269 PEOPLE PARTICIPATING IN THE LETTERS TRAINING ACROSS OUR DISTRICT.
THEY'RE DOING THE TEACHER VERSION.
UM, MYSELF, ADRIAN IS DOING THE TEACHER VERSION ALSO.
UM, AND WITH THAT COMES OB COURT PHONICS.
UM, THAT IS A VERY INTENSIVE TRAINING.
UM, MANY EQUATE IT TO MASTER'S LEVEL COURSEWORK.
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LEARNING THE STRATEGIES, THEN NOW OPEN COURT PROVIDES THEM THE TOOLS TO UTILIZE IT.SO THERE IS TRAINING EMBEDDED IN THAT.
AND ONLY THE SCHOOLS THAT ARE PALMETTO LITERACY PROJECT THAT THE STATE IS PAYING FOR THIS, THEY ARE UTILIZING THAT.
SOME, SOME SCHOOLS BASED ON NEED ASKED FOR, UM, LETTERS TO GO.
SO THE STATE'S PAYING K THREE AND SOME SCHOOLS ASKED FOR THEIR FOURTH, FIFTH GRADE TEACHERS TO ALSO BE TRAINED.
UM, SO WE DO HAVE THAT IN PLACE ALSO.
AND SO WHEN THAT CAME TO BE, WE ALL MET.
SO THE TEAMS, THE, THE ADMINISTRATORS, UH, THEIR COACHES, WE DID THAT MARCH, APRIL BEFORE THE NEXT YEAR THAT WAS GONNA BE IMPLEMENTING TO GIVE THEM PLENTY OF TIME BEFORE THEIR MASTER SCHEDULES BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT WITH LETTERS TRAINING IN OPEN COURT, THAT WAS 30 TO 45 MINUTE BLOCK OF TIME FOR PHONICS INSTRUCTION WHERE THEIR CURRENT PROGRAM ASKED FOR 15 MINUTES.
SO WE NEEDED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD THOSE ADJUSTMENTS.
SO WE ACTUALLY HAD A HALF DAY WORKSHOP.
WE BROUGHT THE LETTERS PEOPLE IN EARLY TO GIVE US ALL OF THAT.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE STARTED TO FORM KIND OF THIS, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S FAIRLY SIMPLE, BUT IT'S, THIS IS HOW MANY IT'S MINUTES OF READING INSTRUCTION PER SPASTIC.
THIS IS HOW MANY MINUTES OF THIS.
UM, AND THEN WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN IF THEN CHART FOR MANY OF THESE OTHER INTERVENTIONS.
AND WE ALREADY KIND OF GUIDE PEOPLE IN THIS BIG, UM, BIG IDEA OF IF THE STUDENT'S STRUGGLING HERE FIRST, THIS IS THE PROPER INTERVENTION TOOL FOR IT.
UM, BUT WE ALSO HAVE EMBEDDED PLCS WITH COACHES AND COLLABORATIVE PLANNING.
SO US AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL, WE PULL OUR COACHES TOGETHER AND WE WORK THROUGH ALL OF THESE THINGS AND THE COACHES GET A LITTLE BIT EXTRA TRAINING.
AND SO THEN WHEN THEY MEET WITH TEACHERS AND THEY'RE LOOKING AT STUDENT WORK, WE CAN REALLY HONE IN ON THE TOOLS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO USE.
UM, AND SO UP THERE, LIKE VOCABULARY MORE ADVANCES IS A GOOD EXAMPLE.
THAT'S NOT GONNA BE EVERY DAY.
THAT'S WHEN IT, IT'S NEEDED WHEN IT MAKES SENSE WHEN WE'RE NOTICING, HEY, THESE KIDDOS NEED A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA PRACTICE WITH CERTAIN WORDS, VOCABULARY MIGHT BE A GOOD OPTION CUZ THEY'RE JUST NOT GRASPING IT AND THEY DO IT THROUGH LIKE SONGS AND, UM, IT'S VERY FUN.
UM, WORD MASTERS, SAME, YOU KNOW, IT, IT GIVES YOU A SET LIST, BUT SCHOOLS GET TO SELECT AND CHOOSE, UM, WHO PARTICIPATES IN THAT.
UM, AND YOU KNOW, HOW OFTEN, SO SOME OF THIS IS VERY MUCH SCHOOL-BASED, BUT IT IS AVAILABLE TO ALL.
UM, SO I HOPE THAT THAT HELPS A BIT.
UM, MY QUESTION IS, HAS SOMEONE MENTIONED A DROPOUT RATE? DO THIS DISTRICT OR ANY OTHER DISTRICT, WHEN THEY TALK TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, HOW THEY RATE DROPOUT RATE? CAUSE MANY TIMES THEY HAVE SOME STUDENTS THAT LEAVE HERE AND THEY GO TO JOB CORE OR THEY GO TO SOME OTHER, UH, DISTRICT.
SO HAVE QUESTIONS EVER BEEN BROUGHT UP? SAY WITH DROPOUT RATE? A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE WILL THINK THAT WOULD BE, OH, SORRY,
BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THAT GO THROUGH THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT ACTUALLY IDENTIFY DROPOUT.
AND I KNOW THAT, UM, I BELIEVE DR.
WHITE'S DEPARTMENT HANDLES IT, DR.
THEY, THEY GOVERN THROUGH AND LOOK AT ALL THAT INFORMATION.
UM, YEAH, IT'S, IT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN THE GRAD RATE THAT WE TALK ABOUT.
UM, THAT 1.1% ARE WHERE THEY CAN DOCUMENT THAT THEY DID DROP OUT.
THERE'S A LOT OF KIDS IN THE GRAD RATE FILE THAT YOU JUST SIMPLY CAN'T FIND WHERE THEY WENT.
SO YEAH, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT LOOKING AT AND COMPARED TO THE, A LOT OF THE OTHER DISTRICTS IN THE STATE, WE DO QUITE WELL WITH THAT.
SOMETIMES WHEN, UH, MR. CAMPBELL, SOMETIMES WHEN, UH, AS AN EXAMPLE OF FAMILY MOVES, THEY JUST PICK UP AND MOVE.
UH, SOMETIMES THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T TELL YOU WHERE THEY'RE GOING.
AND, AND SO, UH, TRYING TO TRACK THEM DOWN, UH, WE EVEN TRY TO FIND THEM ON FACEBOOK AND DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT JUST TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEM.
BECAUSE WHEN YOU COMMUNICATE WITH THEM, THEN YOU CAN DOCUMENT WHAT THE SITUATION IS AND PROVIDE THAT TO THE STATE.
BUT SOMETIMES YOU, YOU CAN'T, YOU CAN'T FIND THEM.
AND MR. CAMPBELL, WHO, WHAT DR.
RODRIGUEZ SHARED, THERE WERE 73 STUDENTS HAD, MAY HAVE JUST MOVED OUT BUT WOULD NOT BEEN ABLE TO TRACK HIM DOWN ON SOCIAL MEDIA, NO THREAD FROM AN, UM, AN EXIT INTERVIEW AT THE SCHOOL SITE.
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HAVE COMPLETED THEIR POST-SECONDARY SURVEY IN ORDER TO PULL THAT INFORMATION IN IT AS WELL.I BROUGHT FORWARD THAT NUMBER BECAUSE WE WERE QUESTIONED AS A SYSTEM THE OTHER NIGHT AS WELL.
AND I WANTED TO GO ON THE RECORD.
THAT IS A SYSTEM I FEEL OUR HIGH SCHOOLS ARE DOING WAY BEYOND THE DILIGENCE TO, TO REALLY HELP GET OUR STUDENTS ACROSS THE STAGE.
I KNOW 73 MAY BE A LOT, RIGHT? IT SHOULD BE NO STUDENT THAT WE CAN'T LOCATE.
I THINK, YEAH, MEL WAS NEXT, BUT YOUR HAND WENT DOWN.
SORRY, MY, I CAN'T GET ON MY ZOOM AT THE MOMENT.
SO MR. KIM, CAN YOU PUT ON YOUR MIC AND GET YOUR MOUTH CLOSE TO THE MICROPHONE? THANK YOU.
FIRST OF ALL, WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL US? I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU IN TWO PARTS.
ONE PROVIDE YOU BACK A SUMMARY OF INFORMATION THAT WAS REQUESTED BY BOARD MEMBER REGARDING OUR REPORT CARD.
SECOND WAS TO SHOW THAT WE DO HAVE ITEMS IN PLACE TO CONTINUE WITH PROVIDING OUR STUDENTS OPPORTUNITY FOR EDUCATION.
SIR, FIRST QUESTION, SHOWING US THE SUMMARY OF THIS REPORT CARD, WHAT HAS THE MOST IMPORTANT ITEMS IN? SO NOW THAT I'VE WALKED INTO AN OPEN ENDED, I WILL SHARE WHAT I'VE SEEN.
AND I MEAN THAT WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT.
RODRIGUEZ TO BUILD ON THAT QUESTION AS WELL.
I SEE THAT WE HAVE AN ACHIEVEMENT GAP THAT IS CLOSING, MAY NOT BE CLOSING FAST ENOUGH AS COMPARED TO OTHER GROUPS.
I SEE THAT AS A SYSTEM WE NEED TO GROW BETTER WITH REGARD TO MEETING THE NEEDS OF OUR MULTI-LANGUAGE STUDENTS.
THE NUMBERS ARE IN FRONT OF US.
I ALSO RECOGNIZE IT WITHIN OUR MULTI-LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT.
THESE NUMBERS WERE ACTUALLY PRIOR TO PUTTING IN PLACE TWO COACHES WHO ARE ALSO NOW IN THE SCHOOLS WORKING DILIGENTLY AT BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF OUR EDUCATORS.
I ALSO SEE OR RECOGNIZE THAT IT IS A CULTURAL MIND SHIFT THAT TEACHING AT A TIER ONE IS TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ALL STUDENTS, PERIOD.
AND I, AND I MEAN THAT FOR MULTILINGUAL, I MEAN THAT FOR A STUDENT WHO'S BLACK, BROWN, I MEAN THAT FOR A STUDENT WHO HAS AN IEP, I MEAN THAT FOR A STUDENT WHO IS, WHO IS LOOKS LIKE MYSELF, MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS AT THE TIER ONE INSTRUCTION, LET'S BUILD THE CAPACITY OF OUR EDUCATORS.
I UNDERSTOOD QUESTION FOR YOU NOW, AND YOU'VE POINTED OUT BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF STAFF MEMBERS HAVE BEEN YOUR GENERAL THEME FOR THE LAST TWO, THREE YEARS.
CAUSE AS THEY KNOW HOW TO TEACH, THEY CAN'T TEACH BASICALLY.
NOW NEXT QUESTION IS, SINCE THOSE THINGS ARE YOUR CONCERNS, PARTICULARLY THE MULTILINGUAL STUDENTS, ARE WE ADDRESSING IN ANY WAY DIFFERENCES AT THIS DISTRICT HAS AS A STARTING POINT THAN OTHER DISTRICTS? THE MULTILINGUAL, I AM PARTICULARLY EMPHASIZING THE STUDENTS WHO DON'T SPEAK THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AT THE LEVEL WHERE THESE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF PRODUCING TIER ONE STUDENTS ARE ACCEPTABLE NATIONALLY, BUT MAY NOT BE THAT EASILY THREADED HERE.
THEY HAVE A LARGE POPULATION OF, OF LATINO CHILDREN, COLOR POPULATION AND OTHER CHILDREN MAY NOT, YOU KNOW, READILY FIT INTO SYSTEM.
LIKE COLONEL SAYS, WE GOT A LOT OF TOOLS BY THEIR, ARE THEY APPROPRIATE TO DEAL WITH WHERE WE ARE HERE LOCALLY? AND IS ANYBODY ADDRESSING THAT? I DO RECALL WHEN WE HIRED DR.
RODRIGUEZ, ONE OF HIS COMMENTS, AND I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT COMMENT, THAT IF WE, YOU KNOW, RAISED THE TIDE, THE BOAT WILL OF
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COURSE ALSO RISE IN SOME RESPECT OR NOT.RISING TIDE WILL FLOAT ALL BOATS.
OF COURSE WE KNOW THAT'S NOT TRUE.
I WAS A GOOD, SOME BOATS ARE ANCHORED TOO HEAVILY FOR THE RISING TIDE TO FLOAT.
SO MY QUESTION IS, ARE WE LOOKING AT THAT BOAT WITH ANY INTENT OF HOW DO WE GET IT TO RISE OVERALL? AND I'M LOOKING AT THAT WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH DUE RESPECT OF THE DROPOUT RATES HERE, BUT PARTICULARLY, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE OTHER ITEMS THAT WE'VE FELT EVEN WITH THE STATE.
AND I DON'T ACCEPT EVEN AS OUR GOAL WITH THE STATE STANDARDS.
SO YOU FIRST LET ME SPEAK ON THE BUILDING CAPACITY OF EDUCATORS.
WE HAVE TO HAVE THAT AS A CONTINUAL PROCESS CAUSE WE'RE ALWAYS ONBOARDING AND AS YOU HAVE A LEVEL OF CAPACITY ALREADY BEING MET, WE HAVE TO BUILD, CONTINUE AS MRS. MARY BROUGHT FORWARD, TAKING YOU TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
SO THAT CAPACITY BUILDING COMPONENT WILL ALWAYS BE AT THE CORE OF OUR WORK HAS TO BE MR. EARL CAMPBELL SPOKE A FEW BOARD MEN, UM, MEETINGS AGO AND ACT I ACTUALLY ASKED ME DIRECTLY AND I WANNA SEE IF IT WAS EITHER ACADEMIC OR A BOARD MEETING, UM, THE NEED OF OUR ML OR LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY, LET'S SAY LANGUAGE ACQUISITION.
IS IT SOMETHING LOCALIZED OR IS IT SOMETHING FROM THE STATE OF FUNDING? I FEEL THAT THOSE ARE AREAS THAT WE MAY HAVE TO LOOK AT AS A BOARD TO KNOCK ON THAT DOOR TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION OUTSIDE OF OUR BOUNDARIES TO A LARGER BOUNDARY.
AND THAT IS JUST ANOTHER CONVERSATION.
I BELIEVE WE, MAYBE WE SHOULD RESEARCH AND HAVE CONVERSATION.
IT'S NOT HERE AT THE TABLE, BUT I, I DO BELIEVE THAT IS ONE OF THE COMPONENTS, SIR.
AND THEN I ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT WE HAVE BEEN IN A PANDEMIC SINCE MARCH OF, I DON'T WANNA GO THERE, 2020.
SO WE RECOGNIZE WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR OUTCOMES OR OUR MARKERS OR OUR DATA RIGHT NOW WHERE WE'RE WHERE WE ARE, NO, WE DON'T WANNA JUST BE COMPARATIVE TO THE STATE.
YOU'RE A HUNDRED PERCENT RIGHT.
I'VE STOOD THIS AND YOU'VE EVEN SAID TO ME DIRECTLY, MR. CAMPBELL, THAT YOU WANT US TO BE COMPARATIVE TO THE NATION.
AND I RECOGNIZE AND I RECOGNIZE THAT FOR THE WORK FOR OUR STUDENTS, THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR STUDENTS AS WELL AS OUR EDUCATORS.
SO I KEEP THAT VERY CLOSE TO THE WORK AND THE CONVERSATIONS WE HAVE WITHIN THE DIVISION.
SIR, JUST FOR A RELATIVE QUESTION, ARE WE LOOKING AT THE STATE REPORT IN TERMS OF, UH, LIKE, LIKE DISTRICT CLOSEST WE CAN TO LIKE DISTRICTS? CAUSE YOU MENTIONED THIS EARLIER IN ACADEMIC, YOU KNOW, THIS, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE COMPARING WITH SOME VERY POOR, VERY NEEDY DISTRICTS HERE OVERALL.
AND OUR DISTRICT IS WE'RE NOT POOR AND WE ARE NOT AS NEEDY AS SOME OF THE DISTRICTS.
AND WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, DONE SOME THINGS TO HELP INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF OUR EDUCATORS.
SO ARE WE COMPARING APPLES WITH APPLE AND LOOKING AT IT WITH FIDELITY? THAT'S A QUESTION THAT I KNOW YOU DON'T HAVE THE ANSWER DON'T ENTIRELY TODAY.
BUT THAT'S A QUESTION THAT I WANT AN ONGOING RESPONSE TO.
AND, AND, UH, I I THINK I'LL JUST ALSO SAY THIS, MR. CAMPBELL, I FIRST OF ALL, UM, EVEN WITH THE STATE WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTABLE TO ME, WILL NEVER BE ACCEPTABLE TO ME, RIGHT? UM, UH, GOOD OR BAD.
UH, I HAVE A, UH, A COMPETITIVE, UH, STREET THING IN ME, RIGHT? AND UH, I HAVE TO STRIVE, UH, WHATEVER IT IS THAT I'M DOING OR WHATEVER IT IS IN MY ORGANIZATION IS DOING THAT I'M A PART OF, UH, TO GET TO THE TOP.
AND ONCE I'M AT THE TOP, I HAVE TO THEN FIGURE OUT HOW TO KEEP GETTING BETTER, RIGHT? I MEAN, THEN IT'S, THEN IT'S SELF, SELF, UH, COMPARISON IF YOU'RE AT THE TOP RIGHT? SO, SO, UH, IT'LL NEVER BE ACCEPTABLE TO ME.
I THINK WE NEED TO DO A VERY STRONG JOB AT THAT FOR MARKETING OUR OURSELVES AS A SYSTEM TO SAY, LOOK WHERE OUR STUDENTS HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO AFTER BEING WITH US, WHAT DOORS HAVE OPENED AS COMPARED TO OTHERS.
I REALLY THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO SHARE.
MARY, I WANNA THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP BECAUSE, UH, WE HAD QUITE A NUMBER OF,
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UH, GRADUATES LAST YEAR GOING TO IVY LEAGUE SCHOOLS, FOR EXAMPLE, RIGHT? UM, SO, SO IT REALLY IS ABOUT MOVING EVERY ASPECT OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM AND OUR STUDENTS, YOU KNOW? MM-HMM.HOW DO WE GET THE STUDENTS, UH, THE FOR EXAMPLE THAT MIGHT BE STRUGGLING TO THE NEXT LEVEL? HOW DO WE GET THE STUDENTS IN THE MIDDLE TO THE NEXT LEVEL? HOW DO WE GET THE STUDENTS IN THE TOP FURTHER FORWARD? RIGHT? AND SO, SO THERE'S A, THERE'S A, A TESTAMENT TO THAT, MARY.
AND I THINK, UH, WE PUBLISH AN OPPORTUNITY THERE FOR US, UH, TO SHOUT OUT A LOT, A LOT MORE OF THOSE TYPES OF THINGS THAT, UH, THAT WE DO HAVE, UH, TAKING PLACE WITHIN, WITHIN THE SYSTEM.
SO, UH, I THINK, YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THAT UP CAUSE THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT POINT.
UM, JUST TO SPEAK TO THAT POINT, THAT ACTUALLY THAT Y'ALL WERE JUST SPEAKING TO, YOU KNOW, UM, WITHIN THE COMMUNITY THAT I SERVE, YOU KNOW, THAT IS, THAT HAS NOT BEEN, HAS BEEN OUR SITUATION.
I MEAN IN TERMS OF LOOKING AT WHERE THE SCHOOLS ARE IN TERMS OF, OF SOME OF MY DISTRICT, BUT, BUT IN TERMS OF THE, TO THESE TEST SCORES, YOU KNOW, UM, IT'S GOOD TO HAVE TO HAVE THOSE KIDS GO TO I LEAGUE SCHOOLS, BUT WE, WE HAVE TOO MANY STUDENTS WHO ARE NOT THE CRITERIA TO EVEN PASS THESE TESTS.
AND YOU KNOW, UH, MY MAMA USED TO ALWAYS TELL ME, MY GRANDMA, I SAYS IRON SHARP AND IRON.
SO IF WE START AT THE BOTTOM WHERE THE REAL ACTUAL ISSUE IS AT, THEN EVENTUALLY THEN WE WILL HAVE MORE, MORE STUDENTS.
SO WE WON'T HAVE TO TELL NO ONE BECAUSE THEY WOULD BE A NATIONALLY KNOWN THAT WE HAVE STUDENTS WHO ARE GOING TO THESE, I BELIEVE SCHOOLS.
AND SO WITH, WITH THAT BEING SAID, UH, TODAY I'M, I'M THE PERSON WHO REQUESTS, I'M LOOKING MORE TOWARDS THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF HOW DO WE STOP TALKING ABOUT THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP, THE WEALTH GAP, THE WHERE WE ARE GAP TO NOW WE ARE MOVE WHEN WE'RE MOVING, WE'RE WE'RE GOING SOMEWHERE.
AND SOME PLACES HAVE MOVED, BUT COLLECTIVELY, IF EVERYONE HADN'T TAKEN A SHIFT AS A DISTRICT, THEN THE DISTRICT TOTALLY HASN'T HAVE NOT HAVE NOT MOVED.
I MEAN, AND, AND THAT'S THE REALITY.
AND IT SOUNDS, IT SOUNDS KIND OF ROUGH, BUT THAT'S THE, IN ACTUALITY IT IS.
AND I MEAN, AND YOU KNOW, I HAVE MY COMMUNITY'S CONCERNS THAT MR. SMITH, WE'VE HAD SCHOOLS IN, WE, WE GOT SCHOOLS IN AUDITION WHERE, WHERE PEOPLE ARE PULLING THEM OUT OF ONE SCHOOL, PUTTING 'EM IN ANOTHER SCHOOL.
BECAUSE NOT ONLY THESE TEST SCORES, THE TEST SCORES ARE, ARE SHOWING WHAT THE COMMUNITY'S CONCERNS ARE.
BUT MY QUESTION IS HOW ARE WE ADDRESSING IT? BECAUSE WE HAVE A LARGER MENU AS ONE OF THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS THAT SAY WE HAVE A LARGER MENU, BUT HOW ARE WE WORKING WITH THAT MENU? HOW ARE WE WORKING WITH THESE SCHOOLS BESIDES PUTTING THE MASTER TEACHERS IN THERE? YOU KNOW, HOW ARE, HOW ARE WE PUTTING THE DOLLARS? I'M, I'M LOOKING FOR A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ON WHAT WE ARE DOING AND HOW WE ARE MOVING IT.
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, GIVING US THIS LARGE MENU THAT WE HAVE, TELLING US WHAT THE STATE REQUIRES, ALL THAT SOUNDS GOOD TO MY COMMUNITY.
AND THAT'S REALLY JUST, THAT'S, THOSE ARE STANDARDS I NEED TO KNOW.
AND THE COMMUNITY WANTS TO KNOW WHAT ARE THE DISTRICT STANDARDS IN TERMS OF US, IN, IN TERMS OF MAKING THIS REALLY HAPPEN.
BECAUSE THIS IS A CONVERSATION THAT'S BEEN TAKING PLACE FOR A VERY LONG TIME AND WE'RE NOT SEEING RESULTS.
AND WE COULD SAY, WELL, YEAH, CERTAIN SCHOOLS HAVE IT, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE CORONAVIRUS WAS IN THE UNITED STATES.
IT WASN'T JUST IN BEFORD COUNTY.
AND WE HAVE SCHOOLS IN BEAVER COUNTY WHO SHOWED THROUGH THE VIRUS THAT THINGS COULD BE DONE.
AND SO THERE WASN'T MEASURES THAT THEY TOOK.
AND, AND, AND WE, AND WE CAN'T IGNORE THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE TO HAVE THAT NATURAL MEASURE ACROSS THE DISTRICT IN EVERY, IN EVERY SCHOOL, AND EVERY AND EVERY ADMINISTRATOR.
AND, AND ON MY SIDE WE NOT SEEING THAT.
AND PEOPLE ARE, THEY'RE UPSET, THEY'RE FRUSTRATED.
IT'S ALMOST LIKE, MR, ARE WE TRYING TO FAIL OUR STUDENTS OVER HERE? AND I HEAR THEM VOLUNT CLEAR BECAUSE THE SCORES SHOW.
RODRIGUEZ LIKE TO ADDRESS THAT? WELL, SIR, MAY I, SO MR. SMITH, I REC I RECOGNIZE THE OUTCOME FOR OUR STUDENTS VERY MUCH SO.
I ALSO RECOGNIZE THE HARD WORK OF OUR EDUCATORS.
I ALSO RECOGNIZE THE ATTENDANCE RATE OF STUDENTS DURING COVID AND WE NEED THEM INTO PREDOMINANT AMOUNT OF OUR STUDENTS IN SCHOOL.
AND I KNOW YOU'RE AWARE OF THAT CUZ WE'VE HAD THAT CONVERSATION.
SO THESE NUMBERS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ARE A RESULT OF THAT.
I ALSO KNOW THAT WE HAVE AN INSTRUCTIONAL PLAN IN PLACE THAT IS NOT US ONLY FOR ONE CHILD, BUT IT'S FOR ALL CHILDREN.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE TRYING TO DESIGN IT TO BE DIFFERENTIATED, TO MEET THE NEEDS, NOT ONLY OF THE SCHOOL, BUT UNIQUENESS INTO
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OUR CLASSROOMS. AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT BECAUSE YES, WE HAVE SCHOOLS THAT PERFORMED AND YES, WE HAVE SPACE FOR MORE IMPROVEMENT, BUT I HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THE HARD WORK.WE ARE 16 POINTS HIGHER ON ELA THAN WE WERE IN 2016 THROUGH TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF DIFFICULTY.
AND I SAY THAT MY, MY, MY MY MY INSIGHTS TINGLE BECAUSE THAT IS THE WORK OF OUR EDUCATORS.
SO WE FACE A LOT OF CHALLENGES.
IT'S NOT JUST THE WORK OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.
IT IS A COLLECTIVE MODEL WHERE WE HAVE TO BE INVOLVED AND AS WELL AS OUR COMMUNITY, AS WELL AS OUR PARENTS.
IT'S A THREE TIERED APPROACH TO TURNING COMMUNITY AROUND.
IT'S NOT JUST ONE WHO COULD LIFT THE WEIGHT ALONE.
SO IT IS, AND THAT'S WHY I ALWAYS LISTEN TO WHAT YOU SHARE BECAUSE YOU BRING FORWARD THE VOICE OF COMMUNITY.
IT'S IMPORTANT AND WE TAKE IT TO HEART VERY STRONG BECAUSE OUR GOAL IS TO PROVIDE ALL CHILDREN.
AND I SAID IT TO WHEN I FIRST MET YOU ALL CHILDREN OPPORTUNITIES.
SO YEAH, I THINK THE ONLY THING I WOULD IS WELL SAID.
AND I THINK THE ONLY OTHER THING I WOULD ADD IS, YOU KNOW, UM, TWO POINTS, I GUESS THE, AND YOU MENTIONED THE SCORES IN ELA HIGHER THAN, UH, 2016.
2016 WAS THE INCEPTION OF THE ASSESSMENT, THE FIRST TIME THE ASSESSMENT WAS GIVEN.
SO IN ESSENCE, WHAT YOU HAVE IN ELA IS THE HIGHEST SCORES IN DISTRICT HISTORY ON THAT ASSESSMENT, ON THAT ELA ASSESSMENT FOR, FOR, FOR THE DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, UM, SO THERE, THERE, THERE IS PROGRESS MADE, THERE'S MORE PROGRESS TO BE MADE, YOU KNOW, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
UH, AND, AND THERE ARE STRATEGIC THINGS THAT WE DIDN'T EVEN TALK ABOUT YET TODAY, BUT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT 'EM IN THE PAST THAT THE DISTRICT IS DOING AND HAS IN PLACE.
FOR EXAMPLE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE BULK OF THOSE EXTENDED LEARNING SITES SIT IN NORTH NORTHERN BEAUFORT COUNTY SPECIFICALLY IN, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, LADIES ISLAND, ST.
HELENA, UH, NOW WHALE BRANCH AS WELL, RIGHT? SO THE BULK OF OF THAT STRATEGY IS REALLY SITTING, UH, IN, IN NORTHERN BEAUFORT COUNTY AS WELL.
UH, AND IT ENGAGES AND IT INVOLVES COMMUNITY AND PARTNERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
THAT'S THE ONLY THING I WOULD ADD CUZ I THINK YOU'RE ANSWER, REALLY AGREE WITH YOU CAPTURED IT WELL.
ALL RIGHT, NEXT UP IS, UM, INGRID ABOUT RIGHT.
UM, SO I, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THIS DATA, UM, OBVIOUSLY THE FIRST THING THAT WAS THE RED JUMPED OUT, RIGHT? AND, AND DEMOGRAPHICALLY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE, UH, HISPANIC DEMOGRAPHIC AND THE TWO AREAS WERE THE, UM, BIOLOGY, I CAN PUT MY GLASSES BACK ON AND SOCIAL STUDIES, BUT YOU KNOW, OVERALL, I MEAN CLEARLY WE'RE DOING ALL RIGHT IN SOME OF THE, THE READING AND THE MATH, YOU GO DOWN TO THE DEMOGRAPHICS, WHICH YOU SEE IS THE MULTILINGUAL IS AGAIN THE ONLY RED AREA.
BUT EVEN OUTSIDE OF THE RED AREA, IF YOU LOOK AT, UH, THE, FOR EXAMPLE, WE DID, WE DID MUCH BETTER THAN THE STATE AND THE PERCENT OF STUDENTS IN THE GRADUATE COHORT WHO ARE COLLEGE OR CAREER READY.
AND SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, FANTASTIC CUZ THAT'S A VERY KEY METRIC.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE MULTILINGUAL, IT'S 12.9.
IF YOU LOOK AT STUDENTS PUPILS IN POVERTY, IT'S 15.
BUT EVERYWHERE ON THAT MULTILINGUAL VERSUS PUPIL IN POVERTY, THE MULTILINGUAL IS UNDERPERFORMING THE PUPIL IN POVERTY.
THIS IS AN ISSUE I HAVE FROM MY CONSTITUENT DISTRICT, DISTRICT 11.
I HAVE CHIMNEY CO IN MY DISTRICT AND I HAVE SOME OF THE MOST EXPENSIVE REAL ESTATE IN THE COUNTRY IN MY DISTRICT.
UM, AND WHAT I SEE HAPPENING ON HILTON HEAD, AND I SUSPECT ALSO IN OTHER PARTS OF OUR DISTRICT, IS MY, UH, BELOW INCOME STUDENTS IN DISTRICT 11 ARE NOT GETTING THE SAME INTERVENTIONS THAT SCHOOLS THAT ARE IN, UH, WHERE THE, THE AREA IS HIGH POVERTY, WHAT DO THEY CALL IT? THE, THERE'S POVERTY AND HIGH POVERTY AND THERE'S TIER ONE.
BOTH OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AT HILTON HEAD ELEMENTARY, I THINK NOW ARE MAJORITY HISPANIC, MAJORITY MULTI-LANGUAGE LEARNERS.
I THINK THEY'RE BOTH TITLE ONE, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, I HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOST RECENT THING, BUT THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY GETTING ALL THE SAME TIER ONE INTERVENTIONS AS OTHER SCHOOLS.
AND I THINK WHAT HAPPENS IS YOU'VE GOT A COHORT OF, UM, VERY HIGH NEED STUDENTS MIXED IN WITH A HIGH INCOME, DON'T HAVE CHILDREN IN THE SCHOOL.
CAUSE A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE ARE RETIRED OR THEIR CHILDREN ARE GROWN.
UM, AND THAT'S DISADVANTAGING THAT COHORT, WHICH IS STILL A MAJORITY OF THE SCHOOL.
SO WHAT I'M ROUNDING AROUND TO IS ONE OF MY BIG CONCERNS IS HOW YOU SAID IN THE PRESENTATION, UH, FOR THOSE LITERACY, I THINK IT WAS LITERACY INTERVENTION.
UM, AND IT SAID FOR THOSE SCHOOLS THAT HAVE INTERVENTIONIST AND I, UM, ALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS HAVE INTERVENTIONIST.
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SOME MIDDLE SCHOOLS USE THEIR TITLE ONE FUNDS TO PURCHASE INTERVENTIONIST AND HILTON'S NOT A TITLE ONE.BUT IN, IN BOTH OF YOUR ELEMENTARY THERE IS, UM, AND ACTUALLY HILTON HEAD MIDDLE DOES HAVE, UM, AN INTERVENTION.
AND THEN, AND YOU, THE TWO SCHOOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS THAT YOU REFERENCED, UM, ONE IS PART OF OUR SCHOLASTIC LITERACY, UM, INITIATIVE.
THE OTHER, UM, SELECTED A TOOL TO MATCH, UM, WHAT THEY FELT WAS THEIR CHOICE PROGRAM.
UM, AND WE DID WORK ALONGSIDE THEM TO SUPPORT THAT, UM, AND HONORING WHERE THEY FELT THAT THEY NEEDED TO GO BECAUSE OF THEIR CHOICE PROGRAM.
UM, SO THERE IS WORK HAPPENING IN, I THINK THERE'S WORK HAPPENING, BUT I, SORRY, UH, I WAS JUST GONNA ADD TO, UM, WHEN YOU LOOK AT, AT DATA LIKE THAT, LIKE MULTILINGUAL AND, UH, PUPILS IN POVERTY, THEY'RE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE, RIGHT? A LOT OF YOUR MULTILINGUAL STUDENTS ALSO POPULATE IN PUPILS OF POVERTY.
SO THEY, THEY, THEY AFFECT THAT WHOLE OVERALL DYNAMIC.
I THINK I SEE MEL SHAKEN HIS HEAD
WE, WE, WE HAVE EXTENDED LEARNING SITES.
WE'RE ADDING ADDITIONAL EXTENDED LEARNING SITE, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, IN HILTON HEAD, UH, AND BLUFFTON AS WELL, UH, IN ORDER TO, UH, TO, TO HELP SUPPORT THAT AS WELL.
BUT OUR, BUT, BUT I JUST WANT WAS REALLY WANTING TO, TO ADDRESS THE, THAT MAKE THAT POINT THAT THEY'RE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.
THEY'RE BOTH IN THE SAME POSSIBLY, I GUARANTEE, POSSIBLY BOTH IN THE SAME, UH, TWO GROUPS.
SO FROM MY, SOME, SOME FIT THREE GROUPS.
I CERTAINLY WOULD NOT SAY THAT.
I WOULD THINK THERE'S A HUGE CROSSOVER BETWEEN THE MULTILINGUAL AND THE STUDENTS IN POVERTY.
AND WHAT I THINK IT DOES POINT OUT IS THAT IF YOU TAKE YOUR PREMISE THAT THERE IS A LARGE CROSSOVER BETWEEN THE MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS AND STUDENTS IN POVERTY, AND THAT IS CERTAINLY TRUE IN DISTRICT 11.
AND YOU SAY, OKAY, SO WHY IS THE STUDENTS PUPILS IN POVERTY? AND I THINK PART OF IT IS, AND THIS IS THAT WHETHER OR NOT THAT, AND I DON'T REMEMBER ALL THE PARTICULARS, BUT THERE WAS THAT HIGH POVERTY SCHOOL THAT HAS LOWER CLASS SIZES, THAT HAS ANOTHER, UH, INSTRUCTIONAL, UM, COACH THAT THERE ARE MORE RESOURCES GOING TO SCHOOLS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED IN HIGH POVERTY.
AND THE PROBLEM FOR LIKE A SCHOOL LIKE HILTON, AND I THINK ALSO PROBABLY BLUFF SOME OF THE BLUFFTON SCHOOLS, IS THAT WE HAVE THIS POPULATION, AND IT'S NUMBER WISE, IT'S PROBABLY THE SAME AS SOME OF THE SCHOOLS IN HIGH POVERTY, BUT THEY ARE NESTLED INSIDE OF A HIGH INCOME, THE, THE NEW HAMPTONS, ACCORDING TO THE ZILLOW ECONOMISTS.
AND SO IT SORT OF WARPS THE BENEFITS THAT THOSE GROUPS.
AND I THINK A LITTLE BIT WHAT WE'RE SEEING, UM, IN JUST ONE MORE SIDE, BECAUSE I THINK A LITTLE BIT WE'RE SEEING IS THAT NUMBERS ARE STARTING TO REFLECT THAT, THAT WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO ADDRESS THAT COHORT WITHIN A, AN AFFLUENT AREA.
UM, THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT HILTON HAS AN AFFLUENT AREA.
UM, AND THEN MY OTHER, I GUESS, SO THAT WAS WHAT I WAS KIND OF DRAWING ATTENTION TO IS GOING FORWARD, HEARING A LOT ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO TO REACH THOSE STUDENTS.
AND THEN ALSO BECAUSE OF THE MULTILINGUAL, I HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS, AND I'M VERY INTRIGUED BY THIS CONCEPT OF LIKE HOW WE'RE HANDLING IN HILTON HEAD.
WE GET A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE MOVED HERE RECENTLY FROM OTHER COUNTRIES THAT MAYBE DO NOT SPEAK THE LANGUAGE, UM, HAVE NOT HAD A LOT OF FORMAL EDUCATION, AND WE'RE THROWING THEM INTO OUR ESL CLASSES WITH KIDS THAT ARE JUST LEARNING SPANISH.
AND WE'RE, SO I, ONE THING I THINK THAT WE SHOULD CONSIDER, AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE CONSIDERED, I'VE TALKED TO YOU ABOUT A LITTLE BIT, IS HAVING MORE NATIVE LANGUAGE SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS THAT ARE COMING IN AND NOT JUST SORT OF WRAPPING 'EM INTO SPANISH ONE, UM, BUT HAVING SOME NATIVE LANGUAGE, UH, CLASSES AND SOME NATIVE LANGUAGE CLUBS, SOME NATIVE LANGUAGE SUPPORTS.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE CONSIDERED THAT, BUT I WANNA THROW THAT OUT THERE, DOC, MAY I ACTUALLY, THERE'S, UH, THERE IS, UH, THERE ARE SOME, SOME CLUBS, THERE'S SOME PROGRAMS THAT, UH, I PERSONALLY LAUNCHED AT, UH, UH, IN PALM BEACH AND ACTUALLY PUT IN AT THE SCHOOL WHERE MARY WAS PRINCIPAL AT, UH, WHICH REALLY HAD A SIGNIFICANT, UH, IMPACT, YOU KNOW? AND SO, SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
WE ARE ACTUALLY IN OUR ACADEMIC CABINET, UH, MEETINGS, WE, WE ARE REALLY ZEROED IN ON THAT VERY ISSUE BECAUSE EVERY, EVERY SCHOOL, I DON'T CARE WHICH SCHOOL IT IS, RIGHT, HAS A STUDENT SOMEWHERE IN IT THAT WOULD FIT THAT, UH, THAT CATEGORY, RIGHT? AND THEN THERE ARE SCHOOLS, I WAS ACTUALLY A PRINCIPAL OF A SCHOOL THAT I, I CALLED THE, I CALLED IT A TWEENER SCHOOL, RIGHT? BECAUSE, BECAUSE WE WEREN'T, UH, UH, AFFLUENT ENOUGH
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TO HAVE THE BENEFITS OF BEING AFFLUENT, RIGHT? BUT WE WEREN'T POOR ENOUGH TO BE, HAVE THE BENEFITS OF TITLE ONE AND THOSE OTHER COMPONENTS.AND SO WE WERE TWEENER SCHOOLS, RIGHT?
SO YOUR POINT IS, IS, IS, UH, RIGHT ON AS WELL, WELL TAKE, WHEN YOU SAY TWEENER SCHOOLS? WELL, I THINK THERE'S A PROBLEM FOR BEAUFORT COUNTY PARTICULARLY IS WE'RE SUCH A HIGH RETIREMENT POPULATION, SO WE'RE AN AFFLUENT COMMUNITY, BUT THE SCHOOL POPULATION MAY NOT BE THE SCHOOL AGE POPULATION MAY NOT BE, WELL, WHEN WE, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE, THE POVERTY IN OUR SCHOOLS, RIGHT? THE, THE POVERTY NUMBER IS ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE ENROLLED IN OUR SCHOOLS, RIGHT? SO IF, IF YOU HAVE A, A VERY AFFLUENT RETIREMENT COMMUNITY, RIGHT? THAT'S NOT REFLECTED IN OUR POVERTY NUMBERS ARE A DEMOGRAPHIC IN TERMS OF WHAT WE TALK ABOUT.
UH, BUT THERE ARE BENEFITS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WITH THAT.
WHEN WE DO OUR ALLOCATION FOR ML RESOURCES, WE LOOK SPECIFICALLY AND BY NUMBERS TO SCHOOL.
SO IT ACTUALLY WORKS OUT IN, IN THE ADVANTAGE OF, OBVIOUSLY IF THE SCHOOLS WOULD HIRE NUMBERS, I HAVE TO SHARE THAT.
UM, IT'S NOT TIED TO PUPIL AT ALL, AT ALL.
IT IS BY THE NUMBER OF STUDENT, THE SECOND ON THE NATIVE SPEAKER COMPONENT, WE ARE REACHING OUT TO WORK WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND AS A GRANT FOR DEVELOPING EDUCATORS FOR AP SPANISH, THE OPPORTUNITY OF BRINGING THAT TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS JUST ON THE TABLE RIGHT NOW.
I'M LIKE, I'M WISHING MS. MCKENZIE WAS HERE RIGHT NOW, BUT SHE'S IN, UM, ATTENDING A, A MEETING FOR US UP AT STATE CAPITAL.
UM, BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT DOING AS WELL.
SO INCREASING THAT NATIVE LANGUAGE BECAUSE WE KNOW THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CHILD WHO HAS BEEN SCHOOLED AND A CHILD WHO'S UNSCHOOLED BEING IN THE SAME CLASS.
I GUESS I'M THE ONLY ONE SO FAR WHO HASN'T ASKED A QUESTION OR COMMENTED.
UM, MINE ARE GOING TO KIND OF GO A LITTLE BIT ALONG WITH, UH, INGRID'S.
SO I'M GOING BACK TO THE STATE REPORT CARD, THOSE TWO SLIDES.
SO WHAT'S GREAT, OF COURSE, IS THAT WE SEE ALL THIS GREEN AND VERY LITTLE RED IS ALREADY BEEN POINTED OUT.
SO BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT EXCEEDS THE STATE FOR ALL STUDENTS AND ALL THE AREAS THAT ARE LISTED ON THIS, ON THESE TWO GRAPHS.
BUT WE'VE ALSO ALREADY POINTED OUT TOO, IS OBVIOUSLY ALL THE SUBGROUPS DON'T PERFORM THE SAME AND WOULD LOVE TO SEE ALL SUBGROUPS MOVE FORWARD, NOT NOT JUST THE LOWER PERFORMING SUBGROUPS.
UM, SO THE ONE THING THAT'S OF COURSE STICKS OUT THERE IS RED HERE, UM, WITH, IS AS, UH, INGRID POINTED OUT IN THE HISPANIC AND MULTILINGUAL GROUP, AND THE, UH, IF YOU PICK OUT ONE SINGLE THING, IT'S, IT'S THE PERCENT SCORING SEE OR HIGHER IN BIOLOGY FOR MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS AND ALSO FOR HISPANIC LEARNERS.
SO YOU MAY NOT HAVE THE ANSWER HERE TODAY.
WHY IS THAT? IS THAT BECAUSE AS STARTING TO THINK OF DIFFERENT REASONS, YOU KNOW, I KNOW FOR, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT TRYING TO SINGLE PEOPLE OUT OR WHATEVER, BUT IS IT BECAUSE OF THE INSTRUCTION? IS IT BECAUSE THEY, THEY'RE NOT THAT MANY STUDENTS? CUZ SOMETIMES THAT MIGHT HAPPEN THAT IF YOU HAVE A, A VERY SMALL NUMBER OF STUDENTS TAKING A CLASS, LET'S SAY THREE PEOPLE, THAT I DON'T THINK THE CASE, BUT THAT IF, IF, IF ONE OR TWO DON'T PASS THE COURSE, OBVIOUSLY THEN THE, THEN THE PERCENTAGE PASSING IS GONNA BE REALLY LOW.
BUT YOU SEEM LIKE YOU HAVE THE ANSWER ALREADY.
WATTS, I LOVE THAT YOU DID THE ANALYSIS ON FROM LOOKING AT THE SIZE RIGHT OF, OF THE DENOMINATOR, BECAUSE SOMETIMES THAT IS SKEWS RESULTS IS SO MUCH.
BUT BOTH THOSE ASSESSMENTS ARE READING TESTS.
SO WHEN YOU CONDUCT YOUR ANALYSIS TO CROSSCHECK STUDENTS WHO ARE SUCCESSFUL BIOLOGY OR THE US HISTORY, YOU WILL SEE, OBVIOUSLY WITH US HISTORY, YOU'RE PULLING A PRIOR READING RESULT, YOU'RE GONNA SEE A CORRELATION.
THEY ARE TRULY READING TESTS IN THE CONTENT AREA, WHICH MEANS AS A RESULT, WE HAVE TO BUILD THAT CAPACITY.
GOING BACK TO MRS. FRIEDRICH AS WELL, OF THOSE SECONDARY EDUCATORS AT READING AS WELL, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT ONLY READING TESTS, BUT THEY'RE READING TEST WITH MORE TECHNICAL LANGUAGE AND ACADEMIC LANGUAGE.
SO NOW THEN THE NEXT STEP WOULD BE HOW DO WE IMPROVE THAT? AND WE NEED TO FOCUS CLEARLY IN THAT, IN THIS SPECIFIC INSTANCE ON TEACHING THE, THE TECHNICAL LANGUAGE TO, YOU KNOW, UH, THE, THOSE THAT ARE
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NOT AS ADEPT AT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE OR ENGLISH AS THEIR SECOND LANGUAGE OR WHATEVER YOU WANNA SAY.THE TWO TOOLS ON THE SECONDARY FOR ELA OF NO RED INK AND READING PLUS THEY SHOULD BE A COMMON LANGUAGE FOR ENGLISH ONE AND ENGLISH TWO, WE'RE WORKING AT DEVELOPING THAT BECAUSE WE RECOGNIZE THAT AS AN ENGLISH TEACHER, I REALLY WANTED TO TEACH THESE TEXTS, BUT NOW I ALSO RECOGNIZE I HAVE TO TEACH TEXTS, BUT I HAVE TO BUILD SKILLS.
SO WE'RE IN THAT PROCESS OF, WE HAVE ONE HIGH SCHOOL WHO IS DOING PHENOMENALLY IN BOTH THOSE AREAS, ALRIGHT? AND THEY SEEM THE RESULTS THIS PAST YEAR WITH THEIR SCORES.
SO NOW AS THEIR COMPETITIVE NEIGHBORS ARE LOOKING AT THE RESULTS, AND I MEAN THAT POLITELY BECAUSE HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS ARE VERY COMPETITIVE, THAT'S, THEY WANNA KNOW WHAT YOU DID.
SO SOMETIMES IT TAKES THAT, BECAUSE WE HAD A LEADER IN THE PACK LAST YEAR, I WILL TELL YOU THAT WHO DID PHENOMENALLY UTILIZE IT? THE TOOLS THAT WE IDENTIFY TO ASSIST IN BUILDING AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL, HIGHEST USAGE RATE, UTILIZATION RATE AND RESULTS WHEN WE MONITOR THE DATA.
SO MY LAST COMMENT IS THAT, UM, WELL DONE TO DR.
STRATOS AND YOUR STAFF IN TERMS OF THE, UH, REPORT CARD THIS YEAR.
YES, THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT, BUT IT'S ALSO NICE TO BE RECOGNIZED THAT, THAT WE ARE CLEARLY, UM, HAVING SOME IMPROVEMENT.
HAVING BEEN ON THE BOARD FOR SIX YEARS.
AND WHEN I FIRST CAME ON, WE DID NOT HAVE AN INSTRUMENT FOR EVALUATING THE SUPERINTENDENT AND IT WAS MORE OF A SORT OF FREE FLOW OF IDEAS.
AND, UH, ONE OF THE AREAS I PICKED AT THAT TIME TO LOOK AT WAS ALL THE ACADEMICS FOR THE TEST SCORES FOR THE, I BELIEVE THE LAST FIVE YEARS OR WHILE THAT SUPERINTENDENT HAD BEEN HERE.
AND, UM, I MEAN, IT'S ALL PUBLIC INFORMATION.
I'M NOT GIVING OUT ANYTHING THAT'S NOT PUBLIC.
IT, THERE REALLY HAD BEEN MINIMAL, IF ANY PROGRESS, I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY SAYING IT NICELY, UM, OVER THOSE YEARS.
WHEREAS AS YOU JUST POINTED OUT TO DR.
RODRIGUEZ, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THESE ASSESSMENTS JUST STARTED FIVE, SIX YEARS AGO.
AND THAT'S REALLY OUR TEACHERS IN THE CLASSROOM THAT DAY TO DAY, UH, ARE, ARE, UH, AT THIS WORK EVERY SINGLE DAY IN THE CLASSROOM.
SO IT'S REALLY A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, BRING THAT FORWARD.
AND, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT THAT I THINK OUR BOARD, UH, TOOK A TREMENDOUS STEP, UH, IN THIS STATE LAST YEAR IN, IN SUPPORTING OUR, OUR RECOMMENDATION FOR THE, THE COMPENSATION FOR OUR EDUCATORS.
CUZ WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO ATTRACT, UH, THE BEST EDUCATORS AND THE BEST TALENT WE CAN HERE TO BEAUFORD COUNTY.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT, UH, UH, IN ORDER TO HELP IMPACT THESE NUMBERS AND, AND, UH, UH, SO, YOU KNOW, I WANNA THANK THEM PERSONALLY.
WE TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT BECAUSE, UH, THEY DO IT EVERY DAY IN THE ROOM.
SO, SO WE STILL HAVE ONE BOARD MEMBER THAT HASN'T COMMENTED.
I SEE KATHY'S RISEN HER PUT UP HER HAND.
UM, IS THAT ME? SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO, UM, BRING UP ONE THING THAT I, THAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT.
UM, SOMEBODY WHO HAS EXPERIENCE WORKING IN SCHOOLS WITH HIGH LEVELS OF MULTI LEARNING STUDENTS.
