001Good evening and welcome to the June 10th business meeting of the Rock Hill School District. Local news media outlets were notified and writing of the agenda for this meeting on Monday, June 8th. If you will please join me for the pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Please be seated. So, first up, I am going to entertain an amended um motion to approve the agenda with the amendment to include uh one uh recognition item that we had not gotten on the agenda uh in time, which is uh item new C, which is the safe viscous and shock gym. >> Do I have
002a motion to approve the amended agenda? So move. Thank you, Miss Jennifer Hutchinson, vice chair. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Burns. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor? >> All opposed. Motion carries. 4 Z. Now to the best part of the day. We're going to start off with uh recognitions, uh, of course, and that's why we're here tonight. Uh, and I'm gonna welcome up the South Point High School boys track and field state championship team and their coaching staff. Welcome up, [applause] >> Mr. McCall. >> Yes. >> Um, well, good evening. I have two of the coaches here. Three of the coaches here, Coach King, Coach Weathers, and Coach Sacko. Coach Sacko is the head. Um, boys and girls cross country coach, which also won the state this
003year as well. Um, we want to thank y'all for the time in this meeting to recognize us um for our hard work and our dedication. And I'm just just want to say thank you. >> Thank you. [applause] >> [applause] >> All right, the athletes that's here. I'm uh Kell Brown. Kell Brown is state champion in cross country, the overall state champion. He's the state champion in the 3,200 meters this year in track and he was uh state runner up in the 1600 this year. Uh, next is um Riley Henfield. He was on the 4x8 relay team. Got Devin Eley, 100, 200, and 4x1 relay team. Um, Jaylen Davis, long jump, 4x1 relay team. Anything else? >> 200 >> and 200. And we got uh Rashad Brown, 100, 200, and 4x1 relay team. And again, again,
004Coach King is at the end. >> Fantastic. [applause] And I do believe Miss Laura Reed wants to take some pictures. >> I can hold those if you want. Thank you. Dr. Elder's going to jump in. Let's see. All right. Try it like one, two, three. Not perfect. Three, two, one. Okay. Can we get two or three of you to come forward? Take a knee and the rest of you squeeze in. We just step forward a couple of you. Okay. And then squeeze in just a little more if you don't mind. Okay. Thank you. Okay. A little better. All right. Last one. One, two, three. Three, two, one. Thank you. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> Next up is our AP scholars, dual credit credit completers, IB diploma recipients, and seal of biiteracy. And I believe we have
005Miss Alicia Johnson uh who's coming up to present these. Welcome. Good evening, Chair Miller, Vice Chair Hutchinson, members of the board, and Dr. Elder. We have over 300 seniors that were recognized in one of the following categories. The first category is the South Carolina Seal of Biiteracy. This is an award that recognizes the ability to demon of students to demonstrate bilingualism, multilingualism, and biiteracy multiiteracy in English and another language. To earn the syllabi literacy, students have to demonstrate a functional proficiency in English and a second language at an intermediate mid level for bronze, intermediate high for silver, and advanced low for gold. The sila biiteracy is now recognized in all 50 states. Students could be recognized as being an AP scholar. The College Board designates seniors who have received a score of three or higher
006on three or more exams as AP scholars. AP capstone diploma candidates. These are graduating seniors who earn a score of three or higher in AP seminar in AP research and on four additional AP exams. International balorate diploma candidates. These are candidates who have completed the academic and extracurricular requirements for the IB diploma and took six international exams. Dual credit. This is awarded to students who have completed 12 or more hours of dual credit, college credit. So tonight we have the distinct honor of recognizing the students who could be here with us this evening. All of the students were however recognized at their schools for these awards. So we will start with the seal of biiteracy. So if you would come up as I call your name. Brandon Steven Coella Char Carbaria Emily Mitchell Cruz Orana
007My Asia Simone Davis Valyria Gonzalez Rivera Lissa Jazelle Hernandez Garcia, Mariela Belton, Carell, Isabella Zoe, Blanket, Alexander Martinez, Guerrero, Melvin Medina, Duron, >> [snorts] >> Fatu Benito Niang Sophia Isabella Cano, Kenneet Rivera Garcia, Logan Michael Sheling, and Alexis Denise Williams. All of these students have earned the seal of biteracy. And we have one student um who is here for syllabi. Logan Shelling also earned the 12 hours of dual credit. Congratulations [applause] on all of your accomplishments. >> Let's do two pictures. That's okay. Yes. We're going to do this group and then we'll trade out. You want to jump into this one. All right. One, two, three. Three, two, one. And before anybody moves, if you guys all just want to turn around, let your families take a picture. If you want to look that way,
