00121st 2026 regular 49. If you would please stand for the pledge. I alian 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 very much. Thank you for hosting us. Board members, uh there is one item I need to draw your attention to regarding the agenda and agenda. Uh, pull up your agenda and employment. Uh, item two, I'm sorry, A B. >> I'm sorry, Rihanna Z. We're going to remove her name. >> Virginia. Excuse me. Virginia. >> Any questions? Anything? I'll make a motion to approve the amended agenda and agenda. May I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you. Any concerns or comments? All those in favor saying I. >> I. Nay. The
002eyes carry it. Kicking right off. Second place, state science fair winner, Joselyn with can AI cracker code. >> Yep. So, I'd first like to ask you guys, do you guys think that AI can help cancer in any way, shape, or form? I'll just ask you guys that. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, it has it's been proven to help with at least communication. So, I will start off with that. >> But, so the purpose of everything, how do you want me to continue with this? Miss Guthrie, she's having >> as you see there's been an incline in both cancer and AI use. So taking that, I was like, there's something I got to be able to do to put all this information into one to make one project for science fair. So that's where
003I got the idea of seeing how AI diagnoses cancer. Before cancer or before AI, cancer was all over the place. It was expensive to get treatments. It was hard to find treatments and a lot of people were making too many phone calls and it was causing a lot of mess. So now that there is AI, it is making communication easier. It is making it more affordable and it is making it easier to find in more areas. So here I have a slide that shows all the different types of health care that AI is used in. So you have preventive health, diagnosis, you have different trainings, research, treatment, and so many different ways that it's used. So, here's a comparison of how the um AI can detect the cancers or even communicate. So, you put your
004information in just like you do your nerve cells. So, just like you're pinching yourself, you're putting that stimulus in just like you're putting what text you want to in. So that is converting in and then it's giving you your output just like it's sending the nerves in your body the receptors to feel the pain. So these were the top six different cancers that I found and I only chose to do breast, lung, colurectal, prostate and gastric cancer for my project. That was because skin cancer is usually topical and is removed from the surface and don't spread as easily throughout the body. The others spread easier and become different grades easier and faster. So first before I started anything I had to find out what the different was between stages and grading. So here I have
005a slide showing the differences between all the stages. The stages is where it starts in one part of the tissue but then it gradually gets into other parts as it progresses. Grading is where it gradually gets worse within one particular tissue. if it's in one particular tissue and gradually grows larger that is how it is graded. So then that brought me to my hypothesis of if AI sites can effectively diagnose cancer then it would be able to be used in medical fields like oncology and pathology. So, the materials I needed to use were a computer with internet access, five DNC uh artificial intelligence sites, and then 25 Pantress images. So, within the experiment, I took each of the pictures I found, which I have with me that I can get out later. All of them
006I took and individually placed into each AI site. I ask each of the sites to tell me what is the cancer, where is the location, and what type is it, what is the grade, and how severe is it. So depending on the information I got, I put it into several different tables. So each table I got, I translated into numbers. If it had a full, then it got three. If it was only able to answer two, then it got two. But if it was only able to answer one, it got one. And then if it was able to answer none, it got zero. So then I translated that to a graph that looked like this. So I took this and for each AI site I took 75 minus all the correct AI points. Here I
007was able to get the accuracy of the AI sites. And that's how I got this table showing that AI was only less than 60% accurate. It was not accurate at all. So to be able to be used in the medical field, it did not meet any expectations to be able to be used in the medical field, it would have to be 65% or 95% accurate or more. Nothing that low should be used in the medical field because you want something that's trusted. So as we move on, it will become more affordable. So, we'll need more background research within AI. AI is very expensive because most of the websites I went on to use, they were going to make me pay $100 just to use it that one time for this experiment. So, I had to
008find little particular sites that would allow me to use it for even just a couple cents. So, then the accuracy is low. So none of those match together to be able to be used in the medical field before we expand on in using it in cancer diagnosis. So then I have my variables. My independent was the cancerous images which I had different locations types and grades. I had the dependent which was the accuracy. The dependent was what I was measuring was the accuracy of the AI intelligence sites and then my control was the sites that I was using and then the normal cell tissues images within my pictures. These were some of the sites I used because a lot of it was repetitive data and I just did not want to bombard anyone's mind with
009all the different websites. So, does anybody have any questions? >> Where's your images at, Joel? I was going to get more. Okay. >> So, it looked like the chat GBT was more accurate than AI. So, it's just a bunch of different AI sites. Chat GBT was the most accurate out of all of them, but uh you had the Jitub that was a lot less accurate than uh chat GBT, but all of them were just so inaccurate that you cannot rely on any of them just for cancer diagnosis. They can still be used for um communication of course but >> not for any diagnosis. >> So you like scanned the picture in and then asked it what is this picture? What is this a picture of? >> So yeah I the pictures I had were already
010images that were online. >> Okay. >> So they already had the data within their sources. So whenever they were sent in they would be able to search the entire web about what information was there. I was interested if any judges asked any interesting questions that you >> had to answer. >> Not really. >> I don't think I had any that were super interesting. Okay, >> I'm just going to pass around >> because I could because you're using a new tool that is in its infancy and so I wasn't sure if anybody would be able to pull any questions out to be able to ask you because it's really interesting project and how you took cancer crack cancer's code was completely titled different when I thought you were I thought I thought you were getting into
