001Good evening and welcome to the August 5th, 2025 regular session of the Morgan County Board of Education. If you please stand for the pledge. I pledge 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 very much. Board members, there was an agenda that just went out with some personnel and some checks. Do you have enough time to review the agenda and agenda and entertain a motion for approval? >> I move we approve the agenda and agenda. >> Thank you. >> Second. Thank you. >> Any concerns or comments? >> All those in favor of saying I >> I post nay. I carry it. >> Presentations. We have a few presentations tonight and got
002to enlight me on who is up first for prek endofear data. We're gonna have Mr. Mcccleinto come up and do all three. >> Like I said, you have all three of them probably. >> Well, and the goals. Yes, calendar. Not necessarily. >> No. Calendar. >> I mean, we are going to approve it, but [Laughter] >> welcome. >> We have a new podium. >> Yeah. I was like, this is different. >> It's not new. It's just in a different place, maybe. Is it an iPad, too? Is it electronic? >> No, >> you do have copies of these in your folder. There's also it's also >> Okay, we're going to start with good things as we always do. So, good things in prek. Um, Miss Hanzo is enrolled in letters for early educators. So, we have expanded
003that letters initiative into preK. All of our positions are filled. And our confident to prek event actually was the best one I think we've ever had thanks to Danell who prepares all of the things for that event. We had 30 plus families attend and I think there's usually been just like less than five. So that was very well attended. Um we have a new addition. It's a app called Ready Rosie that's part of our curriculum adoption and this is a resource that gives our parents and families support in the child's learning and development. So, it's a pretty cool addition. We'll provide some training on that. I thought we'd start by looking at the goals from last year to see what our progress on those goals were. As you can tell, Candy was very lofty as
004always, shooting for the stars. Our teachers freaked out when they saw those like 95%. But as you can see, they actually did pretty well, especially on goal number one, which was students ability to be able to solve problems. And her goal for that was 90% that she set with the core team. The baseline at the beginning of the year was 48% of the students um were able to solve problems and by the end of the year 87%. There was a lot of work that the teachers did with support from Lisa, our behavioral coach. So she was very helpful. Goal number two was prek students will demonstrate mastery of numerical operations. And you see we didn't achieve quite as high in this area. We were 77% but the baseline was only 20%. At the beginning of
005the year and that students ability to look at objects and determine more or less. We do have some ideas on how to continue to work on that particular standard. Goal three has been a weakness year after year and that is students ability to catch, throw, kick, all of their gross motor skills. So our goal was 95%. Our baseline was 22% at BOI for catching, 11% for throwing. You can see we achieved 85% in catching, 75% in throwing. We're going to continue to work on those throughout the year. Um, and also Ready Rosie has videos that you can send families that shows them the appropriate way to work with their child on throwing, catching, kicking, grasping. So, that should be helpful as well. All right, looking at at where we ended overall in all the different
006areas starting with math and science. One thing to keep in mind is when we present like our elementary data, it's percentages, but this is actually number of students who have mastered. So when you look at those numbers, it's out of 120 students. So just looking at some highlights, we had the most growth and numerical operations, which was one of our goals that we worked on. And um some areas that we well and measurement also was showed good growth but some areas we need to work on is algebraic thinking which is recognizing patterns. We're going to be addressing that in our professional development next week. Actually Jess Hanzel went to a state training on the new prek standards and she is going to be delivering that professional development for us and it highlights some of these
007areas of weaknesses. Another area we're going to be working on is investigation, which are students ability to be able to question. We had good growth in all areas. Looking at literacy, which is the next slide, this is going to be an area of focus this year. you're going to see in our pre-K goals. Um, we were really strong in oral language and speaking, but storytelling, we started out weak, had great growth, but it's an area we're actually going to focus on this year because we want oral language to be one of our strongest areas because it's one of the largest predictors for success in literacy later on, students ability to be able to read. So, that's an area we're going to work on. Um, let's see. Bological awareness is an area we had a lot
