001I didn't have a really good April fools joke um except for I guess my big sign that you are being recorded in online TV right now uh April fo you or not because we have no record there is still a recording the whole evening record post later but for now uh you are not live on TV still keep the outburst and the excitement down op if you would St for [Music] the I of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible withy and justice for all thank you very much board members you do have an agenda and a short agenda with a couple of personnel items and one large finance budget item draw your attention to it we did need to get this in in
002time so that's why made Theus the agenda so I would hope to have your that tonight uh if so I a motion to approve the agenda and agenda as presented so move thank you second thank you any coms concerns all those in favor saying I I thank you very much I want to the main event tonight I'm sorry Mr bus but uh we are here tonight to celebrate some wonderful accomplishments some folks uh we appreciate you taking time out of your beautiful evening this evening has been with us for just a little bit um once we're done with everyone's recognition I will take a um a quick minute for a pause you're welcome to stay for the next part of the meeting uh I know that everyone has had a long day as well so
003you'll be able to leave if you wish okay this time anything I'm sorry yeah I would just like to uh recognize Mr caperton in the back before we get started um Mr caperton donated both of these lovely chairs here in front uh for our Service employee of the year and our teacher of the year he's been a longtime supporter of our students and staff all three of his girls went through County Schools so welcome thanks for being with us tonight wonderful new job out there as well looks really good congratulations on that amazing acknowledgement thank you for your um employment of so many individuals in the county thank you thanks a lot first year service personel year all right I have the honor of uh giving out the first year service Personnel of the Year
004award and this award um is sponsored by the service Personnel Association and the award is presented annually to a first year Service employee as voted upon by the Service employee so as I call your the nominees names for the morg county first year service Personnel award please come to the front Bradley Kidwell Amanda Perry and B the Oscar goes too this year's morg County first year service Personnel of the Year Billy Jo Smith [Music] like [Music] tell thank you thank you [Music] I have the Mary ly fo first year teacher award and they gave me something to to read which U is helpful um but I had had the pleasure of KN Mary in the county and she was sort of like my wife and me she came from more got her education and went
005back to her community school and I will tell you miss Fox was and probably still is a legend in the view area having served numerous kids over years Not only was she an outstand teacher but she was great with her community I know she was very involved with the church and with the Community Affairs and um sadly she passed earlier in life that we would like to see more years but to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln it's sometimes not the years in your life the life in your years and she certainly uh was Ematic of that so it's my great honor to speak for a friend Once Upon a Time and give this award out I'm going to ask come up only qualified in all the different are so I still think I run a little bit
006I've always said that running in a one person race guarantees meate and Al you may realize SP a lot of time want picture [Music] good evening thank you all for coming um it's my honor to be able to present the service Personnel of the Year award I checked out the rocky chair earlier this one works great so what we're doing tonight is honoring the individuals that have been nominated who have demonstrated exceptional skill and dedication and the performance of their jobs therefore earning them the respect and admiration of students teachers administrators co-workers and parents and I've often said this service Personnel is so important in our children's lives um I had a couple boys I wouldn't have made it through school if it hadn't been for a custodian encourage them um I remember Floyd's dad
007Mr ke saying you know a bus driver is the first face they see in the morning so it's really important that that starts out on the best foot and quite often some of these kids get themselves ready for school so it's the first human might see in the morning hooks are a little bit different these days because I remember Judy MCB making homemade rolls oh my I don't think we're quite allowed to do that I can remember the one little boy tell him to cook at Mar he said you know you'd be a great cook if you put some salt and pepper a and of course this this day and age we have even more a and I don't think some of the could do it without without the AIDS to help them so this
008year our nominees and if you'll come forward from the board office is bety Cruiser she has quite a task of keeping us in in check and making sure we're where we need to be and we won't even talk about you know Mr P [Music] appr from [Music] school schol the transation department Sandra Wills from Berkeley Springs High School thank you all so much for your service and your dedication to our students and the winner this year is [Music] Sten cleaned off the snow from all the buses not just his own so s [Music] to everybody there [Applause] did you bring the truck I get the privilege of announcing the kind teacher of the year uh as I look at the list every year um I don't say this year H but it seems like you