011it but really fascinating. >> That's why I was curious. So the most would have been probably at regionals from a uh someone who was in biomechanics and um there was a language barrier. So that made a lot of things that he was asking very hard. But um he was asking a lot of questions on how did I know like what I was doing was correct. I was like because you're asking questions and you're building up you're doing the research to make sure what you're doing is proper. >> You're build you're building the AI I call it more of course almost daily journal like you're building you're building a question and you're building off of each answer the AI is giving to you to go through and to answer figure out one two threes and how
012you put in there. >> Yeah. Yeah. And the other thing that was most interesting to me is when I was at states, I had another judge ask me what another thing that you could do is give the AI a specific job. act act as a pathologist to do a specific job to see if it leads to a higher accuracy instead of doing something as a normal person what that these regular AI sites do automatically. >> I was wondering when you got to this slide I noticed your voice inflection make me believe that you were surprised the percentage was that low. Yeah, I I honestly thought it was at least going to be like 10% higher, but it wasn't. And it was crazy. >> Yeah, >> it will be interesting to see this project done again
013here in the future >> to see how much this actually changes, >> especially within like the next 15 years, even five years of that. >> Very cool though. >> Good way to use it. That'll be great if they can >> get it so that we can detect this stuff. Yeah, for sure. Because it'll help everybody and obviously it won't take anybody's jobs. So, it'll just be used as an aid. That is something I mentioned to all the judges that I've had is that it'll never take a job that's in the medical field. The medical field is so crucial to everybody that it cannot take the place of somebody that's working handson with those people every single day. it will be able to use to back them up on the information they need, but they're so
014crucial. AI will never be as crucial as what they are. >> Did you interview anybody in the medical field at all regarding that? Okay. I'm just curious if you got any answer. >> No, I was hoping to, but I never got a chance to. That is uh on my board. That is one of my future directions though. >> Okay. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Thank you very much. Board members, any other questions, comments? just the depth and the knowledge you I'm sure you gained a lot of knowledge doing this. Yeah, I did. >> It's really impressive because you know I'm focusing on this >> and there's a lot of information bouncing back and forth on this and you you've gone this is one of the nicest projects I've ever seen and I've seen a lot. So
015congratulations for all the hard work you put in. >> Thank you. I appreciate it. One of the many skills people need to develop when they get jobs is taking something very complicated and simplifying it for people to understand. And you did a really good job of taking something complicated and making us all understand what you did. So that was really Thank you. >> Thanks for coming tonight. >> One more thing. >> Were you nervous here tonight? >> No. >> I mean, I'll talk to all y'all. >> I just want to say that's great. >> That is a great quality. It is >> because it's hard for a lot of people to get up in front of other people and talk. So, great job. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> We do have to ask you about
016how's track and field going. You know, >> it's been it's been going good. Pretty going pretty good so far. >> Yeah. >> I mean, definitely not hitting some of the numbers I went to, but I finally PR discus. So, >> I'm not going to complain about that. >> And on Saturday, she's being very modest. They went to Mountaineer Showcase. I only had four that could go because we had a double header against Clay Vatel. So, we're sharing athletes, but um Pawpa was the only single egg out of 23 schools at Milin Park on Saturday. And between Joselyn and Shayla, they were ninth out of 16 female teams. Between the two of them and the points that they were able to earn together. So, um incredible showing for Paula and Joselumo. Uh I'm just so very,
017very proud of them. And Thursday night, uh, last week, she PR at Kaiser. Um, and it was just incredible. And she got to hear her principal scream from the hillside. I thought you were going to come into school, not be able to talk. >> You are an extraordinary example of a student athlete. >> Well, the nice news is you're you're hitting your stride right at the right time because this is time to start working towards your peaks. >> Yeah, definitely. >> It sounds like you're going to do very well in the next few weeks. I hope so. >> I do too. >> PR shot next. >> Sure. Why not? >> Yep. >> All right. Thank you guys. >> Thanks, sir. Where's yours? >> So, one other good thing I'd like to announce tonight. I would
018say that Justin's presentation was a great thing. Um we have uh received information back from capturing kids hearts which is a very familiar program to all of you and the school district schools is a national showcase school district and we have five schools that have been selected as national showcase schools. Those are Windmire Elementary, Plan View Elementary, Warm Springs Intermediate, Oral Springs Middle School, and lastly, our fall schools. And we're blessed to be here tonight with so just wanted to announce that tonight. There'll be more information coming out on social media about the award. We just filmed this out last week. So, >> which is why you all have lanyards with capturing kids cards and a magnet. Um, also because we got our prize box last week. And so we have a huge amount more
019than what we needed. So we brought that to celebrate the district as well. And then you also have a button that Miss Guthrie made today with the pawpaw school song on it. So you've got some of the words to the song which has probably long since been forgotten, but she has them in the pie there, but she's got it passed out. So anyway, um super proud to be one of the schools in Morgan County that's capturing kids hearts again for the third year. a showcase school. So, uh let's get started with our presentation. So, our pictures that we selected for our cover um represent pretty much what Pawpaw is about. Those are the three A's. So, at the top we have academics and of course that first picture has Jocelyn and her brother here for
