001Open with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Number three item on the agenda is the LSIC strategic plan present presentation media center procon high school Greenbank Middle School Melissa Jordan principal and team. >> All right. Good morning. >> Right. So, um, we're sharing some of our PowerPoint slides and the way I presented it was I basically just left the PowerPoint that I shared in the winter and then just added some data and information to it. So, if you will look at our overall proficiency, last year we were 33.3 I mean 33% in ELA. We're 35 this year. Math was 36 last year. We're at 43
002this year. Science we were at 27 and this year we are at 31%. So our strategic plan goal was to increase by 10% in both ELA and math. So we exceeded that in math. We were a little short of that in ELA. We had a 6% increase. And let me back up for just a second and say these are not finalized scores. These are the data that we have right now, but there will be some tweaking to it by the state department. Okay. All right. And so some of the things that we did was number one, we made some changes to our ELA and math schedules in middle school. We did two periods for ELA and math because 42 minutes is really quick. And then we did a lot of data analysis of our benchmark
003data. And that helped us drive instruction for our interventions. And then we also spent some time trying to identify the essential standards that we wanted to focus on during intervention because you just can't cover it all. So we wanted those foundational skills to be the focus of that. And then so we had 30 minutes per day of small groupoup instruction where students were grouped by needs. Um in a minute I'll talk about our int our attendance initiatives but that also matters because if they're in their seat they're learning. And then we met with individual students and set goals with them. They got to set their own. So they were also a stakeholder in their growth. And then we had some alignment kind of like sometimes we didn't reach the reach the depth of knowledge or
004the rigor level of the standard. So we also talked a lot about that as well. So I think that's the reasons for some of our growth attendance. I'm going to tell you it kind of breaks my heart to have to come up here and stand and tell you this because until 3 weeks ago our attendance looked amazing. >> It did. These last three weeks have killed us. We were at like 22% um chronically absent whereas last year we were at 32. So we were we were so proud and then here we are at the very end we ended up with 26.6%. But um and I know when I presented the last time we were at 25.49 but we actually dropped down to 21 something in between that time. So we were we thought yes we've
005really really done it. We thought we were going to be about 10 percentage points lower than the 32% last year but we'll take 26.6 when we were at 32 point something last year. So our goal for that was to we we wanted to decrease it by 10% which was 29%. So we did meet that goal. Um we actually had set that for the third nine weeks but we also met that goal for the whole year. Um, I will give a lot of the credit to our communities and schools coordinator because she was the person who on a daily basis communicated with family after family after family just reminding them um asking for the parent notes, asking for the doctor's excuses um and doing that groundwork of communication. And then we would follow up. I think
006we had a total of 12 SAP meetings or IEP meetings that included discussions of attendance. And the idea behind that was just to create a conversation and to work with families, not to make it punitive, just, hey, how can we help? How can we get you here? What can we do? That sort of thing. What are your barriers? And then some of these things we talked about earlier um this year. We have a lot of fun things like we have hallway displays. We have a traveling trophy that goes to the class each week with the best attendance. But overall, I think the biggest change was more the direct communication with families and making them aware of where their child was in the whole process of attendance. Because if you don't remember, chronically absent means they've
007missed 10% or more. So in 180 calendar days, that's 18 days. Our goal was to have them to miss nine or less. And so um it was just a lot about awareness and the communication piece I think is why we were able to reduce that so much. Discipline. Um, our strategic plan goal was to reduce our referrals by 15%. We met this goal, but I'm going to be completely honest and tell you that I think one of the reasons we met this goal is that sometimes the staff took pity on me because it's just me now and there's not Chloe and me. So, sometimes I think they handle their own discipline instead of passing it on to me. But overall last year we had 237 office referrals. Um this year we had 128. So that
008was a big reduction. And some of that was our PBIS efforts and initiatives and trying to be consistent from one class to another especially in middle school when they transfer from one room to another. One thing I'll say here is if you look at the one that shows the offenses by type, um the big one there in the blue, that's respect. It's respect for staff. It's respect for other students. And so obviously we have a place to focus for next year because last year um that was the largest, but it was nowhere near as many actual referrals. So we reduced our referrals by over a hundred but we increased our disrespect referrals tremendously. So that's definitely an area of focus for us. Um and so some of the things that we did in trying to
009create our PBIS initiatives was we created a plan. We posted the expectations throughout the building. We reminded students of what those were. Um, we implemented a documentation system to monitor where they were gaining points, losing points. We created a teacher managed versus office manager managed flowchart because I think sometimes that gets a little confusing or it gets a little cloudy. So, we tried to clarify that. Um, and again, a lot of frequent communication with families. Like if I was seeing a student more than a couple times in a short span of time, even if it didn't end up in an office referral, we were still communicating. We were asking them to come in. We were um we were making those phone calls and just creating that awareness. >> When you say referral, that's when the
010teacher sends student to you to your office. Um, and I don't always write those as office referrals because sometimes they might just need a break or they might need a reset or something. But the ones that result in me entering it into weas as a as a discipline incident. Yes. Okay. Yep. Because I I personally I mean especially if it's a student that I never see like usually there's a reason for that. So, a lot of times it's just a conversation initially until they're repeat offenders and then I'll use the office referral, but hopefully we can mentor and coach and um and approach it from that perspective initially. And um I think we have a lot of things to celebrate. um we we've established um a much stronger partnership with the Greenbank Observatory. And so
