May 14, 2024 at 7:00 AM - Regular Board of Education Meeting

Discussion:  FBLA. Mr. Brokaw with Layla Formanack and John McConnell were present to request help from the Board with the cost to go to Florida for Nationals. Approx cost is $5,296.00

Discussion:  Building Project Committee. They held their last meeting, which lasted about 45 minutes and had positive feedback. Today is election day, so if you haven't voted, please get out and get it done today. 

Discussion:  Elementary Principal. Thanks to the PTO this year for all your continued support. Thank you to Mr. Geise for hosting 6th grade move up day. Summer school will host about 40 students. Finalizing the schedule for next year. Field day and awards day are coming up. 
Jr./Sr. High Principal. Welcome, Holly Taylor as the new admin assistant. Graduation for 23-24 is is the books with 45 graduates. Thank you to Mrs. Schlichtmeier as well as Mrs. Kreifels for all their hard work. Will host summer school again this year. The 6th grade move up day was successful and went over expectations. The building leadership team will meet in June to discuss goals and initiatives for next year. Mrs. McHenry organized the activity fair. Academic awards night was held for the 2nd year with great attendance and well done by our teachers. Jr. high will be gone today for the Creighton baseball game. Listed upcoming dates and teachers have been flexible for the upcoming summer work.
Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment. Yesterday was a PD day for teachers, and we reviewed end of year data showing growth. Chris and Lisa were available to share any information on new chromebooks. Preparing to box up classrooms for the summer work. Our new Social Studies program arrived. Thank you. ESU 3 staff came to us 2 weeks ago to review how we are using their services. I shared a breakdown chart to show what services they provide. Assessments. All state testing is done, but we did delay the science testing due to some of the storms and internet issues that came along with that. Overall growth from test data had a decrease in tier 2 and 3. Thanks to all staff and students as well as the board of education for a great year. 
Director of Student Services. Title 1 non public consultation. The state has advised us there is no need to have a consultation meeting as none of our students are attending a parochial school that require provided services. SABERS, students and staff completed this survey last week. Listed all completed reports
AD/AP. Activities Update: Spring Sports finishing up.
Girls Soccer finished 6-9. Boys Soccer finished 6-6.
Girls Track. Conference Results: Ayla Garrett 1st in long jump. Dani Ahrens 1st in the 3200. Elizabeth Harvey 1st in Pole Vault (tied school record)
District Results: Ayla Garrett 1st in long jump and 1st in Triple Jump. Davida Garett 1st in High Jump. Dani Ahrens 2nd in the 3200 and qualified in the 1600. Elizabeth Harvey 1st in Pole Vault
4x100 team of Ayla, Davida, Piper, and Elizabeth set the school record with a time of 50.96
Boys Track. Conference Results: Gavin Battreall 2nd in 110 hurdles. Montae Henry 2nd in Triple Jump
District Results: Montae Henry 1st in Triple Jump. 4x100 team of Montae, Mickey, Gavin, and Jaren 2nd place. Mickey Hickey qualified in the Triple Jump. Gavin Battreall qualified in the 300 hurdles
Thank you to all those that helped make our meets a success!
NSAA Spring Academic All-State was announced. State Journalism Results - John McConnell - 2nd in Newspaper Column Writing. Britany Jones - 8th in Advertising. Layla Formanack - 5th in Newspaper News Writing. Yearbook Staff - 8th in Yearbook Theme Development
FBLA State Results. Callie Tood - 8th in Organizational Leadership. Layla Formanack - 2nd in Website Design. John McConnell - 3rd in Business Communication, 3rd in Public Policy & Advocacy, and 7th in Impromptus Speaking
Skills USA State Results - Matthew Harvey - 2nd Place in Basic Healthcare Skills. Trey Rodis - 2nd place in Collision Damage Appraisal. Spencer Schlictemeier - 2nd in Extemp Speaking
JH Track has finished
Special Olympics Event last Thursday 5/10 at Ashland and all came home with gold medals. 
Fine Arts Awards Night was held on 5/3. Next years scheduling, and coaching hires have been taking place, fall sports are on the website. Booster Club Golf Outing - July 20th. Last 7-12 Music Concert was May 7th - thank you to Mrs. Vallis and Mr. Jordan for a great performance. 

Discussion:  Superintendent. May 22 is our last day of school for students with our recognition award ceremony for staff in the afternoon. Will start moving things out of rooms while kids are still present, so they can help. May 23rd is the last scheduled day for teachers, so they can get things cleared/cleaned up and stored for the summer. On May 24th, the subcontracts will start their preparation. The last report I received was that electricians are ahead of schedule, they have been working hard all summer to prepare for this. Our foreman, with Boyd Jones, states his goal is to have us in by August 1st, and we will notify teachers and office staff to start moving things back in. We will try to get some groups to help prepare the buildings for the first day. National Honor Society has already volunteered to help out. Board meetings will be held at the elementary as well as my office for the summer, but I will be up at the high school to make sure things are running smoothly. The Open Meetings Act has been updated and one change for us will be public comment. It will need to be on the agenda of all meetings going forward. 

Discussion:  John McConnell was recognized and thanked for being a student member of the 23-24 Board of Education. 

Discussion:  June 11, 2024  Board of Education meeting