020academics. That was another pair. I think that one was social studies. And then the second A that Paw School represents as attendance. So, the group of elementary students there you see with medals. One of our incentives this year was to uh recognize students for faithful and perfect attendance. So, we found attendance medals that were giving out each nine weeks. That's a project that Miss Guthrie leads. So, that's been hugely popular. Um you would not think that secondary students would be excited to get an attendance medal and yet that has been a huge factor with the older students as well. She does a social media post and then um our last day of course is athletics as you know um the whole school celebrates when any a group of students go anywhere. That particular picture I
021believe was when our volleyball team was headed off to Tigert's Valley uh in the fall. So those are the three A's that pawpaw pretty much functions around academics, attendance, and athletics. And we make sure that all of those things are equally balanced. So, uh, these are our good things. So many good things, but we chose three this year. So, um, the first certificate that we have is for Pawpa Elementary School. So, we have some of our elementary staff here this evening. And we were recognized by the state department for academic progress, not proficiency, but the progress from one year to the other. And we'll get into that when we get into our GSA data. The second thing that we are very proud of is um this is our first year with instructional empowerment and we
022have all staff grades 4 through 12 have gotten through the 101 module. So we are ready to start 2011 next year and we have that gone down to grades 4 through 12 at this point. And then the last one um because Dr. Stickley and I came to the board already, it's our American College Application Campaign School of Excellence. We were the only high school in the state of West Virginia to be recognized with that. So, those are our three good things, although we certainly could have many more. This is our leadership team. Nothing has changed here. I have uh Miss Helmick and Miss Bennett here that help with the elementary school and the secondary school. Of course, Dr. Stickley and of course my right hand, Miss Guff. So the first data slide that we have
023is our piraphph showing our demographics. This is for K6 74 students currently. This was from the October one report, the second month report. And so our low SCES rate uh is 88%. We do not have the 1.6 multiplier anymore that summer let me know about. So, um, even though we know those students are still out there and our rate is probably still over that, the state's not recognizing that currently. So, and then our ethnicity is mostly white. So, for 7 through 12, uh, same scenario, low SCEs, um, officially is at 68%, but we know that we function at a much higher percentage of low SCEs in that. and also ethnicity still majority white. So the next data that we have, this is all the way from spring of 2025 and we're almost ready to replace
024this data with new data. So uh when you're the last LSIC, that's the disadvantage of having this data be so old. But um when you take a look at this, because our numbers in each of the groups are so low, I went through and I uh did something that I wish the state would do. That is because this is all GSA data. This is comparing apples to apples. If you take that six classroom average, um because it is all the same test, we come out at 39% proficiency across grades three through eight. The state does not report our GSA data that way because 7 through 12 is our high school. Our GSA and our SAT data gets meshed and stirred into one which isn't a very accurate reflection. So this is a much more accurate
025reflection. If you look at our cell size, you know, because a cell size under 20 the state will not recognize. You have to look at our data in totality to realize really what our proficiency is. I wish the state would at least look at our GSA data together instead of mixing our seven and eight data with SAT because they're two different assessments. And then our uh next data, similar thing for math. So I did the same thing. I took these six classes that you're showing u because again apples to apples, it's about a 41% proficiency rate. So, we actually in grades three through eight did a little bit better with our math proficiency, but this data is almost a year old. If anyone has any questions, no. Okay. >> I'm going to pick your brain
026since you are last and we didn't have to reschedu and in the snow. >> Someone got smart and me. >> Um, in light of that though, because fifth grade is so low on that one, what's this year's benchmarks looking like within within a six? You're getting there already. >> We will get there. Yep. If you just just give us a minute. Yep. So, this is our um science proficiency which is just tested at two grades, fifth and eighth grade, which I think puts a lot of stress on the fifth grade teacher and then also eighth grade. I wish we had a yearly assessment of science, but um if you take a look at our percentages and they're in the teens or single digits, that's not an accurate reflection. So, um Dr. Stickly and I have
027this conversation all the time and we know that our kids do very well postsecary. So we compiled a list without names of students since 2017 who have graduated from Pawpa schools and either have a science degree or will very shortly. Um, and we just picked the 10 most common ones that we could think of to just show you what our science department is actually producing. I actually should give one of these to Miss Bennett since she is the source of this success. So take a minute and take a look at that and think about the science proficiency rates that you're seeing up there in the students that are coming out of PAPA schools with degrees in science. That is not by chance. That is by the work of this school. uh and one science teacher
028who teaches 7 through 12 um is a testament to her work but also to this school and those percentages do not reflect that. We had on Friday a gal that graduated a little before Miss Bennett's time that's a veterinarian and so she's in uh Shippensburg and she came here and talked with the students about how when she was here we had a science teacher that wasn't certified in chemistry and how hard that was to do collegiately because she did not have it. we now have the luxury of having Miss Bennett who can teach chemistry and what a difference it's made since 2017. So, um that's just something to keep in mind as you're looking at this data. What those numbers really mean is not reflective. Um these data charts, piraphphs aren't all that we're about.