011some of the things that they've done for us in addition to little Christmas gifts and things like that, they donated um 20 new radios for staff. And the most recent um communication we've had and I'll have to make sure that this is okay, but we purchased a new scoreboard at Greenbank because we moved our coach and students across or and players across the gym. Well, the only scoreboard was right behind them and it was hard for the coaches to see. So, we purchased one for down at the end of the gym, but we would love for that to be wireless. So, we have to get special communication and I'm working closely with some of their employees and they're actually um have expressed that they will pay for the difference in cost because it will require
012we won't be able to use our maintenance team to install it, but they've agreed to pay for the cost of that. So, we're working on that. Um we recently had a great field day. Um, our communities and schools program continues to support our students in so many ways. And Kosha, our therapy dog. And if you didn't come to our spring concert, you missed out because I'm going to be honest, I did not realize that recorders could sound like that. It was an awesome concert. And I haven't shared pictures on Facebook yet, but I will. Um you might see um our band director looking a little bit different than he did right now than he does right now. >> I was looking to see if you had >> Oh, he only he said only the people
013that came to the concert got to enjoy that. So he shaved off one side of his mustache and the other side of his beard. So he was a little lopsided that night. It was a little hard to take him serious. >> I know. I'm trying to see it right now and I can't see it. Is there a picture of this somewhere? Because I >> will share it. >> I will share it. >> Okay. >> We'd like to have it up on the screen. >> I can send it to Christie in a minute. Um, we have a really good PTO that supports us in so many ways and we're very fortunate with that. I don't know if you paid attention, but we have a new fence like from down at the softball. Um, and so we
014just want to give a shout out number one to Judy Fencecraft for donating the materials. Number two, some of our parents and community members did all the work, brought their equipment, and so thanks to Chris Taylor logging and fencing, thanks to um Amos Mech, thanks to Mr. Writtenhouse. Um there were several who helped with that project. Jason Jackson, um there were several. So we are we are blessed. And which leads me into the next thing. A couple weeks ago, we had our achievement breakfast. And I don't know if any of you have ever attended the achievement breakfast at Greenike School, but that's one of our most special events all year long. We serve 287 people that morning. That's from our students to their families to our volunteers and community supporters that we invite to recognize
015them as well. So that's one of our most special days. Um Melissa Taylor leads a Kids Heart Challenge for the American Heart Association and we raised over $5,000. So, we're very and I there those will not be shared, but I did get pied in the face, but I'm not sharing those pictures. Um, and so we finished our year, I think, on a positive on a positive note. Um, and just a lot of things to celebrate, a lot of um growth, a lot of positivity that occurred throughout this school year. I have um one more celebration we forgot to mention is the installation of WEA is that's >> she has it on her slide. Okay. I I had Oh, you're right. When I had just put that as permission, thank you for the reminder. So, when
016I talked to you guys in maybe January, February, um we had permission and we had just a few access points. Now, the installation was finished March, I think, late March, maybe. And we mostly have Wi-Fi throughout the building. >> Yes. Yes. Thank you for that reminder because I was thinking I'd already shared that, but >> Well, I just remember seeing Christy up there. All the all the teachers devices are on it now and everything, >> right? That's that's a really heavy lift and it was great job to Christy and Jimmy for all their work. And Gary, did Gary help participate? Um, M. Jordan, when we came up, I'm trying to find my notes. What were your top three things we discussed for your facilities needs? >> So, one I know and I didn't write that
017bring it with me. One is the gym because that's often where people visit and come. They come to an athletic event. they come to an activity there and our a lot of our black trim is off and there's duct tape and like so we would like for that to look nice. My understanding is that there they couldn't find the same size. >> So they're going to have to replace it all. >> Yes. So >> So it's going to cost a little bit of money. But I just want everybody to be aware that we walked through and you had we had some priorities at your school for facilities. >> We did. We had some in the bathroom tiling. >> So, we definitely have some bathroom tiling issues. I think that was number two. And >> I
018can't remember number three. >> I can't either. And I can't find it on my list here. >> I Well, that one has to be fixed. And there's also one in the gym that has been ongoing for a while, but that wasn't it because that's been >> maybe we had some we had some sinks and cabinetry that we wanted to look at. I remember that no walked through. >> Um, and I'm not real sure what's happened. Do you want to describe what the cabinetry looks like? I have pictures, but just tell them what kind of what it looks like. >> Well, it's it's a darker wood and it's probably been there 40 or so years. So, they're very scratched. Some of them the doors are off. Um, it they need a facelift. I mean, it it
019just looks like something that's had a lot of wear for a very long time. >> Our elementary rooms, our elementary classrooms. Yes, >> we're trying to look at a cost because we have similar cabinets throughout the county. And I think the fourth thing probably we should have said this first is uh safety with some of your windows and shades or did you bring that up? Um I because it had been on there before, I don't think we put that on there. Especially like facing the road, we do have a couple of rooms that when we have an emergency drill, we can't really we can get our students down, but to hide them from someone looking in from the outside is difficult because we don't have shades on them. Yes. Yes. Just a deterrent. >> And
020it's a it's a problem like this this room. >> Yeah. Throughout the county. It's a a situation that we all look at yesterday to I mean tomorrow. >> Does all your doors work? Did all your glasses work on the doors? >> They do. That's something that my staff is really quick to let me know about. And you know with the like the when spring comes things kind of drop a little bit because it's not cold now and things expand a little bit and as soon as like there's a little bit of lag or a drag in a door they alert me and I send a work order immediately because it needs to shut. So um I don't I can't think of any um element >> earlier. >> Yeah. Right as soon as that started happening
