Public Meeting Minutes: October 17, 2022 at 6:00 PM - Board of Education Meeting

AGENDA

Call the meeting to order

Roll Call

Discussion: Also present were Superintendent Kevin Reiman, Director of School Improvement and Special Education Amy Kroll, Middle School Principal Mary Mozena, Elementary Principal Bristol Wenzl, and Asst. Principal/AD Michelle Heath.

Acknowledgement of Nebraska Open Meetings Act posted

Discussion: The BOE President acknowledged the posting of the Nebraska Meetings Act.

Excuse absent board members

Recommended Motion(s): Board Member #1 moved to approve the absence of board member Board Member #2 seconded the motion. Motion Passed

Action(s):

Motion 1 Passed:

Jason Brack moved to approve the absence of board member Haley Dehne. Brandon Nash seconded the motion. Motion Passed

Dehne: Absent
Huskey: Absent
DeMike: Yea
Harms: Yea
Nash: Yea
Rathe: Yea
Brack: Yea

Motion 2 Passed:

Brandon Nash moved to approve the consent agenda, which includes the minutes of the last regular meeting, financial report and payment of general funds bills. Betty Harms seconded the motion. Motion Passed

Dehne: Absent
Huskey: Absent
Harms: Yea
Nash: Yea
Rathe: Yea
Brack: Yea
DeMike: Yea

No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.

Approval of consent agenda

Recommended Motion(s): Board Member #1 moved to approve the consent agenda, which includes the minutes of the last regular meeting, financial report and payment of general funds bills- Board Member #2 seconded the motion. Motion Passed

Approval of previous meetings minutes

Notification of meeting publication site, date, and time

Rationale: The meeting date, time and location was published in the Plattsmouth Journal on

Financial Reports

Attachments: (1)

Board Reports_001

10/14/2022 at 12:49 PM

Payment of Bills

Next regular meeting date - November 21, 2022

Communications

Visitors/Open Forum and staff and program presentations

Rationale: Visitors may address the board during this portion of the meeting. Each speaker is limited to 5 minutes. Multiple speakers for the same subject should appoint a single spokesperson to address the board for a maximum of 5 minutes.

Action Items

Discuss, consider, and take all necessary action to give approval on the proposed proclamations

Recommended Motion(s): Board Member #1 moved to approve the American Education Week and Red Ribbon Week Proclamations Board Member #2 seconded the motion. Motion Passed

Action(s):

Motion Passed:

Jason Brack moved to approve the American Education Week and Red Ribbon Week Proclamations Betty Harms seconded the motion. Motion Passed

Dehne: Absent
Huskey: Absent
Nash: Yea
Rathe: Yea
Brack: Yea
DeMike: Yea
Harms: Yea

No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.

Comments: ADM REC: To give approval to the proposed proclamations

Attachments: (2)

American Education Week Proclamation 2022

9/30/2022 at 12:05 PM
Red Ribbon Week Proclamation (2022)

9/30/2022 at 12:06 PM

Discuss, consider, and take all necessary action to give approval a two year co-op with Louisville in Baseball

Recommended Motion(s): Board Member #1 moved to approve a two year co-op with Louisville in Baseball Board Member #2 seconded the motion. Motion Passed

Action(s):

Motion Passed:

Brandon Nash moved to approve a two year co-op with Louisville in Baseball. Neil Huskey seconded the motion. Motion Passed

Dehne: Absent
Brack: Yea
DeMike: Yea
Harms: Yea
Huskey: Yea
Nash: Yea
Rathe: Yea

No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.

Comments: ADM REC: To approve a two year co-op with Louisville in Baseball

Discuss, consider, and take all necessary action to give approval to policies to be reviewed

Recommended Motion(s): Board Member #1 moved to give approval to review policies 3033-Lending Textbooks to Children Enrolled in Private Schools 3034-Disbursements 3036-Purchasing (Credit) Card Program 3037-Petty Cash 4090-Early Retirement Incentive Program Policy Board Member #2 seconded the motion. Motion Passed

Action(s):

Motion 1 Passed:

Brandon Nash moved to approve a two year co-op with Louisville in Baseball. Neil Huskey seconded the motion. Motion Passed

Dehne: Absent
Rathe: Yea
Brack: Yea
DeMike: Yea
Harms: Yea
Huskey: Yea
Nash: Yea

Motion 2 Passed:

Jason Brack moved to take all necessary action to give approval to policies to be reviewed-Board policies 3033-Lending Textbooks to Children Enrolled in Private Schools, 3034-Disbursements, 3036-Purchasing (Credit) Card Program, 3037-Petty Cash, 4090-Early Retirement Incentive Program Policy. Brandon Nash seconded the motion. Motion Passed

Dehne: Absent
DeMike: Yea
Harms: Yea
Huskey: Yea
Nash: Yea
Rathe: Yea
Brack: Yea

No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.

Rationale: The following policies meet KSB's recommendations:

3033-Lending Textbooks to Children Enrolled in Private Schools
3034-Disbursements
3036-Purchasing (Credit) Card Program
3037-Petty Cash
4090-Early Retirement Incentive Program Policy

Comments: ADM REC:

Links:

Weeping Water Policy Schedule

The following link is Weeping Water's tentative schedule for the review of current policies. The schedule is subject to change.
Policies to be considered this month

The link lists all policies to be considered this month

Discuss, consider, and take all necessary action to give approval to policies to be revised

Recommended Motion(s): Board Member #1 moved to to give approval to revise Policies3032-Copying Fees for School District Records 3035-Chain of Command Board Member #2 seconded the motion. Motion Passed

Action(s):

Motion Passed:

Brandon Nash moved to to give approval to revise Policies3032-Copying Fees for School District Records 3035-Chain of Command. Jason Brack seconded the motion. Motion Passed

Dehne: Absent
Harms: Yea
Huskey: Yea
Nash: Yea
Rathe: Yea
Brack: Yea
DeMike: Yea

No Action(s) have been added to this Agenda Item.