029This is what we're about. We can produce kids that are strong in the sciences. um that do very well at the secondary level regardless of the numbers you're looking at. So, let's move on. So, the next data that we have is our SAT school day. This has to do with our math and our reading proficiency. Last year, we actually just today had 9th, 10th, and 11th. So, two PSATs today, SATs. Um I told Miss Golden we had 100% completion today. Like we are finished. We did not have any absences today and we have 100% students tested today. So um a couple of >> Yes. Um a couple of things to consider here. Um this year as many of you know we did not have a math teacher. So we went to a new math model
030which is um a hybrid of uh Dr. Wilder being here two days a week with a proctor who monitors online modules that the state puts out. So for next year if we cannot get a math teacher which we hope but if that does not happen Dr. Wilder and I are going to modify the motto a little bit for next year. So what uh he and I think is a good compromise is to take the highest levels of math 11th and 12th grade. He's going to teach two days a week. We're going to pull the upper grade students out of the online math and then the teacher is going to monitor the work and we're going to try this model. Grades seven through 10 will still stay online. 7th, 8th, and 9th grade have a phenomenal
031state proctor by the name of Lynn Baker who has done a wonderful job and she does synchronous classes. However, the modules for 11th and 12th grade are completely online and the students have very little interaction as Joselyn Oh, Joselyn left as Joseline could have told you. Um, so we're looking at changing the model a little bit. The other thing that we've added this year is the instructional empowerment that we're trying to build rigor. Um, and so we're hoping that these numbers uh show an increase today. I talked to Dr. Wilder today and he said he felt like his students tried very hard today. So we are hopeful uh that the addition of him has helped with our math scores at least and hoping that reading has improved also. Onward we go. So, um, at the
032beginning of the presentation, we had the award for academic progress in the areas of ELA. And when I looked at these charts, which I think Summer probably put in for me, um, actually all three of our areas went up by 6%. ELA, math, and science were up by 6%. So, I'm not sure how the state determined that we only had the academic progress in ELA, but I assume there's benchmarks that they had set for our school based on previous year's data. There's some trajectory. I assume that only the ELA target met by but actually by percentage each of those three areas went up by 6%. And then this is where the data gets really messy for a K12. So, seventh and eighth grade is GSA data and 11th grade is SAT and somehow the state
033takes apples and oranges and stirs that together and decides what our proficiency is. I think it's a unbalanced statistic. Um, again to combine the two. So these three areas show a decrease although you're taking a test GSA a state created test with SAT a nationally normed and created test and stirring that together. So ELA uh went from 35 to 33% statistically insignificant but this chart is probably the hardest one um to talk about because you're not even looking at the same tool being compared together. So this was why I would like to see GSA data compared for our school and then 11th grade be its own entity because if you think when you were at Berkeley Springs High School, you only had to deal with PSAT and SAT and not GSA data being stirred into
034it. But it is how the state takes our data and moves it because we are two schools. This is our discipline for the elementary for um the first semester. I laughed when I totaled it. Seven incidents for the first semester. Um the elementary school obviously has PBIS programs that they manage uh most level one and level two offenses in the classroom. So our PBIS program focuses on academics, attendance, and behavior. And so very uh low incidence of behavior for elementary. And the secondary came out to 29 incidents for the first semester, which for a middle school and a high school is also very low. And um lots of PBIS rewards. The most recent one that we did. Our game changers helped. And we had a glow party in the gym for those of you that
035follow our social media, which was wildly popular and probably one of the best things we've done. We actually kept the kids here. We didn't go anywhere, but we had a globe party and um that was very successful. >> So the next data that we have um I've already talked about a little bit. Attendance is a challenge for us here. So this is the first year that we instituted the medals. We had already been doing social media posts, pencils, and certificates. We literally tried to add some bling to it to try to help us. Um, it's still been an area that we've struggled with. Pawpa Elementary specifically, when your class numbers are that low, if you have a class of 10 students and two students are out, it does not take long for your percentages to
036go south. So, for the small schools, um, obviously for Pleasant View and Pawpa, attendance is hard to keep a handle on because of their numbers. And then the high school cares a little bit better. um the high school their immune system has had a a while to be around the germs and you toughen up a little bit the longer that you're in this kind of setting. So our high school data is running a little bit better but still not where we need it to be. So still a focus for us. The next one is our goals for this year. It's small on my page. Give me a minute. Okay. So, uh, our goals for this year, Paulo Elementary School was to increase math by 4% to get to 48% proficiency in ELA to be at