021we had that fixed. radios. Y'all have radios in it. >> We do. We have They can't like communicate with like county radios, but they we can communicate with each other. >> Yes. And everyone has one. Yeah. I I went down to to the post office one evening and I heard somebody on it so I could hear it all the way down to the post office. >> So, yeah. Yes. >> You say radio is a pretty >> Yes. Cool. >> It is good. >> I'm on I'm on musty and we use them constantly and pick up and all that stuff and it it's made that a lot. >> The only other thing I had that I just want to make sure the board's aware of. You asked for a new computer lab in the middle school
022lab and those computers have already been purchased and they're on their way up. >> They're at school. Great. >> So, that was her other big ask was a a new computer lab and we have purchased those and they're actually really nice computers. You're going to love them. >> Um, all in one. >> Yes. With with really good specs so they last. >> Did you help? >> Yes, Dr. Williams and I picked those out in the fall. Um, we use the what we call tools for schools grant. Um, And so sometimes it takes a bit to get everything all the paperwork in place to get those ordered but it will replace what we have in middle school lab. >> That sound good. It >> does. >> The other thing Christie student devices also are we doing
023that counted? >> We have a USDA DLT grant to replace the countywide devices. >> Okay. >> Um the timeline I can't give you right now but I'm we're working on it. And the reason I even bring that up is as you guys know the permission granted by the Greenbank Observatory was for a lower frequency. So we still had some connectivity issues like throughout the building because they were a little bit older and so sometimes it's faster to take them down to a lab and to get them on much more quickly than it is to use the devices in your room. But when we found out that there was going to be new student devices, we're hoping that those will be very compatible and work faster to get the students connected within the classrooms. As far
024as I know, the save the music grants is although the paperwork has now been one of the middle schools had it when I was there years ago and now we're we're scheduled to get it this coming year. So we should be getting $40,000 worth of new. >> Y >> that's amazing. >> So >> you said 40,000. >> I think that's what it is now. And you'll use it for instruments. >> Well, it's it's it's a package of instruments. It's not I can't pick and choose. It's just a package of instruments. But um >> you're happy with that? >> Oh, yeah. >> My instruments are >> members. You have any questions, comments? I think great report and I'm not surprised by I know things is moving in the right direction. >> Yeah. >> The one thing
025I like is we're online now. >> That's a big one. >> That's the big >> Yeah. For safety reasons. That's huge for us. >> And not only that, but the kids can take the test. They don't have to go in six at a time or eight at a time. Remember how we used to do it? And now they can >> they're like everybody else in the county. >> They can get on the line and do what they need to do. >> Is that it? >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you guys. >> I love Mike. Remax's great. >> Thank you. And I'm gonna tell you the campus is beautiful. >> It is. >> When I drive in, it's just breathtaking. The campuses me because you know just like the letters on the side. >> I
026just seen that just different things and I'm like all right Joe I found my to-do list for this summer and God bless him. He just works so hard and he he takes so both of our Joe's >> take great pride in our building and they always look so nice. We are so blessed with that and they're both so helpful to our teachers and our staff with moving things. I mean Morgan knows what this time of year is like. like everybody needs you and they and they just do it with grace and they're happy to do it and we're so blessed with our >> Yeah. >> No roads. He was here in the evenings for a while and then transferred to Greenbank a couple years ago and >> his family his family moved here we know
027with the Zervatory his dad worked at the years ago and they moved up on 84 above Frost and I think he's got a degree. science. >> I think he's got a science degree. >> And he is he was a substitute teacher for a while, >> everything else. So I know he has a degree. >> Yeah. >> Very smart. Very smart. >> Very quiet. >> He has a lot to do tonight. And every now and then I'll be like like a locker lock. I went and I said, "Judge, do you know anything about fixing a locker?" And he's like, "I think so." The next morning I came back, it's laying on my desk. And there's little things like that around the building all the time, but I'll come back in the next day or so and
028he's repaired them and fixed them. And >> yeah, he's just this quiet, gentle presence in the building. She's awesome. When I worked up here, he used to leave puzzles for the kids to do on the wall, like little little history things or little science things or whatever, just little things for them to figure out like above the water fountain, you know, and everything else. And I I was like, that is really, you know, we come in the next day and be like, where'd that come from? And it took us a while to figure it out because he wasn't going to pass us to it. He was part of our harvest day and he like dresses in full civil war gear and in an amazing reenactment and the passages from certain books he chose to read.
029I mean I you would not think that our kids would have been engaged with that but they were totally engaged with him and he did a great job. Okay. >> And the board approved early on for the second shift custodian to get seven extra work days to help clean up the school and do other things. Did he take that? >> No, actually Mr. Chman, the one who had the job before is now one of our instructional aid. >> Okay. >> He took those seven days. >> Okay. >> So, he's experienced done that for several years. >> All right. Thank you for an amazing job, an amazing year, and some amazing pictures yet to be seen. >> Our next presentation will be Poc County High School by Miss Ruth Bland at 10:30. So, we got a
030little bit >> We can start if they're here. We can start early. >> Miss Bland, >> you ready? >> Is everybody here in your group? >> Okay. >> Do we want to take a break? Do we want to take a pause and wait till we would be? >> Okay, so let's take a quick breaky then I'll announce. >> Okay, perfect. You have the one with right now. Everyone, thank you so much for coming to Poconus County High School to hear about what's happened during this school year. And I can only really report on it from January till now. But the first thing I want to do and at the request of our uh new board members is to introduce our staff. So if we could start here with uh Miss Poppy, will you Well, Mr.
