Updates on the Fight for Quality Public Education in Brevard County, FL
0:00 Thank you.
55:28 I know our IEP meetings have increased with Zoom flexibility and
55:12 we’ve been able to work
55:13 with parents much more flexibly with Zoom, so we don’t want that
55:16 to ever go away.
55:17 You’ll see some additional software and technological needs
55:21 there.
55:22 And then, of course, some summer training for one-on-one.
55:24 We want to make sure as we roll out the initiatives to different
55:28 grade levels, we are training
55:30 those teachers in some best practices on blended learning.
55:33 Dr. Mullins, you missed your classroom of the future one.
55:40 Activity 2L.
55:41 You’ll see a lot here because, as mentioned, I think all aspects
55:45 of our community mention
55:46 this concern, all educators, all parents, all teachers, and you’ll
55:51 see some comprehensive
55:53 work there, mental health curriculum training.
55:57 This is an interesting one for me.
56:00 As you know, we have a mental health required curriculum, but
56:04 both our students and our staff
56:07 just feel like they want to know more.
56:09 Like everybody thinks it’s good, which is awesome.
56:11 They just want to know more.
56:14 Teachers want to be better trained and we want to make sure that
56:17 we are managing those lessons
56:19 in a way that are constantly evolving and reflective of the
56:24 needs of our students.
56:26 Contracted services, you’ll see a couple of different ones there.
56:30 We contract with a lot of services now.
56:32 This will be able to increase the opportunity to contract with
56:35 those vendors and provide more
56:38 direct services to our students.
56:40 They push into our schools, work directly with students,
56:45 families, and schools.
56:47 And four there is allowing us to continue the community
56:52 partnership at Endeavor.
56:55 They’ve had a budget shortfall as a result of all the things
56:59 that folks go through, and this
57:02 is identified, a relatively small budget actually, to be able to
57:05 maintain the level of service
57:07 and endeavor.
57:08 A CBA lead, and that is a certified board certified assistant,
57:16 and I may have messed that up a little
57:18 bit there.
57:19 I’ll fix that.
57:20 This is important because to try to onboard more behavior
57:24 analysts, they need direct supervision.
57:28 And so we would like to onboard as many behavior specialists as
57:32 we can, and this person will be
57:34 able to prioritize being their supervisor in them finishing
57:38 their things.
57:39 Did I mess that up, Chris?
57:41 Excellent, not bad.
57:44 School psychologist interns, this looks like a big budget, but
57:48 it’s actually super modest.
57:50 Right now, we don’t pay our interns, and we need them
57:54 desperately, and other districts pay
57:56 their interns, and so this will allow us to give a very modest
58:00 compensation to our interns
58:02 for actually, they’re essentially working full-time.
58:06 And we’re always in need of psychologists, and we want them to
58:10 come to Brevard.
58:12 All right, moving on to activity 2M.
58:16 This is focusing on kind of all the other stuff, is what I’d
58:21 like to call it, and you’ll see
58:24 middle school intramurals funding there to make some facility
58:29 improvements, to pay supplements
58:32 for coaches.
58:33 They’re looking at soccer and volleyball, and, you know, that
58:38 might change, but two formal
58:41 opportunities for middle school students to engage.
58:44 Athletics, FF&E, and supplies.
58:47 You’ll see a pretty big number here.
58:49 I actually gave them more than they asked for, because the
58:53 equipment is important, and my – my
58:59 overarching thread, again, is minimizing expense to students and
59:03 families, minimizing the burden
59:05 of coaches to fundraise.
59:08 So this F&E would allow us to buy cheerleading mats for all the
59:12 cheer programs, and all kinds
59:14 of other equipment for our athletic programs.
59:17 We would let, obviously, the athletic directors work with their
59:21 principals and work with Chris’s
59:23 office to maximize the funds, but it’s a really good opportunity
59:26 to make sure we have the safest
59:28 equipment, and we, again, minimize that fundraising expense on
59:33 the families.
59:34 You’ll also see supplies there.
59:36 So there’s one funding string for FF&E, which is basically – it’s
59:41 furniture, fixtures, and
59:43 equipment.
59:44 So it’s the more expensive stuff, and then the supplies, the
59:47 balls, the, you know, the things
59:50 that are consumable.
59:51 So, again, we’d like our families and our coaches not to have to
59:56 deal with that.
59:58 Paid internships for our career and technical education students,
1:00:02 and expanding the opportunity
1:00:03 for us to have more interns over the next few years.
