001e e e welcome to the March 18th regular session of the mor County Board of Education I want to say thank you for everyone at least coming almost all way to the front it's not quite like church everybody's all the way in the back if you would uh stay with me uh we're going to have some guests up front student Pledge of Allegiance before we get started would you introduce yourself please and if you have a position what so what's your name uh I'm Carol Lon um I'm in the eth grade you a physician old the student council no okay I'm L I'm in eth grade and I do not I'm I'm in grade and ient Council Secret I'm pton babby I'm in eighth grade and I do not have a position thank you very
002much thank you for coming tonight when you're ready iedge Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the for it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all don't sit down again last question we go and sit down you need to Enlighten us on your favorite subject do be be the same as your favorite teacher but your favorite subject history I guess [Music] history albra one thank you all very much appreciate you coming in board members you do have an agenda with some Personnel items and some checks um on there if you had time to review the agenda and agenda as presented I'll entertain a motion for approval second any comments or concerns all those in favor saying I iOS next the eyes carry thank you very much
003tonight we are at Warr middle school thank you very much for hosting us thank you for the spread of food for dinner tonight quite a um I hope everybody something I did so this time we'll turn over to Mr Harris and your staff where' you come to there it is good evening and welcome to Warm Springs Middle School for our annual strategic plan uh plan presentation as majority knows as you came in this uh this afternoon you had an opportunity see a few of our clubs set up and also a picture reel of our clubs in action uh we also had members of our student council here and also members of our Animal Care Club as well this is the heart and soul Gum Springs Middle School this this is my team this is our
004school and we do not function without everybody playing a key role and that we have within our building here I want to say a huge thank you to this amazing team for their heart work and dedication and commitment to the students every day as you can see their passion teamwork and unwavering support make a difference in the lives of so many and Ben and I who Ben's out sick with the flu too I believe truly appreciate all that you do so please keep up the amazing work that you've been doing this year making Warm Springs Middle School the incredible place that it is I truly believe we're the best in the Eastern Panhandle I truly believe we're best in the state can I put you all up against anybody in the east coast right now
005so thank you so classroom layout we're in pairs and partners Pairs and partners So today we're going to present the Warm Springs Middle School strategic plan for the Morgan County Board of Education beginning with capturing kids Hearts good things to set a positive tone we will provide an overview of our school demographics student achievement and Trend day to include insights into discipline positive referrals and attendance our discussion will focus on strategic plan goals Benchmark data CK impact metrics and our commitment to instructional empowerment ensuring our school continues to poster academic excellence and a positive School climate so I see I get to do learning targets too I want to Spring that on you all today as a surprise our objective to align with the wbde and County school policies this presentation will highlight our commitment
006to foster a safe supportive and academically rigorous environment through the implementation of CK datadriven decision- making and strategic planning we will demonstrate our efforts to improve student achievement behavior and attendance this aligns with wb's focus on whole Child Development and continues continuous School Improvement instructional empowerment ensuring all students receive equal opportunities for Success every child every day that's what we do here at w Springs Middle School special thanks to Mrs pal for helping put this video together here in a minute that's going to highlight our good things here at Warm Springs Middle School Mrs pal and also her eighth grade career exploration team another clip that you'll see have a uh contest going on with career manufacturing they're trying to achieve 500 views to make it to the state competition when I looked at the
007end of the day we're at 240 so we I think we're already halfway there then I actually SE the Canon uper middle had a th000 views so you know I can't settle with that push us even harder to see if we get over a th000 views and to beat the middle school down in upshire County where do we go view it's on our Facebook link um we've shared it out um through schooly and everything else but Facebook link would be it takes you right to the YouTube link to be a you don't vote it's just watch it it's about three and a half minutes long which you'll see here in a minute which is will count as another view course tonight so strategic planning going on at its best so work with G creep and
008G for this and we greatly appreciate that partnership so with that being said you know last year I ended our strategic planning presentation uh with Tina Turner Simply the best because I truly believe we are so I'm kicking off good things a day with the best e e e as you can see we're a busy Hub and I'll give a little bit more when C on another slide here in a minute for the career exploration video Mrs pal and her team of U there an eighth grade team the students on that eighth grade team I'm trying to make sure I got my my names here Shana stotler AA Michael Avery D pton babby pton SW Casey can Ben Frank and brenon anderton they all work together with M pal with two trips to uh down
009to Gat Creek to be able to get all the information they needed then took all that and they had to trim it all down to about a three and a half minute video that was a requirement and I'm sure Megan had many other steps that they had and guidelines that they had to follow through so let me play this for you real quick then we'll get on to business Berkeley Springs West Virginia G is a West Virginia based furniture manufacturing P every step of the process is accomplished under this very roof and they Source sustainable materials locally to craft and finish their pieces [Music] Gat Creek employs about 165 locals and has been around for 70 [Music] years so how long does it take from start to finish to make a typical piece of furniture