031Mihan, you start. Okay. >> Okay. Miss Poppy, >> Laury, Math and Computer Science over here. >> Eric Taylor, >> Dolan Taylor, construction Taylor, special education, please. a buildic aid >> mobility science longterm ELA >> Garber forest industry >> okay so this is not all my staff some of the staff are in the rooms all right uh and working but um the first thing that I have to tell you is uh I wouldn't have been successful at this job if it was not for this staff so um you need to know that they're hardworking they're coop cooperative, they're collaborative and they are uh at the center of their philosophy is what is what is best for children. So the only thing that I can say is thank you so very much to the staff for making
032my job much easier than what I thought it was going to be. Okay. I do have to say that when I was asked to do this job, it was first for two weeks. This has been the longest twoe job I've ever had in my life. Uh but that's all right too. Okay. It it's important that the children have a consistency and a constant voice or a constant face that they can see that um is cheering them on as well as keeping them within the boundaries of the school and the rules. But um what I wanted to go over with you first was our enrollment here at Pocahontas County High School. when I started uh we were at 238 and we have ended I believe at 226. Okay. So your 9th grade class which will be
033your sophomores next year 66. Your 10th grade which will be juniors next year 54. Your 11th graders will be seniors next year was 58. and probably the smallest graduating class in history of Pocahontas County High School. 48 seniors. Uh I am proud to say all 48 graduated on Friday evening. Okay. Uh there uh for the eighth grade coming in it's around 50. I think 50 or 55. So it will be somewhat proportionate to the other classes. Right. If you turn in your packet over to the next page, you'll see that there were withdrawal reasons that went from 238 down to 226. Okay, if you look, there were 24 students this year starting in the summer when enrollment was was there. Um 24 of them went to homeschool. The next category is um six transferred to
034instate schools. So that mean they moved to a different county. Five transferred out of state. So they moved out of West Virginia. Three were in 034 programs which is with the school for de um diversion and transition. Um so those students were maybe in the juvenile justice system. And the last one was uh a virtual charter disenrollment. Right. um under Zoom E or Zoom for the public, you'll be able to see see these statistics online. So, the next thing to talk about is attendance. And I'm I'm just going to be very very honest with you. This school calendar that was uh picked last year was not the best calendar for attendance. uh as we moved into the summer months and you had students who had summer jobs, many of them came to me last week
035and said, "Mrs. Bland, I had already talked to my employer about being off the week for 4 camp, but they told me I had to work before I went to 4 camp." So, there were a lot of students that went to their summer jobs last week. All right. Um, and how do you tell the child no? But here's the thing that I've got to tell you. Number one, there has to be a reason for the children to come to school. They have to have the reason to come to to school. And that is started at a young age with those parents saying education is important to us. And that message has to come from preschool all the way to 12th grade from the staff that education is important to us. That's the most important thing
036that we can communicate to our parents to our students. Education, the more you learn, the more you earn. It's important to us. But the other thing is there has to be a reason, an incentive for the children to come to school. We've gotten to the point somewhere along the line that school's not fun. School needs to be fun. We did have an activity thanks to Mr. uh Taylor here and our uh Allison and our um culture and our culture committee that we we put together an Olympics for the kids prior to the the seniors going out. They had a ball. They had an absolutely wonderful time. High school students are very much like uh elementary students. They were excited to get watermelon. They were excited to get a popsicle and they were so excited to
037compete against each other. And um we had an email from a grandmother. She emailed us and she said, "I was so worried when my grandson came home. It looked like he was in a scuffle." And I I said to him, "You didn't get into a fight." He said, "No, grandma. It was a fun day. It was the best day ever." All right? And that's coming from juniors or from a junior student. All right. School does have to be fun. It has to be enjoyable. Uh there is no meat in our attendance policy, whether it comes from the state or whether it's our local policy. You cannot take life achievements away from kids because you're absent. We can't take away prom because you're absent. We can't take away graduation. We cannot do that. All right? So
038we have to find something that once that will compel those children to come to school. And I think the most important thing is letting them know that we want them here. We want them to be here and their education is important to us. So you can see the statistics for attendance. Now, if you'll flip over to the next page, you're going to look at the state proficiency scores from 2022 to 2025. Now, the reason why I'm not providing these packets is because the information that they are seeing has not been released to the public yet. We have to wait for the West Virginia Department of Education to release those scores. But every 11th grade student who took the school day SAT is on the the um College Board website and they have already been able
039to see their scores. Okay. And they were in their um report card packets on Friday. So they already have it online and they also have a physical copy of their test scores. Uh the most important thing that I can tell you is this. We scored above the state average. Okay, we scored above the state average. Now we're giving the PSAT to our eighth and ninth well ninth graders and our 10th graders. We're just below the state average there. So that means we have some work to go. I will tell you right now that your strongest class is your ninth grade class, your present ninth grade class. They are a strong academic class and they did well. Very proud. Very proud of them. Okay. So, you'll see the the test results there. And again, I have