009L getting better and better better um maybe I'm just a little bit I don't know proud of who we had come to the school system and stick around for a while but I think each year I see Improvement so please those that do not win tonight uh keep applying keep going after that uh award year next might be your here wonderful things are said here about nominees the nominee should Inspire students of all backgrounds and abilities to learn have a respect and AD admiration of students parents and colleagues playing active and useful role in the community as well as in the school employ articulate and possess the energy to withstand the taxing schedule a couple of Eligibility items hold professional certificate be a current full-time classroom teacher and have completed the past 3 years of
010a full-time classroom teacher in West the B gu teacher of the year receives a certificate for $1,500 materials or attendance at a professional meeting within the continental United States they also be taking home a beautiful rocking chair from C brench Works each School's teacher the year nominee will receive a certificate to purchase $200 worth of materials and supplies for the classrooms if you would come up from when I announce your name David E Megan [Music] benett Morgan golden [Applause] just got good score to Middle School don't wrong right Middle School yes excellent rating excellent congratulations Kimberly Fel a little help today didn't yes and and thousands yeah this year's teacher Kimber pel [Music] that one's been claimed [Music] could you come chair was standing conations stay down there okay I'm just snapping pictures so I'll
011do a couple this way gred by Betsy after this [Music] combinations before everyone takes off tonight um just wanted to tell tell you that such a privilege to be superintendent in the school district I spent a lot of time in the schools and I see a lot of great things a lot of great people giving everything they have every day for our kids and uh it's uh an emotional experience it's just I know what you put in I know that you put the needs of the kids ahead of your own and over time that takes a toll and I realize that and tonight represents the best of us the people who work hard every day there plenty of those folks in the school system um my vision is that every child has a caring adult
012to go to in a time of need and that very well could be our bus driver service Personnel of the Year Mr McDonald that they get on that bus just like Laura said and that's that child's person that's why they go to school that's their person that's their favorite person that's the person that takes the most time and the most interest in that child's life and all of us make a difference so with all that said I just want to say thank you for coming out tonight as Mr close we know that you're all very busy and uh we appreciate what you do for our kids so thank you we're going to stand at e please grab some snacks on your way out um as many as you wish to have please thank you very
013much en your time e e e BR your crew oh you should you not part of this she isight look all right um thank you for having me tonight to present a few elementaries and we don't we don't like looking at Justin there we go better thank you sry all right so thank you for having me today um we're going to start with good things and I have to say that it is really hard to put all the good things about the school and the school year into one slide um but the main takeaway if I had to capture C in this slide would be it's all about caring and learning um we have great students family staff and Community uh we most definitely have family centered culture at our school and I have many
014experiences and stories of how our staff have supported each other this year including myself inside and outside of school um so good things for me are definitely our teachers eat's AIDS our nurse our specialist our cook our secretary our custodian and our cers and we celebrate holidays and special events so that students have a positive Childhood school experience we celebrate students through attendance award honorable positive office referrals highest growth in benchmarks schol Regional and County contest winners and cka monthly character tra and words our days start with good things in the classroom and they end with a schoolwide launch this is the type of culture that gains buyin of Staff gets families involved and encourages student Le this is our leadership team consist of my myself Mrs Bridget Christy who is our K2 team leader
015and Mrs Chelsea Del who is our three through grade team Le we have leadership meetings on Wednesdays from 25 and we have a 3 through five team meeting on Thursdays and a k through Tuesday On th as well for school demographics Focus we are enrolled in 95% Caucasian and 5% multi-racial based on 134 students focus on poverty our enrollment is 61% non lows and 39% low SCS based on 134 students an additional demographic to be noted is that we have 31 IEP students and we have two 5504 students um this year we were faced with some special ed challenges with student needs that we have not had a lot of experience with um so a big thanks to our special ed teacher our classroom teachers our ecaps and our AIDS who have faced those challenges
016head on and are continuously learning to help our special ed populations and just to note our R is now looking at our WB GSA reading scores for last year there were 24% proficient third graders 39% proficient fourth graders and 58% proficient fth [Applause] graders looking at our math scores there were 41% proficient third graders 48% proficient fourth graders and 42 efficient fth graders our science scores last year show a 32 efficiency [Applause] for so our Trend data shows a significant upward trend from 2021 to 2024 and I'm hopeful that the increase will continue this year I feel that this increase shows a gradual recovery from the co era but I also contribute this increase to The Continuous learning of our directors and our staff um in the past several years the elementary team has been