008of growth. At the beginning of the year we had eight students who were mastering biological awareness skills and then 97 in the end. All of these areas are also a focus of our professional learning next week. And then these are all the other little categories. Self-regulation was one of those goals that they worked on all year. And you can see they made growth in all areas of self-regulation. teachers did participate in a book study on challenging behavior with prek students throughout the year with Lisa and then our physical activity down at the bottom motor object control manipulation which continues to be a weakness. You can see we had great growth across all those categories but we are going to continue to work on that because students are still coming in weak at those areas. So
009it looks like we're doing really great things to improve those areas but we want to keep that up. So, we're going to continue to use Minds of Motion and um Amy Elias, our occupational therapist, going to continue to do some professional learning in that area for us. So, where does that leave us for our goals? All of our goals are going to focus on literacy this year because they are starting to roll signs of reading out into the pre-K level and we want to really take a look at what that's going to look like and make sure that the activities we're doing are developmentally appropriate for prek students. So there'll be some support and professional learning in that area. So you'll notice that all three of these goals are kind of tied in to supporting
010literacy in one way. So the first goal is by June 2026 we'll increase students ability to investigate specific questions through exploration of research to 80% mastery. And so one of our next steps for this goal to help us work towards that is Dell is actually very busily creating these topic beds. So on their topics of study for trees for example be all kinds of activities, books, pictures, manipulatives that will go with each of these topics and then teachers will be able to check those out. So it will make switching out their um topics of study easier for them. Goal number two, by June 2026, we'll increase students fine motor skills, specifically in object manipulation and control, which is their ability to do a triple grasp, which impacts writing. So, we want to make sure that
011they have that down so that they're developmentally ready to write when they get into kindergarten. And we would like to do that at 85% mastery. Goal number three, by June 2026, we like to increase students oral language skills specifically in the area of storytelling to 90% mastery because once again, oral language is that foundation for literacy and their success with literacy. So, a couple things we have coming up, next steps for professional learning. We are actually going to Jefferson County. We collaborated with them for a training on August 14th on our new curriculum and we are going to do a book study strive for five which provides a framework for teachers that they can use to increase conversations in the classroom and increase those conversation loops back and forth to keep the conversation going. They
012can increase their vocabulary, their ability to be able to ask questions. And with that, Amber Myers from the State Department is coming on one of the PL days to do an oral language and writing training with our pre teachers. >> That's all I have. >> Um you the calendar is also in your folder. Um so that's an Epic Head Start preschool calendar um for your reference and presentation. Is there uh anything unique about this year's calendar? It's pretty standard. >> Yeah, actually there is a change. >> Okay. >> Um you will notice there's a staggered start for prek this year. And so what that's going to look like is they are actually starting a day late, but they're also kind of having a staggered start into prek. So we're going to divide the prek class
013to h in half. And half of the students will start on that first day. So they can the teachers can really work on developing those routines like what it looks like when you come into the classroom with a small group as opposed to the entire classroom. And then the second day of prek will be the other half. Same thing working on those routines. And then the third day on Friday they will all come to school. We have been putting out social media posts since that is a big change. Um, and they were notified actually probably it'll be this week with their letter that we'll give them exactly what their schedule is. But something we wanted to try. It was just very overwhelming on the first day with all those kids coming in not knowing what
014to do. And so we thought by splitting it in half, they can get those routines down. But we'll reflect on it and see if it was successful and official. >> What's the enrollment numbers? um trying to I don't know their exact number because it keeps fluctuating but we're okay as far as seven classrooms and we don't need to add another classroom but only thing we do need to add as you know are well aware of from time to time we will get some high need special ed students that come into prek and we'll need to add additional staff for that but overall I think we once we've kept with seven classrooms and not needed to add classrooms. >> Yeah, we went down to seven classrooms last year >> and um we had our prek meeting
015on Friday and our numbers were still okay. There's spaces at Whidmire and also Drew Epic. Greg Caven stays pretty full just because of geography, but the other classrooms have space. >> Board members, any questions? Moving on to reports and communications. Uh I have nothing of significance for board members. Uh this past week I uh presided over the funeral service for Andy Orbal. Uh Andy was a graduate uh 1942 and he was 101 years old. So I think he was the longest he was the last living member of that class. I'm pretty sure. Um and I don't know of anybody else that graduated in the early 40s that's still around. But that was uh you know I've got a yearbook from his junior year but um he was a fair you know behind the scenes person