UM, WE GET KIDS ENROLLING IN OUR HIGH SCHOOLS WHEN THEY'RE 17 YEARS OLD, THEY HAVE NO ENGLISH, THEY'RE STILL, ARE THEY STILL REQUIRED TO TAKE THE, UH, THE END OF COURSE BIOLOGY AND END OF COURSE TESTING.
YES, THEY'RE REQUIRED, RIGHT? THERE ARE NO EXEMPTIONS, FOLKS.
SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND THAT'S REALISTIC.
AND YES, I KNOW OUR TEACHERS WORK IN TRYING TO TEACH THEM THE ACADEMIC LANGUAGE THAT GO WITH THESE COURSES, BUT IN REALITY, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY CAN'T EVEN SAY, UM, WHAT'S FOR LUNCH OR THOSE TYPES OF EVERYDAY LANGUAGES.
I THINK WE HAVE TO KEEP THAT IN MIND BEFORE WE JUMP ALL OVER THESE SCORES FOR OUR MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS.
THAT'S JUST MY, UM, EDITORIAL COMMENT BECAUSE I'VE BEEN THERE IN A SCHOOL THAT HAS HAD THOSE TYPES OF POPUL.
SO THE BOARD NEEDS TO MAKE A DECISION.
IT'S BEEN AN HOUR AND 20 MINUTES.
SO WE HAVE SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO'D LIKE TO SPEAK FOR A SECOND TIME.
SO WHAT'S THE WILL OF THE BOARD? I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE LET YOU SPEAK.
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC.
UH, I I BELIEVE IN THIS IS PART OF OUR
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JOB.AND ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? HI CATHY.
CATHY, ARE YOU, WHAT'S YOUR VOTE? WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE WE, WHAT ARE WE VOTING ON? WHETHER TO CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION, TO CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION.
WE'VE HAD EVERY BOARD MEMBER'S HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK, BUT SOME WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK AGAIN.
I, YEAH, I GUESS, I MEAN, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY? ANY DIFFERENT THINGS? I MEAN, I, I THINK THAT'S WHAT I WOULD FOCUS ON.
AND I THINK KATHY'S COMMENT, UH, IS EXCELLENT IN THAT, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S ALREADY BEEN SAID, WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP REITERATING THE SAME THING.
BRING IN SOME NEW IDEAS OR NEW THOUGHTS.
I HAVE A, A DIFFERENT TOPIC ON ASSESSMENT.
UH, ABOUT TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO, I ATTENDED A LEADER IN ME LEADERSHIP DAY AT ST.
PART OF THAT DAY IS YOU GO INTO CLASSROOMS, YOU SIT DOWN WITH STUDENTS AND YOU TALK TO THEM ABOUT THEIR LEARNING.
I SAT DOWN NEXT TO A, A YOUNG MAN IN FIFTH GRADE, AND HE SHOWED ME HIS WORKBOOK AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN HAVING A LITTLE TROUBLE.
I'VE BEEN HAVING A LITTLE TROUBLE IN THIS MATH.
HERE'S MY SCORES AND HERE'S MY SCORE.
A MONTH AGO, HERE'S MY SCORE LAST WEEK, AND HERE'S MY SCORE.
YOU SEE, I'M MAKING PROGRESS, BUT I STILL HAVE A WAYS TO GO.
AND THEN RECENTLY I READ RICK DIGGINS BOOK COMING OUT ABOUT ASSESSMENT AND THE IMPORTANCE OF SELF ASSESSMENT, STUDENT SELF ASSESSMENT.
WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT TEACHER ASSESSMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASSESSMENT.
BUT TELL ME HOW I'M HOPING THAT THAT LEADER IN ME WASN'T THE ONLY SCHOOL THAT'S DOING SELF-ASSESSMENT SO THAT THE KIDS KNOW WHERE THEY'VE GOT TO GO.
SO PLEASE ADDRESS SELF-ASSESSMENT.
IT'S NOT A TOPIC THAT I'M GONNA SAY THAT WE HAVE BROUGHT FORWARD TO THE BOARD.
WE'RE PREPARED TO COLONEL GEIER, BUT I COULD SHARE THIS.
THAT SELF-ASSESSMENT COMPONENT, A CHILD BEING ABLE TO IDENTIFY HER TARGET AND BENCHMARKING WITHIN THEIR PATHWAY IS A LANGUAGE THAT ACTUALLY WE IS CALLED STUDENT VOICE.
STS BRINGS IT FORWARD IN HIS COMPONENT OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND HOW SIGNIFICANT THAT IS.
HE HAD ACTUALLY DOES THE ANALYSIS WITH THAT TO TELL YOU WHERE IT IS GONNA BE STATISTICALLY TO HELP MOVE CHILDREN.
UM, JOHN HATTIE DID THAT QUITE SOME TIME AGO AS WELL.
AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT ONE RESEARCH HAS WORKED OFF THE OTHER.
THEY JUST, IT'S LIKE, THINK, BUT IT'S AS SIMPLE AS AN EDUCATOR SAYING, OKAY, GUYS, THE THREE THUMB MOVEMENT, THAT INFORMAL FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT THAT WE UTILIZE TO SAY, DID WE GET THE CONCEPT BEFORE WE GO INTO INDEPENDENT WORK AS MY CLASS GOT INTO AN 80%, OR I WOULD SAY AN 85% PROFICIENCY AT PRACTICE BEFORE YOU GO DO INDEPENDENT WORK, UM, CIRCULATING, AND THEN YOU'RE GONNA GO BACK TO YOUR SEAT.
ARE YOU ON YOUR MARK? I THINK THAT'S A PRACTICE THAT MANY OF OUR EDUCATORS DO ALREADY.
BUT THAT DOCUMENTING ON THE ROADMAP IS A TOOL, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH WRITING, WHERE DO YOU WANNA BE ON THE RUBRIC? LET'S BECOME OUR OWN SELF EDITORS.
THAT'S LANGUAGE THAT WE'RE WORKING ON.
BUT THE FIRST PART OF THAT IS, UM, MRS. MARY BROUGHT OVER EARLIER, IS MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THAT INTER INTEGRATED RELIABILITY ON THE RUBRIC BEFORE WE EVEN GET THERE, BECAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE OUR TEACHERS ARE SCORING WHAT HE SHOULD BE SCORED AS WELL.
BUT I KNOW DOC WANTS TO SLIDE IN.
NO, I THINK THE ONLY OTHER THING I WOULD ADD IS THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S INHERENT AND NATURAL IN, UH, THE LEADER AND ME, UH, INITIATIVES.
UM, WHICH WE HAVE SEVERAL OTHER SCHOOLS THAT HAVE COME ON BOARD WITH LEADER AND ME.
BUT, UH, THERE ARE OTHER, UH, SCHOOLS THAT, UH, MAY NOT BE A LEADER IN ME SCHOOL THAT DO THIS IN, IN, IN, IN THEIR OWN FORMAT AND IN THEIR OWN WAY.
AND AS AN EXAMPLE, UM, I BELIEVE AT, UH, RED CEDAR, WHEN THEY, UM, WHEN THEY DO, UH, PROGRESS REPORT MEETINGS OR REPORT CARD MEETINGS AND CONVERSATIONS, THEY HAVE STUDENTS AS A PART OF THAT.
UH, THEY'RE SORT OF STUDENT DRIVEN AND STUDENT LED WITH THEIR WORK AND THEIR INFORMATION AS THEY SHARE WITH PARENTS, UH, AND TEACHERS PRESENT IN THE ROOM.
IT'S ANOTHER TWIST ON HOW TO DO THAT.
BUT, UH, UM, WE MIGHT NEED A, A MORE FORMAL, UH, APPROACH TO IT THAT CAN BE, THAT CAN BE PROLIFERATED.
UH, MAYOR, I'M THINKING LIKE, WE USED TO DO THE STUDENT ASSESSMENT LITERACY MM-HMM.
AND, AND CAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT IS, IS, IS STUDENT ASSESSMENT LITERARY, I MEAN, ARE THEY, ARE THEY LITERATE IN THE LANGUAGE OF THEIR OWN ASSESSMENT, RIGHT? IN IN TERMS OF RESULTS? YOU KNOW,
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WE, AND TO CIRCLE BACK TO MY PRESENTATION, UM, AND DRAW ATTENTION TO YOUR QUESTION, WE, UM, ARE SYSTEMATICALLY PUTTING INTO PERFORMANCE BASED LEARNING TARGETS.AND SO WHEN YOU HEAR ME SAY THAT, WHAT THAT MEANS IS WHEN STUDENTS ARE, WHEN WE ARE SHARING WITH STUDENTS OF WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO LEARN, IT'S IN SERVICE OF, UM, BREAKING IT DOWN INTO WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO KNOW AND BE ABLE TO DO.
UM, AND SO OUR CURRICULUM MAPS ALSO NOW HAVE THOSE PERFORMANCE BASE.
SO IT'S GONNA SAY, WE ARE GOING TO TEACH YOU THIS IN ORDER TO, SO THEN YOU PRODUCE THIS.
UM, AND WHAT WE ARE, WHAT THAT IS THE FOUNDATIONAL TO IS WHAT YOU'RE DRIVING TOWARDS IS THAT THEN FOR THE EDUCATORS AND THE STUDENTS, IT'S MUCH MORE EASILY TRACKED OF, YOU KNOW, DO I HAVE THAT CONTENT KNOWLEDGE? BUT THEN ALSO WAS I ABLE TO APPLY IT TO THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING WITHIN THAT? UM, AND SO THEN THEY CAN SELF-MONITOR.
TEACHERS CAN BETTER TAKE THEIR ANECDOTAL NOTES OR THEIR FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS WHILE THEY'RE, WE CALL IT, UM, AGGRESSIVE MONITORING.
SO WHILE STUDENTS ARE WORKING, WE ARE WALKING AROUND, WHERE ARE THEY IN THIS LEARNING? UM, SO THAT IS THE REASON FOR THE SHIFT TO PERFORMANCE BASED LEARNING TARGETS.
AND THAT IS HAPPENING ALL THE WAY UP KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 12TH GRADE IS WE'RE MOVING THAT DIRECTION RIGHT NEXT.
I THINK SOMETIME WE, IN DENIAL OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN THIS DISTRICT, UM, AND THE COMMUNITY IS, UH, AND WE BLAME, WE BLAME EVERYBODY ELSE BUT OURSELF.
AND I'M TALKING ABOUT AS A COMMUNITY, AS A PARENT.
SO POVERTY HAS A EFFECT OF STUDENTS.
BUT THAT DOES NOT SAY YOU CANNOT LEARN.
I I, I WENT TO ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE.
THIS COMMUNITY, EVERYBODY IN THAT COMMUNITY WAS CONCERNED THAT YOU, YOU GET AN EDUCATION TODAY, IT'S DIFFERENT.
WE HAVE SOME PARENTS THAT DON'T SEEM TO CARE, AND I KNOW I'M GONNA GET SOME FLA BACK ON THAT, BUT THAT IS THE TRUTH.
AND TELL PARENTS AND THE COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER.
WE GONNA BE IN THIS BOAT FOR THE NEXT 20 SOMETHING YEARS.
THE DISTRICT OF SUFFERING PLACE AND MAKE US LEARN.
SO WE CANNOT BLAME THE DISTRICT.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITY IS THE PARENT, YOUR CHILD, YOU, YOUR S YOUR CHILD TO SCHOOL TO GET AN EDUCATION.
YOU SEND THEM THAT, THAT CRAZY, YOU KNOW? SO IF YOU DO THAT RESPONSIBILITY, THEN YOU WILL SEE A CHANGE IN THE DISTRICT.
I THAT'S, UM, FIRST MAKE THE STATEMENT THAT IT'S PROBABLY VERY APPROPRIATE, UH, DR.
RODRIGUEZ, YOU SIGNED ON FOR PROBABLY ONE OF THE TOUGHEST JOBS IN AMERICA.
AND SOME OF THE THINGS EARL JUST SAID RELEVANT, BUT ALSO THE THINGS INGRID SAID WERE RELEVANT IN TERMS OF THE TRANSITIONAL POPULATION, PARTICULARLY ON HILTON ED.
AND, YOU KNOW, THAT SCHOOL IS SEEN QUITE A BIT OF CHANGE OVER TIME.
AND OF COURSE, THAT THAT CHANGE, YOU KNOW, IS RELEVANT TO EVERYBODY INVOLVED AT SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, PRACTICALLY HAVE ALWAYS LED THE DISTRICT IN NUMBERS.
AND THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN, YOU KNOW, ANY TIME SOON.
AND THAT'S A REALITY AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, BACKGROUND EDUCATION OF SOME OF THE PARENTS.
YOU STILL GOT THOSE PARENTS WHO ARE SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL.
AND I'M, I'M AFRAID TO SAY THAT THEY DON'T KNOW ANYMORE, EARL THEY DON'T KNOW ANYMORE THAN THEY'RE DOING.
AND I DON'T WANNA MAKE ANY BLAME ON WHERE THAT BLAME LIES.
BUT ALL I KNOW IS THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTY AND THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTY, AND THE EDUCATION IN THIS COUNTY IS RELEVANT.
AND AS EDUCATORS, AS BOARD MEMBERS, WE NEED TO ALWAYS BE AWARE OF THAT.
AND WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF THE CHANGES THAT'S POSSIBLE AND ALSO THE CHANGES THAT WE CAN ACCOMPLISH IF WE ARE AWARE OF IT.
NOW, THE ROADMAP IS, IS FINE, IT'S EXCELLENT IN TERMS OF WHAT WE ARE BUILDING.
WE HAVE TO BUILD THOSE CAPACITIES TO MAKE ANY CHANGES.
THE OTHER COMPONENT OF IT IS UNDERSTANDING THAT EARL WENT TO ONE ROOM, SCHOOL HOUSE AND HE MADE IT.
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ISN'T SAYING IS ABOUT 65% OF THE PEOPLE WHO WENT TO THAT ONE ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE NEVER LEARNED TO READ.SO THEY ALSO PUSHED INTO A DIFFERENT CAPACITY OF LIFE AND THEIR CHILDREN PUSHED INTO A DIFFERENT CAPACITY.
AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHERE WE ARE.
AND I, YOU KNOW, I I IMPLORE YOU TO TAKE ALL OF THOSE THINGS UNDER CONSIDERATION.
AND YOU'RE TALKING, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY IN THE TALK ABOUT, ABOUT BIOLOGY AND, UH, AND HIS COMPONENT.
WELL, REALITY IS WE GONNA HAVE MORE THAN HALF OF THE CHILDREN IN OUR DISTRICT WHO ARE MULTILINGUAL PARENTS.
SHOULD THEY HAVE A NURSE THAT'S MULTILINGUAL.
I DON'T CARE HOW WE GET THEM THERE.
AND THAT'S SEGUE INTO OUR TECHNICAL COMPONENT.
UH, I DEFINITELY AGREE WITH EVERYTHING, MR. UM, WITH, UM, MR. KIM, MR. CAMPBELL JUST SAID, UH, ALSO INTO THE COMPONENT OF THAT.
I DON'T, I CAN'T AGREE THAT IT'S JUST THE COMMUNITY AND THE PARENTS DON'T CARE.
WHAT I WILL SAY IS, THERE, THERE SKILL SET, AS MR. CAMPBELL SAID, THEIR KNOW AND THEIR KNOWHOW.
AND THAT'S THE THREE PRONG PRO RELATIONSHIPS THAT AS BOARD MEMBERS THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE WITH THE COMMUNITY.
BECAUSE YES, YOU, YOU HAVE THE BOARD, THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE COMMUNITY, AND I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR MONTHS NOW, UNTIL WE ALL GET ON ONE ACCORD, THEN THE COMMUNITY, WE WILL HAVE THESE ISSUES IN OUR COMMUNITY.
I SAID, OR A FEW MINUTES AGO, IRON, SHOPPINGS IRON.
SO IT'S JUST NOT ACHIEVEMENT GAP IN THIS COMMUNITY THERE.
SO ALL, ALL, ALL THOSE THINGS BRING BRING UPON RESULTS THEY DRIVE AND DESCRIBE OFF OF EACH OTHER.
AND SAYING THAT, I'M SAYING, THIS IS WHAT I'M SAYING, UNTIL WE START HAVING COMMUNITY MEETINGS WITH, FROM, FROM, FROM, NOT JUST ADMINISTRATION, BECAUSE APPARENTLY SOMEONE BELIEVED IN EVERYONE WHO'S SITTING AROUND, AROUND THIS TABLE, UH, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF DR.
RODRIGUEZ, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY BELIEVED IN EVERYONE.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE SITTING THERE.
SO UNTIL THE PEOPLE WHO, WHO VOTED FOR US AND NEW BELIEVER IN US, UNTIL WE STOP GOING TO THE C COMMUNITIES AND HAVE, START HAVING COMMUNITY MEETINGS WITH THEM AND LET THEM KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO GET INVOLVED AND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THEIR CHILDREN, THEN THEY GONNA THINK EVERYTHING IS FINE.
BECAUSE THEY FIGURE, THEY TALKING ABOUT THAT'S YOUR JOB TO DO THAT.
SO THE THE BURDEN IS ON US TO SOME DEGREE TO GO BACK AND LET THEM KNOW HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR THEM TO GET ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THEIR KIDS' EDUCATION AND SEE HOW WE HAVE PARENT UNIVERSITIES HERE.
HOW, HOW, HOW ARE WE UTILIZING THOSE THINGS TO GET TO THE COMMUNITY, TO GET THEM TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION, THE IMPORTANCE OF OF, OF SITTING DOWN AND TALKING TO YOUR CHILD ABOUT THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESSING, ABOUT WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY? I UNDERSTAND SOME PARENTS, THEY GO, THEY GO TO WORK WHEN IT'S DARK AND THEY COME HOME WHEN IT'S DARK.
BUT TO SOME DEGREE, WE STILL HAVE TO GET THOSE PARENTS OR GET THOSE AUNTS AND UNCLES IN A ROOM AND START TALKING TO THEM COLLECTIVELY AND NOT JUST SAY, OH, WELL THEY DON'T CARE.
WELL, THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T CARE.
THAT'S, THAT'S WHY WE RAN FOR THIS BOARD.
RODRIGUEZ IS A SUPERINTENDENT.
SRAS IS A, IS IS IS THE ACADEMIC PERSON BECAUSE SHE CARES ABOUT ACADEMICS.
SO WE HAVE TO MAKE IT A, THAT'S TIME.
WE HAVE TO MAKE IT A ONE SIZE FIT ALL AS IN A CARE FACTOR.
AND WE HAVE TO REACH OUT ABOVE AND BEYOND.
MAKING, MAKING, MAKING THAT MAKING THAT HAPPEN IS SO MUCH EASIER TO SAY, WE SAID THAN DONE AND SAY, OH, WELL, THEY DON'T.
IT'S, IT'S NOT ABOUT GIVING UP ON THEM, IT'S ABOUT SHOWING THEM AND GOING THE EXTRA MILE TO LET THEM KNOW, HEY, LOOK IN YOUR AREA, MR. SMITH, THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE.
UM, MRS. BOATRIGHT IN YOUR AREA, THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE.
WHAT CAN YOU AND I, HEY, LET'S SHOOT TO HAVE SOME COMMUNITY MEETINGS.
LET'S SHOOT TO SEE WHAT THEY MAY WANT FROM US, WHAT WE MAY WANT FROM YOUR ASPECT.
NOT JUST FROM, NOT JUST FROM THE ADMINISTRATION, FROM YOU.
CAUSE THIS IS WHAT YOU SAID, THAT, THAT, THAT YOU WANT.
HOW, HOW, HOW CAN WE GET TOGETHER AND MAKE THIS HAPPEN? SECONDLY, I MOVE ON IN, IN TERMS OF DR.
GO BROUGHT UP A GOOD POINT, UM, HERMAN SCRIBES ABOUT THE, THE VOLUME OF THE KEYWORDS AND TESTING.
LAVERNE, LIBBY DAVIS, GOD BLESS HER, THAT SHE WOULD TELL US STUDENTS, AND THEY'RE GONNA BE CERTAIN TEST
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WORDS, BUZZ WORDS, WHY REPEAT AFTER ME BUZZWORD, AND WE WOULD REPEAT AFTER HER BUZZ WORDS.AND THOSE BUZZWORD WERE WORLD WERE WORDS THAT WOULD, THEY WOULD BE ON TESTS THAT WE MIGHT DIDN'T NORMALLY HAVE AN NOVEL VOCABULARY.
MRS. SMITH, WHERE YOU GOING AT WITH THIS? WHERE I'M GOING AT? WELL, THIS IS, LOOK, WE HAVE A A, UH, WE HAVE A, UM, A YOUNG PEOPLE DIRECTOR.
WHAT'S, WHAT'S, WHAT'S, WHAT'S ASHLEY'S JOB? WHAT'S THIS IS, UM, EARLY LITERACY.
MY MIND IS GOING A THOUSAND PLACES.
I GOTTA BRING IT BACK IN SO I CAN, I CAN BE SHORT.
WE HAVE EARLY LITERACY DIRECTOR, WE HAVE HEAD START.
THOSE TWO PROGRAMS SHOULD BE WORKING IN SILOS TOGETHER, BECAUSE THAT IS GOING TO BE THE UP, THOSE ARE GONNA BE THE NEW SCORES COMING IN AS WE, AS WE SEND OUT THESE OTHER HIGH SCHOOL AS WE GRADUATE THESE KIDS THIS YEAR.
HOW ARE WE PUTTING OUR DOLLARS INTO GETTING THOSE KIDS TO LEARN THE 50 VERSUS 50 WORDS VERSUS THE 250 WORDS? BECAUSE SOME OF THESE KIDS, THEY COMING TO SCHOOL AND THEY ONLY, THEY ONLY LEARN 10 WORDS.
MAMA, DADDY, I'M HUNGRY LUNCH.
VERSUS LEARNING THAT LEARNING, HAVING THAT VOCABULARY OF THE 50 WORDS VERSUS THE 250 WORDS COMING, THAT THAT GOES RIGHT THERE TOWARDS THE GAP.
BECAUSE SOME, SOME PARENTS CAN AFFORD TO TEACH 'EM, OR SOME PARENTS CAN AFFORD TO GIVE THEIR KIDS TUTORING.
SO, SO MY QUESTION IS, HOW ARE WE SPENDING THE MONEY TO GET THESE TWO TOGETHER TO WORK TOGETHER? BECAUSE GUESS WHAT? THEIR SCORES ARE, OUR SCORES REGARDLESS TO WHEREVER THEY OUTSIDE OF OUR DISTRICT OR NOT.
THEY, WE HAVE TO OWN THEIR SCORES.
ONCE THOSE KIDS COME IN AND START TESTING AND THOSE KIDS COME IN IN AND THEY DON'T KNOW THAT'S OURS.
SO I'M REALLY LOOKING FOR, AND, AND, AND I, I, I SPOKE ABOUT THAT AT THE LAST BOARD MEETING IN TERMS OF, WE SAID WE JUST HIRED A, OUR TEAM, THAT THAT'S WHO, THAT'S WHO GONNA GO OUT AND LOOK FOR KIDS WHO CAN'T GO TO SCHOOL.
THAT'S SURRENDERED TO ME FOR THE WEEK.
THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING.
I'M LOOKING FOR US TO GET MORE INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY TO GET THESE SCORES UP.
WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT ALL DAY, BUT WHAT IS OUR PLAN AND HOW WE GONNA GET INVOLVED? IT'S EASY TO SAY THAT PEOPLE DON'T CARE.
THAT'S, THAT, THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IN TERMS OF HOW WE GONNA GET THESE KIDS FROM 50, FROM 50 VOCABULARY WORDS TO FIVE TO 500 VOCABULARY WORDS.
WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE WE DOING? BECAUSE WHAT THEY DO DO AFFECT US AND WE SHOULD WORK TOGETHER BECAUSE WE'RE ONLY ONE COUNTY.
AND I DO APPRECIATE Y'ALL WORK.
I I, MY MY CONVERSATION SOMETIMES IS, IS, IS RIGOROUS, BUT I DO, BECAUSE MY CONVERSATION IN THE COMMUNITY IS RIGOROUS.
I DON'T DOUBT NOTHING THAT YOU, THAT YOU DO, BUT I JUST, I'M JUST LOOKING.
WE ARE RIGHT THERE AT THE, WE'RE RIGHT THERE AT THE 90 YARD LINE.
I'M LOOKING TO MAKE, I'M LOOKING TO MAKE THAT TOUCHDOWN.
I I JUST, WE JUST, WE JUST NEED MORE.
I APPRECIATE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU.
THIS IS GONNA BE OUR LAST QUESTION, MISS FID, OR COMMENT.
OH, I STARTED IT OUT AND NOW I GET TO FINISH IT UP.
UM, IT REALLY IS MORE OF A COMMENT AND I JUST HAVE TO, FIRST OF ALL, THANK DR.
STRATS, YOUR ENTIRE TEAM, AND ALL THE TEACHERS, BECAUSE AS WHAT HAS BEEN ASKED TO THE QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE, SOME OF THE SUGGESTIONS HAVE BEEN IN OUR DISTRICT, AND WE ARE SEEING THE FRUITS OF THAT LABOR FOR YEARS.
I DON'T KNOW ANY TEACHER THAT DOESN'T SIT DOWN WITH THEIR STUDENTS, WITH THEIR TARGET WHEN THEY HAVE THEIR MAP TESTING.
LET'S LOOK AT WHAT YOUR TARGET IS.
HOW DID YOU MEET YOUR TARGET? EVERY SINGLE, AND THAT HAS BEEN A DECADES LONG PRACTICE.
ACADEMIC VOCABULARY BUZZWORDS.
YOU'RE RIGHT, MR. SMITH, THAT IS A BEST PRACTICE LONG STANDING PRACTICE IN THIS DISTRICT.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN IT SAYS SITE? WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN IT SAYS ANALYZE? WHAT DOES IT MEAN? ALL THOSE 12 MAJOR ACADEMIC WORDS THAT YOU'RE GONNA FIND IN ASSESSMENTS.
AND THE LAST THING I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IS, MR. SMITH, YOU HAVE FOUR MORE YEARS FOR COMMUNITY MEETINGS.
EVERYBODY THAT IS GONNA BE ON THE BOARD.
RODRIGUEZ, WHEN YOU FIRST STARTED, YOU CAME TO A COMMUNITY MEETING WITH ME AT BEAUFORT MIDDLE SCHOOL TO SHARE YOURSELF, YOUR, INTRODUCE YOURSELF, INTRODUCE, YOU KNOW, THAT CAN HAPPEN.
AND I, AND WHEN YOU SAY WE NEED MORE COMMUNITY MEETINGS, DR.
RODRIGUEZ, MS. MURRAY, EVERYBODY I HAVE NO DOUBT WOULD GO WITH YOU, SET UP A COMMUNITY MEETING, UM, MAKE IT HAPPEN.
NO ONE'S STOPPING YOU FROM DOING THAT.
AND I URGE YOU, OVER THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, SINCE YOU ARE THE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE AND YOU BRING FORWARD ALL THESE CONCERNS FROM YOUR COMMUNITY, THEY WILL GO, I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THEY WOULD GO WITH YOU AND ADDRESS ANY CONCERNS.
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COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT EXIST IN NORTHERN BEAUFORD COUNTY, ALL THOSE OUTREACH PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE, THE PARENT UNIVERSITY, THINGS THAT WE HAVE, MAKE IT HAPPEN.BECAUSE IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, DR.
RODRIGUEZ, WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO HEAR IT DIRECTLY FROM THEM? SO, SO THAT'S AN EXCELLENT POINT.
AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, INVITE ME.
ALL RIGHT, WE'LL TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK.
AND WE'LL BE BACK AT, UH, 1146.
YEAH'S THERE TO PUT, THAT'S, YEAH, YOU'VE GOTTA WEAR RIGHT SHOES.
WHEN YOU COME TO FLOORS AND YOU
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INITIATIVES MORNING, WE'RE GONNA KIND OF LUMP TWO THINGS TOGETHER HERE.MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVES AND STUDENT DISCIPLINE BE BECAUSE I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE HAD AN IN DEPTH REPORT AT SOME POINT THIS YEAR ON STUDENT DISCIPLINE.
SO WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO IS TALK ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH FOR ADULTS, MENTAL HEALTH FOR STUDENTS, AND THEN ROLL THAT INTO DISCIPLINE AS IT ALL APPLIES TO EACH OTHER.
AND WE'RE GONNA DO THE PRESENTATION THIS MORNING.
WE'RE GONNA TRY TO DO IT INTERACTIVELY.
YOU HAVE TWO POWERPOINTS IN FRONT OF YOU.
SO AS WE GO THROUGH THE POWERPOINTS, THE POWERPOINTS WILL BE A GUIDE.
WE'RE GONNA ASK YOU TO ASK QUESTIONS AFTER EACH ONE OF THE SLIDES, BECAUSE WE WILL TALK THROUGH WHAT'S ON THAT SLIDE.
YOUR QUESTIONS ARE GONNA BE AUTOMATICALLY IN YOUR MIND AS WE GO THROUGH IT.
SO INSTEAD OF ASKING YOU TO HOLD AND WRITE DOWN AND COME BACK, WE'LL GET THROUGH THE QUESTIONS AS WE GO THROUGH THE SLIDES.
SO, UM, UH, WE HAVE WITH US THIS MORNING, UM, KIKI SWINTON, WHO IS OUR DIRECTOR OF EMPLOYEE SERVICES.
AND THAT'S A BIG UMBRELLA TO TAKE CARE OF OUR EMPLOYEES FROM BEGINNING TO THE END.
JULIET WHITE, WHO'S OUR, UM, STUDENT SERVICES OFFICER.
AND ALONG WITH HER, WE HAVE MS. ANDREA MURRAY, WHO IS OUR COORDINATOR OF HUMAN SERVICES.
SO ALL OF THIS, ALL OF THESE, UM, AREAS INCLUDE MENTAL HEALTH, STUDENT DISCIPLINE.
SO WHEN WE LAUNCHED OUR INITIATIVES EARLY ON TO INCLUDE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR OUR STAFF, WE BEGAN VERY SMALL AT THE BEGINNING.
IT IS STILL EVOLVING, IT'S STILL A WORK IN PROCESS.
AND WE ARE GONNA WALK YOU THROUGH WHERE WE ARE, WHERE WE STARTED, WHERE WE ARE, AND WHERE WE HOPE TO GO.
SO I'M GONNA ASK, UM, KIKI TO COME UP, AND WE'RE GONNA BEGIN WITH OUR EMPLOYEE SUPPORT SERVICES, AND THAT'S OUR MENTAL HEALTH.
AND I, I BELIEVE YOU REMEMBER WHEN WE LAUNCHED HASHTAG YOU MATTERS.
THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF OUR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.
SO I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO KIKI AND AS WE GO ASK QUESTIONS HERE.
SO, AS, UM, MS. WALTON SAID, WHEN WE STARTED THE, UM, MATTER INITIATIVE, UM, WE PARTNERED WITH HOPE PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS, WHICH WAS A LOCAL MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER.
UNFORTUNATELY, JAMES HESTER RECENTLY PASSED AWAY, AND SO THE
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BUSINESS DISSOLVED.UM, THEY HAVE BEEN ABSORBED BY ONE OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY PARTNERS, SO WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE.
UM, BUT WE'RE VERY PROUD OF OUR YOU MATTER INITIATIVE.
WE HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, WORKED HARD TO ENSURE THAT OUR SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE TO STAFF.
OUR GOAL HAS BEEN ON FOCUSED ON REMOVING BARRIERS AND INCREASING ACCESS TO STAFF MEMBERS.
UM, A LOT OF WHAT YOU TALKED ABOUT THIS MORNING WITH REGARDS TO THE WORK THAT OUR TEACHERS ARE DOING IN THE CLASSROOM IS EXACTLY THE REASON WHY THIS WORK IS IMPORTANT.
IN ORDER FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF OUR CHILDREN AND, AND SHOW UP AND PROVIDE THEM THE ACADEMIC SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED, THEY HAVE TO ALSO BEHOLD THEMSELVES AND BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT SERVICE FOR THEM.
SO OUR GOAL IS THROUGH THE YOU MATTER INITIATIVE TO INCREASE ACCESS AND REMOVE BARRIERS TO SERVICE.
ROBIN, IF YOU WANNA GO AHEAD TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
SINCE, UM, WE LAUNCHED THE YOU MATTER INITIATIVE, WE HAVE PROGRESSED AND ADDED A NEW PARTNER, HELLO HERO, WHICH IS WHAT WE LAUNCHED IN APRIL OF 2022.
THAT PARTNERSHIP WAS BROUGHT ON TO PROVIDE VIRTUAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING AT NO COST TO STAFF MEMBERS.
WE SAW AN OPPORTUNITY WITH THE ADDITION OF THE ESSA FUNDS TO UTILIZE THOSE FUNDS TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THIS SERVICE TO OUR STAFF MEMBERS WHEN WE LAUNCHED IN APRIL.
UM, SO FROM APRIL TO THE END OF JUNE, WE WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO STAFF MEMBERS.
AND THEN BASICALLY IN JULY, WE KIND OF RESET AND OFFERED AN ADDITIONAL SET OF, OF, UH, SERVICES THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO STAFF MEMBERS.
UM, WE'VE SEEN THAT OUR STAFF HAVE BEEN WILLING TO UTILIZE THE SERVICE.
UM, SO FOR US, THE NUMBERS CONTINUING TO GROW INDICATES TO US THAT THIS IS A SERVICE THAT OUR STAFF ARE UTILIZING.
IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS A SELF-REFERRAL.
SO I, WE DO NOT GO STAFF MEMBERS DO NOT HAVE TO GO THROUGH HR OR THROUGH THEIR PRINCIPAL IN ORDER TO SEEK OUT THESE SERVICES.
THEY THEMSELVES CAN REACH OUT TO HELLO HERO DIRECTLY.
SO THAT DOES NOT HAVE ANY IMPACT.
UM, I KNOW WHEN WE INITIALLY LAUNCHED, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT STAFF MEMBERS HAD WAS, IS THIS GOING TO BE A REFLECTION OF ME AS A PROFESSIONAL? UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE WORRY ABOUT.
I DON'T WANT SOMEONE TO PERCEIVE ME AS HAVING A WEAKNESS BECAUSE I'M SEEKING OUT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES WHEN THE REALITY IS THAT IS A STRENGTH, AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE SHOULD BE PROUD OF.
AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO WORK TO REDUCE THE STIGMA.
THE FOCUS FOR US, THOUGH, IS TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR STAFF UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS COMPLETELY PRIVATE, IT'S COMPLETELY CONFIDENTIAL.
WE DO NOT RECEIVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE SERVICES THAT STAFF MEMBERS ARE RECEIVING OR WHO ARE RECEIVING SERVICES.
IF YOU DON'T MIND GOING TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO POINT OUT, UM, FROM APRIL TO JUNE OF 2022, WE HAD 120 STAFF MEMBERS THAT SOUGHT SERVICES THROUGH, UM, HOPE THROUGH, I'M SORRY, THROUGH HELLO HERO.
AND THEN FROM JULY 1ST TO THROUGH OCTOBER OF 2020 TWO, ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX, STAFF MEMBERS HAVE RECEIVED OVER 1200 HOURS OF COUNSELING.
ON OUR NEXT SLIDE IS A COMBINATION OF INFORMATION.
SO THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION HERE WITH REGARDS TO THE ESSER FUNDS AND HOW WE'VE UTILIZED THAT FOR STAFF MENTAL HEALTH.
YOU'LL SEE TO THE FAR LEFT, UM, THAT IS WHERE HOPE PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS, WHO HAS ALSO BEEN PROVIDING SERVICES THROUGH OUR HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT.
THEY ASSISTED WITH FIT FOR DUTY EVALUATIONS, UM, SUBSTANCE ABUSE THERAPY, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.
THEY PARTICIPATED WITH US WITH REGARDS TO THAT.
AND THEN, HELLO, HERO, OF COURSE, HAS BEEN DOING THE VIRTUAL, HE VIRTUAL COUNSELING FOR OUR STAFF MEMBERS.
UM, WE ALSO INCLUDED ON HERE THE NUMBER OF MONTHLY REFERRALS.
SO YOU'LL SEE THAT WHEN WE LAUNCHED IN APRIL, NEARLY A HUNDRED STAFF MEMBERS IMMEDIATELY SOUGHT THAT SERVICE OUT.
UM, THAT WAS AN INDICATION THAT THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS OF, OF GREAT BENEFIT TO OUR STAFF MEMBERS.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS WE SAW AS BENEFICIAL WHEN WE MET WITH HELLO HERO WAS THE DIVERSITY OF THEIR STAFF.
AND WHAT THEY DO WITH STAFF MEMBERS IS WHEN THEY DO AN INTAKE, THEY ASSESS THAT PERSON TO DETERMINE WHAT IS GOING TO BE THE BEST FIT FOR THEM TO RECEIVE THEIR COUNSELING, WHO ARE THEY GOING TO RECEIVE THEIR COUNSELING FROM.
AND THEN WE'RE ALSO, UM, FOCUSING ON EXPANDING THOSE STAFF MEMBERS.
SO AS WE SEE A NEED CONTINUE, AS WE SEE THE NUMBER OF STAFF MEMBERS CONTINUE TO GROW, THEN WE HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM MONTHLY TO ASSESS DO WE NEED TO GROW THE NUMBER OF STAFF MEMBERS.
WE STARTED OUT INITIALLY WITH TWO STAFF MEMBERS THAT WERE DEDICATED SOLELY TO BE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
THEIR SCHEDULE WAS BUILT AROUND OUR, OUR SCHOOL SCHEDULE.
SO STAFF MEMBERS DID NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT BEING SCHEDULED DURING, LET'S SAY THEIR PLANNING PERIOD, HAVING TO TAKE THAT TIME TO GO TO RECEIVE MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING.
THEY HAVE A SCHEDULE THAT IS BUILT PRIMARILY EARLY MORNINGS, AFTERNOONS INTO THE EVENING, SO STAFF MEMBERS WOULD BE ABLE TO RECEIVE THOSE SERVICES.
UM, YOU'LL SEE THE CASELOADS FOR EACH OF THE PROVIDERS.
AND AS I SAID, MS. WALTON AND I HAVE BEEN IN CONVERSATION WITH HELLO HERO ABOUT ADDING A FOURTH PROVIDER.
UM, WE KNOW THAT ONCE THEY GET TO THAT 25 TO 30 RANGE, THAT'S REALLY WHEN WE MAXIMIZE THE CASELOAD AND WE WANT OUR FOLKS TO RECEIVE THE OPTIMAL SERVICE.
SO WE'RE IN, IN INTRODUCING THE OPTION OF HAVING A FOURTH PROVIDER.
SO, AS I SAID EARLIER, THANK YOU ROBIN.
UM, THE GOAL FOR US IS INCREASING ACCESS AND REMOVING BARRIERS TO SERVICE.
AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE TALK ABOUT REGULARLY FOR OUR STUDENTS WITH REGARDS TO MENTAL HEALTH.
WHITE ARE GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT MORE.
BUT FOR US, THE PRIMARY FOCUS FROM THE HR PERSPECTIVE IS HOW DO WE DO THAT TO ADULTS?
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HOW DO WE DO THAT FOR ADULTS? UM, WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE NUMBER OF PROVIDERS IS IN NO WAY REFLECTIVE OF THE NEEDS THAT ARE AVAILABLE THAT ARE WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY WHEN IT COMES TO MENTAL HEALTH.WE PROBABLY HAVE SUCH A LARGE, I DON'T EVEN KNOW, A GAP BETWEEN THE NUMBER OF PROVIDERS AND THE, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SEEKING OUT SERVICES.
SO THERE'S A PRETTY EXTENSIVE WAIT LIST FOR PEOPLE TO GET ON WITH SOME OF THE MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS HERE.
SOME INSURANCE DOES NOT COVER, OR SOME PROVIDERS DO NOT ACCEPT PARTICULAR INSURANCE.
SO BEING ABLE TO HAVE THIS WHERE YOU CAN SEEK THIS OUT UP TO 12 SESSIONS, UM, WE SAW THAT AS WE WERE PROVIDING THE INITIAL EIGHT SERVICES, GOING BACK AND LOOKING AT BEING REFLECTIVE ABOUT THE SERVICES THAT WERE PROVIDED, WE RECOGNIZED THAT EIGHT SESSIONS WAS NOT ENOUGH FOR A STAFF MEMBER BECAUSE WE WOULD HAVE REGULAR, UM, SITUATIONS WHERE STAFF MEMBERS WOULD COME BACK AND REQUEST ADDITIONAL SERVICES.
SO WE INCREASED THAT ADDITIONAL NUMBER TO 12.
WE ALSO WORK WITH OUR BENEFITS DEPARTMENT TO BE ABLE TO WORK THROUGH OUR INSURANCE PROVIDERS AND OUR EAP TO CONNECT STAFF MEMBERS WHO NEED ADDITIONAL SERVICES OUTSIDE OF WHAT OUR PROVIDERS ARE ABLE TO OFFER.
YOU HAVE A QUESTION? OH, SORRY.
UH, SO JUST WHO'S ON THE OTHER END OF THE LINE? THESE ARE CERTIFIED MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS? YES.
UM, UH, AND IS THIS IS LIKE TELEHEALTH, IS IT, IS IT THEY YOU SEE EACH OTHER? OR IS IT ALL JUST ON THE PHONE? THEY DO BOTH.
WHATEVER THE LINE IT BASED ON, BASED ON THE EMPLOYEE'S PREFERENCE.
IT WAS JUST A, THOSE TWO QUICK QUESTIONS.
AND THEY COVER A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT MODALITIES.
SO THE DIFFERENT, THE THREE DIFFERENT PROVIDERS THAT WE LIST, SOME ARE LICENSED, UM, AND FAMILY, SOME ARE INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING.
SO THAT'S WHERE THEY DO THE ASSESSMENT.
THEY DETERMINE WHAT THE NEED OF THE EMPLOYEE IS.
SO THEY MAY SAY, HEY, KIKI MAY NEED THIS PARTICULAR, THIS, THESE ARE THE NEEDS THAT SHE IDENTIFIED IN HER ASSESSMENT.
SO WE'RE GONNA CONNECT HER TO PROVIDER B.
UM, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO IN ES HER FUNDS END? I DON'T, I DON'T THINK, I DON'T THINK THE PROBLEM'S GOING TO END.
SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT.
THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THIS PROGRAM IS, AND MS. WAL AND I HAVE REGULAR CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO KEEP THIS IN PLACE FOR STAFF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
THIS DATA, THIS DATA WE'VE GOTTA CAPTURE BECAUSE THIS IS HOW WE CAN JUSTIFY CONTINUING THIS PROGRAM AFTERWARDS.
SO, UH, BE SURE WE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK OUR CASELOAD IS GONNA DIMINISH CONSIDERABLY ONCE ESSER FUNDS END, BUT I, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THIS, UH, OUR EMPLOYEES HAVE THIS ASSET IN PERPETUITY.
UH, THAT YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
UH, COLONEL GAIA, WE HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS.
WE KNOW THAT THE EONS ARE GONNA RUN OUT.
WE'RE GONNA BE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL.
SO WE TALK CONSTANTLY WITH FINANCE IN TERMS OF HOW WE GONNA SUSTAIN THIS WORK, THIS AS A BUDGET ITEM IN THE FUTURE.
BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE CAN TURN AROUND, I DON'T THINK WE CAN PROVIDE THIS SERVICE.
AND THEN AT THE END OF THREE YEARS, SAY WE DON'T DO IT ANYMORE BECAUSE THE NEED IS THERE.
AND ONCE YOU GIVE EMPLOYEES SOMETHING, IT IS VERY HARD TO TAKE IT BACK.
SO IT'S A CONSTANT DISCUSSION, AND WE ARE LOOKING AT WHERE WE CAN FIT THIS IN, IN OUR UPCOMING BUDGET, UM, PROCESSES.
MR. MEL CAMPBELL, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE VOLLEYBALL GAME? MY QUESTION IS, I'M SORRY.
I'M SORRY TO LOOK AT YOU LIKE THAT MS. CAMPBELL.
I WAS LIKE, WHAT
MY QUESTION IS, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO LOWER THOSE NUMBERS TO CHANGE THAT CLIMATE TWO, REDIRECT SOME OF THOSE EMOTIONS FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF CLIMATE CONTROL OR ENGAGEMENT AMONGST STAFF WITH EACH OTHER, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT, THAT BEATS THIS PRESSURE.
YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN IN THE CLASSROOM AND I KNOW YEAH, WE, WE TEND TO STRESS, BUT IF WE ARE STRESSING ALONE, THEN WE GOING LOOK FOR THESE SERVICES.
BUT IF WE'VE GOT SOME PEOPLE TO FEED OFF OF FROM A DISTRICT PERSPECTIVE, THEY, WE PLAY VOLLEYBALL TOGETHER, WE BOUNCE OFF SOME OF OUR SITUATIONS TOGETHER.
THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING WHAT HAPPENS TO THE VOLLEYBALL GAME? PICKING UP WHAT YOU'RE PUTTING DOWN ABOUT BUILDING CULTURE.
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BUILDING CULTURE DOES LEAD SOME OF THE ALLEVIATION OF SOME OF THE STRESS THAT HAPPENS AROUND YES.SO, SO I THINK YOU, I'M SORRY.
A FOCUS OF OURS IS ON WHAT IS THE CULTURE IN THE BUILDINGS.
AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE TALK ABOUT REGULARLY WITH ADMINISTRATORS, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE OUR MONTHLY LEADERSHIP MEETINGS.
UM, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE ALSO NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT IT'S NOT GOING AWAY ANYTIME SOON.
UM, BUT THE GOAL FOR US IS, AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT IN A COUPLE OF SLIDES, TO PUSH SOME THINGS DOWN TO THE POOL SITE THAT CAN HAPPEN WITH OUR SUPPORT.
I, I KNOW IT'S NOT GONNA BE A HALF A DAY OFF EVERY, EVERY WEEK,
THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, I, I'M CONCERNED THAT WE NEED TO BUILD ALL OF THOSE COMPONENTS INTO THIS TO REALLY DO SOMETHING TO FIX IT.
I, I'M NOT, I'M NOT THOSE WHO'S GONNA ACCEPT THE IDEA THAT OUR SOCIETY'S GONNA GET WORSE.
THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT MORE SCHOOL SHOOTING.
THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT MORE MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE.
I'M IN THE, I'M IN THE MODE THAT WE CAN FIX IT FROM AN EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVE.
WE CAN DESIGN SOMETHING THAT WILL WORK FROM OUR SOCIETY.
THAT'S, THAT'S THE MODE I'M IN.
AND I'M LOOKING FOR THINGS THAT HELP ME FEEL LIKE I'M RIGHT.
UM, I THINK THAT A PART OF WHAT WE'RE DOING AS A HR DEPARTMENT, WE DO THE ANNUAL UPBEAT SURVEY FOR STAFF MEMBERS.
ONE TO GAUGE HOW STAFF ARE FEELING WITHIN THE BUILDING, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE NEEDS OF STAFF MEMBERS.
SO THAT GIVES THEM A VOICE FOR US TO BE ABLE TO BUILD OFF OF.
UM, IT DOES US NO GOOD TO BE ABLE TO JUST THROW A DART IN THE DARK AND, AND HOPE THAT WE'LL HIT THE BOARD AS TO WHAT SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE.
TO UTILIZING THAT INFORMATION.
SO I, I WOULD JUST, I JUST GOT A SNAPSHOT OF THE MOST RECENT, UH, UPBEAT, UH, CLIMATE SURVEY MM-HMM.
THE, WHEN THEY TOOK IT, UM, NOT TOO LONG AGO, THE, THE GROWTH AND IMPROVEMENT IS ASTRONOMICAL.
UH, UH, THE, THE INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS SHARING, THE CONSULTANT THAT WAS SHARING THE INFORMATION WITH US WAS SAYING, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE SEE A TWO POINT ENGAGEMENT SURVEY INCREASE, WE'RE DANCING OFF THE WALLS, BECAUSE THAT'S HUGE, RIGHT? WE HAVE SOME SCHOOLS WITH A 20 POINT INCREASE IN ENGAGEMENT SURVEY, 13 POINT INCREASE IN ENGAGEMENT SURVEY.
PROBABLY SIX OF 'EM HAD SEVEN POINT INCREASE IN ENGAGEMENT SURVEYS.
UM, I WAS, I WAS BLOWN AWAY BY THAT.
WE HAVE PUT AN EMPHASIS ON THAT.
UM, I'VE ASKED OUR PRINCIPLES THIS YEAR TO IDENTIFY THREE THINGS FROM THEIR LAST SURVEY.
FIND THREE THINGS IN THAT SURVEY THAT, THAT YOU WANNA WORK ON, BECAUSE YOU CAN'T WORK ON EVERYTHING AT ONE TIME.
SO FIND THREE THINGS YOU'RE GONNA HIT HOME ON, RIGHT.
DEVELOP A PLAN TO HIT HOME ON THOSE THREE THINGS.
YOU NEED TO GIVE THAT PLAN TO YOUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
WHEN YOU HAVE A FACULTY MEETING EVERY MONTH, FIRST ONE, YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT SURVEY SHOWED AND WHAT YOU'RE DOING WITH THE INFORMATION FROM THAT SURVEY.
HERE'S A PLAN THE NEXT MONTH AT YOUR FACULTY MEETING.
SAY, HERE'S WHAT WE'VE DONE ABOUT THIS SO FAR.
HERE'S WHAT WE'RE DOING NEXT ABOUT THESE THREE THINGS.
RIGHT? THE NEXT MONTH, BRING IT UP AGAIN.
THE NEXT MONTH, BRING IT UP AGAIN.
AND YOU CONTINUE THE DIALOGUE AND THE CONVERSATION AROUND THOSE THINGS.
I THINK OUR, I THINK THERE WAS JUST SOME MASSIVE IMPROVEMENT AND EMPHASIS ON THAT.
AND I THINK, I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT.
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE, NOT JUST THE DATA AROUND IT.