017slowly working towards continuously um rolling out and implementing regular programs for our students which include H&H in Reading read one the code I ready math and spring math when Educators don't have to piece together a curriculum and when we have programs that have monitoring and bended within them it's easier for the teachers and interventionists to identify the strengths and weaknesses individually and as class I also contribute much of our growth to our interventionist to Mr Toby and Mrs Michael who both started intensive intervention measures within the last two to three years additionally teachers are utilizing and modules more consistently thank to our County Benchmark and assessment calendars and this directly impacts the WB GSA as students know how to manipulate the platform and have exposure to the vocabulary terms presented to them next year my
018goal is to meet with the teachers to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the imas and result and brainstorm how they can better use this data to improve their student learning we used the WB GSA scores this year as an addition data point when identifying students for interventions for example in looking at the third grade reading scores with 24% proficiency there was a consistency at the beginning of the year uh with their beginning of the year benchmark scores this consistently see allowed us to start the sa process for these students with concrete data leading to the Early Intervention and implementation for their students in the bottom Court top it also guided the teacher and how she could further help additional struggling students with intervention in the classroom my goal next year to further improved scores
019is to implement the IMA questions throughout the entire year as Bell ringers and to ensure that spiraling especially in mathematics is occurring so that there aren't standards being crammed into lessons towards the end of the year my goal is also to go back through the data and determine which standards are consistent consy consistently low so that as a team we can improve improve upon these standards for example one of the lowest scores for our science GSA was in the Earth and space section and it was to analyze and interpret data from match to describe patterns of Earth's features so was this a weakness just from this year if so what was the reason if not how can we strengthen the understanding of the standard and it is continuous weakness from years past so our school
020discipline looks great from slide for the past few years however I don't feel like that reflects actual occurrences within the school um kids are kids and they all have some behavior issues now and then and so we have to make sure that we are consistently keeping track of them and docum in them um without making any changes but providing consequences for serious occurrences this year we have already had 10 level two and nine level three discipline incidents so next year's slide is going to look much different than this slide does when I was thinking about applying for this job as princi Mrs M and I down and talked about the improvements that she had envisioned as some of her next steps that she had continued in this role and one of those was to work
021on the discipline and consequence system I wanted to go through the year not really changing how this process worked but to note what could be improved upon having discussions throughout the year with the staff about what needed to change just as when Mrs Huber and I started this system at the Intermediate School I found that there needs to be separation between classroom attractions and the office referrals and that there needs to be consistency with the consequences for the upcoming school year there will be a new classroom infraction for with Progressive consequences also something that I'm really excited about is that our elementary rockar principal team has been working on a discipline chart with each Behavior listed and then a progression of a first offense second offense third offense Etc consequences for attendance our day 140
022chronically absent percentage is at 24.6% per we have 23 chronically absent students most of these students have had doctor's notes for absences the sicknesses and the number of days excused by some of the doct is concerning and I'm not sure what the solution is to this we've only had two Mt meetings this year so far this is not where I would like for this number to be by any means as it's nowhere near the gold um this this year we have provided students with recognition for attendance at award ceremonies with weekly perfect attendance drawing prizes with 90 perfect attendance drawings we've had some SA meetings for students who were chronically absent with excessive par um I do appreciate the consistency of our county attendance policy um and the support that we have from our attendance
023director this year it has been helpful for me and new position learning the C of attendance one of the things that I plan to add for the next school year is quarterly sporing attendance competition our school strategic plan goals are as follows for reading and math by the end of the 2024 2025 school year pleas will show 5% growth in Reading from 41% up to 46% and math from 44% to to 49% as measured by the West Virginia General General summative assessments and for attendance My Hope was by the end of the 2024 School 2025 school year we would lower chronic absenteeism rate by 2% from 12% to 10% as measured by West Virginia zo data um so we will continue to work on those I was taught to always um set lofy goals for