Rationale: The following policies need to be revised to meet KSB recommendations:

3032-Copying Fees for School District Records
3035-Chain of Command

Comments: ADM REC: To give approval to revised Policies 3032-Copying Fees for School District Records and 3035-Chain of Command

Links:

Weeping Water Policy Schedule

The following link is Weeping Water's tentative schedule for the review of current policies. The schedule is subject to change.
Policies to be considered this month

The following policies will be considered this month

Reports

Administration Reports

Discussion: Activities Director / Asst. Principal

Fall Activities Updates
- Football
- Volleyball
- Softball
- Cross Country
- Music
- NHS
- One Act
- Mock Trial
- FFA
- FCLA
- HOSA
Winter Sports
- NSAA Sportsmanship Presentation - Nov. 14
- Team Pictures - Nov. 28
Attendance

Elementary Principal

Walk throughs and formals are going well
1. 44 elementary/shared staff walk throughs
2. 4 formal observations completed - including pre formal conversation and post formal conversation
3. The other first semester formal observations will be taking place in the next three weeks.
Elementary teachers spent time on Monday, October 10th discussing the new math curriculum. They self reflected strengths, challenges, and the components they use daily. They then got in groups, K-2 and 3-5 and created a visual to share this information. We then had a whole group discussion about it.
1. Teachers have expressed an interest in getting together with Conestoga to collaborate about the math curriculum as they use the same.
2. I have emailed Lisa Bergmeyer and she is trying to find a date they can do it.
5th grade attended the Keep Cass County Beautiful Fair at the Cass County fairgrounds on September 28th
The Weeping Water Volunteer Fire Department came for Fire Prevention and Safety on Tuesday, October 11th. They did sessions with childcare through grade 2.
Lauren Stohlmann with the Cass County 4H Extension Office is visiting 3rd grade this week to do a STEM project on Pumpkin Life Cycles
Red Ribbon Week is October 25-28th
1. Dawn has activities planned for the week
Halloween parties will be Friday, October 28th. PTO is hosting Trunk or Treat again. This will be on Friday, October 28th at 1:30 pm. We are doing it downtown this year so that more businesses can participate.
Going to start looking at new math state standards during the October 31st inservice.
FAST data - Reading and Math
1. We visit FastBridge data at every Monday inservice
2. Core interventions and small groups are up and going
3. Teachers looked at the progress monitoring data and intervention logs on Monday, October 10th and discussed what strengths and challenges they are seeing.
4. Some teachers shared they are already seeing growth and changing the interventions to the next level.

Middle School Principal
Oct. 12th Testing Results

22 Sophomores took the PreACT
24 Juniors took the PSAT

Upcoming Winter Testing (Window is Dec. 1st through Jan. 31st)

NSCAS 3-8th grades
9th Grade MAP Growth
Plans are for 1st week of December and be finish before Christmas break

MS Fall Dance

Friday, Oct. 28th from 6 pm to 8 pm(Theme is Neon Nights)

MS Life Skills Pep Rally

Monday, November 7th all day at UNL

Director of School Improvement / Special Education
Continuous Improvement (November goals):

Instruction Subcommittee Goal: Share with staff Engagement Strategies in a shared document
BPiS Subcommittee: Goal: Move referrals to Educlimber (data dashboard), review behavior data and look for behavior referral trends.
School Mental Health Subcommittee: Goal: Develop a school climate survey for staff and students. (Teachers will be trained on how to administer SAEBRS, a Social Emotional Screener, to students in order to identify social, emotional, behavior, problems).

Secondary:

Training on analyzing data and student performance on assessments.
Training on how to meet the needs of our English Language students.
Working through logistics to be able to utilize Tribe time as an opportunity for extra help or enrichment.
35 walk-throughs have been completed since the first week of school.
Formal Observations are being scheduled.

Special Education:

On 10/11, Staff collaborated with special education teachers from Louisville, Elmwood Murdock, and Conestoga (facilitated by ESU 3).
A Pre-Employment Specialist from Vocational Rehabilitation is meeting with Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors monthly.

Sixpence/Bright Arrows Childcare Center:

Directors from Conestoga met with Bright Arrows Directors on 10/4 in order to prepare for the CQI visit in November.
Directors will attend Sixpence Networking Day on 10/18 in Omaha.
Bright Arrows is closed 10/24 to allow for a full-day of Professional Development for childcare staff (a schedule is being developed will be individual and whole-group training).
October Socialization/Family Engagement is on 10/22 at the Pumpkin Patch in Eagle.

Superintendent

Board Reports

Adjournment

Regular Board
Attendance Taken on 10/17/2022 at 6:02 PM
Jason Brack	Present
Haley Dehne	Absent
Adam DeMike	Present
Betty Harms	Present
Neil Huskey	Present
Brandon Nash	Present
Mark Rathe	Present
Present: 6, Absent: 1

October 17, 2022 at 6:00 PM - Board of Education Meeting

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