The Indian Lake Board of Education got the feel of The Lake Effect during Monday night’s regular monthly meeting.
Over the past year, the administration and staff at Indian Lake Schools have been training in life lessons called the R-Factor, made famous by creator Tim Kight and featured in former Ohio State Football Coach Urban Meyer’s book, Above the Line.
Superintendent Rob Underwood explained that the R-Factor is the foundation of the district’s overall plan to incorporate social-emotional learning, along with positive behavior incentives and support to graduate responsible, resilient and respectful young adults. That plan is known as The Lake Effect.
“It just boils down to E+R=O…for every event you have a choice of how you respond to get the outcome that you want.
“So here at Indian Lake, we worked on a Culture Playbook that includes our beliefs and behaviors that will elicit the outcomes we want. Collectively, we call that The Lake Effect. So if you are a student at Indian Lake or a community member or even someone who visits us occasionally, we hope that when you leave the R-Factor program or The Lake Effect will impact you in a positive way.”
Underwood explained that the ultimate goal is to help Indian Lake students grow into enrolled, enlisted, and/or employed adults who are engaged in their community.
Several local businesses, led by Osgood Bank, are supporting The Lake Effect by sponsoring T-shirts for every student and staff member in the district.
“Fortunately, we were able to work together with Osgood Bank and many other local businesses who donated approximately $6,200 to provide Lake Effect T-shirts for every student and staff member in our district,” the superintendent said. “We are super excited about the initiative.
“We had our Graphic Design students actually design the T-shirts and we’re hoping to get those shirts in the hands of our students in the next few weeks. Thanks to Miller Graphics for creating those.”
At the board meeting, Underwood unveiled the final design, based on senior graphic design student Kayli Tussing’s submission.
Students in all grade levels are already receiving short R-Factor lessons regularly and teachers are incorporating The Lake Effect language and beliefs into the daily routine.
Many of the insights will also be shared with followers and community members weekly on Indian Lake social media and the district’s website at ils-k12.org.
Finally, the ILHS Journalism students are creating a series of videos to inform and excite the district’s younger students about R-Factor and The Lake Effect.
In other action, the board:
• extended the following supplemental contracts: Chris Anders, middle school boys basketball, and Greg Tuttle, middle school girls basketball; and approved Christian Grider, volunteer boys basketball;
• approved Robert Ball as a driver for the 21st Century Grant After School program, and Lori Carpenter as a substitute driver, as needed, to be paid through grant funds;
• approved the following Winter Athletic Passes for 2020-21 due to COVID capacity restrictions: high school boys basketball, and high school girls basketball, $65; and middle school boys basketball and middle school girls basketball, $35
• approved the revised bylaws of the Logan County School Employee Consortium as recommended by the LCSEC board.
• approved the property and fleet insurance renewal with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company through Stolly Insurance Group for $85,592.00;
• accepted the donation of $1,500 from Tyler Rode to the ILHS Class of 2015 Memorial Scholarship Fund, the $200 donation from Sarah Berg to the ILLS Student Needs Fund, the $3,000 donation from Osgood State Bank and $3,200 donation from other local sponsors to provide T-shirts for staff and students;
• approved Capital Improvement and Maintenance Set-aside Resolution and transfers; and
• authorized the debt service payment of $2,115,093.75 for the building bonds due Dec. 1.
The Indian Lake Board of Education meets again at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, at the board office.