010um so from the wood shop standpoint it takes us five production days the first day we will chop rip and glue the piece of furniture and then the fourth day we will machine it day we will assemble it send it the fish how many types of wood do you use uh we have five types of wood we have our Walnut and we have maple Cherry Ash and wh where do you get it from we buy our B suppliers Wilson Lumber um it's elid West Virginia and we've purchased wood for them since 198 why do you want to locate solid wood manufacturing material supply well there's a couple reasons why Benny um lower Transportation cost is a big one um you can imagine with uh the price of fuel just trying to get a truck in
011from 4 hours out compared to 2 hours out it's a big difference over a year's time um it also reduces our lead time so if I order wood it's here in two days which means it can go through the uh whole process here at the plant and gets the customer in a good time frame so that's another reason how what does it for small bu be on International well you had to be a little crazy first and once you get over that there's kind of four things we look at should be competitive we Lally compete on a worldwide basis uh the first is really human Camp takes people to really build beautiful Furniture the second is financial cap just take money buy the robotics the uh you know all the stuff that goes around building
012stuff and then finally it's really natural Capital we were right in the middle of the best wood in the world and so I think with those three together we're how we compete [Music] literally G Furniture is sold and shipped all over the world they have a collection of currencies displayed to represent all of the customers from different countries they even have a 1,000 Frank from [Music] jti so that is the Warm Springs Middle School career exploration last year we kicked off that project with doing everything and um we really you know set the tone and what Mrs paler team has done this year is about 30 times better than what I tried to produce last year so I'm very excited to see where they're going to go um I I really do believe they'll get
013to the state competition I really do believe that they'll be able to compete at that level so kind of that career focus and we started uh back in the summer I started brainstorming actually even before the summer before school was out I wanted to change up our clubs and uh this is like one of our good things as well and I wanted it to be more career exploration focused where everything kind of had possibly careers tied to it so everybody who was in that club you know had something they wanted to do down the road and now they're getting the experience and stuff we have right at 30 clubs and they're sponsored by all of our teachers in in the building um as you see we have everything from the crocheting you seen out there
014we have Lifetime Fitness forensic science uh the tech club which members of the uh Tom Tom's team from the board office comes up and helps get with Chromebook repair so that's a huge thing right Crome books get damaged now kids kind of know how what happens when you have to take it apart and focus on it we have floral botney I mean broadcasting this Pal's broadcasting Club puts out a video every time that we have uh our clubs and stuff Aerospace we started a little bit with HOSA the Builder Club helped us start setting the the media center up uh last Friday during club day to get everything going so we Club days at one Springs Middle School are the best if you ever want to come into an environment where kids are self-empowered because
015that's basically what it is they are self-empowered we are you know we haven't doing tasks and everything else and they're doing it on their own they're functioning as their own little Hub within the building and KN going wood ever since we and we've kind of turned them loose of things we've had yet to have a discipline issue with it the kids are fully engaged and doing everything U to help raise funds from for their clubs to raise awareness for their clubs and they're very excited to be a part of it my leadership team uh consist of myself Mr case our Mr Young our school counselor who's new to our building this year M Giles our CIS Ash Griff and a social worker and then my uh team leaders consist of Mr helmet with related arts
016M Gates 8ighth grade Mr hestler seventh grade Mrs Penner sixth grade and Mrs Hopkins who filling in for Mrs Hoover for the special ed team leader our strategic team uh planning team is pretty much the same team Mrs Boyce is also on here as our chair and Britney Griffith is our parent represented and we have an instructional empowerment team as well which assisted myself Mr Case Mrs doler and Mrs pal and also my team leaders we serve 420 students in grad 6 through 8 we have about 97% Caucasian uh 2% multi-racial and looks like about 1% africanamerican and a little about a half% there Asian our demographic uh distribution poverty rate 61% at non low sces and 39% of our low sces our wbgs data our reading this is from last school year the blue
017represents Warm Springs Middle School the gray represents Morgan County Schools and the yellow or the gold represents the state of blest Virginia as you can see our sixth grade was 5% above the state average last year our seventh grade just coming right into 30% which was you know higher than the county average but still a little bit below the state and our eighth grade was right at 40% and they were 1% below the state average math which we all know is always a struggle for schools across uh West Virginia and also across the country our eighth grade look at that 7% higher than the state average at 38% seventh grade was at 20 20% uh 10 10% behind the state average and then our eighth grade uh was at 20% Which was 9% uh less
018than the state average then our science GSA uh the state average is at 26% and we were at 25% and if you look at our Trend data the Blue Line represents Ela gray math and the Gold Line science uh as you you can see 2020 21 we were pretty low at things then we went up a little bit there in 21 and 22 we dipped a little bit in 22 23 and look at the gains that we were making last year I expect by the end of this school year when we do our GSA testing those gains are going to be even higher we've set the bar high as Educators we've set the bar high for the students we provide students with data sheets they know what they need to do onls to achieve certain
019incentives and they know what they need to do on their GSA test later the spren and Achieve those ascendes as well School discipline so this is going to be very fun slide fun slides actually next year will be very fun to discuss because we're very proud of the comment culture we have here at Warm Springs Middle School so if you look at 2022 and 23 that was a almost average of 1,800 referrals that school year and at least 21 level fours um last year it started dipping right and we started a about Christmas break we we're at a good point and we introduced a positive referral system and that discipline started really sliding downhill and it carried over to this school year so as you see right now we have zero level fours across the