040to collect these packets because they're not open to the public yet. All right. So, you'll flip through all those pages and you're going to get over to discipline. So, we've talked about enrollment, we've talked about achievement, we've talked about attendance, and now we're talking about discipline. I need for our community to know that when I entered this school, I was accepted by the students. They were wary of me at first, but then I was accepted by the students. And I will tell you that I had very very few instances too instances of students being disrespectful to me. The students in this school are good kids. They are good kids. They need guidance not only from their parents at home but from the role models that are sitting here. They need to understand the rules, what
041the boundaries are, and if they break those rules, what the consequences are. It needs to be very clear to them. It was made very clear to them that they were not to be tardy to class any longer or they would go to detention. And we had an overload when that was enacted. We had an overload in detention. But after 2 weeks of standing strong and doing it and continuing to the end of the year, the tardiness stopped. Hallways were clear. Students were in class. If you want a safe school, then the students must be in a safe place. And that means in a classroom with a teacher that is supervising them, an instructor, a professional who's instructing them, and the door needs to be locked. And it happened. They were a little bit hesitant at
042first to put those into the WVEIS system, but if you'll see, our statistics went up because we were making sure that it was recorded and documented that those children were late or they were disrespectful or uh they were into some other shenanigans that they should have not been into. And yes, children do shenanigans. All right, that's just a natural part of adolescence and being a child. We're going to have children that have shenanigans. All right, but if you look through here, you're going to see what the most common disciplinary infractions that occur. And you can see it is disruptive and disrespectful conduct. There's two levels of that. There's level one and there's level two. Level ones are taken care of in the classroom by these teachers, but if the disrespect, disruptive conduct becomes a little
043bit more than what the teacher can handle, then it's referred on to our office, right? Uh insubordination. Now, insubordination can also be rude and disrespectful conduct. But if they refuse to do something, refuse to go somewhere, refuse to take a directive from these teachers, then that's insubordination. Uh, Miss Le, am I reading this correctly? Is it does it go 2025, 2026, 2022? Why is it the chart looks a little >> You see what I'm saying there? >> I I do. Um, >> so is it just they were selected out of order and but is I guess my question is is the last column 25 26 >> the last column is not 25 26 it is the total all for all of them >> and then the next column is 22 21 22 >> 22 and
044then if you look there I'm giving you the instances from 21 to 26 the most common instances >> okay but you need to take a looked really at the amount of writeups in certain years spans. >> Mhm. >> All right. Now, remember I came in January and I believe in documenting something that has happened. So, our statistics went up quite a bit. So, it made it look like that we were maybe a rough school, but that's not the point. That's not the case at all. What it is is children's misbehaviors affect their academics. >> Absolutely. >> And we have to document it. So when it comes time for a school assistance team meeting and we sit down with the parents, we say, "Look, here's the instances. All right? This is what we've done. How about
045giving us some support? How about we giving you some support so we can get this child in the right direction? It's about that collaboration between the school and those parents. So I'm if if you don't document it, it didn't happen >> and it should be documented under code. >> Yes, it should be. The code says that we have to do it. Yeah, >> that's correct. And it's under 4373, which is the expected behavior for students in West Virginia public schools. And it's actually on the last page, >> correct? >> Of the policy that all infractions shall be entered into the WVES system. >> Correct. >> Okay. So, we we had to have a real quick course in how to do that, >> but they did it and they did it and they came through wonderfully.
046All right. And once the students knew that we were sticking to it, no negotiations, no negotiations when it came to discipline. It is what it is. All right. Then we had what I would say is a pretty quick compliance. It was pretty quick compliance. Now, I will tell you, every school, doesn't matter whether it's here in Pocahontas County or whether it is in Rhode Island or in Oregon, you're going to have misconduct in your schools. That's just a part of school. It is in how you handle it. and how the students can learn from issuing the discipline as to whether your school will become stable and I hope that our school has become stable since I pushed doing this. Do you agree? Disagree. Okay. Okay. >> Yes, sir. You the only your office staff is
047the only one allowed to enter things into weas or just can your all all the staff enter >> all the staff has the ability to do that for level ones. Yeah. if if they put it in that it's a level two, it'll automatically kick to my office because they can't issue that type of discipline or it'll kick to Miss um uh Wagner's office and then we are the ones then that determine that discipline. But it is it's the obligation and the responsibility of the staff that when they see it, they document it. All right. Yes, they have access to Weeus for the discipline program, but also for the grades program. And they also when their students are rostered to them, they will be able to see how their students are doing across the school. So,
048uh, the West Virginia Education Information System, I was around when there wasn't one. And then we got the beautiful green screens. And I'll never forget the secretary at Greenbank School, Ernestine Clarkson, and they put they put a computer in front of her and she looked at Mr. Young and she said, "I don't want that thing in here. Get that thing out of here." But it was green screen, which was the DOS system, which was the disc operating system, the old system. I've watched it morph into Weeus wow and then into Weeus 2.0. So things have really really changed. Yes, I work with Ernestine Clarkson. So Edw Edwin remembers Ernestine, do you not? Hello, this is Greenbank School. Yeah, Ernestine was lovely. But we is a helpful helpful tool for teachers. They can collect information. They