0375% increase to be at 45%. For GSA, our goal was 5% in math and ELA was also 5% in math. And then both schools had chronic absenteeism. So, we wanted to reduce our rate to below 20. So, year's not over yet. We're close on those, but we're we're trying. So, the next one that we have, I did a little sheet for this is our I Ready K5 growth. And this is just a little bit different way to look at it. This looks at BOI to MIO on and above combined and then also 2 to three years below. So if you take a look at early on grade level, mid or above grade level, I combine those because if you take a look at the graph, we've got two shades of green. So you've got a
038green with a stripe which is above and then you've got a green that's on grade level. So when you combine those BOI to MOI growth, we went from 28% to 45% at MOI on or above ELA combined. That's combining those two top cells. And from 7% to 20% on or above when math was combined below 2 to three years, these are the decreases from VOI to MOI. Decreases meaning that either they moved up into the yellow or up into the green. So we went from 33% to 17% less students or two to three years behind in ELA combined and from 37 to 10% less students being two to three years behind in math combined. And then at the bottom grades uh K2 had zero students two to three years behind at MO1 and ELA. I
039think that's the next slide and we're break it down by grade. Yeah. And then on the back, grades K through two also had zero students two to three years behind in math. So we're hoping as those students go up, that's a testament of good things to come. Yep. Went over that one, too. Yep. Okay. Did the same thing for EXL. Okay, take a look at middle school. ELA on or above grade level BOI to MOI. So, this one was interesting. Make sure I got the right one up. Yep. So, it's 33 to 33% from BOI to MOI. However, the above grade level tier moved from 13 to 20%. So, although when I totaled it, it was still 33, we moved from 13 to 20%, which is an increase of 7% into that above grade level
040tier. Also, we went from Okay, I just said that. That's the green blocks. Um then the next bullet 47 to 43% as 4% of students moved out of the far below tier to the below grade level tier. So on the bottom you have the red and then that means they moved into the yellow. If you go on to the math one, Amber. Oh, that one's got the math too. Yep. So bi to we went from 16% to 35% as students moved out of the below grade level tier at two or on above grade level the green blocks again and 33 to 13% below grade level the yellow blocks that's data keep going >> y now these charts are nice these are easy to read dial charts I think are much easier. So, I didn't have
041to do anything for these. So, if you take a look, this was 9th grade ELA. Um, beginning of the year, we had nine students and the benchmark score was 410. We were at 431. So, at the beginning of the year, um, we only had nine. At we had 12. So, that changes. We did not have three students take the benchmark at the beginning of the year. And the benchmark score was 410. So we were about six points shy of benchmark at MOI but we also added three students that did not have BOI data. The next one is SAT9. So benchmark for math was 450. We had eight students at the beginning same as we did with ELA and then 12 students. Uh at MOI the benchmark was 450 but this benchmark we met an increase
042of 15 points from the benchmark at 450. PSAT10 benchmark beginning of the year we were at 430 we were at benchmark same eight students took it we were eight points shy of benchmark at on that one. PSAT 10, eight students, benchmark was 480 at the beginning of the year. We were at 447 and then uh actually had a decrease of 82 points below benchmark at MO with that one. 11th grade benchmark, this is SAT assessment number one benchmark was 480. We were at 507 with 11 students at MOI with 12 students. We were at 548 or 68 points above benchmark. Math BOI we had 11 students. Benchmark was 530 we were at 519. At 12 students one more student we were at 582 or plus 52 points above the benchmark. capturing kids heart survey. So
043if you take a look at the columns, we have CKH implementation leader. Uh that's pretty much been the same consistent number as well as culture and climate for leader. That's for Miss Guthrie and I. But when you take a look at CK implementation for teacher culture and climate with campus and staff, student and family, all four of those cells have an upward trend for this year of 2526. So, uh we're doing a better job with teacher implementation, culture and climate on the campus and then also student and family perception of the program. So, this is our third year of being a champion school with that program. This last page is our day of caring. Uh we have a lot of things going on there where you see the kids with the green shirts and Puma
044Badley. That was our day of caring program. And then we also had fire prevention month where we took the kids over to the fire hall. So the picture in the middle there is a real snow day. That was the first real snow day, day one where kids got to be kids on a real snow day. And so we put out there a request to send pictures and people sent those to Miss Guthrie. So thank you for recognizing that's important for kids. Uh the bottom two pictures are a Veterans Day parade. We had a parade this year for the first time. Miss Bennett sang to us out at the flag pole and we had a veteran Oh yes, Miss Bennett has an incredible voice. >> Why didn't you sing the school song to us? >> Mr.