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, WHAT YOU, WHAT KIND OF THINGS DO YOU ORGANICALLY DO TO BUILD CULTURE WITHIN YOUR BUILDING? YOU HAVE A COOKOUT AND YOU HAVE A BARBECUE WHEN YOU HAVE A, A VOLLEYBALL GAME WITH YOUR STAFF THAT LETS YOU HAVE SOME COMRADERY AND SOME, UH, THAT THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
WHEN YOU SAID VOLLEYBALL, I GOTTA TELL YOU, YOU STUMPED ME FOR A MINUTE CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, BUT, BUT AS YOU GOT A LITTLE FURTHER, I, I, I UNDERSTAND EXACTLY YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
AND I, I THINK IT'S ENCOURAGING THAT WE ARE FOCUSING ON THIS BECAUSE IT DOES SHOW THAT WE CARE AND YOU KNOW, THAT YOU MATTER.
HASHTAG THAT WE HAD WAS NOT JUST LIP SERVICE.
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BEHIND THAT TO BE ABLE TO, TO SHOW OUR STAFF MEMBERS EVERY DAY YOU DO MATTER AND YOUR OPINION, YOUR OVERALL WELLBEING DOES MATTER TO US.SO WE'RE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY TO MAKE THOSE THINGS HAPPEN.
WE REALLY NEED EMERGENCY SYSTEM.
WE WANNA KEEP THAT FROM HAPPENING OVER AND OVER.
OILS OUR PROFESSION, THE EASIER TO HIRE A TEACHER BECAUSE NOBODY WANTS TO KEEP FRESH WITHOUT A JOB FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.
YOU GOTTA DO SOME THINGS TO FIXING THAT.
YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO BE AT TWITTER THESE DAYS.
BUT, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, HOW YOU BUILD CULTURE ON YOUR ORGANIZATION OR WITHIN YOUR SCHOOL AND THOSE OPPORTUNITIES ARE, ARE VALUABLE.
AND I THINK JUST TO ADD TO THAT, SOMETHING THAT YOU JUST BROUGHT UP, UM, WITH OUR NEW INDUCTION TEACHERS, WE ACTUALLY WORK WITH OUR MENTORS.
I ACTUALLY JUST DID A SESSION WITH THEM, UM, ABOUT A WEEK AND A HALF AGO ON WORK LIFE BALANCE AND ENCOURAGING STAFF MEMBERS WHO ARE NEW INDUCTION TEACHERS TO FOCUS ON WORK LIFE BALANCE AND TO SEEK OUT THOSE TYPES OF RELATIONSHIPS.
THOSE, THOSE THAT HELP TO BUILD YOU UP WHEN YOU FEEL, START TO FEEL LIKE IT'S JUST ME.
AND THEN YOU RECOGNIZE THAT IT'S NOT JUST YOU ALONE THAT'S DEALING WITH THAT.
AND THEN ANOTHER THING THAT WE'VE DONE IS, UM, IF YOU'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
WE PARTNERED WITH, UM, RIGHT DIRECTIONS, FAMILY SERVICES, WHO HAS ALSO BEEN A PARTNER OF OURS PROVIDING R BHS FOR STUDENTS.
WE HAVE NOW PARTNERED WITH THEM TO TAKE ON THOSE SERVICES THAT WE LOST WITH HOPE PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS. SO THE FOCUS FOR US IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CONTINUING TO BUILD THAT CADRE OF SUPPORT THAT WE HAVE FOR STAFF MEMBERS.
SO THEY WILL HELP US WITH OUR FIT FOR DUTY EVALUATIONS.
UM, THERE HAVE BEEN SITUATIONS WHERE WE NEEDED RISK ASSESSMENTS DONE ON ADULTS.
OUR, UM, SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS, COUNSELORS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, THEY'RE TRAINED TO DO THOSE RISK ASSESSMENTS FOR STUDENTS, BUT WE WANNA BE ABLE TO HAVE AN AGENCY THAT PARTNERS WITH US TO DO THAT.
SO WE'RE EXCITED TO BRING RIGHT DIRECTIONS ON US TO DO THAT.
THEY ALSO HAVE SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND THERAPY THAT IS AVAILABLE.
ARE YOU TRYING TO TELL ME? OKAY.
AND THEN, UM, INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY THERAPY IS AVAILABLE THROUGH RIGHT DIRECTIONS.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER SERVICE THAT WE'RE EXCITED TO BRING ON, UM, TO FOLLOW UP WITH THE LOSS OF WHOLE PERFORMANCE SYSTEM.
AND WE TALKED, IF YOU'LL GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE I, I'M SORRY I KEEP THROUGH THE SLIDES.
WE HAVE, I JUST WANTED TO JUST, THE, THE PREVIOUS CONVERSATION, IT'S ENCOURAGING TO HEAR, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT IS BEING OFFERED MENTAL HEALTH AND, UH, MR. CAMPBELL, YOUR, YOU'RE, UM, AT FIRST QUESTION ABOUT VOLLEYBALL MADE COMPLETE SENSE ONCE YOU EXPLAINED IT.
RODRIGUEZ, IT'S VERY ENCOURAGING, YOU KNOW, FROM THAT UPBEAT SURVEY AND SO ON.
BUT FROM A BOARD LEVEL, I JUST HAVE TO SHARE WITH MY COLLEAGUES AND, UM, AND HOPE THAT THE WORK CONTINUES.
BUT BY GIVING OUR TEACHERS THAT RAISE WHERE THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE TO WORK A SECOND JOB, THEY MIGHT, THEY JUST MIGHT NOT HAVE TO WORK A SECOND JOB.
YOU TALK ABOUT LOWERING THE STRESS LEVEL RIGHT THERE, WHERE THEY CAN ACTUALLY GO HOME AND FEEL GOOD ABOUT WORKING ON THEIR PLEASANT PLANS, GRADING THOSE TESTS, AND NOT HAVE TO RUN OFF TO BE A, A WEIGHT STAFF OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO FROM A BOARD LEVEL, I SO ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS, UH, FOR THE NEXT BUDGET CYCLE TO TO, TO KEEP THAT GOING.
IF I CAN SAY THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SPRING SURVEY AND THE FALL SURVEY AND THE QUESTION THAT DEALS WITH COMPENSATION THAT JUST WENT OUT OF THE ROOF, UM, I THINK BY MAYBE 16 POINTS.
SO IF YOU TALK ONE IS EXCEPTIONAL, WE ARE AT 16 NOW BECAUSE OF THE COMPENSATION.
SO IT'S WORKING AND YOU SHOULD BE, OR AT LEAST PAT YOURSELVES ON THE BACK AS A BOARD FOR SUPPORTING US IN THAT INITIATIVE TO SUPPORT TEACHERS AND STAFF.
I DUNNO IF I COULD FOLLOW THAT UP, ALICE
UM, BUT IT ALL, IT ALL GOES IN TOGETHER.
I WAS GONNA SAY, UH, UM, IN, IN, IN TERMS OF THAT, UM, UH, I DO IT, MY, MY QUESTION WOULD BE, UM, IN, IN, IN TERMS OF, IN TERMS OF STAFF, UM, HOW, HOW, HOW ARE THE, HOW THE, HOW ARE THE REVIEWS FROM THE, UH, THE UN CERTIFIED STAFF? BECAUSE, UH, I JUST, I, I'M REALLY GETTING A, A LOT OF QUESTIONING TO IN TERMS OF, UH, SOME OF 'EM ARE FEELING LIKE STEPCHILD, YOU KNOW, AS IN, YOU KNOW, MOM, YOU KNOW, YEAH, WE, WE LOVE TEACHERS.
WE'RE SHOWING TO TEACHERS MORE LOVE THAN WE'RE SHOWING, UH, UN CERTIFIED STAFF.
AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A CONCERN, YOU KNOW? UH, SO I
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MEAN IN TERMS OF, DO WE KNOW WHAT THAT, WHAT THAT, WHAT THAT LOOKED LIKE IN TERMS OF THE, UH, SURVEY? SO LET ME JUST SAY THAT WE'RE, YOU KNOW, HAVE TO COMPLY WITH FOIA AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH INITIATIVES AND STUDENT DISCIPLINE.SO I THINK YOU CAN ANSWER THAT, BUT IT HAS TO BE WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THAT.
WE CAN'T START HAVING NOW GOING DOWN A, A RAIL ABOUT, ABOUT THE PARTICULAR, UM, SURVEYS.
AND CERTAINLY MR. SMITH, YOU CAN ASK THOSE QUESTIONS TO, TO DR.
RODRIGUEZ OUTSIDE THE BOARD MEETING.
SO, UH, MR. SMITH, WHEN WE DO THE SURVEY, IT'S BROKEN DOWN IN TWO WAYS.
WE HAVE CLASSIFIED STAFF AS WELL AS CERTIFIED STAFF, AND WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT HERE AND OUR, UM, THE NUMBERS THAT WE GAVE YOU AND WHAT DR.
RODRIGUEZ SAID IS AS A DISTRICT AS A WHOLE.
SO THEY LOOK AT THREE, UM, CERTIFIED CLASSIFIED IN THE DISTRICT AS A WHOLE.
SO YOUR NUMBERS THAT WE'VE JUST GIVEN YOU TODAY INCLUDES EVERYTHING.
AND IN FACT, THE, PROBABLY THE CLASSIFIED STAFF NUMBERS WENT UP HIGHER THAN THE CERTIFIED STAFF.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE WE MOVE ON? WHY KUCHEN BARRY COMES BACK.
A LOT OF WHAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THOUGH, IS REALLY THE EMPHASIS THAT WE HAVE PLACED ON THE OF SERVING EMPLOYEES.
HOW DO WE CONTINUE TO BUILD, UM, ON THE NEEDS OF OUR EMPLOYEES TO MAKE BEFOR COUNTY ONE OF THE BEST PLACES TO WORK IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA? WE RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT IS BEING DONE EVERYWHERE.
UM, PEOPLE EXPECT FOR STAFF MEMBERS TO SHOW UP CERTIFIED OR CLASSIFIED AND DO THE WORK EVERY DAY, BUT THEY'RE NOT REALLY PUTTING IN EMPHASIS ON MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE TAKING CARE OF THEM.
I AM PROUD TO BE IN BEAVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT BECAUSE WE DO THAT, BECAUSE WE HAVE THE SUPPORT OF YOU ALL BECAUSE WE HAVE A LEADER IN DR.
RODRIGUEZ AND MS. WALTON TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE EMPHASIZING TAKING CARE OF OUR PEOPLE SO THAT THEY SHOW UP AND BE THE BEST AS WE START TO MOVE OUR STUDENTS ACADEMICALLY, UM, EACH YEAR.
SO, UM, WITH REGARDS TO THE EMPLOYEE BENEFIT, AGAIN, WE JUST FOCUS ON MAKING SURE THAT WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE WORKLIFE BALANCE REALLY MATTERS, AND BEING ABLE TO NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO ALLEVIATE OVER THE LAST TWO, TWO YEARS HAS, HAS REALLY BEEN A TREMENDOUS RESOURCE AND A BENEFIT FOR OUR STAFF MEMBERS.
UM, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THIS, AND MY HOPE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS HAS BECOME SOMETHING, A PART OF THE WAY THAT WE OPERATE.
UM, JUST THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO AND MAYBE WE CAN SERVE AS TRAILBLAZERS FOR OTHER DISTRICTS TO FOLLOW.
HOW DO WE MODEL WHAT'S BEING DONE IN BEAUFORT TO TAKE CARE OF PEOPLE? UM, BECAUSE REALLY AT THE END OF THE DAY, THAT'S WHAT IT'S ABOUT.
ARE WE TAKING CARE OF THE PEOPLE THAT SHOW UP EVERY DAY AND DO THIS DIFFICULT WORK? UM, WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO COLLABORATE WITH BOTH INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES AND STUDENT SERVICES TO HELP OUR FOLKS UNDERSTAND MENTAL HEALTH, UNDERSTAND MENTAL WELLBEING, UNDERSTAND TRAUMA, ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES.
THOSE ARE ALL SOME OF THE THINGS THAT PLAY INTO UNDERSTANDING.
AND THIS TIES INTO DISCIPLINE BECAUSE IF YOU UNDERSTAND WHERE A CHILD IS COMING FROM, WHAT THEY'VE EXPERIENCED, SOMETIMES YOU CAN HAVE A DIFFERENT CONVERSATION WITH THAT CHILD WITH REGARDS TO DISCIPLINARY ISSUES THAT YOU MIGHT BE, MIGHT BE SEEING IN THE CLASSROOM OR PUSHING THEM ACADEMICALLY.
HOW DO I REACH THIS CHILD? BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM, WHAT IT IS THAT THEY HAVE SEEN, OR WHAT IT IS THAT THEY'RE BRINGING TO THE TABLE THAT NOBODY SEES.
SO, UM, THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON, BRINGING IN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THAT HELPS OUR STAFF TO UNDERSTAND AND RECOGNIZE THIS AND BE ABLE TO TRANSLATE THAT TO THE WORK THAT'S BEING DONE IN THE CLASSROOM.
ANY QUESTIONS? AND I JUST WANNA AGAIN, SAY THANK YOU TO YOU ALL FOR THE COMMITMENT TO OUR STAFF.
UM, YOU MATTER IS NOT JUST A HASHTAG, IT'S NOT JUST A SLOGAN.
IT IS THE WAY THAT WE OPERATE.
WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR PEOPLE IN THE FACE AND SAY, YOU MATTER TO US, WE ACTUALLY MEAN THAT.
WOULD ANYBODY LIKE TO SPEAK? THAT IS NOT SPOKEN RIGHT? MR. SMITH, GO AHEAD.
WELL, UH, AS WE HAVE MORE OF A COMMENT, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU, UM, BECAUSE, UM, I HAVE HEARD SOME, SOME PEOPLE IN, UH, IN THE COMMUNITY HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND, AND IN THIS ENTITY.
I DO REMEMBER WHEN YOU FIRST BROUGHT THIS OVER AND HOW PASSIONATE YOU WERE AND HOW SERIOUS YOU, YOU WERE WITH THIS.
AND I KNOW THIS WAS YOUR BABY.
I DO APPRECIATE YOU AND YOU, YOU AND THE STAFF FOR DOING ALL THAT Y HAVE DONE.
UH, AND BY CONTINUOUSLY ACTUALLY TAKING THE TIME TO MAKE SURE THAT DATA TO BACK UP WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR WORK AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO, AS I'M HERE FOR, TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE WHAT YOU NEED TO CONTINUE THIS WORK AS A BOARD MEMBER.
I APPRECIATE YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO, MISS WAL AS WELL.
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YES.I'D JUST, JUST LIKE TO, UM, SAY THANK YOU TO DR.
RODRIGUEZ ARTICULATED, UM, IN TERMS OF HAVING THE BUILDING ADMINISTRATORS TO LOOK AT THEIR SURVEYS AND IDENTIFY THREE COMPONENTS AND KEEP IT AT THE FOREFRONT WITH THEIR FACULTY, THAT'S HUGE IN TERMS OF, UM, CHANGING CULTURES AND, UH, YOU KNOW, MAKING PEOPLE FEEL, HAVING PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY'RE IN IT TOGETHER AND WORKING ON THAT SCHOOL CULTURE.
UM, IT'S NOT AN EASY THING TO DO SOMETIMES, BUT REQUIRING THAT IT BE DONE AND, AND KEPT ON THE FOREFRONT IS BRAVE, AND THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
I JUST WANNA ADD SOMETHING TO THAT.
I DON'T KNOW IF HE SHARED THIS WITH YOU ALL, BUT OUR, OUR SUPERINTENDENT LITERALLY IS A ROCKSTAR NOW.
SO HE WAS, UM, RECOGNIZED, LITERALLY A ROCKSTAR.
HE HAS A, HE HAS A PLAQUE, I THINK IT'S IN HIS OFFICE, OR EITHER AT HOME.
TAYLOR SWIFT IS, UH, GOT COMPETITION
RODRIGUEZ WAS RECOGNIZED BY CLASS LINK AND RTM DURING THEIR FALL CONGRESS AS A ROCKSTAR SUPERINTENDENT FOR OUR HUMAN MATTER INITIATIVE AND THE WAY THAT WE'RE TAKING CARE OF STAFF.
SO, UM, I THINK THESE ARE ALL THINGS THAT REALLY SHOW ON A NATIONAL, NATIONAL LEVEL THAT THIS IS NOT BEING DONE EVERYWHERE.
WHAT WE'RE DOING IS UNPRECEDENTED WORK.
AND TO HAVE HIM TAKE THE, THE LEAD ON THIS AND JUST HELP US TO PUSH THIS FORWARD AND MAKE SURE THAT IT'S A, A REGULAR PRIORITY FOR US, I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT HE SHOULD BE COMMENDED FOR, THAT WE AS A DISTRICT SHOULD BE VERY PROUD OF.
UM, BUT I JUST THOUGHT Y'ALL SHOULD KNOW THAT HE'S A LITERAL ROCKSTAR.
BUT YOU ALL KNOW THAT THERE'S A GREAT TEAM HERE THAT DOES THIS, THIS WORK EVERY DAY TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR EMPLOYEES HAVE WHAT THEY NEED IN FRONT OF 'EM, AND IT'S SO CRITICAL AND IMPORTANT.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I'M SORRY.
BLA, I DON'T WANT NO, YOU'RE GOOD.
SO WE ARE GONNA MOVE ON WITH, UM, MENTAL HEALTH AND STUDENT DISCIPLINE.
SO I HAVE THE PLEASURE OF, UM, PIGGYBACK ON WHAT MS. WINTON PRESENTED ON THE, UM, EMPLOYEE SIDE FOR STUDENTS.
UM, AND IT HAS BEEN MORE SO IMPORTANT COMING OUT OF THE PANDEMIC THAT WE ENSURE THAT OUR STUDENTS, UM, MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS, UM, AND ARE MET.
SO WE AS A DISTRICT UTILIZES OUR, UM, SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS, SCHOOL COUNSELORS, OUR BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT SPECIALISTS, SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS, UM, TO OFFER STUDENT SUPPORT BASED ON THE INDIVIDUAL NEEDS IN ALL OUR SCHOOLS.
BUT OFTENTIMES THAT IS NOT ENOUGH.
OUR STUDENTS ARE COMING TO SCHOOL WITH NEEDS THAT WE AS EDUCATORS ARE NOT TYPICALLY, UM, TRAINED TO HANDLE.
AND SO WITH THAT, WE HAD TO BUILD OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS TO, UM, GET SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL HEALTH IN OUR SCHOOLS.
AND WITH THAT, UM, WE, UM, WITH THOSE INDIVIDUALS BEING PART OF THE MTSS SYSTEM AND MEETING CONSISTENTLY WITH SCHOOL TEAMS TO TALK ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS AND WHAT SUPPORTS THEY MAY NEED, WHILE OFTENTIMES THEN MAKE REFERRALS TO OUTSIDE AGENCIES, BOTH FOR, UH, COUNSELING AND THESE SERVICES, WHICH WE ARE VERY PROUD OF, AND WE ARE AHEAD OF THE, UM, GAME AS COMPARED TO MANY OTHER DISTRICTS, IS TO PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES AT SCHOOL FOR OUR STUDENTS.
SO WE REDUCE THE ABSENTEEISM RATE, WE REDUCED THE NEED FOR THEM TO HAVE TO LEAVE SCHOOL AND BE ABSENT FROM THOSE CRITICAL CLASSES.
SO AS A DISTRICT WHERE WE ARE, IT'S REALLY CONTINUING TO HAVE AN INCREASED NEED FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES TO OUR STUDENTS.
MS. MURRAY, WE'LL ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT WHAT WE ARE DOING TO REALLY INCREASE OUR RESOURCES TO GET MORE MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS INTO OUR SCHOOLS, TO MEET THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS.
WE'VE PARTNERED AS, UM, ALONG WITH WHAT WE HAVE FOR THE ADULT SIDE, A COASTAL MENTAL HEALTH COMMUNITY, UH, MENTAL HEALTH EMPIRE, COASTAL EMPIRE MENTAL HEALTH, HELLO HERO, WHICH IS REALLY BIG FOR US WITH TELE SERVICES FOR STUDENTS.
WE DID, WE'VE DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB ON THE EMPLOYEE SIDE AND REALLY WORKING TO BRING THAT TELEHEALTH SERVICES TO THE STUDENT SIDE AS WELL.
RIGHT? DIRECTIONS, FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES, WHICH HAVE BEEN IN OUR DISTRICT FOR A LONG TIME, BUT THEY HAVE NOW EXPANDED TO PROVIDE THAT INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING AS WELL AS SCHOOL PSYCHIATRIST AND MEDICATION INTERVENTION TO STUDENTS AS WELL.
UM, AND FRIENDS OF CAROL CAROLINE HOSPICE, WHICH PROVIDE, UM, THE GRIEF COUNSELING TO MANY OF OUR STUDENTS IN CRISIS AND IN GRIEF AS WELL.
WE'LL CONTINUE TO USE THE ESR FUNDING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE MEETING THE NEEDS, BUT ALSO HAVE A PLAN FOR SUSTAINABILITY AS THOSE FUNDS ARE EXHAUSTED AS
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WELL.THE OTHER PART TO MAKE SURE THAT THE SERVICES ARE REALLY GETTING TO THE STUDENTS AND FOR PARENTS TO UNDERSTAND IS REALLY TO STRENGTHEN OUR MTSS PROCESS AS WELL.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE SAW WAS HOW DO PARENTS, HOW ARE PARENTS AWARE OF THE SERVICES? HOW DO WE GET THOSE SERVICES TO PARENTS? SO ONE OF THE THINGS I'M MOST PROUD OF IS THAT WE, IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, WOULD BE GREAT.
WE HAVE REALLY LOOKED AT MAKING SURE THAT THE INFORMATION'S ACCESSIBLE TO THE PARENTS.
SO WHAT WE HAVE DONE IS PUT A LINK ON WITH THE HELP OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT AND THEIR EXPERTISE, REALLY MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A VISIBLE PRESENCE FOR PARENTS WHERE IT IS NOT THAT THEY HAVE TO GO TO SEARCH BEFORE, YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT THAT YOU NEED TO GO TO STUDENT SERVICES, AND THEN YOU NEED TO GO TO COUNSELING, AND THEN YOU NEED TO GO TO ANOTHER SITE.
SO WITH THAT, IF ROBIN CAN DEMONSTRATE, YOU'LL SEE A TOWEL ON OUR DISTRICT WEB PAGE THAT SAYS, ASK FOR HELP, MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT.
SO WHEN PARENTS GO TO OUR DISTRICT WEBPAGE, UM, THE MAIN PAGE, THEY WILL COME UP AND THEY'LL SEE THAT TOWEL.
ONCE THEY CLICK ON THAT TOWEL, YOU GET THE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT, TWO CLICKS AND THE PARENT HAVE ALL THE RESOURCES AT THEIR, UM, DISPOSAL THERE.
SO ASK FOR HELP, CLICK ON THE MENTAL HEALTH, UM, BUTTON, READ MORE, AND THEN THEY'RE RIGHT THERE AT THE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT WITH, UH, WHAT IT IS, HOW YOU CAN MAKE REFERRALS.
BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH THE REFERRALS COME THROUGH, MAY COME THROUGH OUR MTSS PROCESS, PARENTS CAN ALSO REFER STUDENTS AS WELL.
AND WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, WE ALSO HAVE A DIRECT LINK TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL WEBSITE SO A PARENT CAN ACCESS MORE INFORMATION AS THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS ABOUT WHO THEY MAY WANT TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO THEIR STUDENTS.
ALSO WITH THE, UM, DISTRICT WEBSITE LAST YEAR WITH THE HASHTAG U MATTER, UM, INITIATIVE, THE COMMON ROOM WAS ESTABLISHED.
AND I REALLY AM EXCITED TO INFORM YOU THAT THAT IS ONE OF THE TOP 10 SITES ON OUR DISTRICT WEB PAGES VISITED ON A DAILY BASIS.
SO PEOPLE ARE VISITING AND GO IN THERE AND THERE AND ACCESS AND THE RESOURCES TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE TAKING CARE OF THEMSELVES AS WELL.
UM, ANY QUESTIONS SO FAR, MR. MEL CAMPBELL, YOU SAID PARENTS CAN, CAN, CAN, UH, ASK FOR HELP THEMSELVES AND REFER FOR THEIR STUDENTS.
SO SHE'LL SPEAK TO THAT IN A FEW MINUTES.
WELL, UM, AS WE CONTINUE WITH OUR FUNDING, UM, WHOLE PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS, YOU NO LONGER PROVIDING THE SERVICES TO OUR STUDENTS BECAUSE OF THE, UM, UM, THEIR CLOSURE.
BUT THOSE FUNDS ARE BEING REALLOCATED TO, UM, RIGHT.
DIRECTIONS WHO PROVIDED R BHS SY, UM, SERVICES, WHICH IS PROVIDING THOSE KIDS WITH THE MOST OF THEIR BEHAVIOR NEEDS IN OUR SCHOOLS.
UM, SOME ONE-ON-ONE SERVICES, HOWEVER THEY CAN PROVIDE THAT COUNSELING SUPPORT AND SOME ADDITIONAL SERVICES.
SO AS WE AND RIGHT DIRECTIONS WE'RE PRIMARILY FUNDED THROUGH MEDICAID.
SO OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE, UM, ELIGIBLE FOR MEDICAID, USUALLY THE, THAT WOULD COVER THE SERVICES.
BUT WE KNOW WE HAVE SOME STUDENTS THAT STILL HAVE SOME INTENSE NEEDS THAT DO NOT HAVE MEDICAID.
SO WE HAVE AN AGREEMENT WITH THEM, LIKE WITH ALL THE OTHER PROVIDERS, THAT IF THERE IS A STUDENT WHO THEIR INSURANCE WILL NOT COVER THAT WE WILL MAKE SURE OUR STUDENTS STILL HAVE ACCESS.
SO NO STUDENT IS GOING WITHOUT A MUCH NEEDED SERVICE THAT THEY HAVE TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
DIRECTION FAMILY SERVICES IF THEY'RE NEEDED.
AND TO REALLOCATE TO ALL OUR PROVIDERS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO MEET THE NEEDS.
BECAUSE REMEMBER MS. WINTON MENTIONED THAT RIGHT DIRECTIONS HAVE ABSORBED SOME OF THE STAFF IN THE CASELOAD FOR, UM, WHOLE PERFORMANCE AS WELL.
MY UNDERSTANDING IS JUST THAT RIGHT.
DIRECTIONS, FAMILY SERVICES IS MORE FOR SOME, UH, I DUNNO HOW YOU'D PUT IT.
LIKE THEY HAD, THEY, I DON'T THINK THEY HAVE LIKE A COUNSELING.
YOU'RE STRUGGLING WITH ANXIETY KIND OF ASPECT.
SO MS. MARIE CAN SPEAK CUZ THEY HAVE EXPANDED THEIR SERVICES.
I'D LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT.
THEY, UH, RIGHT DIRECTIONS ACTUALLY IS NOW RIGHT DIRECTION, FAMILY SERVICES OF SEASIDE HEALTH.
THEY WERE ABSORBED INTO A CORPORATE, UH, SETTING.
SO THEY ARE ABLE TO EXPAND THEIR SERVICES.
THEY HAVE EXPANDED, THEY'VE ALWAYS HAD A PSYCHIATRIST ON STAFF, HOWEVER, THEY STILL DO THAT.
THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO OFFER INDIVIDUAL FAMILY
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GROUP THERAPY IN ADDITION TO THE R BHS SERVICE.R BHS IS REHABILITATIVE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES, UH, AND THAT'S THE IN-SCHOOL SERVICE.
UH, BUT THEY HAVE EXPANDED, SO THEY'RE ABLE TO DO A LITTLE BIT MORE.
THEY'VE ALSO ABSORBED, UH, SOME OF HOPE PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS EMPLOYEES AS WELL.
AND YOU SAID IN SCHOOL, SO RIGHT CHOICE, I'M SORRY, I'M GONNA GET THIS ALL CONFUSED RIGHT.
UH, HAS THE CAPACITY TO PERFORM SERVICES IN SCHOOL, IS THAT JUST FOR THE R BHS OR WOULD THAT ALSO BE FOR LIKE GENERAL COUNSELING? IT'S USUALLY FOR R BHS AND IT WOULD DEPEND ON THE COUNSELING BECAUSE YOU HAVE DIFFERENT FACETS OF COUNSELING.
I WOULD, I'M PRETTY SURE, BUT I CAN CHECK AND GET BACK TO YOU.
THAT'S A CASE BY CASE BASIS BECAUSE THE R BHS FOCUSES ON THE BEHAVIORAL ASPECT.
AND A LOT OF THE STUDENTS WHO ARE, UH, REFERRED FOR R BHS SERVICES, THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS.
THEY ARE EITHER APPROVED OR NOT APPROVED THROUGH MEDICAID FOR A SET AMOUNT OF HOURS.
AND THAT SERVICE SPECIFICALLY FOCUSES ON THE BEHAVIORAL SETTING.
BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT'S LIMITED TO THE INDIVIDUAL OR FAMILY THERAPIES.
SO THEY MAY, BUT OFTEN NOT SCHOOL BASED IS PRIMARILY THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICE BECAUSE A LOT OF THE KIDS THAT I ANTICIPATE NEEDING THESE KINDS OF SERVICES THAT I'M INVI I'M ENVISIONING, I'M THINKING ABOUT, MIGHT NOT BE MEDICAID.
SO I JUST WANT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT, THAT'S A DIFFERENT SORT OF, AND AGAIN, AS DR.
WHITE SAID, WE ACTUALLY HAVE, I WANNA SAY FOUR, UM, POSSIBLY FIVE SOON TO BE FIVE STUDENTS THAT WE ARE SUBSIDIZING SO THAT THEY STILL CAN RECEIVE THESE SERVICES IN THE SCHOOL SETTING.
THANK YOU FOR THAT EXPANDED EXPLANATION BECAUSE, UM, I HAVE OLD INFORMATION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MY EXPERIENCE WITH RIGHT DIRECTIONS, AND IT WAS PRETTY MUCH SHADOWING.
IT WAS STUDENTS THAT WOULD NEED A SHADOW TO GO WITH THEM TO CLASS AND HELP THEM BEHAVIORALLY AND, AND MAYBE SOME AFTER SCHOOL TYPE OF ASSISTANCE AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
UM, SO YOU SAID THAT, OKAY, SO THIS, THIS COMPANY, RIGHT DIRECTIONS HAS BEEN PURCHASED BY THE, THE SEASIDE.
THEY WENT UP, YES, THEY WENT UP UNDER SEASIDE HEALTH, WHICH IS OUT OF LOUISIANA OR SOMEWHERE.
I CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE, BUT I KNOW THEY'RE ALSO IN MYRTLE BEACH AND HORRY COUNTY.
UM, AND I CAN'T REMEMBER ALL THE LOCATIONS, BUT YES.
AND THEY'RE BASED OUTTA RIDGELAND.
IS THAT RIGHT? VERSUS IN RIDGELAND? THEY'RE IN RIDGELAND.
SO, UM, THEY ALSO PROVIDE THERAPEUTIC COUNSELING? YES, THEY DO.
AND HOW DO THEY DO THAT? THEY, THEY HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY.
THAT PARTICULAR COMMUNITY PARTNER HAS THE FLEXIBILITY TO, OF COURSE, OFFER IT IN THEIR FACILITY, BUT THEY ALSO GO OUT TO HOMES BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE PARENTS WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO BE ACCESS TREATMENT DURING NINE TO FIVE.
SO THEY OFFER THAT FLEXIBILITY OF MAYBE GOING OUT TO THE HOME AND MEETING WITH THE FAMILY AT SIX 30 IN THE AFTERNOON IF THAT'S THE TIME THAT ALL THE FAMILY IS TOGETHER TO RECEIVE THAT COMPONENT OF THERAPY.
SO THAT BEHAVIOR SPECIALIST DOES THAT, OR THE THERAPEUTIC COUNSELOR DOES THAT? NO, THAT THAT IS A LICENSED COUNSELOR.
AND THE NEXT PART, AND THIS MORE TAKEOVER FROM HERE IS, UM, COASTAL, UM, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, WHICH HAVE PLACED, UM, HAVE 14 COUNSELORS IN OUR SCHOOLS.
AND SO SHE'LL EXPAND ABOUT WHAT THOSE SERVICES LOOK LIKE, WHERE THOSE COUNSELORS ARE, AND THEN WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE DOING GOING FORWARD TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OUR SCHOOLS HAVE A NEED FOR, UM, HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE COUNSELORS WITHIN THEIR SCHOOLS.
SO THIS PARTICULAR SLIDE DEALS WITH THE STUDENTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY, UH, RECEIVING COUNSELING SUPPORT.
IT REFERENCES, UH, COM, COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, AND, UH, RIGHT THE LAST, AT LAST COUNT, THESE ARE OUR NUMBERS.
UM, THE NUMBERS ARE OF COURSE, FLUID BECAUSE AS THE NEED INCREASES FOR SERVICES, THE REFERRALS INCREASE, THE AMOUNT OF STUDENTS AND SERVICES WILL ALSO INCREASE.
UM, THEY PROVIDE SCHOOL, THIS IS SCHOOL-BASED.
THEY PROVIDE SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL HEALTH, AND THEY ALSO SEE OUR STUDENTS IN THEIR FACILITY.
THEY ARE NOT, THEY DO NOT HAVE THE R BHS SERVICE.
SO THEY'RE NOT QUITE AS FLEXIBLE IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO GO INTO THE HOME, BUT THEY ARE STILL ABLE TO MEET WITH FOLKS IN OUR BUILDINGS AS WELL AS AT THEIR FACILITY.
WE HAVE PICKED UP WITH THEM TO OFFER THE TELEHEALTH SUPPORT.
CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW WE HAVE FOUR STUDENTS.
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BE IN ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS.THEY'RE, THEY'RE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH ELEMENTARY AND A COUPLE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.
SO, BUT WE HAVE BEEN, WE MEET ON A REGULAR BASIS WEEKLY ACTUALLY.
AND, UH, WE ARE LOOKING AT BEING IN ALL OF THE HIGH SCHOOLS, UH, ACROSS THE DISTRICT, RIGHT? DIRECTIONS, FAMILY SERVICES, THEY ARE IN JUST ABOUT ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS, UH, DOING THE R BHS SERVICE, AS I DISCUSSED EARLIER.
AND OF COURSE, FRIENDS OF CAROLINA HOSPICE, THEY DO OUR GRIEF SUPPORT GRIEF COUNSELING GROUPS WITH OUR STUDENTS IN THE SCHOOL.
THEY ALSO WORK WITH US WHEN WE HAVE, UH, CRISIS RESPONSE THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT AS WELL.
AND HOW STUDENTS ARE RECOMMENDED OR HOW STUDENTS GET INTO SERVICES OR GET INTO PROGRAMS. IF YOU WOULD GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, UH, WE ARE WORKING ON IMPROVING OUR REFERRAL PROCESS AS IT IS RIGHT NOW.
SOCIAL SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS MAKE ALL THE REFERRALS TO ANY OF OUR, UH, PARTNERING MENTAL HEALTH AGENCIES.
THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT A SCHOOL COUNSELOR CANNOT GET A REFERRAL.
A TEACHER CANNOT PROVIDE INFORMATION FOR A REFERRAL ADMINISTRATORS.
AND OF COURSE, DURING THE MTSS MEETINGS, IT MAY COME UP THAT A REFERRAL IS NEEDED.
ANOTHER ASPECT OF HOW A REFERRAL MAY BE SOUGHT OUT.
WE HAVE GAGGLE, AND I BELIEVE YOU HAVE THAT INFORMATION FOR WHEN STUDENTS USE CERTAIN BUZZ WORDS, KEYWORDS, WHEN THEY'RE ON THEIR COMPUTERS.
UH, WE ALWAYS MEET, WE MEET WITH THE STUDENT, FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON, AND THERE ARE SITUATIONS WHERE THAT MAY TURN INTO A REFERRAL.
THE REASON THE SOCIAL WORKERS, SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS ARE DOING, THE REFERRALS ARE SO THAT, AND WE ARE IN DEVELOPMENT OF A TRACKING SYSTEM SO THAT WE KNOW WHO WAS REFERRED TO WHAT, TO WHAT, WHAT COMMUNITY PARTNER, AND THEN WE ARE ABLE TO FOLLOW UP WHETHER THE SERVICES WERE STARTED, WHETHER THE PARENT FOLLOWED UP, WHETHER THEY DIDN'T FOLLOW UP.
SO THAT WE ARE ABLE TO HAVE THAT INFORMATION WHEN IT IS ASKED FOR.
UH, RIGHT NOW, I'M SORRY, I'M JUMPING COASTAL IS ACTUALLY IN, AS DR.
WHITE SAID, 12 OF OUR SCHOOLS, THEY'RE LOOKING TO ADD BLUFFTON, MIDDLE BLUFFTON HIGH SCHOOL, AND THE ENTIRE HILTON HEAD CLUSTER COME JANUARY.
THEY SAID TO ASK AFTER THE SLIDE.
SO THE REFERRAL PROCESS, IT SOUNDS LIKE TO ME, IS PRETTY MUCH STILL CONTROLLED BY THE SCHOOL ADMIN AND THE SOCIAL WORKER AND WHATNOT, BECAUSE I'VE HAD A CONVERSATION WITH A, A SCHOOL NURSE, AND WHAT THEY TOLD ME, WHICH TRACKS WITH WHAT I'M HEARING IN THE, IN THE HEALTHCARE COMMUNITY IN THE DISTRICT, IS THAT KIDS WILL COME DOWN WITH A STOMACH ACHE REPEATEDLY.
THAT IS A RED FLAG FOR DEPRESSION.
AND THE SCHOOL NURSE IS SAYING, I KNOW THAT IT'S DEPRESSION, I KNOW IT'S ANXIETY.
I KNOW THAT THERE BE, THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE.
DOES THE SCHOOL NURSE, SO IT'S A TWO PART QUESTION.
CAN THE SCHOOL NURSE MAKE THE REFERRAL? AND ALSO CAN THE STUDENT REFER THEMSELVES LIKE, I'M HAVING A HARD TIME.
I DON'T WANNA CALL THE NA HOTLINE ON MY BADGE.
I'D LIKE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING IN BETWEEN.
SO THE NURSE, THE NURSE CAN KNOW THAT THE NURSE, NO, THE NURSE CAN SHE, YOU KNOW, SHE'S NOT COMFORTABLE FILLING OUT THE REFERRAL DOCUMENT FOR WHICHEVER AGENCY IT IS.
SOCIAL WORKER WOULD GLADLY WORK CONJUNCTION WITH HER.
SO JUST TELL ME THE PROCESS, BOTH FOR A HEALTHCARE PERSON, MAYBE A SCHOOL NURSE OR SOMEONE IN THE HEALTHCARE COMMUNITY THAT NOTICES RED FLAGS, OR WHAT THE PROCESS WOULD BE IF A STUDENT WANTS TO REFER.
BECAUSE I CAN TELL YOU, MY SON, UH, AS A JOKE WOULD GOT PICKED UP BY GAG WHOSE JOKE IN THE FRIEND AND USED THE WORD BULLY, AND THE HELICOPTERS CAME OVER AND DESCENDED.
AND I MEAN, HE WAS REFERRED TO ALL KINDS OF SERVICES BEFORE THEY FIGURED IT OUT.
BUT, UM, HOW DOES A STUDENT WHO DOESN'T REALLY, YOU KNOW, IS KIND OF ON THE, ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THAT, HOW DID THEY KNOW? HOW DO WE MAKE IT EASY FOR THEM TO BASICALLY RAISE THEIR HAND AND SAY, I NEED SOME HELP HERE.
LET'S FIND SOME HELP FOR YOU AND HAVE THAT CONVERSATION.
SO IN A FEW MORE SLIDES, YOU'LL SEE WHERE WE ARE GOING TO BE STRENGTHENING THAT PROCESS TO HELP ALL THE PROVIDERS IN THE SCHOOL RECOGNIZE THE SCIENCE TESTS AS THE SCHOOL NURSES AND ALL OF THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE GUIDING STUDENTS TO THE RIGHT AREAS AND WHERE THEY CAN GET SUPPORT AS WELL.
SO YES, AS WE SAID AT THE BEGINNING, EVERYTHING IS BEING STRENGTHENED AS WE ENCOUNTER.
WE TRY TO THINK OF EVERY SCENARIO THAT WE CAN COME UP WITH.
AND THAT DOESN'T USUALLY HAPPEN, RIGHT? SOMETHING ELSE HITS US WITH ANOTHER CURVE BALL.
SO AS WE DO THAT, THEN WE MAKE THE ADJUSTMENTS AND STRENGTHEN THAT REFERRAL PROCESS AND STRENGTHEN HOW WE CAN GET THE INFORMATION, WHICH WILL SHOW YOU SOME OTHER THINGS IN THE NEXT SLIDE THAT ARE ACTUALLY BOTTOM THIS SLIDE THAT WE ARE DOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO RAISE THAT AWARENESS AND THAT FOLKS UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY CAN GO AND GET THE SERVICES AS WELL, AND HELP KIDS NAVIGATE THAT.
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IMPORTANT PIECE TO NOTE IS NOW THAT WE HAVE, UH, REESTABLISHED A STUDENT SERVICES DIVISION, NURSING FALLS UNDER THE STUDENT SERVICES DIVISION, UH, WHICH IS ALSO WHERE THESE THINGS, SO IF, IF, IF, ONE OF THE THINGS I HEAR YOU SAYING, UH, I DON'T KNOW, YOU'VE SAID IT CLEARLY, BUT, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I DO HEAR YOU SAYING COMING OUT OF THIS IS THAT MAYBE WE NEED TO JUST MAKE SURE GO BACK AND MAKE SURE THAT OUR NURSES UNDERSTAND THAT THEY CAN REFER IF THEY NEED TO, IF IN CASE THERE'S ANY QUESTION ABOUT THAT.UH, AND SO THAT COMMUNICATION SHOULD BE EASY BECAUSE IT'S RIGHT WITHIN THE SAME DIVISION.
SO I THINK THAT THAT CAN BE STRESSED.
AND WHAT I ALSO HEAR YOU SAYING, I MIGHT BE WRONG, BUT, UM, IS THAT NO MATTER HOW IT COMES IN, WHETHER IT'S THE VOLLEYBALL COACH FOR EXAMPLE, OR A STUDENT DIRECTLY, THERE'S THE SCHOOL'S GONNA INTERMEDIATE.
THERE'S NO DIRECT, LIKE, I'M HAVING A HARD DAY.
YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, SOMEONE'S GOTTA DIRECT THEM WITHIN THE SCHOOL TO SOME SORT OF A CENTRAL POINT, WHICH WILL THEN MAKE THE REFERRAL, WHETHER THAT'S THE SOCIAL WORKER OR THE, I DON'T KNOW, MTSS COORDINATOR OR WHOMEVER, RIGHT.
THERE'S A, THERE'S A INTERMEDIARY.
AND IT'S LIKE A GATEKEEPER TOO.
OH, I DON'T DISAGREE WITH THAT.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING AND THAT, THAT THERE'S THIS BIG BASKET OF POTENTIAL REFERRAL SOURCES AND THAT THERE IS A GATEKEEPER, BUT IT'S NOT, IT'S, IT'S, THE PROCESS IS UNDERSTOOD.
I KNOW YOU'RE GONNA GET TO THAT.
SO, AND JUST TO, OH, I'M SORRY.
I JUST WANTED TO SPEAK TO THAT POINT.
UM, THEY CAN'T, THAT ACTUALLY, THE SITUATION HAPPENED THIS WEEK HAD A STUDENT WHO MET WITH THE TEACHER, WAS THEN SENT TO THE SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER, AND THEY SAT DOWN TOGETHER AND THEY WORKED THROUGH IT.
AND REFERRAL WAS MADE AFTER CONTACTING THE PARENT, BECAUSE OF COURSE, THE STUDENT IS NOT OF AGE, BUT ALL REFERRALS HAVE TO HAVE PARENT INFORMANT AND THE CONSENT.
SO, AND THE CONVERSATION HAS HAPPENED WITH THE NURSES, BUT WE WILL REINFORCE THAT WITH THEM.
CAUSE MISS UNRU AND I STAY IN CONSTANT CONTACT.
SO WE KNOW THE SOCIAL WORKER IS THE LINCHPIN HERE ON, ON A LOT OF THESE SERVICES.
DO WE HAVE SOCIAL WORKERS IN EVERY ONE OF OUR SCHOOLS? I MEAN, I THINK WE HAVE ONE FUNDED, BUT ARE THERE ACTUALLY, ARE THEY, ARE THEY FILLED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF TWO? WE DO NOT HAVE ONE IN BLUFFTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND WE DO NOT HAVE ONE IN HILTON HEAD ISLAND ECC.
HOWEVER, WE HAVE LEADS WHO CHECK IN ON THOSE SCHOOLS, AND PRINCIPALS KNOW AT ANY TIME THAT THEY CAN CALL AND CONTACT ME AND I WILL FACILITATE TO ENSURE THAT WHATEVER THEY NEED IS DONE.
I, I THINK WE'VE SEEN EVEN PRE PANDEMIC THAT OUR STUDENTS NEED MORE ADULTS AROUND THEM WITH, UM, DIFFERENT SKILL SETS, YOU KNOW, ACADEMIC, SOCIAL, BEHAVIORAL AND SO ON.
AND, UH, WE ALSO KNOW THAT NOT ALL SOCIAL WORKERS ARE LICENSED THERAPEUTIC.
LIKE THEY CAN'T PROVIDE NECESSARILY THERAPY.
UM, I THINK THOSE ARE MORE ADVANCED SOCIAL WORKERS, RIGHT.
WITH, WITH ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATION.
IS THAT CORRECT? THE MAJORITY OF OUR SOCIAL WORKERS ARE LICENSED, NO, NOT LICENSED, BUT, BUT BACKGROUND, THEY HAVE THAT BACKGROUND, BUT THAT'S NOT OUR ROLE AND CAPACITY THAT WE ARE IN THE SCHOOL.
BUT WE ARE A FORTUNATE DISTRICT TO HAVE, UH, THE MAJORITY OF SOCIAL WORKERS HAVE A MENTAL HEALTH BACKGROUND AND, AND THEY CAN PROVIDE THERAPEUTIC COUNSEL.
THEY DON'T PROVIDE THERAPEUTIC COUNSELING.
CAUSE THAT'S NOT THE ROLE THAT THEY'RE IN, IN THE SCHOOL.
SO, SO I GUESS THAT GOES TO MY POINT.
SO ON OUR WEBSITE, IT, IT SAYS THAT WE HAVE COASTAL EMPIRE MENTAL HEALTH IN, UH, 14 BEFORD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT SCHOOLS.
SO, SO WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? DO THEY ACTUALLY HAVE OFFICE HOURS THERE ALL DAY, OR, BUT IT DEPENDS ON THE SCHOOL.
UH, FOR INSTANCE, UH, BATTERY CREEK WILL HAVE A COUNSELOR STARTING ON MONDAY, AS A MATTER OF FACT.
UM, AND SHE WILL ALSO SPLIT BEAUFORD HIGH BECAUSE BEAUFORT HIGH IS, IS HAS A HIGH NUMBER OF REFERRALS.
AND RIGHT NOW THE, THE STAFF THAT'S THERE CANNOT ACCEPT ANY MORE REFERRALS.
AND THE ISSUE WITH ALL OF OUR MENTAL HEALTH AGENCIES IS A STAFFING ISSUE.
THERE'S A HUGE STAFFING ISSUE WITH LICENSED CLINICAL, UH, PROFESSIONALS RIGHT NOW ACROSS THE BOARD WITH EVERYONE.
HOWEVER, MOST, WE HAVE ONE CLINICIAN THAT SERVES THE ENTIRE WELL BRANCH CLUSTER.
SO EVEN IF SHE'S AT WILL BRANCH ELEMENTARY, SOMETHING COMES UP, SHE CAN JUST CERTAINLY WALK ACROSS THE STREET TO WILL BRANCH MIDDLE OR DRIVE ACROSS TO WILL BRANCH, UH, EARLY COLLEGE.
WE HAVE A CLINICIAN THAT'S SPLITTING LADIES ISLAND ELEMENTARY IN LADIES ISLAND MIDDLE.
SO WHERE THEY'RE SHARING SCHOOLS MM-HMM.
THEN I, I CAN ONLY UNDERSTAND THE DIFFICULTY OF, OF THIS BECAUSE THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH OUT THERE THAT ARE WILLING TO, UM, ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE THESE TYPE OF SERVICES.
BUT, UM, JUST AS A FINAL COMMENT, AS AS GREAT AS OUR SALARIES AND OUR TEACHER PAY AND OUR CLASSIFIED
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PAY HAS INCREASED, UM, BEHAVIOR IN THE CLASSROOM, AND THE, AND THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE OUR STUDENT SERVICES, UM, IMPACTS GREATLY, UM, OUR SUCCESS IN THE SCHOOLS.SO I APPRECIATE THIS ENDEAVOR AND URGE IT TO CONTINUE TO THE POINT WHERE WE MIGHT EVEN HAVE A FULL-TIME PERSON IN THE BUILDINGS THAT CAN PROVIDE THERAPEUTIC COUNSELING AT SOME POINT.
I KNOW IT'S A DREAM, BUT I HOPE THAT SOMEDAY WE CAN GET THERE.
WELL, UH, JUST TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF WHAT SHE SAID, UM, COULD WE PO WE COULD NOT POSSIBLY SUBCONTRACT THAT THERAPEUTIC, UH, COUNSELOR CAUSE WE HAVE, WE LOOKED AT THAT.
WE, WE HAVE THE, THE ISSUE AGAIN IS STAFFING.
THAT THAT STAFFING IS AN ISSUE WITH EVERYONE.
ANY AND EVERY AGENCY OR PROVIDER THAT I'VE SPOKEN TO GET, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO HAVE LICENSED CLINICAL STAFF FOR THOSE SERVICES.
AND GETTING LICENSED CLINICAL FOLKS ON THEIR STAFF IS THE ISSUE.
THERE'S A, THERE'S A SHORTAGE.
