January 14, 2019 at 7:30 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Rationale:  This meeting is posted according to the Open Meetings Act and Policy 204.01.  The meeting has been properly advertised in the Beacon and on our local website.  

Rationale:  Executive Summary:

With the beginning of the new calendar year, it is required that all board members take the Oath of Office.

Rationale:  With the Beginning of the 2019 calendar year the board must elect officers for the 2019 year.  The offices include; President, Vice President and Treasurer.  Additionally I would recommend the board of education appointing a secretary to take minutes of public meetings and record and report board minutes into the official minutes ledger. 
 

Rationale:  Members of the community that wish to speak before the board of education are asked to sign in on to indicate your interest.  The board will hear public comment for a combined thirty minutes, and individually allow speakers to have up to 5 minutes to address the board.  The board president or designee will notify each individual when there is 1 minute remaining to speak, and then will notify them when time has expired.  

Rationale:  Executive Summary:

This is the conflict of interest statement that was sent by Marcia Herring after the December 17, 2018 special board meeting.  This is an electronic form also so prior to the board meeting it could be completed by individual board members in an electronic form to save time during the BOE meeting.

Rationale:  Each year board need to identify their committee members, currently the board committees and current members are:

Transportation:  Mr. Hothem . (2)
Negotiations: Mr. Glatter, Mr. Burden, Mr. Williams
Buildings and Grounds: Mr. Williams, Mr. Burden (1)
Policy: Mr. Williams, Mr. Burden (1)
Americanism: Mr. Glatter, Mr. Burden (1)
Teaching & Learning: Mr. Williams, Mr. Hothem  (1)

Rationale:  Executive Summary:

Our professional development and instructional direction have all been associated with Marzano's Educational Development.  We are currently in a great position, timing wise to change our evaluation model from our current ESU-10 model to the state approved Marzano observation/evaluation model.  The change over in evaluations would begin during the 2019-2010 school year.

In order for the district to remain in Rule 10 compliance it is required that the board approve the use of the Marzano IObservation tool and we have it on file with the Department of Education.
 

Rationale:  Executive Summary:

The grievance process is part of the negotiated agreement between the SEM-BOE and the SEM-EA.  The current process has been in place for several years, and can only be changed through the negotiated process. This process has been reviewed by KSB Law and meets the legal requirements.

I have NO recommendation for any changes to the Grievance Process. 

Rationale:  Executive Summary:

The purpose of a chain of command is to help people understand the correct steps in a process to remedy an issue.  There is without a doubt the leadership chain of command in the school, with the board of education sitting a top the chain.  However, within the workings of the district there are many different situations or conditions that exist, each having potentially different starting points for the chain of command.

In general, the need for chain of command come from an individual trying to remedy a complaint or concern, or in the process to make a decision.  When in comes to dealing with a complaint or a concern, the process starts at the point closest to the issue.  For example, is a parent has a concern about a students grades, the process begins with the students teacher.  If the concern is within a program such as athletics, fine arts, club then the process begins with the director of the coach.

If the problem has not been successfully resolved at this level, then the process begins to move up the chain.  The second step would be to the next supervising individual, and so on.  The process can potentially work itself to the superintendent, where is still not resolved could potentially be brought before the board of education in the form of an official hearing.
 

Rationale:  Executive Summary:

I need to remind both the BOE & SEM-EA that February 8th is the final day to reach an agreement.

Rationale:  Added to the agenda 01/13/19, 7:00 PM

Information from NASB on the embedding process of the Superintendent Evaluation and the steps to complete the process.