045Banks will move on. She is the graduation sweeper. So maybe we could build that in to her graduation sweeper. >> Sing the national anthem there. >> Yeah. >> Uh and we had a veteran go into each classroom. And so that's the first year I think that we've probably done as much as we have for the veterans. Um it was probably the coldest day in November that we had had that morning. And while we had the parade, I think it was in the 20s with the windchill. But um it certainly meant a lot to them. And so we are going to continue that. But it was a very nice ceremony. And then our last uh picture here is our long-term school improvement needs. So part of what we have to do with our strategic plan every
046year is talk about programs that we're going to continue, programs we want to add or things that we want to remove. And so um we will continue to follow with the programs that Morgan County Schools has selected for us which is capturing kids hearts. We will go into the 2011 model although I will tell you there is someone here in the room in the 301 instructional empowerment model already miss an Helmick. Uh we are continuing with spring math. We are just starting with our 95% group. I have a new interventionist here. Miss Miller retired and we have Miss Brown here with us in the back. I want to wave to everyone. Put you on the spot. Uh we will continue with I Ready I guess until we see what happens with the lawsuit against I
047Ready for now. Uh I also progress Learning programs that we're adding for next year. Uh Summer is working on a K2 program called Bridges for Math Intervention. Miss Bennett is adding two new project leadway models. So right now we're doing design a model and medical detective. So it is our hope to rotate our project lead away modules every two years and uh we have talked about adding design and app and also assist program which are more um computer applications. She's also looking at a natural science one. >> Yeah. Science and technology that deals with like uh applications of science and technology including nanotech. So, she's going to be in class um over the summer. So, each of the Project Lead the Way modules, for those of you that don't know, that requires 40 hours of
048training for Megan. So, adding two new modules for Megan is 80 hours of training. So, she can teach those two for next year. She's got to work through online modules, but we are looking to add two and then rotate every other year so that we get the students through more. Miss Helmet will continue with flight and space. So they'll have a module in sixth grade and then a set of modules we do them by the semester in seventh grade, a different set in eighth grade so that by the time that they're through they should have five project lead the way modules by the time they're going into nth grade. And then I already talked about a modification of our online math model that 11th and 12th grade we're going to try using Dr. Wilder as
049a teacher for a few days a week and continue with 7 through 12 on the online platform because the online proctor um is able to do synchronous learning at those levels and that's all that we have folks >> in that vehicle is only the online models six has helmet >> helmet all of six right >> for flight in space >> or math helmet That's what that's what I mean. You're you're >> so um thank you not to push but >> I'd also like to thank Mrs. Panerys for helping me get the third graders to make a heart shape with their hands. >> Took some time, but it's beautiful. >> Yes, those are that she did not pull that image offline. Those are real hot student hands. >> Board member questions. >> How many students uh
050from here make the trip to James Ramsey? >> Right now we have four. We have three seniors that will graduate and then we will just have a junior and I don't think we have anyone from this year's uh 10th grade class that's going to go. So we will continue with one senior there next year three of them will graduate in a couple weeks. >> Do they go all day? >> Yeah. Yeah. We used to have it when I first started Justin that um they could do their core here and go half day because we used to be able to give them a credit to ride the bus >> and someone literally we did that and then someone decided that we couldn't do that anymore and we had to go to full day but yes they
051used to get a credit for riding the bus >> is a little it is a ways there >> it's a huge way Thank you. >> I I do have four questions. So, um I think we're all curious about how the new math model's going to end up and obviously two days of Mike Wilder is better than no days, right? >> And we wish we added five days. >> Agreed. >> But I I also would say that your facilitators do a great job in there. Great. >> As I looked at the data, I noticed that um that the 11th grade looks good on the benchmark for SAT, >> but maybe and I don't remember correctly, maybe 9th and 10th. Uh what didn't look as good? So, as you plan for next year for the higher level
052u support from Dr. Wilder, um why do you think this year's 11th graders are doing so well? U you know we have groups of students that are more academically strong than others and this particular group of juniors that we have has at least six students that are collegebound and we know that. So part of what we did different this year too um we created two honor sections for English and math this year. So I actually have 11th grade separated out um for honor sections. So the six students that are collegebound in English and math have been able to go at a little bit uh quicker pace than the regular 11th grade students. So we differentiated uh part of the advantage of going to an eight period day although putting more work on my high school
053teachers has been that it allowed us to separate 11th grade. So um as numbers dictate as student groups dictate each group is different but we were able to split that group into two sections. So that's some of the difference in achievement. >> I'd like to applaud the school for how they handled instructional empowerment. and just jumped right on from the beginning and uh the leadership here has done a great job of kind of breaking it down into smaller pieces so that you know we meet this goal and we move on to the next one. That's how IE is laid out anyway. But they've just uh Chris from IE just raves about pawpaw and how well they're dealt with instructional development. So, thank you and to your teachers because we all know it's difficult to navigate
054when something new comes your way and this is new and it's might be a lot different from what teachers are used to and I just appreciate you being willing to give it a shot and just jumping in both feet. >> Thank you for hosting us and thank you for the snacks as well. >> You're welcome. for item eight. I'm sorry. I'm going to take a minute. We're going to stand at ease for about two or three minutes here. And if anybody wish to believe, you can head out. If not, you're willing to stick around for the rest of our agenda. We're back on. We're back to our regular schedule of events. We are on item eight, reports of communications. I do not have anything for members. >> Yeah, I I was just going to mention