SO THERE'S A SHORTAGE OF BOTH.
BUT IN TERMS OF THE DISTRICT, WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO OTHER ENTITIES BESIDES NC.
AND C WE ARE, YES, WE ARE REACHING OUT TO OTHER AGENCIES.
AND I SEE THAT YOU STILL HAVE SOME MORE TO GO.
DID YOU, YOU PREFER THE QUESTIONS AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION OR IT DOESN'T MATTER.
OH, AND THAT'S THAT MR. SMITH, RIGHT OFF YOUR QUESTION.
UH, WE ARE LOOKING TO EXPAND OUR SCHOOL-BASED MENTAL HEALTH AGENCIES.
WE HAVE MET WITH A COUPLE OF AGENCIES JUST TO, WE JUST NEED TO DO OUR DUE DILIGENCE AND, UM, VET THEM BEFORE TO SEE IF THEY'RE APPROPRIATE FOR OUR DISTRICT TO PROVIDE SERVICES.
UH, AND THE OTHER THING IS TO INCREASE THE AWARENESS OF MENTAL HEALTH, UH, MENTAL ILLNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH.
UH, WE PUT UP WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY MENTAL HEALTH, UH, MONTH, AND OF COURSE NAT NATIONAL CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK TO BUILD THE AWARENESS AND TO MAKE THIS BE JUST AS IMPORTANT AS OTHER THINGS BECAUSE WE RECOGNIZE OTHER MONTHS.
BUT TO RECOGNIZE THIS BY INCREASING THE AWARENESS WILL REDUCE THE STIGMA BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE CULTURAL, UH, STIGMAS AND JUST STIGMAS OVERALL WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH.
AND SOME FOLKS JUST AREN'T COMFORTABLE TALKING ABOUT IT.
SOME PEOPLE AREN'T COMFORTABLE DEALING WITH IT.
SO JUST KIND OF REMOVING THAT STIGMA AND OF COURSE, INCREASING AWARENESS.
CHAIR, UM, FRED LIDA AND THE DIRECTOR OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES FOR BEAUFORD COUNTY.
AS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THESE TYPES OF SERVICES COM, UH, COUNTYWIDE, PLEASE DESCRIBE THE DISTRICT'S RELATIONSHIP WITH, UH, THAT DEPARTMENT.
WE HAVE A STRONG WORKING RELATIONSHIP.
I AM TALKING WITH, UH, MISS QUAD, WHO IS OF COURSE DIRECTS THE COZY COLLABORATIVE ORGANIZATION OF SERVICES FOR YOUTH THAT IS DIRECTLY UNDER FRED.
SO SHE AND I WORK CONTINUOUSLY.
WE ARE ALWAYS TALKING, SHE IS ALWAYS BRINGING FORTH IDEAS.
WE BOUNCE IDEAS OFF OF EACH OTHER, LOOK AT HOW WE CAN MOVE THINGS FORWARD.
UM, SO WE ARE ON A CONSTANT CO UM, THERE'S NOT A WEEK THAT GOES BY THAT I DON'T TALK TO HER TWO TO FOUR TIMES A WEEK AT LEAST.
AND I ALSO SERVE ON THE COZY BOARD.
SO ONE OF MY BIG QUESTIONS WITH THIS IS, AND I, I APPRECIATE THAT THEY'RE COMING TO THE HIGH SCHOOLS AND THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS.
UM, WE ARE THE 14 SCHOOLS THAT WE WERE GONNA ROLL IT OUT TO 10 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS INITIALLY.
THE, THE TELEHEALTH, WHICH I THINK WAS AFFILIATED WITH HELLO HERO, I'M NOT SURE IF IT IS NOW, CUZ I DON'T SEE THAT SEPARATELY.
I, TO ME, THE FUTURE, AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS FOR ALL THESE SERVICES IS LARGELY GONNA BE TELEHEALTH CUZ WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE DENSITY OF STAFF HERE.
AS YOU MENTIONED, UM, M U USC HAS A GREAT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TELEHEALTH PROGRAM.
SO WE HAD THIS HELLO HEROES, TELEHEALTH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH.
AND THEN BACK IN APRIL THERE WE, THAT WAS BROUGHT UP THAT IT WAS BEING ROLLED OUT INITIALLY TO 10 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
AND NOW YOU'VE MENTIONED THAT THEY ARE GONNA BE IN ALL THE HIGH SCHOOLS.
MY QUESTION IS, WHY WOULD WE NOT PRIORITIZE HIGH SCHOOL MIDDLE SCHOOLS, NUMBER ONE AND NUMBER TWO, WHAT'S THE ACTUAL, LIKE, TIMELINE ON GETTING THESE INTO THE HIGH SCHOOLS? THE, THE TIMELINE WE ARE, EXCUSE ME, WE ARE CURRENTLY SERVING ONE HIGH SCHOOL NOW.
THE TIMELINE IS WHEN WE GET THE REFERRALS, THEY GET THE SERVICE.
SO THE SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW.
THEY'RE KIND OF NOT BEING USED YET.
I, I'LL, I'LL TAKE THAT AS A SATISFACTORY TO THE OTHER QUESTION CAUSE THE OTHER QUESTION'S MORE, YOU KNOW, DOESN'T REALLY ADD ANY VALUE TO THE CONVERSATION GOING FORWARD.
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AND THE NEXT SLIDE, WHICH TALKS, WHICH CONTINUES TO TALK ABOUT INCREASING ACCESS TO COUNSELING, PROVIDING SKILLS-BASED TRAINING, UH, REGARDING MENTAL HEALTH.AND THAT IS, UH, TRAINING WILL FACILITATE THE AWARENESS, INSIGHT REGARDING MENTAL HEALTH AND INCREASING ACCESS, INCREASE ACCESS TO SERVICES AS WELL, INCLUDING TO REMOVE BARRIERS BECAUSE WE DO COLLABORATE WITH, AS MS. SWINTON SAID, OUR OUR PRIMARY GOAL IS, OF COURSE, TO REMOVE BARRIERS, INCREASE ACCESS TO SERVICES.
UM, MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID TRAINING WILL INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF STAFF TO BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE COMMON SIGN SYMPTOMS OF MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES, HOW TO REACT WITH YOUTH WHEN THEY'RE IN CRISIS OR HAVE MENTAL HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGES GOING ON, AND HOW TO CONNECT THAT YOUTH TO GET TO THE PERSON, TO GIVE THEM THE HELP THAT THEY NEED.
SO THERE'S THAT, THERE'S NOT A BREAKDOWN IN THE PROCESS AS AGAIN, TO INCREASE THE AWARENESS, INCREASE THE EDUCATION SO THAT END CHILDREN WILL HAVE NO BARRIERS TO TREATMENT AND WE CAN INCREASE ACCESS TO COUNSELING.
SO THAT'S IT SPECIFIC TO, BUT THEN TO SEGUE INTO DISCIPLINE AND WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN MENTAL HEALTH AND DISCIPLINE, AS MANY OF YOU ALL STATED EARLIER, YOU KNOW, THESE KIDS COME WITH, UM, SOME INTENSE NEEDS AND WE NEED THEM IN THE CLASSROOM TO ATTEND AND, AND BE ABLE TO ACCESS.
SO HOW ARE WE WORKING WITH THEM? AND IT'S ALL ON THAT MULTITIER SYSTEM OF SUPPORT THAT WAS SHARED WITH YOU AT A PREVIOUS BOARD MEETING ON HILTON HEAD WITH, UH, KAREN MACKENZIE AND DR.
SCAGS THAT REALLY WENT INTO SHOW YOU THE INTERCONNECTION WITH ALL THOSE SERVICES, UM, CONNECTED.
AND THEN AGAIN, WITH THE VAPING PRESENTATION, WE TALKED ABOUT HOW WE WERE DEALING WITH SOME OF THOSE DISCIPLINE AND TALKING ABOUT THE PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINE MATRIX.
SO THIS IS JUST TO EMPHASIZE AGAIN, THAT WE'RE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH SCHOOLS AND I'VE STARTED SOME TRAINING WITH SOME INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS ABOUT HOW THESE SERVICES AND WHAT ARE SOME STRATEGIES THEY CAN USE IN THEIR SCHOOLS.
AND AS A STUDENT SERVICES TEAM, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE THAT WORK IN COLLABORATING WITH OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS FOR WHERE SOME OF THOSE NEEDS AND WORKING WITH MS. WINTON AND THE HEARING OFFICERS TO LOOK AT SOME DATA TO SEE WHO WE HAVE AND, AND WHAT SCHOOLS WE'RE SEEING COMING UP FOR HEARINGS AS WELL, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE VERY INTENTIONAL AND GIVE SOME VERY TARGETED SUPPORT TO OUR TEACHERS.
BECAUSE AS WE BUILD THE CULTURE ON THE TEACHERS SIDE, WE CONTINUE TO BUILD A CULTURE WITH, AMONG OUR STUDENTS AS WELL, RIGHT? THEY UNDERSTAND THE EXPECTATIONS OF, UM, COMING TO SCHOOL AND FOLLOWING RULES AND, UM, ALL OF THAT.
THE OTHER PART WITH THE MENTAL HEALTH PROCESS IS REALLY LOOKING AT THE WRAPAROUND SERVICES.
UM, WE TAUGHT ABOUT COZY AND ALL OF THOSE SERVICES TO PROVIDE, BECAUSE WE NEED THOSE SERVICES TO REACH INTO THE COMMUNITIES AS WELL.
WE MENTIONED SOME OF THE PARENTS, HOW DO WE HELP THEM GET THOSE WRAPAROUND SERVICES TO, UM, REALLY, UM, WORK WITH THE STUDENTS IN CLASS BECAUSE IT HAS TO GO BEYOND THE CLASSROOM WALLS, RIGHT? UM, AND HOW WE ARE MEETING THOSE NEEDS.
SO WE ARE CONSTANTLY HAVING THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT I MENTIONED AT BEGIN THAT ARE IN OUR SCHOOLS AT THE TABLE WHEN WE ARE HAVING THOSE, UM, DISCUSSIONS TO REALLY LOOK AT THE NEEDS OF ALL THE STUDENTS.
AND SO AS YOU GO, UM, TO OUR PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINE MATRIX, YOU'LL SEE THAT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, UM, SOME OF THE OFFENSES AND WHAT HAPPENS, WE KNOW THAT MTSS REFERRALS ARE MADE, AND THOSE MTSS REFERRALS REALLY START TO CONNECT THAT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE AS WELL FOR THOSE KIDS AS WE NEED.
AND IT DOES PROGRESS, UM, AS WE GET AND MAKING SURE WE HAVE THE SUPPORTS WORKING WITH THE STAFF, GIVING THEM THE, THE STRATEGIES TO USE TOO TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS.
SO YOU'LL SEE ALL OF THAT BEING CONNECTED AND WITH THE PROCESS THAT WE'RE HAVING, UM, IT'S GETTING BETTER AND WE ARE GONNA STRENGTHEN THAT.
ON THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT, WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE SOME WORK TO DO AROUND OUR PROGRESSIVE DISCIPLINE MATRIX, RIGHT? WE KNOW THAT THIS WAS PUT IN PLACE ABOUT THREE YEARS, ALMOST FOUR YEARS NOW.
IT'S TIME FOR US TO START LOOKING AT THE DATA WE HAVE NOW THAT WE ARE OUT OF THE PANDEMIC.
LOOK AT THE MATRIX, LOOK AT THE INFRACTIONS, LOOK AT, UM, AND BRING A LOT OF STAKEHOLDERS BACK TO THE TABLE, INCLUDING PRINCIPALS.
THOSE ARE IN THE SCHOOLS AS WELL.
SOME OF THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND PARENTS TO THE TABLE TO REALLY TAKE A HOLISTIC AND, AND THOROUGH LOOK AT UPDATING OUR DISCIPLINE MATRIX, HOPEFULLY TO HAVE IT UPDATED BY THE TIME WE MOVE AROUND TO ROLL AROUND TO OUR NETS, UM, SCHOOL YEAR FOR NET SCHOOL YEAR AND IN PLACE.
SO WE WE'RE STARTING THAT WORK AND WE'RE GONNA START PUTTING, UM, THE TEAMS TOGETHER AND BEGIN THOSE DISCUSSIONS BEYOND MY DEPARTMENT WHERE WE'VE BEEN HAVING SOME DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHAT THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE, FEEL LIKE, AND SOUND LIKE.
COLONEL GEIER, FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN I CAME ON THIS BOARD, WE DIDN'T HAVE A DIRECTOR OF STUDENT SERVICES.
I DON'T KNOW HOW WE SURVIVED WITHOUT THAT, UH, WHAT WE HAVE HERE NOW.
I I I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE THE DIFFERENCES.
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LEVEL OF DETAIL FOUR YEARS AGO.AND SO KUDOS TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM AND, UH, THANK YOU.
YOU HAVE A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT FUNCTION IN THIS DISTRICT.
THAT IS SEEMS TO BE THE END OF THE QUESTIONS, AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
IT'S, UH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE OUR BREAK FOR LUNCH, UM, WHICH WILL BE PUT OUT IN A, UH, AT NOON, SO IN A FEW MINUTES.
R WANTS TO TAKE US ON A SHORT FIELD TRIP.
WE'RE GOING ON AN IN-HOUSE FIELD TRIP.
UM, UH, SO IT'S, WE'RE IN RECESS NOW.
WE'RE, LET'S, LET'S RECESS UNTIL, UM, 1245.
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COME FORWARD, UH, IN, IN ESSENCE, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO PREPARE FOR FUTURE FORWARD OF ALL THINGS CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, AND DOING THAT THROUGH THE LENS OF OPTIMAL TEACHING AND LEARNING SPACES.SO MR. LATA AND I ARE, UH, EXCITED TO PRESENT TO YOU FOUR KEY TOPICS, UH, TO, TO GET YOUR FEEDBACK ON.
ONE, WHAT DO WE USE TO, TO CONDUCT CTE PROGRAMMING BY LOOKING AT CURRENT AND FUTURE FORWARD JOBS, WHETHER IT'S CRITICAL NEEDS, UH, LABOR MARKET, THE TRENDS, AS WELL AS EMERGING OCCUPATIONS.
AND THEN IT'S ALWAYS HELPFUL TO LOOK AT, IN THE PAST, OVER THE PAST FIVE TO 10 YEARS, WHERE HAVE WE BEEN WITH CAREER AND TECH ED PROGRAMS? WHAT'S WORKED, WHAT'S NOT TO HELP US WITH THAT DECISION MAKING PROCESSES.
ALSO, UH, WE WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU TODAY OUR RECOMMENDATIONS, FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE T CTE COMPONENT OF THE MAY RIVER EXPANSION, UH, FOR OUR EXISTING REFEREND REFERENDUM.
AND THEN FINALLY, WE WANT TO SHARE, UH, A DISTRICT PERSPECTIVE OF WHERE DO WE GO FORWARD WITH HERE WITH THE FUTURE VISION FOR OUR STUDENTS.
I ALWAYS LIKE TO START OUT ANY CAREER AND TECH HEAD PRESENTATION WITH THE STATE'S VISION AND MISSION.
UH, WE WANT ALL STUDENTS TO GRADUATE BEING PREPARED FOR COLLEGE, SOME TYPE OF POST-SECONDARY MILITARY, UH, CAREERS AND CITIZENSHIP.
AND, AND SO DOING SPECIFIC TO CAREER AND TECH ED, WHAT ARE WE DOING TO PREPARE OR CULTIVATE A SKILLED WORKFORCE? AND HOW ARE WE DOING THIS TO BE SUSTAINABLE? AND ALSO TO BE ABLE TO, TO, UM, SUPPORT OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, NOT ONLY HERE REGIONALLY, BUT ALSO WITH A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE.
SO THE NEXT FEW SLIDES, UH, WE WANNA SHARE WITH YOU SOME MAJOR DRIVERS OF HOW DO WE ASSESS PROGRAMS, UH, THAT COMES FROM AN UNDERSTANDING OF THOSE LABOR MARKET NEEDS.
AND THEN, UH, WHERE DO WE GO FROM THERE AS FAR AS HOW DOES THAT MATERIALIZE TO BE SUSTAINABLE PROGRAMS? SO WE ARE BEAUFORT COUNTY, UH, CTE.
WE'RE A PART OF A LARGER REGIONAL, UH, TEAM CALLED THE LOW COUNTRY REGIONAL ASSESSMENT TEAM.
LEVO, UH, THE OTHER CT ADMINISTRATORS FROM JASPER CO AND HAMPTON.
AND WE'VE BEEN MEETING NOW FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS.
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STATE MANDATED THAT WE DO THIS, IT HAS BEEN A VALUABLE SOURCE OF COLLABORATION.AND SO WE LOOK AT THE LENS THROUGH A REGION REGIONAL APPROACH.
UH, WHAT PROGRAMS ARE WE OFFERING? WHAT'S IN ALIGNMENT WITH WHAT WE SEE AS FAR AS JOB OPPORTUNITIES WITHIN THE REGION? WHAT ARE OUR COMMUTING PATTERNS? WE WERE VERY, UH, SURPRISED TO NOTE THAT, UH, THERE'S, WE HAVE SEVERAL FOLKS THAT COMMUTE EITHER TO THE SAVANNAH OR TO THE CHARLESTON AREA.
SO WE STILL COULD HAVE YOUNG PEOPLE TO GRADUATE, GET THEIR TRAINING, AND STILL BE ABLE TO LIVE AND WORK WITHIN OUR AREA, BUT THEY MAY WORK, UH, IN ANOTHER FIELD OUTSIDE OF OUR FOUR REGIONS.
SO AS A TEAM, WE HAVE FOCUSED ON SEVEN, UH, OCCUPATIONAL RELATED AREAS THAT WE FEEL LIKE NOT ONLY IF WE HAVE PROGRAMS IN PLACE THAT SUPPORT, UH, THE FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS TRAINING FOR THIS, BUT IT CAN ALSO HELP WITH OUR OWN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
ANOTHER AREA, AS PART OF THAT ASSESSMENT IS CONTINUALLY TO LOOK AT PARTICULAR CRITICAL AREAS THAT, WHERE THERE IS A SHORTAGE OF SKILLED WORKERS.
UH, IF YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY, I INCLUDED A LINK IN THIS PRESENTATION.
I SENT IT SEPARATELY TO MS. KUCHEN BARRY TO SHARE, IT'S ABOUT EIGHT MINUTES, AND IT'S ON MEASURING THE PROGRESS AND GAPS IN THE US SKILLED WORKFORCE.
IT'S AN EXCELLENT LITTLE VIDEO AND ARTICLE, UH, THAT WAS PUT OUT BY THE NATIONAL, UH, SCIENCE FOUNDATION.
AND I JUST WANNA SHARE A COUPLE OF THINGS ON THAT.
THAT WAS, IT SAYS THE SKILLED TECHNICAL WORKFORCE, OR CRAFTED AMERICA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, UH, IS NOTED THAT THE TECHNICAL WORKFORCE IS FIRMLY, UH, IN NEED OF A STEM WORKFORCE, UH, TO SHED THE STIGMA THAT THOSE WHO PURSUE CAREERS IN THE TECHNICAL, UH, SKILL TECHNICAL WORKFORCE ARE ANY LESS THAN THOSE WHO PURSUE A FOUR YEAR DEGREE.
AND THAT IN TODAY'S ELECTRICIANS, HVA WORKERS, HEALTHCARE TECHNICIANS, MECHANICS, MACHINISTS, ALL OF THESE USE A VAST SET OF HIGH LEVEL SKILL SETS.
SO IF YOU, IF YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THAT, UM, VIDEO, IT GIVES A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE OF, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT TRADES AS FAR AS THE DEFINITION OF CAREER AND TECH ED, BUT IT'S ABOUT ADVANCING THOSE SKILLED TECHNICIANS THAT ARE IN MUCH NEED.
UH, ANOTHER AREA IS ANYTHING RELATED TO WELDING WITH OUR AGENT INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, WE ARE GONNA, THERE'S EVIDENCE THAT WE'RE GONNA NEED MORE WELDERS, PIPE FITTERS, UM, SALT BRAZERS, UH, TO HELP REBUILD THOSE INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND THEN I HAVE OVER ON THE LEFT SIDE, UH, AS WE KNOW FOR THOSE OF YOU IN THE HEALTHCARE FIELD, UH, THE PANDEMIC HAD A TREMENDOUS IMPACT ON THE NEED FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS.
UH, IT'S ESTIMATED THAT NATIONWIDE WE'RE GONNA BE CLOSE TO A THREE AND A HALF MILLION PERSON SHORT OF JUST NURSES.
THAT'S NOT TO COUNT OUR, OUR, UH, OTHER HEALTHCARE TECHNICIANS.
TRIC, KAREN AND RALPH, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
UM, SO IT WAS VERY INTERESTING TO HEAR YOU SAY, UM, AND, AND YOU HAVE TOLD US BEFORE, I I KNOW ABOUT THIS REGIONAL, UM, GROUP THAT YOU HAVE WITH, UH, JASPER COLLEGE IN HAMPTON AND BEAUFORT.
BUT, UM, HOW FAR DO YOU LOOK INTO THE SAVANNAH AND CHARLESTON TO ASSESS FUTURE NEEDS? AND THE REASON I ASK THAT IS I HAVE SEEN OVER THE PAST COUPLE WEEKS ABOUT THE HIGH END DAY PLANT THAT IS GOING TO BE BUILT IN BRIAN COUNTY, WHICH IS JUST A LITTLE SOUTHWEST OF SAVANNAH, NOT BY MUCH.
AND WE'RE TALKING, UH, FIVE AND A HALF BILLION WITH A B INVESTMENT IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND, AND BATTERY AND SO ON.
SO HOW, HOW, HOW MUCH DOES THAT INFLUENCE? CAUSE SAVANNAH, I MEAN, THAT'S NOT FAR, IF YOU LIVE IN BLUFFTON, I MEAN, YOU COULD BE THERE IN A HEARTBEAT.
SO HOW MUCH DOES SAVANNAH AND THE CHARLESTON, UH, JOB MARKET INFLUENCE OUR DECISIONS AS FAR AS WHAT OUR CTE PROGRAMS ARE GOING TO BE? SO, VERY MUCH SO.
UH, AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE HAVE TO SUBMIT THAT ASSESSMENT AND WE CAN CERTAINLY PROVIDE A COPY.
IT'S ABOUT A 40 PAGE, UM, ASSESSMENT, AND THEN IT HAS THE, THE SUMMARY.
BUT WE, WHEN WE, WHEN WE SUBMITTED THE ASSESSMENT, WE PUT IN OUR NARRATIVE BECAUSE WE WANT TO OFFER SOME ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, SOME, UH, MACHINING, UH, THOSE, UH, AUTOMOTIVE WITH AN EYE TO THE FUTURE, UH, THAT MAY NOT NECESSARILY BE RIGHT HERE WITHIN OUR FOUR COUNTY REGION,
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BECAUSE OUR FUNDING, UH, IS, IS CONNECTED TO THAT.SO IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE SHOWED THAT WITHIN A, A REASONABLE COMMUTE TIME, AN HOUR, EITHER WAY, THAT THOSE JOBS IN THE SAVANNAH AREA OR SURROUNDING REGION AS WELL AS A CHARLESTON AREA, UH, WOULD BE VERY VI VIABLE FOR PROGRAMS THAT WHERE WE COULD TRAIN.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, FOR BRINGING THAT UP.
YES, COLONEL GEIER, THANK YOU ON YOUR CHART WITH, UH, REGIONAL LABOR MARKETS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ONE THING THAT'S MISSING IS AGRICULTURAL HEALTH, NATURAL SCIENCE, WHAT WE HAVE AT BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL.
UH, WE HAVE THAT, AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO HAVE AGRICULTURAL REQUIREMENTS IN ST.
HELENA ISLAND FOR THE LONG TERM.
THANK YOU COLONEL GEIER FOR BRINGING THAT UP.
WE ACTUALLY HAD SOME VERY GOOD CONVERSATIONS AS WELL AS WITH OUR ADVISORY.
WE, WE, WE COULD LIST ALL 16 PATHWAYS, ALL OUR, WE, WE LUMP THESE MORE INTO THE, THE WORLD OF THE BUSINESS SPEAK, SO TO SO TO SAY, UM, BECAUSE AGRICULTURAL ED IS SCIENCE, UH, IT IS INVOLVING NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT'S COMING ON BOARD.
SO YES, SIR, WHEN YOU SEE A BREAKDOWN OF THESE AREAS, THIS IS MORE FOR THE OVERALL CATCHALL OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
AND WHEN WE GET INTO THE NEXT, THE FEW SLIDES PER OUR CLUSTER, AG ED IS DEFINITELY MUCH A PART OF THAT.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR NOTING THAT.
KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS FLUCTUATES WITHIN THE STATE.
UM, THE NEXT SLIDE YOU'LL SEE IS ON THE TECHNOLOGY AND, UH, MOBILITY.
THE, WE SEE THE HALF CIRCLE, 642,000 ESTIMATED IN THE MOBILITY INDUSTRY, AND WE JUST HAD, UH, ADVISORY THE OTHER DAY.
AND, UM, THEY ECHOED THAT IT'S CRITICALLY SHORT IN THEIR WORKFORCE.
UH, WHEN YOU FLIP OVER TO THE, THE IT SIDE, THE YES, WHAT MAY STAND OUT IS 300,000 IN THE CYBER, HOWEVER, OVERALL BY 20 30, 660 8,000 IN IT.
AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF THOSE DO NOT NEED A FOYER DEGREE TO BE SUCCESSFUL AND MAKE A LARGE SUM OF MONEY.
UM, SO THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THAT NEXT SLIDE.
IT ALWAYS HELPS, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY IN HERE, LIKE FISHING.
UH, IT RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU LIKE TO, TO GO FISHING.
IT, IT, IF YOU'RE ON A BOAT, IT HELPS TO HAVE A DEVICE CALLED THE GPS.
AND THEN WITH THAT GPS, UH, AS IT'S HELPING YOU TO HEAD TOWARD YOUR DESTINA DESTINATION, YOU CAN PLOT ALONG YOUR WAY WHERE THERE'S A GOOD, UH, FISHING SPOT THAT YOU'LL GET A GOOD RETURN ON INVESTMENT OR IF THERE'S A HAZARD.
AND I THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE A GREAT ANALOGY OF, OF WHERE WE HAVE WAY POINTS FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
SO I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT, UH, DUE TO THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT, THE BOARD, OUR, OUR, OUR LEADERSHIP, WE HAVE INCREASED FROM 2014, 15 FROM 23 STATE APPROVED CAREER AND TECH ED PATHWAYS, PATHWAYS HAVE SEVERAL COURSES THAT FALL UNDER IT TO 34 PATHWAYS OVER THE PAST FIVE TO 10 YEARS.
THIS INCLUDES ADDING A FIREFIGHTER PROGRAM AT BLUFFTON HIGH TO ADVANCED TECH CENTERS WITH SOME VERY SPECIALIZED, UM, UH, OFFERINGS, A COMPUTER SCIENCE ACROSS SEVERAL OF OUR, OUR SCHOOLS, A CULINARY AT, UH, BARRY CREEK AND HILTON HEAD NURSE AID ASSISTANT PATHWAYS AT WELL BRANCH, AND AT, UH, MAY RIVER.
AND THEN NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE, MS. KUSH.
SO WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT GET US TO HAVE INCREASED IN THOSE NUMBER OF PATHWAYS? SO I WANNA SHARE WITH YOU A COUPLE OF SLIDES.
UM, THESE ARE JUST A SNAPSHOT, BUT, UM, WE HAVE TO TRACK HOW OUR STUDENTS ARE DOING NOT ONLY FOR FEDERAL PURPOSES, AND THEN AS WHAT MR. FRITZ SHARED THIS MORNING, UH, AND DR.
STRATIS WITH THE SOUTH COUNTY REPORT CARD.
SO SNAPSHOT IN 2014 15, WE ALSO HAVE TO TRACK GRADUATION RATE.
HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE COMPLETERS AT THAT TIME, AND DO THEY GRADUATE WITH THEIR COHORT? SO WE HAD 311 IN 2014, 15 THAT WERE COMPLETERS.
AND OF THOSE 293 STAYED WITH IT, THEY GRADUATED.
SO THAT, THAT'S AN EXCELLENT NUMBER.
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21, SAME GRADUATION RATE, WE ALMOST DOUBLED TO 632 STUDENTS WHO WERE A COMPLETER.AND OF THOSE 623 GRADUATED ON TIME AS A 98.6% RATE.
SO WE CAREER AND TICKETED PROGRAMS MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITH HELPING KIDS TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS, TO STAY IN SCHOOL, TO WORK WITH, WITH THEIR TEACHERS.
UM, AND WE CAN POSITIVELY IMPACT THAT RATE WITH, WITH THESE PROGRAMS. ANOTHER AREA THAT'S OUR BREAD AND BUTTER IS POST-SECONDARY PLACEMENT.
WE'RE REQUIRED BY THE FEDS TO CALL UP, UH, A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME AFTER THEY GRADUATE, IF THEY'VE BEEN A CAREER IN TECH ED COMPLETER, WE DO A, A, A SAMPLING.
SO IN 2014 15, WE HAD 273 THAT WE SAMPLED.
SO IT WASN'T THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF THREE 11.
AND OF THOSE 270 WERE IN SCHOOL, OR THEY WERE IN THE MILITARY, OR THEY WERE IN COLLEGE.
SO AGAIN, A 98.9% PLACEMENT RATE.
FAST FORWARD TO 2021, WE HAD 423 THAT WE SAMPLED, THAT WE, THAT WE CALLED SURVEYED.
OF THOSE 422 WERE IN SOME TYPE OF POSITIVE GAINFULLY EMPLOYED OR IN COLLEGE AND OR BOTH, OR, AND OR IN THE MILITARY.
SO IT'S ALMOST A HUNDRED PERCENT PLACEMENT RATE FOR OUR SIX HIGH SCHOOLS AND OUR CAREER CENTER.
SO TO, TO ME, WE'RE, WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE AND THERE CAN BE A BREAKDOWN, UH, FOR THAT BY SCHOOL.
AND THEN IF YOU FAST FORWARD TO IN 2017 18, THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA TO, TO THEIR CREDIT, SAID, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT, UH, MEASURING SUCCESS OF STUDENTS WHO MOVE FORWARD, UH, IN COLLEGE READINESS.
THEY WANTED TO INCLUDE CAREER READINESS.
SO THAT'S WHEN THEY ADDED THAT COMPONENT.
SO IN 2017, 18, THEY ADDED AN INDICATOR CALLED CAREER AND TAKE A COMPLETERS WITH AN INDUSTRY CREDENTIAL.
NOW, WE HAD MORE COMPLETERS BACK THEN.
HOWEVER, UH, WE DID NOT HAVE IN PLACE YET THOSE SYSTEMS AND PARAMETERS TO ADD THOSE CERTIFICATIONS.
AND THEY STARTED LOOKING AT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF GRADUATES.
SO IN 2017, 18, WE HAD 1,352 GRADUATES OVERALL, NOT JUST CTE.
AND OF THOSE 92 WERE, WERE COUNTED AS A CAREER AND TECHED COMPLETER WITH A CREDENTIAL ABOUT 7%.
SO FAST FORWARD TO LAST YEAR, OF THE 1672 STUDENTS THAT GRADUATED, UH, WE SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED TO 513 STUDENTS WHO GRADUATED.
THAT'S NOT ALL THE CAREER TAKING COMPLETERS WITH AN INDUSTRY RECOGNIZED CERTIFICATION AT ABOUT A 30% RATE.
PLEASE KEEP THAT PERCENTAGE IN MIND BECAUSE AS WE TALK ABOUT FUTURE FORD, WHAT WOULD THIS BOARD LIKE TO SEE AS THAT PERCENTAGE IN THAT METRIC? UH, IS IT REASONABLE TO SAY IN ADDITION TO COLLEGE BOUND, WE, WE'D LIKE TO SEE 50 TO 60% THAT WOULD ALSO HAVE, WELL, SOME WELDING KNOWLEDGE WOULD ALSO HAVE SOME AUTOMOTIVE KNOWLEDGE, UH, SOME CULINARY KNOWLEDGE.
SO, SO KEEP THAT, UH, FUTURE METRIC IN MIND FOR THAT NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
AND THEN ANOTHER ONE THAT WE'RE VERY PROUD OF, WE SERVE ALL STUDENTS.
WE SERVE ALL STUDENTS FROM ALL DIFFERENT DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS.
WE, WE TAKE THEM FROM WHERE THEY'RE AT, AND OUR TEACHERS ARE PHENOMENAL WITH THAT.
SO IT MIGHT BE SURPRISING TO KNOW THAT WE HAVE TO TRACK SERVE IN SPECIAL POPULATIONS, JU JUST LIKE, UH, OTHER ENTITIES DO.
WE HAVE 10 INDICATORS THAT ARE CAPTURED THAT, THAT ARE REPORTED ON.
SO I WANTED TO NOTE, WE, YOU HAD A GREAT CONVERSATION EARLIER ABOUT STUDENTS IN POVERTY IN THE YEAR 2021 FOR GRADUATION RATE.
WE HAD 300 STUDENTS THAT WERE, WE'RE A DESIGNATED ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGE.
OF THOSE 294 GRADUATED ON TIME, THAT'S A A 98%, UH, RATE.
SO CAREER IN TECH ED MAKES A DIFFERENCE WITH STUDENTS IN POVERTY.
AND THEN, MY GOODNESS, WHAT WHAT'S GONNA HELP THEM IF THEY'VE GAINED SOME FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS TO HELP THEM WITH A GOOD JOB IN THE FUTURE? ANOTHER ONE I'D LIKE TO CALL TO YOUR ATTENTION IS THE ENGLISH LEARNERS.
AGAIN, YOU'RE HA WE'RE HAVING A GOOD CONVERSATION THIS MORNING IN 2021, WE HAD 122 STUDENTS WHO GRADUATED THAT WERE IN THE CATEGORY OF ENGLISH LEARNERS.
AND OF THOSE ALL BUT ONE STAYED WITH IT AND THEY GRADUATED ON TIME, UM, YOUTH IN, UH, WITH A PARENT IN ACTIVE MILITARY AT THAT TIME REPORTING TIME.
WE HAD 17 STUDENTS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED OF THOSE ALL 17 GRADUATED ON TIME.
AND THERE'S, THERE'S OTHER CATEGORIES THAT WE CAPTURE THIS SONG.
SO AGAIN, OUR, I APPLAUD THE BOARD AND, AND THE COMMUNITY FOR SUPPORTING THESE PROGRAMS BECAUSE IT TRULY, WHEN YOU START BREAKING IT DOWN INTO WHO,
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WHO, WHO, WHO ARE OUR STUDENTS IN OUR PROGRAMS, IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.SO IN LOOKING AT THE NEXT FIVE TO 10 YEAR SPAN, WHERE DO, WHERE DO WE GO AND WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? SO WE'VE IDENTIFIED FIVE KEY GOALS THAT, UM, WE FEEL LIKE ARE, ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF OUR SCHOOLS ACROSS OUR DISTRICT.
UH, THE FIRST ONE IS HUGE AND LOOKING AT THE LENS OF FACILITIES, UH, WE WANNA PROVIDE FLEXIBLE LEARNING SPACES TO ADDRESS EMERGENT OCCUPATIONS AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES.
IN OTHER WORDS, WHETHER IT'S GONNA BE RETROFITTING OR IF IT'S GONNA BE ADDING, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT CAN ADAPT OVER TIME BECAUSE WHAT, WHAT IS RIGHT NOW WITH AUTOMOTIVE IS GONNA LOOK TREMENDOUSLY DIFFERENT.
AS YOU WERE SAYING MISS FIDGETS WITH, WITH THE ONCOMING UM, UH, MANUFACTURING AND THE ELECTRIC VEHICLES.
UH, WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO LOOK AT CRITICAL WORKFORCE NEEDS AND KEEP OUR EYES FOR THAT AND WHAT THE LEARNING SPACES LOOK LIKE FOR THAT.
UH, AGAIN, WE WANT TO KEEP THAT METRIC IN MIND.
WE WANNA CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO GRADUATE WITH AN INDUSTRY RECOGNIZED CREDENTIAL.
UH, KEEP WORKING ON THE EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS ACROSS ALL OF OUR CONTENT AREAS.
AND THEN MOST DEFINITELY WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO PARTNER WITH POST-SECONDARY SO THAT WE ARE ADVANCING CAREERS.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, TCI SOME NEW FOLKS IN THE CYBER, UM, DEPARTMENT AND, UH, WE ARE, UH, THEY'VE BEEN VERY GOOD TO SHARE THEIR INFORMATION AND WHAT THEY'RE COVERING.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNEW THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING AND KNOCKING A SOCK AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THAT WAS.
IT IS A NETWORK OPERATIONAL CENTER AND A, A SECURITY OPERATIONAL CENTER.
AGAIN, WHERE THERE'S SOME RESOURCES THAT THEY HAVE, WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO, UH, BE WITH THEM AT THE TABLE SO THAT OUR STUDENTS THROUGH DO ENROLLMENT CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT.
THIS, THIS SLIDE IS WHAT RALPH AND I WORK RELIGIOUSLY WITH OUR, OUR, AND WITH DR.
STRATIS, WITH OUR PRINCIPALS AND SCHOOLS.
THESE ARE THE DRIVING FACTORS.
AND IF WITHIN THIS TRIANGLE, IF, IF ONE IS OUR BALANCE, IT'S GONNA BE TOUGH TO SUSTAIN QUALITY CAREER AND TECH ED PROGRAMS FOR OUR STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, THE SCHOOL HAS TO HAVE BUY IN.
THEY HAVE TO HAVE, UH, THEIR VISION.
AND THAT'S WHY IT'S SO MANY OF OUR PROGRAMS ARE SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE OF THE PRINCIPAL LEADERSHIP, AND WE HAVE TO HAVE STUDENT INTEREST.
WE CAN HAVE SOME MAJOR LABOR MARKET NEEDS OF A PROGRAM, BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE STUDENTS THAT WANNA TAKE IT, THEN THAT'S A CONSIDERATION WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, DETERMINING WHAT TO PUT IN PLACE.
AND THEN OF COURSE, THE THIRD, UH, POINT OF THE TRIANGLE IS HIGH QUALITY TEACHERS.
WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR IS INFRASTRUCTURE GONNA BE IN PLACE, HUMAN INFRASTRUCTURE TO RECRUIT AS WELL AS RETAIN.
AND THEN YOU HAVE, IN THE SUSTAINABILITY, WE HAVE A PERKINS GRANT.
UH, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE TAKE CARE OF QUIETLY HAVE FOR YEARS.
UM, SO ONCE WE HAVE INITIAL STARTUP, THERE'S SUSTAINABILITY WITH PERKINS FUNDS.
UH, BAR STRATS HAS BEEN VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN BRINGING IN OTHER, UH, GRANTS SUCH AS MED TECH SEVEN, UH, DO.
UM, AND THEN WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT STATE APPROVED, BECAUSE THAT MEANS IT'S VETTED AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT A FEW NEW PROGRAMS THAT THEY'RE STAYING ON TOP OF.
SO AS WE MOVE FORWARD, THEN, WITH THAT, THIS FRAMEWORK IN MIND, WHAT, WHAT DO THESE SPACES LOOK LIKE? MS. KU, WHEN YOU THINK OF A, A SCHOOL, CT IS NOT THE STANDARD CLASSROOM PROJECT BASED HANDS ON.
IF YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE PICTURES, WHETHER IT'S A, AN NON SIMULATOR, UM, WHERE THEY'RE TRYING TO FIND A VEIN, UH, THE AUTOMOTIVE, UH, WHERE THEY'RE ASSESSING DIAGNOSTICS, THE FIREFIGHTING, I WISH I HAD, I HAD NONE OF THOSE WHEN I WAS IN, I WISH I DID
UM, BUT WITHIN THOSE, IT'S, THEY HAVE TO BE FLEXIBLE, AND THEY DO HAVE TO MEET AS, AS MS. GILBERT SAID, THE, THE, UM, THE LOCAL NEEDS BUREAU, LABOR, STATISTICS, ET CETERA.
WE HAD A WONDERFUL TRIP WITH FACILITIES AS A TEAM, UH, MR. OTING, CAROL, UM, A FEW OTHERS.
UM, MYSELF AND KAREN, WE WENT UP TO WEST ASHLEY, AND IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE.
I, I INVITE ANY OF YOU, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IN THE AREA, IF YOU WANNA STOP IN, UM, THEY PROBABLY GIVE YOU A QUICK TOUR.
UM, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE THREE, UM, PHOTOS, THE ONE ON THE LEFT IS THE CNA.
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IT'S INTERCHANGEABLE.IT, IT'S, THEY REALLY HAVE, UM, BETWEEN BUSINESSES AND THE ARCHITECTS AND, AND THE TEACHERS.
THE MIDDLE ONE, THE WELDING, I WAS IN AWE.
I THINK MY MOUTH WAS OPEN MOST OF THE TIME IN THAT IT WAS TRULY A BEAUTIFUL FACILITY.
THE LAST ONE ON THE RIGHT WAS AUTOMOTIVE.
IT REALLY LOOKED LIKE A BMW DEALERSHIP OR, OR A FORD DEALERSHIP.
UH, THEY HAD A DRIVE IN, DRIVE OUT BAY.
UM, THEY HAD THEIR DESIGN ANGULAR, PLENTY OF STORAGE, VERY WELL THOUGHT OUT WITH THEIR BUSINESS PARTNERS.
WHICH BRINGS US TO, MS. GILBERT HAD HAD MENTIONED IT EARLIER, THE KEY WORD IS FLEXIBLE LEARNING SPACES WITH TECHNOLOGY.
IF WE THINK OF, UM, WELL, THE, THE ADVISORY THE OTHER DAY, THE AUTOMOTIVE SPECIALISTS WERE TALKING ABOUT POINTS, CONDENSERS AND WIRES.
NOW, UM, IF YOU THINK OF THE ITEMS WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD COMING UP, THE ADVANCEMENT, YOU KNOW, WE USED TO CARRY A CELL PHONE IN A BIG BAG THAT WOULD TAKE UP, YOU KNOW, A PORTION OF THE SEAT.
THAT TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY REQUIRES US TO REALLY BE FLEXIBLE WITH THE SPACES TO INCLUDE HAVING THE, HAVING THE GAS, HAVING THE ELECTRIC.
SO AS THE NEEDS CHANGE, WE CAN INTERCHANGE.
WE'RE NOT STUCK IN, IN PAST, UM, INNOVATIONS, WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO CHIP AWAY AND MOVE FORWARD.
SO, SETTING THE STAGE FOR THAT, UH, WE'RE MOVING INTO THEN TO FINALIZE, UH, FOR THE CURRENT REFEREE, I'M VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THE COMMUNITY, THEIR SUPPORT, ALL THE WORK OF THE GLOCK COMMITTEE AND OPERATIONS.
SO WE'RE PROVIDING OUR FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS AND SHOUT OUT TO MR. BOSHAW AND HIS TEAM AT MAY RIVER, UH, AGAIN, WITH THE ADVISORY.
UH, AS A RESULT, YOU SEE THE CURRENT PATHWAYS THAT THEY HAVE LISTED THERE WITH THE, THE ALREADY THE ADDITIONS THEY'VE MADE IS, IS ALSO BEEN ABLE TO BENEFIT CTE AS WELL.
UH, THAT IS A PICTURE OF, UH, SOME OF THE WELDING STUDENTS, IF YOU CAN'T TELL, THAT IS A LARGE SHARK THAT THEY, UH, WELDED, UH, OUT OF DONATED HORSESHOE.
AND SO NOT ONLY WERE THEY LEARNING PROPERTIES OF METAL, UH, BUT IT WAS PREPARING THEM FOR A SKILLED TRADE, AND THEY WERE HAVING FUN WHILE THEY WERE DOING IT.
SO, PART OF THE EXISTING REFERENDUM TO FINISH OUT IS TO, TO LOOK AT WHAT WOULD GO WITH, UH, THE FINALIZATION OF, FOR SOME ADVANCED CTE PROGRAMS AS PART OF THE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS.
SO WE ARE RECOMMENDING AN ADDITIONAL MULTI BASE SHOP AREA AND STORAGE THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR US TO HAVE ADVANCED, UH, WELDING AND AUTOMOTIVE PROCESSES, NECESSARILY ADDING NEW, BUT ENHANCING WHAT WE HAVE.
SO IN THE NEW SHOP AREA, IT WOULD BE VERY SIMILAR TO THE PICTURE THAT MR. LATA SHOWED YOU, WHERE THEY'D BE ABLE TO DO ROBOTIC S WELDING, UM, AND THE SPACE FOR THAT, WHERE THEY'D BE ABLE TO DO G T O L.
RIGHT NOW THEY DO MT AND STICK STICK WELDING.
THIS WOULD BE ABLE TO ALLOW THEM TO ADD THAT ADVANCED LEVEL AS WELL AS PLASMA CUTTING.
AND A LITTLE BIT OF THE MACHINING PIECE FOR THAT, WHERE THE EXISTING WELDING SHOP AREA IS.
IF IT WERE TO MOVE INTO THE, THE, UH, NEW AREA, THEN THAT'S WHERE WE WOULD EXPAND FOR ALL THINGS ADVANCED AUTOMOTIVE.
THAT WOULD INCLUDE CLEAN ENERGY, EN ENERGY FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES, HYBRIDS, UM, THE SPACE FOR THAT.
ALSO, MR. BOHA AND THE COMMUNITY, THEY WOULD BE VERY EXCITED ABOUT, UH, PURSUING AN ELECTRICAL H V A C COMPONENT.
UM, FOR ANOTHER CONVERSATION, WE WOULD LOOK TO SEE WHOMEVER WOULD BE TEACHING THAT H V A C TO DO SOME SHARING WITH SOME OTHER SCHOOLS AS WELL AS WITH TCL.
BUT AGAIN, ALL THIS IS INTERCONNECTED FOR THOSE FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS OF WHAT THE MOBILITY INDUSTRY IS GONNA LOOK LIKE AND WHAT THEY'RE GONNA NEED FOR THAT.
IN THE NEW SPACE, WE, UH, RECOMMEND TWO INNOVATION LABS.
THOSE LABS WOULD BE AS, AS RALPH WAS MENTIONING, TO, UH, ALLOW FOR FLEXIBLE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AS IT MORPHS AND EMERGES.
THIS WOULD ALLOW FOR SOME ADDED, UH, ADVANCED ENGINEERING, AS WELL AS THERE'S A NEW PATHWAY CALLED INTERACTIVE GAMING DESIGN.
AND YOU'RE GONNA SEE WHERE WE'RE OFF.
UH, WE'RE GONNA RECOMMEND IT FOR OTHER SCHOOLS AS WELL.
BUT AGAIN, THAT'S GONNA GIVE A LITTLE MORE FLEXIBLE SPACE FOR A LITTLE BIT OF CODING AND PROGRAMMING.
BUT ALSO THEN WHAT COMES WITH THAT ON DOWN THE ROAD, UH, IS ALL, ALL THINGS, UH, GAMING.
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BUILDING, WE WOULD LOOK AT, UH, UH, ONE MORE ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR HEALTHCARE.IT'S A VERY POPULAR PROGRAM RIGHT NOW AT MAY RIVER.
UM, THEN THAT WOULD INVOLVE A, SO THEY COULD DO A MULTI TEACHER, PRE-MED AND BIOMED PATHWAY IN THERE.
AND THEN, AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE'RE EXCITED THAT MAY RIVER WAS APPROVED, UH, FOR AN AIR FORCE JROTC PROGRAM.
AND NOW THAT J OTC IS COMING UNDER THE UMBRELLA AT THE STATE LEVEL FOR, UH, UNDER CAREER AND TECHED, WE WERE APPRECIATIVE THAT THIS COULD, COULD BE A PART OF THIS ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING.
SO THERE WILL BE SOME PARTICULAR SPECIFICATIONS FOR THAT THAT WOULD BE, UH, QUICK AND SIMPLE.
AS FAR AS THIS SLIDE, UH, WE'RE REQUIRED WHEN WE, UH, HAD A MEMOR MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT SIGNED BY THE AIR FORCE AND THE SUPERINTENDENT, WHAT THEY REQUIRE, ALL THE SERVICES REQUIRE THE SAME THING.
UM, THEY MAY BE OFF A FEW SQUARE FEET, BUT THAT'S IT.
UH, CLASSROOMS, UM, OFFICE SPACE FOR EACH INSTRUCTOR.
UM, YOU CAN SEE 'EM ALL LISTED THERE.
UM, THEY DID, UH, COME DOWN AND DO A SITE VISIT PRIOR TO THEIR APPROVAL.
THEY SAW OUR TEMPORARY, UM, SOLUTION TO WHERE WE WOULD PUT THEM IN THE MOBILES.
UM, BUT THEY DID UNDERSTAND IT WAS TEMPORARY.
WE NEED TO ADD THEM TO OUR PIECE OF THE BODY.
SO LASTLY, TAKE A STEP BACK DISTRICT WIDE IN LOOKING AT ALL OF OUR CURRENT FEEDER CLUSTERS AND WHAT WOULD BE FEASIBLE, WHERE WE COULD POTENTIALLY RETROFIT AND OR EXPAND ON DOWN THE ROAD.
R DIVISION AND WILL OF THE BOARD, WE WOULD BE LOOKING AT, UH, THESE PARTICULAR, UM, ITEMS TO INCLUDING POTENTIAL FUTURE SCHOOLS, AS WELL AS WE ALWAYS WANNA INCLUDE BEAUFORT, JASPER ACADEMY FOR CAREER EXCELLENCE AT THE TABLE.
UH, WE COLLABORATE ON A REGULAR BASIS WITH DR.
WE DO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TOGETHER.
SO WE'RE ALWAYS WANTING TO FACTOR IN WHAT THEY OFFER THERE AS WELL, SO THAT WE'RE NOT DUPLICATING EFFORTS, BUT THAT WE'RE A ONE VOICE, ONE VISION.