024myself and that's what I did [Music] so this is our Benchmark data from our I ready um beginning of the year and middle of the Year scores I'm really proud of the growth that we have for reading and math um there are celebrations to be made with students scoring below level decreasing and then the proficient students increasing we have many students approaching grade level so I'm optimistic that we will have a lot of end of the year movement of those students into early on grade level bracket this year students set their own personal academic goals at the beginning of the year for math and reading with an understanding of their beginning of year Benchmark STS as they conference individually with their teachers they Revisited and revised these goals with their teacher at the middle of
025the year to emphasize the importance of these benchmark test we of have a pizza party in Senate for classes who met gr schools in both reading and math was very successful and we do in so here is our grade level reading middle of the Year data I feel that the scores and the growth that we have made from the beginning of the year is due to our continued hmh implementation in the classroom our I ready reading lessons and our individual small group interventions with Mrs Michael who is our title reading interventionist H has a concrete structure literacy for K through two which I feel is reflected in K through two SC um I already lessons for K through 5 fill in the gaps with personalized learning uh path and then Mrs Michael U Iles hty
026and for K through2 intervention she utilizes read180 in the code through hmh for grades 3 through five she also uses dibles to assess her students for her um nonsense word fluency for Progress monitoring she pushes into the classroom for kindergarten and fourth grade we wanted to ensure that kindergarteners had a strong start and that the fourth grade class um whose struggles were seen on the wgsa data and IR Benchmark data receive the extensive support that they needed this year Mrs Michael is currently working through the letters course and she provides H lessons as well for classes grades K through five as she's learning important Concepts from her letter course for our math data um I contribute the grow that we have seen um to our I ready math lessons our I ready math culum and
027spring math and also to our individual and small group interventions with Mr Toby um who was our math interventionist this year Mr Toby utilizes math Running Records from math Running Records and action and he also uses math for look with our students additionally he uses math mastering the basic facts for addition and subtraction and mastering the basic facts for multiplication and division by John S Giovani and Susan of Mr Giovani was a guest in Morgan County um who presented math PD to the staff he continues to provide support for Mr Toby anytime he reaches out to him with a question um and I think that says a lot for our improved PD for our count Mr tby his own intervention lessons for p one based on the commonalities of the higher level material materials that
028he already been using because they not find a k through1 intervention system um he provides the teachers with intervention days where he'll work with whole classrooms dividing the class into small groups and working with the teachers to provide lessons games and practice when the teacher has a specified me when the class is struggling with a concept our capturing page heart data this year is pretty consistent with the data from last year um implementation according to the leader and teacher survey scores was lower than our Baseline um one example from the leader survey of a lower question or statement was that students are empowered to assist in the classroom or campus bre means an example of something that was lower than baseline from the teacher survey was that students are empowered to leave good things ask
029followup questions and need celebrations uh I've seen an increase in student empowerment um as we have gone along in the school year but I still feel like that that's something that we can improve upon for next year um and continuously making sure that our students feel like that I have a say in what's going on in the classroom our CK climate and culture according to leader in campus and staff survey scores was higher than basine um which I feel was a true representation the student scores were lower and an example of a low scoring student um statement was my teachers or classmates use launches at the end of the class period or school day we did not have launches going on to launch our students off into having a good even or a good weekend
030um we have since started school VI launches at the end of every day as an announcement um by our student council me or memb sorry from K through five members the parent survey scores were higher than basine we had 63 family survey responses so I was very proud of that last year there were 65 family survey responses I wanted to try to beat that number um but I was but we have the year survey coming up so I'm going to try to being and not a good thing um in regards to capturing K is we were nominated this year to be a showcase school and we were told today that the results of the Showcase schools would be probably not the second of April so our fers are so here is parent and Community involvement
031I feel the same way about the slide as I do with good things it's really hard to put everything that we try to present um to parents um in one slide um and to show the community involvement that we've tried to put into the school this year for um Community involvement we've had the following opportunities we've had read aloud Morgan Arts Council for school presentations and art show we've had the National Guard cap in Institute the interact Club WBU extension office for Legos nutrition West Virginia agriculture poster contest we've had um presentations from Miss America West Virginia and Miss USA West Virginia uh we've had morning High School buddies Morgan County partnership for The Catch My Breath program Bon um and positive actions in our grasp after school program um we've worked with dolls at