049can document information. They can put interventions in that they've done with the students. They can print those reports out for parents. Parents can see some of those reports. There is a parental portal that they can go in and they can see their child's attendance. They can see their child's grades. All right. I did find out that a lot of parents did not have access to it. So, um I do have handouts, and that's one of the things that has to go on our to-do list. Uh we're making a to-do list for the next school year. >> Yeah. That they have directions on how they get to that link. Right. All right. Now, the last thing I want you to talk about is the very last page. It's a schedule. We made it. Okay. Uh students
050receive their schedules on Fridays. Uh we are in the process right now of calling parents in to review each of the child's schedules and getting a sign off with the the parents. All right. Uh there will be probably a day or two closer to the beginning of the next school year that those parents that didn't make it in the the last week and this week will be able to come in and see that schedule. Uh we have had New River here signing students up for the dual credit courses already. That will happen again in the fall. We have dual credit classes with Glennville uh essentially Marshall University one uh with New River. We have uh a a possible candidate for our criminal justice and for our allied health. The graduation coach has been hired. So,
051we have worked we've worked hard, haven't we, Janette? This staff has worked hard to get us to this point. So can I say from January to June it was successful? In my opinion it was and I hope it is in your opinion also. >> Okay. >> All right. But um you know you have a valuable resource sitting right here in front of you. These people know this school. They know these children and they're doing what is best for those kids. And that should be the battlecry. What is best for kids? What is best for kids? So, I didn't do a fancy PowerPoint. I just wanted to go over statistics and what the state of the state of the school is. All right. Do you have any questions? Yes, Edwena. >> Yes. Uh they have already
052been scheduled in their home schools and those schedules are coming to us and some of those eighth grade Marlington's is here. Greenbanks is here. We have all of them. >> Evening or whatever. I had um four student uh four parents in this morning uh reviewing their schedules. We put it out on the all call that we would be here until 5:00. Uh we tried to make it convenient for the parents that work. Um but we've had we've had a steady stream. We've had a steady stream. And you know what? That's refreshing to me because I know now that there are parents that really care about um what's happening in the school. Uh it it's there uh parents are concerned about what's happening in the school. They want to know what's what uh what's in store
053for their kids for the next year. >> Oh my definitely not going to be like last year. You know, we're we're trying to nip that in the bud now. So, starting out next year, we're moving in and it's, you know, you'll always have adjustments, you know, but right now we're feeling I think y'all feeling pretty confident about the scheduling so far and how >> and student response >> from what I from what I understand at the beginning of the school year there was not a schedule in place and from what I understand the students did not have a schedule for almost a week. All right, they have their schedules now. Teachers have their schedules now. They know what they're teaching when they're teaching it, right? That gives such a sense of security to the staff
054and to the parents and to the students >> and to the board. >> Okay. Well, students should know where they go on the very first day. They need to know where they're supposed to be on the very first day. >> To build on that, Ruth. >> Yes. I think it was August and I when did I I moved Miss Hill up here the first day of school? >> Yes. Um that was the first day she wanted to quit. >> Yes. >> Um but when we opened school this year, we did uh we did not have a schedule. We did not have students appropriately scheduled for transcripts for the grades they needed to graduate. >> That's correct. >> When it was a gym >> uh didn't have a gym. We didn't have a gym. We did
055not have we had not mailed out report cards, >> right? >> We had not mailed out >> um diplomas >> diplomas. So in July when I got here, we were we were behind the eightball on many things. And I have to say to the staff, I know it was blood, sweat, and tears. And I'm glad Mr. Dilly sitting back there because I think it was the end of April, Mr. Dilly, that Mr. Grimes and Doc came up to talk to you guys. And you're like, I don't think we're going to get it done. And I just don't believe it's going to happen. There was a lot of doubt, but you know, I knew it was going to be a long road. It was going to be a hard road. >> Got it done, too, because
056a lot of staff >> the staff worked on it together. >> Yes. And only >> and that's that's >> that's that's the true story. >> And that's the first I think this is the first year that the staff actually had to they sat down, they buckled down, there was a scheduling committee, a whole committee that worked on it non-stop with the principal. >> That That's right. Um, I think one of the major complaints that I heard last year was there was students in classes that were not supposed to be in classes. >> That's correct. >> There was some barriers this year that once we were started, we really couldn't adjust some of that stuff. >> Well, and you do have to look at the students abilities and what they are capable of. Correct. And you
057just cannot place a student who has no desire to be in an AP class or an honors class. You just can't plop them in there and expect them to be successful. >> No, >> that's what I'm saying. This is this year is the year. Absolutely. >> Yeah. >> And like I think Laura, was that you that told me one day you said I just looked at it too many times? Like we will make mistakes >> because when you when you're doing that constantly, so we would pass it over and somebody else would get fresh eyes on it. So and I mean I've had staff members that have worked all weekend long. >> Yep. I get all the >> We had it on the big screen and I'd look at it and say, "Got to have
058it like this." Then I would look Yeah, >> it's been years together and we as a staff have done this year in year out and asked for it in November and December. We were ready to rock this November with it. We're ready to go. So it we did pull it out, but it was the past two months have been very very stressful. We've given up tons of our plans. There were three days in a row. I didn't have a plan. I didn't get to see my kids. Like so I think a bunch of us were ready to rock with this in January. And so I think we can always >> I guess moving forward my requests for the board would be please trust us as a staff. Come to us in the very beginning. Um,