SO AS WE MOVE FORWARD, WE, WE, IN LISTENING TO, UM, OUR ADVISORIES AND THE COMMUNITY, WE WANT TO KEEP BUSINESS AND FINANCE, UH, AT THE FOREFRONT.
AND AN OFFERING TO VARIOUS PATHWAYS AT ALL OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS WITH SOME EXPLORATORY WITHIN OUR MIDDLE SCHOOL.
UH, YOU'LL HEAR MORE LATER WITH THE NEW LEGISLATION FOR PERSONAL FINANCE, UH, THAT IS ACTUALLY GONNA CAREER AND TAKE ED WILL HAVE AN INTEGRAL ROLE WITH THAT, UH, OBVIOUSLY STEM, WHICH INVOLVES THOSE, THOSE VARIOUS COURSES SUCH AS, UM, UH, YOUR AG AED, HEALTHCARE AND SO ON.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY, CT DUAL ENROLLMENT WILL BE, UM, UH, AVAILABLE AND WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THAT WITH ALL OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS.
THE DIFFERENCE IS WE WANT TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO BRING SOME OF THAT IN TO THE, THE CAMPUSES SO THAT IF WE HAVE SOME OF OUR TEACHERS THAT CAN ALSO TEACH SOME, UH, DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES, I THINK THAT WILL HELP.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, CONTINUE TO PROMOTE OUR INTERNSHIPS AND APPRENTICESHIPS.
SO THESE NEXT FEW SLIDES WE'LL SHARE WITH YOU WHAT'S THE CURRENT STATUS, AND THEN WHAT WE RECOMMEND FOR FUTURE NEEDS.
SO FOR ALL OF OUR MIDDLE GRADES, UH, EXISTING MIDDLE SCHOOLS, UH, THE GREAT WORK IS HAPPENING WITH, UH, ROBERT SMALLS, K EIGHT, AS WELL AS ANY POTENTIAL FUTURE.
WE JUST ASK THAT, UM, UH, WE'D LIKE TO SEE THE COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSES MOVE FOR HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT DOWN TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS AT SOME POINT, BUT THAT REQUIRES SOME, SOME CHANGES, CHANGE OF THOUGHT, UH, TEACHER CERTIFICATION AND, AND THAT SPACE SCHEDULING.
UM, BUT WE FEEL LIKE THIS WILL BE A TREMENDOUS HELP TO OUR HIGH SCHOOLS BECAUSE IF WE CAN, UH, THAT HIGH SCHOOL CREDIT AND HAVE THAT COMPLETED BY THE TIME A STUDENT MOVES IN AS A NINTH GRADER, THEN THAT FREES UP THEIR SCHEDULE TO TAKE OTHER THINGS AS WELL.
SO IN SAYING THAT, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE SPACES THAT THEY USE ARE GONNA HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO DO THAT, THAT'S GONNA BE ENGAGING AS TECHNOLOGY EVOLVE.
AND ALSO SOME MAKER SPACE TYPE OF LABS THAT LEND ITSELF WELL TO COMPUTER SCIENCE, COMPUTATIONAL THINKING, CRITICAL THINKING, HOW STUFF WORKS WITH ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES.
CUZ WE'VE GOT SOME SMART MIDDLE GRADERS OUT THERE THAT COULD LATCH ONTO THIS.
AND IF OVER THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS, IF WE CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN TO WHERE THAT, UH, 1.0, NOT A 0.5, A 1.0 CURRENT UNIT OF CREDIT IS DONE BY THE TIME THEY MOVE TO HIGH SCHOOL, THAT'LL BE A TREMENDOUS HELP.
AND I KNOW OUR HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS WOULD BE APPRECIATIVE.
FOR BATTERY CREEK, AGAIN, I CAN'T THANK THE COMMUNITY ENOUGH BECAUSE WITH THE EXISTING REFERENDUM, UH, THEY HAVE HAD AS, AS YOU IF YOU'VE BEEN OVER THERE,
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PHENOMENAL RENOVATIONS THERE THAT CERTAINLY CAREER AND TECH ED WAS AT THE TABLE AND, AND WAS INCLUDED.UM, SO REALLY AS WE MOVE FORWARD, IT'S MORE PRO, PRO PROGRAMMATIC, UH, CHANGES THE, UH, PRINCIPAL THERE WANTS TO ADD GLOBAL LOGISTICS.
WE'RE FULLY SUPPORTIVE OF THAT.
UH, THEY ALSO WANT TO EXPAND CULINARY, WHICH IS WHAT'S CURRENTLY BEING DONE WITH THE CURRENT RENOVATIONS, SO THAT THEY CAN ADD BACON AND PASTRY, SOME OTHER ADVANCED CULINARY AS WELL AS OFFER SOME DUAL ENROLLMENT THERE ON THE CAMPUS OF BATTERY CREEK.
AND THEN AS COLONEL GAR MENTIONED, UH, MS. MILTON IS A WONDERFUL, UH, AG ED TEACHER.
SHE IS VERY EXCITED THAT WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO ADD A GREENHOUSE THERE AGAIN, UH, PER THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR THE REFERENDUM.
AND THEN THAT WILL ADD AN ADDITIONAL PATHWAY FOR HORTICULTURE.
UM, AND THEN J OTC WAS A PART OF THOSE RENOVATIONS AT BATTERY CREEK, AND IT'S LOOKING VERY WELL.
SO WE'RE IN GOOD SHAPE WITH BATTERY CREEK.
UH, NEXT SLIDE, BEAUFORT, UH, A FEW OF THE OTHERS IS WHERE WE, UH, RECOMMEND SOME MAJOR CHANGES.
UM, I'M NOT GONNA GO THROUGH THEIR CURRENT STATUS.
YOU CAN SEE THOSE VIA YOURSELF.
WE HAD A MEETING WITH, UH, ADMINISTRATION, IT WAS ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.
WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT IS, UM, ADDING A A CNA PROGRAM.
UM, THE TEACHING, WE ALL KNOW THERE'S A CRITICAL SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS.
UM, MOST OF THE SCHOOLS HAVE TEACHER CADET, BUT YEARS AGO THEY USED TO ACTUALLY HAVE A TEACHING TRACK.
SO THEY WANT TO GET BACK TO THAT.
UH, THE CYBERSECURITY, UM, PUBLIC SAFETY FIREFIGHTER, HUGE, UH, DEMAND EVERYWHERE IN THE NATION.
UM, BUT BURTON, UH, BEAU, PORT ROYAL, UH, HAVE COME FORTH AND THAT'S SOMETHING THEY DEFINITELY LIKE TO SEE.
AND THE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM, WE ALREADY HAVE A STRONG, UH, PROJECT LEAD THE WAY ENGINEERING, CIVIL, CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM THAT TIES IN BEAUTIFULLY.
AND, AND THEN AT THE SAME TIME, ADD IN THE HVAC, WHICH NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE BROAD IS BOTH A CRITICAL SHORTAGE.
THEY CURRENTLY HAVE SEVEN PATHWAYS.
WE LOOK OVER TIME TO INCREASE INTO NINE OR OR MORE.
UH, HAD A GREAT MEETING WITH A NEW ONBOARDING PRINCIPAL THERE AND SHE HAS A GREAT VISION.
AND MOVING FORWARD WITH A A, A THEME ON ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT.
UH, WE WANNA EXPAND UPON THE SUCCESS OF THE, OUR EARLY COLLEGE MODEL, UH, THROUGH ALL THINGS IT WITH THE, UH, MED TECH SEVEN GRANT THAT'S BRINGING IN SOME ADDITIONAL RESOURCES WE WOULD LIKE FOR, TO SEE.
WELL, BRANCHES A HUB FOR ALL THINGS TECHNOLOGY AND CYBER.
AND THEN HOW DOES THAT PERMEATE INTO THEIR OTHER PATHWAYS WITH HEALTHCARE AND SOME FUTURE PATHWAYS.
WE ALSO WANT TO CONTINUE THEIR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS TRADES.
UM, THAT WE HAD A GOOD START WITH THAT A FEW YEARS AGO.
AND BY CONTINUING TO OFFER THAT, THEY HOPE TO INCLUDE SOME FORKLIFT TRAINING, SOME, UM, PREP TO MOVE TOWARDS CDL LICENSE THAT COULD FALL UNDER THAT UMBRELLA, BUT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TCL.
AND SO BASICALLY THAT WOULD BE LOOKING AT AND WORK WITH MR. OTTING, THE RETROFITTED, MAYBE SOME, A FEW EXISTING SPACES TO ALLOW FOR THOSE, UH, TECHNOLOGY SIMULATORS THAT CAN TAKE UP SOME SPACE, BUT ALSO ALLOW FOR A SAFE CYBER, UH, NETWORK NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT.
UH, WE ALSO WOULD LOOK AT THAT NEW GAMING DESIGN, INTERACTIVE GAME DESIGN, CUZ THAT WILL TIE IN NICELY WITH THE, UM, CODING AND PROGRAMMING.
KAREN, IF YOU LET ME JUST I FOR A SECOND.
UH, IN THE WHALE BRANCH, EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL, THERE, THERE IS, UH, ALL, UH, CYBER PATRIOT THAT'S RUN BY THE MILITARY.
AND, UH, IN THAT CYBER PATRIOT COMPONENT UNDER, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, UH, BEFOR COUNTY HAS ABOUT 30% OR 35% OF THE, UH, TEAMS THAT IN SOUTH CAROLINA THAT PARTICIPATE IN THAT.
AND, UH, WELL, BRANCH HAS A HEAVY CONCENTRATION OF THOSE TEAMS, UH, THAT ARE ALREADY COMING.
AND HILTON HAD PARTICIPATES? YES.
WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE PROUD THAT HILTON WAS ABLE TO COME MORE INTO GOOD SUPPORT AS WELL, IS THE BLUFF AND CLUSTER.
UH, AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THEIR CURRENT STATUS.
UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, IT GAMING CYBER FOCUS.
UM, THEY'RE JUST STARTING WITH SOME OF THEIR, UM, CYBER RELATED, BUT WE'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT FORWARD.
UH, BUILD A CONSTRUCTION WITH CIVIL ENGINEERING, SIMILAR TO THE, UH, BEAUFORT HIGH AS FAR AS FACILITIES, UM,
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MODERNIZE AND OR RETROFIT.UH, THEIR FOODS LAB, UM, RELOCATE THEIR FIREFIGHTER TO A LARGER SPACE.
BLUFFTON FIRE PROGRAM WITH THE BLUFFTON TOWNSHIP FIRE DISTRICT AND CHIEF THOMPSON.
IT'S ONE OF THE PREMIER FIRE PROGRAMS IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
THEY'VE ACTUALLY COME DOWN AND IT'S A MODEL PROGRAM.
UH, SO FOR THOSE KIDS TO GO THROUGH AND ACTUALLY GET FIREFIGHTER ONE THROUGH THE SOUTH CAROLINA FIRE ACADEMY IS TREMENDOUS.
ALL PAID FOR BY US THROUGH PERKINS AND CTE, THE DISTRICT.
AND THEY'RE IMMEDIATELY EMPLOYABLE.
UM, BUT RIGHT NOW THEY'RE IN A LITTLE CLASSROOM.
UM, AND WE NEED TO ADD AND RENOVATE THE ARMY JRTC.
IF YOU SAY, WELL, J RTCS BEEN THERE FOR A WHILE.
IT HAS, UH, BUT WE HAVE ALSO HAVE A CONTRACT WITH THEM AS FAR AS FACILITIES AND, AND THE WAY THEY'RE CURRENTLY HOUSED WITH THEIR UNIFORMS. THEY'VE HAD MOLD DAMAGE, WATER DAMAGE.
BECAUSE IT'S IN A SMALL OUTSIDE FACILITY, WE NEED TO TRULY GIVE THEM THE PROPER STORAGE, UH, FOR THEIR EQUIPMENT.
UM, RALPH, SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT IS FABULOUS WHEN WE, UM, ENGAGE WITH OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, FOR, LIKE YOU JUST MENTIONED, THE FIREFIGHTERS MM-HMM.
BUCK WALTER PARKWAY, WHICH IS A HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM OUR BLUFFTON CLUSTER.
SO WHEN YOU HAVE MODERNIZED AND RETROFIT FOR FOODS, LABS, IS THERE ANY CONVERSATION ABOUT INTEGRATING WITH AND USING THOSE FACILITIES INSTEAD OF REPLICATING IS, AND IT MIGHT NOT BE A REPLICATION, IT MIGHT BE MORE ADVANCED.
THE TRUE CULINARY PROGRAMS WE HAVE IN THE DISTRICT ARE HILTON AND BATTERY CREEK ACES.
I DON'T WANNA FORGET ABOUT ACE.
UH, LIKE BEAUFORD HIGH, LIKE MARY CUNNINGHAM AND, AND HER OLD CLASS.
I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT STATING THAT, THAT THAT'S, THAT'S MORE OF A FOODS AND NUTRITION OR A SPORTS NUTRITION.
THAT, THAT TYPE NOT THE TRUE CULINARY.
UM, MS. GILBERT WENT THROUGH ALL THE, UM, UM, FUTURE NEEDS BASED ON, UM, ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING AND, UH, SHOVEL ALREADY.
SO I DON'T, I DON'T NEED TO GO INTO THAT AGAIN.
AND THEN JUST TO, TO WRAP UP OUR, OUR HILTON HEAD ALL AND CLUSTER, UH, THIS IS WHERE YOU'LL SEE A SIGNIFICANT SIGNIFICANT INCREASE OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
IF IT COMES TO, WE CURRENTLY HAVE SEVEN CAREER PATHWAYS, AWESOME TEACHERS THERE.
UH, THEIR SPECIALTY AREAS, HOSPITALITY AND CULINARY.
UM, WE WOULD LOOK TO OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS TO INCREASE TO 11 CAREER PATHWAYS.
AS YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW, UM, THEY'RE THE ONLY ONES THAT DON'T HAVE A HEALTH SCIENCES PATHWAY.
UH, WE, WE FEEL LIKE IF WE GO BACK TO OUR MISSION AND VISION OF SUPPORTING THOSE CRITICAL NEEDS, THERE'S CERTAINLY SUPPORT JUST ON THE ISLAND WITH, UH, HEALTHCARE FACILITIES THAT COULD ALLOW FOR INTERNSHIPS AND, AND FOLKS COMING IN FOR SUPPORT.
SO WE, WE DEFINITELY, WHATEVER SPACES ARE BEING PLANNED CURRENTLY TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S A GREAT FLEXIBLE SPACE THERE TO ALLOW FOR SOME PRE-MED BIOMEDICAL.
AND I, I SAW A GREAT THING IN THE STATE IN ADDITION TO CNA, THERE'S A NEW CERTIFIED MEDICAL ASSISTANT HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM THAT I THINK WOULD, UH, MAYBE APPEAL TO A LOT OF THE STUDENTS THERE THAT IF WE HAD THE SPACE TO LOOK AT, ALSO, WE'RE EXCITED THAT WE'D LIKE TO PITCH, UH, TO OPEN UP A PUBLIC SAFETY FIREFIGHTER PROGRAM THERE.
UM, WE ACTUALLY HAD THE FIRE CHIEF AND TEAM THAT JUST CAME OVER TO HILTON HEAD JUST THIS PAST WEEK TO TALK WITH THE STUDENTS.
AGAIN, PUBLIC SAFETY IS SO CRITICAL FOR, FOR ALL OF OUR AREAS, AND WE FEEL LIKE IT CAN BE SUPPORTED.
ONE OF THE THINGS, AS RALPH REFERENCED WITH BLUFFTON, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR THE SOUTH CAROLINA FIRE ACADEMY, UH, PARAMETERS SO THAT STUDENTS CAN SIT FOR THE, UH, SOUTH CAROLINA FIREFIGHTER ONE AND TWO EXAMS. SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF SUPPORT THERE.
BUT AGAIN, WHAT WOULD THAT FACILITIES LOOK LIKE TO HAVE THOSE ENTRY LEVEL COURSES OFFERED? THE PRINCIPAL AND HIS TEAM ARE CONTINUING TO, TO, UH, WORK WITH THEIR SIC AND COMMUNITY FEEDBACK, WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE FOR US TO EXPLORE A MARINE TECH PROGRAM.
THERE, AGAIN, JUST THE, THE GEOGRAPHY OF WHERE YOU'RE AT ON HILTON HEAD CAN SERVE ITSELF WELL.
AND THEN LASTLY, WE WANT TO INCLUDE THOSE FLEXIBLE SPACES
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TO, WE, WE'D LIKE TO ADD THE FORMAL PATHWAY CALLED GAMING AND INTERACTIVE MEDIA DESIGN.UH, AGAIN, THIS WILL BUILD UPON WHAT'S ALREADY BEING STARTED WITH COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CYBER THERE.
UM, AND THEN, UH, WE HAVE A PHENOMENAL CULINARY TEACHER AND HOSPITALITY, THREE HOSPITALITY TEACHERS AS THEY LOOK AT SPACE AND RENOVATING SPACE.
WE JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT CHEF HILL, UH, WHAT THAT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE FOR AN EXPANDED KITCHEN AREA, CULINARY KITCHEN THERE, AS WELL AS HOSPITALITY SPACES.
UM, IN JANUARY WE'RE GONNA BE HOSTING THE STATEWIDE, UM, CONFERENCE FOR OUR HOSPITALITY TEACHERS.
UH, IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE THAT, THAT EXTRA SPACE THERE THEN, UH, CUZ THEY WORK COLLABORATIVELY TOGETHER.
AND AGAIN, YOU I'M SURE MR. AUDIENCE TEAM, THEY'RE ALREADY, UH, WELL INTO WORKING WITH THE DESIGN WITH HILTON HEAD.
SO AS WE MOVE FORWARD, WE'LL WORK WITH MS. CRUTCHFIELD AND MR. OTTING.
WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT THESE RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, ALIGN TO WHAT'S IN THE FACILITIES MASTER PLAN BOOK.
UH, I THINK CT IS REFERENCED ON PAGE 26 AND 27.
SO WE WILL, UH, PUT THAT TOGETHER TO HELP THAT TO REFLECT SO THAT WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE.
BUT WE JUST ASK THAT, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE WELL OF THE BOARD IS IN MOVING FORWARD WITH OPTIONS FOR KIDS.
WE, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE ALREADY DONE, BECAUSE AS YOU SEE, WE'RE, WE'VE ALREADY MADE A DIFFERENCE.
UH, AND AGAIN, SHOUT OUT TO GREAT TEACHERS WHO MAKE THAT HAPPEN AS WELL.
BUT AS WE MOVE FORWARD, BASICALLY THE HELP TO CHANGE THE PERCEPTION, THE PERCEPTION THAT, UM, A TECHNICAL FIELD CAN BE VALUED, IT CAN MAKE A HAVE A PERSON, YOUNG PERSON MAKE SOME GOOD MONEY.
UH, WE ALWAYS ENCOURAGE THAT THEY DO SOME TYPE OF ADDITIONAL TRAINING, BUT IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE THE FOUR YEAR COLLEGE UNIVERSITY.
IF THEY WANT TO GO, WE WANNA PREPARE THEM AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY GET THERE.
SOME OF OUR ENGINEERS, SPORTS MEDICINE, SOME OF OUR PATHWAYS ARE GONNA REQUIRE THAT FOUR YEAR DEGREE.
SO FOR THOSE TECHNICAL FIELDS THAT THEY, THEY COULD, UM, LIVE AND WORK AND RAISE A FAMILY AND STAY WITHIN BEAUFORT COUNTY.
UH, WE APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT, UH, IF YOU COULD HELP US WITH THAT CONTINUED PERCEPTION, UM, TO LOOK FOR OPTIMAL LEARNING, TEACHING AND LEARNING SPACES.
AND, UM, I THINK THE FUTURE, FUTURE FORWARD WE'RE BRIGHT.
I, I'VE GOT A COUPLE RECOMMENDATIONS.
RECOMMENDATION NUMBER ONE, DR.
RODRIGUEZ IS YOUR COMMITTEE THAT IS, UH, WORKING ON THE NEXT REFERENDUM.
TAKE A LOOK AT THAT, UH, SITE SO THEY KNOW WHAT, UH, WHAT WE WANT TO ACHIEVE.
SECONDLY, I REALLY BELIEVE STRONGLY THAT WE NEED TO HAVE A CTE SUMMIT.
AND THAT SUMMIT WOULD INCLUDE THE SUPERINTENDENT FROM BEAUFORT COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, THE SUPERINTENDENT FROM JASPER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, THE PRESIDENT OF TCL, THE ACE DIRECTOR, AND SHARE THIS BRIEFING WITH OUR VISION WITH THEM AND HAVE, ASK THEM TO SHARE THEIRS WITH US AND SEE WHERE WE HAVE REDUNDANCY TO SEE IF WE ARE EFFICIENTLY SEPARATING OUT THIS.
BECAUSE WE'VE GOT, I THINK WE'VE GOT SOME ISOLATION GOING ON BETWEEN TCL AND JASPER COUNTY THAT WE'RE STEPPING ON ONE ANOTHER.
BRIEF US BRIEF, UH, IN THIS SUMMIT, WHAT'S GOING ON NOW? AND THEN WHERE YOU'RE GOING EACH, EACH ONE OF THESE, UH, ENTITIES, AND THEN COME BACK TO OUR RESPECTIVE BOARDS AND SAY, OKAY, YOU KNOW, KEEP YOU GUYS IN THE ROOM, FEED YOU PIZZA UNTIL YOU FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS.
AND COME BACK AND TELL US WHAT THAT SOLUTION IS FOR A LONG TERM, UH, VIEW OF HOW WE'RE GONNA HANDLE CTE IN OUR AREA.
CAUSE THIS IS SO VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
AND BY THE WAY, EXCELLENT PRODUCT.
A LOT OF, A LOT OF GOOD WORK DONE.
UM, MY QUESTION IS SIMILAR TO WHAT, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES.
SIMILAR TO, UM, WHAT MS. FEDRICK SAID, YOU KNOW, ON HILTON HEAD
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ISLAND, WE HAD THAT S C B, THAT NEW CAMPUS DOWN THERE THAT IS CULINARY FOCUSED.UM, IT SEEMS LIKE INSTEAD OF INVESTING MONEY IN, UM, CULINARY PROGRAMMING ON HILTON HEAD, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE THROUGH PARTNERSHIP WITH THAT FACILITY.
I, TO BE HONEST, IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT'S HIGHLY USED.
UM, I'VE, I'M DOWN THERE QUITE FREQUENTLY AND, UH, I THINK IT'S SOMETHING TO CONSIDER.
UM, THE OTHER PROGRAMS THAT DON'T HAVE COMPARABLE PLACES, UM, ARE, YOU KNOW, I SUPPORT AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO LOOK AT BUILDING OUT IN OUR HIGH SCHOOLS, BUT WHEN WE'VE GOT SOMETHING SO CLOSE AT SUCH STATE OF THE ART, I THINK IT'S WORTH LOOKING AT THAT.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, MS. ROB.
IF YOU'RE A NINTH AND 10TH GRADER, UM, WE, THAT'S A CRITICAL TIME.
UM, WE WANT TO KEEP THEM ENGAGED TO BE A HIGH SCHOOLER.
WE WANT TO HELP THEM TO REALLY START LOOKING AT WHAT, WHAT DO YOU WANNA DO WITH YOUR LIFE? HERE ARE THE HIGH SCHOOL COURSES YOU'RE GONNA TAKE TO, TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
UM, IT'S NOT ALWAYS FEASIBLE TO MOVE, UH, THOSE TWO EARLY GRADE LEVELS OFF CAMPUS EACH TIME.
UH, I DO LIKE, UH, OUR, OUR APPLAUD WHERE YOU'RE GOING WITH THIS BECAUSE AS THEY MOVE INTO A JUNIOR AND SENIOR, AND IF WE WANT TO FREE UP CAPACITY, UH, WITHIN THE HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING ITSELF TO SAY, LOOK, LET 'EM GO.
IF, IF THEY'RE WELL ON TRACK TO GRADUATE, LET'S TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR COMMUNITY RESOURCES AT TCLS CULINARY INSTITUTE AS WELL AS, UH, USC BEATS TOTALLY AGREE, UH, WITHIN THE CONFINES AND PARAMETERS OF OUR DUAL ENROLLMENT PROGRAM AND, AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE FOR OUR FOLKS, WHICH THEN GETS INTO TRANSPORTATION AND MAKING SURE THAT ALL STUDENTS HAVE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO TRAVEL OFF CAMPUS, UH, TO TAKE ADVANTAGE.
BUT FOR THAT NINTH AND 10TH GRADE YEAR, I, I HEAR SO MANY PRINCIPALS, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN WE DO TO OFFER TO THOSE STUDENTS TO KEEP THEM ENGAGED? THAT'S HANDS ON, THAT'S ENGAGING.
AND SO SOMETIMES IT'S JUST HELPFUL TO HAVE IT THERE ON THE CAMPUS.
UH, AND AGAIN, I I I GO BACK TO, UH, YOU KNOW, AS WE HAVE A BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY WITH, UH, THE HOSPITALITY AND SERVICES INDUSTRY.
SO, UM, YOU'RE RIGHT, WE CAN LOOK AT WHAT WE HAVE AND JUST MAKING IT A LITTLE BETTER, WHETHER IT'S FOODS AND NUTRITION FOR DIETARY OR IF IT'S A TRUE CULINARY.
UM, BUT FOR THOSE NINTH AND 10TH GRADERS, IT'S, IT'S, WE HAVE TO KEEP THEM IN THE FOREFRONT TOO, BECAUSE THAT IMPACTS GRADUATION RATE.
UM, BUT THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP.
WE'LL, WE, WE ARE DEFINITELY IN EONS ABOVE WHERE WE WERE A FEW YEARS AGO AS FAR AS OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH, WITH OUR, UH, POSTSECONDARY ENTITIES.
MR. KIMBLE, LET'S START WITH, IS, UH, THAT COMPUTER CLASS THAT YOU'RE SUGGESTING FOR THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHEN IS THAT KIND? WE MOVE DOWN TO THE THIRD GRADE? CAUSE THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE IT'S GONNA BE SOON.
AND I'M SAYING THAT, SAY THAT TECHNOLOGY IS ADVANCING SO RAPIDLY THAT WE HAVE TO BEGIN TO SPEAK A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE WITHOUT A DOUBT.
STRATIS AND ROBERT, YOU FOLKS HAVE TO BE ALMOST FULLY ENGAGED AND WE PROBABLY HAVE TO SPEND ANOTHER 20, 30 MILLION JUST TO GET OURSELF ORGANIZED AND RUNNING AT THE PACE WE NEED RUNNING AT.
YOU KNOW, I, I SEE ALL OF THESE CT CLASSES AT THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS, AND I SEE THAT AS A MESS.
I SEE IT AS A MESS BECAUSE I SEE DUPLICATION, I SEE NOT ENOUGH ACCESSIBILITY OVERALL FOR ALL THE STUDENTS WHO MIGHT BE WANTING TO DO SOMETHING ON HILTON HEAD THAT'S ON HILTON HEAD, BUT NOT AT WALES BRANCH.
AND I, I THINK IN TODAY'S AGE AND TIME, ALL OF THOSE THINGS HAVE TO BE ACCESSIBLE.
AND HOW DOES PHASE IN WITH THE NEW METHOD OF INSTRUCTING AND THE ASSUMING AND OTHER THINGS, ALL OF THAT HAS TO BE PART OF OUR OVERALL PLAN.
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I'M SEEING, YOU KNOW, A REFERENDUM AS AN ARGUMENT OF WHAT KIND OF SCHOOL, WHERE THE SCHOOL'S GONNA BE AND HOW WE GONNA SERVICE THE CHILDREN WHO ARE NOT GETTING THAT BRAND NEW HIGH SCHOOL.AND, AND THAT'S GONNA BE A LONG DIALOGUE AND A LONG ARGUMENT.
IT'S GONNA TAKE SOME CONVINCIBILITY THAT WE DON'T BUILD ANOTHER BRICK AND MORTAR IN BLUFFTON WITH SOME CT PROGRAM AND OTHERS NOT THERE.
AND, AND I, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT YOUR PROBLEM.
IT'S, IT'S OUR DISTRICT COUNTY PROBLEM.
AND YOU KNOW, THAT WEST ASHLEY IS JUST A TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF WHERE WE NEED TO BE OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T KEEP PITCHING.
THE KIDS KNOW ALREADY ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND THE, AND THE OUTLET IMPROVISE.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE CONVINCED NOW THAT I DON'T NEED TO TAKE, YOU KNOW, THAT FOUR COURSES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR TO GET INTO A UNIVERSITY, TO GO TO A FOUR YEAR COLLEGE TO BECOME AN INEFFECTIVE SCHOOL TEACHER.
THEY KNOW THAT THEY'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, AN IDEA HOW TO MAKE MONEY AND WHAT IT'S GONNA TAKE IN THIS SOCIETY TO MAKE MONEY.
NOW WE ARE GONNA EDUCATE THEM IN THAT DIRECTION OR NOT.
WE GOTTA START THINKING OUT OF THE BOX.
AND WE GOTTA START THINKING, GETTING THE RESOURCES THAT WE NEED TO GET THAT DONE.
RODRIGUEZ PROBABLY BE IN LA DOING HIS THING BEFORE WE GET WHAT WE NEED HERE.
BUT BOTTOM LINE IS WE HAVE TO THINK WHAT WE NEED HERE TO EDUCATE ALL OF OUR CHILDREN.
TODAY'S WORLD, I DON'T WANNA BE IN LA THEY ALREADY TOOK THESE SUPERINTENDENT FROM MIAMI DAD AND HIS AGE IS 25 YEARS AND SIX MONTHS.
UM, AND I APOLOGIZE TO TO GLADS, BUT I CAME UP, BUT I THINK MR. CAMPBELL, YOU ALREADY DROVE THE BUS TO WHERE I WAS GONNA RESPOND TO, BUT I, I JUST WANNA BUILD BACK ON THE UM, COM COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSE AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
I MEAN THAT, I WAS A VERY LARGE SUPPORTER OF THAT AS A MIDDLE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL.
THAT OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A STUDENT WALK OUT WITH A FEW HIGH SCHOOL CREDITS FROM THE MIDDLE SCHOOL DOES BRIDGE THAT GRADUATION RATE AS KAREN BROUGHT FORWARD.
THE OTHER PART IT REALLY LENDS IS THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR MORE SECTIONS OF CTE OPEN TO BUILD CAPACITY.
THAT'S PROBABLY THE OTHER TELLING PART OF THAT REQUEST FOR US TO BUILD THAT.
AND IT WON'T HAPPEN THIS COMING AUGUST.
IT WILL HAPPEN OVER A PERIOD OF TIME.
BUT IF YOU'RE DOING 14 SECTIONS OF GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS, EVEN FOR AN ART TEACHER, UM, WE'RE NOT A REALLY ABLE TO BUILD THOSE PROGRAMS WHERE THEY REALLY CAN HAVE THE FULL OPERATION.
YOU'RE YOU'RE ON THE WRONG END OF MY DISCUSSION ON, I JUST HAD TO ADD OUR DISCUSSION ON THAT IS NOT RELATIVE TO THE CREDITS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
THEY FAST FORWARDING SO FAST, THAT CHILD THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, COMPUTER SCIENCE IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL IS NOW IN THE THIRD GRADE.
AND THAT, THAT, THAT COURSE AND THAT CREDIT IS PROBABLY GONNA BE ERASED FROM THE, FROM THE STANDARDS SOON.
CAUSE IT'S NOT GONNA BE RELATIVE.
SO THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT IN TERMS OF GRADUATING.
THAT COURSE IS GONNA BE EMBEDDED IN THE SCHOOLS BASIC EDUCATION.
SO WE DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THAT ALREADY.
THEY'RE GONNA ALREADY HAVE THAT WHEN THEY GET TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
THAT WOULD BE A STATE SHIFT, BECAUSE WITH THE W YEP.
AND THEY'LL BE BOARD EVENTUALLY ENOUGH, EVENTUALLY.
AND ENOUGH, UH, UH, YOUNG DAYS AND STUFF TO COME IN.
SO WE'LL HAVE TO HAVE STUDENTS PREPARED TO GET JOINED THAT BAND.
AND WE WANNA BE AHEAD OF THE CIRCLE IN OF THAT, NOT BEHIND THE YES, SIR.
UM, I TOO, UH, FIRST ALL THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
UM, BUT I TOO ECHO MR. UH, WELL, SOME OF WHAT MR. CAMPBELL HAS SAID IN TERMS OF, I REMEMBER, UH, A WHILE BACK WHO WE DISCUSSED IN TERMS OF CTE ABOUT WANTING TO, AND I DO SEE HERE A COUPLE OF, UH, CYBERSECURITY PROGRAMS, BUT I'M ALSO, I'M ALSO LOOKING FOR, IN TERMS OF
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MORE OF TECHNOLOGY.AND SOME OF THESE, I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE JUST ECHOING THEMSELVES.
AND I, I DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE TELLING TAXPAYERS THAT WE'RE ECHOING THESE PROGRAMS ACROSS, ACROSS THE DISTRICT, BECAUSE THAT'S A WASTE OF MONEY.
GOES BACK TO WHAT, WHAT MRS. THE QUESTION THAT, UH, MRS. FRIT ASKED AND MRS IF WE HAVE A UNIVERSITY AND, UH, WITH THOSE PROGRAMS, AND I DO UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE SAID, BUT MY QUESTIONS I WROTE DOWN, IF WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY, THEN THOSE PRINCIPALS, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO FIND OUT, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO FIND A SOLUTION.
BECAUSE I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS IN, IN MIDDLE SCHOOL GOING INTO HIGH SCHOOL AND THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT ACE, TALKING ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO ACE AND THE, THE REQUIRED COURSES TO GO THERE, THEN IT'S THEIR JOB TO GET THOSE STUDENTS TO A PLACE WHERE THEY ARE ABLE THEIR, THEIR JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEAR TO GO TO THOSE PROGRAMS AND, AND, AND, AND, AND GET THOSE TRADES THAT THEY WANT.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I CAN'T WORRY ABOUT.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I, THAT I CAN'T CONTROL THAT THAT GOES INTO SOMEONE ELSE REALM OF, OF, OF CONTROL.
BUT WHAT I DO KNOW IN, IN, IN TERMS OF GOING OUT AND ASKING FOR MONEY AND US REPLICATING THINGS, WE'RE REPLICATING TOO MANY THINGS.
AND IN TERMS OF SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS IN SCHOOLS, I, I DO HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
AND, AND ALSO I'M LOOKING FOR A PLAN THAT ALSO TALKS ABOUT, I REMEMBER WHEN MS. KIM WAS TALKING ABOUT ANOTHER, BOARDMAN WAS TALKING ABOUT US HAVING A PLACE OR A SCHOOL IN THE MIDDLE IN, IN TERMS OF TECHNOLOGY, BECAUSE TECHNOLOGY IS JUST TAKING OFF
I SAW, I WAS WALKING, I WAS THE STORE.
I SAW A BABY IN, IN, IN THE, IN, IN THE LITTLE, UH, IN, IN, IN THE, UH, CAR SEAT WITH AN IPAD PUSHING A BABY, HAD AN IPAD, PUSHING THINGS.
IMAGINE HOW MUCH MORE QUICKER AND SOONER TECHNOLOGY'S GONNA BE IS GOING TO PASS US BY.
UM, THE, THE, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE GUYS FROM BOEING WAS SAYING THAT HOW WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF STUDENTS IN THIS AREA THAT ARE NOT EMPLOYABLE, THAT'S NOT GOOD.
AND SO WHEN BASICALLY WITH ME SAYING THAT IS, IS I'VE BEEN WRONG LITTLE, BASICALLY SAYING THAT THE, THE, THE STUDENTS HERE, THEY CANNOT HIRE BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THE SKILL SETS.
THESE PROGRAMS RIGHT HERE ARE NOT IN THAT DIRECTION OF THAT SKILL.
AND ALSO AS A YOUNG MALE, AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE IN THIS, IN THIS AREA, SOME OF THESE JOBS, AND SOME PEOPLE TAKE THIS AS AS OFFENSE, BUT I'VE GOTTA ADDRESS THAT.
TALKING TO MY PEERS AND ALSO TALKING TO THE NEW GENERATION AND GOING JUST DIFFERENT THAN TALKING TO PEOPLE.
CULINARY IS GOOD, BUT SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE, THEY'RE TIRED OF IT.
THEY'RE TIRED OF THE INDUSTRY THAT HAVE THEM TO SERVE PEOPLE.
THEY WANNA DO OTHER JOBS AND SAY, WELL, HOW WE JUST GAVE TEACHERS A RAISE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE ONE JOB TO BE ABLE TO GO HOME AND FOCUS ON THEIR JOB.
THEY WANNA BE ABLE NOT TO HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT TWO OR THREE JOBS, NOT GOING FROM MCDONALD'S TO, TO IHOP TO THIS PLACE.
THEY WANNA HAVE ONE JOB THAT REPRESE THAT PLANT JOB WHERE AFTER THEY GET OFF AT WORK, THEY CAN GO HOME AND SPEND TIME WITH THEIR KID AND DO PUT THAT, DO PUT THAT TIME AND EDUCATION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, THAT WE NEED PARENTS TO BE INVOLVED IN THESE JOBS HERE, THEY OUT IN LINE WITH THAT.
SO WE ARE, TO SOME DEGREE, WE ARE MISSING THE COMMUNITY COMPONENT TO HOW HAVE WE ALSO TAKEN THESE JOBS OR TAKING THESE, WHAT WE HAVE HERE AND SAID, WHERE DOES COMMUNITY INTEREST LIE AT? BECAUSE I'M SURE WE HAVE SOME EMPLOYERS WHO ARE WORKING IN THESE INDUSTRIES WHO SAYING THAT THIS IS WHAT WE NEED, BUT THEY'RE NOT GETTING IT BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THE COMMUNITY AIN'T INTERESTED.
SO AS TO SOME DEGREE, THERE HAS TO BE A CONVERSATION ONE WITH THE COMMUNITY TO SEE IS THIS THINGS THAT WE, THAT WE NEED? YEAH.
BUT, BUT, BUT THERE, THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT POSSIBLY NEEDS TO START TAKING PLACE HERE THAT ARE NOT ON THIS LIST.
THAT, THAT, THAT OUR, OUR VERY, OUR VARIS IN THERE AND THAT WE NEED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
SO, YOU KNOW, SO, SO THERE'S SOME CONCERN IN TERMS OF WHAT WE HAVE HERE AND WHAT, WHAT WE'RE PUTTING INTO THE BUILDING.
AND THEN ALSO JUST, JUST THE OVERLAP OF THINGS THAT THAT'S A, THAT'S NOT HEALTHY.
AND MRS. GILBERT, I, I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO, TO LINE IN AS WELL WITH THE ALIGNMENT WITH REGARD TO THE STATE CAREER TECHN TECHNICAL EDUCATION COURSES AND PROGRAMS,
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THE ISSUE OF REPLICATION.I WANNA BRING FORWARD SOMETHING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT U S C B AND THE CULINARY PROGRAM CULINARY IS DESIGNED INTO COMPONENTS FRONT, UN FRONT END OF THE HOUSE AND BACK END OF THE HOUSE.
U S C B IN, AT HILTON HEAD ACTUALLY PRIMARILY IS A MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR FRONT END OF THE HOUSE WHEN I WALK THAT FACILITY AND WALK WITH THEIR DEAN IN DETAIL, BECAUSE THE FACILITY'S WONDERFUL, BUT IT'S ONE STRAIGHT LAB BECAUSE THAT IS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY OF THOSE IN MANAGEMENT TO UNDERSTAND THE OPERATIONS OF THE BACK END OF THE HOUSE, THE PREPARATION, RIGHT.
THE WORK THAT GOES INTO HOW TO BE AN EXPEDITOR.
THAT IS THAT THE PRIMARY POINT OF THAT FACILITY.
ALSO RECOGNIZING BY HAVING AN OPPORTUNITY OF DUAL ENROLLMENT WITHIN THE HIGH SCHOOL OF CTE, IT TAKES AWAY BARRIERS OF OUR CHILDREN WHO DON'T HAVE THAT COMPUTATION.
SO THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD CAPACITY WITH, ARE OUR EDUCATORS BEING ABLE TO DO THE DUAL ENROLLMENT WITHIN THE BUILDING, WITHIN THE FACILITY.
IN ORDER TO DO THAT, WE DO WANNA HAVE STATE OF THE ARTS FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR LEARNING.
BUT I WANTED TO HAVE THAT CLARIFICATION OF US CB TO START, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT OPPORTUNITY AS WELL OF THE STUDENTS FOR TCL, FOR CT, AND I'M GONNA SAY FOR ALL DUAL ENROLLMENT, IT'S A TRANSPORTATION ISSUE.
WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO BUILD THAT CAPACITY SO AT OUR SCHOOLS CAN PROVIDE THAT OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS.
MR. SMITH GREW UP, BORN AND RAISED IN NEW YORK.
I'M GONNA LET YOU FIGURE OUT HOW I DROVE MY HAND OUT THE WINDOW.
RIGHT? BUT, UH, I SHARE THAT WITH YOU BECAUSE I GREW UP WITH CTE.
IT GAVE ME FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE IN ORDER TO BE THE PERSON WHO I AM TODAY.
RIGHT? SO I'M A VERY STRONG SUPPORTER OF REMOVING THE BARRIERS TO GIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR STUDENTS, FOR OUR FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE AND CONTRIBUTION.
WHEN YOU MAKE MENTION OF THE JOBS, AND KAREN SPOKE AT LENGTH, BUT THAT INPUT TO THOSE LISTED JOBS DOES COME FROM AN ECONOMIC COUNCIL THAT HAS A FOUNDATION OF INDIVIDUALS AND SHE DOES WORK WITH COMMUNITY AT PREPARING THE PERKINS GRANT.
THAT IS A REQUIREMENT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
WE CANNOT DO THAT OR ASK OUR SUPERINTENDENT TO SIGN OFF.
BUT AT THAT COMPONENT, SHE'S ABOUT AS HONEST AS THE DAY IS LONG.
AND I MEAN THAT WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT TO HER.
SO I, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT WITH A WORKSHOP THAT WE SHARE THIS INFORMATION AS WELL AS WE BUILD EVERYBODY'S UNDERSTANDING, RIGHT? AND EDUCATION IN, IN THIS PATHWAY.
AND WHEN WE SPEAK ABOUT CULINARY, OUR GOAL IS NOT TO HAVE OUR CHILDREN JUST BE PREPARING BREAKFAST.
WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO PREPARE CULINARY PROGRAMS, BUT AFFECTED YOU UNDERSTAND THE SCIENCE OF IT, THE CREATIVITY OF IT, AND HOW TO PRODUCE THE MATH.
AND THEN TO BE THAT ENTREPRENEUR, TO DO THE FRONT END OF THE HOUSE AND HOPEFULLY MAYBE OPEN YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
LIKE I HAVE MY EYE ON A SPOT RIGHT BEFORE, WELL BRANCH L THAT WILL BE AT A PERFECT PLACE FOR BREAKFAST.
THAT'S WHERE STUDENTS SHOULD BE LOOKING AT, RIGHT? SO IT'S THAT VISION THAT THEY'VE PREPARED THAT REALLY HELPS THAT FOUNDATION.
AND I, AND I JUST WANTED TO PAINT, PUT A LITTLE MORE PAINT ON THE BRUSH FOR UNDERSTANDING.
DO YOU WANNA SPEAK AHEAD? NO, JUST IN SPEAKING TO THE, THE, THE PATHWAYS.
UM, SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING UP ABOUT REPETITION.
SO IF WE HAVE LOOKED AT LENGTH AT OTHER DISTRICTS, OR WE'RE A PART OF A STATEWIDE GROUP OF, UH, CT ADMINISTRATORS.
SO, UM, WHEN YOU HAVE A LARGE DISTRICT THAT WE DO THAT'S SEPARATED BY A LOT OF GEOGRAPHY, WE HAVE TO WORK WITHIN, WITHIN THOSE AREAS TO SEE HOW WE CAN BEST SERVE OUR STUDENTS.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, GREENVILLE, AS LARGE AS THEY ARE, THEY HAVE FOUR VERY LARGE, UM, COMPREHENSIVE CENTERS.
UH, AGAIN, IT PROBABLY DOESN'T MEET ALL THE NEEDS, BUT OF, AT THOSE CENTERS, THEY OFFER VERY SIMILAR PROGRAMS SO THAT STUDENTS WHO LIVE CLOSE BY.
SAME THING WITH CHARLESTON, WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT THEIR MODELS, UH, WEST ASHLEY JUST HAPPENS TO BE ONE OF THE FOUR THAT THEY HAVE, UM, BUILT AS WELL.
AND AGAIN, WE, UH, JUST WANNA KNOW, WE WERE TASKED WITH JUST BRINGING FORWARD WHERE WE'RE AT, WHERE WE'VE BEEN AND, AND WHERE, WHERE CAN WE GO AS FAR AS EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND JUST, AGAIN, SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITY.
WE'RE, WE'RE NOT ADVOCATING FOR ANY, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, REFERENDUMS OR ANYTHING.
THIS IS JUST PART OUR, OUR WORK TO BRING THAT FORWARD.
KAREN, JUST, JUST TO BE CLEAR RIGHT.
DIDN'T LAND ON THESE, UH, SELECTIONS, RIGHT? JUST BY, BY SAYING, I LIKE THIS ONE, OR I LIKE THAT ONE, RIGHT? THERE WAS A PROCESS TO GET TO THESE SELECTIONS.
MANY ADVISORY MEETINGS, THE, UH, REGIONAL ASSESSMENT TEAMS.
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UM, THE GRANT ITSELF EACH YEAR REQUIRES A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF, UH, BACKGROUND WORK, RESEARCH WORK FOR WHAT WE CURRENTLY OFFER.WE CAN'T JUST SAY WE OFFER THIS AND NOT HAVE THE, THE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS FOR IT.
RODRIGUEZ, THE OFFICE RESPONDED TO, I MEAN, IT'S STILL MY QUESTION.
I MEAN, I'VE, I'VE SAW OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN I KNOW, BUT I, BUT WE STILL TALK ABOUT MY POINT.
HE, HE BROUGHT MY POINT AND I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT THEY RESPONDED BACK AND I ALREADY CALLED ON INGRID AND SHE, SHE ALREADY STARTED.
UM, AND I, I THINK THAT THESE, THE, UM, I FORGET THE TERM, ALL SCHOOLS ARE GONNA OFFER BUSINESS AND FINANCE, STEM, HEALTH SCIENCES, CT DUAL, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION IN A LOT OF WAYS, IN MY OPINION.
ONE OF MY, UM, ISSUES, AND I THINK IT TIES INTO WHAT MR. CAMPBELL AND MR. SMITH ARE SAYING IS AS A PARENT, I MEAN, LET'S TAKE HEALTH SCIENCES FOR EXAMPLE, THAT IF YOU'RE A PRE-MED, THAT'S GONNA BE A HEAVY EMPHASIS ON MATH, PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, AND BIOLOGY.
AND YOU'RE GETTING READY TO PREPARE FOR A COLLEGE PROGRAM.
SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE BIG UMBRELLAS AND TECHNOLOGY, WHICH HAS JUST ABSOLUTELY BECOME MY PASSION FOR EDUCATION AND HOW WE ADMINISTER THAT.
I WAS TALKING TO A FAMILY MEMBER WHO IS, HE WORKS FOR GOOGLE'S AI DEPARTMENT.
AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, CAUSE I GREW UP IN A, IN A CULTURE IN THE SEATTLE AREA, WHICH WAS VERY, VERY TECHY.
AND SO YOU'RE JUST SURROUNDED BY THAT.
AND PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE I KNOW WENT INTO TECH.
UM, AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UH, THE EDUCATION OF BRINGING KIDS UP INTO, UH, THE NEXT GENERATION OF TECH.
AND THEY SAID, YOU HAVE TO BUILD A CULTURE.
SO THERE'S, BECAUSE AT THE TIME I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO INSPIRE KIDS, UM, THERE'S A TON OF ONLINE, ONLINE AND VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING FOR TECHNOLOGY, BUT IT'S REALLY HARD TO OPERATE IN A VACUUM.
IT'S MUCH BETTER IF YOU HAVE A DENSITY OF KIDS.
JUST LIKE, UM, THE ARTS PROGRAM WE TALKED ABOUT, YOU CAN BE A CONCERT VIOLINIST, BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN ORCHESTRA TO PLAY WITH, IT'S REALLY GONNA LIMIT YOUR LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.
SO ONE THING I THINK, ESPECIALLY SOUTH OF ABROAD, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE SCHOOL CHOICE IN MOST OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS THERE, WHAT I HAVE AS A CONCERN IS HOW WE'RE GONNA HANDLE IF WE HAVE, OKAY, YOU'VE GOT A CODING STEM CLASS, BUT YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET SIX CODING TEACHERS IN BEAUFORT COUNTY.
UM, YOU'VE GOT, OKAY, SO, SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE A CODING TEACHER AT BLUFFTON, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA HAVE A NETWORK ENGINEERING CLASS AT MAY RIVER.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU GET THESE KIND OF TRACKS.
I DO SHARE THE CONCERN THAT IF YOU'VE GOT A KID AND YOU'RE LIKE, MAN, MY KID REALLY LOVES THIS.
HE REALLY WANTS TO BE THIS, OR SHE, SHE REALLY WANTS TO DO THIS PROGRAM.
WE DON'T HAVE THAT ABILITY TO MOVE AROUND AND TO GET THAT CLUSTER BECAUSE WE GOT 21,000 KIDS ROUGHLY IN THIS DISTRICT, HOWEVER MANY HIGH SCHOOL, UM, IN PROBABLY HIGH SCHOOLS WHERE MOST OF THIS WOULD REALLY START TO TAKE OFF.
HOW DO WE GET WHERE YOU'VE GOT 30 KIDS SOUTH ABROAD AND 30 KIDS NORTH OF ABROAD AND NOT HAVE EM DISPERSED WHERE THEY DON'T BUILD THAT CULTURE AND YOU CAN'T GET THAT ONE GREAT TEACHER WHO CAN TEACH THAT.
THAT I THINK IS MY BIGGEST CONCERN.
