June 11, 2024 at 6:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Discussion:  President Meeske called the meeting to order at 6:00 PM.

Discussion:  Mr. Hauxwell began by congratulating the boy's track team on their state championship and thanked the parents that provided the meal for all the coaches and athletes. He noted that summer weightlifting had started for the incoming 7th-12th grade students. There are about 118 students participating. The high school boys and girl's basketball teams have open gym throughout the week and the cross country team has been meeting 3 days a week at the track. The Nebraska Coaches Association will hold the coaches clinic in Lincoln on July 23-24 and the district will have several coaches that will attend. The Midwest Elite basketball camp will take place on June 18-19 for all incoming 7-12th graders. He also mentioned that a non-motorized treadmill was purchased for the weightroom with funds left to the district by Don Maucher. He ended by thanking everyone helping with SCORE camp for the week.

Discussion:  Mrs. Oden's noted all the events that occurred in the last few weeks of school including, concerts, Kindergarten graduation, middle school awards, field day and the retirement reception for Ms. Sheaffer, Mrs. Strand, and Mrs. Paisley. The end of the year staff gathering was at Greg and Lori Owens' shop and was well attended. Mrs. Lampmann has begun preparation for summer camp that will be 3 days a week for 2 hours a day and will take place after SCORE camp and will run through the end of July. She also mentioned that Mrs. Teply, Mrs. Lakey, Mrs. Gleisberg, and Mrs. Urban have started working with students that qualify for summer services. Ms. Sheaffer, Mrs. Cupp and Mrs. Sonya Schilke have begun their summer program with the migrant students and will take them to different places, including museums, weather stations, police stations, and fire stations. 

Mr. Barr noted that the SPED team, ELL team, and administration met with Kristi Chessmore on May 16th and worked on a plan for student placement. The high school math teachers met with Mrs. Lambert to review an online ACT platform to utilize in the upcoming school year. He emailed all the families of students enrolling in the JAG program in the coming year. All the new vape sensors have been installed in all bathrooms. The administrative team has been planning for the upcoming school year and have developed plans to continue the use of the Kagan and SIOP plans. The have reviewed all the handbooks and created a new teacher orientation on canvas. They have also updated teacher job descriptions, created a secondary teacher assistant schedule, and contacted canvas to receive professional development to implement canvas district wide.

Discussion:  Mr. Lambert said the end of the year student check out went well, and they have come up with ideas in the future to make it even better. The principals met with their teachers one on one to check them out as well at the end of the year. He completed his end of the year principal evaluations and has assigned each principal with summer tasks to complete. He is also working to complete end of the year reports with NDE. Dallas and his crew have replaced all the carpet in the middle school classrooms as well as some rooms in the office. The parking lot project has begun and concrete may begin at the end of the week. The bleacher completion is still on schedule, as well as the new speaker installation and scorevision board installation. The gym floor will begin after those projects are completed, around July 22nd. The back of the football scoreboard is being replaced from hail damage 2 years ago.

Discussion:  Meeting adjourned at 7:54 PM.