1:00:08 Obviously, I think we all believe those career and technical
1:00:11 education internships are like
1:00:12 the single best experience for developing our job force.
1:00:17 Again, just some nominal teacher hours to be able to manage that.
1:00:21 There’s a lot of legal requirements with interns.
1:00:25 Supplemented supplements.
1:00:26 I’m so excited about that.
1:00:27 I chose those words.
1:00:29 So I wanted to be able to increase compensation for our activity
1:00:35 sponsors.
1:00:36 That would be our coaches, our band directors, our club sponsors.
1:00:42 And make it make sense for these couple years.
1:00:46 So this would give each coach one or activity or club sponsor 25%
1:00:54 bonus for each of those
1:00:56 years, if that makes sense.
1:00:59 So for example, if a supplement was $1,000, they would get an
1:01:03 additional $250.
1:01:04 If their supplement was $4,000, they would get an additional $1,000.
1:01:09 The teachers and staff that are willing to do all these extra
1:01:13 activities and all the hours
1:01:15 that come with is the lifeline for a lot of kids.
1:01:18 They also serve as mentors.
1:01:20 They’re also, you know, they’re just so important.
1:01:23 And the fact that so many of our folks have continued to do it
1:01:26 in these critical times,
1:01:27 we just really think it’s an important priority.
1:01:30 So this would allow for that level of compensation for school
1:01:34 year 22, pending on when we get
1:01:37 an approved grant, school year 23 and school year 24.
1:01:41 So an additional 25% for each of those four years, three years.
1:01:47 Music programs, FF&E.
1:01:49 Know that Katie’s excited.
1:01:51 This, music is another one of those that it creates barriers.
1:01:55 So this will buy the tubas and the risers and the amps and again,
1:01:59 hopefully less fundraising
1:02:01 for our parents, less financial burden on the teachers.
1:02:06 This will be allocated by ratio K-12.
1:02:11 And to make sure they have everything they need, well, they’re
1:02:15 not going to have everything
1:02:15 they want, but they’re going to have a lot more of it, a lot
1:02:18 more of what they’re looking
1:02:19 for because those items are super expensive.
1:02:25 Transportation costs.
1:02:26 I mentioned that earlier, you know, this isn’t going to cover
1:02:29 all transportation, but this
1:02:30 would offset some of the costs of some of our programs and we’d
1:02:34 have to work out a ratio
1:02:36 on that.
1:02:37 But just to make sure that a student in a sport can get a bus,
1:02:42 right?
1:02:43 So right now that’s tough and we can continue to find ways to
1:02:47 help support that.
1:02:49 Activity 2N is specifically targeting our transportation
1:02:55 services, supplemental transportation services for our students
1:03:00 in transition, allowing them to get to a doctor’s and different
1:03:04 services available to them.
1:03:06 Our student services team would contract with a vehicle service
1:03:10 to provide that unofficial
1:03:12 transportation.
1:03:13 Obviously, we bus them to school, but that doesn’t mean their
1:03:17 transportation items are over.
1:03:21 School facility repairs.
1:03:23 The two big, the one biggie thing that our facilities team is
1:03:29 honing in on is carpets.
1:03:31 Talk about indoor air quality concerns.
1:03:33 I know Jane Klein was thinking about her carpets in those
1:03:39 primary classrooms that might be icky.
1:03:43 And for me, when I think about band classrooms, if you’ve been a
1:03:46 band mom, they drop their
1:03:47 spit on the carpet.
1:03:48 It’s all true and it’s yucky.
1:03:50 So hopefully, improving indoor quality via carpets, I don’t
1:03:55 think that’s confusing.
1:03:58 And then some opportunities to do some outdoor learning
1:04:00 environments.
1:04:01 Unfortunately, this has scaled back quite a bit to where it
1:04:05 started, but still will allow
1:04:07 us to build some spaces.
1:04:10 I know when Sue’s been working with Jane and I, for me, I’m
1:04:14 looking at my schools, my presidential
1:04:16 schools where the kids are indoors all day in a really kind of
1:04:19 stifling environment.
1:04:21 And having some flexibility for teachers to be finding out the
1:04:24 outdoor classroom, we think
1:04:26 would be pretty awesome.
1:04:28 And it’s probably self-explanatory why we need to continue the
1:04:32 custodial strike team.
1:04:33 They have really become all duties as assigned, and I know
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