AND I THINK IT GOES TO WHAT, I MEAN, I MAY BE SPEAKING OUTTA TERM, BUT MAY GO TO WHAT MR. CAMPBELL'S SAYING, LIKE, GET 'EM ALL IN ONE PLACE,
AND I THINK IT WOULD SPEAK TO WHAT COLONEL GEIER WAS SAYING AS A SUMMIT OR, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BECAUSE THERE'S OTHER MODELS LIKE, UM, ACADEMIES, MAGNET ACADEMIES, THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND SO THERE'S, THERE'S DIFFERENT MODELS CERTAINLY THAT WE COULD LOOK AT.
UH, WE'RE JUST, UH, PRESENTING WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE TO BEST NEED, MEET THE NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS WITH, UH, SOME FAIRNESS AND CONSISTENCY ACROSS THE BOARD.
WE SEE TECHNOLOGY AND REFUSES, YOU SAID MR. SMITH, DEFINITELY WITHIN ALL OF OUR, OUR PROGRAM AREAS.
SO WE HAVE TO HAVE SOME TYPE OF STATE SUPPORTED COURSES THAT A CERTIFIED TEACHER COULD TEACH OR SHARING AMONG THE SCHOOLS ITINERATE TEACHERS AS SOMETHING WE HAVE TO, TO START LOOKING OUTSIDE THE BOX.
BUT I, I'LL, I'LL DIRECT EVERYBODY BACK TO THAT TRIANGLE.
UM, WE DON'T DO LOCAL BOARD APPROVED COURSE IN CTE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T SUPPORT THE COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS INDICATORS.
UH, WE WANT STATE APPROVED PATHWAYS AND COURSES WITH A, UM, QUALIFIED TEACHER.
THE STATE IS TRYING TO LOOK OUTSIDE THE BOX WHERE CTE IS CONCERNED AS TO HOW CAN WE GET SOME FOLKS OUTTA BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY TO COME IN THAT'S BLESSED BY THE STATE TO DO THAT AND WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH HR ON THAT.
BUT, UM, I THINK THERE'S LOTS OF MODELS OUT THERE TO POINT MISS BOATRIGHT AND WOULD CERTAINLY NEED TO EXPLORE ALL THOSE SO THAT KIDS WHO HAVE A TRUE PASSION WOULD,
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WOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT OPTION.BECAUSE, AND TO MR. UH, TO MR. TO DR.
RODRIGUEZ THIS POINT, UM, I DO THINK THAT THE CON THAT THE CONTEST'S NOT IN QUESTION.
I THINK IT'S GOOD WHAT WE HAVE AND EVERYTHING, BUT I THINK THE REASON THE BOARD WANTS TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION NOW MM-HMM.
IS THIS THE PATH WE WANNA CONTINUE ON? WHICH IS EXPANDING KATE TO INDIVIDUAL HIGH SCHOOLS AND WE KNOW THE THREE ON THE SOUTH OF THE BROAD FOR SURE DON'T HAVE CHOICE.
OR IS THIS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS? DO WE WANT TO LOOK AT PROGRAMS WHERE WE KIND OF CONCENTRATE GROUPS OF KIDS? SO THAT WAS WHAT I THINK, I THINK WHAT I'M SAYING IS BEFORE WE GO DOWN, WE'RE GONNA ASK THE TAXPAYERS FOR ANOTHER BIG CHUNK OF MONEY.
LET'S, LET'S DECIDE IF THAT'S SOMETHING WON'T EXPLORE AT THIS POINT.
AND THAT WOULD DEFINITELY BE A CONVERSATION TO BRING IN OUR PRINCIPLES BECAUSE THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS WHAT THAT DOMINO EFFECT WOULD IMPACT.
BUT YES, THAT'S THE APPROACH THAT CHARLESTON HAS TAKEN.
THEY, THEY HAVE THOSE STANDARD BUSINESS FINANCE, STEM HEALTHCARE WITHIN THEIR REGULAR HIGH SCHOOLS.
UM, AND THEN THEY LOOK AT THOSE FOUR SPECIALTY AREAS.
SO THAT'S CERTAINLY ON THE TABLE, A LOT OF MAGNET PROGRAMS. YES MA'AM.
UM, YOU KNOW, I LISTEN TO THIS DISCUSSION.
YOU SEE, LIKE SOME OF US, UM, ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR SCHOOLS TECHNOLOGY, CULINARY OR WHATEVER.
I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING QUITE A FEW STUDENTS THAT FROM BATTERY CREEK AND WELL BRANCH HAVE LEFT HERE, WENT TO GULFSTREAM IN GEORGIA.
SEVERAL OF THEM HAVE A YOUNG MAN FROM BAT CREEK, UH, IN CULINARY.
HE OPENED UP A RESTAURANT IN GREENVILLE.
UH, SEVERAL OUR STUDENTS HAVE WENT TO BOEING.
SO I THINK WE, THAT'S WHAT WE, THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING AT.
AND I THINK THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE AND THE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE ON THE AGENDA TO EXPAND, I THINK THEY'RE GONNA BE GOOD FOR OUR STUDENTS.
NOW I'VE FOLLOWED THESE STUDENTS OVER THE YEARS AND I, THE AMOUNT OF STUDENTS THAT LEFT BATTED CREEK AT WELL BRANCH AND OTHER SCHOOLS, AND WENT TO GEORGIA, WENT TO GREENVILLE, WENT TO BOEING, THOSE STUDENTS ARE DOING GOOD.
YOU KNOW, SO I AM VERY HAPPY OF THE PROGRAM WE HAVE.
AND I WILL KEEP DOING WHAT THE INDUSTRY THEY HAVE AS FAR AS IN TECHNOLOGY AND CULINARY.
UH, WE NEED TO, TO LOOK AT THE STUDENTS AND SEE WHERE THEY GO WHEN THEY LEAVE HERE.
SO I'D LIKE TO SAY A COUPLE THINGS OR ASK A COUPLE THINGS.
UM, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY THE, THE DISCUSSION, THE BIG TRADE OFF IS IF YOU HAVE HAVE THESE PROGRAMS AT THE, IN THE INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS, THE ADVANTAGE OF COURSES THAT THEN ALL THE STUDENTS ATTENDING THAT SCHOOL CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE PROGRAMS REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY WOULD'VE TRANSP BE ABLE TO GET TRANSPORTATION TO A OFFSITE FACILITY, ET CETERA.
AND THE OTHER ADVANTAGE OF COURSES THAT EVEN STUDENTS THAT AREN'T GONNA BE CTE COMPLETERS, UH, COULD ALSO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF, OF, OF CERTAIN, UH, CLASSES AS WELL TO BROADEN THEIR HORIZONS AS OPPOSED TO JUST TAKING, YOU KNOW, COURSES, UH, MAYBE HEADED TO COLLEGE OR WHATEVER.
UM, THE, YOU KNOW, NO QUESTION.
OBVIOUSLY THE, YOU KNOW, HAVING A OFFSITE FACILITY IN CERTAIN CTE PROGRAMS IS PROBABLY MORE COST EFFECTIVE.
EVEN ADDING IN TRANSPORT, TRANSPORTING STUDENTS TO THAT FACILITY OBVIOUSLY PLAYS HAVOC WITH SCHEDULES AND WHATNOT CUZ IT'S OFFSITE AND IT'S, YOU GOTTA ARRANGE THEM WHEN THEY HAVE ENGLISH TWO OR ENGLISH FOUR OR WHATEVER IT IS AT THE BACK, AT THEIR HOME SCHOOL.
UM, ONE THING THAT HASN'T COME UP IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WITH BJ ACE CUZ THAT IS PRIME REAL ESTATE.
AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS TO BE DETERMINED, UM, GOING FORWARD AND UH, UM, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW ALL THE INS, YOU KNOW, ALL THE INS AND OUTS OF WHO OWNS WHAT PART OF IT AND WHAT I KNOW WE, BEFORE IT WAS A CONTRIBUTION, I THINK WE DID TWO THIRDS AND JASPER COUNTY DID ONE THIRD AND I BELIEVE THE LAND ITSELF IS DIVIDED BETWEEN THE TWO OF US.
OR IS IT JS BEAUFORT COUNTY THAT HAS THE LAND.
SO IT'S IN THE LANCE THAT'S IN JASPER COUNTY.
SO THAT'S SOME, AND I THINK THEY HAVE BUILT THEIR OWN, UM, FACILITY.
SO IT SEEMS LIKE THE, THIS WOULD BE A, A GOOD TIME
AND UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THAT REAL, UM, REAL ESTATE CONSULTANT ALREADY, UH, MR. BARRY, UH, ON BOARD.
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I THINK THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD THING FOR HIM TO, UH, START WORKING ON, UM, JUST TO SEE WHAT, WHAT ARE OUR OPTIONS THERE, WHAT COULD GO THERE, YOU KNOW, IS THAT SOMETHING, BECAUSE I SEE THAT AS BEING A, A, A VERY, UH, UM, USEFUL, UH, PRIME LOCATION CUZ IT'S MUCH MORE CENTRALIZED THAN, FOR EXAMPLE, THIS BUILDING.UM, AND, AND, AND AS, AS WE ALL KNOW RIGHT NOW, THE GROWTH IS PRIMARILY IN THE BLUFFTON AREA.
SO I DON'T KNOW, I'D LIKE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS DR.
NO, MAN, I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT POINT.
THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE, YOU KNOW, THOUGHT ABOUT QUITE A BIT, UM, AND THOUGHT ABOUT POSSIBILITIES THERE.
UM, CAUSE I THINK THEY ARE SIGNIFICANT.
THERE'S, IT'S CENTRAL TO US, RIGHT? IN TERMS OF, UH, UH, ACCESSIBILITY FOR BOTH NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN BEAUFORD COUNTY.
UH, SO IT HAS A LOT OF PROMISE AND A LOT OF POSSIBILITIES.
I KNOW THERE ARE, UM, PROBABLY SOME LEGAL MATTERS THAT HAVE TO BE SORTED OUT, UH, AS WELL AS PART OF THE, PART OF ANY, ANY, UH, PROPOSITION OR PROCESS I GUESS.
UM, SO THAT'S, UH, THERE WAS SOME STATE INVOLVEMENT IN THAT, UH, INITIATION THAT I THINK HAS TO BE CAREFULLY LOOKED AT AND, AND CONSIDERED, UH, IN THAT PROCESS.
SO WE CAN CERTAINLY START THAT TO LOOK AT THAT.
AND IF I MAY MANAGER, I THINK YOU'RE SPOT ON WITH THAT.
UH, AGAIN, WE HAD INCLUDED BEAUFORT JAS RACE JUST AS PART OF THE CONSIDERATIONS BECAUSE THEY ARE OUR KIDS AND REGARDLESS OF THE LEGISLATIVE AND THE, THE, THE, THE CONTRACT FOR IT, UH, I DO THINK BECAUSE IT'S A LARGE SPACE, WHETHER YOU BUILD A NEW ONE FOR THAT, UM, AND IT IS IN THE MIDDLE OR WHERE, UH, WHATEVER THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE.
SO I THINK THAT'S A GREAT, UH, STARTING SPACE FOR THAT.
AND WE CAN LOOK AT THE OTHER MODELS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
UM, IT'S JUST, WE WANTED TO FINISH OUT FOR MAY RIVER.
UH, THAT'S PART OF THE EXISTING REFERENDUM.
UH, MR. OTTING AND HIS TEAM, UH, THEY'RE READY TO MEET WITH THE ARCHITECTS TO, TO FINISH THAT OUT AS PART OF, OF OUR OB UM, COMMITMENT TO THE EXISTING REFERENDUM AND WHAT THAT COULD LOOK LIKE ON DOWN THE ROAD WITH JUST THE PLANS.
UM, SO I AGREE WITH YOU, THAT WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT STARTING PLACE FOR THAT.
ALL RIGHT, MR. MEL KIMBLE TRYING TO PUSH EVERYTHING TO ONE AGENDA, BUT I ONLY HAVE A COUPLE MORE LEFT
BUT, UM, A THOUGHT AND, AND I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT IT, AND I'M SURE WE HAVE RESTRICTIONS AGAIN FROM THE STATE, BUT IS IF WE HAVE A CENTRALIZED, UH, PROCESS OF TECHNOLOGY DISPERSEMENT, CAN WE TRANSPORT OUR STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTY DIFFERENTLY THAN THE BIG SCHOOL BUSES? YOU KNOW, IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE 15 PASSENGER VANS WITH OTHER DRIVERS DRIVING OTHER THAN QUALIFIED DRIVERS TO DO THAT TRANSPORTATION? BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE A BIG PART OF THAT DISCUSSION.
YOU TALKING COUNTYWIDE AND DIFFERENT TIME PERIOD, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO THINK A LOT FURTHER OUT THE BOX AND A LOT FUTURISTIC THAN WE ARE THINKING.
I DON'T THINK WE CAN HAVE THAT EAST ARGUMENT THAT WE'VE HAD FOR 30 YEARS TO CONTINUE ANOTHER 25 YEARS SCANS.
ANSWER THAT, UH, VAN QUESTION.
UM, YOU CAN DO 50 PASSENGER UH, VEHICLES OR LESS, BUT THEY STILL HAVE TO HAVE CERTIFICATION, DRIVER CERTIFICATION.
THERE ARE, WE HAVE ONE OUT THERE THAT IS A 10 PASSENGER, IT'S STILL LIKE A BUS, A SMALL BUS, UM, AND YOU HAVE TO PASS ALL OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA DRIVING, BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE, UM, THE CDL ANYTHING ABOVE 15 PASSENGER VANS.
YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE THE CDL, BUT IT, YOU CAN'T HAVE A VAN.
IT'S GOTTA BE A BUS STILL, ROBERT, YOU'RE, AND YOU'RE SAYING 15, NOT 50, CORRECT.
YOU CAN AFFORD YES, MR. SMITH.
UH, ACTUALLY THAT, THAT WAS, UH, ONE OF MY THINGS.
I KNOW WE JUST, I BELIEVE THE DISTRICT JUST PURCHASED, UH, A COUPLE OF, UH, BUSES THAT OUR, I BELIEVE I SEE OUT THERE AS WAS A COUPLE OF JEEPS, A COUPLE CARS.
AND SO THAT WAS ONE OF MY, UH, POINTS IN TERMS OF, UM, GETTING PEOPLE
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T TO DIFFERENT DIFFERENT SCHOOLS IN TERMS OF, OF UH, CONTINUING TO DUPLICATE ALSO, UM, IN, IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY.UH, IS ASKED YOU A QUESTION ABOUT HOW YOU CAME UP WITH THAT, AND IN TERMS OF HOW SHE CAME UP WITH THE, ABOUT THE, THE, THE PROGRAMS, THE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS, RIGHT? THE, THE LIST OF PROGRAMS AT THE SCHOOLS AND, AND, AND IN TERMS OF THE, UH, CT, UH, PROGRAMS. UM, AND AND YOUR YOUR, YOUR RESPONSE, WAS THAT YOU, YOUR AREA, WHAT WAS, COULD YOU REMIND US WHAT YOUR RESPONSE WAS? YES, SIR.
WE HAVE ONGOING MEETINGS WITH LOCAL BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY THROUGH WHAT'S CALLED OUR ADVISORY.
AND THEN WE'D MEET REGULARLY WITH OUR SCHOOL PRINCIPALS CUZ THEY'RE INTEGRAL AS TO WHAT THEIR VISION MISSION IS FOR THEIR SCHOOL, UH, SCHOOL COUNSELORS.
AND THEN I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR ANNUAL GRANT.
AND IN THAT GRANT, UH, IN ORDER TO HAVE SUSTAINABILITY, IN ORDER TO HAVE OPERATIONAL FUNDS THAT COME INTO OUR DISTRICT TO SUSTAIN THESE PROGRAMS, UH, THERE'S, THERE'S CERTAIN CRITERIA THAT WE HAVE TO PROVIDE IS TO THE, THE JUSTIFICATION FOR THESE PROGRAMS. YES, SIR.
RIGHT? AND, AND, AND, AND THAT THE REASON BLAH BLAH, THE REASON WHY I ACTUALLY, TO STATE THAT BECAUSE I BOUGHT THE, I BOUGHT, I BOUGHT IN COMMUNITY.
THAT'S, THAT'S NOT THE SAME THING AS WHAT COMMUNITY LOOKED FOR ME AS A BOARD MEMBER, FROM YOUR POSITION AS A DISTRICT, AS A DISTRICT EMPLOYEE, THAT'S GREAT AND FINE.
BUT WHEN I SAY COMMUNITY, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE CHURCHES.
I'M TALKING ABOUT THE LOCAL PEOPLE, YOUNGER PEOPLE.
I'M TALKING ABOUT SITTING DOWN, HAVING CONVERSATION AND SEEING WHAT PEAKS THEIR INTEREST.
SO I UNDERSTAND THAT THESE THINGS WOULDN'T JUST, WOULDN'T JUST, UH, PUT OUT OF THE AIR.
AND, AND AS WELL, IF I'M A BUSINESS OWNER, AND THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR, OF COURSE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GONNA COME TO THE DISTRICT AND SAYING, HEY, WE NEED THESE THINGS.
SO, SO FROM MY, FROM MY STANDPOINT AS A REPRESENTATIVE, I'M, I'M, I'M, I'M TALKING ABOUT IS THE CONVERSATIONS THAT I'M HAVING IN THE COMMUNITY, PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT, THEY'RE LOOKING FOR, THEY'RE LOOKING FOR TRUCK DRIVING SCHOOLS.
THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT, UH, THING.
IN FACT, I TALKED TO A GUY AT BO WHO'S FROM BEAUFORT AND WHO DRIVES BON EVERY DAY.
AND HE TRIED TO GET A COUPLE, COUPLE KIDS HIRE, A COUPLE PEOPLE HIRE AT BORN.
THEY DIDN'T HAVE, THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE SKILL AND THEY, THEY, THEY COULDN'T SURVIVE.
I, I, I KNOW, I KNOW ABOUT, JUST TO GO TALK TO MR. UM, MR. CAMPBELL'S POINT ABOUT, UM, HE FOLLOWED KIDS.
ALSO, I KNOW, I KNOW ABOUT FOUR, I KNOW ABOUT FOUR PEOPLE WHO MOVED FROM BEAUFORT, WENT, WENT AND WENT TO THE, THE GREENVILLE PLANT.
BUT THEY'LL FORCE, FIRST THING THEY TOLD ME WAS, MAN, Y'ALL GOTTA GET Y Y'ALL GOTTA GET THE SKILL SET.
Y'ALL GOTTA GET US SOME OF THAT, SOME OF THAT STUFF.
SO WHEN WE GO TO PLANT, MAN, WE, I MEAN, LIKE, WE CAN SURVIVE.
CAUSE WE REALLY ALMOST DIDN'T MAKE IT, LIKE ALL OF US BEEN ON THE BORDERLINE NOT MAKING IT.
AND I STARTED TO ASK THEM DIFFERENT THINGS, AND THEY WENT IN THERE, THEY WENT AND DID DEPTH AND TELL ME, TOLD ME CERTAIN SKILLS AND CERTAIN THINGS THAT THEY NEEDED THAT THEY DIDN'T GET FROM HERE.
AND THEY ALL WORK RIGHT NOW, WORK FOR GREENVILLE, THE, THE, UH, THE PLANT IN GREENVILLE.
SO MY THING ABOUT, IT'S, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT, THAT WE NEED.
AND THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE, PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM SOME OF, SOME OF, SOME OF THESE, UM, DIFFERENT TYPES OF BUSINESSES THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT DON'T BEAT THEIR INTERESTS.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, SO, I MEAN, SO, SO THAT, THAT'S MY POINT IN, IN, IN TERMS OF BRINGING UP, EVEN, EVEN PLUMBER, YOU KNOW, PLUMBERS MAKE DIFFERENT, MAKE DIFFERENT JOBS.
HOW MANY SCHOOLS THAT WE BUILDING OUT THAT WE BUILDING OR HOW MANY, HOW, HOW MANY, HOW MANY THINGS THAT WE ARE ADDING ON RIGHT NOW THAT'S GONNA REQUIRE A PLUMBER.
HOW MANY PLUMBING COMPANIES DO WE HAVE HERE IN BUFORD COUNTY? I MEAN, OUR PLUMBING ON THIS LIST.
SO THESE ARE, THESE ARE JOB SETS.
NO, I WAS JUST GONNA SAY GO AHEAD.
I WAS JUST GONNA SAY, I'M SO GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP COMMUNITY MOST DEFINITELY IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE, UM, ALL VOICES WITHIN THAT, THE PLUMBING AND H V A C IS A MORE MODERNIZED APPROACH, WHETHER IT'S GONNA BE AT ONE FACILITY OR SPREAD OUT NORTH AND SOUTH FOR ACCESS, UH, UNDER BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS TRADES, WHETHER IT'S THROUGH WELL BRANCH THROUGH DUAL ENROLLMENT, OR IF IT'LL BE WITH, UM, UH, AT BLUFFTON HIGH CONTINUE.
LEKO HAS DONE A GREAT JOB OF USING HIS CURRENT ELECTRICAL PROGRAM THAT'S STATE APPROVED, AND HE IS BRINGING IN H V A C PARTNERS WITH THAT.
SO WHEN WE SAY THAT PLUMBING ALL THAT ENCOMPASS A BUILDING CONSTRUCTION TRADES APPROACH OF WHAT THAT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE, UH, WE HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH CAROLINA AIR.
UM, THE, I'M ALWAYS AMAZED TO HEAR ABOUT THE ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES WITHIN H V, JUST JUST WITHIN H V A C.
SO THAT'S WHY WE SAY WE PUT THE FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS OF
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TECHNOLOGY, GETTING KIDS COMFORTABLE WITH THAT SKILL.AND THEN AS THEY GET INTO THEIR JUNIOR AND SENIOR YEAR, AND THEY TRULY WANNA PURSUE A TRADES JOB, LIKE YOU SAID, THAT'LL HELP 'EM, UH, GET A GOOD CAREER, MAKE, MAKE GOOD MONEY, THEN, THEN WE NEED TO LOOK AT ENGAGEMENT AND WHAT DOES THAT FUTURISTIC JOB LOOK LIKE? THAT'S GONNA APPEAL TO A YOUNG PERSON TO SAY, WE'RE GONNA DO FOUR COURSES OF PLUMBING.
UH, I THINK, AND YOU'RE RIGHT, WE NEED TO, UH, CANVAS THE STUDENTS AGAIN AND DO SOME MORE, UM, SURVEYS.
BUT IF WE CAN ENCOMPASS IT INTO A, HERE'S A BUILDING TRADES CONSTRUCTION PATHWAY, YOU'RE GONNA LEARN SOME PLUMBING, YOU'RE GONNA LEARN SOME H V A C, YOU'RE GONNA LEARN SOME ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES THAT'S GONNA HELP YOU TO REALLY MARKET YOURSELF TO AN EMPLOYER IN THOSE AREAS BECAUSE YOU, YOU'VE GOT THAT SKILL SET.
AND IF I WILL JUST MADAME CHAIR, JUST ONE LAST THING, AND MR. CAMPBELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING IT UP.
AND, AND MR. SMITH, YOU'RE HITTING ON IT AS WELL.
WILL YOU SEE OUR POST PLACEMENT RATE IN 2021? THEY HAVEN'T RELEASED THE ONE FOR, UM, THE, UH, 2122, YET WE HAD 422 STUDENTS THAT HAD A POS POSITIVE PLACEMENT RATE.
WELL, THAT'S A NUMBER I LIKE MR. CAMPBELL THAT YOU'RE CONNECTING A FACE WITH, WITH THAT NUMBER.
SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING RALPH AND I AND OUR TEAM, WE CAN WORK ON THAT MESSAGING OF HELPING TO, WHEN WE MEET WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND BUSINESS PARTNERS, OF THOSE 4,422 STUDENTS, WHERE DID THEY GO? WE KNOW OUR WELDING PROGRAMS, THEY'RE GOING TO TA, THEY'RE GOING TO GULFSTREAM.
WE KNOW OUR AUTOMOTIVE IS GOING TO LEXUS AND TO, UH, VADEN, UM, TO BEAT SIDE AUTO, UM, FOR THE $1.3 BILLION INDUSTRY FOR OUR HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM.
WE HAVE A YOUNG MAN WHO'S DOING A YOUTH APPRENTICESHIP WITH, UH, THE, UH, RESORT OVER THERE THAT DR.
BUT I THINK THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING UP, WE NEED TO PUT, CONNECT SOME FACES TO THESE NUMBERS, AND I THINK THAT WOULD HELP WITH OUR MESSAGING.
SO, SO THANK YOU FOR, FOR BRINGING THAT TO LIGHT.
AND JUST ANOTHER QUESTION CAN JUST A FORMALITY QUESTION.
CAN YOU TELL ME, YOU SAID THAT THE STATE HAVE TO QUAL, I GUESS THEY HAVE TO QUALIFY THESE OR THEY HAVE A, A CERTAIN, UH, CRITERIA TO HAVE THESE PROGRAMS IN TERMS OF INSTRUCTORS.
CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE AND, AND, AND HOW DOES THAT WORK? BECAUSE WHAT I'M THINKING IS IT WILL ALSO HELP OUT US TO, WELL, FOR ME AND SPECIFICALLY, AND, UH, SO WHEN I TALK TO PEOPLE, IT WILL ALSO HELP ME TO ALIGN HOW THEIR OPTIONS, WHAT ARE OPTIONS AND WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA TO UNDERSTAND HOW THAT WORK.
WHAT DOES THAT PROCESS? WE, WE'LL BE GLAD TO GET THAT TO MRS. KUCHEN BARRY TO SHARE.
UH, SO IF SOMEONE'S OUT IN THE BUSINESS INDUSTRY WORLD, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE A TRADITIONAL TEACHING DEGREE, THEY CAN COME IN ONE OF TWO WAYS.
THEY CAN COME IN WHAT'S CALLED PACE, OR THEY CAN COME IN WITH WHAT'S CALLED DIRECT AT THE STATE LEVEL, AND THAT THEY LOOK AT THEIR YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.
THEY LOOK AT, UH, IF THEY HAVE ANY KIND OF, UH, ADVANCED TRAINING.
SO IF, IF THERE'S SOMEONE THAT'S BEEN IN WELDING FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, OR A NURSE THAT'S BEEN IN, THEY CAN ACTUALLY APPLY AT THE STATE LEVEL, UH, AND GO THROUGH ONE OF THOSE TWO PROGRAMS TO BEGIN TO ADD THEIR TEACHING LICENSE.
SO I'LL BE GLAD TO SEND THAT TO MRS. KUCHEN.
MARY, IT'S, UH, TWO LINKS AND IT, AND IT DESCRIBES HOW THAT WORKS.
RODRIGUEZ, DID YOU ACT LIKE OKAY, YOU WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING? OKAY.
UM, DO NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY FURTHER HANDS UP.
NEXT ON OUR AGENDA IS THE ONLINE SECURE DOCUMENTS ALT AND MARK SHOHAN.
UM, I WAS ASKED TO RESEARCH SOME ON WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT SECURING ONLINE DOCUMENTS.
UM, THERE'S MULTIPLE WAYS TO HAVE SECURE DOCUMENT STORAGE THAT IS BOTH PASSWORD PROTECTED AND ONLY HAS A LIMITED AMOUNT OF KNOWN PEOPLE WHO CAN ACCESS THAT INFORMATION.
A MARK STOP FOR A SECOND AND JUST GET A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE MICROPHONE.
IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT'S PICKING YOU UP WELL.
DOES THAT NEED BETTER? MUCH BETTER.
UM, THIS PROCESS IS DONE DAILY HERE IN THE DISTRICT WITH, UH, PIECES OF SOFTWARE LIKE MICROSOFT ONEDRIVE, GOOGLE DRIVE, INTERNAL NETWORK STORAGE, AND EVEN BOARD DOCS HAS A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT PIECE IN IT.
UM, THE PROBLEM THAT YOU RUN INTO IS WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT LIMITING PRINTING AND COPYING, UM, THERE ARE SOME FILES AND SOFTWARE OUT THERE THAT SAY THEY DO THIS.
THESE FILE SHARING SOLUTIONS ONLY PROVIDE YOU WITH ONE OR TWO FUNCTIONS.
USUALLY THE SHARING OF DOCUMENTS AND THE SIGNING OF DOCUMENTS.
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MANY DOCUMENT SHARING APPS CLAIM TO HAVE BUILT IN SECURITY, IT IS DIFFICULT TO A ASSETS IF THE APP SECURITY LEVEL MEETS THE STANDARDS THAT BOARDS AND DISTRICTS REQUIRE TO PROTECT THEIR THEM FROM LIABILITY, SCREENSHOTS AND SCREEN CAPTURES CAN BE BLOCKED ON SOME, UH, PLATFORMS, FOR INSTANCE.BUT APPLE DOES NOT ALLOW THIRD PARTY DEVELOPERS ACCESS AT A DEVICE LEVEL OF THE OS.
SO ANYBODY ON A APPLE IPHONE IPAD CAN SCREEN PRINT, SCREEN CAPTURE ALL DAY LONG.
UH, THE BIGGEST ISSUE WE SEE FROM ALL OF THIS IS BECAUSE EVERY ONE OF US HAVE ONE OF THESE IN OUR POCKETS AT ANY GIVEN TIME.
IF THE DOCUMENT'S OUT OF A SECURE LOCATION, I CAN PULL OUT MY CELL PHONE, I CAN VIDEO IT, I CAN TAKE A PICTURE OF IT, I CAN LIVE STREAM IT TO FACEBOOK AND YOUTUBE.
SO I THINK THAT BRINGS US BACK TO WE NEEDING TO HAVE A DEEPER CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT ACTUAL DOCUMENTS YOU WANT SECURED AND TO POSSIBLY LOOK AT ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO SECURE THOSE.
AND TO DO A DEEPER DIVE IN THIS, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE MOVE THIS TOPIC TO THE POLICY COMMITTEE TO ESTABLISH AN EXECUTIVE SESSION DOCUMENT HANDLING PROCEDURE.
BECAUSE ONE THING I DID FIND IS THAT A LOT OF EXECUTIVE BOARDS AND BUSINESSES ARE MOVING TO OLDER SCHOOL TECHNOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED BY THE MILITARY FOR YEARS.
THEY'RE USING SOMETHING CALLED A SKIFF, WHICH IS A SECURE, A SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION FACILITY.
NOW, WHEN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDS ONE OF THESE FACILITIES, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT 40 MILLION.
THERE'S NO RADIO FREQUENCIES IN AND OUT.
THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT HERE.
WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT IS A TEMPORARY LOCATION WHERE WE CONTROL ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY IN THE SPACE.
ONE OF THE REASONS, UH, ONE OF THE WAYS SOME OF THESE BOARDS ARE HANDLING THIS IS THAT THEY ARE STOPPING, UH, THE INTRODUCTION OF CELL PHONES.
WHEN YOU WALK IN THE DOOR, YOU TAKE YOUR CELL PHONE OUT, YOU PUT IT IN A CUP, YOU WALK IN THE ROOM AND YOU VIEW THE DOCUMENTS.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S THE SOLUTION THAT THE BOARD WANTS.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I WOULD RECOMMEND IT GO TO THE POLICY COMMITTEE FOR A DEEPER DIVE IN CONVERSATIONS THAN THIS.
UM, AND I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ASSIST THE POLICY COMMITTEE WITH ANY TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.
I ACTUALLY MENTIONED WHEN I BROUGHT THIS TOPIC UP, BUT WE DIDN'T NEED A SKIFF ENVIRONMENT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT IT FEELS LIKE.
IF YOU ARE RECOMMENDING THAT OR IF THE POLICY CAN BE.
I THINK THAT THOSE DOCUMENTS NEED TO BE MADE AVAILABLE WELL BEFORE THE MEETING SO THEY CAN BE REVIEWED NOT AS WE ARRIVE AT THE MEETING.
NUMBER TWO, I THINK THAT THERE SHOULD BE MULTIPLE LOCATIONS, WHETHER IT'S AT THE SCHOOL, YOUR CONSTITUENT SCHOOL.
SO I COULD GO IN, LET'S SAY ON A, IN THE MORNING TO HILTON HEAD HIGH OR HILTON HEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND GO INTO MY OWN LITTLE PERSONAL SKIFF.
CUZ MY PROBLEM IS IF, AND I'M ASSUMING THAT, UM, SOME OF THE NORTH OF THE BROAD PEOPLE WHEN WE HAVE OUR MEETINGS ON THE OTHER SIDE, AND THEN YOU'RE TRYING TO GET THERE EARLY.
THE OTHER THING IS, THERE ARE TWO CATEGORIES OF DOCUMENTS.
THERE IS HIGHLY SENSITIVE LEGAL STUDENT DOCUMENTS.
I DON'T THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE SEEN IN ADVANCE.
REVIEWING AN AMENDMENT TO A AIR CONDITIONING CONTRACT PROBABLY SHOULDN'T REQUIRE SKIFF.
UH, YOU KNOW, UNLESS THERE'S, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE WOULD MAKE THAT DISTINCTION, BUT, UM, TO ME SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE THINGS WE GET ARE, CAN BE KIND OF LIKE THE, SOME OF THE HR STUFF, UM, OR SOME OF THE, UH, BIG DEAL FINANCIAL STUFF THAT WE HAVE TO REVIEW.
TRYING TO REVIEW IT 20 MINUTES BEFORE THE MEETING STARTS IS, AND OR, YOU KNOW, COMING IN HOURS EARLY FROM A DIFFERENT LOCATION JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
SO I GET WHAT YOU'RE SAYING WITH THE SKIFF, BUT IS THAT WHAT SOMETHING, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHY H V A C CONTRACT AMENDMENTS WOULD REQUIRE A SKIFF.
IT WOULD NOT, AND THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I'M RECOMMENDING IT TO GO TO THE POLICY COMMITTEE IS SO THAT Y'ALL CAN OUTLINE A SEPARATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF DATA.
MY IDEA OF SECURED DATA WOULD BE ANYTHING TO DO WITH OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEE, UM, INTERACTIONS, UM, THOSE TYPE OF THINGS.
BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, SOMETHING LIKE A CONTRACT OR DIFFERENT DOCUMENTS THAT WOULD PRETTY MUCH IN, IN THE PUBLIC EYE ANYWAY, WOULD NOT NEED TO HAVE THAT KIND OF DOCUMENT HANDLING SENSITIVITY.
AND WOULD ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK? I THINK IF WE SEND IT TO THE POLICY COMMITTEE, I WOULD LIKE TO FOLD IT INTO JUST A GENERAL DISCUSSION OF HOW WE GET MATERIALS TO OUR SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS.
SO THAT'S NOT REALLY TECHNOLOGY THAT'S MORE, MAYBE WE JUST NEED A POLICY COMMITTEE TO REVIEW WHAT WE HAVE AS FAR AS, UM, DEADLINES.
SO THAT, AGAIN, FOR THOSE OF US,
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AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE MORE BOARD MEMBERS COMING ON WHO ARE WORKING FULL-TIME, THAT WE HAVE AMPLE TIME TO LOOK AT THE DOCUMENTS AND PREPARE.BECAUSE IT JUST TAKES A LOT OF EVERYONE'S TIME IF PEOPLE DON'T READ THE DOCUMENTS IN ADVANCE.
AND A LOT OF TIMES WE'RE ASKING QUESTIONS THAT WE JUST DIDN'T HAVE A TIME TO GET TO.
OR WHAT I FIND MYSELF DOING IS I'M OVER HERE LOOKING UP SOMETHING WHILE SOMEONE'S TALKING BECAUSE I'M TRYING, YOU KNOW, I JUST GOT THE DOCUMENTS.
SO, UM, IF WE'RE GONNA SEND IT TO POLICY COMMITTEE, I'D LIKE TO JUST MAKE A GENERAL REVIEW OF HOW WE RECEIVE MATERIALS.
UM, THE, SOME OF THESE CONCERNS I HAVE ALIGN WITH, UH, MR. BULLRIGHT.
BUT MOST, MOST IMPORTANTLY IS THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WE HAVE BEEN ASKED TO LOOK AT SOMETIMES LARGE QUANTITY OF DOCUMENTS WITHIN A CERTAIN PERIOD OF TIME AND GO OUT AND MAKE A DECISION.
AND THE STAFF HAS IT HOWEVER LOAN THEY NEED TO HAVE IT.
AND YOU NEED TO TELL ME THE PEOPLE HAVE ELECTED ME TO MAKE THAT DECISION.
AND THAT WHO MAKES THE DEC MAKES THE DECISION UPON THE TRUST FACTOR.
IF YOU WERE ELECTED AND YOU WERE TRUST TO HAVE THAT POSITION TO SAY WHEN AND WHY AND HOW LONG YOU CAN HAVE THAT DOCUMENT.
THAT'S A, THAT'S A DOCUMENT THAT, THAT, THAT YOU NEED, THAT YOU NEED, THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE THAT DOCUMENT.
I MEAN, I THINK THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT TO SOME DEGREE WE ARE GOING A LITTLE BIT BEYOND THE NORM BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S NO DIFFERENT THAT THAN IF SOMEONE WANTS TO BREAK INTO YOUR HOUSE.
I DON'T CARE WE HAVE AN ALARM, OUTSIDE ALARM ON YOUR HOUSE.
I DON'T CARE IF YOU HAVE ARM OFFICERS OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE.
IF THEY REALLY WANT TO GET IN THERE OR THEY REALLY ARE TRYING TO GET IN THERE, THEN THEY MAY DO THE THINGS THAT, THAT TAKE FOR THEM TO GET THAT.
SO, I MEAN, AND, AND, AND, AND, AND, AND SAYING THAT I THINK THAT MORE, MORE SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE ARE, THAT WE, THAT IS MORE VIOLENT TO THE ELECTED OFFICIAL UPON THEM DOING THEIR DUE DILIGENCE AND HAVING THAT INFORMATION VERSUS ACTUALLY US SERVING THE, THE COMMUNITY.
BECAUSE I THINK IT'S A DISSERVICE TO US MORE SOLY.
JUST LIKE TODAY, WE'RE GETTING A DOCUMENT TODAY ON FRI ON FRIDAY.
I MEAN, THAT MUST BE IN BY MONDAY.
WHO'S TO SAY THAT, SIR? LET ME JUST MAKE A CORRECTION FOR THE PUBLIC IN 10 DAYS.
I THOUGHT, I THOUGHT YOU SAID LAST MINUTE.
I THOUGHT YOU SAID IT WAS, YOU SAID NO, IT'S PRINTED ON THE AGENDA OF THE LAST MEETING.
YOU ARE RECEIVING IT TODAY, NOVEMBER 18TH.
IT'S DUE BY 5:00 PM ON NOVEMBER 28TH.
WELL, THAT, THAT MAY BE, THAT MAY BE DIFFERENT.
BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHEN WE RECEIVE THESE DOCUMENTS, WE SHOULD HAVE AMPLE TIME TO READ IT AND DO IT FOR, FOR, FOR INSTANCE.
I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT IF I'M OUT OF THE COUNTRY TWO WEEKS, TWO WEEKS IN A MONTH? YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S A REAL INCONVENIENT IN HAVING TO GET, GET BACK TO GET THAT DOCUMENT DONE.
SO ANYWAYS, MAKING LONG STORY SHORT, I THINK THAT, THAT WE'RE DOING TOO MUCH IN TERMS OF HIDING DOCUMENTS BECAUSE AT THE DAY WE ARE, WE ARE ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS.
WE UNDERSTAND THE RESPONSIBILITIES THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT WE HOLD.
I THINK THAT IT'S JUST TOO MUCH POINT.
ALL RIGHT, NEXT IS MR. MEL KIMBLE.
OH, I THOUGHT YOU WERE MOTIONING TO ME.
UM, MY QUESTION IS, SMITH, HOW SOON DO YOU, HOW, HOW QUICKLY YOU SHOULD HAVE THE DOCUMENT, YOU THINK, HOW MANY DAYS DO YOU THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE A DOCUMENT BEFORE THE MEETING? THE QUESTION MR. CAMPBELL, AND MY QUESTION WILL BE TO YOU IS HOW LONG DO THE PEOPLE PREPARE A DOCUMENT HAVE BEFORE THEY GIVE THE DOCUMENT ONE BLANK PERIOD? I'M DONE.
WHAT I'M SAYING IS, IS THE ADMINISTRATION HAS A DOCUMENT TO GIVE US ALL I'M ASKING YOU HOW MANY DAYS DO YOU THINK NEEDED BEFORE YOU CAN MAKE A DECISION.
ALL RIGHT, MR. RICH, THANK YOU, MARK, FOR, UM, TRYING TO COME UP WITH A SOLUTION TO THE QUESTION ABOUT HAVING THE AVAILABILITY OF SOME DOCUMENTS THAT WE KNOW HAVE TO BE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
UM, I DON'T REMEMBER THE LIST OF 'EM, BUT THERE'S CERTAIN THINGS THAT CAN ONLY BE PRESENTED YES.
SO, UM, I THINK THAT YOUR SUGGESTION ABOUT TAKING IT TO
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POLICY IS A GOOD ONE.AND OBVIOUSLY IT'S LARGER, THE QUESTIONS LARGER THAN JUST WHAT YOU WERE TASKED WITH.
THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATION.
IT SEEMED LIKE IT WAS AN EASY FIX.
YOU HAVE A PASSWORD, YOU CAN ACCESS IT AND ONLY YOU CAN ACCESS IT.
THAT STILL DOESN'T KEEP IT PRIVATE.
AS, AS I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
UM, SO, UH, I BELIEVE THAT POLICY PROBABLY WOULD BE A GOOD PLACE FOR IT.
IT CAN BE OPEN TO MORE DISCUSSION AND A MORE ELABORATE CONVERSATION.
SO, UH, CHAIR, I'M GONNA JUST ASK THAT, UM, THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY ADD THIS TO THE LIST OF THINGS THAT THE POLICY COMMITTEE, UH, WHOMEVER IS ON THAT POLICY COMMITTEE NEXT YEAR.
UM, TAKE THIS UP AND, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR INFORMATION.
YEAH, I JUST WANNA SAY A COUPLE THINGS.
NO, I THINK THAT'S A, A VERY GOOD IDEA.
I MEAN, I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT THE PROCESS COULD BE IMPROVED, BUT I THINK THE SECOND THING WE ALL HAVE TO REMEMBER IS WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES OR WHATEVER WORD YOU WANNA USE.
AND, AND YOU KNOW, SOME OF US HAVE OUTSIDE JOBS, SOME DON'T HAVE OUTSIDE JOBS, SOME MUCH CLOSER TO THE DISTRICT OFFICE WHERE WE TYPICALLY REVIEW THESE DOCUMENTS OR MUCH CLOSER TO THE HILTON HEAD LIBRARY.
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER WE'RE ELECTED OFFICIALS OR NOT, WE HAVE LIABILITY WITH SOME OF THESE DOCUMENTS.
AND I THINK THAT ABSOLUTELY HAS TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT.
AND THAT'S ONE OF MY CONCERNS BECAUSE, UM, UH, CONFIDENTIALITY HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN, UM, UH, SECURED OR CAPPED OR WHATEVER WORD YOU WANT TO USE.
AND, UH, I DON'T PERSONALLY WANNA BE PART OF THAT.
AND I KNOW MOST OF US HERE DON'T WANT TO BE PART OF THAT, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE TO, TO THINK ABOUT TOO.
AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MARK.
RESULTS MONITORING REPORT FORMS. HOW ABOUT A FIVE MINUTE BREAK FOR THE BATHROOM
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RECONVENE NOW, UM, BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE THREE OF THE FOUR NEW BOARD MEMBERS NEWLY ELECTED, AND THREE ARE HERE TODAY, WHICH IS GREAT.WE HAVE CHLOE GORDON, DISTRICT FIVE, VICTOR NAY,
SO I THINK IT MIGHT BE NICE IF, IF EACH OF YOU WANTED TO JUST SAY, I DON'T KNOW, A MINUTE OF YOUR BACKGROUND OR WHATEVER, JUST SO THE REST OF US CAN, UM, YOU KNOW, GET TO KNOW YOU A LITTLE BIT.
IF YOU DON'T WANNA DO THAT, THAT'S FINE.
I'M VERY, VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE.
I HAVE 30 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN EDUCATION, ALL OF WHICH WERE IN BEAUFORT COUNTY.
I STARTED OUT AS A SECRETARY TO THE, UH, SUPERINTENDENT IN 1993.
I REMEMBER WHEN MR. CAMPBELL CAME IN.
UM, AND I AM JUST SO DELIGHTED TO BE IN THIS POSITION TO WORK
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WITH THE BOARD, TO BE A MEMBER, TO TAKE CARE OF OUR CHILDREN, OUR TEACHERS, OUR COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION.I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING IN EDUCATION HERE AT BUFORD COUNTY, AND I'M JUST NOT HAPPY, AS THEY SAY.
UM, I HAVE AN EXTENSIVE BACKGROUND.
I WAS THE DIRECTOR OF ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS, UM, ASSISTANT, UH, PRINCIPAL AT THE MIDDLE, ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL.
I TAUGHT, MY FIRST TEACHING POSITION WAS ATFA HIGH SCHOOL AND, UH, MILITARY FAMILY.
MY HUSBAND WAS IN THE MILITARY, WHICH BROUGHT US HERE.
BOTH OF OUR GIRLS GRADUATED FROM BEAUFORD HIGH SCHOOL.
AND, UH, I'M A MEMBER OF THE, UM, NEW HOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCH HERE IN BURTON, IN BURTON.
UH, SO AGAIN, MY EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND IS EXTENSIVE.
I REMEMBER HIM FOR INVOLVED IN HIGH SCHOOL, WAS NOT EVEN HERE.
I THINK MR. CAMPBELL REMEMBERS WHEN WE WENT OUT LOOKING FOR LAND
I LOVE BEFOR COUNTY AND I ESPECIALLY, I LOVE THE CHILDREN HERE AND WHAT WE ARE DOING FOR THEM AND LISTENING TODAY, HOW WE ARE MOVING FORWARD.
I THINK THAT'S THE WORD THAT WE'RE USING GOING FORWARD FOR THE FUTURE, BECAUSE I DEFINITELY BELIEVE THAT CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE.
AND, UH, WITHOUT THEM, NONE OF US WOULD BE HERE WITH JOBS.
SO WE WOULDN'T HAVE A PLACE TO BE HERE, BUT THANK YOU.
I APPRECIATE BEING A MEMBER OF THIS BOARD, UH, IN JANUARY.
UM, THANK YOU MADAME CHAIR AND THE BOARD.
IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE AS MS. GORDON.
YEAH, I, UH, WORKED CLOSELY WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OVER THE 12 YEARS I'VE BEEN HERE ON VARIOUS THINGS SUCH AS ACADEMIC WORLD QUEST, UH, WHICH IS A SUBSET OF THE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL.
UH, I'M ALSO PROUD TO BE A MEMBER OF THE CLOCK COMMITTEE.
UM, THAT HAS BEEN VERY INFORMATIVE OF THE GREAT STAFF THAT YOU HAVE, UH, THE CARING BOARD THAT YOU HAVE AND THE COMMUNITY SUPPORT THAT IS THERE FOR YOU.
UH, SO IT'S BEEN AN HONOR IN THAT REGARD.
MY BACKGROUND IS, UH, 34 YEARS IN GLOBAL PETROLEUM.
LAST 10 INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM, UH, WORKING FOR A FORTUNE THREE COMPANY.
THE LAST 10 YEARS WORKING ABROAD.
I LIKE TO TELL PEOPLE I'VE MOVED, UH, 19 TIMES, 14 PROMOTIONS, TWO LATERALS AND A DEMOTION.
AND I LIKE TO SAY SOMETIMES YOU BECOME COLLATERAL DAMAGE WHEN THE TITANS ABOVE YOU ARE FIGHTING.
UH, STARTED AS A THIRD SHIFT CLERK IN THE STATION, CAME HOME FROM UNC AND HAD RUN OUTTA MONEY.
SO THE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE COST OF EDUCATION ARE VERY NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART.
AND MY PARENTS WERE VERY STOIC.
THEY WERE FROM THE 8 19 18, 19 24.
MOM AND DAD CAME IN ON A SATURDAY AND MOM SAID THEY'RE, THEY HAVE NOW HIRING SIGN ON THAT GAS STATION.
DAD WAS TALLER AND HE HAD THIS LOOK ON HIS FACE LIKE, DON'T EVEN TRY IT, BOY.
AND SO I WENT DOWN ON A MONDAY, GOT OUT OF THE CAR, MY HANDS WAS UP IN THE AIR, FINGERS CROSSED TO GOD, PLEASE DON'T LET THEM HIRE ME.
OF COURSE, THE I AMM EX FOOTBALL PLAYER, THREE YEARS OF COLLEGE.
BUT I NEED A JOB TO SAY, YOU'RE HIRED ON THE SPOT.
IF YOU CAN PASS THE LIE DETECTOR TEST, WHICH THEY GAVE IN 1976 AND 77 WEDNESDAY, I WENT OVER TO GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, GOT OUTTA THE CAR AGAIN, TAKE THE LIGHT, SAID GOD, PLEASE LET ME FLUNK THIS STUPID LIE.
UH, WENT, STARTED FROM THIRD SHIFT, WORKING SIX DAYS A WEEK AT 21.
YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW SOCIAL INHIBITING THAT WAS.
MY LAST JOB WAS AS REGIONAL DIRECTOR, UH, HEADQUARTERED IN CAPE TOWN.
UH, HAD RESPONSIBILITIES FOR 33 COUNTRIES.
I LIKE TO SAY A LOT OF THE PLACES YOU'VE SEEN ON CNN OR FOX NEWS, UH, ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN THERE AND HAVE GREAT APPRECIATION FOR THE MILITARY AND WHAT THEY DO AS A PETROLEUM COMPANY.
WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH THEM IN MANY, MANY DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE WORLD.
SO, LOOKING FORWARD TO LEARNING.
I'M A BIG OLD NERD, SO YOU PROBABLY SAW ME DOING A LOT OF WRITING.