020board um 56 level 3s 142 level twos and 79 level ones and those level ones and level twos and majority of those level 3es uh are in school suspension consequence so we go to that next slide as of today we have 2,3 87 positive referrals against 276 discipline referrals and only 34 out of school suspensions last year we had 152 out of school suspensions we have really had a home run with this positive referral system not only that but also capturing kids Hearts not only that the team we're we're all bought in with what we want to do teachers are able to write positive referrals on kids when they catch them doing good things I mean it could be anything from stopping to help a student pick up their supplies that they drop it could
021be raising ANL score by 20 points it could be stopping to help or staying to help clean up a classroom a cafeteria and it's trickled over not only do we our teachers and our staff rate positive referrals on students now we have teachers writing positive referrals on teachers and staff in the building which get their positive referrals called they're just like the kids they get to go to Mr case's office and pick out a prize he's got he could probably have a better plethora prizes for adults I mean who doesn't like a youo every now and then right so uh we um and this is our referral data right here as you see Mondays and Fridays are always hides for us uh the time frames anywhere from 10:00 uh 11:00 is a little low uh
022which is strange because that is during the lunch shift when we catch a lot of things too but the expectations responsible engaged respectful prepared and safe and that's how we as a team over the last two years with the strong focus on capturing kids Hearts setting the expectations working together have created to me a a climate culture that you want to be in as an educator now do we have hiccups of course it's a middle school there's going to be crazy days every now and but I told Mr Banks this numerous times when I need an energy charge I go out when the sixth grade is in transition to like lunch or something because those sixth graders they will they'll give you that jol of energy to get back on track with everything a attendance
023as of right now now our um our chronic absenteeism is at 28.5 uh 7% and our daily attendance is around 91% yes we want that to be higher yes we want our chronic to be lower but we're also dealt lot dealt a lot with illnesses this year we've dealt a lot with some apathy we've been working hard to try to curve a lot of those issues um our goal right now I mean I set the Strategic plan goal at 10% which you'll see a 10% decrease uh we'll probably not going to make that goal however we're working hard to hopefully get our chronic absente ISM under 24% by the end of the school year so we almost have another nine weeks to go with that and we're working hard to improve that our strategic plan
024goals and we're focusing on this year it's like every year we want to improve student ACH a we want to be data driven with our instruction where our teachers analyze the data for planning and delivery instruction uh We've Incorporated instructional empowerment in that this year which I'll touch a little bit on that later our students have their learning targets they have their data sheets we have the high dosage tutoring with MC after 3 we have the paper tutoring program that our students have access as well math and English have a retach period so in the morning there's core instruction English and math later in the day those students are in retach mode for the uh second goal to improve chronic absenteeism said if we wanted to decrease it by 10% by June 1st reality that's
025not going to happen so you know we're going to go to the next level we're going to try to drop at least by four or 5% if we can and this includes home calls effective school school to home communication daily attendance reviews on visits and MDT meetings and our third goal is implementation of CTE classes we want to be career exploration focused that's a big drive right now in our state and I feel like that Warm Springs Middle School was way behind on this we're playing catchup but right now we're we're getting there we're C we're getting our curriculum enhancement Future Ready Explorers Middle School CTE Pathways and we continue with assessment and continuous Improvement and even though we have uh teched we have Miss Henry with their computer classes and Miss zman with her
026base classes I also feel the drive of our clubs is pushing this as well even though it might not necessarily be classes we try to have Club day twice a week so we can get that CTE focus and we've taken our kids to places especially our eighth graders to get that CER exploration enhancement as well which we'll see later on Benchmark data forl School growth so the uh Boi for reading we had 43% at far below grade level and we always noticed you know we do really well for M and E kids go during summer break we have to kind of reset ret get them back up and we know our boy is always going to be somewhere that we have to have set goals and stuff by the middle of the year we dropped
027already by 5% on ourl data for reading and we were at all together with the two green bars 4 1% on or above grade level math we were 49% at the start of the year and far below grade level and then we've decreased that to 43% at the and then for our on or above grade uh level averages we're at 26% we are seeing growth like crazy inl right now in MTH and English we've got kids plus 100 plus 120 I mean there's some huge numbers and gains that we're seeing with the EXL program so the M Ela grade comparison this is sixth seventh and eighth grade as you can see um it's far below 38% for sixth grade 36% 7th grade and 41% for 8th grade and then in the combined green this is
028for our Ela it's 42% for sixth grade on or above 4 2% for seventh grade on or above and eighth grade is at 38% on or above math the red shows 34% for sixth grade 40% 7th and 55% for eth however we're at 28% on or above for sixth grade 31% on or above for seventh grade and eighth grade at the time of the is at 18% on or above but again from at and getting the data sheets the kids so they know what their progress is going to be I'm very comfortable or confident that green is going to change a lot for our eighth grade math Capt kids heart survey I'm very proud of this and I'm also very proud of the fact that we last year we're a national showcase school and this
029year we've been nominated again to be a national showcase and I am hoping when we get that call in the spring we get that honor again because of everything that the staff here at Warm Springs Middle School and also the students have done to try help us improve climate culture uh one thing I'm really proud of is the growth that we've showed in our cka implementation uh for example last year uh our teacher implementation was probably about a 32 or 33 we come up to a 35 our campus uh staff and staff climate culture survey we were in a four 4 we were like at 41 last year the student data is a 37 which is up and our family is above the national Baseline at 4.1 when the national Baseline is 3.7 uh stated
030we have about 420 students we had 405 students complete the survey 40 of our staff completed the survey we had 115 parents complete the survey which for us that's the driving factor of you that on social media you know letting everybody be aware parents checking in to check out their kids and coming into meetings we kind of do do culture survey get to get that done and stuff so we're really proud of the fact and that we we last two years with ouri survey we've topped 100 and I'm very I'm very excited about that I'm hoping our eii will be even higher with that but U this is one of our key CS that we implemented three years ago and if you'd ask me three years ago we would be where we're at right now
031I wouldn't I wouldn't be sure I wouldn't be able to give you a correct answer on that but we have really grown as a school with this model and with what we're doing with our positive referrals and just teacher based and staff based uh communication with and discussions with students and stuff structional envirment is we know was implemented in uh this school year at Berkeley Springs High School and Warm Springs Middle School and uh you know I love challenges right that's me it's my competitive nature so Ben and I really took this on and not sure how the direction went with it but one of the biggest reasons why we're having success with it or we we've adapted to it is our staff has been willing to try everything within the program and that means
032a lot of Veteran people I mean you're asking veteran teachers are setting their ways to go outside their boxes and we're doing a really good job with this so we have to do stuff conduct what is called riger walks and then we also have to conduct things with look and learns um at this point of this school year since its implementation we completed did 364 riger walks and that's where we're going in the classroom there's 15 questions on my little template and I have to check all things is the learning Target visible does it align with standards is there student group grouping are the students communicating in those groups and there's other things too that are on that uh template that right now I have to click strongly to disagree because that was not our
033goal that we set forth this year this is the implementation phase and we focused on certain areas that we wanted to grow as a school then on the other hand uh took over doing look and learns uh when Adam left at Christmas because we were deciding how we were going to do this how we going to try to do 17 look and learns a week excuse me 17 rer walks a we a week and how we going get all these looking learns in so we decided to divide and conquer I do 17 rer walks a week being schedule up send that information to the staff hey let me know when you want to come in do looking learns and he spoke as on the seven desired effects for the model of instruction for deeper learning
034we set goals with instructional P for the nine weeks the second nine weeks we set a goal that we're going to evidence more opportunities for student interaction that means Partners all right we have partner grouping right here you know if I stop off said said time out let's let's have a discussion about this in your groups they would know to start talking about what we wanted to talk about with the grouping and how they like it stuff or they don't like it it's their opinions on whatever the material is I am uh teaching at the moment so we set the goal uh that we wanted to increase that from 21% to 42% of agree or strongly agree we finished the second nine weeks at 52% that we've seen that interaction going in in their classroom
035so I de saidd to go for the third N9 weeks now that demonstrates task that require students to interact with Partners or groups to achieve the learning Target that means when I'm coming in the classroom the students are already partnered together the teachers already give the lesson the the students are partnered and they're talking about what the target was for the day and and it's amazing and it's actually really exciting when you walk in the classroom that you have you hear students talking math or talking English talking science talking history I mean middle school students don't love that stuff right it's enough cell phones Snapchat boyfriends girlfriends sports but we have kids talking it's really really excited and uh so when we initially said this we wanted to try to improve strongly disagree which at
036the time was 41% to disagree or agree or strongly agree so we wanted to drop that 41% shrink it now the month of January play havoc on my third n weeks go because we missed some school uh I know I was out a few days sick so I wouldn't be able to see what I was seeing well as of yesterday when I was looking at the data we have shrink it to 35% I think by the end of the week we'll be under 33 possibly 32% once we conduct our walks uh the look and learns is a little different Ben has a different model that uh he has to show on it one thing that I'm proud of is with my instructional leadership team two of my teachers on that team actually conducted a look
037and learn on each other so they got to do what we do with the desire to Tex to see how everything was going with that aspect of things and uh what's your thoughts on that Miss pal Miss stutler just we actually I don't know if you knew that we we conducted B and learns of others out too okay so they've even branched it out so that's a to me it's another how do you feel about the like the look in Le what besides being Ane when you have to do one on another staff member I I think it's it's a it's a good tool to give teacher feedback um there's a lot of um places in there where you can provide really constructive feedback um things that you're noticing or that they might not be
038thinking about when come into observe so I think I think it's really helpful and I hope more teachers are open to have us come in room I think easier than we do you guys which I've asked my team leaders to conduct one by the end of the third n weeks so they have pressure to finish it by Friday so I'm hoping they get it done and I ask my team leaders to do it within the team leaders because they're so they're comfortable with each other um and then next year maybe we'll Branch out even more and have more members to our I team to do that so we are in the thick of things with instructional empowerment I actually just did a interview with the can't remember the lady's last name U yesterday about rigger
039walks Mr Gary told her what worm strings Middle School was doing and the success we were having with rer walks and the look and learns and she wanted more information what we were doing so there's going to be an article coming out at some point which I'll make sure I share with everyone about Warm Springs Middle School in their riger walks so again I'm a competive person so I did ask Chris Alan who's one of the partner coaches what is the number of walks conducted by Middle School who's implementing IE for the first time they still has not got me that number yet I'm telling you what if it's 500 I'm going to break it you know I want us to be the Forefront of everything we do um I don't again they've not been
040able to give me that number they might not be a number and we might be competing against middle schools that have 1, 1500 2,000 kids and multiple administrators who can do more rigor walks but if like I said if it's within the 500 range we're going to get it parent and Community involvement is a big piece here at Warm Springs Middle School everything from our ptso we have Mountain movers empow you we work with Extension Agency we have parent coaching our volunteers the partnership American Legion gr Jones came in and taught several of our students how to properly fold the flags every day now their students get the flags unfold them put them up the end of the day take them down they're in here in the media center and they're folding them and if
041when things are not tight and flat they get on each other and redo it so it's again self-empowerment for our kids like that uh the Eastern Panhandle Empowerment Center the West Virginia a National Guard the 167th Wing which we take our eighth grade students to every year and have a great experience down there on the base James Rumsey Technical Institute Blue Ridge Community College Gat Creek uh the purple star school and the West Virginia state treasury is coming in next week we do a get a Life program for eighth grade as well so if anybody's got some free time and like to come in man a table from 8 to 10 or 10 to 12 please stop by or see Mr Young before you leave and the last thing I know it's not a community
042thing but it has been a lifesaver to our Athletic program and ourselves and that's Oak Barrel up the road so we have uh entered a partnership with them to sell their desserts and our possession stands from Athletics and it is people get mad when I don't have o Barrel cheesecakes at ball games Now or S rules so we have we've hit the gold mines at that uh longterm School Improvement needs uh the continueed work with ie and this building in our classrooms lockers we need a lot of improvements the building's getting over 24 years old I believe I mean it's starting to share show its wear and hair and that's our big thing as well I think everybody in here would agree with me you see stains and stuff we we have some major needs
043so the last thing before I go in um a pirate with a wolf's heart Mr Palmer was a vital part of our school for several years after his retirement and uh you know we miss him daily um and I know even though I can't stand Ohio State and I watch the national football championship I know he was definitely smiling about that and uh so he's definitely a pirate and he's definitely got a wart and H and Hannah we truly miss him we we miss his personality his little you know Sports talks and I know he's had numerous conversations over the years with everybody that's been here with us for a while my next thing before I go into questions which I know there will hopefully be some and I can direct them to certain people
044in the building right no ducking heads as our launch okay I feel like that uh we have come a long way as a school uh especially from 6 years ago when we started and we got hit with a CO pandemic and we got stopped almost like a roadblock and we have really grown Leaps and Bounds I have got a great team here we've got people that want to be here they come from other places to be here with us and uh everything that we've accomplished uh you know Ben and I just kind of like the captains of the ship they're they're the leaders of the school they're the face of the school and they keep this thing going in the right direction and uh you know we greatly appreciate everything that they do and truly
045appreciate everything that the board has done to help us in this process and U I'm definitely this is the place to be right now no doubt about it you know conversations every day about things that are going on in education and and and stuff and it all keeps coming back home strings Middle School is the right place to be for everybody so I'll turn it over to you all thank you very much time um just on the competitive spirit and what you were referring to about your fortitude on being competitive uh there was no war award for the best attendance by staff and you all would have that hands down after the second Award for Best Chairs these are in thank you very much high schools were not very high um I am going to
046put a couple people on the spot let you pick them out I'm curious about IES and the peer-to-peer learning scenarios and how that is being welcomed by the students or handled Miss doller you didn't answer Megan TI I'll jump over to you real quick that's a tough question um I think to it depends upon the group of kids that you have in the classroom um and who they're paired with at that point in time most of my kids and I'm going to speak on the other end I have all the H honors kids for Math and it's it doesn't matter what group I put them in they all seem pretty good to mesh together and want to work together with the problems that I give to them I also thought our co- teach models are
047doing outstanding things on that and I don't know Rachel or Karen would want to chime in with some of those models that have been used with coou Excuse me Co talk classes Michaela who's one of our co- teers Sean anybody want to jump in on that I'll jump in um iach with and Julia Simkins and I can tell you that students that we are putting in groups and Julie and I group them um by they're ISL scores right now um students who normally don't talk are taking the lead in their groups and they're asking those deeper questions um in the beginning it was really Rocky but I'm really seeing Improvement math is not my thing um but I'm seeing um in the math classes the kids who are kind of understanding are asking questions of
048their peers and they're better able to explain to them better than I can because I'm not a math expert um but I mean I've seen great things with with just the groupings for there students who normally don't communicate with their peers at all and I live our staff like this we have our rock stars we have our all stars and we have our Rising Stars if there is no one that is not doing it or not refusing or refusing to do everybody's trying it and some St and you know and they'll let us know too today might not be the day to come in a r walk or and I've relay them too like I don't expect this every single day even if I walk in your room and you're not doing IE or going
049to grouping and discussions I'm fine with that we just want to see you know the engagement going on we want to see learning taking place and we definitely have that right now and that's uh same kind of wave in regards to the isls are you still seeing a correlation that's accurate or um true to form for the standards of how the students are kind of me's actually got now standard the West Virginia standard buil in with it where you can go in into the standards and work with that U you know we we're test piloting a little bit of the already we're so setting our ways withl I don't really foresee us moving to the to the other model I think we um I think we're on to something right now and I'd hate for
050it to change and you saw positive time from students on that that's part of the ret period they to work on iels andu okay um it wasn't in your strategic update here what is your goal for proficiency increasing 10% M English just like last year okay I think that's all I have last thing I have is your Jerseys did they help you win inter murals is that was goal on the kids actually an instructional empowerment goal the lessons and the training modules that we had to complete so the first round of training modules Ben set the goal we you have the the not 100% completion um he worked something out with uh barbecue place that come in providing for everybody and the second set was you completed there going to be jerseys now I didn't
051know it was actually going to be hockey jerseys so I mean it's a little big a lot of us are sitting but it is great staff Spirit like when we you know like today I actually asked staff please wear the jerseys for the meeting tonight because this is Warm Springs Middle School we want to show off our school spirit and everything that we've accomplished together we we had Jersey days before board war and you know they're they're really they're growing on us I guess some aspect of it I mean it is a Harris case production I guess I should trademark that put the little messages on the back and it sets a tone for stuff so your climate and culture comes out not only in the school day but the sports seeing the kids interact
052at the sporting events and how they get into it it's just it's a joy uh versus what some other schools you go to and you see that they don't have that that same type of just support from the fans to the players so it's nice to see when when the JB and Vary boys played in the pbl championship at Warfield we had a lot of students over there nice I mean the cheer team was there you know help support the team but we had a lot of other students that were in the crowd and it it was really nice board members questions Jamie I was looking at the reading and and math U scores and I was wondering I know when we see 50% in the sixth grade and we see roughly 30 or so
053the seventh grade that's those are different kids and I I get that but you ever had a chance to go back and look and see what those kids did the previous year so their data sheets we backtrack all way to the Intermediate School yeah i' like I I was just curious what you would see uh with with these kids at uh roughly U 30% what they were doing on the test in sixth grade that's not knock on teach believe me I've been in the classroom long enough to know that but it sometimes the tests themselves vary a great deal in difficult not only that we also you're going from that sixth grade level to a seventh grade level and that's like the tough tough time in a middle schooler life I believe that that the
054transition that's when a little bit more apathy starts Kipping in uh and there's different things but yeah so we backtrack even we get the scores from din we get school when they send them over to us and we make sure that they know where they were at for example in fourth grade and an idea of that to I this has always been my back just as a coach too I was always very competitive and I wanted to see what other schools were going and I went back and check those things and I found teacher trust me I found that it wasn't necessary teachers at all could be curricula or the test themselves or even a bad week when you're testing as far as that goes I get all that but I was just curious whether
055you look at that see if there was anything there that possibly could look at changing the future and one thing too the seventh grade team for the last several years till this year had longterm Subs in that didn't have a lot of math background this year we've got people in the right position um Miss keer here's who with us is one of our long-term sub she is knocking it out of the park with her instruction and her co- teing and she don't have a math background and she's got the kids find in and their scores really doing really well and I think we're going to see a change in that this year with our GSA scores for seventh grade thank you just a few couple few couple just a few quick things um I've said
056this before but I love meetings where there's snacks so thank you for that um also thanks for putting that tribute in for Mr Palmer he was he worked in retirement here for a while and that was nice thank you um and the only other thing I I love that uh that you're using your clubs to do things in your buildings like like the uh Chromebooks and the flag I like to see that kind of stuff I I think that's great learning Hands-On learning and some of us me Ed that that's how I learn so that's thanks yeah um I just want to say just like tonight I love walking into the school whether it's one of these or whether it's a school day the energy is different it's a positive energy that you walk in
057it's everybody's on board everybody's move in the same direction and we're all about what's best for kids all the time and um if I'm having a bad day Mr Harris I come over here so U this the energy is just unbelievable um I want to thank M Mr Close said this but um I want to thank the staff and the students for being here tonight this is It's a this is a big deal um to have you here I know that it's an evening and everybody is probably tired and they would be home on Netflix or or doing something else being here but I know that you're a team and I know that you do things together and I know that you um want to be here to see this presentation so thank you for
058being here and spending time with us tonight um also want to thank you e e e it's a this [Music] found so [Music] start I [Music] yeah e e e well all right we ready to go I think uh Aaron receives us back up we are back live and on YouTube so back to our regular scheduled meeting we are on to reports and Communications um board members still stay ATT tuned to the W legislature keep a breast of the latest and greatest the House and Senate education committee you ever tune into to those they are interesting interesting episodes oh so let's do them online that's all I have board M doer backs I don't have anything okay we did not have any public comments so we're on the consent agenda superintendent recommends approval of flying
059consent actions as presented uh board members you do have bring your attention to the strategic planning minutes building and grounds minutes athletic minutes and curricula and instruction minutes specifically um the only comment I have board members is that I did ask Mr Banks to put the attendance onto the next um meeting minutes uh so that they do meet other than that I will entertain a motion to approve as presented so move second any other comments concerns all those in favor saying I I n the ice carry it thank you Personnel n superintendent recommends approval of the following Personnel actions as presented all right so set time of the year we we're looking at next year's positions how all that stuff flows and all that so this is a pretty lengthy agenda on this so go
060through here anytime you want me to stop you have questions just yell um so we're start off with professional Personnel um the following positions in letters a through G these are positions that we are abolishing at the end of the school year so we're abolishing a multi categorical special education teacher with autism at Paul we're abolishing a math teacher at Paul High School A5 Elementary library media specialist at PA elementary um a multiat special ed teacher with autism at bery Springs High School um an English teacher uh at Berkeley Springs High School a social studs teacher at berley Springs High School and then a kindergarten teacher at whm uh that that position will be moving up to the next grade because kindergarten so the numbers are so big this year and I would say that
061these abolishment are due to just our enrollment declining so that's that's where that comes from um under number two there terminating employment uh these two positions A and B are both Grant funded positions we did the same thing last year at this time so under number three in restructuring this is due to some retirements or designations gives us a chance to kind of rework these positions uh so at letter A we're asking for library media technology integration specialists at Berkeley Springs High School to be restructured to a library media specialist there at Berkeley Springs High School and then we're asking for a health PE driver Zed teacher at paal schools to be restructured to a health PE teacher at all the schools um under number four for resignation social St teacher that will be leaving
062us at the end of the school year at ber Springs High School and we have a substitute nurse uh that resigned effective on the end of the day of March 5th on number five for employment we're bringing on a long-term substitute uh for health PE driver ed teacher at Pall schools uh she that person will begin tomorrow and position for of the school year um number six these are positions that we would like to add uh we're wanting to add a interventionist and an interventionist teacher at whm elementary school now this is the kindergarten position that we abolished up here moving to the first grade at whm for letter b and letter C we looking to add a multiat special ed teacher with autism at War Springs Intermediate School um letter sorry I'm sorry to
063interruptor we two par the going back to uh number one those two um employees who hired under the grant okay um do you know whether that Grant is going to be available or is that a Fed Grant where about that that Grant we do this every year usually we get the funding I don't see why we wouldn't get the funding next year I think not it's not something we're concerned about that's good news thank you and one one addition when these uh uh positions are Grant funded and they're on the agenda as they are um there's always the stipulation that should the reason go away that they are on their their employment's terminated that they would get the position back so in other words if the grant is funded the position comes back okay thank
064you under letter B for service Personnel uh we're looking to abolish these three positions uh the kindergarten a ecap position at whm elementary school an Tiner special education Aid Behavior Support at whm elementary school um and then an attender special education Aid autism Mentor at Warm Springs Intermediate School um the next letter the next Su they terminated employment these folks uh have uh terminate the contract and place them on preferred recall list at the at the end of the school year U and I tener special education Aid Behavior Support at whm special education Aid at whm that position is a gr fund position as well it's it's a Federal grant so that's something that we're looking into um and then the last one there is the itinerate special education a autism Mentor at Warren Springs
065Intermediate School um the next uh number three additional additional positions um these are all the first three are per the West Virginia third grade success act so they they kind of have to go in there uh so we're adding an elementary aeat at Pall schools we're adding five elementary ad cats at War Springs Intermediate School one at Pleasant View Elementary School and then also again this goes with that kindergarten being abolished and then we're moving that kindergarten ecat up to a first grade up to an elementary ecat um and then under letter C we get into some extracurriculars um we are looking at abolishing the following positions uh PE uh team leader a CP team leader and then a Special Education team leader we are working on restructuring those in a different way and we
066should have that on an agenda here soon to where we're looking at combining some things uh at berley Springs High School with those three positions um so under terminating employment again numbers one through um 11 actually one through nine again this is the same this is a grant these are all Grant funded positions we do this every year um we look to get this grant back it looks like we'll get it back so these positions will all be reinstated more than likely uh so we have a mcf 3 program coordinator for counting we have Warr Springs Intermediate School third grade after school coordinator uh MC after 3 site co-coordinator War strings middle school and MC after 3 site co-coordinator War strings Middle School a bus an mcf 3 bus operator another mcf 3 bus operator