032am Revolution the ceing Foundation starting point Girl Scouts America Power Association wbb environmental program and enginger so it's been a busy year um for our families and our parents um ways to get them into the school and we've had the following opportunities for involvement we've had a third grade Christmas program Thanksgiving lunch title on reading night Halloween and Valentine parties we have our PTF we have had a parent teacher conferences our kindergarten registration uh we' had a book fair parent event back to school carnival we had a fif gr wax museum an instrument petting zoo um a Catch My Breath parent event um we encourage lunch with our kids and our parents can also participate through IEP F meetings in our Bo Mee longterm School Improvement needs um for number one for academics I have
033that we need to work on unpacking the standards this is something that the Intermediate School piloted this year and they started looking at the standards for math and reading breaking them down um into what the whole standard States and what it means and how it's supposed to be taught and they've done that at Team meetings and they found it to be very success successful um so would like for us to follow in their footsteps and start that process with our teachers this coming year for math and reading um myself as long as I taught fourth grade the way that we have been taught to analyze the standards and what they mean there are things that I know now that I T wrong or so along the way so it's very easy to do um and
034it never hurts to refresh our memories and what we're supposed to be to the kids anyway so that's number one what we're going to focus on what we need to do we need to know what we're teaching our kids right level specific for the second um need um this is a big one and this is not just academics we really need interventions accommodations and modifications train in our classrooms um as I stated at the beginning we have a lot of students coming in and special education um and social emotional Behavior students that we don't know how to handle and we do the best that we can do um but is we don't know is that good enough so we would like to have more training for these things so that we make sure that the
035kids are get everything that we need not only that to make sure that our teachers get the support that they need because we have gone from some of our teachers have taught in classrooms where they have had not have special education within their classrooms and they do not know how to so that's a huge need at our school right now so that is our presentation so thank you again for having me do you have question you did a fine job thank you very um can you dive into the weeds a little bit of intervention and specific kind of touched the idea where those classroom C Class intervention sound like but then do you also do a one1 or 213 intervention yes um Miss Miss Michael has I believe 35 students with her roster and Mr
036has I believe 36 students on his roster so they are met with individually if that is more beneficial for them some kids have a focus issue and so they have certain kids that they will specifically meet with one to one because that's going to help them improve their math or reading um they also do have small groups that they do work with maybe three to four students um throughout the day their day is completely um between the small groups individuals and then the occasion C Lessing and like I said we make sure that our bottom cour P of students um uh that are not doing well with their data in the classroom that those are the kids that we focus on that are for thetion and they go through the process you take the data
037that we have Mr no and Miss Michael will um do screeners if teachers feel like if the kids are struggling they'll start to gather data they'll do some screeners we'll look at their benchmarks you know and we how does that mean with the parent talk about the struggles and then discuss the interventions that they're going to take place for the year and kids can graduate from Intervention we have had I think six students graduated from Mr Toby's math intervention this year so they have moved out of that bond which is how I graduate and I think that M Michael has had at least three students graduate for so far this year so it's fluid you know they they may they may go in at the beginning and they may come out and then there may
038be some others that go in because I have dropped down you're assessing every n weeks every n weeks um educate me on is there a way to follow a cohort through with our new GSA testing that we've been doing the last couple years is that kind of stay consistent that you could follow the C it is actually I learned how to do that from Mrs Huber started looking at those trends and yes you you were the first one that I got to ask question to I like suggest that every presentation next year has that c if we can stick with this stick with the same test hopefully like we have for the last two years or [Music] three take myself charts analy in many um I was just excited to see the math Improvement it's
039Unique I I really enjoyed your presentation it was well thought out and I thought you did a great job of of word smithing in the sense that every sent so was Chuck full of information after a while I'm really my head swimming a little yes and that's and that's that's ideal I'm glad you did that I have no problem with high goals because if you if you shoot for the moon and you only get halfway there you're still a long way up I used to board members I've heard this before don't set a go was two points higher for goodness sake said something that's eight points higher or 10 points and if you only get halfway there that's a lot better than two and that's the way I feel I don't I don't look at
040setting guy goes high and only reaching half of them being a failure I look at is a celebration so always take that chance I did um what I noticed on the reading and uh plus of used the community school as was my school uh and we probably have some of the same Trends historically we would get a number of kids who were way behind right off the bat and we would play catchup for years and I know uh Jee one of the newer people at the board office came out one time looked at test scores and they were not happy and I said look just give it time we we're going to get there you're 24 in third grade 58 in fifth grade fifth grade is is the one that you want to send them
041out the door with and it's a process I tell people if you go to General Motors today and look at a car halfway through the assembly line it's going to be a mess there going to be tires places wires over the place everything okay don't panic they'll put they'll get it together it'll be fine when it when the rubber hits the road and it always was at our school and I think you're well on the way to showing exactly the same thing we've seen some schools where their their higher grades actually their scores were not as good as some of the others you're doing your scores indicate exactly what I would like to see you do um and the other thing is I'm really glad the last couple years you all brought back Community involvement
042there's no stronger influence toward uh uniting people in a community than the school I mean the churches are important the fire company and all the other things that are there but the one thing most people have in one form or another is kids and um and and I'm not complaining about other administrative philosophies history is history but the community involvement Pleasant View over the years has been historically strong and when your parents are happy with you and involved and everything it's just a lot smoother for everybody you have great staff I've known some of you for a long time you're historically good I I I think you guys are really making some great improvements again great job for a first year principal you'll feel a lot better next year trust me then they're done that
043congratulations thanks how do they get these t-shirts be a part of the [Music] team Becky can let you borrow all the carnival stuff okay hey I have a question for you um so I was um you know we see a lot of data elementary schools and typically most elementary schools are better at reading in the GSA than they are at math and your data has improved greatly from both reading and math but I noticed that your math data has improved even more than your reading so what are you doing at Pleasant View with math that's working [Music] it's focusing on concrete foundation is what he does um if kids cannot add subract multiply and divide they are not going to continue to be able to do multi problems just absolutely make sure that that process
044is you know ingrained into their mind um and like I said he has been so helpful to all of our teachers um they can tell you um any time they go to him and say hey my kid's struggling with this you know he will go and do the research and he will find something and he will come back to them and they will work together as a team to help those kids um so it's just it's a it's a good group effort of everybody working as a team and because it is so small you know there's a lot of communication we have a lot of informal meetings um where we touch Bas with each other throughout the day all the time and week about certain kids um and I just think constantly asking questions and
045figuring out what we can do to help them improve that's that's where theth thank you very much you all are free to leave if you wish to we will not be offended you're welcome this [Music] everybody M Communications [Music] we yeah just one thing I just want to let you know that our postings will be up our 25 26 postings will going to be up starting very soon this week and uh hoping to get a good jump on uh getting those out there so we can get uh people in to Mor County hopefully our our folks leaving the system is minimal I feel like in talking to the principles that we're not going to have a lot of turnover um I'm very concerned legislatively that peia is going up and there's no pay raise I
046don't know what that means for teachers in West Virginia looking to go to other states um but I'm very concerned about that that would be the only thing that um I could see that could impact our retention but uh we're hoping to get those postings up and and get folks in positions and our long-term subs and service Personnel get those in order too because as you may know our service employees the position will open and there's a lot of U different um postings that have to go up following that as more people apply so especially with bus drivers I we get a job up and a bus drial move and then another move another move and so we like to get that all in place before school gets started so thank thanks to Mr dly
047we're on top of it any question question I I know it's really early in this and I certainly don't mean to put you on the spot it's really concerned what we're seeing on the federal level M and the other comment I have is I think it's just so hard to get good people into education these days because we're not offering them anything you know uh it's a nationwide problem but I just the expense of going to college is so much higher and kids have a lot of do debt that I didn't have uh it's it has unfortunately become much less of an esteemed profession Educators used to be looked up to is hey you're a teacher that's a great thing um and we're just not paying you know if you look at what teachers go
048through the training and everything else which is more extensive it was when I was there and we're paying them less money when you adjust for inflation then when I started in 1974 it's ridiculous we've got to this is not something we can do but maybe we can impress on legislators or hopefully something at the national level happens besides you know eliminating the Department of Education um you get in education you get out of it what you're putting in it and we as a society are lagging way behind a lot of of countries in the world now we really I look at the numbers and it's really discouraging to think that our kids are not benefiting from an education like other Generations did so I guess it's something we just have to watch for but I'm