AND ANYTHING YOU WANT ME TO READ, I'LL DO MY BEST TO COME IN.
UH, CURRENTLY, UH, I'M STILL ACTIVE DUTY IN THE MARINE CORPS.
I TRANSITIONED OUT IN MARCH 31ST.
UH, MY EDUCATION, I GREW UP, UH, UH, ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
MY DAD WAS IN THE AIR FORCE, SO I WAS BORN IN RAMSTEIN, GERMANY IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS.
UH, FINALLY SETTLED MOSTLY I SAY THAT I'M MOSTLY
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FROM OKLAHOMA.UH, UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA IS MY, MY TEACHING EDUCATION.
UH, I, MY, MY DEGREE IN MUSIC EDUCATION STARTED TEACHING FOR A SHORT TIME IN OKLAHOMA.
UH, AND THEN AFTER I TOOK A DRASTIC PAY CUT FROM BARTENDING, UH, IN ORDER TO BE A TEACHER AND WENT BACK TO EATING RAMEN NOODLES AND PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY LIKE A COLLEGE FRESHMAN.
UM, ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS WHO HAD JOINED THE MARINE CORS MUSICIAN CALLED ME AND SAID, HEY, THIS IS A SWEET GIG.
UH, AND FOUR WEEKS AFTER THAT, I WAS STANDING ON THE YELLOW FOOTPRINTS IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.
UH, MY FIRST 10 YEARS IN THE MARINE CORPS AS A PERCUSSIONIST.
MY NEXT 10 YEARS WAS AS A CONDUCTOR.
I'M VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT CONDUCTING MUSIC.
AND THEN THE LAST THREE YEARS HAS BEEN, UH, ESSENTIALLY AS THE OPERATIONS CHIEF RUNNING A 50 MARINE UNIT.
UH, I'VE BEEN ALL OVER THE WORLD.
I'VE, I HAVEN'T MOVED 19 TIMES, BUT, UH, I MAYBE CLOSE TO THAT.
UH, MY DAUGHTER IS CURRENTLY IN MAY, RIVER HIGH SCHOOL.
UH, I DEFINITELY HAVE AN IRON IN THE FIRE WHEN IT COMES TO, UH, SOME OF THE POLICIES AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF.
UH, AND I ALSO, BECAUSE, UH, BEING FIRSTHAND, UH, CASUALTY OF, UH, GETTING OUT OF EDUCATION BECAUSE OF COST, I'M ALSO HEAVILY INVESTED IN THE COST.
UM, MONEY IS DEFINITELY FINITE.
UH, UH, SO I, I'M VERY INTERESTED IN THAT.
UH, AND I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IN ADVANCE, THANK YOU ALL FOR SUFFERING MY QUESTIONS IN WHAT IS PROBABLY THE FIRST STEP IN A VERY STEEP LEARNING CURVE.
WELL, YES, WELCOME TO ALL THREE OF YOU.
AND, UM, THANK YOU FOR GIVING US A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND.
SO IT'LL BE GREAT CUZ CLEARLY YOU'VE ALL HAD DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES AND WE'LL BRING UNIQUE, YOU KNOW, VISION AND VIEWS TO THE BOARD.
AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU TO THE PUBLIC.
THE THREE MEMBERS THAT ARE HERE, AND THE OTHER ONE THAT IS NEW ALSO, ELIZABETH HAY, WHO IS NOT ABLE TO ATTEND TODAY.
THEY WILL BE SWORN IN, UH, TO THE BOARD IN JANUARY, EARLY JANUARY.
NEXT ON OUR AGENDA IS THE, UM, RESULTS MONITORING REPORT FORM.
UM, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW ME, I'M TANYA CROSBY, THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.
SO I HAVE BEEN NOMINATED TO TALK ABOUT THE OPERATIONAL EXPECTATIONS MONITORING REPORT TODAY.
UM, I, IN YOUR PACKET IS PROVIDED A TEMPLATE OF AN OPERATIONAL REP, EXPECTA OE MONITORING REPORT TEMPLATE THAT WE'VE BEEN USING, UH, SENIOR STAFF MEMBERS, PRESENT DOCUMENTS, OR A SUMMARY OR SUMMARIES, EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES WITH THIS, UH, DOCUMENT ATTACHED.
UM, AND SO WE HAVE A SCHEDULE, UH, ONCE, UH, APPROXIMATELY ONCE A MONTH.
UH, THERE IS AN OPERATIONAL EXPECTATION THAT IT'S REPORTED TYPICALLY THROUGH COMMITTEE AND THEN TO THE FULL BOARD AS WELL.
AND SO THIS JUST BASICALLY PROVIDES, UH, A CERTIFICATION FROM THE CHIEF OFFICER AND THEN FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT THAT WE HAVE, UM, WE ARE PRESENTING THIS INFORMATION AS EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT OUR COMPLIANCE WITH A CERTAIN BOARD POLICY OR A CERTAIN SET OF BOARD POLICIES.
SO EACH OE MAY HAVE 12 TO 15, UH, ON AVERAGE, UM, EXPECTATIONS.
AND WE, UH, SUMMARIZE THOSE EXPECTATIONS INTO A SUMMARY REPORT BACK TO THE BOARD.
AND THEN, UM, DOCUMENT THAT WITH OUR SIGNATURE SIGN OFF ON THIS FORM AS WELL.
SO, UM, I'LL BE HAPPY TO OPEN UP, OPEN UP FOR ANY DISCUSSION ON, UH, I'M NOT SURE WHY THE TOPIC CAME UP PERHAPS, BUT OPEN FOR ANY DISCUSSION ON THAT.
SO MEL, IT WAS, WASN'T IT YOU AND KATHY WHO HAD SEEN, UM, SEEN THIS UH, UH, MONITORING REPORT FORM WHEN YOU WERE, UM, DOING I BELIEVE A CONFERENCE PERHAPS ONLINE WITH COHERENT GOVERNANCE? WASN'T YOU? IT WAS A WHILE AGO, MAYBE
SO CATHY, DO YOU YES, MEL AND I WERE BOTH, UH, ATTENDING THIS.
AND BASICALLY WHAT THIS FORM DOES IS IT JUST FORMALIZES THAT, UH, IT PUTS THE WORD ACCEPTED ON THERE.
SO IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, I THOUGHT THERE'S SUPPOSED TO BE, IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S NOT COMPLIANT OR NEEDS WORK, UM, THAT ISN'T ACCEPTABLE, THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE NOTED ON THIS FORM AS WELL.
ALTHOUGH I DON'T SEE THAT ON HERE.
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FORM THAT, THAT WE GOT AT THAT CONFERENCE? I THINK THIS FORM ACTUALLY, UM, PRECEDED OUR, UH, DISCUSSIONS WITH THE, UM, UH, PEGGY TORI AND THE, AND THE COHERENT GOVERNANCE BOOKLET.UM, AND SO THE ONE THAT'S IN THE BOOKLET IS, IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN THIS ONE.
UM, AND IT DOES PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR, UH, NOTING THAT YOU ACCEPTING IT WITH SOME, UH, EXCEPTIONS.
AND SO THIS FORM DOESN'T CURRENTLY HAVE THAT.
WE DIDN'T MAKE ANY CHANGES, DIDN'T WANNA DO ANY, MAKE ANY CHANGES WITHOUT THE BOARD HAVING DISCUSSED THAT.
DID YOU HEAR THAT, KATHY? THIS IS THE CURRENT NO, I HEARD, I HEARD WHAT, UM, I DID NOT HEAR WHAT DR.
SO CAN YOU JUST REPEAT IT WITH THE MICROPHONE, DR.
ALL I WAS SAYING WAS THAT THIS IS THE CURRENT FORM THAT WE ARE USING THAT YOU SEE HERE.
OH, THIS IS THE FORM THAT WE'RE USING.
THIS IS, THIS IS THIS ONE IS THE CURRENT FORM THAT WE'RE USING? YES.
WELL, I THOUGHT THE REASON THAT IT WAS COMING UP WAS THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT BRINGING THE FORM INTO COMPLIANCE WITH, UH, COHERENT GOVERNMENTS FORM.
SO IT SEEMS LIKE THE BEST THING TO DO WOULD BE TO, UM, TO PUT THIS ONTO THE NEXT, UH, BOARD, UM, BUSINESS MEETING, WHICH WILL BE IN DECEMBER.
AND THAT WILL ALSO BE AFTER, UH, PEGGY, TORI, UH, LIKELY WILL BE HERE.
WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN SHE'S GONNA COME, BUT SHE'S GONNA HELP WITH A, UM, ORIENTATION WITH OUR NEW MEMBERS.
AND SO SHE COULD I JUST, LET'S SHOW HER THAT FORM AND BE SURE SHE AGREES THAT THAT'S IN COMPLIANCE.
CUZ I ALSO REMEMBER WHAT YOU REMEMBER, KATHY, IS THAT IT'S GOT TO, IT INCLUDES IF IT'S SOMEHOW IF YOU HAVE AREAS THAT ARE NON-COMPLIANT OR YEAH, YEAH.
BECAUSE YOU KNOW, MANY OF OUR, UM, OISE HAVE MULTIPLE COMPONENTS.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S POSSIBLE THAT YOU MIGHT, YOU KNOW, MAKE A NOTE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S COMPLIANT, YOU KNOW, NINE, THAT PERHAPS YOU EVEN SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, 10 OUTTA 10 ARE COMPLIANT, BUT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR FOCUS ON ONE OF THE SECTIONS WOULD BE BENEFICIAL IN THE TUBE.
MEL, LOOK AT SOME OF THE, HERE CAN YOU PLEASE TALK INTO THE MICROPHONE? I CAN HEAR MEL, SOME OF THE THINGS, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT NEEDED TO BE IMPROVED UPON WITHOUT REDOING THE WHOLE THING, WITHOUT BRINGING THE WHOLE THING BACK.
BUT, UH, I, FOR EDIFICATION TO, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT ARE ES AND, AND I, I DON'T KNOW IF THESE, UH, YOU KNOW, REGISTERED GUEST, UH, UH, UH, PRIV TO, TO OES, BUT OPERATIONAL EXPECTATIONS PRIMARILY HOW WE EXPECT THE ADMINISTRATION TO, TO EXECUTE OUR OUTLINE OF STRATEGIES TO, TO, TO GET THINGS DONE.
AND, AND THEY BRING IN HOW THEY INTERPRET IT TO US, AND WE LOOK AT IT AS INTERPRETATION OF, OF THE, OF THOSE EXPECTATIONS AND AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH WHETHER OR NOT DR.
RODRIGUEZ IS INTERPRETING WHAT OUR EXPECTATIONS ARE.
AND, UH, AND, AND YOU KNOW, WE VETTED, KINDA VETTED IN TERMS OF, UH, YES, HE'S IN COMPLIANCE WITH OUR EXPECTATIONS.
NO, HE'S NOT INTERPRETING CORRECTLY.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S GENERALLY WHAT WE DO.
HOW ABOUT THIS FORM IS KINDA LIKE MONITORING REPORT AND YOU KNOW, KIND LIKE WE LOOK AT INFORMATION GIVEN AND THEN WE GO YES.
UNDERSTANDS EXACTLY WHAT, AND, YOU KNOW, AND SOME OF THOSE THINGS ARE, BUT WHAT'S, WHAT HE CALLS, UH, WHAT WE ALL CALL GUESS MINISTRY REGULATIONS DEPEND ON HOW IT'S GONNA BE DONE.
SO, I DUNNO, I I'VE GOT OFF WITH THIS.
SO IF THERE'S, DID YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING ADDITIONAL, KATHY? NO, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT, UM, WE DID, UM, PRIOR TO LOOKING AT THE ES THE FIRST TIME, WE DID LOOK AT THE SUPERINTENDENTS AND ACCEPT THE SUPERINTENDENT'S INTERPRETATIONS OF
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WHAT THOSE INTERPRETATIONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ACCEPTED BY THE BOARD.AND WHAT HE BRINGS FORWARD US TO US IS THE DOCUMENTATION THAT SUPPORTS THOSE INTERPRETATIONS.
YOU KNOW, I, I'VE GOT DOCUMENTATION THAT I HAVE, UM, BEEN COMPLIANT WITH THIS EXPECTATION.
SO, UM, I, I THINK SINCE PEGGY TO IS GONNA COME IN, I THINK THAT'S A, A GREAT, UM, SOLUTION.
I THOUGHT THE FORM THAT, UM, I HAD PREVIOUSLY LOOKED AT FOR TODAY'S PRESENTATION HAD THE OTHER, UM, STATEMENT ON IT ABOUT, UM, COMPLI NON-COMPLIANCE OR ISSUES WITH.
SO I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO TAKE A VOTE.
LET ME JUST SAY, IF THERE IS SOMEBODY WHO IS NOT IN AGREEMENT WITH US, POSTPONING THIS TO, UM, THE, UH, NEXT BOARD MEETING IN DECEMBER, PLEASE MAKE A MOTION.
OH, MY QUESTION WAS MR. CAMPBELL, I MEAN, UH, MS. FRI, DID YOU TABLE IT RIGHT? BUT I MEAN TABLE IT WILL BE, WILL MEAN THAT IT GOES TO THE NEXT POSITION, NEXT TO THE NEXT MEETING.
NO TABLE REALLY MEANS YOU'VE GOT TO, UH, YOU SET IT ASIDE AND THEN YOU'VE GOTTA PULL IT OFF THE TABLE.
WE JUST WANNA PUT IT ON THE NEXT AGENDA BECAUSE WE REALLY DON'T HAVE THE CORRECT FORM HERE TODAY THAT WE WERE, WE, WE, UH, WOULD LIKE TO, TO APPROVE OR COMMENT ABOUT.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE OUR CURRENT FORM AND WE HAVE A NEWER FORM THAT WOULD LIKE TO USE.
SO IF, ARE YOU OPPOSED TO HAVING IT ON THE NEXT AGENDA? NO, I'M NOT.
WELL THEN LET'S JUST LEAVE IT AT THAT.
UM, TWICE A NEXT TOPIC IS JOINT SIC UH, BOARD MEETINGS.
SO TWICE A YEAR, UH, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION IN THE PAST HAS HAD, UH, I GUESS YOU'D SAY A SIC MEETING WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT SICS.
SO THE BOARD AND THE, AND THE SICS FOR EACH SCHOOL CAN ATTEND.
AND IT'S VERY, I'M JUST GONNA SPEAK, I GUESS THIS IS MY OPINION.
UM, THIS IS MY, I'M FINISHING MY SIXTH YEAR ON THE BOARD.
SO I'VE BEEN TO A NUMBER OF THESE.
WHAT'S DIFFICULT ABOUT THAT MEETING IS THAT THE, UM, IT'S VERY HARD TO GET AN AGENDA.
WHAT ARE WE REALLY GONNA TALK ABOUT? THE SICS, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE REQUIRED IN SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL.
THERE'S, THERE'S LAW FOR THOSE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COUNCILS.
AND, UM, THEY REALLY DON'T HAVE, YOU KNOW, INDIVIDUAL AUTHORITY TO, UH, CARRY OUT POLICY OR, YOU KNOW, PROGRAMS OR WHATEVER.
BUT THEY'RE, THE PURPOSE OF A SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL IS TO TRY TO COME FORWARD WITH IDEAS OF HOW THE SCHOOL COULD BE IMPROVED.
UM, AND SO I JUST FIND THAT THEY'RE KIND OF THE, THE JOINT MEETINGS, YES, WE WOULD LIKE THE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT, UH, COUNCIL INPUT, BUT I'M NOT, THAT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT'S A VERY EFFECTIVE MEDIUM TO ME.
MAYBE I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT THINKS THAT.
UM, I WAS THINKING THAT PERHAPS I SAID THIS JOKINGLY, I THINK KIND OF TO, UH, I THINK I SAID IT TO DR.
RODRIGUEZ, UM, OR MAYBE I SAID IT TO ROBIN, IS PERHAPS THIS YEAR, SINCE WE USUALLY HAVE ONE IN DECEMBER, MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST HAVE A RECEPTION AND JUST MINGLE WITH THE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL, UH, MEMBERS AND, AND JUST CHIT CHAT, DO IT TOTALLY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE'VE DONE PREVIOUSLY.
WE'VE, I KNOW, UM, UH, KRISTEN CASPER, WHO REACHES OUT TO THE SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL AND ASKS THEM FOR WHAT AGENDA TOPICS THEY WOULD LIKE, WE HAVE A VERY HARD TIME GETTING AGENDA TOPICS FOR THE MEETING.
UM, SO I DON'T KNOW IF OTHER PEOPLE HAVE A BETTER IDEA OR SAY SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
YES, TRISHA? UM, I AGREE IT IS DIFFICULT BECAUSE YOU HAVE SICS FROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND THEN YOU HAVE SOME K EIGHT, AND THEN YOU HAVE HIGH SCHOOL.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THEIR FOCUS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
UM, I TOO WAS THINKING ALONG THOSE LINES WITHOUT HAVING SPOKEN WITH YOU, UH, TINA, I THINK IT WOULD BE A WONDERFUL THING TO THANK THE SIC MEMBERS FOR THEIR TIME AND EFFORTS THAT THEY GIVE TO THEIR SCHOOLS THAT COULD BE DONE THROUGH THAT RECEPTION.
UM, I THINK A LITTLE BIT OF A PROGRAM WOULD BE ESSENTIAL.
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UH, A SHORT SPEAKER, EVEN A, YOU KNOW, MAYBE JUST DR.RODRIGUEZ RODRIGUEZ, I APOLOGIZE.
UM, ADDRESSES, YOU KNOW, SAYS SOMETHING.
UM, AND, AND THEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO MINGLE.
AND THEN ALSO MAYBE EVEN HAVE SOME, UM, PARKING LOT QUESTIONS.
YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU HAVE SOME, SOMETHING UP WHERE THEY COULD LEAVE SOME, UH, AREAS OF CONCERN OR, UH, SOMETHING TO SHARE.
YOU KNOW, I MEAN, LIKE, LIKE AN OLD SCHOOL CHART PAPER WHERE THEY WOULD ADD, YOU KNOW, PUT A TOPIC ON THERE THAT THIS WOULD JUST BE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING OF, OF CONCERN AND, UM, A WAY TO JUST PROMOTE CONVERSATION.
UM, SO I MEAN, IT NEEDS A LITTLE DRESSING UP AND STUFF, BUT I THINK THAT WOULDN'T BE A BAD IDEA TO JUST, AND, AND TO THANK THEM.
YOU KNOW, MR. SMITH, UM, I'M, I'M A TOTAL OPPOSITE.
I, I THINK THAT THE SICS FROM TALKING TO THEM, THEY LOOK FORWARD TO THAT MEETING TO TELL THE BOARD HOW THEY FEEL.
AND SOMETIMES IT'S, IT, SOMETIMES IT'S SITTING THERE AND LISTENING TO SOMETIMES SOME THINGS, WHAT THEY SAY, SOMETIMES MAYBE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEY MAY NOT HAVE THE AUTONOMY THAT THEY WANT, UH, IN TERMS OF WHEN THEY BRING THOSE THINGS TO US.
BUT I THINK JUST TO HAVE A, A, UM, A RECEPTION IS, COULD BE A, IT COULD BE A LITTLE BIT PERCEIVED AS A LITTLE UNDERMINING BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE DO THANK THEM FOR THE WORK THAT WE DO.
AND, YOU KNOW, THOSE, SOME OF THOSE, SOME OF THESE SICS REALLY DO WORK HARD IN, IN GETTING FUNDING OR DOING DIFFERENT THINGS FOR THESE SCHOOLS.
AND SO I THINK FOR HEARING WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY, I HAVE NOT HAD A PROBLEM WITH IT.
AND ALSO, I THINK, I THINK THE LAST ONE THAT WE DID WHEN WE DID WAS IMPORTANT PERSON WAS, I THINK WE BROKE IT UP INTO CLUSTERS.
AND I, I THINK THAT WAS, THAT MAYBE AT MAY, MAY RIVER.
AND WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WE SAW WAS THERE WAS SOME ADDITIONAL SAME CONVERSATIONS, SOME CONCERNS THAT WERE BROUGHT UP AND THAT WERE GOING ON AT A COUPLE DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.
AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY KIND OF FIGURED OUT A WAY HOW I THINK THEY, THEY END UP MEETING WITH EACH OTHER OR SOMETHING AND KIND OF TRYING TO WORK TOWARDS DEALING WITH THOSE, THEIR DIFFERENT ISSUES.
SO I DON'T THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE, I THINK THAT COULD BE AGITATED TO WHAT THEY DO AND HOW THEY FEEL HAVING A RECEPTION NOT, AND NOT ALLOWING THEM TO TELL US AS BOARD MEMBERS HOW THEY FEEL AND LISTEN AND LISTEN TO WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY.
BECAUSE HEY, IF I'M WORKING, I'M VOLUNTEERING, I'M WORKING AT A COMMITTEE AND I'M DOING THIS, AND JUST HAVING THE SUPERINTENDENT COME IN AND SPEAK TO ME MAY BE A WASTE OF MY TIME.
AND I THINK, I THINK IN THE PAST THEY HAVE, BUT I THINK WHEN I WAS OFFICE, I THINK THEY DID, THEY DID SEND US SOME TOPICS THAT THEY WANTED TO TALK ABOUT.
BUT I THINK SOME, SOME BOARD MEMBERS MIGHT HAVE THINK THAT THOSE TOPICS, TOPICS WERE A LITTLE AND NOT IN A DIRECTION THAT WE WANT, THAT WE WOULD WANT, WE WOULD WANT, WE WOULD WANT THE ME TO KIND OF GO IN.
WE THOUGHT THAT WAS, WAS, MIGHT HAVE BEEN A LITTLE LEFT, LEFT, UH, LEFT FIELD.
SO, UM, BUT MAKE A LONG, LONG STORY SHORT, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE HAVING THE MEETING IN BECAUSE I, I, I DON'T WANT HIM TO FEEL AS LIKE, WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE SLIDING THEM BECAUSE I DO TAKE WHAT, WHAT THEY DO VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY.
SO I, I, I WOULDN'T, I WOULDN'T BE IN SUPPORT OF THAT.
I, YOU KNOW, I'VE ONLY HAD A FEW OF THOSE.
I, I TEND TO AGREE THAT THEY'RE DISARRAY.
I, I'M NOT SURE WHAT, IF WE ALL UNDERSTAND THE FUNCTION OF THE SICS AND EVEN WHEN WE MEET, I'M NOT SURE THE RIGHT REPRESENTATION IS, IS PRESENT ONE THE SIC AND, YOU KNOW, SPEAKING TO A PRINCIPAL AND A, AND A ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AND A TEACHER OR TWO FROM THE SCHOOL, WHICH IS WHAT WE GET MOST OF THE TIME, NOT REFLECTIVE OF THE SIC, THAT'S A PART OF THE INITIATION OF THIS WAS TO HAVE THE SICS COME IN FRONT OF THE BOARD AND STATE SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT THEIR RESPECTIVE SICS ARE HAVING.
AND THEY'RE ALL DIFFERENT SCHOOL'S, DIFFERENT THAN SICS DIFFERENT, MANY TIME THAT SIC MADE OUR COMPONENTS ONLY FOR DETAILED TIME PERIOD SHIFTED SOMETHING ELSE.
SO WE AS BOARD MEMBERS OUT MONITORING ALL OF THOSE ISSUES.
SO I, YOU KNOW, I THINK, YOU KNOW, I DON'T SEE WHY THAT'S A BAD IDEA TO YOUR PART TO GENERATE CONVERSATION FIRST AND THEN DESIGN LATER ON WHERE WE NEED TO GO.
ESPECIALLY WITH NEW BOARD FIRST, YOU KNOW, FIRST OF THE YEAR YOU CAN HAVE A NEW DESIGN AFTER, YOU KNOW, TALKING TO THE SIC NOW.
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YOU KNOW, I'M FAMILIAR WITH SICS AND THEY'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO BE A PART OF HIGH SCHOOL SIC.SO I THINK THERE IS ROOM FOR THOSE SICS TOO, TO UNDERSTAND A DIFFERENT KIND OF ROLE WITH THE BOARD OVERALL.
AND, AND WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN BEST ACCOMMODATE THEM FROM THE BOARD PERSPECTIVE.
RIGHT NOW, I'M NOT SURE WE GET ANYTHING REALLY ACCOMPLISHED.
THEY MIGHT LAY OUT THREE OR FOUR THINGS AND WE MIGHT SAY, OKAY, WE GONNA DO IT, AND THEN WE'D NEVER DO IT.
AND, UH, SO I'M GONNA, UM, LET ROBIN SPEAK TO, UM, KIND OF HOW, HOW WE HAVE SET THE AGENDAS IN THE PAST.
THE WAY THE SIC WE HAVE DONE, WE HAVE DONE IT IN VARIOUS WAYS.
UM, IT WAS INITIALLY BROUGHT ON BY PREVIOUS BOARDS TO HAVE THE JOINT SIC MEETING.
THE PARTICIPANTS ARE THE PRINCIPALS, ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS, AND THE OFFICERS OF THE SIC.
IT'S NOT THE WHOLE SIC COMMITTEE PER SCHOOL BECAUSE OF THE SIZE.
UM, THE SICS, WHEN WE MET IN PERSON PRIOR TO COVID, UM, WE DID BREAK IT DOWN INTO, WE WOULD, FIRST WE WOULD MEET IN ONE BIG ROOM AND THEY WERE BROKEN OUT INTO THREE CIRCLES.
UM, PEOPLE COULDN'T HEAR EACH OTHER, SO THEY WERE BROKE DOWN INTO THREE.
SO THEN WE MOVED FROM BEING IN THE SAME ROOM TO HAVING THEM BROKEN DOWN BY CLUSTERS IN VARIOUS ROOMS. THEN THE BOARD MEMBERS WOULD ROTATE.
SO BEFORE YOU GO ON, SO THE THREE CIRCLES WERE THE ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, AND HIGH SCHOOL DIVISIONS? CORRECT.
UM, AND BOARD MEMBERS WOULD BOUNCE BETWEEN THE THREE CIRCLES BY GRADE LEVELS.
SO THEN WHEN WE MOVED FROM BEING IN THE SAME ROOM TO GOING INTO SEPARATE ROOMS, WE TRIED TO KEEP IT IN CLUSTERS AND BOARD MEMBERS WOULD FLOAT FROM CLUSTER TO CLUSTER.
UM, WHEN COVID CAME, UH, AND THEN THE PARTICIPATION WHEN WE WERE IN PERSON WAS, UM, MINIMAL, UM, BECAUSE OF THE TIME PEOPLE WERE HAVING, YOU KNOW, PICKING UP KIDS AND SO FORTH.
WHEN COVID CAME, WE'D TRIED, WE WOULD ZOOM, UM, ONCE WE DID IT WITH ZOOM, WE DID IT BY GRADE LEVELS, BY ZOOM.
AND THAT BECAME OUR LARGEST PARTICIPATION.
THE WAY THAT THE AGENDAS WERE SET IS THAT MS. CASPER WOULD SEND OUT TO THE SICS AND ASK FOR TOPICS.
UM, WE WOULD ASK THEM FOR THE TOP THREE T UH, AGENDA ITEMS THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK.
WE HAVE NEVER SAID THAT, UM, NO TOPIC WAS OFF THE LIMIT.
SO WHATEVER TOPIC THAT THEY WANTED TO SPEAK ABOUT THOSE, WE DID THE TOP THREE AGENDAS.
WHEN WE DID THE LAST, UM, SIC MEETING, UM, IT WAS BY ZOOM AND WE DID IT BY GRADE LEVEL.
UM, WE HAD A COUPLE OF BOARD MEMBERS HERE.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN IN EITHER OR.
IT'S ALWAYS IS THE PRINCIPALS, ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS AND THE OFF AND THE OFFICERS.
SO IF A PRINCIPAL CAN'T COME, THEY'LL ASK A AP TO COME SO FORTH.
SO THAT, UM, THAT WAS WHO THE COMMUNITY, THAT'S WHO WE WERE MEETING WITH.
UM, THE SURVEY AT THE LAST ONE, THE SICS FELT THAT WHEN THEY GAVE A TOPIC, THEIR, THEIR EXPECTATION WAS, I E A TOPIC WAS UNIFORMS. SO WHEN THEY DISCUSS UNIFORMS, THEIR EXPECTATION IS IF WE BRING UP A TOPIC, WE EXPECT SOMETHING TO BE DONE.
UM, WE, WE EXPECT EITHER YOU'RE GONNA GET AWAY WITH THE UNIFORMS OR YOU'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING WITH THE UNIFORMS, BUT IN THEIR MIND IT WAS, WE BRING UP TOPICS AND WE NEVER SEE ANYTHING ONCE WE BRING UP THE TOPICS.
TOPICS THAT THEY HAVE BROUGHT UP HAVE BEEN SCHOOL START TIMES.
THEY'VE TALKED ABOUT UNIFORMS, THEY'VE TALKED ABOUT MASCOTS, THEY'VE TALKED ABOUT TRANSPORTATIONS, THEY'VE TALKED ABOUT DISCIPLINE, UM, THEY'VE TALKED ABOUT.
AND BECAUSE OF GRADE LEVELS, UM, IT VARIES.
AND WHEN WE DID IT BY CLUSTERS, WE STOPPED DOING IT BY CLUSTERS BECAUSE ELEMENTARY PEOPLE SAID IT WAS, THEY, THEIR NEEDS WEREN'T THE SAME AS HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, THE EXAMPLE WAS START TIME AND CALENDARS.
SO THAT BECAME A, A CONTINGENT THING BECAUSE THE NEEDS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WERE NOT THE SAME NEEDS OF HIGH SCHOOL.
SO THAT'S WHY WE MOVED AWAY FROM DOING IT CLUSTERS.
AND THEN WE MOVED TOWARD GRADE LEVELS AND WE DID IT BY GRADE LEVELS ALTOGETHER.
SO THAT WHAT WAS GOING ON SOUTH OF THE BROAD, THEY CAN GET INFORMATION ON NORTH OF THE BROAD AND VICE VERSA, AND THEY CAN SHARE INFORMATION.
SO AT OUR LAST ONE THAT WE IN THE PREVIOUS BOARD HAD DETERMINED THAT INSTEAD OF HAVING MEETINGS, UM, NOT, IT'S BEEN QUITE A FEW BOARDS, BUT UNDER THEIR OLD POLICY, IT WAS THAT THEY WERE GONNA MEET WITH THE SICS QUARTERLY.
WELL, THEY MOVED THAT FROM QUARTERLY TO MEETING TWICE A YEAR.
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WENT FROM SPRING, SPRING AND FALL, UM, THAT THEY WOULD GET TOGETHER AT THE SICS.SO OUR LAST MEETING WAS IN THE SPRING THAT WE HAD IN MARCH.
UM, AND THAT ONE MEETING WE DID NOT TAKE, THE AGENDA WAS SET ASKING THEM, DO YOU FEEL THE NEED OF CONTINUING TO HAVE THESE MEETINGS? AND, AND THEY SAID YES, THEY STILL WOULD LIKE, BUT THEIR ISSUE WAS THAT WHEN THEY HAVE THE MEETINGS, THEY FELT LIKE WHAT THEY SAID, NOTHING GETS DONE ABOUT.
SO THEIR EXPECTATION IS THAT WHEN WE COME TO YOU, WE SAY WE WANT, WE, WE HAVE ISSUES WITH CALENDAR, SCHOOL, START TIME, BLAH, BLAH, UH, UNIFORMS, WHATEVER THEY EXPECT, IMMEDIATE, OKAY, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT? SO THAT, THAT WAS WHAT CAME OUT OF OUR LAST MEETING IN MARCH.
THANK YOU FOR THAT NICE SUMMARY AT
SO WE, I KNOW WE HAVE SEVERAL INGRID'S HANDS.
INGRID, ARE YOU ON THE IPHONE? YEAH.
AND I CAN'T EVEN, I COULDN'T EVEN UNMUTE.
IT'S ALL SORTS OF PROBLEMS. THANK YOU.
YEAH, I'M, AND I DUNNO IF YOU'RE CALLING ON ME OR JUST CLARIFYING.
UM, I'M SORRY I HAD TO LEAVE EARLY, BUT, UM, I FULLY SUPPORT MOVING TO MORE OF A RECEPTION FORMAT.
I WENT TO, I STARTED GOING TO THOSE, YOU KNOW, DURING COVID AND THEY'RE POORLY ATTENDED.
THE SIC PEOPLE I KNOW DON'T NECESSARILY, IT'S HARD TO GO CAUSE THEY'VE GOT KIDS SPORTS AND YOU KNOW, THEIR PARENTS AND WHATNOT.
UM, THEN THERE'S SOME CONFUSION ABOUT WHO'S INVITED FROM THE I C AS WELL.
AND SO I THINK A RECEPTION FORMAT.
I DO THINK THAT ALL THE CONSIDERATIONS THAT, UM, MS. CUSHING BROUGHT UP NEED TO BE WORK.
THERE'S SOME LOGISTICS THAT NEED TO BE WORKED OUT, UM, AS FAR AS WHERE WE'RE GONNA MEET.
CAUSE AGAIN, I BRING IT UP, IT'S MUCH HARDER.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THIS BIG DIVIDE GEOGRAPHICALLY IN OUR DISTRICT.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, COULD WE HAVE, IF WE HAVE TWO MEETINGS, HAVE ONE NORTH ABROAD, ONE SOUTH ABROAD, WHOEVER CAN MAKE IT COME JUST BECAUSE IT DOES, IT ADDS AN EXTRA HOUR EACH WAY TO GO FROM, UM, YOU KNOW, MY CONSTITUENTS OVER TO THE DISTRICT.
AND THEN, BUT I DO THINK THAT, UM, UH, A MORE CASUAL, MORE SORT OF, WE'RE REACHING OUT TO HEAR WHAT YOU GUYS ARE THINKING ABOUT, UM, AND HAVE A CONVERSATION WOULD, WOULD GO OVER BETTER WITH THE SIC CHAIRS.
SO I JUST WANTED THE SUPPORT THAT I THINK THAT, UM, THE MEETING I WENT TO, THEY BASICALLY, NO ONE CAME.
WE BROKE OUT INTO A HIGH SCHOOL ROOM AND IT WAS ME AND I THINK, UH, ONE OTHER BOARD MEMBER AND THEN ALL THE HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AND THERE WASN'T EVEN AN SIC PERSON THERE.
LIKE NO ONE WAS IN THAT THING.
AND SO WE JUST KIND OF TALKED AWKWARDLY FOR 20 MINUTES UNTIL THEY BROUGHT US BACK.
SO, UM, IF THAT WILL HELP INCREASE PARTICIPATION, I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA.
UM, COLONEL GEIER, I'M GONNA MAKE A SUGGESTION THAT WE TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND, AND I LIKE WHAT INGRID SAID ABOUT HAVING TWO JOINT SIC NORTH OF THE BROAD, SOUTH OF THE BROAD.
AND I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT WE HAVE IT AT BATTERY CREEK HIGH SCHOOL AND HILTON HEAD HIGH SCHOOL AND HAVE THE CULINARY DEPARTMENT PROVIDE A DINNER, A SIT DOWN DINNER, AND YOU ARRANGE IT SO THAT YOU HAVE YOUR, UH, HIGH SCHOOLS ON A TABLE WITH ONE BOARD MEMBER, THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS ON A TABLE WITH A BOARD MEMBER OR TWO WHATEVER.
AND THEN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WITH A BOARD MEMBER TOO.
AND EACH ONE OF THOSE TABLES, UH, HAS A TOPIC OR A COUPLE TOPICS TO TALK ABOUT.
THE BOARD MEMBER WOULD BE THE RECORDER AND AFTER THE MEAL AND WE'VE TALKED, HAS A LITTLE SOCIALIZATION, THEN EACH BOARD MEMBER WOULD GET UP AND GIVE A REPORT TO THE, TO THE GROUP.
UH, AND I THINK WE ALSO OUGHT TO SAY TO THEM, THAT'S NOT GONNA BE DECISIONS MADE.
THIS ISN'T A DEC DECISION CONFERENCE.
THIS IS A FEEDBACK CONFERENCE.
AND IF YOU, IF YOU WANT SOMETHING TO HAPPEN OFF OF THAT, COME TO A BOARD MEETING AND TELL US THERE, OR, UH, CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND HAVE IT PUT ON THE AGENDA AT A MEETING.
THIS ISN'T A DECISION MAKING MEETING.
MY VIEW, THIS IS A FEEDBACK, FEEDBACK MEETING.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S JUST AN OP OPTION THAT, UH, YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIST MR. SMITH, YOU KNOW, CURRENT GUY.
I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ABOUT THEM COMING TO A BOARD MEETING.
BUT THEN ALSO YOU MAY HAVE SICS WHO TAKE WHAT THEY DO VERY SERIOUSLY AND THEN YOU MAY SAY, WELL, OKAY, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU MAY WANT THEM TO, OR, OR I'VE HEARD WHERE SICS WERE ABOUT TO COME TO THE MEETING AND THE PRINCIPAL AND REACHED OUT TO ME AND I HAVE IN TURN DIRECTED THEM TO POSSIBLY REACH OUT TO DR.
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STAFF.SO WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL AND SAY, AND BE IN SAYING, WHICH ONE DO WE REALLY WANT THEM TO COME TO? BECAUSE THAT, THAT MESSAGE IS KIND OF, IS DIFFERENT IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, DO WE, YOU KNOW, WE SAY WE WANT PEOPLE TO COME TO THE BOARD, BUT WE REALLY DON'T LIKE WHEN PEOPLE COME TO THE BOARD MEETING IN THERE BRINGING UP CERTAIN THINGS THAT MAY BE UNCOMFORTABLE VERSUS WE HAVING A MEETING TO LISTEN TO THEIR CONCERNS.
I MEAN, I, I, I, I REALLY SEE WHERE THEIR POINTS ARE.
AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I'VE EVEN HAD A COUPLE OF MOVE CHATS MEETING.
I'VE HAD TO LET 'EM KNOW, WELL, THE NIGHT I HAVE Y MEETINGS, SOMEBODY WE HAVE HAVE MEETINGS THAT WE HAVE BOARD MEETINGS ON.
YOU KNOW, SO, SO THAT'S UNFORTUNATELY THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT CAN HAPPEN.
THAT THAT'S ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE PROBLEMATIC THINGS WITH THAT.
WELL, WHY DON'T YOU COME? WELL, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE BOARD MEETINGS ON.
THEY, THEY DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE KIND OF UPSET, YOU KNOW? SO, YOU KNOW, SO, SO I, I THINK MORE IN LINE OF, I, I ALSO LIKE EVERYONE HEARING THE SAME THING VERSUS AT ONE TIME VERSUS MAYBE TWO OR THREE PEOPLE.
BECAUSE WHAT I MAY HAVE HAD GEICO, SOMEBODY ELSE MAY HAVE HAD GECO.
I MEAN, I MEAN, JUST IN TERMS OF, I JUST DON'T SEE A PROBLEM WITH THEM GIVING A COUPLE OF POINTS TO SAY THIS, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON.
HOW DOES THIS TOPIC HELP YOU OR HURT YOU? YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO GO.
OR, YOU KNOW, OR, OR SEEING WHAT THEY PROPOSE TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION AROUND.
I REALLY DON'T, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST NOT BIG ON LOCKING PEOPLE INTO WEARING, THEY CAN TALK, HAVE CERTAIN TALKING POINTS I WANT TO HEAR, I WANT TO HEAR WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY AND JUST, JUST KIND OF JUST BE, BE DONE WITH IT.
I MEAN, THAT'S JUST BE PERSONALLY, I MEAN THE, THE DINNER THING AND LISTENING TO THEM, THAT'S, THAT, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S GREAT.
BUT I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, I LIKE TO HEAR, I LIKE TO HEAR FROM THEM AND PARTICULARLY WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY.
NOT, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE TRANSFORMING BECAUSE THEY CAME THERE FOR US TO HEAR THEM.
I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S JUST, THAT'S JUST MY, MY PREFERENCE.
THAT'S MY PREFERENCE FOR SOMEONE GIVING ME SECONDHAND.
I WANT, I WANT TO HEAR WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY ABOUT MYSELF, SO I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT NOT, YOU KNOW.
SO, EARL, I'M CURIOUS WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.
SINCE YOU'VE BEEN ON THIS BOARD A LONG TIME, WHAT, WHAT, DO YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR HOW TO IMPROVE? HOW TO IMPROVE THE DIALOGUE? UM, I THINK WHEN THE FIRST ONE WE HAD, I THINK IT WAS PRETTY GOOD.
UM, WHEN I FIRST ON THE BOARD, WHAT WE USED TO DO WAS THE BOARD MEMBER IN THE SIC WHO WORK TOGETHER WITH THE SCHOOL ON THEIR BUDGETS AND, YOU KNOW, AND THEN THAT WENT AWAY, THEN CAME UP WITH A MEETING AS A JOINT BOARD AND, AND THE S I COMMITTEE FROM EACH SCHOOL.
UM, SOME OF OUR SCHOOLS, UH, DON'T HAVE THE PARTICIPATION OF, OF SIC OR PTO MEETING.
SO WHATEVER IS THE DESIRE THE BOARD I GO ALONG WITH.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? SO WE DIDN'T, UH, WE, WE HAD SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COUNCILS AT EVERY SCHOOL.
UH, THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE CALLED THERE.
BUT, UH, BUT UM, THERE WASN'T A JOINT, UH, MEETING LIKE THAT.
YOU GOTTA REMEMBER THERE WAS 193 SCHOOLS, 193,000 KIDS, YOU KNOW, UH, THE DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCE, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF THOSE LOGISTICS.
BUT, UM, BUT YOU HAD BOARD MEMBERS THAT WOULD ATTEND DIFFERENT SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL MEETINGS WITHIN THEIR DISTRICT OR AREA, UH, FROM TIME TO TIME.
AND, AND SO IT WAS SORT OF DONE THAT WAY INSTEAD OF ONE BIG, UH, SESSION IN ONE SEMESTER, AND THEN ANOTHER ONE LATER,
WE, WE VET IT A BUNCH OF WAYS, BUT THE ENGAGEMENT IS IMPORTANT.
JUST ENGAGE, HEY, NAS, I, THAT'S WORTH THIS WEIGHT AND SALT.
IT'S GONNA BE HEARD AT THE BOARD.
AND NOT, BECAUSE WE HAVE THESE JOINT MEETINGS.
YOU GONNA BE HEARD THROUGH OTHER MEANS.
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AND, YOU KNOW, IN MANY CASES, THE SICS ARE THE ONES THAT'S STRIVING THE AGENDA OF EACH OF THESE INDIVIDUAL.SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE ALREADY KNOW.
SO THEY CAN GET, THEY CAN GET THE, THE, THE END GOAL DONE WHEN THEY WANT IT DONE.
THEY'VE GOT ENOUGH INFLUENCE ON THOSE SICS TO GET IT DONE HANDS.
I SAY, YOU KNOW, CONVERSATION IS GREAT.
LET'S HAVE SOME AND FRANK'S
I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT IN THE SPRING THEY INDICATED THAT THEY WANTED TO CONTINUE THAT, THAT WE CONTINUE, I DO THINK A CHANGE IN FORMAT.
UM, AND TO ASK OURSELVES WHAT EXACTLY ARE WE LOOKING TO LEARN FROM THESE? SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE DO A RECEPTION AND WE, WE HAD, UM, YOU KNOW, EACH SCHOOL REPORT OUT, AND MAYBE WE DO ONE NORTH OF THE BROAD AND ONE SOUTH OF ABROAD, SO YOU MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT SMALLER, HAVE EACH SCHOOL REPORT OUT.
WHAT, WHAT'S THE MAIN FOCUS OF WHAT'S THE MAIN PROJECT OR THE MAIN, UM, IMPETUS OF THEIR SIC COMMITTEE THIS YEAR.
IS THERE ONE THING THAT THEY'RE, AND I'D LIKE, I'D BE INTERESTED IN COMPARING AND TO SEE IS THERE A COMMONALITY AMONG WHAT ALL OF OUR, UM, SIC TEAMS ARE FOCUSED ON? AND YOU COULD DO THAT BY PUTTING THE, THE, THE PIECES OF PAPER AROUND THE, THE ROOM AND HAVE EACH SIC WRITE ON IT.
YOU KNOW, MY, MY CONCERN ABOUT THE SICS, UM, THE LAST TIME, THE LAST COUPLE TIMES WE'VE DONE IT, I, I CONCUR WITH MEL.
IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ATTENDING ARE NOT THE PARENTS OR COMMUNITY MEMBERS ON THAT COMMITTEE.
IT'S THE PRINCIPALS AND THE STAFF.
AND THE PRINCIPALS AND THE STAFF HAVE LOTS OF D WAYS TO GET TO US AND TO TALK.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE HEAR THEIR VOICES.
UM, BUT IT'S THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND, UH, THE PARENTS THAT ARE ON THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, I THINK IS WHOSE VOICE I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR.
UM, SO MAYBE THIS YEAR WE, UM, DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS, THE RECEPTION WITH AN OPPORTUNITY FOR, UH, EACH, YOU KNOW, SCHOOL JUST TO WRITE ON THE BOARD WHAT THEIR BIGGEST CONCERN IS OR WHAT THEIR FOCUS IS AS.
AND THEN THE BOARD CAN KIND OF THINK ABOUT IT, UM, GOING FORWARD AND HOW IT SHOULD PROGRESS AND, AND MAYBE, YOU KNOW, THE DINNER LIKE COLONEL GEIER TALKS ABOUT, I DON'T THINK WE COULD DO THAT THIS YEAR.
I THINK WE, YOU KNOW, THE CULINARY PROBABLY NEEDS MORE TIME THAN TWO WEEKS TO GET SOMETHING LIKE THAT TOGETHER.
BUT THAT'S JUST MY THOUGHT ABOUT IT.
SO, DOES SOMEBODY WANNA MAKE A MOTION QUESTIONS? YEAH, I'M NOT SURE.
I WOULD LIKE TO CALL ON YOU, VICTOR, BUT I'M NOT REALLY SURE THAT I SHOULD.
CUZ THAT WOULD BE NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH OUR BUSINESS MEETING, ALTHOUGH WE ARE GONNA ASK FOR THE THREE OF YOURS INPUT WHEN WE GET TO THE CALENDAR, BECAUSE YOU WILL BE SEATED FOR THIS CALENDAR.
SO, UM, I DON'T KNOW, DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE A, YOU KNOW, JUST DON'T WANT TO BE DOING SOMETHING IMPROPER.
AND IT MIGHT BE MY FAULT I TOLD 'EM THEY WOULD HAVE INPUT BECAUSE THE SIC IS ON THE CALENDAR FOR THE NEXT YEAR FOR THEM.
CUZ IT'S, IT'S PART OF THAT SOUNDS REASONABLE.
YEAH, I DON'T WANNA, GO AHEAD,
UM, I GOT A COUPLE, UH, CONCERNS.
FIRST OF ALL, SCOPE, WHAT'S THE SCOPE OF THE SIC? UM, IT, DOES IT NEED TO BE HANDLED AT THE BOARD LEVEL? CAN WE, I I'M ALL ABOUT PUSHING THINGS DOWN TO THE LOWEST LEVEL, UH, OF AUTHORITY.
CAN WE GIVE THE SIC TO THE, SINCE THE PRINCIPALS ARE THE ONES SHOWING UP MOSTLY, CAN WE RUN, LEAVE IT TO THE PRINCIPALS, UM, TO RUN THEIR SIC PROGRAMS AND THEN HAVE THE PRINCIPALS COME BRIEF THE BOARD IN AN SIC MEETING? UH, IT SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD.
UH, BUT FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA SAY THAT I'M ALWAYS UP FOR FREE FOOD.
UM, AND THEN, UH, BUT LIKE, IT SEEMS LIKE, UH, MAYBE NUMBER ONE, UH, CONCERN IS ACTIONABLE ITEMS. UM, SO IF IF THE, THE PRINCIPALS ARE COMING TO THE BOARD WITH ACTIONABLE ITEMS, THESE ARE THINGS THAT THE PRINCIPALS CAN TAKE ACTION ON IMMEDIATELY.
I THINK THAT WOULD HELP, UH, UM, FEEL THE, THE
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PARENTS FEEL A LOT BETTER ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE BRINGING TO THEIR, THEIR PRINCIPALS.UH, AND THEN HAS ANYBODY ASKED THE PARENTS HOW THEY WANT AN SIC? I MEAN, IF, UH, IT SEEMS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DON'T KNOW.
UH, CUZ AND AGAIN, I APOLOGIZE FOR THE QUESTIONS.
UH, BUT IF THE PARENTS AREN'T ATTENDING, UH, THEN I THINK IT'S PROBABLY IN THE BEST INTEREST FOR THE PRINCIPALS TO BRIEF THE BOARD ANYWAYS.
BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT'S REAL EASY TO ADD A POLL ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE.
UH, I KNOW MOST OF THE BOARD MEMBERS HAVE FACEBOOK PAGES.
IT'S REALLY EASY TO TO TO ADD A POLL AND ASK WHAT YOUR CONSTITUENTS WANT FOR OUT OF AN SSC MEETING.
JUST AS A RESOURCE, YOU CAN VIEW GOOGLE, UM, SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COUNCILS IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
YOU CAN SEE EXACTLY, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY'RE, UM, UH, CHARGED TO DO.
AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR LISTING OF YOUR MEMBERS ON, ON THAT WEBSITE.
AND IT'S VERY CLEAR WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
AND IT DOES SEEM TO ME AWKWARD THAT IT'S THAT THEY'RE COMING TO THE BOARD BECAUSE THERE REALLY SHOULDN'T BE ACTIONABLE ITEMS FROM THEM.
UM, CUZ THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THEIR, OF THEIR, UM, EXISTENCE REALLY IS TO IMPROVE THAT SCHOOL.
AND WE'RE A COUNTYWIDE, A COUNTYWIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHY I ASKED ABOUT SCHOOL.
SO THAT'S WHY IT SEEMS KIND OF, IT SEEMS LIKE WE WERE TRYING TO PUT A SQUARE KING PEG INTO A ROUND HOLE.