016uh but did a lot of things around Morgan County as a engineer with the sand mine and some development projects. So he was a good guy. Thank you. >> Well, this past week I spent actually our whole family spent the entire week at band camp where it was 110 degrees. Um it's a good week. Uh we got about what almost 30 members now. So almost double from last year. So that's good. >> Great. >> How many competitions going to do this year? Uh I think he was hoping for four but they canceled one. So I think there's three right now on the schedule. Of course football games and >> Mhm. >> but uh if there's another one nearby he will spring canled or one one of our local ones canceled their their competition. So I
017believe right now it's at three. So, >> um, Justin, do they use any protocol for when it's heatwise? I mean, >> well, let me put it this way. Mr. Myers is very easy on these kids from from our old days. I've even told him. I was like, you're really easy on them. I have to be. They'll quit. So, uh, yeah. Yeah. Actually, we set up a Mister station. Um, there's lots of breaks. Uh, actually this year, hopefully Cindy doesn't see this, but we borrowed their air conditioners and put them in and so we tried to cool down the um dining hall, which worked fine until what, Thursday, and the power went out so >> and it just heated back up. So, but yeah, they have a lot of breaks. Yeah. >> Thanks. >> Yeah, just
018a update on a few things. Today and yesterday we had our administrators academy here in the board office uh for our principles and assistant principles as well as central office administrators. uh strong focus on student achievement and attendance which has risen to the top of our priorities and uh I thought was very positive. Um a lot of good reviews. Uh we wrapped up today with our attorney Jason Long giving us an update on legislation and some other things related to uh things that we deal with in a typically typical day. In particular, elementary discipline. Um we talked about um all kinds of things over over a wide range of things. So Jason was here a lot of good interaction there. We did a what would you do? We gave all of our principal scenarios to
019work through and test their knowledge on how they would see through different situations. So all in all very positive experience. Um, tomorrow is the new teachers and uh, Wednesday and Thursday we'll have our new teachers here in the same room. Uh, we've got good good plan for them as well. We anticipate how many tomorrow? >> So, that's a good number. Anytime that number is low, that's a good thing. So, we have, knock on wood, have not had a lot of turnover this summer, and that's a really good news for us. Um, during the administrator's academy yesterday and today, we were very honored to have some support from local businesses, Mythical Pizza, um, and Tony's, as well as CNB. CNB provided our lunch today for the administrators academy. Um, I know Jeremy posted on social media
020our thanks to all those folks for helping us out. Um, I think that's all I have now. We're in the process of getting ramped up for school. Staff will be back next week and students not too much longer after that. Feel like we're getting pretty close to our buildings being ready. We're not quite there yet, but I feel like we're in good shape. And um, air conditioning's working everywhere. We better be prepared for that. And I think we even have a school bus that has air conditioning on it now. So, um anyway, feeling good about the beginning of the year. Feel good with staffing in in our building. So, made some good progress, I think, on the football field with goalposts, working on >> um sound system and then the uh play clocks. I know
021Mr. Shade has been working on those to make sure that those are operational, too. In addition to those things, we're also working, as you know, on the uh gate admissions and concessions to ensure that we use our uh that folks can use credit cards to pay. So, all those things are in motion. I would love to tell you that all of them will come off without a hitch, but I'm not going to say that because I'm not too I I think we're going to do the best we can with the first football game and then we'll adjust and get better in the second game. That's what I kind of see happening. But uh u just took a little nudge and everybody's doing their what they need to do and we have so far we haven't
022run into any big barriers that are going to prevent us from being ready for the first home football game. So >> BSHs roof haz. >> So they've had a hiccup with the part something was wrong with the duck here. So, it's like kind of been pushed back a little bit on that, but it's up and running. So, is running. It's just a heater now that they'll come in. They extended the deadline, but it's literally just a piece that they have to come in a day and it'll be done, but we did extend the deadline for them because it was not it was complete and total just mishap. They sent the wrong piece for the contractor's fault. It was literally just once they got it up in there, they're like, "Oh, this is not fit." So