049really concerned about this Federal level thing I'm going ask Mr Gold here put we talked about our grow our own program I thought that was a pretty cost effective way to get into the education world without coming out in a lot of death that's still how are we how are we how are we progressing when probably be the best way to ask that question we currently have two students this is our first year um we have two students enroll this year um it's not actually grow your own we work with Blue Ridge and it's called jump start education it's it's very similar almost identical program but yes um we have one student in there now I just spoke to a few weeks ago and she wants to go into AED um so she will finish
050her her she's her first year at Blue Ridge she'll go a second year at Blue Ridge after she graduates she plans on going to WBU then for I for the next two years then she'll be back to us please I bet you if you asked her you would say who was the biggest influence on you to pick a he just an amazing influencer of who and this is just what a you said earlier about what an impression certain educators service have on people and so back to the conversation of how do we get good people you have mentors that actually Reach Out fish for those yeah and and every Source we can get is is important I would also add that our counselors do a really good job of working with the students to direct
051them to those kinds of programs that we have available at brid random comment as well I think it might pass on the economic finance class being eligible for nth and 10th graders yes that's personal finance class tell know probably sorry I wanted to just add one other thing we're working really hard at trying to offer some additional CTE opportunities for our kids right now we don't have anything in concrete but we've got some things in the mixer right now that I hope to bring to you in a month or so and say we're going to offer this program at this school this program at this school and this program at that school we um seeking out some grants people are very interested in helping out not grants that aren't just for one year but are
052for multiple years um and so I we hope that we can bring something to you and we we're just trying to expand opportunities for our kids and I hopefully we can bring something in a month that's going to reflect that we probably talk all night about this about every industry needs people every teaching absolutely mron I'm sure probably just oh yeah I know Ian they could take 20 or 30 more employees if we can find them right now I know that for a fact so it's just every it's not just us it's everywhere it's a h you know you speak of grow your own you can do programs like that for any of our positions except for bus off operators have to be 21 that would be the best one I'd love to have a
053grow your own for bus operators but for aids for secretaries for Cooks we can grow our own right here and uh James Rumsey has program for ecats and AIDS but there aren't any programs for anything else so that would be nice if we could work towards something like that and grow our own employees right here in County we done good thank you and any public comment no all right consent agenda super recommends approval of the following consent actions as presented minutes of the March 18th and March 18th special meeting payment of bills budget adjustments and volunteers I move we accept the consent agenda second yes thank you concern all say I car first now approval personel actions as presented agenda under professional personnel there we have an unpaid AB it's detailed there in the how
054that's going to work that's being paid and unpaid under service Personnel we're asking to terminate the employment of this contract the following individual and place in referred uh preferred recall uh effect at the end of this school year um we have a resignation of an N tener classroom 8 B Prince High School uh a leave of absence as a bus operator from February 3rd through June 5th we're also asking for an unpaid leave of absence as a two PA schools effective March 25th through May 6 uh under professional staff development we're asking for those under letter A those two individuals will be compensated for care teaching session number three staff development letter B is for letters course work uh letter C is for Science and reading meeting letter D is for go writing letter e
055is for uh professional professional Staff Development Council letter F is for new teachers Academy letter G is for pre and Social Studies textbook committee letter H is for pre Tex committee letter I is for the same uh letter J is for instructional resource virtual Caravan and so is letter K over on personel agenda we have a resignation as substitute Health P driver schols uh we are finally bringing on custodian SL truck driver here at central office beginning tomorrow we've been waiting with fingerprints for a long time uh we're bringing on a substitute custodian as well and we're also bringing on a substitute cook and that's all that I have for personel thank you a motion for approval as presented so second any comments concerns all those in favor say i n i car thank very
056much have a good evening finance and budget appointment of the treasur appoint an Bell treasure Mor County Board of Education for the fiscal year 25 to 26 purs of board education policy 1310 code 1896 I'll make that motion second any comments or concerns will serve again I was like least ask that yes all right thank you very much um all the m n i Carri thank you approve pay application 12 a the amount of $314 9 for the mor schools SBA hbac replacement project at bshs as approved by Williamson shriber so move thank you got line any comment concerns all those say i i n eyes Carri Item B approve pay application 12 a in the amount I'm sorry I didn't see excuse me approve pay application 11b in the amount of $1,662 for the