055a lot of us went to the candidate forum and that was a that was an aggressive day. really enjoyed seeing all the candidates and new blood and how it's going to turn out with the voters, but I stayed afterwards and talked to a number of them. And uh I think the quality of politicians we're seeing is improving. Time will tell like 20 days. >> We'll let them get in office. I went to the uh medieval fair at the high school and they did a great job. They put an awful lot of work into that. Very nice. >> Superintendent. >> Yeah. Just want to let the board know that we have our pre pre-bid meeting on Friday for Burke Springs High School building a roof replacement. That's getting started. Um, also I think question asked about
056prom. So May 2nd is Berkeley Springs High School prom, May 9th, one week later Paula High School prom. Both of them at State Park. Want to let you know that. And I just want to thank Audrey Morris tonight for her showing us the uh CTE learning lab as well as the other parts of the um starting points building. It sounds like there's a a lot going on there that can really benefit the community of football and the school system as well. So, she's a great person, great advocate for Morgan County and all of our people who uh need help. Uh just like really like working with her and it's she's always very easy to partner with the school system. So, and finally, we just we just found this out today. Um um Warm Springs Middle
057School won an award which is uh pretty prestigious and uh I would kind of defer to Beth here to give a little bit more detail on the CTE a little bit. >> I feel like I need to stand up out of the shinky one over the podium over the table. >> So um I'm really proud of this and I'm very excited in our county. We participate in the association for career technical education. Um it's just a professional organization that we can have membership in. Paul is has membership for principal counselor and CTE teachers and the same at BSHS and WSMS. And each year they have a various awards that they give. and the state level, our state chapter, West Virginia state chapter of of ACTE, nominated Warm Springs Middle School CTE program for the innovation,
058career, and technical education award. And they found out today won for region one. And region one is Connecticut, Delaware, DC, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and West Virginia. So out of all of those states, our program there, Orm Springs Middle School won the Innovative Career and Technical Education Award. And that award is to recognize new programs within the last three years for post postsecary or secondary programs all. So it's pretty big deal. And now um that program will be up for um recognition at the national level. There's only five regions. So there's only four other programs that will be nominated. So they're one of five be considered for the national award which is yay. So exciting for everything that they're doing there. >> Is that
059a good number? >> Good. Board members, you want to send an email to Paris, staff, congratulations. Congratulations. >> Anything else you like? >> Uh, we have no public comment signed up this evening. Uh, so on to item number nine, the consent agenda. Superintendent recommends approval of the following consent actions as presented. minutes of the March 31st, 2026 meeting, March 26, 2026 special meeting, payment of bills, budget adjustments, and a list of volunteers. Entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> So move second. >> Any concerns, comments, or questions? >> All those in favor of saying I carries it. Item 10, personnel. Mr. Douly, we are going to do just the agenda. >> Okay. >> And pause and then I'm going to ask Mr. to recuse himself from the agenda. So, if you
060would hold up that list till we have Okay. All right. So, on the agenda there, um, it's a pretty lengthy one. We'll get through it pretty quickly. Um, so, uh, under, uh, number one resignation, we have a resignation for school nurse at the end of the, at the end of the month of June. We also have a resignation from social studies teacher at Berkeley Springs High School at the end of June. Um, under employment, we're bringing on a long-term substitute to finish out the year in the library media specialist role at Berkeley Springs High School. We're bringing on two substitute teachers, which both of them are starting tomorrow, which is huge. And we also are fortunate to be bringing back the one individual back as sub nurse. We need those as well. Um, letter E,
061uh, this is required. We have to do this before May 1st every year. So, letter E is all the folks that are going for probationary and getting, uh, continuing status effective next school year. Letter F, all those individuals there are going to remain on the probationary list for next school year. It's all because of years. And then uh letter G uh which is on page six, 7, 8, and then finishes over on page nine is all of the substitutes. Uh that list will be jundled down sooner than later with that. Um letter H is for our substitute nurses for the school year. And then on page nine with service personnel, uh we have a resation for a custodian at the intermediate school. We also have a resation from an ECAD at the intermediate school. Um
062number two, we're resending a RIP and reassigning this individual from kindergarten teacher a to elementary uh ECAT at Whitmire. Uh we're removing the following people off of the transfer and reassigning them for next school year. So we're bringing back uh this individual as custodian. is a 210 days instead of 200 days at Pleasant View. Then also itinerate special education aid from the middle school will be reassigned to Whitmer for next school year. We also have a transfer um from Cook 2 to Cook 3 cafeteria manager at Whitmer. And then we also have a bus operator going from 1406 over to bus uh 2015 next school year. Then uh unemployment, we're bringing on a custodian at Berkeley Springs High School. We start next school year, a substitute aid. And then letter C is also these individuals
063in the service personnel world are going from probationary to continuing. Letter D is rehiring all those folks under probationary status for next school year. Letter E is all the aids or is all the aids, bus operators, uh trainees, clerks, custodians, electricians, mechanics, um all those folks that we rehired for next year. And then also letter F is the employee also substitutes. So these are the guys that are full-time with us that help us out in other areas when we have a need. And then we're bringing on a track coach or assistant track coach. And then under letter D for professional staff development is for curriculum planning and pacing on September 30th, November 6th. And then also we have the those individuals for unpacking the standards on March 26th. That's it for the agenda. Thank you
064very much. Board members entertaining a motion to approve the personnel on the agenda as presented. >> So move. >> Second. >> Thank you. Thank you. Any concerns or comments or questions discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I carried over recuse himself due to a family member being on the agenda. Floor is yours, sir. Okay. So, on the agenda there, this individual went from a long-term substitute over to a first class full-time permit. We've done several of those this year. This one just didn't make it to an agenda. So, we're just cleaning that up on that end. Um, under number two, uh, this is just a person that did not make the agenda list from probationary to continuing. And again, that's just one of those on there, the second name that's listed. Uh, letter