023they had to go back to order for that actual one. So the company didn't charge for because it was there was their mistake. So ACE gave 92% of the last >> now the plans to remove the temporary ones. That'll be next on the list is whenever we get that stuff out of there. >> Now, whose are those? >> Those are ours. Those are ours. We bought those specifically for that. But to once they're done there, we ship them down to transportation. >> We returned our agreement to the SBA for our BSH is building a roof replacement. signed off on that. We submitted that on yesterday to Charleston. >> No drive to Charleston >> for 10 minutes. >> Anything else? >> Um I wanted to thank Mr. Douly and um apparently Tammy Painter for getting the
024dead trees off of Windmire. Appreciate it. Is that the round back where the fire >> firewatch? >> No public comment. Uh mentioned consent agenda. Superintendent recommends approval of the following consent actions as presented. Minutes of the July 15, 2025 regular meeting, payment of bills, budget adjustments. Entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> So move. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Thank you. Any concerns or comments or corrections? All those in favor saying I >> I n personnel super recommends approval applying personnel actions as presented. I am on the agenda. So if you would do just the agenda and then I will excuse myself for the agenda. >> All right. On the agenda here professional personnel, we have a resation at schools teacher PSSN teacher Whitmer. We're bringing on a first grade
025teacher at Whitmire. We're bring teacher at Springs High School and we're also bringing on a fully certified a teacher at Middle School. So that finally works itself out. Um we're under number three we're reclassifying um a long-term sub first class full time permit and uh and then the next letter be there we're also doing the same longterm substitute teacher this is one that I was talking about we have just one more step to go we had to approve the longterm sub now this person's fully certified um under service personnel resation is a preK at Woodmire. And then under number two for transfer today, we have a teacher in Ecat School going to at Whitmire and we have Cook at Middle School going to Whitmire. And then under employment, we're bringing on a substitute aid. And
026then under extracurricular, we're bring on assistant cheer middle and a title one parent facilitator with my elementary school. Under professional staff development. Uh number one is for process development. Number two is for the same. Number three is for team leader meeting. Um number four is for special education meeting. Number five is for safety meeting and all the are then for members entertain a motion to approve the agenda personnel as presented. >> So moved. >> Thank you. >> Second. Thank you. Any comments or questions? Uh the only comments I have is just regarding Title One and I'm going to touch base with Miss Bell here. Um we did get notice that all federal funding is approved and going to be progressing as we had budgeted in a prior budget. >> Yes, we don't know the exact
027final budget based on last year's numbers, but I don't believe they're GPS yet. Are they? >> I don't. No, but the rest of that were held two and so we don't have the numbers yet, but yes, it was appropriated. >> Okay, just took that latitude for since we had tit one coordinator in there, too. I'll touch base on that because there was concern about us not to have that something. >> Motion on the floor for the agenda personnel. Any other comments or concerns? Close discussion. >> All those in favor saying I. >> I post nay. Eyes carried. I will recuse myself for the dinner. [Applause] On the agenda, um I professional personnel bring on a long-term substitute school counselor. She was in that role last year and she is like this close to getting her
028permit. So, we're just preemptively doing this. will probably classify her possibly the next meeting. So, um bring on long-term sub multiat special education teacher at um and we'll bring on substitute teacher as well. Under service personnel, we have at Whitmire going to ECAT attorney school. We have special education aid at Pleasant View going to preK pre kinderg. We're almost done with those right here. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Uh almost we're bringing on an unassigned bus operator. We're also bringing on substitute cook under resignations. We have a cook at Whitmire resigning and a cook at all schools resigning and also substitute coach resign. All right, we're on the next page. We're bringing on a head cross country coach. This is under extracurricular extra duty assignment. Uh we're bringing on assistant cross
029country coach at Horn Springs Middle School. We're bringing on a cross country coach at Paul schools. Uh we're bringing yearbook sponsor at Horn Springs Middle School and another yearbook sponsor. They expect to just be splitting the site on that. Bring on a yearbook sponsor at Paul High School, secondary team leader at Qual High School, then also a senior portfolio advisor at Paul High School. assistant boys basketball coach at Orange Springs Middle School, grades three through five team leader at Pleasant View Elementary, the volunteer assistant volleyball coach, another volunteer assistant volleyball coach at Orange Middle, and a volunteer assistant cross country. >> Okay, I need a motion to approve the agenda. So moved. Second. I'll second that. Any questions or concerns? I know it's not the right voice. You're just all confused. All those in favor?