008And then we're going to trade. So if you guys want to go over here and put this group over here for the picture, that'd be great. Perfect. Do one, two, three, and three, two, one. Congratulations everybody. [applause] Congratulations. I do want to recognize [clears throat] Mrs. Flora Morales and Mr. Gd who are here to support the students um and all that they do to help the students to earn the seal of our literacy. So, thank you. [applause] Next up, I'm going to welcome up um uh Coach Steven Smith from Rockl High School who is here to uh award the uh were or uh recognize the state discus and talk pledge champ. >> Good evening, Madam Chair, board members. Dr. Elder, uh, as you said, I'm the throws coach for Rock Hill High School, and I
009am pleased to present to you tonight Aiden Graham. He won the shot put and discus competitions, both events, and the recent 5A division one state championship meet. and he's in the the top hundred of all shot and viscous throwers in the country. Top 50 seniors and he'll be going to USC to compete in both those events and throwing events. And it's very difficult, I'll point out, in this day and age for a high school thrower to advance all the way to the SEC instead of having to go through, you know, smaller schools and such. So, very proud of him and he's accomplished some great things in his throwing career. >> Thank you. >> Fantastic. [applause] WE'LL include you too if you don't mind. [cough] [clears throat] Teach Dr. Elder how to do it. >> Couple
010one, two, three. Thank you. So, next up, um, Dr. Elder is coming up to introduce some of our new administrators. This is the best meeting ever. Um the administration is pleased to present um several of our 26 27 leadership and administrative appointments for the Rockville schools. Starting with Dr. Ryan Kirkland. Please come on up. Um Dr. Kirkland will serve as the next principal of Saluda Trail Middle School. She brings 15 years of experience in public education and has served in a variety of leadership and instructional roles, including testing coordinator, program coordinator, and assistant principal of instruction at Northwestern High School. She holds three degrees from Winrip University, a bachelor of arts in English with a teacher certification, a master of education in middle level education, and a master of education in educational leadership. and recently
011learned her earned her doctor of education in educational practice and innovation from the University of South Carolina. Welcome Dr. Kirkland. Stay standing right there. [applause] Sarah Hayes, come up. There she is. From the Ivy League and professional courts to state level leadership, I am thrilled to welcome our new Northwestern athletic director, Sarah Hayes. A former professional athlete, and proven leader, Sarah brings an exceptional record of success as a South Carolina High School League associate commissioner, award-winning athletic director, and division one standout. Most recently, she spent three years with the high school league. Her experience, leadership, and passion for student athletes make her a tremendous addition to the Trojan and Rockill Schools family. Welcome, Sarah. [applause] Next up, we have Anthony Scarone, um, our new executive director of human resources. Mr. Gorsone who brings more than
012two decades of experience in public education, most recently serving as director of human resources for Clover School District for the past four years. Prior to his work in human resources, he spent 10 years as a school administrator in Fort Mill and Ory County Schools and began his career as a special education teacher serving students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. We are excited to have him join our team and look forward to the leadership, experience, and dedication he will bring to Rockill Schools. So, thank you for um joining me in welcoming these three incredible administrators. [applause] I'm so Welcome. Welcome to the right. >> Thank you. [applause] Next up is other and future business. Uh the vice chair and I have one item that we uh are going to bring up underneath here.
013Um we know that we celebrated uh our wonderful graduates uh this past week. Um there have been a little bit of community feedback regarding the graduation ceremonies. Uh and the board is hoping that we together at the upcoming board meeting will have just some honest conversations uh and and see what the next steps in making sure that we have graduation ceremonies um that serve our kids right uh is the next step for our district. So purpose of bringing it up today is just so that the community knows that we together as a board uh and Rash and I talked extensively about this. We have heard the feedback and we are planning on discussing that at the next meeting. So, anything you would like to add, Mr. Vice Chair? >> Yes. Thank you, Chair Miller. Uh,
014just again, thank you to the community for your honest feedback. Thank you for reaching out to all of us. We, as Chair Miller said, we definitely hear what you're saying and we all believe that a graduation should be a celebratory time for every child in our district and every child has a right to feel special in that moment. So we want to work with the community to ensure that we create policies and action steps to ensure that every child has an opportunity to be celebrated at graduation. So look forward to that conversation um going forth and engaging you all in it as well. So thank you all. >> Yeah. So again that will be on the agenda at the next meeting and I know that Dr. Elder and her team uh are of the same
015mindset as we are. So uh it will be a group conversation in uh two weeks. So is there anything else on our other future? If not, I will entertain a motion to address. >> Salute. >> Thank you, Miss Daniel. Do I have a second? >> Second. Thank you, Miss Harris. Uh, any discussion? Var. All those in favor? All opposed? Motion carries. 5 Z.