057morning County Schools SBA hbac project for woodmire elementary schools as approved by W so move we I I'm sorry I had a loose spike I somebody put down your block block yeah if it's not right it's a false start uh comments All N car uh we're on the addenda we're on addenda item D this is the special we scratch it out from C to D and we are on to the roof replacement at Berkeley Springs High School approve miip submission to the school building for bshs a building total roof replacement that's at 1, 29775 including contingency and our local MCH at this motion is set 20% for at $243 955 estimated I'll make that motion second any concerns or comments so just I'll turn over Mr v a minute um for the MP project you
058do have to be under a million and so one of the main reasons we did 20% Which is double we typically do 10% is to get that of the million dollar for submiss um again we could be bid at something completely different we back the drawing board for any reason that could come up if approved by SBA tariffs yeah never know never know uh any other comments any comments yeah I just want to point out that it is for a total roof replacement once they get into the work it could be that they don't need to do a towal could be a partial so that would save the county significant money um we had talked previously we well we brought this up at our U buildings and grounds committee ran it through the committee had
059had got the thumbs up as you remember we have three roofs that need attention wor Springs intermediate worm Springs middle and Berkeley Springs and Berkeley Springs is clearly the one with the highest need uh from a safety perspective uh for sure so um we um this is the the best way for us um to get uh an SBA funding for this and not have to take all this out of our own pocket for sure uh if we don't get this then we may come back and say hey we've got to do something as a board to uh totally fund um a roof and probably Berkeley Springs High School so it's kind of where we're at um we would love to get this project I have no idea at this point how much money is available
060through the SBA they had very limited money available during the needs project submission so hopefully they have some more available now what's the timeline uh submission is this Friday and then these you find out fairly quickly within a couple weeks so the needs project take a little longer do you have to travel there for this no good that's good well I know this one really sneaked up on us and if it needs to be obviously we need to do it my question is um what consideration are we giving to the other schools to try to do something to keep them going in the meantime because they they've got roof leaks every every time it rains out in some of those places yeah one of the things Mr dly talked about was hiring a roofing company
061and coming in to help you know I guess patch is probably the right word to get us through for a few years so that's probably the route that we'll take with the other schools um following hopefully an approval of this one and then I'm sure next year we will apply for a needs project as well if uh we still have a roof to replace might for you're trying to combine those two again yeah definely yes motion FL questions or comments close discussion all those in favor saying I I nay I Carri back to your regular agenda board program planning first reading out for comment there is 5530 Career Technical education workplace simulation drug pre policy any questions or comments guys make sure besty puts that out for 30day comment on the website please since she's
062out here uh second reading and adoption policy 2230 program of study early and Elementary learning programs prek 5 2261 parent and family member participation in Title One programs 2452 Extended Learning opportunities 2623 student assessment 5421 grading and 5460 graduation requirements did we have any comments back about that that we've had no comments okay a motion to approve those as presented so moved a second thank you any comments or concerns all those in favor saying i i n thank you counter this board April 15th uh any need of someone to attend the meeting virtually for that day Mr Bank we talking about that I'll be around 4:30 since it's spring break I wasn't sure if anybody was going to be out of town because everybody's live and in person okay maybe videotapes um any other comments
063on counter events so if oh it's the action there's not hearing so right okay got it just a note that May 6 is at Popa so it's May 23rd M that's a busy week it always is and then a graduation every night one note that I don't I I don't know if this has matched up in recent years but the state track meet is the same time as graduation um so that would impact Paul Paul for sure um Thursday night Berkeley Springs they wouldn't be there yet it starts Friday correct Beth you've been to a few of those I have been but I sadly don't have anybody in track this year so I don't I haven't looked at the schedule so we may have some students who would from paa who would be impacted um
064for the graduation and they do a ceremony at the state track meeting yes yep so our gradu did you yeah that's cool as as a board member early on I went down two years in a row and and conducted that and we had 52 total graduates one time walking across with caps and gowns and track suits underneath and interestingly one was denell Haynes and she says she says I like this better and I would have liked the one it's very cool that pretty cool motion to adjourn so move second any comments concerns all say [Music] uh e e