030>> I opposed. I have it. Welcome to the team. >> Thanks. >> Volunte and budget. Item 10. Item A, approve payment application number two to Harbell, Inc. for the partial HVAC replacement at Burker Springs High School in the amount of $81,5755. Uh we've already discussed uh the current status of the project. I entertain a motion for approval. >> So moved. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any concerns or comments or other questions? >> All those in favor of saying I. >> Nay. Eyes carry it. Item B, approve payment to Williamson Shrivever Arct for the partial HVAC replacement at BSHS in the amount of $1,70046. I'll make that motion. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any concerns? All those in favor signify by saying I. I >> oppose. Nay. The eyes carry it. Approve collaborative
031contract between Morgan County Board of Education and Epic Head Start for the fiscal year 2526 which you do have a copy in your folder and you received um Max any comments, questions? >> No, it's pretty the pretty standard. The contract is just like it has been in years past. We have a great relationship, working relationship with Epic Head Start and glad that they're providing services in our county. >> I move that we approve the collaborative contract between Morgan County Board of Education and Epicad. >> I'll second that. >> Thank you. Thank you. Any concerns or comments? All those signify by saying I. I. Motion carries. Majority of those present. Approve collaborative contract between Moring County Schools and Little Learners Village Daycare Oakland Road for fiscal year 2526. Any >> I'll make that motion. >> Thank
032you. >> Second. Oh, we got uh any concerns or comments, Mr. Banks? >> No, I don't know. Summer, do you have any particular comments on that? >> It's the same as normal. No more discussion. >> All those in favor sign I >> n carry it. >> We're rolling right along here. Approve collaborative agreement for little learners child care program at Woodmire Elementary for fiscal year 2526. >> I'll make that motion. >> Anyone? >> A second. Got a motion and a second. Any comments or concerns? >> All those in favor of saying I. >> I. >> Great. Motion passes. Uh up to item F, approve agreement with Little Learners Village to provide meals for prek students for fiscal year 2526. I'll make that motion. >> Second. Got it. >> Any concerns or comments? >> All those
033in favor sign by saying I. I. approved by majority of those present. Program planning approve prek goals that we talked about at the beginning of the meeting. I'll make that motion. >> Second. >> Any concerns or comments? >> Only comment I have is keep setting the goals high. >> Yes, >> it should be. >> Absolutely. >> At least be out to a free throw line or a three-pointer. >> What did she say? >> She said she [Music] [Laughter] measure on the floor. Any other comments or concerns? All those in favor of saying I. >> Great. Good luck. Kids will welcome it. They're so excited for it. Middle school career exploration standards. >> Oh, you missed the calendar. >> Calendar B. >> Oh, yes. I saw the agenda come out. I missed it even looking through
034that. I was like, what's the motion for on that next page? Approve prek calendar for 2526. >> So moved. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any concerns or comments? >> All those in favor of saying I. >> Motion passes. I want to now middle school career exploration standards. So these are the same standards that we have had previously, but as you know, um we've had much middle school CTE expansion recently. So they've added a new course code for grade seven and in order to use that course code, we need to have standards approved for that. So the only difference in this from what we've done previously is I've separated the standards that we will teach at sixth grade and at seventh grade and at eighth grade they're teaching a course called discover your
035future and the state provides standards for that and that'll be part of the middle school pilot program. So it's just really a realignment and being more specific of what's great which standards. >> Any questions? Entertain a motion to approve the middle school career exploration standards as presented. >> So move. >> Thank you. I'll second. Any concerns or comments? >> All those in favor of saying I. >> I. >> Motion passes. First reading policy 5310 health services 5320 immunization 5321 turercul turercul skin test 8450 control of casual contact communicable disease 8453 control of non-casual contact communicable disease sorry it's plural just one policies will be out for 30 days on our website Second reading and approval 2271 dual credit 5630.01 use of restraint and seclusion with students and 5722 school sponsored student media. Did we have
036any comments? >> We did not have any that were submitted to the to Smith. No comments. >> Entertain approval of the policy. >> So move. >> Thank you. >> A second. >> Thank you. >> Motion a second app to approve those three policies. Any concerns or comments? All those in favor of saying I >> post. Name. Eyes. Carry it. Counter events. Take a look there. Vickiy's rushing us right through the year like Betsy used to do. >> I know at one point one of you had asked about whether or not we would need a meeting uh that first week back. Uh right now we would just stick with the 19th and we think that regular meeting should take care of our personnel needs. Any comments or concerns on the calendar? >> I move for a
037German then. >> I move we adjourn. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Got a second over there. Is >> that >> make any noise? You're getting a second on that one. >> All those in favor saying I. >> I. We are ajourned. 638. >> All right. Who had that one? Oh, two minutes.