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Board approves faculty handbook, curricula, club sponsors, trip and multiple routine items
Summary
At the meeting the Tri‑Creek board adopted an updated faculty handbook, approved a health curriculum and the RDP Virtual Academy handbook, certified evaluation plans, a contract amendment, several student clubs, a student trip to England and France, athletic travel requests and multiple donations.
The Tri‑Creek School Corporation board took a package of routine and policy actions, approving an updated faculty handbook and several curriculum, extracurricular and operational items.
Key votes recorded in the public meeting record include:
- Adoption of the updated faculty handbook. Motion, second and unanimous voice vote recorded. The superintendent noted the handbook format was modernized and now aligns with the administrative and student handbooks; one notable substantive change allows teachers to wear jeans.
- Acceptance of a new health and wellness curriculum and authorization to post the approved curriculum to the district website.
- Approval of the RDP Virtual Academy handbook.
- Approval to retain certified evaluation plans (teacher evaluation portions to remain status quo for the 2025–26 school year; district staff signaled a larger review planned for 2026–27).
- Approval of Contract Amendment No. 2 between Tri‑Creek School Corporation and Skillman Corporation (related to the natatorium project); motion and second recorded and motion passed by voice vote.
- Approval of new extracurricular clubs at Lowell High School: Criminal Justice Club and Guitar Club.
- Approval of a student study trip to England and France during spring break 2027; board discussion noted the trip would cause students to miss one or possibly two school days under the district’s current scheduling and that such trips are exempt from state study requirements.
- Approvals for multiple athletic travel requests for tennis teams and other events.
- Approval of consent agenda items including meeting minutes, payroll and claims, and a personnel report.
- Acceptance of a list of donations that included a $10,547.50 gift from Lowell Athletic Boosters, a pipe‑fitting machine valued at roughly $10,000 for welding classes from Pipefitters Local 597, various modest donations to extracurricular accounts and school supplies donations for elementary schools.
Most motions were recorded as "motion and a second" followed by voice votes of "aye" in the public record; the transcript did not list roll‑call tallies or the names of motion makers in most cases. Where the transcript omitted specific dollar amounts or mover names, the meeting record lists the items and shows the motion passed.