065B is to rehire that individual under probationary. And then we're rehiring these substitute teachers. They were just brought on this agenda. Uh so that's why they're on the agenda. We have a resignation as a fifth grade teacher at Pleasant View. Um on service personnel, we have again some of those individuals there were listed on the agenda as subs and that's why they're on that. Um under number two, we have a resignation as a clerk at Berkeley Springs High School. It's effective at the end of the day on May 1st. Uh and then we have a extended uh unpaid leave of absence on number three. And we have a new paid unpaid leave of absence. And then number five is a paid leave. That's again she that individual has the number of days to cover that
066leave. Um under letter C for extracurricular. We're asking for an additional position uh local letters facilitator and ultimately that person is going to work pretty closely with summer on helping that roll that roll that out for the county. So that's going to be where that is. I just want to add that that is completely funed through grant through the department. >> Sorry. >> Yep. And then we have um also a supplemental bus run that we're needing to finish out the year on. Um and then we have a resation assistant cross country coach at the middle school and then we're bringing on a volunteer assistant softball coach uh at Berkeley Springs High School. And then under professional site development, we have those individuals for professional site development council on April 16th. And that's it for the
067agenda. I have a motion for the agenda. >> Second comments, concerns, questions. All those in favor of saying I carry it. Agenda is approved. Mr. Linton. Can't see we're here now. I was laying down there couch in here. >> Uh we are on a finance and budget. Uh item A, approved payment of West West Virginia School Board Association membership dues for fiscal year 27 in the amount of $3,222. I'll make that motion. Second. >> Any concerns or comments? All those in favor saying I ny carries item B approve the continued use of step seven funding for the appointment of personnel motion >> I'm sorry >> second comments >> yeah step that's required every year as part of board means board approval for step seven funding for personnel in Morgan County we use step seven funding
068for our TS SS which is a technology support specialist and then part of a salary for a technology coach curriculum technology coach. So that's how Morton County uh uses step seven for personal cost discussion. All those in favor of saying I carries program planning item A. approved the resolution for enhancing collaboration with military organizations and providing supports to military families. >> Yeah, this is something that Morgan County has done at least the last couple years. Um, and the agreement is in your pack. It's in support of military connected children. It's just an agreement that we have uh to work with those families. And some of the things that we agree to is uh providing those families with information about where to find supportive programs and resources on the county's website. Uh provide those involved with
069school administration and enrollment with information about the military interstate children's compact. Uh motivate school administrators to identify military children and provide them with supports. And the rest of that is in that contract. But obviously we very much support this and I'm asking the board for approval again this year. I'll make that motion. >> Second. >> Thank you. Thank you. Only comment I have is board members, you and all those in the public, April 24th is the signing day at Brookley Springs High School, 9:00 a.m. And that is a wonderful program. That's a really amazing time and a nice thing to see down there. So, if you can make it, please make it. Please attend. And host of families are there for that. Any discussion on resolution? All those in favor saying I >> I >>
070oppos nay. Eyes carries. Item B second and reading second reading and adoption of policy 5630.01 use of restraint and seclusion for students and policy 2260 non-discrimination equal employment and anti-harassment. And I do need a motion and a second on that if these are second readings. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any concerns or comments? >> All those in favor of saying I. >> I. >> Policies are adopted >> and we do not have any public comments on this. >> Thank you. Counter events board members. Uh just note the May 4th meeting is a Monday and not our regular Tuesday meeting. I'm sure Tanya will help us remember back to 6 PM which is a little different too. >> Uh Tanya I will not be at the retirement celebration at country on the
07110th just FYI. I don't know if I've responded or board members have responded to that but they want to let her know. >> Any other comments on the calendar? One more time, just a quick note that pop off graduation is no longer a Friday. It's on a Wednesday night. And the alternative ed graduation, which uh has in the past been a separate one, all those students are given the opportunity to participate high school's regular graduation on May 21st. Okay. Entertain a motion to adjurnn that. I'll make that motion. >> Second. comments or concerns. All those in favor of saying I >> IED policy back Super busy. We can make We're not going anywhere, board. We're not going anywhere. >> All right, board members. We are on to special meeting March 17th. >> I'm sorry. Reconvene
072>> March 17th meeting. >> Entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> So moved. second. >> Sorry. >> I thought there was a third. I thought >> I was asleep. >> Um, all those in favor saying I >> The agenda is approved. Uh, we did not have any public comments sign up for this either. So, we're on a finance and budget lever rates fiscal year 2026. adopt the leverage rate for fiscal year 2026 to 2027 that have been approved by the West Virginia State Auditor's office. Current expense led rate are as follows. Class 1 1940, class 2 380, class 3760, class 47760. And the excess levy rates are as follows. Class 1608, class 2 1316, class 3 6432, and class 464.32. Okay. Any comments? >> Everything's the same from the last meeting. So,
073if there's no public comments, there's nothing on my end. >> Board members, any comments? Entertain a motion to approve the levy rates? >> So, move. >> Thank you. Thank you. The only comment I have is that we're staying consistent with what those voters have approved in prior years and keeping everything level as can be. >> Absolutely. >> No costs are going up and >> we're trying to be fiscally prudent best way possible. >> Any more discussion? Any other comments? All those in favor of saying I >> I post nay. >> I carry it. Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> Got it. Got it. >> Quick >> concerns. >> All those in favor of saying I. I. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We. We are. >> Okay.