BUT I, I REALLY DON'T SEE THEM NO DIFFERENT THAN THE, THAN THE CLOCK COMMITTEE.
THE CLOCK COMMITTEE COME BACK AND THEY REPORT BACK ON THE REFERENDUM.
THESE COMMITTEES, THESE ARE, THAT'S OUR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT BASICALLY COMMITTEES THAT THEY'RE COMING BACK AND THEY'RE REPORTING ON THEIR CONCERNS AND WHAT THEY SEE IN THE SCHOOL.
SO I I I KIND OF, I MEAN, HOW, HOW ANYONE ELSE SEES IT IN THEIR PERSONAL MIND, I JUST SEE THEM AS THAT THEY'RE ALMOST OF COMMITTEE COMMITTEES THAT ARE, ARE TRYING TO IMPROVE THIS TO IMPROVE THE SCHOOLS.
AND THEY JUST COMING TO TELL THE BOYS WHAT THEY, WHAT THEY LOVE, THE GOOD, THE BAD AND UGLY.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE LIKE, UH, LIKE, UH, SAID, ARE THEY NON-ACTION ITEMS? POSSIBLY, BUT I MEAN, AT SOME POINT IN TIME THEY MAY SAY THINGS THAT MAY NOT, MAY NOT BRING, UM, SOMETHING THAT A REAL CONCERNING OR THEY MIGHT BRING GOOD INFORMATION.
I MEAN, YOU, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GONNA GET WHEN YOU GO TO, AND THAT'S HOW I SEE MEETING, SAME AS THE CLOCK.
WE SOMETIMES WE, CERTAIN THINGS, WE, WE KNOW HOW, HOW THEY FEEL.
BUT IF WE DIDN'T GO TO THE ACTUAL CLOCK MEETING, THEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CLOCK, WHAT THE CLOCK COMMITTEE'S GONNA BRING WHEN THE, WHEN THE GUY FROM THE CLOCK COMMITTEE COMES UP THERE, STAND UP AND HE GIVES US REPORT.
I MEAN, TO ME THAT, THAT, THAT THERE ARE NO DIFFERENT STANDARD COMMITTEES VERSUS ANOTHER, THE CLOCK COMMITTEE.
I MEAN, PEOPLE MAY NOT SEE, SEE IT TO BE SIMILAR, BUT I KIND OF SEE IT TO BE SIMILAR.
I THINK THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CLOCK COMMITTEE AND THE SICS IS THAT THE CLOCK COMMITTEE IS FOCUSED ON DISTRICTWIDE REFERENDUM WORK.
VERSUS, UH, AN SICS FOCUSED ON, UH, INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL'S, UH, WORK AS YOU, AS YOU SAID, THAT'S THE, THE DIFFERENCE THERE.
CARLTON, THANK YOU MADAM CHAIR.
UM, I TEND TO THINK THAT, UM, THEY COULD HAVE SOME PRETTY GOOD UTILITY IN TERMS OF SPREADING THE MESSAGE OF WHAT YOU'RE WORKING ON SITTING THROUGH THIS EVENT TODAY.
I HAVE SEEN, I'VE JUST BEEN BLOWN AWAY BY THE DEPTH OF THE EXPERTISE THAT YOU ARE ASSIGNING TO THESE PROBLEMS AND THE SOLUTIONS THAT THEY'RE COMING UP WITH.
SO INSTEAD OF THE S I JUST COMING TO US AND SAYING, WE WANT THIS, WE WANT THIS.
FLIP THE SCRIPT AND TELL THEM HOW YOU GONNA HELP US COMMUNICATE THIS? THE CTE QUESTION, TAKE IT INTO THE COMMUNITY.
CAUSE MY PLATFORM, THE FOUR POINT WAS WE GOTTA GET THE COMMUNITY INVOLVED AND WE HAVE TO MARKET TO THEM AND, AND INFORM THEM SO THEY CAN BECOME ALLIES FOR US.
AND YOUR BOARDS DOING A GOOD JOB OF THAT.
NOT CRITICIZING, I'M JUST SAYING I SEE THIS AS A POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITY.
THE OTHER THING I THINK IN TERMS OF CLOSING THE LOOP, IF THEY GIVE US A QUESTION, LET'S GIVE THEM AN ANSWER, YAY, MAY OR DEFERRED VERY QUICKLY.
AND IT COULD BE THAT INSTEAD OF BEING ADJUDICATED AT THE NEXT MEETING OR WHATEVER YOUR PROTOCOLS ARE, WE JUST SAY WE'LL BE LOOKING AT IN THE FUTURE SO THAT THEY KNOW WE GET BACK TO THEM.
SO THAT, THOSE WILL BE MY RECOMMENDATION.
UH, ON THIS PARTICULAR TOPIC, I DO BELIEVE IF MEMORY SERVES ME, THAT THE SIC SHOULD BE ABLE TO WORK INDEPENDENTLY OF THE PRINCIPAL AT THE SCHOOL.
THE DECISIONS THAT THEY MAKE, UH, WHEN THEY MEET THE PRINCIPAL CAN BE THERE.
BUT I DO NOT THINK THAT IT WAS INTENDED FOR THE PRINCIPALS OR ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS TO GUIDE THE MEETINGS.
AND THAT MIGHT BE WHERE SOME OF THE PROBLEMS ARE COMING FROM.
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AS DR.RODRIGUEZ SAID, IS THAT PARTICULAR SCHOOL, THEIR CONCERNS, UH, TO BE, UH, COMMUNICATED AND THEY ARE ACTIONABLE ITEMS FOR THAT SCHOOL.
UH, NOT THE WISHES OF THE PRINCIPAL AND THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS OR ADMINISTRATORS.
SO MAYBE PART OF THE PROBLEM IS THE ROLE OF THE SIC.
I'M PARTICULARLY, UM, BAFFLED THAT THEY ARE REPORTING BACK THE BOARD.
I GUESS THAT'S WHAT I'M HEARING AS WELL.
NOT THAT THEY CAN'T, BUT HOW CAN YOU WORK IN YOUR SCHOOL AS AN S I AS PARENTS, UM, AND DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO OR CHARGED WITH SEEING WHAT IS, UH, WHAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED IF YOU CAN'T SAY IT AND DO IT AS A COMMITTEE WITHOUT THE PRINCIPAL SAYING, WELL, I, THAT'S NOT REALLY WHAT I WANT.
SO THAT IS NOT THE INTENT OF THE S I.
SO IF YOU DO LOOK AT THE SCOPE, REMEMBER THEY ARE SEPARATE FROM THE, UM, THE PRINCIPALS.
IN FACT THEY ARE MANDATED, AS YOU SAID BY THE STATE.
SO THEY'RE JUST NOT AN AD HOC COMMITTEE THAT WE'VE COME UP WITH.
AND THE SECOND QUESTION THAT WE HAVE IS WE DO NOT HAVE THE FULL ATTENDANCE OF PARENTS AT THE SICS.
I'VE BEEN TO THE MEETINGS AND THERE WERE MORE ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS THAN PARENTS, BUT THE PARENTS WHO WERE THERE WERE COMMITTED AND DEDICATED.
AND I THINK WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE KEEP THEM SO THAT THEY CAN COMMUNICATE TO OTHERS THE IMPORTANCE OF THEIR BEING THERE.
SO IF YOU DON'T FEEL VALUED, WHY COME? THANK YOU.
WELL, WE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAKE YEAH, WELL WE NORMALLY WOULD HAVE, WE HAVE ONE SCHEDULE, BUT WE DON'T HAVE.
YEAH, BUT IT'S GONNA BE DECEMBER, WHAT S DECEMBER 8TH.
YOU'RE LOOKING AT NEXT YEAR'S CALENDAR.
SO WE WOULD NEED TO GET THE FORMAT.
MS. GORDON, THANK YOU VERY MUCH BECAUSE, BECAUSE YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT.
I MEAN, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE SIC PRESIDENT OR PARENT THAT RUNS THE MEETING MEETING.
THERE MIGHT BE A PRINCIPAL REPORT.
UM, BUT I THINK WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN SEVERAL CASES IS THAT THE LACK OF PARTICIPATION BY PARENTS, THE PRINCIPAL KIND OF BY DEFAULT HAS BEEN JUST TRYING TO KEEP IT GOING CUZ IT IS MANDATED.
SO I GO BACK AGAIN TO, I THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE A RECEPTION FOR OUR SIC MEMBERS.
I MEAN, ANYBODY THAT'S ON SIC THE PARENTS, THEY I THINK HAVE ACCESSIBILITY TO THE BOARD TO JUST HAVE A CONVERSATION, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, IS A LOT OF WHAT SIC MEMBERS WOULD LIKE TO HAVE.
HEY, LISTEN, LET ME, LET ME GET YOUR EAR FOR A MINUTE, YOU KNOW, UM, AND, UH, NOT JUST BE FILLED WITH A REPORT FROM THE PRINCIPAL, UM, OR THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AND SO ON.
AND, AND THEN ORGANICALLY IT MIGHT BUBBLE UP AS TO WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE.
BUT AS THIS KIND OF LAST MINUTE REORGANIZATION OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO TRY TO MAKE IT HIT MANY TARGETS.
IF YOUR PARTICIPATION, WE VALUE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY AND WE ARE ALL EARS.
UM, AND YOU KNOW, THAT MIGHT BE A WAY TO, UM, CLOSE THIS YEAR OUT AS FAR AS THE BOARD, YOU KNOW, TERMS, UM, AND SET A NEW STAGE FOR GOING FORWARD.
AND I, I, WITH CHLOE QUITE A BIT IN TERMS OF THE FOCUS OF THE SIC IT'S THE STATE, YOU KNOW, DRIVEN AGENCY AND THE, THE ADMINISTRATORS HAVE TAKEN OVER IT, LIKE YOU SAID, BECAUSE IT'S BEEN DYSFUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENTLY, SHOULD HAVE 32 SICS AND YOU KNOW, SHOW, YOU KNOW, WHO'VE BEEN SHOWING UP NOT 32 SCHOOLS.
YOU KNOW, SO LOT OF THEM ARE DYSFUNCTIONAL AND THE ONES THAT ARE FUNCTIONING HAVE, YOU KNOW, SOME SOMETIMES DETERRED FROM THE, FROM THEIR ROLE AND, AND THEIR ROLE AS QUICKLY AS OUR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT COUNCIL BECAUSE THEY CHOSE THOSE NAMES TO IMPROVE THE SCHOOLS AND THEY GOT ALLOW LIKE A FIVE YEAR PLAN THAT THEY GOTTA CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON
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ADJUSTING.SO A LOT OF THOSE THAT THAT CONVERSATION, UH, INFORMALLY COULD BE HAD BECAUSE A LOT OF SIC MEMBERS DON'T REALLY KNOW WHY, YOU KNOW, THE PRINCIPALS WHO JUST DRAFTED THEM TO BE ON THE SICS, I WANT YOU ON MY SIC AND WANT YOU TO BE THE PRESIDENT.
AND THEY RUN A MEETING AND THEY RUN A MEETING ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPAL'S AGENDA, WHICH IS NOT THE PEOPLE'S AGENDA, THE PARENTS' AGENDA IS WHAT IT SHOULD BE.
HOW DO WE IMPROVE OUR SCHOOL? THAT'S WHAT THE CONCEPT.
YOU KNOW, WE CAN HAVE AN INFORMAL, SO WE WON'T HAVE BEANS AND FRANK
CAUSE WE, THEY SAID WE WANNA CONTINUE.
YOU DO NEED TO FOCUS ON CHANGING THE CONCEPT OR THE AGENDA.
I MOVE THAT THE DECEMBER JOINT SIC BOARD MEETING VIA RECEPTION POSTED BY THE BOARD.
DO WE HAVE A SECOND? PLENTY OF SECONDS.
UM, KATHY MADE THE MOTION TO HAVE A, UH, THE DECEMBER, UM, MEETING, JOINT SIC BOARD MEETING, UH, WILL BE A RECEPTION, BUT YOU WORDED IT DIFFERENTLY.
BE A RECEPTION HOSTED BY THE BOARD.
AND AND MEL CAMPBELL SECOND IT, I THINK WE'VE PRETTY MUCH DISCUSSED IT.
A NAO DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING NEW MR. SMITH TO SAY? YEAH.
UM, MY ONLY THING WOULD, WOULD WAS ASK UH, AND, AND YOUR AND YOUR FORWARD, UH, QUESTION.
I MEAN, IN YOUR FORWARD COMMENT EARLIER YOU SAID THAT YOU WOULD JUST ALLOW THEM TO, UM, BASICALLY WRITE, WRITE.
WELL TELL US WHERE THEY, WHERE THEY SEE THE S I T WHERE THEY, WHERE, WHERE THEY SEE THE S I GOING AT.
AND THAT WAY ALSO, I THINK THAT WOULD GIVE US A CHANCE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT AS BOARD MEMBERS, WHAT THAT S I IS DOING IN THAT IN PARTICULAR SCHOOL.
SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING GOOD TOO, BECAUSE WE'RE STILL GIVING THEM AS AN INDIVIDUAL S I A VOICE.
SO I THINK, I THINK THAT WON'T BE HARM IF WE COULD PUT THAT IN THERE AS WELL.
SO THAT WAY THEY, IT IS, IS KNOWN THAT WE ARE GIVING THEM, WE ARE STILL GIVING THEM THEIR PLATFORM.
THAT'S, FOR ME, THAT'S STILL VERY CONCERNING.
SO WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU SUGGESTING? THE SAME WAY HOW MRS. ROB SUGGESTED EARLIER THAT WE WOULD, WE WOULD STILL GIVE THEM A, A SEGUE SOMEWHERE WHERE THEY WOULD JUST LET US KNOW WHAT THE, WHAT THEIR, UH, SIC IS DOING.
AND YOU KNOW, BASICALLY WHERE, WHERE THEY'RE GOING AT WHEREVER, WHOEVERS ON THE REVERENDS ON THE SIDES AND SOMEWHERE WHERE THEY CAN WRITE IT DOWN.
OR SOMEONE, ONE REPRESENTATIVES COME AND SPEAK FOR FIVE MINUTES OR THREE MINUTES AND JUST TELL US, HEY, THIS IS, I'M FROM BE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND OUR SIC IS THIS AND THIS.
AND WE ARE WORKING TOWARDS EMPOWERING THE PRINCIPAL, WORKING TOWARDS GETTING MORE COMMUNITY SUPPORT.
SO THEREFORE WE KNOW, AND WE'VE HEARD FROM THEM, WE'VE GIVEN 'EM OPPORTUNITIES TO SAY SOMETHING AND TO TELL US WHAT THEIR FOCUS IS AS SIC AS A WHOLE.
AND THAT WAY THAT'S JUST AMONG EVERYONE.
BUT THEY'RE JUST TELLING US WHAT THEIR FOCUS IS AS SISS ARE VERSUS GOING IN OR, YOU KNOW, GIVING US ULTIMATUMS OR, I I THINK THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR IS A RECEPTION, NOT ANYTHING ABOUT ULTIMATUMS. EXACTLY.
AND THAT'S, AND THAT'S WHAT TRIC SAID NEAR THE BEGINNING.
SO BE PART OF THIS COULD MUST WORK WITH ROBIN TO, IS THAT WHAT YOU'D LIKE BOARD MEMBERS? INGRID'S? HANDS UP.
WELL, INGRID, YEAH, I THINK I HAVE THE SAME CONCERNS THAT A COUPLE OF PEOPLE DO.
I I SUPPORT THIS MOTION AND I DON'T WANNA GET INTO THE WEEDS OF, YOU KNOW, WHO'S GONNA DO THE INVITATIONS.
I JUST, A COUPLE THINGS WE GOTTA CONSIDER WHENEVER YOU KNOW, WHO WE'RE GONNA INVITE, CUZ WE COULD HAVE BETWEEN 35 AND 350 PEOPLE.
AND WHERE IS IT GONNA BE? I ASSUME IT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE, SO IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF THE PARTICIPATION VARIES, YOU KNOW, TYPE OF THING.
BUT, UM, SO BASICALLY I SUPPORT THIS MOTION, BUT I THINK IT NEEDS A LOT OF LOGISTICS WORKED OUT.
I DON'T NECESSARILY THINK THE BOARD HAS TO APPROVE ALL THE LOGISTICS.
I JUST WANNA PUT OUT THERE THIS IS A VERY BROAD MOTION
UM, AND THERE'S A LOT OF DETAILS.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? CAN I JUST CLARIFY? YEAH, SURE.
KATHY, I THINK THAT THE, UH, DECEMBER JOINT MEETING, WHOEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN INVITED TO THAT JOINT BOARD MEETING WOULD BE THE PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE INVITED TO THIS.
RIGHT? AREN'T THERE? WEREN'T THERE.
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PARAMETERS IN THE SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.WE HAVE WELL PARAMETERS ABOUT WHO WAS INVITED TO THAT.
THEY WERE THE COM THE, UH, CHAIRMAN OF THE SICS, CORRECT? CORRECT.
SO IS THE CHAIR AND THE VICE CHAIR THE CHAIR AND THE VICE CHAIR.
AND THEN IT IS GONNA INCLUDE PRINCIPALS OR ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS OR NO, IT SAYS THE PRINCIPAL.
UM, AND THE PRINCIPAL HAS AN AP THAT'S ASSIGNED.
IF THEY CAN'T COME, THEN THEY'LL ASSIGN THE AP TO COME IN THEIR PLACE.
SO WE'LL KEEP THE, THE BOARD'S WHEELS TO KEEP THE YEAH, THE, THE INVITES THE SAME AS PREVIOUS AND JUST HAVE A LESS STRUCTURED PROGRAM.
AND THAT IT'S GONNA BE PRIMARILY RECEPTION AND WE'LL COME UP WITH SOME TYPE OF BRIEF PROGRAM, BUT IT WILL ALLOW THE BOARD MEMBERS TO MINGLE WITH THE ATTENDEES.
INGRID, DID YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING ELSE? UM, WELL, I, I WASN'T GOING TO, CUZ I, LIKE I SAID, THIS HAS BEEN A LONGER DISCUSSION THAN I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE.
BUT ONE OTHER THING IS, WILL IT BE VIRTUAL AS WELL? BECAUSE THE LAST ONES I'VE BEEN TO HAVE ALL BEEN ONLINE.
OBVIOUSLY A RECEPTION WOULD BE IN PERSON, BUT WILL WE ALSO HAVE AN OPTION, LET'S SAY IF WE HAVE IT AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE AND THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE MAYBE ON HILTON HEAD OR BLUFFTON THAT CAN'T MAKE IT OUT THERE, BUT THEY STILL WANNA PARTICIPATE.
I MEAN, IS THAT A POSSIBILITY? ARE WE JUST GONNA GO FULL ON IN PERSON? I THINK THAT MAKES IT MORE COMPLICATED.
NO, THIS WHOLE THING'S A LITTLE BIT COMPLICATED, THERE'S NO QUESTION.
SO LIKE I SAID, I JUST, AGAIN, I'M THROWING OUT ANOTHER DETAIL, BUT AT THIS POINT I WOULD JUST, YOU KNOW, I DON'T, I CAN'T SEE WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT I'M HAPPY TO CALL THE QUESTION OR ASK, YOU KNOW, LET'S, LET'S CALL THE QUESTION THEN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE DETAILS ARE.
CUZ THERE'S NO WAY THIS GROUP IS GOING TO GET ALL THESE DETAILS HAMMERED OUT AT THE MOMENT.
WE KIND OF HAVE THE GENERAL IDEA.
IS THAT, I THINK WE'VE KIND OF DISCUSSED IT.
UM, MEL, YOU WOULD LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING ELSE? NO.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF, UM, THE MOTION ON THE TABLE AS IT'S WRITTEN UP THERE.
AYE, ANY HE OPPOSED? AND ANY ABSTENTIONS? ALL RIGHT, SO THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY NOW TO WORK OUT THE DETAILS.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S USUALLY, UH, KRISTEN CASPER IS USUALLY THE ONE WHO DOES THE DETAILS.
UH, KRISTEN, MOLLY, AND MYSELF.
SO I WOULD SAY JUST GO, GO AHEAD AT IT.
UM, IT BEING THAT I, I DON'T, I DISAGREE BEING THAT WE'RE CHANGING THE, THE STYLE OF THE MEETING, AND THIS IS MORE OF THE BOARD'S, UH, INVITATION POP WITH THAT PERSON.
I THINK IF WE'RE GONNA CHANGE IT, AND WE'RE GOING TO BASICALLY JUST HAVE, WHAT WE HAVE, I THINK IS MAYBE JUST NEED TO BOARD MEMBER, A BOARD MEMBER OR, SO A COUPLE PEOPLE SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN THE FINE TUNING JUST TO CORRELATE WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR FROM THIS PERSPECTIVE.
BECAUSE THE REASON WHY I SUPPORTED THE MOTION IS BECAUSE I WAS THINKING THAT WE WOULD, SOME BOARD MEMBERS WOULD, WOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE, HAVE, HAVE SOME, HAVE SOME SAY AND, AND WHAT AND WHAT THE MEETING CONSISTS OF IN TERMS OF WHAT WE DISCUSSED TODAY.
SO I JUST THAT, YEAH, SO I THINK I UNDERSTAND YOUR, YOUR SUGGESTION.
I THINK WE ALSO HAVE TO THINK OF THE TIMEFRAME.
WE HAVE LESS THAN TWO WEEKS TO PUT THIS TOGETHER AND WE HAVE THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY IN THAT TWO WEEKS.
AND, YOU KNOW, THE SCHOOLS ARE NOT OPEN, UH, FOR THAT PERIOD OF TIME.
SO THERE'S GONNA BE VERY, VERY LITTLE BIT OF TIME, PARDON ME? YEAH.
KEEP IT ON THE SAME NIGHT THEN IT'S ALREADY ANTICIPATED THAT WE ARE HAVING SOMETHING ON THAT NIGHT.
AND SO WHAT I INTENDED TO DO, WILLIAM, AND I KNOW THAT ROBIN HAS LISTENED INTENTLY TO THIS CONVERSATION, UM, AND, AND MOLLY.
AND SO WHAT I INTEND TO DO IS JUST, UH, SEND AN EMAIL TO ROBIN AND SAY, COULD YOU MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THAT YOU INCLUDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO MAYBE WRITE SOMETHING LIKE, LIKE WHAT WE JUST DISCUSSED, YOU KNOW, ABOUT HAVING THE, THE CHART PAPER UP AND THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, I, I, I HEAR THAT, BUT ONCE AGAIN, I MEAN, IF, I MEAN, IF, IF, IF SOMEONE WANTED TO DO THAT AND THEY WANTED TO SAY, HEY, HEY, HEY, LOOK AT, WE WERE JUST GONNA SAY THE CHAIR TO APPOINT A COUPLE PEOPLE, THEN IF YOU, YOU VOLUNTEERED TO BE, TO BE A PART OF IT, THEN YOU WOULD MAKE TIME ON YOUR SCHEDULE JUST TO GO AHEAD AND MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
S BEHIND WE, WE STILL HAVE A COUPLE OPERATIONS MEETINGS AND SOME OF THAT, THAT CONVERSATION COULD HAPPEN, RIGHT? RIGHT.
AFTER THAT I THISS I DON'T SEE THAT BEING NO LONGER THAN THE 30 AND 30, 45 MINUTES CONVERSATION IN TERMS OF WHAT WE JUST DISCUSSING AND GETTING DONE.
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STUDIED PASSING IT OFF TO STAFF.I THINK THAT THERE'S CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE SHOULD DO ON OUR OWN AND, AND, AND, AND, AND THAT, AND THEN THIS IS, THIS IS, THIS IS POSSIBLY ONE OF 'EM.
SO THAT'S WHY I FEEL STRONGLY IN THAT.
SO THAT'S JUST MY OPINION, HOW WE CAN POSSIBLY DO THAT IN THIS PERIOD OF TIME.
I MEAN, THERE COULD BE A MEETING WITH, I MEAN, JUST WHOEVER, WHOEVER WANTS TO BE, UH, BE, UH, BE INVOLVED, CAN BE INVOLVED WITH SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO HEAD IT OFF.
THEN YOU JUST HAVE TO SAY, HEY, YOU CAN HEAD OFF AS A BOARD MEMBER.
I MEAN, IT JUST, IT DOESN'T, IT, I THINK THAT WE, WE PUT TOO MUCH TIMES INTO CERTAIN THINGS AT CERTAIN TIMES, JUST DEPENDING, DEPENDING UPON WHO IT IS OR THE MESSENGER.
I MEAN, AND THAT'S JUST, THAT'S JUST, THAT'S MY PERSONAL PER PERSPECTIVE.
SO ROBIN, MOLLY, WHEN YOU GUYS GET TO KRISTEN AND YOU GUYS ARE GONNA HAVE LITTLE PLANNING COMMITTEE, WOULD IT BE A AMENABLE TO YOU TO PUT AN EMAIL OUT TO ALL THE BOARD MEMBERS AND SAY, HEY, WE'RE MEETING ON THIS DAY, WE'RE GONNA MEET FOR 35 MINUTES.
IF YOU HAVE ANY INPUT, FEEL FREE TO JOIN US.
HOW ABOUT THAT? THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM.
RIGHT, WILLIAM? AND THEN YOU COULD ATTEND THAT MEETING WHOEVER WANTS TO, RIGHT? EXACTLY.
IF YOU CAN'T ATTEND, YOU CAN SUBMIT SOMETHING BY EMAIL.
RIGHT? I THINK THAT'S PRACTICAL.
NEXT, OUR LAST AGENDA ITEM FOR TONIGHT, OR TODAY IS THE, THE BOARD, UH, MEETING CALENDAR FOR THE NEXT, UH, CALENDAR YEAR.
AND THIS IS ALSO IN STATE STATUTE THAT THE BOARD MUST, UH, APPROVE THE CALENDAR THAT HAS TO BE PUBLISHED.
SO WE WILL, IT'LL GO ON THE DECEMBER TH YEAH, IT'LL GO ON.
SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS THE CALENDAR AND THEN, WE'LL, IT'S GONNA GO ONTO THE NEXT BUSINESS MEETING, WHICH WILL BE IN DECEMBER FOR THE CURRENT BOARD TO VOTE ON IT.
BUT WE OBVIOUSLY WANT YOUR INPUT SINCE YOU WILL BE, UH, SEATED IN THIS CALENDAR YEAR THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING.
UM, AND THEN IF, IF CHANGES ARE MADE, WE HAVE TO REBO ON IT.
THAT'S, LIKE I SAID, THAT'S THE STATE LAW.
SO IN GENERAL, WE HAVE, UH, MEETINGS, BUSINESS MEETINGS ARE THE FIRST AND THIRD, UM, TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH, EXCEPT IN JULY WE TYPICALLY ONLY HAVE ONE MEETING.
AND IN DECEMBER WE TYPICALLY ONLY HAVE ONE MEETING IN JUNE.
THE JUNE, IT'S NOT THE FIRST AND THE SECOND BECAUSE OF GRADUATION.
SO IN JUNE IT CHANGES AS WELL.
SO IN JUNE, IT LOOKS LIKE, UM, WE ONLY, YEAH, WE HAVE 13, WE HAVE TWO MEETINGS IN JUNE, BUT IT'S THE SECOND AND FOURTH WEDNESDAY, TUESDAYS, EXCUSE ME.
UM, THE OTHER THING THAT'S NOT ON, OR YEAH, I GUESS YOU DO HAVE, WE ALSO HAVE TO HAVE BUDGET, BUDGET SESSIONS, PUBLIC FORUMS, THOSE ARE ON HERE TOO.
UM, AND GOING BACK TO THE TWO MEETINGS A MONTH, THE FIRST ONE IS TYPICALLY HERE AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE.
AND THE, THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MONTH IS TYPICALLY OVER AT THE HILTON HEAD ISLAND LIBRARY, UH, IN JANUARY OF THIS YEAR.
THE REASON WHY THE SECOND ONE IS NOT ON HILTON HEAD IS BECAUSE COUNTY CHANNEL DOESN'T HAVE THE STAFF, THUS THEIR SHORT STAFF IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY.
SO THEY ASK THAT BOTH MEETINGS BE OVER HERE.
SO THAT, THAT IS WHY IT'S, UM, BOTH OF THEM ARE HERE IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY.
DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS? YOU, I THINK THOSE ARE THE LAST, UM, I'M GONNA MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT THE WORK SESSIONS.
SO LIKE TODAY, I JUST FEEL THAT WE WOULD BE BETTER SERVED IF WE DID NOT HAVE A WORK SESSION THE SAME WEEK OF A BOARD MEETING.
I JUST SEE THAT AS, UH, IT'S PROBLEMATIC CERTAINLY FOR ME, UH, AS A, AS A HAVING A COMPLETELY SEPARATE CAREER TO JUST PREPARE SO MUCH.
AND I ALSO THINK IT'S PROBLEMATIC FOR THE STAFF TO PREPARE SO MUCH.
AND IT'S, THEY CANNOT GET US THE DOCUMENTS IN TIME.
WE'RE ASKING THEM TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE.
SO I I, I THINK THAT WE COULD PROBABLY HAVE OUR, OUR, IF WE HAD A WORK SESSION, LET'S SAY THE THIRD WEEK OF THE, OF THE MONTH, I DON'T EVEN THINK WE WOULD PROBABLY REALLY NEED THE, THE BUSINESS MEETING THAT WEEK.
BUT I'M MAY NOT BE SUPPORTED BY THAT BY THE OTHER MEMBERS, BUT I JUST THINK IT'S TOO MUCH FOR THE STAFF.
IF THE STAFF, WE NEED THE STAFF WORKING, NOT, NOT JUST PREPARING DOCUMENTS.
AND, UM, AND AS AN EXAMPLE, JUST, YOU KNOW, THIS WEEK WE, YOU KNOW, THE DOCUMENTS CAME LATE.
WELL, IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO GET US THE DOCUMENTS IN A TIMELY MANNER.
THEY HAD, THEY HAD A WAY TOO MUCH TO PREPARE.
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IT, IT DOES, UH, JAM MY TEAM UP QUITE A BIT WHEN, WHEN IT FALLS LIKE THAT.SO, I MEAN, AND I, AND I THINK, UM, KNOWING AHEAD OF TIME, UM, IF THE SCHEDULE IS IN A MONTH WHERE YOU HAVE A WORK SESSION, THAT YOU WOULD HAVE ONE BOARD MEETING AND YOU WOULD HAVE ONE WORK SESSION, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE SUGGESTING RIGHT? THE I WAS, I WAS SUGGESTING THE MONTHS THAT WE HAVE THE WORK SESSION, WHICH IS TYPICALLY, WHAT, FOUR TIMES A YEAR? YEAH.
THOSE MONTHS, WE WOULDN'T HAVE HAVE TWO BUSINESS MEETINGS, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE'D HAVE THE WORK.
AND I THINK IT, KNOWING AHEAD OF TIME, ANYTHING THAT HAS TO COME TO THE BUSINESS MEETING, THEN, THEN STAFF WILL HAVE TO HAVE IT FOR THAT FIRST BUSINESS MEETING.
WE KNOW THAT GOING IN, BUT I THINK IT WOULD PROVIDE A LOT OF RELIEF ON PARTICULARLY THOSE WEEKS FOR, FOR STAFF.
I THINK THAT THIS, THIS CONVERSATION SHOULD BE TABLED UNTIL NEXT YEAR FOR THE, UH, ONCE WE, ONCE WE GET THE NEW BOARD MEMBERS SEATED, I THINK THIS CONVERSATION IS, IS IS COSTLY CALLING THE CAUGHT BEFORE THE HORSE AND TO LET, LET THEM GET IN THE RHYTHM AND LET THEM GET INTO A RHYTHM, A RHYTHM OF WHAT'S GOING ON FIRST BEFORE WE PRECEIVED TO MAKE THIS, THAT, UM, THAT, UM, DEC DECISION.
I DON'T THINK THAT, I DON'T THINK IT, I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE, I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE FAIR.
AND JUST FOR US TO MAKE A DECISION IS DRASTIC, LIKE, OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MAKING RIGHT NOW, UH, TO TODAY.
I THINK THAT THIS, THAT, THAT'S, THAT WOULD BE BASICALLY THIS DECISION SHOULD, SHOULD NOT BE MADE TODAY.
I I DON'T, I DON'T SEE THE NEED FOR IT.
UM, THIS CONVERSATION COULD BE BROUGHT, BROUGHT BACK UP AT AT ANOTHER TIME.
UM, BUT TODAY TO MAKE THAT DECISION, I THINK, I THINK IT WOULD BE WRONG FOR, FOR THIS BOARD TO DO THAT.
PATRICIA? I, I WILL ABSTAIN FROM THIS VOTE NO MATTER WHAT IT IS.
HOWEVER, I THINK IT'S IMPERATIVE THAT THE DECISION BE MADE TODAY.
I MEAN, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SEAT NEXT YEAR'S CALENDAR AND THE NEW MEMBERS WON'T BE SEATED TILL NEXT YEAR.
THERE'S OB THERE ARE OBVIOUSLY SOME THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE DECIDED BEFORE THEY'RE SEATED.
SO, UM, I, I ALSO THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA TO JUST HAVE TWO MEETINGS PER MONTH.
CARLSON, MADAME CHAIR, I'VE CHECKED MY CALENDAR.
SO AT DICK, DO YOU HAVE ANY CO ANYTHING TO SAY? THE ONLY CONCERN I HAVE ABOUT THAT, UH, IS WORK SESSIONS ARE SESSIONS WHERE WE CAN HAVE EXTENDED DISCUSSIONS LIKE WE HAD THIS MORNING.
WE CAN'T DO THAT IN A MEETING AND, AND JUST HAVE IT LIKE THAT.
THAT'S WHAT WORK SESSIONS ARE FOR.
AND WE PUT OFF A LOT OF THINGS, ESPECIALLY CONTROVERSIAL THINGS FOR WORK SESSION.
I CAN UNDERSTAND THE STAFF, UH, DEAL.
AND, AND I COULD, AND I COULD MAYBE SUGGEST WE DO HAVE A WORK SESSION FOLLOWED BY A, A, UH, BOARD MEETING AND MAKE IT AND MAKE IT A, YOU KNOW, A FULL DAY AND INTO THE EVENING AND TAKE SOME BREAKS AND WHATEVER.
BUT I, I DON'T WANT TO LOSE THE WORK SESSION BECAUSE WE DON'T REALLY GET A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS IN DETAIL LIKE WE HAD TODAY.
SO I THINK DIRECTOR, UM, WHAT I WOULD SHARE, COLONEL GUY, I I, I, I AGREE WITH YOU IN MY MIND, I WAS, I AGREE WITH YOU.
IN MY MIND, I WAS NOT THINKING THAT THE WORK SESSION, WHENEVER IT COMES UP IN A MONTH WOULD NOT BE A WORK SESSION.
I'M THINKING OF IT AS A WORK SESSION AS WE HAVE IT TODAY.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD KEEP IN MIND MOST SCHOOL DISTRICTS MEET ONCE A MONTH, NOT TWICE A MONTH, LIKE WE MEET, YOU KNOW, UH, AND THEN, AND THEN A WORK SESSION OR WHATEVER.
SO I, I WAS THINKING OF IT IN TERMS OF A WORK SESSION, UH, WOULD BE THE WORK SESSION AND THAT'S IT, THE WORK SESSION, SO THAT WE CAN GET IN DEPTH INTO THE THINGS JUST LIKE TODAY, RIGHT? THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF VALUE FOR US TOO IN BEING ABLE TO DO THAT, TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOU ABOUT THESE THINGS IN A MATTER THAT IT'S JUST DIFFICULT TO DO IN A REGULAR BOARD MEETING.
SO I ALSO WAS THINKING OF IT EXACTLY AS HAVING THE WORK SESSION, JUST LIKE TODAY, BUT NOT, BUT FOR GOING THE SECOND BUSINESS MEETING, THE WEEK WE HAVE THE WORK SESSION,
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CUZ NOW IF YOU LOOK AT THE, AT THE DRAFT BEFORE US SEE MARCH 21 IS THE SECOND BUSINESS MEETING, AND THREE DAYS LATER WE HAVE THE WORK SESSION.SAME THING HAPPENS IN, UM, IN, I THINK IT WAS APRIL, LET ME SAY HERE.
YEAH, IN APRIL WE HAVE THE BUSINESS MEETING ON THE 18TH AND THEN THE WORK SESSION THREE DAYS LATER, THAT'S A LOT.
UM, LET ME JUST LOOK SOME MORE HERE.
UH, THE NEXT WORK SESSION SHOULD BE IN AUGUST.
IT DOESN'T WORK OUT LIKE THAT.
THEN THE LAST ONE'S IN OCTOBER.
AND THEN, LET'S SEE, OCTOBER, UM, YEAH, OCTOBER.
IT DOESN'T WORK OUT LIKE THAT, BUT THE FIRST TWO ARE JUST WITHIN A FEW DAYS LIKE IT IS RIGHT NOW.
DO WE WANNA CHECK? I MEAN, ARE YOU, Y'ALL WANT TO MAKE A MOTION TO TAKE IT OFF THE CALENDAR AND THAT WAY WE CAN IMPROVE THE CALENDAR IN DECEMBER? OR I THINK YOU SHOULD BE PROBABLY PEOPLE THAT ARE GONNA BE HERE.
MR. CAMPBELL, I'M NOT GONNA BE HERE SO I'M GONNA BE ABLE TO IMPACT THIS DECISION, BUT WHAT ABOUT HAVING, UH, ADD MORE WORK SESSIONS, MAYBE TWO AND ELIMINATE TWO BOARD MEETINGS, YOU KNOW, IN THOSE MONTHS, YOU KNOW, AND I'M SURE THAT SOME MONTHS WHERE THE BOARD MEETINGS EARLY, LIKE FIRST AND THIRD AND EARLY FIRST, SECOND OF, YOU KNOW, AND THEN ADDING THE WORK SESSION.
BUT THAT PARTICULAR TIME, IF IT HITS THE END OF THAT MONTH, BUT SOME MONTHS, LIKE THIS MONTH, I MEAN DECEMBER, WE ONLY HAVE ONE BOARD MEETING, MAYBE A WORK SESSION THAT, THAT MONTH.
BUT, UH, I, YOU KNOW, WORK SESSIONS ARE, ARE VERY ESSENTIAL AND, AND WE MAY STILL NEED BOARD MEETINGS TO COVER SOME OF THE BUSINESS.
AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN AT NINE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT AND STILL NOT COVERING THE BUSINESS.
SO WE DO HAVE TO COVER THE BUSINESS.
AND I'M JUST THINKING MAYBE WE CAN HAVE FLEXIBLE CALENDAR.
SO IN TERMS OF WHERE, WHERE WE AT WHEN WE LOOK AT THE CALENDAR, IT IS, IT ONLY HAPPENS TWICE NEXT YEAR WHERE WE'RE HAVING A, WE'RE HAVING A, UH, BOARD MEETING.
I MEAN, WE'RE HAVING A WORK SESSION THE SAME WEEK THAT WE'RE HAVING A, UM, A BOARD MEETING.
SO I DON'T REALLY SEE THE, THE ISSUE AND ISSUE WITH THAT RIGHT NOW.
AND I FEEL AS WE GET CLOSE TO THAT TIME, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE BOARD WANTS TO CHANGE AT THAT TIME, WE, WE HAVE THE, THE AUTHORITY TO, WITHIN A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF HOURS DO THE FOR LAWS AND SAY, HEY, LOOK HERE, STUDY HAVING IT NEXT WEEK.
UH, WE GONNA BE SAY, HAVING IT WHEN IT'S SCHEDULED, WE GONNA HAVE IT, THE, THE FATHER WE'RE GONNA HAVE IT OUR WORK SESSIONS THE FOLLOWING, THE FOLLOWING FRIDAY OR WHATEVER.
BUT I MEAN, ME PERSONALLY, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK THAT IS, TO ME THIS IS, THIS IS CONDUCIVE BECAUSE I KNOW FOR, FOR, FOR THIS WEEK THAT I HAVE SCHOOL BOARD STUFF TO GO SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS AND THINGS TO GO TO, TO BASICALLY THAT, THAT, THAT'S ALL I'M, I'M, I'M DOING THIS WEEK TO, TO, TO SCRATCH IT OUT.
IT'S IS A LITTLE, I I LIKE IT WHEN, WHEN, WHEN IT'S, WHEN IT'S TOGETHER.
UH, I THINK, AND THEN YOU ALSO, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS AND, AND THEY'RE FRESH ON YOUR MIND, YOU TALKING ABOUT THEM WRONG ABOUT THAT, THAT SAME TIME.
AT FIRST I WAS LIKE, OH, NOW WE GOT WORK SESSION, BUT NOW I'M USED TO IT.
SUFFER SOME, SOME OF THE ISSUES I TALKED ABOUT ON TUESDAY AT THE MEETING WERE SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT, THAT WAS DISCUSSED TONIGHT.
SO BASICALLY, BUT IT IS ONLY JUST MY MIND MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT, IT'S ONLY, IT'S ONLY TWICE THAT IT HAPPENS.
AND I THINK THAT AS A BOARD, WE CAN ADJUST THAT IF WE SEE, IF WE SEE A PROBLEM WITH IT AT THAT TIME GOING INTO THAT MEETING.
SO, UH, AT THIS TIME I WILL MAKE A MOTION, MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THE CALENDAR AS, AS IS AND AS IS I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THAT WE GO AHEAD AND APPROVE THE CALENDAR.
SO, SO MR. SMITH MADE THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE CALENDAR AS IS.
AND, UM, MR. MEL CAMPBELL MADE THE SECOND.
SO ON THIS CALENDAR FOR MARCH 24TH, IT SAYS BUDGET DEBT WORK SESSION.
I KNOW THAT'S WHEN BRIAN D COMES EVERY YEAR.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, DOES IT HAVE TO BE THAT DAY? COULD IT
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BE THE 31ST OR NO? UM, WE DID, I DID SPEAK WITH, UH, MR. NERE.SO WE TENTATIVELY UH, SCHEDULED FOR THAT DATE.
UM, I COULD CHECK WITH HIM TO SEE IF THAT COULD BE CHANGED TO THE FOLLOWING WEEK.
UM, AND IT, I THINK LAST YEAR IT WAS ABOUT A HALF DAY WORK SESSION.
UH, WE DID USE ABOUT TWO HOURS OF BUDGET AS AN INTRODUCTORY SESSION.
AND THEN HE HAD, UH, OUR FINANCIAL ADVISOR HAD ABOUT A TWO HOUR DISCUSSION ON DEBT.
UM, INGRID MEETING, UM, HOLD ON.
INGRID, DIDN'T YOU SAY WE WERE GONNA APPROVE? WE WERE JUST GONNA DISCUSS IT AND APPROVE IT AT THE NEXT BUSINESS MEETING? CAUSE I, I MEAN, I MEAN THERE'S ONE, WE'RE HAVING A TOPIC ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE WORK SESSIONS THAT'S NOT REALLY APPROVING THE CALENDAR.
LIKE, I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS ABOUT GRADUATION DATES.
LIKE I'D LIKE, I DON'T WANNA, I FEEL LIKE WE JUMPED, JUMPED AHEAD AND I THINK THAT'S A BIGGER, THIS IS A MUCH BIGGER ISSUE THAN FIVE O'CLOCK ON A FRIDAY.
AND TO MR. SMITH'S POINT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I HAVE BEEN HEARING A LOT ABOUT HERE ON HILTON HEAD IS WHETHER OR NOT IF YOU WANNA SERVE IN AN ELECTIVE CAPACITY, IT SHOULD BE YOUR FULL-TIME JOB.
FOR MOST PEOPLE, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO BOTH SERVE IN AN ELECTED CAPACITY AND HAVE A FULL-TIME JOB.
SO THIS IDEA THAT, WELL, I JUST KNOW THAT THIS WEEK ALL I HAVE TO DO IS THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING.
I THINK THAT'S A GREAT LUXURY FOR SOME PEOPLE, BUT YOU WILL EXCLUDE A LARGE AMOUNT OF BEAUFORT COUNTY RESIDENTS IF YOU SAY, IF YOU RUN FOR SCHOOL BOARD, THAT SOMETIMES YOU'RE JUST GONNA HAVE TO TAKE A WEEK OFF OF WORK, FIND A NANNY FOR THE KIDS, CANCEL YOUR PLANS AND JUST BE THERE.
SO I THINK THAT THE WORK SESSION AND HOW MUCH THAT IS, IS ONE CONVERSATION.
I THINK APPROVING THE CALENDAR IS ANOTHER, AND I DON'T SUPPORT APPROVING THE CALENDAR RIGHT NOW.
I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE TO, UM, POSTPONE IT UNTIL OUR NEXT BUSINESS MEETING, THE APPROVAL OF THE CALENDAR.
SO, OKAY, SO YOU, YOU, YOUR IS TO POSTPONE IT TO THE, UM, DECEMBER BUSINESS MEETING AND, AND MR. MEL CAMPBELL, UM, SECOND YOUR, YOUR POSTPONEMENT, SO, OH, THANK YOU.
I AGREE WITH YOU AND I, I THOUGHT WE STARTED THIS CONVERSATION OUT THAT WE WEREN'T GONNA BE APPROVING IT TONIGHT OR TODAY THAT WOULD BE APPROVING IT IN DECEMBER AT THE DECEMBER MEETING.
SO I DEFINITELY SUPPORT THIS MOTION TO MOVE IT THERE.
I ALSO CONCUR WITH WHAT YOU JUST SAID, INGRID, IS THAT THERE'S A NUMBER OF US ON THIS BOARD CURRENTLY THAT DON'T HAVE THE LUXURY TO JUST CANCEL EVERYTHING AND, AND, AND SPEND, YOU KNOW, 24 7, UH, REGARDING BOARD MATTERS AND ARE VERY INVESTED IN, IN, IN OUR JOB ON THE BOARD.
SO IS ANYBODY ELSE WANT TO TALK ABOUT POSTPONING IT? ALL RIGHT, LET'S ACTUALLY, YEAH, I DO ACTUALLY, I DON'T WANNA POST.
I'M GOING, I DON'T WANNA POSTPONE IT BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT IT IS NOT THAT I, THAT I WAS, THAT I'M, I'M SAYING THAT, THAT, UH, IN TERMS OF YET GET A NANNY FOR A WEEK, I'M JUST SAYING THAT RUSSIAS, KNOWING THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE MEETINGS THAT MAY TAKE A DAY OR, OR A BOARD MEETING THAT WEEK, THAT WILL BE LONG.
I KNOW THAT THIS MAY BE A, MAY BE A WEEK, ONE WEEK VERSUS THE OTHER WEEK THAT YOU MAY HAVE A, UH, TIME, A TIME IN THERE WHERE YOU MAY HAVE A, SUCH AS A, A COMMITTEE MEETING THAT MAY TAKE TWO OR THREE HOURS VERSUS HAVING A BOARD MEETING THAT MAY TAKE FOUR OR FIVE OR A WORKSHOP SHE NETWORK WILL TAKE ALL DAY.
THAT, THAT, THAT'S WHAT IN, IN TERMS TO THOSE, UH, THOSE THOSE TALKING POINTS, IN TERMS OF THOSE POINTS.
UH, BUT, UM, I REALLY, I MEAN, I, I REALLY DON'T SEE A PROBLEM WITH US ADJUSTING IT AS WE GO ALONG, AS AT LEAST HAVING TO BE DEADLOCK DATES, BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN PLENTY TIMES WHERE THE BOARDS WHERE WE'VE CHANGED, BECAUSE I REMEMBER ONE YEAR WE HAD, WE, WE HAD OUR WORK SESSIONS DURING THE CONFERENCE AND WE HAD AS A BOARD, WE CHANGED IT.
SO IT'S NOT LIKE THESE, LIKE THESE ARE LIKE, LIKE THESE DATES ARE, WE GOTTA TAKE IT TO THE GRAVE.
HECK, WE CHANGED GRADUATION, UH, JUST THIS YEAR, THIS PAST YEAR FOR BEAUTIFUL HIGH.
WE, WE, WE, WE VOTED, WE CAME TO A MEETING THAT WE VOTED IN AND CHANGED IT.
SO MAKE, MAKING THIS, MAKING, MAKING THIS, UH, A DO A DOCUMENT TO GO OFF OF OF TONIGHT.
I DON'T SEE, I DON'T SEE A, A REAL ISSUE IN THE DELAYING IN THE, I DON'T SEE ISSUE OF WHY WE'RE DELAYING IT TODAY.
SO THE MOTION ON THE TABLE IS POSTPONING IT, THE VOTE UNTIL THE NEXT BUSINESS MEETING.
ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY, AYE.
I, I, KATHY, ROB, I YOUR HONOR, VOTE, RIGHT? AYE.
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AND ABSTENTIONS.SO WHAT'S THE DOWN THE ABSTENTION IS TRICIA OKAY.
AND THE REST OF US ARE YESES NONE.
SO I THINK IT WE'RE POSTPONING IT.
IS THAT IT? SO IT DOESN'T PASS.
BUT OUR, OUR, WE OUR, UM, RIGHT, BECAUSE WE HAVE THIS MAJORITY.
I'M GONNA VOTE YES TO POST POLL AND I APOLOGIZE.
SO THAT WILL BE ON THE AGENDA FOR THE, THE DECEMBER BUSINESS MEETING.
UM, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANY FURTHER BUSINESS, UM, THIS AFTERNOON.
LET ME JUST, WE, SO THE BOARD MEMBERS THAT WERE HERE IN ATTENDANCE TONIGHT RECEIVED, UM, THE, UH, EVALUATION FORMS THAT THEY ARE TO COMPLETE ON OUR EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE BOARD.
AND THOSE ARE DUE BACK AT THE DISTRICT OFFICE, NO LATER THAN 5:00 PM ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH.
UM, I JUST WANNA THANK EVERYBODY FOR THEIR TIME TODAY, AND THE PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS WERE REALLY GOOD AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE THE NEW MEMBERS ATTENDING, AND WE APPRECIATE THAT YOU'VE STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE TO SERVE.
UM, IF THERE'S NO FURTHER BUSINESS, WE CAN HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN.