001agenda is the pledge of allegiance to the flag. >> Where's the flag? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> LSIC presentation 115 morning elementary school. Chloe Schoffner, principal and the team. Chloe, you're up. Get a paper towel. >> Good afternoon, board of education members. Um, I want to start by thank you guy by thanking you guys for coming and giving me this opportunity to share some information that um, Arlington Elementary has gathered over the last year. Um, I kind of came in mid year. So, this has been definitely a learning experience for myself. Um, and some of the um, strategic plan goals that were established, Mr. Anderson helped establish those before
002my arrival. So, our LSIC committee, um, our parent representatives are Cammy Wade, Jackson Taylor, Haley Cumins, who is also our chair, and then our ATL large members, Sam McNeel, Lucy Messo, Hi Harold, and then our um, service personnel and professional staff, Chrissy Tangersley, Chrissy Smith, Tina Tracy, Susan Armstrong, and Son Armstrong. All right. So, our first strategic plan goal um for academics was to increase the number of students scoring the proficient range in the areas of the ELA and math by 3% for the 2526 school year. And this was through different supports um through intervention strategies through title one. Um there are some different programs that we used like Read Works, um Scholastic News. Um a lot of the math goals, the action steps for those were based off of manipulatives, um and just some
003online programs and utilizing that assessment data um to guide student learning. And so these are our math scores, our ELA scores, and our science scores for the 2526 school year. Um so for third grade math um our school proficiency was 59% compared to county at 55 and state at 54. So we're a little bit above um county and state on that. Fourth grade 60% and I want to give a shout out to this fourth grade class. They really rocked it this year both in reading and in math. >> Um fourth grade 60% proficient in math. county was at 58 and then the state proficiency was at 49%. In fifth grade, um we had 45% proficient compared to the county at 48 and the state at 43. And one thing to note about our fifth grade
004class, we did have two brand new teachers who I know for sure one had not taught any element had not taught at all in the elementary setting and I'm not sure about the other. I don't think he had as well. Um ELA for third grade 46% were proficient compared to county at 42 and stayed at 44. Fourth grade again um this group of kids this fourth grade group very motivated. Um 63% proficient compared to county at 58 and state at 50. And then fifth grade was at 52% um matched up with the county and then state was at 51%. fifth grade science 39% um proficient, county proficiency was at 43 and state was at 34. So what does that mean? Did we meet our goal? So when I look back at last year's data um
005for math, Marlington Elementary was 53.27% proficient. So we increased by 1.73%. So it wasn't our 3%, but I always look at it like this. We still grew some. Okay? And there's always room for improvement. ELA um increased the most. Um and I have to give it to that fourth grade group. I think they're the ones that really boosted us on this. Last year was 48 to almost 49%. This year was 53%. So we increased by 6%. Um so our ELA, yes, we did meet on that. And then science, even though it wasn't specifically stated in the strategic plan goal, I like to throw that one in there so we can see measurable progress. Last year we had a 43.86% proficient. This year was 39%. And so that was a decrease of almost 5%. But again
006be mindful that we had two brand new teachers in there who never taught in the elementary setting. >> Right. >> Do you have questions on any of the data? >> No. >> Um so our next strategic plan goal was for attendance. Um and so Marlington Elementary School will decrease chronic absenteeism by 3% from 26% from the 25 um from 25 2025 to 23% by the end of the 2026 school year. So um we established a an attendance um plan at Marlington Elementary where tier one is where we're kind of hitting everybody. Um we're trying to provide that education to all students on the importance of attendance. Um tier two are the students that are at risk for becoming chronically absent and then tier three are chronically absent students. So we have different tiers of how
007we're going to address all students at each level depending on where they fall at. And it looks a little bit different for every student depending on what they need, what's the reason why they're absent, how can we help them with that. Um so some things that we have done and I must say I mean we have exhausted all possible ideas. Um we've tried different things. Um we had the WVU mascot visit. We did perfect attendance prizes. Um the PTO actually chipped in and helped us buy some incentive prizes until we got our account established. Um attendance information in newsletters and recognized students in the newsletters. Um, got to give a shout out to Jillian Lacos. Um, she really took over the newsletter and she hit hard in the newsletters um, giving them facts and tidbits
008about why attendance is important. We also would give um, shout outs to faithful attendance for like the month of um, let's just say it was like the month of May, the month of April. Each month we gave shoutouts for perfect and faithful attendance as well as gave a shout out to the class that had the best attendance. Um, Dairland Crystal Dean donated gift certificates to as prizes um to give to students. At 10 we dance. So if you spell attendance it says at 10 at 10 dance. So if we had over 95% of students present that day at 10:00 we would dance. Um so we had several dance parties. Um and the kids loved it. um class competitions. I ended up buying a big metal trophy that got passed from class to class each week.
009Um and we had different attendance competitions each week. Some weeks it was just the class with the best attendance. Sometimes it was the class with the most improved attendance. Just mixing it up. Oftent times we had one second grade class that um probably had the best attendance overall for the entire year. So they frequently got it. So, we kind of tried to change it up the best we could to allow other classes the opportunity to receive that trophy. And sometimes in that trophy, we would also give them little prizes like we have little animal erasers and just little little things that they could value. Um, some other things. Um, along with the trophy, we did pajama day. Um, Mr. Smith's class voted on fort day one day. So they did all their learning via forts
010in the classroom. Um and then another one we did was attendance matters Monday. So again, Miss Jillian Lacrosse, she created these little flyers to post on Facebook, social media that just had little facts about why uh attendance was important. Hat day. Um and then our CIS calendar. So, we created a calendar um to give to students to track each month their attendance. If they turned in their attendance tracker back in, they received a prize um for keeping track of it. And honestly, we started out really slow with that one. Started out with three or four kids and by um last the last week of school, we gave out the May prizes. we had 37 students that turn in their attendance trackers. Um so they're starting to recognize it a little bit more and pay attention
011to it. Um of course extra recess sometimes whole school prizes like one day um the attendance rate was I don't know 96% so I gave the whole school some little trinket some little prize. Um I challenged other schools. Um there was a couple um social media challenges with Greenbank and then we had the pie the principal where for every day that students um had a percentage over it was over 93% because at that time we were not doing well. Every time they got over 93% they earned a piece of a pie and every quarter every quarter that they filled we would pie staff members. So, the first time we pied two staff members, the next time was two, and the next time was four. Um, and then the grand finale was supposed to be pi
012the principal, but we fell short the last week and didn't make it. We had a kayak raffle here in the last quarter or the last nine weeks. Um, we had some kayaks that were back in the back store room from CIS. And so for every day that students were present, they got a chance they got they were entered for a chance to win the kayak, but they also got an extra chance if they were they had perfect attendance for the week and they got two more chances if they turned in their CIS calendar. And then um for interventions, we did several SAT meetings for attendance. Um and for some of those students, it did help. Now, I say take this. We've done a lot of work with it. And at one point during the school
013year, I want to say probably around January or February, we had it around 19%. Which was a big drop. Um, but somewhere around March, the sickness hit us and we never bounced back. Um, and so our chronically absent, our final today. Now, of course, this isn't finalized because they they have some things they have to take out of the data, but it's sitting at 30% right now. Um, so we went we actually increased a little bit. There's something interesting I want to show you guys here in just a second on this next slide. Um, so here you can see the instructional weeks right here. Week 27, and I will tell you the truth on this. Week 27 is where we saw the drop and we never recovered. This was the week that we got hit
014with the flu or COVID or whatever it was. And I I'm telling you like there's a difference when kids are missing school and when kids are sick. And in this case, kids were really really sick. Our staff was really really sick. There were some days we were running on combining multiple classes and covering because we had that many people out. Um so right here at week 27, we never bounced back. And then this last week of school really killed us as well. Um throughout the week, it started, I think on Monday last week, we started out with 47 absent and it just continued to increase as the week went on. But what's interesting, and I I didn't throw this the other graph in here because it's a little hard to read, but if you look
015back at the last three years of data, week 26, week 27, and week 28 is where you see the drop in attendance. Um, and I know given this is somewhere around spring break. In the last two years, we haven't had spring break, but what about the 2324 school year? What was the difference? why is there still a gap right there? So, that's something that maybe we look at next year um is analyzing why we're seeing that because I mean if you look up here, I mean we're in the 90s and then that gap that big of a drop really killed us. Um so early on in May, we we determined that we probably weren't going to meet our strategic plan goal, but that didn't stop us. We continued working because we felt that it would
016lay the foundation for next school year. And so we're ready to roll out the 26 27 school year. Okay. So the third goal for Marlington Elementary was improving school climate. And so Marlington Elementary School will improve staff, student, and families perceptions of school climate by 10% as measured by a school climate survey given in September and April. So this school climate survey is actually the West Virginia um the West Virginia school learning environment survey. Um some action steps that we took to help um achieve this goal. Um we started working on improving data collection of behaviors. We made changes to our PBIS program which which is our positive behavior intervention um support system. Uh we started doing frequent all calls and use of social media to make parents aware. Communities and schools played a big
017role in that and helping us achieve that through the newsletter and also just touching base with families. Weekly staff updates and then regular committee meetings. So, strengths from the West Virginia School Climate Survey. Um, now I want you to take this data with a grain of salt because, you know, we've got 203 students in our school, but I think only 46 46 total guardians filled this out. Um, so I don't say it's an accurate reflection of how people feel, but that's what that's the data that we had. 96% of parents and 100% of staff agree that the school is a safe place for students and staff. 96% of parents agree students are treated with respect. 88% of parents feel felt well informed about school activities. 92% say the school responds promptly to communication. 26.9% of
018parents reported school conditions improved from last year. Now, that one, I threw this one in here as well because we have this statement, but the majority, 42.3% indicate conditions stayed stable. So, we're kind of consistent from year to year. Areas of growth from the West Virginia School climate survey, um staff identified disruptive behavior, um 66.7% as a concern. Um, we did have some major behaviors this year that had were quite challenging at times. Parents identified bullying as a mild to moderate concern, 57.7%. Um, opportunities um for extracurricular activities, about 23% which was negative. 66.7% of staff report students mental health as a moderate issue. And we can talk mental health of students all day long. We know, we know it's an issue and we know there's not a lot of resources out there, but it
019is still a notable concern among staff. And then programs for talent/sp specialcial needs um 23% negative. So, one of those um our behavior was one of the areas of concern. And so, I want to go over the discipline just a little bit. So total referrals for the 2425 school year um 142. Total referrals for the 2526 school year 305. So we essentially I mean we we doubled and then some are the amount of referrals that we had. This graph here shows the referrals by location. If you can see um 150 of them were in the classroom. the school bus was next at 36. Um, we have a lot of behaviors on the bus that are happening. And I think a lot of that is we're not consistently teaching our bus expectations. We go over at
020the beginning of the year, but how often do we go back and revisit those safety expectations? Um, 35. We're on the playground, 18 in the cafeteria, 16 in the hallway. So, the majority of behaviors are happening in the classrooms. referrals by grade. Um, this I'll talk about first grade in just a second, but fourth and fifth grade are our two um major areas. 83 in fourth grade and 65 in fifth grade. First grade, I wouldn't pay too much attention to that. Um, good question. >> I I did have some individuals in that class that had some behavior concerns. So that's I think that data is a little skewed there. >> I have a question. Wasn't it your fourth grade that was so exceptional? >> And why did they misbehave? >> They're so smart. >> They're
021boring. >> Yeah, they're so smart. >> Yeah. I think I think a lot of it be becomes structure and routine. Um and just the expectations of what we're doing at certain times of the day. But I'm going to show you something here in just a second as to why I think these two are the highest. Okay. Um I don't have we don't have a lot of behavior out of kindergarten. Of course, there's still learning expectations at the time. So a lot of the behaviors we see don't necessarily mean a referral. It's more of, you know, a teaching moment for them. And then second and third grade, they're kind of level as well. referrals of the week. Now, if you would have asked me when I presented to the LSIC in what was it in the
022um third nine weeks and the fourth nine weeks, actually Wednesday was our highest for a long time. Um was the the day that we had the most referrals and I have to joke around, poor Mr. Hall, he substituted for me on a Wednesday and he saw some major behaviors that day. I haven't heard from him since. I hope he's okay. Um, but Thursday, Thursday ended up being um the day with the most referrals. And I think by that time of the week, kids are getting tired. Wednesday and Thursday, you know, it's the week's dragging on. We're getting tired. Um, we're ready to be out. We're ready for the weekend. Uh, and I think that has a lot to do with it time of day. And I think this might answer your question. Um this this
023whole process of going over our discipline, we had some learning curves with entering um referrals into the Weebas system and part of that was accurately describing our data. So a lot of times some of these referrals were missing timestamps. like it timestamps when you put it in, but unless you specifically say what time it is, it's going to categorize it between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. So 125 of them were missing timestamps essentially. But if you look here, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. 65% of the referrals occurred at that time. And I would almost bet that the majority of these happen during that time, too. That is unstructured time. That is recess. That is lunchtime. That's transition time in the restrooms. So, I think here when students are in the classrooms, you know, 8 8
024to 10:00 a.m. and 2 to 4 when they're in the classroom learning, there's no time for that disruptive behavior. But when we have unstructured time like recess, um I mean, gym is supposed to be structured, but we know sometimes PE can be a little chaotic. Um when they're unstructured, that's when we see the behavior. So if we can target these time frames and provide maybe more supervision on the playground or whatever it might be, I think we will see a decrease in the behaviors. >> Um so just some more changes to discipline, more consistent documentation and we think that's why we saw an increase in the amount of referrals. I'm not saying that behaviors didn't exist last year, but maybe our staff didn't document them as well. And this year I think they've done a
025better job of that. Um we changed our PBIS matrix from I care um which stood for uh cooperative, accountable, respectful every day to pack which is being present, accountable, cooperative and kind. Um we kind of changed that mentality of the I care book. We updated our behavior expectations to reflect the pack model. So, we updated what students should be doing in the classroom, what they should be doing in the hallway, what they should be doing in the cafeteria, in the bathroom, even on the bus, on the playground, library. Um, we updated all of those. And, um, the fourth nine weeks, we kind of did a trial run of utilizing class dojo to kind of monitor and track our positive behaviors from those updated expectations. Um, we implement again implemented dojo more frequent more frequent parent
026communication. Um, I think teachers really did a good job of communicating with parents when they did see some type of behavior, but also anytime I had a student in my office, I called and talked to the parent. Um, and then we did have a few behavior sats throughout the year. Uh, I want to give a shout out to Marlington Elementary School staff of the year. Um, Ashley Diller was our service personnel of the year for Marlington Elementary. And then Samantha Feather was also Marlington Elementary and Pocahontas County Schools teacher of the year. So, some glows and grows. You know, I think this year, um, the Marlins Elementary staff really faced some changes as, you know, coming in with a new administrator midway through the year. Um, but I want to give them a shout out
027because they they really they really took what I was saying and went with it and I really appreciate them for that. Some glows that we have um strong student academic competitions. We've had students place in several county um regional and state fairs. We developed a consistent committee meeting schedule. So, our leadership, our safety, our wellness, our attendance team meeting um started meeting monthly on a regular basis through um throughout each week. Um and if you were to ask the the staff, I think they would say it's an overall improved school climate. Some of these grows and glows I took from them. Um, so some of this is their own words. Uh, some other updates, we have new stair treads and risers going into the cafeteria. If you haven't been down to me, check those out.
028They look great. >> And then look, >> we put digital clocks in the hallways. Um, the clocks that were there before, they were not keeping time. They'd all be on different time times and that threw people off in the hallway. some grows. And I'm going to get to this one in just a second. Um, we have maintenance and a cleanliness focus. Um, and I'm going to talk about that in just just a minute when we get to our prioritized list of needs. Um, master schedule. Um, and I think Mr. Anderson can attest to this. You know, the last several years it's been difficult to develop a master schedule that works for Marlington Elementary. And with the addition of the STEM teacher, I think that we have a master schedule that will work. Fingers crossed. Knock
029on wood. Um, but because before, you know, I might have PE today on Monday, but then at 2:00, but on Thursday I'm going to have PE at 10:00. It was so inconsistent. And when students don't have that routine and for teachers, it's hard for teachers to keep up with it, too. the playground fence. And this one's a big one. Um, and I'm going to go into a little bit more detail on that in just a second. And then better collaboration with our special education and speech or related services. Um, there's not much wiggle room in our schedule for speech and special education to collaborate with teachers and that is very vital um to the success of our students with exceptionalities. And so I know I need to do a better job of looking at our
030schedule to see if there's time in there that we can fit that collaboration in for you. So Dr. Williams, Mr. Gibson, and Darren and Christie um joined us about a month ago to do a walkthrough of our building to develop a list of needs for our school. And we we identified several areas. And I want to say that Marlington Elementary, I think it has a very special place. Um, you have a very dedicated group of staff who who are in it 100%. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I think for a long time because we are so worried that we will see another flood that we haven't put the love into Marlington Elementary that we should have. And I totally get that. I mean, it it's a scary thought thinking that we might endure another flood,
031but what if it doesn't happen for another 50 years? Are we going to let our building continue to dilapidate for another 50 years? I mean, I would put as much love in it as you can to to try to keep to keep it keep it in good working condition because your your staff truly do value it. Um, after Dr. Williams um and Mr. Gibson went through and did our list of needs. I actually went ahead and took that list myself and pulled our staff to see what the prioritized list of needs were. Um, number one is the playground fence. Um, that has been a topic of discussion for uh several years. If you look back at the faculty senate meeting minutes, it's been on faculty senate for several I mean what was the board office
032tore down last year, year before last? I I can't remember. Um the playground and I'm going to add to this a little bit. Um Lucy Messo has been working with an individual his name is John Conboy and he is actually from St. Louis. He goes back and forth between St. Louis in Florida, but he got connected with West Virginia through Young Life. And he is wanting his son um died of an overdose and in in honor of his son, in memory of his son, he wants to um renovate playgrounds across the state of West Virginia. So, he has actually selected three three sites in West Virginia that he would like to donate to, and Marlington Elementary is one of them. There's one in Tucker County, one in Oakill, and then Marlington Elementary. He wants to
033take Oh, you might have to a couple pictures. He wants to take this surface, this playground area right here, and that's just as you exit out the elementary wing. He wants to take this and he wants to raise it up and put a pickle ball cord on it. Okay. Um, I don't know if you guys have been down there when it rains pretty heavily, but right here, just like a swimming pool, it just it lays right there. He would like to raise this up, turn it into a pickle ball court, possibly depending on how much it cost, um, resurface and redo the basketball and tennis court, and then finally add a playground fence around it. Um, now you we've been we've been in this discussion with him for several months now. Mr. Gibson has worked
034with him. Lucy's been working with him and I think he's ready to get the ball rolling. Um, he just wants to um have a survey done before he proceeds. And so Lucy was supposed to reach out to Justin Dilly to see if it would be possible to get a survey done or if Justin knew of anybody else who could help us get that done. Um and of course if if that ever comes through, we would have to develop theus and whatever else we would need to ensure that it is um possible to get done. So I just want you guys to keep that in the back of your mind. um we potentially have a donor if if it all lines out correctly. The second thing um was window tinting of Marlington Elementary. We're on two
035very busy side streets and I think this year um school safety was uh really a top priority for our staff. Um we had several lockdowns um legitimate lockdowns at that um where there was something happening in the community and we needed to go on lockdown. But also this year and just we have very observant staff and there have been times where there has been some questionable characters that have walked by our school that if you are walking on the sidewalk, you can see directly into the classroom if you don't have the blinds pulled. Um, so you know, we all need a little vitamin D and a little sunshine at times. So a lot of teachers don't have their blinds pulled. I mean, heck, if you drive down the street, you can look in from your
036vehicle and see what students are doing. So MEES staff prioritized window tenting as a next prioritized need. And um, I had actually tinted the front doors um, before. Like that was like one of the first things I did when I got there. I attended the front doors. I don't know if you guys noticed that, but if you drive by, it's hard to see inside now. Um, and I think that really made staff feel a little bit better that you couldn't see all the way down into the cafeteria from the side street. >> Um, Mr. Gibson had said that he would potentially look at um writing a grant to see if it would be possible to tint all the windows in the schools in the county, but I feel that since we're on two two of
037the busiest side streets in Marlington that it would be a priority to get done. Uh painting the cafeteria, kitchen ceiling, um painting the interior entrance and office at MEES. I don't know if you guys I don't know the last time you guys were in the building, but when you walk in, we've got different paint colors. Um different just overall the paint is grungy. Um and I think a fresh coat of paint would be very beneficial to um just improving that overall school climate and culture. And then I'm not going to focus on those. A lot of those I group together. I kind of group them as four prioritized needs. One, repurposing the gym. I have not talked about that. Um, with the addition of the STEM teacher, we needed to build a space in the
038multi-purpose, what I call the multi-purpose room, but what everybody calls the old gym. We need to build a space in there for the STEM teacher and just some additional storage in there. Um, and so that one we've kind of already been working on cleaning out um, organizing to see if that's even a possibility. Two is the playground um, because that's what staff um, voted on. Three was the window tinting and then four was painting of mees. And I think if we could get those things done, our staff would feel much much better about our building. I have a couple questions. >> Yes. >> Do you want to tell them the plan for the where the band room will go, the music room >> since you want the old gym space to be re? >> Yes.
039Actually, I have a floor plan if I could throw it up. >> So, they can see that. >> Let me I have a floor plan. I think that the uh school fence has already seen a major improvement and that all that orange fence has nearly deteriorated and been picked up by, you know, everybody in the county. That was horrible. That stuff was >> Yeah. >> put up there. Um, and that it wasn't really stopping our kids from running out. Um, so Darren and Cricut added chicken wire to that. Um, it stops some walls and it'll stop students from going through it. But the other thing that they did, um, because we had some very questionable characters walking around, even tried to cross the playground when our kids were out there, even after staff were yelling
040at them. And thank goodness for Darren because he stayed right there with our staff until he knew that the kids and the staff are safe. Um, but they ran a fence from the old board office across to the preschool playground. So students cannot go past the preschool playground right now without having to go around. And I think that has made teachers feel much safer um because they don't have to worry about students running off the playground. >> And and they also move those sheds out of there which looks a lot better back there too. I think they're up on the concrete now. Do what would I don't want to interrupt you, but back to Mr. Dilly and the surveying. Is that something that we would need to you need approval from the board to pay
041you know pay for that service or something like that you know? >> Well I think the the donor would be paying all of it like to get it surveyed and everything. >> That's a he has now of course it's not specific to me but he has provided us with architectural sketches of the pickle ball courts and Tucker and in Oakill. um he's done all that and I think like I said he is very willing and very motivated. We just know that sometimes our resources here are limited and it takes a while to get a surveyor. Um so this is the proposed layout of what is the old gym. So we would add and I had Darren help me draw this up. Um we would add a stem room for a new position right here. We
042have a lot. We don't really have a dedicated space for our storage for our textbooks. So, I'd like to make this back section 20 by 14 and make that just our curriculum storage out here. Um, I have a couple options depending on it's kind of dependent on if community care could move their phone lines. Um, I would love to move community care into the old gym here, uh, where they can service students there. And what is currently the nurses station/ community care would turn into the teachers lounge. Um, a lot of our spaces in our building right now serve multi-purposes. Like the lounge um, for teachers is also the CIS room and it's the intervention room right now. So that would be where the old office was, the original office to Marlington Elementary. I want
043to make that the lounge because it also has a kitchenet and a restroom in there for our staff. Um and then we know that communities and schools um has a lot of resources and supplies for our students. I want to provide them with a dedicated space for storage. And she also asked, you know, sometimes she meets with families kind of privately. you know, people are sensitive if they have to accept help from people. She would like to have just a little space here that she can meet with families um to give them the supplies of whatever resources they may need. So, that would become a CIS storage room or whatever she would like for it to be. This stays the same. This is currently custodial storage. Um, the nurses station is what is currently what
044would be um, Miss Dana Mutual's office right now. I plan on moving Miss Mutual back up to the original music room which was across the cafeteria or across from the kitchen. So, because it's got the soundproofing. So, she's going to go back up to um the main building. I don't want to say the separate building, but the main part of the building. So, this becomes the nurses station. This is still custodial. There were there are two bathrooms back here. Um, and they've not been in usable condition since the wellness center was built. I guess when they built the wellness center, they crushed the pipes and it would take a significant amount of money to restore those bathrooms. So, what I would like to do, I know it says additional custodial right here, but also turn
045this into storage. And um I think with this one, I mean that one's kind of already a given. We're going to do storage anyway because we can't fix the pipes. Um maintenance has already taken out the stalls, the sinks. I think they still lack the toilets. So, this is just just a little bit more ready for storage here. So, we feel like our maintenance crew can do all that work. >> Yes. >> Um, and they've been already starting there and working on that. >> They removed the old bleachers. There were two sets of bleachers in there. Um, and they are repurposing some of the hardware from them um for Hillsboro's bleachers. So, what we not using, they can use elsewhere. So, they already took the bleachers out. Um, we have cleaned and we have cleaned
046and we have cleaned. Um, I'm telling you, our our teachers really got with it to determine what we needed and what we didn't, what was no good. Um, and so we've we've been working hard the last I want to say month or so, straightening them up. It might not look like it if you walk in there now, but as much stuff as well, I mean, there was stuff back there like fans that were broken and chairs that were broken and if it's broken and it's no longer usable, we need to put it in the trash. >> Yeah. So, >> oh, I did not see your K2 data. Did you want to share anything about I Ready data? >> It was pretty good. >> It was um second grade had some great movement. Um overall, um
047if I could I wish I could log in to show you, but there's certain certain areas where you want to see like high growth. Um, a lot of our our there's like I always like to look at it the quadrant. There's a a map a breakdown of graph and there's four quadrants. It's like low growth, high growth um versus our expectations. And for the most part, we were in the quadrants where we were seeing high growth um and an increase in student achievement. We still we still have some stuff to work on, but for the most part, our I Ready was pretty good. We had very few students that did not meet the cut score um for I Ready, but for those students that did um we uh already had those SAT meetings >> and
048then do you want to say I was wondering about your discipline 305 referrals. Can you tell me how many students if you know? >> I think it was 63 >> 63 students. So there was a lot of repeat offenders. So there's a >> a portion of students that's getting most of the referrals. Would that be a fair statement? >> Yes, that is a fair statement. >> The question uh the school calendar, will that help you in attendance at the end of next year since it's changed? >> I believe so. I mean, we're going to be a little bit closer to state testing. Um, and I think that will help as well. Um, and having the calendar set now, I think families will be a little bit more purposeful in their vacation planning. I mean, you
049know, we we had a lot of snow days, we had a lot of makeup days, and, you know, the the tight calendar. We, you know, families just they were done. I mean, I had um we finished up GSA testing somewhere around the 18th or somewhere in that the week prior. I know of some families that were done and gone. They went to Florida and they weren't coming back. >> Yeah. >> So, I mean, I have I have some students that missed the last three weeks of school. >> Yeah. >> So, >> I know from experience once testing is done, >> students are done, right? >> And we just had to make up stuff for them to stay busy. And that's even the last week we had field day. We had our PBIS trip which you
050know our discipline students don't necessarily come on those days for the PBIS trip. But we we tried to have multiple activities that week. You know some classes went to the splash pad. Um some took a picnic trip to Stillwell. Um on those days that we did have some structured activities our attendance was better. But on the days we lack some type of fun thing to do in the last week of school, our attendance was atrocious. >> The legislature has talked about changing that 180day period. Did you know whether that ever cut through or not? >> We went to a 900 hour calendar. It won't be for this year, but the rules are being developed by the West Virginia Department of Education for the next year. >> The only problem with that calendar or doing that
051is there's a fixed set of time that service personnel works. So, an extension of a service personnel day. So, if you want to go to a 4 day week, they they didn't change that parameter. Um, the employee retirement system says you have to work 200 days. So, they didn't change that parameter. So, there's some there's some nuances that we have to learn to work through. And >> I think I think with the attendance um our attendance team has a a plan coming in strong at the beginning of the year. Um, and I think I think we've got it ready to ready to hit the ground running come August. >> Yeah. Hey, you mentioned earlier um and it's a real concern of the community about the lockdowns and things and you know you're the resident expert
052there. What would be your advice to admin about handling that? Would you give any advice or what what would you what would you say about the lockdowns? >> I think anytime that you have a suspicion that there might be something wrong, it's better to take the precaution than to have the consequence later. So, you know, there was a couple instances where we we didn't know what was going on. We heard something um and so we went into lockdown mode and let the law enforcement handle it and tell us when it was time when it was safe. I mean, we don't fool around with that. >> Yeah. Yeah. Okay. >> Chloe is also getting um she asked for a new computer lab. >> Yeah. We are going to move her computers to the high school in
053the lab that we talked about this morning and get all-in- ones with cameras. >> Yes. >> Because you want to explain why you need cameras on your computer. So, and I think this is if you ask staff, they will have a positive outlook on this. Um, before we had student, we have student devices and we did our state testing on those student devices. Um, we've had some issues with them throughout the school year and I felt that it was time that we transitioned to the computer lab to do our state assessments because the devices were just simply unreliable. And so we did all of our I Ready and our GSA testing in the computer lab. Um, and it made a difference and teachers really appreciated it because they thought it made it a more serious
054environment for them. They're going in, there's not a lot in the computer lab, there's not a lot of distractions. Um, it gave them a a a testing environment. Uh the issue with the devices in the computer lab um to get on to Clevver, which is the program that we use to access our other um educational tools like I Ready, they have to have what's called a little Clever badge. It's basically a QR code. And the computers in the Q computer lab don't have a camera to read the QR code. So teachers have to log in students individually and trying to get a kindergartener in there to log in with their username and password um is difficult. So with the with the new computers, they'll be able to just scan the little badge. >> Yeah, it
055sounds like you're doing a wonderful job. >> I'm trying. I've learned a lot this year and I I can't thank the staff enough. They've been super supportive. They've given feedback. You know, there's a lot of traditions at Marlington Elementary and they've provided a wealth of information to make the year successful. >> Yeah. Any any more questions from Miss Blank? I think I think MEES is great. You're doing a good job. >> Thank you. Yes. >> All right. We're going to take about a 10m minute break and we'll be back at 2:15 with >> Morningington Middle, right? I am ready. So, welcome to Marland Middle School. I'm happy to see you. Um, I updated our presentation from the beginning of the year. Added some glows and some things were doing really well. I included some more
056data and I'm just going to kind of talk you through that. So if you have questions, please stop me. Okay, it's working now. So I do not have any community members here with me today because of 4H camp. But my president is Lucy Messo, Val Monaco is my vice and I have Andrea Cutlup, Kendall Beverage, and Michelle Deeds who are members at Marlington Middle School. We have Becky Davis, Missy Hill, Crystal Lewis, Lorisy Miller, and Denise Sharp. And unfortunately, our student representatives are also on their way to 4 camp and that would be Victor Dean and James Monaco. In hindsight, I should have presented first and they probably could have been here. So, just some glows that we would like to recognize. At Marllins and Middle School, we had 44 students at the end of
057the year who had perfect conduct. So, 100% in conduct. That means no weas infractions which is a pretty large percentage of about 110 kids. Uh we had supportive community partners. We started something this year Haley Cumins and I headed we had community members um do like pickmeups each month. So they would bring lunch or they would bring coffee and just different things throughout the year. So we had community members and businesses pick up every month. So the staff really enjoyed that. The MMS high tunnel um produced lots of produce and has now cleaned it out and replanted for next year. So, Miss McNab and Lucy Misseso are working on that project. We were able to purchase new picnic tables out back. So, if you've seen those, we were able to get the nice black ones,
058which the staff and students really have appreciated. Uh we had monthly attendance awards for children. Um if you were here, you got to participate. So we did something each month. So students really enjoyed that. We got safety vest and if they showed up and we had our vest on that day, they knew that they were doing something fun that day. So that was a lot of fun. We next year have 20 to 30 fifth grade students who are interested in taking band >> which is a big deal. Um we're hoping to really grow the band program. Miss Dana um she is not here does remarkable with our children and they really enjoy her. So, we're hoping that will help the high school band numbers. We have really worked on collaboration among staff to improve student
059success, attendance, and communication. And we've had a PBIS trip every nine weeks for students for positive behavior. The strategic plan goal that I would talk about first is academics. So 75% of students, this was last year's, like this current school year, 75% of students will meet standards or show growth from 2025 to 2026. And we've revamped that a little bit for next year and we can talk about that. But here is some of our test data. I would like to note that we are above or tied with the state in all categories except sixth grade mathematics. So sixth grade math will be a focus of ours next year. um in intervention, planning, and curriculum with our sixth grade math teacher and our math department. But overall, our scores look pretty good. ELA scores look remarkable.
060Um 8th grade specifically is 68% and the state was 55. So I say state 55, I'm sorry, state was 43. So we were 68 and the state was 43. So that's a huge gap. So that's really good for um 8th grade ELA and specifically all of these are really pretty good. Anybody want to look at that further or >> no >> any questions? >> So science also we were at 42 the state was at 29 and these were for our eighth graders and three things that we really worked on this year was identifying our bubble and sliding kits using test data. We had intervention uh groups based on focused curriculum skills and used assessments and data to help build those groups. And we used our data to guide our instruction and our PLC's. And at
061Marlin Middle School, we've worked really hard to incorporate uh monthly I have a week of curriculum based PLC's, a week of grade level PLC's, and then we have a week of study hall and a week of like curriculum, leadership, safety, and some of those PLC's. >> What is PLC? What is this? >> Professional learning community. So it's where so for eighth grade PLC all eighth grade teachers meet and have time to look at data and have conversations. >> Okay. >> Um and we've worked really hard in the last two years to make those PLC's more meaningful. >> So this is kind of hard to see. Something I would like you to note in the summit of 2026 and 2027 you will see that the growth of our children are all green and positive. So, we
062unfortunately were added to the ATS additional targeted support school um for special education. So, we've been really working hard on tracking our special education data. So once we have started our MTSS here at Marlington Middle School, which is our intervention, we have noticed that our special education students when we track them from sixth grade to 8th grade after we've started our focus p um MTSS that they are all in the green now and we do not have any in the red for the last two school years. So that's really nice. And this is for ELA and we also have the same thing for math. And I will say that my staff really is looking forward to and appreciative of the LL program that the board has agreed to purchase um to hopefully help these scores
063more for all students. Something else we want to talk about with that MTSS, we have really worked hard. We've had a couple teachers kind of take the reigns on this. So kudos to them. But when they're looking at their focused intervention, each nine weeks they're picking something. So ELA first nine weeks picked writing and language and they looked at the standards that children were tested on and found the lowest standards. They focus their intervention and their planning on those standards. And on the right hand column, you will see when we pulled data at the end of testing this year, all of our standards have grown. So for example 6.39A we were at 45% at the beginning of the year at the end of the year we were at 71% which is a growth of 26%.
064So you can see that actually across the board in all of our intervention every single standard we picked we grew which is pretty nice. So first n first nine weeks we picked writing and language second nine weeks we picked informative text. So you can see a growth from 28% to 20% to 14%. So a lot of growth within informational text which we also talk about in socializing science. Third nine weeks we picked literary text and you will see we grew on all three of those standards. And you can't really see this. I can share the PowerPoint with you later. Um this is just some of our teacher made intervention material and it was leveled and it was um shared with all staff. And I will say something different in the last year for our um
065MTSS I believe we have 100% teacher buyin. So sometimes it's hard to make changes. Um but we have really grown leaps and bounds and we moved our intervention from the end of the day to right before lunch. And we've also seen more success with children as well. So math, I'm not going to go into it too much, but the things we focused on in math was number sense, data, and equations. And again, on all three of those, you will see growth in all of the standards in which we were the lowest in. And this is some of our teacher created material. Some grows that the LSIC would like to mention. Um, I don't have those with me right now, but I will mention them for them. New lockers is always a priority and an ask
066of the LSIC and the staff and of the students. So, if you haven't seen our lockers, walk down the hallway. They are very, very tiny and it's very hard to get anything in them. So, that is something that we really are working towards. And we've raised some money, but we would like to find someone to match that money because right now we could only buy a few, but if somebody were to match it, then we could buy more with our money. Additional playground equipment. And we would like to also on the playground look at our fence. We have some chain link fence that is kind of leaning a little bit that might need pulled back up. The pavement on the hardtop um needs some love. We have a kindness group who has worked on that
067a little bit. Got some pricing, but they didn't get very far with their project. So maybe touching base with them again. And obviously everyone knows we miss having Miss Hill here every day, all day. Um it has been hard for us. We're learning. It takes a lot, but we do miss having a full-time counselor. Some recent wins at Marlington Middle School, something big. We had both Golden Horseshoe winners. So Gerald Clifton and Bailey Goodwin both went to Charleston last week and were kned. So that is a big deal. Um they both were very excited and had really good things to say about it. And we also had three kids who participated in a stock market game with Miss McComem and they won second place in the state. So we had Gerald Clifton, Hunter Lmark, and
068Brantley Cox. I would like to also note here we had lots of participants in all schools fairs, county fairs, all of the things. and we had winners at each level. So, congratulations to all those kiddos. I did not go through and put individual pictures, but we had lots of winning things happening here at Marlington. Miss Doss really has worked hard on our Battle of the Books team. We've had two years that we've competed in this. The first year we went down, we had no idea what we were doing. Um, we had not prepared at all other than reading the books and we placed second out of 10. So, our kids really wanted to win the next year, so they wanted to do it again. And this year, we went down and got third place out
069of 12. So, we had a team of six boys and Miss Doss and I think Miss Burns went with them and they had a really good time and they are already looking forward to next year. Discipline. I left this one out and then I heard you guys asking Miss Schaer for it, so I added it. Um cuz discipline makes me a little uneasy cuz it doesn't always look good in numbers. Um I will say at Marllin Middle School, we do tend to overdocument because we like documentation and we like to have the data when we talk to parents and those kind of things. So I do not have the number of children who have the infractions because I did not have time to do that. Um but this year we had 434 infractions in Weebis
070which sounds like a lot. Um but when I compared it to last year we had actually decreased by 62 and then I went back one more year and we had decreased by 129. So we have really tried at Marlington Middle School to turn a lot of our classroom management into positive. So, we implemented something we call class dojo uh for those of you who aren't aware and it's just a platform we can communicate with families and all of our infractions turn positive in the classroom for classroom management. So, children are earning points for being cooperative or responsible or for having good attendance or for having a winning attitude. So, we base it all around our crew here at the middle school. So level one we had 297 which is the majority of those are disruptive
071disrespect and level two we had 116. Level three we had 21 and we had zero level four infractions this year. >> Good. >> Yes. >> Yep. And I would say your habitual, this is totally just a guess, so do not quote me, would be about 25 kids. And that might be high. >> Yeah, I think it's close, but it might be a little bit high. So, we set a plan and we were over ambitious and we did not realize this until we attended a lot of state trainings, but our strategic plan goal for attendance was we wanted to decrease by 10%. Everywhere I've gone, they said 10% is a lot. you need to shoot for two or 3%. So, we kept it at 10% and we worked hard all year. Um, some things that we
072have done was again the monthly attendance rewards. Something that I really enjoyed this year, um, I had staff at the beginning of the year, I printed out a list of our chronically absent children and I had staff adopt those children. So, let's say my child's chronically absent. Miss Hill has a really good relationship with my child. She would adopt him and every time he was absent, she would have a meaningful contact with that child. Whether it's calling the family or touching base with him the next day. We worked really, really hard to adopt those children. And we have not dove into the data to see if that's been helpful. I will say it's been really beneficial building those relationships with families. And I've had a lot of families thank me personally for calling them saying
073like, you know, I know you were absent yesterday. I didn't get a note. So just having those meaningful conversations has been really um beneficial. Middle school children, there's not a lot that they will work towards. So when we hear Miss Schoffner say they like the trinkets and the toys, middle school children don't love those as much. So if we can give middle school children 20 minutes of extra recess, they will do anything they can do to go outside and play. Um, so extra recess was something that we offered to our children. So if a eighth grade, the whole class was here, they earned extra recess that day. And I don't have that data in front of me, but I do have it in my office. Um, it wasn't a whole lot, but they really they
074would run from home room to home room and say, "Hey, is Johnny here today?" Or, you know, they knew the kids that they needed to check in on to see if they earned that recess. When we're talking about meaningful contacts, I do not have the staff members on here, but I will say that me personally had I had 108 meaningful contacts with families this school year just based on attendance. Um, star student of the month, we post on Facebook every month. We pick those as academic teams. >> Can I say something? Could you put the names on those on Facebook? You ask me every time and I'll just tell you I just feel very uneasy about putting children's names on Facebook. It makes me very uncomfortable. Um just with Furpa and all the things I
075can look into it. I just don't want to find myself in a place that puts me in a predicament um of putting children's names. But I can look into that. >> You just put initials or something. >> Yeah. I my hopes is and it happens most of the time is the parents then share it and say congratulations you know so and so and then it gets back I just don't love putting children's names cuz I don't put my children's stuff on Facebook I feel uncomfortable putting other parents children's stuff on um we let our highest class attendants line up first for lunch class dojo I talked about and we have worked really hard to have a student council um it's a work in progress because middle schoolers they don't love to do that either. So,
076we're trying to figure out a way to make kids love that. Yes, Missy is our head of student council, so it's really hard to manage that without her here five days. So, when I said 10% was too much, um I will tell you we grew or decreased our chronics chronically absent percentage from 43% to 39%. So, that is a decrease, which is good. The less you know you have in that percentage the better. So next year we're hoping our goal would be by 2027 Marlington Middle School will reduce chronic absenteeism from 38.5% to 36.5% as measured by the percentage of students missing 10% or more of enrolled instructional days using the West Virginia Zoom WVE attendance data. This one's a little tricky to talk about because it looks like we have a lot of community
077involvement. So, this year we said we would like to provide six opportunities to increase community awareness and involvement. And when you look at our list of things, it will look like we have a lot of those and we do. We do have a lot. But this school year, we would like to make those six structured opportunities. So, we would like community members to come into our classrooms or to do presentations. Um, we've kind of stepped away from like the things like assemblies and things like that because it takes so much class time, but we would like to get our community members involved in the academics and the connection of what they're learning with the real world, you know, and I specifically think about CTE. Um, some of those courses I think would be really a
078good opportunity to get some outside members in and also hopefully to get some of our students out as well. Like we want people to come, but we also need to get our kids out in the community a little bit more and kind of soak in the opportunities that Poconos County has to offer. So, we um congratulated these people at our um awards day. And speaking of awards day, um I don't know if any of you guys were in attendance, but it was the biggest awards day I think we've ever had at Marlington Middle School. So, that was a huge glow. Uh Miss Dana had a band concert beforehand, so it brought all the band families in. And I will say most of our children who got awards were here. So that was very very it
079was wonderful actually. Um but I would like to recognize Kim Jordan who is our secretary at Marlington Middle School for our service personnel of the year. We gathered a quote from a student and that student said that Miss Kim is always there when you need her. And our teacher of the year we have Miss Charlie Hughes who is in here. She is our math one reading seven and ELA 8 teacher and she also coordinates the learning beyond the bell. And a quote from a student about Miss Hughes says, "Miss Hughes is very helpful, caring, kind, and wants to see us succeed." And that is absolutely true. So, congratulations to the two of you. We're very, very lucky to have you. This is a special shout out. Um, so when I make these presentations, I like
080to get some input from the staff. So, I'm not just talking about me, but I'm talking about things that they would like me to talk about. And a special shout out uh to Miss Haley and Miss Becky for going above and beyond for the students. No matter how big or small the task at hand is, they will jump right in and do whatever is necessary. Their hard work and dedication to our students does not go unnoticed. So sometimes, you know, being a service personnel and instructional aid is they have long days. They have no breaks, um no planning periods, and they work till when they get here till they leave. So, I appreciate the two of you. I appreciate all the staff. The staff here is just remarkable. Um, we've worked really hard, not we.
081I should not take any credit for this. Miss Hughes and Miss Haley have worked really, really hard on our school library. Uh, Miss Haley are um has worked to kind of make a thorough cleanup and reorganization. So, if you would like to look in the library before you leave, we h she has went through every book individually, reorganized them, and her and Miss Hughes have a passion for the library, and it is not going unnoticed. And building on that, Miss Hughes secured two significant funding awards. Um, Miss Hughes was awarded $10,000 from the American Library Association grant for accessibility, which will fund an inclusive trauma-informed library environment. and she also secured an additional $500 from Greenar Valley Mini Grant towards uh books to expand the library collection. So, right now we have earned they have
082$10,500 to continue working on our library project and I'm assuming we'll keep our maintenance crew pretty busy. Not sure if they know it yet. Learning Beyond the Bell at Marlington Middle School is an after-school program that was started this school year and it offers every student an opportunity to become a learner from creative arts to academic challenges with hands-on fun. Students had the chance to explore interest outside the classroom in a welcoming low pressure environment. So, I'll speak on I know the cooking club was a huge success. the drama club. There were a few they did after school that we had lots of participation and that's something that we would like to continue to see grow. Uh cuz sometimes you get the same kids who stay but they're happy to be here. Um some nights
083we have what's our largest how big is your drama club? 18. So around and counting the other kids probably around 20. And then sometimes we'd have four or five, but they were always here and always wanted to participate. So, we have the kindness project. Those of you who were here in the fall kind of um got a little input about that. We Miss Hughes has worked really hard with our seventh grade class. And some of the things that they would say is MMS doesn't always feel like a special place to belong for everyone. So the goal was to make MMS feel more welcoming, connected, and kind. So students have designed projects to spread positivity and inclusion. They're gathering data to measure kindness, belonging, and pride before and after our projects take effect. And they have
084step by step working to build a school that they're proud to be part of. So we have put some murals in the hallways. We have planted flowers out front. Help me Yes, I don't know if you all saw our post about testing. We had testing posters in the hallway. We're just trying to boost the morale in the building and letting children kind of take the lead in doing so. So, it's been nice seeing children take some responsibility and work really hard for something they're really proud of. So, that is all that I have. >> Great job. >> Well, thank you. Thank you. >> Do you have questions for me? >> It looks great. >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you. >> So, I have your list of stuff. The clock and aircom system was on
085your list. Is that still on your list? >> The clocks for sure, which I priced out, but it was too late to order with our dates. >> Okay. >> So, I that's something I was willing to do. And then the bathrooms, we had the mirrors, the paint, and the new stalls. >> Yes. So, this school year, you replaced some mirrors down there, but we talked about the need of replacing the stalls in all the bathrooms, >> hallway, and bathroom. This will be your extra painting in the summer. When your painters come, you'll take care of that. >> Yes. >> Okay. And then new locker locks in the gym locker room and painted the floors there. That's still something on your list. Is that correct? >> I'll take any of it. Yes. >> Yes or no?
086>> Yes. Okay. But it's part of the work session tomorrow. >> Yes. >> Okay. And then a new line here in the cafeteria. >> Yes. So what that means is we would replace this little one with a big one that just stays in here permanently. So my goal was maybe over here. We'll we'll find a home. >> Okay. So, >> but that one's gonna go away because it doesn't work and we'll probably replace that one. >> So, that's still on your list. >> I would love that. >> And I don't know, Christie, help me with this one. It says a new lab, >> but that's not until the year after. >> A year after. >> Correct, Christie? >> So, that's that's not next year. It's the next year. It's on the 2728 school year. Correct.
087>> Okay. And then paint the kitchen because the cooks asked for that. >> Yes. I I wrote down two words here and I don't know why I wrote them down. Stainless steel. >> I don't know why you wrote it down either. >> That sounds like a kitchen thing. >> It is a kitchen thing. What is it? >> Probably a backsplash in the dish room. >> It might be because we need a new backsplash in the dish room. >> Okay, that's a new backsplash. >> That's just an assumption, Morgan. That would be a good point. >> Mr. Mr. Anderson, do you remember what it was? I >> think it's trailing. It opens up. >> We just got that worked on and it functions. So I don't know. Okay, >> let's look at the backsplash and the
088>> that definitely does need done because we have some painting peeling. >> The paint always peels. >> Can I add one thing to that? >> Right to that. >> You can, but your number one thing is lockers. >> It is lockers. But we talked about one to one devices, which I know there's maybe in the future some new one to one devices. We would like classroom sets versus >> carts. >> Correct. >> We we >> it's a big one. >> Working on that diligently. is working >> and we even Christy could maybe develop some of our own things for homes for them. >> We talked about getting some lockers from another school at one time. >> I have reached out to Randolph County, but then that superintendent left. >> Um there's a couple counties I
089don't remember the other ones I've reached out to. >> Herman turned her school back over to the community now. >> Well, I reached out to I think it was Superintendent De, >> but he's no longer there. So maybe when Mr. Lambert gets in. I can ask again. But I have asked. >> They gave that school to the community. So I don't think >> but they they shut down. >> They closed one of the elementary school. >> Yeah. They shut down two schools. Yeah. And I don't know how will they have walkers at elementary or not. >> They wouldn't some. >> Ours do. >> Yeah. Ours did. Does that sound like you're >> But there's there's there's other schools that is shutting down around the state because of consolidation. >> Wets is one of them. >>
090And I'm happy to do that if I need to, but >> it's just a thought. >> I have I have personally reached out to Randolph. >> We need to look at the the value in and I say this because we got some in Braxton. We got some used lockers and we need to look at the value in getting the lockers, painting the lockers, refacing and relocking the lockers versus the cost of just getting lockers. >> Just getting new. >> Yeah, because sometimes when you refurbish them, >> it's cost as much. >> It cost as much when you can have something new. >> Oh, I don't disagree. >> Yes. >> But we would love new lockers. >> So, you hear it all the time. I'm sorry. >> They're expensive. They are expensive. >> Second day on
091the job. >> You did? >> The very second day she caught me for new lockers. >> She wanted to walk through my building and that's what we talked about. >> Um, does that sound like the the comprehensive list that we looked at that day? >> I feel like it's appropriate. >> That's an amazing job. >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Anybody have any other questions? Oh, back to the acronym again. ISL program. >> Il. >> Yes. >> What is that? >> So, it's an online learning platform that could help us. It's something you all approve to purchase for >> secondary schools. >> Okay. >> And we'll have it in social science, math, and ELA. >> Yeah. any >> PLC's with each group of teachers, each uh program out each content area,
092ELA, math, science, and social studies. And at the end of those groups, I had them fill out a little question. What do you need to be more successful and address student needs? And comprehensively, we had the math department especially as for >> it'll just help with data and planning >> and and student learning and success. >> Yep. Correct. >> One of my exact standard for the state of West Virginia. >> Yeah. >> And it will give me sample questions similar to what they're going to experience on the test versus me trying to expose. >> Yeah. No, that's great. Any other questions? Any other questions for me? >> Thank you. >> I would like to thank my staff >> for being here. Like I will tell you if I travel to the high school, they all
093would come. >> Thank you. >> They would be at the high school or Green Bank, wherever I go, they will follow and I appreciate them. >> We appreciate them, too. >> I do. I do. I do. >> Okay. Well, thank you, Miss Scott. >> Thank you. Our next it says 3:15 at Hillsboro Elementary here, but Hillsboro they're not here yet. So we're going to take a break until they >> Yes. >> arrive. >> How come? >> Yeah. There's some water. Hillsboro Elementary School. Miss Rebecca Spencer, principal and team >> up loud. The PowerPoint uh we are showing you is actually a collection of um pictures through the year. All the information I gave to you on handouts. Okay. So perfect. That is the the pretty stuff. >> Hey um for the LSIC report I started
094with attendance. Those are our monthly attendance rates and our yearto date is 93.45 45 with a chronically absent at 17.81 which is a improvement from last year and um honestly it would have been higher if there wasn't that horrible flu season in March that tanked us a little bit at 85%. Um but our chronically absent students um we had very rarely wasn't a medical issue causing the chronic absence. So um the next group of information I have is um the benchmark data. So our academics and um the first three boxes are taken off of the state assessment. So that is the third, fourth and fifth grade with our beginning, middle and end of year. our overall for those three grades um averaged together, we ended with a math end of year of 68% um grade
095level proficient or above and ELA the same 68% grade level proficient or above. Our science is only assessed in the fifth grade and we ended up with a 72% proficient in science. So the back side is the I Ready benchmarks which include K through fifth. Um there's a slight variation in the ELA just that um I ready for ELA does not include writing but the state assessment does. So, as a school, we ended our end of the year math um in I Ready Assessment K through 5th with a 90 or a 69% grade level proficient or above and an ELA of 71% grade level proficient or above. um with a notation of our kindergarten is a 100% every single um kindergartener in Hillsboro finished grade level proficient this year. >> So a very smart little
096group coming up. Our facilities um our air condition is currently being worked on. Um we as of last week had three rooms that had air condition in it. So hopefully um we'll be finished by the end of next year. And then um our next facility improvement that we would like um I believe will be on the board agenda tomorrow, but it is a a little tiny box down by the senior center, but we came up with a proposal to put raised bed gardening all along that to create the barrier between the road and the playground and will double as our farm to school lessons. So, um, our proposal includes fundraising of, um, requesting for businesses to donate and then we'll put their little business on the side of the, uh, raised beds. And off the
097top of your head, do you remember per bed? >> Uh, 225 >> um, for one giant 8 foot eight foot fish, eight foot bed. So um the I had more facility things than that. Are these just your priorities? >> These are just our upgrades not are or like our inhouse what we've accomplished not our requests. >> So your request will be in the slide. So or no >> I did not have list of requests in >> Okay. I still have your list. So we'll go over >> all of the things. >> There was a long laundry list. >> Okay. I'm sorry. I did I didn't I just got confused right there. So any did you want me to go? >> We can double back for that at the end. >> Okay. Okay. Um the only
098community edition that our LSIC had was the heritage uh fair coming up at the end of the month that is held on the school grounds which will be June 26th through the 27th. And if you have any questions or comments or want to booth, contact Ruth. Um the other paper that I had for you is next year's strategic plan and this is in proposal stage. It still needs to be approved by the county. Um but we wanted to continue growing our academic achievement um to increase our student attendance rates. We met um the increased student attendance rate last year, but we're just going to keep on bumping that up until our chronically absent um numbers reduce. We also are adding a family engagement. Um we had a 66% increase in family engagement activities this year,
099but want to continue to um aim for two per grade level per year. Um and then we also added increased student engagement and expressing concerns through discussion and writing. This came out of our um climate survey that our students felt that their um that staff cared about them, were there for them and they could reach out to them. But then another question said um in what way do you express concerns, upset or um anything that you are is weighing on you? And they didn't have a capacity by which to do that whether it was verbal or in written. Um so they felt very loved and safe but then didn't actually have the skill set to express when things were bothering them. So we felt um that was pretty significant thing we needed to focus on
100giving them the skill set to process and verbalize their needs. Questions comments ready to move back to the facility. >> I think Hillsboro is great. Great. >> I would just like to point out that he did not um Miss Spencer did not really toot her horn as much as she could have. But if we look at kindergarten, they went from a 13% proficiency level meeting standards to 70%. Is that correct? >> That's correct. >> First grade from 0 to 55. Second grade from 0 to 71. third from 10 to 67. Fourth from 30 to 70. Um fifth from 36 to 82. And then schoolwide from 16 to 69. And that's in math. In reading astronomical from 25 to 100, from 0 to 55, from 17 to 71, from 30 to 70, from 40 to 70,
101fifth grade from 45 to 61, and the schoolwide average from 27 to 71. That is no small feat. That is an amazing >> amazing accomplishment. >> This is pretty incredible, isn't it? So small schools are not always high performing schools. >> So to have a small school that's high performing just speaks volumes of your teachers and your leadership and I appreciate that. >> Thank you very much. I mean >> that's not I don't want to brush over how fantastic that growth is that they had there. It was amazing. >> And then their list it's lengthy. Their principles love to make a list. We don't have any money. >> So, um let's start at You want to talk about reconfigurations of some classrooms to add new classrooms? Want to address that a little bit? >> Yes.
102Um we are adding two classrooms to Hillsboro. Um one is a self-contained um special ed classroom and one is a behavior classroom. I have um within this configuration um we're going to try to take one classroom and make a smaller room inside the classroom so that we can have um a special ed classroom and have speech a small speech room also and then we have shuffled everyone around to just make a um better flow for the behavior classroom also. So within that the need is I need two balls to make that smaller room inside the room. Um >> and that could be done by our maintenance >> I believe. Is that what they said? Jess. >> Yes. >> I think they came looking for um materials listed just the other day. >> Someone said that
103in one of the new rooms that's being done or the moving you're doing some of the staff or maybe one or two does not have space for a desk. Can you make that happen? >> Um, it's not space for the desk. We don't have desks like that's usually teachers desk is the lowest priority when we look at our facilities and our furniture. Um, so within that we are attempting um some of them last year um actually we and we discussed this pricing. I haven't looked into it. Um, which would be better because through the years I went from like school specialty or or industrial strength desks to Amazon desks. Well, those little puppies don't last but a couple years before they all fall apart. Um, so we've also looked at could we get into building
104desks with desktops or butcher block on top of two little filing cabinets, which might be a much cheaper alternative, but would be something that lasts or stands the test of time. >> So, how many desks do you not have? >> Probably five. Now, I have nothing for the new people, like the new classrooms. We have no furniture yet. You're on the board at Denmark. >> But I was just thinking >> they will build desk or they used to. >> Yeah. >> The old school we can get some furniture for >> I know I whenever I was at Kramer lumber I donated the lumber and they done it to train desk school. >> Too big for what I'm asking. >> Yeah. The old school's desks are phenomenal but they're entirely too big for a classroom. >>
105Do we have somebody contact Bill's desk? It's too big for big rooms. >> Yeah, exactly. >> Um, do you get a furniture for your furniture a lotment? >> Couple thousand a year. >> So, do you is >> we do, but like a a a Walmart desk or an Amazon desk is a couple hundred dollar, but they're they've been only lasting a couple years. So, to get something sturdy, industrial is going to be a lot more. And that doesn't include student desks or chairs or anything else. >> Huh? >> You all deal with quill that they use. >> We do. And I mean, they're great, but they're like 500y. They're expensive. >> Um, so it's just a matter of um the desks have cycled down. I mean, we still have nice, gorgeous wooden desks that, you
106know, your drawer flaws out. They're beautiful. Um but it's just our facilities aren't we do we if we need desk we need desk. >> Yeah. >> Absolutely. >> So I also had stalls in the bathroom need to replace black ones. Is that what we talked about? Is that still on your priority list? >> Yes. The um stalls on the upper end the third through fifth grade side need um the dividers need replaced >> then. Um, I think this has to do with the flower boxes. I'm not for sure. The senior center drain. Um, currently the senior center, we have a flower box that was put there, I don't know, 20 years ago or so. It's causing a drainage problem which is actually flooding out the water coming off of that giant building and going in
107the senior center door. Last summer or summer before, we actually had to replace the floor in the senior center because it just flooded straight in that door and ran. So, currently it is sandbagged. The door is um >> sandbags in the door. >> Yeah. Literally on the side of the door so we don't flood. >> Um we're going to move the box, but that whole area it's kind of like a compilation of many things that happened. We um the driveway between the senior center and the building was built up because the larger buses were bottoming out. Well, when we built it up, now we have a road that is well above the door. >> Yeah. >> So, it drains straight down into the door. Um so, that was one problem. And then the um drainway
108with the flower box is also causing a drainage problem coming off the soccer field and going in this direction. So we have water newly funnel it in over the last five or six years from two different directions. So in order to fix it, we just need to remove that box and completely try to resloak the whole area. Um trying to get the water out of the senior door. So it's not a school priority, but it is our building. So we need to >> Well, it's taking care of community, too. >> Yeah. >> Um there was quite a bit of water. There's a lot >> there. Yeah, there's water. >> It's done this for a long time. >> Um, yes, we've known it for a long time. The seniors had put in, prior to this, it
109was a cement floor. So, about four years ago, the seniors put in that uh particle board flooring to make it a little more comfortable for them and not as cold. Well, that didn't stand up to flood water nearly as well as cement did. So, it was just a snowball of events that now we're to the point we need to fix. So, it's been flooding for four years. >> Um, when in extreme weather? Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. Um, and then the the most recent problem was snow piles when the big snow this winter, the two winters before our snow wasn't significant enough that it didn't all melt at once. >> There's two doors to that building. One of them is the senior building and the other one is for what are we using it for?
110Storage. >> Storage. And um the >> used to have a kitchen and it used to be the old cafeteria. >> It's county food storage on that side. >> Currently the seniors are coming in. There's like two double doors on that front side. So accessing that. >> Um >> I I am not sure. It would definitely need to be a fire marshal thing. I think we just need to remove this door completely. I I don't know that we can ever build up the ground enough to not still have a door well below the road. Yeah, I know. >> Just fill in the wall there. >> Yeah. I think it needs and that's my, you know, I'm not a construction guy, but I think the door needs removed. Um, we need to slope all the ground a
111little bit better. >> Could still go in through the other door. >> Yes. And the drain that is there is one of those little tiny old clay drains that we've replaced the top several times, but all the water's also making the little drain pop up above where the water flows. like it's just an old problem that needs fixed. >> Then we also had a new roof on the basement shed. >> Yeah, there's just a wee little tiny basement shed that um you know where we went the new boilers now or a small scrap of metal would fix that. Um she asked about this and I I was actually pretty shocked when I went in the bathroom. Um the gym bathroom. Do you want to talk about that a little bit? I don't know who was
112ever this tiny little over the door. >> Your knees open the doors. So, like adults hate using those bathrooms and anybody above the third grade hates using our gym bathroom doors because they're just too small. >> Um I I don't know why they were made that way, but they need fixed. >> We need something. I just don't know what to do because it really >> the whole bathroom needs redone. >> Yeah. Um, well, it's of the old high school era. Like, we have showers in there. We don't need showers in our bathrooms. There's old lockers in there. We don't need like we just need nice little bathrooms with hand sinks that and doors that your knees don't open. Um, and then the extra space would be nice to just like partition it off and use
113it as gym storage because currently our gym teacher goes all the way up the stairs above them to get their PE equipment and back down >> and um that's rather late and intensive for a PE teacher. >> Did we figure out what was causing the hooving of the floor at the door of the gym? >> Um, it was water. Um, >> well, I'm sure moisture, but where was it coming from? that um the >> there's a me a concrete slab underneath that and um the moisture level of that floor underneath underneath the gym is um a problem. So we we just try to maintain and run the heating system to keep it dry and to keep the moisture down. But the problem is 219 and the driveway are higher than the building. Our building's in
114a bowl. Um, so it's a constant. >> But Jim was built in 1920 something, Miss Taylor. 1921. And you was on the board whenever we put that new floor in there. >> We've already done redone the bowler. So what what year was that we put that new floor in? >> So it was probably 08 we put that floor in. >> Probably 08. We put a a new Well, they put the first one in and it buckled. Remember, >> because of moisture. >> Mhm. >> And they had to come back and redo the floor. >> But it's not from the boiler system because there's a wall between the gym and the boiler system. And at first that was a speculation, but when I went down there and looked with Caleb, there's no way for the boiler
115system to be pausing the >> Did they mean you was there? >> I got the window fixed. It looks a lot better from the outside. That big thing. It's better. >> You can see Ed driving past there. How many students do we have at Hillsboro right now? >> 73 on this year's enrollment. It may be a little lower next year because we've had some low numbers from prek. I don't know what's our prek. >> Our prek is about five right now. So we do have a low prek coming in this year. This coming year. >> So I just want to review. Art room clock does not work. >> Jim bleacher board is cracked. >> Yes, that's just a simple board needs replaced. >> Wall has special ed room needs built. We just talked about that.
116Um, we said the jib mat needs fixed, but the uh lowered because of a brim report. >> Uh, yeah, the brim report says that our um the mats that are on the wall are up too high. >> They just need moved down. >> Um, >> and Dwayne's and Darren Darren went with us on all the our um director of maintenance or what is and head of maintenance there. uh black stalls in the upper bathrooms and that's the 35. >> Now I have down here bathroom floor drain. Uh they already fixed that. They already fixed that. So fixed. >> Good. >> Um the rope needs graded and I think we talked about Justin's going to bring the box graater down the senior center drain. >> Mhm. >> State probably do it if you ask him. I
117>> think I don't know who Justin is but Dwayne was asking him to do it. >> Uh he's at the high school. >> Justin Taylor. garage. >> Flower boxes moved. New roof on the basement shelves. Basement base molding in the 35 bathroom needs replaced. >> That's what we had on there. >> Yep. >> Bathroom in the gym needs upgraded. Fence on the playground. >> Front kiosk needs painted. Uh we are doing that in house. I got the paint the other day. We change the we change the little devils or >> sorry. >> We um were able to with our bingo fundraising purchase LED signs that are going in that cool. >> So um they've already been purchased. We just need to paint it, fix it up. Um >> maintenance came and checked the wiring. So
118we should be good to go. >> Your computer lab needs painted and when your summer help gets there, you'll direct them to paint that. >> Yes, Caleb will do that in house. We have the paint for that already. >> And then the computer lab countertop PE. >> I don't know why we're >> No, that's in >> that'll be in house. >> In-house. >> So, both of those are okay. And that's what I had on my list from you. Does that sound accurate? >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> There's amazing things going on in Hillsboro and I appreciate it. >> That is my saying. >> Thank you, girls. Hillsboro has always been great. He's always been any Any questions from the board? >> Nobody have any questions? Uh board member remarks? >>
119Okay. Our next board meeting will be at the Pocahontas County Board of Education conference room at 6 PM tomorrow evening. There will be a workstation at 4 with the new board members.