059and you know, we're we're so cooperative and we have an amazing staff, but >> it it got done, but it was very stressful and there was no need for that. We should have started in February in my opinion. >> And it it really it should start at the end of the first semester. It really should because you're going to have to look at the students that were successful in that first semester, students that weren't successful in that second semester, I mean first semester. We have to start early. Now, here's here's, you know, I told you about green screen and Weeus way back when. Um, there was a template for a 4x4 schedule here for the high school, but it was done in Weeas. Wow. We've wow moved to Weeas 2.0. They archived all of those
060and we had no access, no record. So, Christy Hammonds and Missy Hill had to build it the whole schedule from scratch in Weeas. So, this is our visual, but it it is in Weeus, right Christie? >> I think the scheduling process should actually start in October or November >> and it just didn't get it just didn't get started. But here's the thing, it's now built. >> Yes, >> it's in Weas. And once it's in there, it rolls over and you just make adjustments from here on. >> That's correct. tomorrow. >> But um yeah, pro in conclusion, I'll have to tell you that, you know, I was a little tentative about this to begin with, but I I will tell you professionally, this has been one of the best experiences that I've had. >> Um well,
061thank you. uh you know when you walk into the doors and you have some preconceived notions that are behind you and you find out that they're really not true. Yes, there were there were a lot of things that were true. Okay. And I can tell you that the students got their transcript and their diploma on Friday evening. I will tell you that they had it in hand on Friday evening >> and that was a benchmark we had to make. We made we made that benchmark. All right. Um you were so worried. Did you proof them? Yes. >> Yes, Dr. Williams. In March, we we got them proofed. All right. We three people proofed them. Okay. But um it's been one of the most rewarding um experiences I've had in my career and I'm very proud
062of this school and I think the only way that they go can go is forward. Any other questions? >> Ruth, we did a walk through. Can you just quickly >> I'm sorry because we asked for 20 29 things. >> So, um, number one, I have blinds. Do you want to address that? >> Yeah. Uh, as you can see, we have open windows and, uh, as you know that we did have a secure lockdown and it was, um, Miss Cobber and myself that took that call. So, I actually heard it. She heard it first and she said, "Hold on, I'll get the principal and I asked him to repeat it and then I asked him a few questions. I was trying to keep him on the line and as soon as I was done with them,
063I went put the phone down and all, but this is this makes us vulnerable." Okay. So, it's either blinds or it will be security film that we need. And it it needs to be for every window that can see outside. Uh >> yeah, but it, you know, it's it's a decision that will have to be made with your safety director, principal of a school, but that most definitely has to take place. To put that in perspective, Mr. Gibson has looked at the state contract and blinds for this school um that meet the guidelines are about 50 grand. >> Mhm. >> So, it's not a small price. >> No, it's not. >> It's not. I Andersonally, >> personally, I did blinds at Greenbank when I was um uh principal at Greenbank and uh they were like
064Venetian blinds. They were horizontal and you could close them very quickly. Um the uh security film to me would be the lasting um investment that you would have to make because hands wouldn't be on that film. Uh little hands were on those horizontal >> blinds. All right. And you have cords and everything and you got to watch that with the little ones. You know that there's warnings on those cords and all. Uh, but to me, the most cost-effective would be the security film, but that's just my opinion. All right. We're also looking at uh refreshing some classrooms with some paint. >> Um, we are looking at uh some uh cosmetic things here between the uh main building and the CTE building. There are um handrails that are a little rickety and need to be redone
065and repainted. Um we just had lately uh there was a um drainage issue from the CTE building. So that's been dug up and that's been taken care of. We are looking at refurbishing some of the classrooms in the annex building to hold some of our CTE programs which there are some large rooms over there that would make great criminal justice labs and great allied health labs. Right. Um we're looking at um getting the heat fixed in the a shop. Oh, what else is on there? >> You have Okay, so I'll just go down. Um we had new guttering for the auditorium. >> Yes. Yes. >> Which will have a price tag on that. Um we had replaced the awning between the main building and the CTE building. >> Yes. Yeah. Um, we had refurbished all
066of the handrails uh multiple buildings >> right >> around the um redo the CTE parking lot and I think there we're going to just be up. We have to I I don't know that all the board members know that the greenhouse uh what's the appropriate word uh crashed in. >> Well, it was destroyed by the slee storm. So, uh the um >> uh Yeah, >> the supports are gone. Now, the supports that are in the ground are still stable. They were cemented in, but it was the ones that were on the top. The pearlings, the pearlings are are what went from the heat of the sle. There was no heat in the greenhouse during that time. >> The talking about the annex building that used to be where the carpentry class and the forestry class
067was. >> Long ago and far away. Mr. Mr. Grimes, I think when you were in school. Good. Yeah. That and you had big buildings. They had room to park the the tractor in there. Yes. >> You know, so uh >> Well, and you know the history of all of that with the land at Greenbank being the farm and I Okay. >> I'm aware. >> Yep. Um the annex building was built at one time to be um vocational. All right. And then it morphed into Greenbank Middle School, which I taught in. >> All right. So, I was I was in that building when those kids had to go around the building to get to their next class. All right. Uh it was first built as a garage space, shop space. So, that's why it's kind of
068chopped up on the inside. Um they're replacing all the doors. >> Yeah. With the new roof on. Um that was my biggest complaint that um I kept hearing that that building was unsafe and I said well okay if it's unsafe then you can't have students in it and that's why everybody came in under one roof here but to have labs over there in a refurbished remodeled space with a new roof on it you probably can do it >> great >> okay >> and a new tech lab back here >> yes >> you ask for >> uh these computers are um not compatible with any more updates with Windows 11. >> I have a question. Do you have insurance coverage to help with the greenhouse? >> Yes, ma'am, >> we do. >> Mhm. That we've already
069placed the claim. Okay. >> And the the planning has begun, >> but there's more out there than just the greenhouse. There's a couple of uh structures, >> dry kill >> that has we have a dry kil out there. Uh we have the uh meat processing lab out there. Uh the clinic for um community care of West Virginia is housed out there. Uh youth health services has have an office in there and the IT department is in there. >> And then um this is the I'm so happy this is already done. The clock in the gym and the office are now working correctly. >> Well, let me tell you, it was the last day of school on Friday and the kids had left and I looked up and I went, "The last day of school?" The
070clock's fixed. >> Yes. But I just looked at it just a little bit ago and it was 2:03 p.m. >> So, we only have one hour left to work. >> I thought we put a new switch in. >> I don't know. >> It's right twice today. But I I will tell you I think the aesthetics of the gymnasium um was so beautiful for the commencement ceremony on on Friday. The new gymnasium remodeling of it uh really did add to the ambiance of the uh atmosphere uh for commencement. And commencement went very well. Our uh senior adviserss did a phenomenal job getting that ready. It was amazing. >> Any other questions for Well, I'd like to say thank you for coming back. I when in January whenever they let me know Miss Bland was coming as
071principal, I was absolutely ecstatic because we've been through the wars. >> Well, yeah. >> I knew whenever we got you back here, you know, >> kind of old, but you know, >> we both are. But I was absolutely tickled to death that you was going to come back and and lead Poconos County High School through a difficult time. And and these teachers have been through some difficult times here. >> They have. They really have. >> They have. And when I hear these things, I'm I I want people to say we learn from those things and we take what we've learned and we move forward. Um that's the most important thing that we can do. Move forward. Leave the past. Leave the past and move forward. >> Absolutely. >> And uh thank you, sir. Um >>
072You're more than welcome. >> You know, um >> Thank you. >> Well, like I said, >> thank you. Thank you. >> I'm going to tell you, I could I could not do it without this staff. >> But, you know, I I talked to the teachers up here, I don't know, a couple months ago, and I said we'd never kidnapped anybody yet, but we was thinking about it. Well, I've explained to you all my circumstances, and I I don't mind being called upon to mentor or to fill in here or there, but I have a business to run at home, and it's a little bit booming right now. And uh >> we certainly appreciate you taking your time and coming back to help the students. >> But, you know, here's here's the other thing. We cannot
073have a strong community without strong schools. And I have a grandson who will be in preschool in two years. And I want him to be able to metriculate through the public school system and receive a good education like my children did. And this staff was part of the education for my children. And I want the same thing for my grandson. So vested interest. Vested interest. Okay. I need to collect your patents and stuff. Uh to the to the point of um strong communities and and strong schools as president of the LSIC, I'm pleased to present our um stakeholders report that we conducted uh two stakeholders meetings this year as we're required to do under the law. Um we conducted one on May 18th in Dunour and May 19th uh in Marlington. Um they were well
074attended, very robust conversations. Um and we have a report that we are required to produce and present to you the board. Um the the the we're also required to publish the report on our website and the board is required to publish it on its and we will provide a copy to the department of ed as well. Um we believe it is a great um hopefully a great template. We hope that the recommendations contained within this report um will be adopted into the strategic plan. Um we see some real wonderful potential um for the future of this school and we all understand that it's these are the folks that make the whole thing tick. And so hearing from them, hearing from the students, hearing from the parents, hearing from board members, hearing from future board members,
075um athletic coaches, volunteers, business owners. Um that's all part of our school community. It's our job as the LSIC to help bring their voice into the school. We hope this is report. So, thank you for your time and presence here today. Thank you. I might add that I don't think there was a stakeholders meeting for the LSIC in quite a few years. >> This is the first one I think we've had in at least two years. Okay, >> it is required annually. Uh, and we decided to do it in two different places, one at Marlington and one at in the Greenbank area in the northern part, hoping that we would get more parents involved and it happened. We had a good turnout. We did. >> The other neat thing is the appendix in there. Uh
076it's the actual photographs and we had diligent uh work here was was keeping up with all the comments and suggestions and concerns. So those are just photographic representations of the of the notes that were taken from both meetings. Um and then we tried to encapsulate them into the report and to adopt probably the most common things we heard in terms of recommendations. As you can see, we have 12 recommendations um that we end our report with and hopefully that can be the beginning of a good dialogue. >> Thank you very much. Does that conclude your presentation of the LSIC, Miss Bland? Yes, >> sir. >> Okay. At this time, we're going to dismiss and we will readjourn, >> reconvene at 1:15 at Morningington Elementary School or at the board office. >> Says right here, Sky
077Board of Education special meeting. >> We're going to we're going to Marlington Middle. >> We're going to Morningington. Okay. Well, it says Martin Elementary. >> That's the first school to present. >> Okay. But we will reconvene at Morningington Middle School. >> That's correct. at 1:15. >> Yes. >> For their L sic meeting, it will be Morningington Elementary and Hillsboro Elementary. >> And it'll be, of course, Morningington Middle School. >> Yes. >> Okay. Yes, Miss Rose. No, >> but thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we're done. >> Did you return it? >> Yeah. Well, I did. I said we'll reconvene. Okay. >> Yeah, we are jermed.