067the Gras coordinator again after school at Pleasant View uh mcf 3 uh site Cod coordinator at whm another site coordinator at whm and then back to uh the um these are the two individuals that are involved in a team leader positions at ber Spring High School um and then under extracurricular resignation we have an MC after 3 site coordinator berus Springs High School that individual was also retir this year we have a head boys basketball coach at War Springs Middle School and then underemployment we are bringing on a volunteer assistant tennis coach at bery Springs High School uh this individual is going to be busy with volunteer assistant track coaches this year um and then letter C volunteer track assistant coach at PA schools under professional staff develop under letter A those those individuals be
068compensated for a code teaching session uh under letter B for standards based goals training letter c um for writing IEPs and PLS uh letter D for also writing IEP fs and then under letter e we have server staff development we're asking for that individual to be compensated for CPI online training under temporary parttime uh number one there for termination Employment contract again that is one of those rank funded positions that's a part-time employee that we think will get the money next year it's again it's part of that whole like eser that that part of that um that we talked about earlier in in the agenda um and then we are asking for these additions to be made to our supplemental salary scale under letter G so professional Staff Development Council meetings $30 an hour and
069instructional materials adoption committee meetings at $30 an houra all right on the [Music] agenda uh under employment we're bringing a individual that's retir at the end of the year she's going to be she's asking to be put on the substitute list and then under extracurricular we're bring on a volunteer assistant softball coach a volunteer assistant track coach at pa pa and then a head girls volleyball coach at bery Springs High School that's all I board members before I ask for a motion with all those personal items any TH or questions at this any concerns we need to address a motion to approve the personnel as presented move second thank you thank you any any further discussion all those in favor saying I iOS n eyes Carri thank you very much thank you all very much
070for going through that budget and finance approve the inperson registration for Mr Smith Mr R and A vir for Mr Linton so let's do this in a Mr Linton you get pulled out for a stick around um you refuse yourselves please just cover our [Music] ear thank I'm pulling him out first to stay here I'm sorry P him out of the three of youal P out to stay is that what you're say that's what I'm saying that is kind of confusing a real political at I didn't say Netflix and chill I I didn't CH I can't so that what is that May 3rd May 3rd oh I have to do virtual entertain a motion for Mrs Smith Mr Rand to attend the West School Board end of your training on May 3rd 2025 second comment
071concerns alliv appear saying hi hi all right they're [Music] going this chair we talked about I talked about expanding our area for out of state change thaty State uh we are up to approve Mr Linton for the Wasington School Board Association any year training on May 3rd that motion comments concerns all those signify by saying I do I get to attend from home from prom from home good to prom be done before that I just can't drive that fast and get there to get set up uh program planning approve popall High School to hold their prom for the spring 25 at landfall Lodge Winchester Virginia I'll be there so so moved second any concerns or comments I believe this the same location right all all those fav say I I Carri it second reading and
072adoption I'll make a motion to dispense the reading of the policies consider them read a second time there any objection we'll consider the policies read second time and entertain a motion for approval I'll second that any comments or concerns all those in favor saying I I oos n i carries we are on the calendar events then any questions on the calendar there's a lot of stuff so we have a meeting Thursday just point out that tonight um and Thursday we both had set aside in case people had requested hearings and nobody had requested any hearing so there is no need for the meeting only Thursday okay we can all go to get free ice wait what spring it's day it's first day spring put down next year here I mean if you buy one that's
073right I forgot you're not going to be here you have the discount card I gave you for Christmas so you can go there and free blizzard she could bring con to the Mee there you go special Mee special attendance you have to start signing in you come to see us that's right I'm going to sign off the h say all those things she always want put on five minutes make the paper all right back to our calendar April 1st we're back at the board office with a post of employee recognitions including the young lady that we just mentioned right retire he's not going retire going to be there too no I guess not sorry L are down here Ator June 11 got keep on going down right board members entertain a motion for adjournment then
074move second any comments or concerns as we have we have two two um annual School strategic plan updates pres view like on April 1st and then Paul Paul is at PA Paul on May 6 just wanted to remind everybody that motion to adjourn in a second any other comments or concerns all those off weour that there we go me number one special meeting March 18th 2025 call to order in front of you is the agenda There Is No Agenda may I entertain a motion to approve the agenda as presented second any other comments or concerns all those in favor saying I I thank you no public comment again we're on financing budget approve the 2526 for Le rates and authorize the following authorized forwarding of same to the state auditor and the State Department of
075Education uh yes this is as Aaron said to adopt our proposed Levy rate uh we did see an increase in our property values again this year uh so we will see an increase in both the regular Levy and the excess Levy collections property values will up about 8% so we are still within the 70% Levy according to our l call so I will send these if you so approve to the auditor tomorrow and Department of Ed and then the meeting will stand J till April 15th appr and they will be published after the April 15th meeting or they published now no I will send to the pap tomorrow you'll send to the paper tomorrow board any questions a motion to approve the R Us presented second any concerns or comments all those in favor saying
076I I you and we will fall out of this meeting we will not adjourn this meeting correct this meeting stands say East till April 15th thank you very much [Music] our e