001I will call the county board of education to order. It's our regular meeting for Tuesday, 2025 beginning at 6:00. You got to do now. Okay. We'll open with the pledge of allegiance to the flag. All members are ready. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. First item the agenda is approval of amendments from the board of education meeting May 625. Do I have a motion? Mr. Mcomes made a motion. Do I have a second? Second. This is worth second. Has any additions or corrections to the minutes? Any questions about the minutes? Hearing none. All those in favor sign by saying I motion. Item number two is approval of the agenda. I have
002a motion. Co have a second. Second. any there are two changes. If you look at item number 11 which is approval of the adoption of the following social studies books for elementary or K through five. So they just the teachers just voted I believe yesterday on grades 3 through five and they voted for the same um company that the K through two did. So it'll be teacher creative materials exploring social studies West Virginia and then third grade edition fourth grade edition. So it's all the same thing. Yes. But the third page forester. Okay. And also number 13 which is personnel. And if you look at your tab for instruction for this could we move number 10. Item number 10 from where it's at on the agenda to down under personnel. First thing under personnel. Yes,
003if we can move that let's do that. Senator, we need to any others hearing none. All those in favor by saying I motion carried delegations. Yes, Mr. Mr. Step right up here. Tell us what's on your mind. If you want [Music] to come where I mentioned that some of you members in the past, I I'm going to suggest you all consider putting me on the schools and the local schools. And this is something that's in our country. There's about 15 states now if you're aware of that's considered I think it's Arkansas or Alabama doing it Texas even ordered that the state is put in the schools and as we just pledge to the flag we one nation under God when we're talking about the ten commandments we're talking about that same God and if it's
004a matter of money I don't think there's any problem somebody would supply the signs with black sport and I don't think all you all know me I don't think any it's a question of what the state allows what I hear [Music] um I'm asking you all to maybe take a priority and this is that we put picture up put these bikes up and I don't think that you have to have permission to put all these pictures up or different signs. So I'm thinking about considering why don't you consider just putting up and think there's any harm I can't say where it would hurt to tell people not to lie cheat or steal I mean whatever Christian or whatever atheist and it's not something they have to follow. So I'm thinking just like when you put
005a sports thing up, we can put a sign up about the Warriors and I don't think any of that but and this school year is all out. So you got to think about it. I'm sure there'd be people that would help provide those signs, help put it up if your personnel didn't want to. uh whatever size you choose. I just say something that's not real big on the wall, something that you can see and it wouldn't even have the ten commandments. It can just get out steal and but the scripture that goes with it and that's a quote of the Bible and we allow books all kind of books in the school. We've had some deal where some of them was banned even though it may be discouraged. I don't think that the Bible's ever
006been forbidden for a t-shirt has it haven't been there or even quote from it. And of course, I'm going from way back closer to something else. I remember we had to learn Bible verses. And uh if you didn't even do that in Mrs. D Smith's class in Hillsboro, you could even get your hand smacked with a ruler. That'd be hor. the stock social. Okay, that's good. But I think some skip in to the left and I'm making a for being a Christian. But America was founded on a judicial Christian press. They're trying to say it's not. But we should be able to show things of faith and that's thing of faith ten commandments. And uh if we decide to do it, I think most of the citizens wouldn't be objection to it. Somebody will because
007it's always somebody that objects to everything. But the minority and the step and the face said you can't do it. She put it up anyway. cuz I did take it in which I don't think would happen. But I can't think of any harm done as you all can. I can't think of a disadvantage of having the ten commandments on the wall. It might help might make somebody stop the principles that's there and we need those principles. We need some directness and as you all well know educate me on you can't you part of your teaching should be teaching morals and principles if we don't have any morals and principles and we have no rules we have nothing so that was my help you can I'm not representing any group I don't have any kids in
008school don't have no grand kids in school but I'm for our 5 minutes is up but we can't respond back delegations. Yes, but we can take it consideration. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Any other ones? That was it. Superintendent report and special recognition. We have a lot of recognition tonight and is here assessments and I believe we have our two winners from our county. Uh Lily R and Silus D. Sorry. You want to come up? Just want to talk a little bit about Baltimore. This is actually um they started the ceremony in Richmond in 1931 and in that at that time 87 students from 46 counties were only since 1931,8 students have received university symbolizing their understanding of ceremony on June the 10th in Charleston and she will hopefully be joined jobs. Yeah. I
009mean, I don't think you can attend Congratulations. Congratulations. And on the books, we don't have any participants. We recognized some of the participants last meeting and many of them had some different sports events, different things went on. So, we thought we would try to give them another name as well. Now, we have some celebrities with us. And I know I didn't ask you this before, but I could go ahead and recognize them. Can you explain or show what we're providing to our teachers of the year? I can talk about it a little bit. Um so um this year we sort of talked about making uh teacher of the year and service personnel of the year a bigger deal than it is. Um in the past we sort of said congratulations your peers recognized you but
010we did. Um, this year we sort of try to go the extra mile um and start what I hope is a tradition of um your service personnel and your teacher of the year are going to get um a new name badge that has um a little badge on there that says teacher of the year for 2526. Um they're going to get a sign where they can reserve a parking spot at their school for the year. today. It's the temporary size of um that seems to be the most coveted part of it. Um so they're going to get a really nice Yes. Um they're going to get a really nice sign certificate from their principal and the superintendent and they're also going to get a digital badge um which you can put at the end of
011emails or you can use on social media. Um but just something that we wanted to kind of go the extra mile to recognize. This is a big deal and this is a big honor. So, um we appreciate you guys and and the schools of the county teacher of the year and county service year also get a poster to display in their schools so that they can say they winners. So, tonight we're going to recognize each of our schools and then we'll go to the county winners. We have Mr. Jenny. Jenny is currently right at Hillsboro Elementary School, but it will be Miss Spencer. Yeah. You want to open that up? All right. Congratulations. You don't get any more. Let's get Jenny Brown. Get behind us. Everybody's got to show the board behind we got them
012alling elementary school service also does a lot of work for us here office. So I Armstrong service personnel of the year for um elements and from middle school we have [Laughter] Rachel was very involved in a line of statewide organizations as well and teaches Matt and smile and representing County High School as teacher of the year. And this is Solar at the high school. Congratulations. [Music] And representing the high school for service personnel of the year is Cindy Brit. And if you know she's okay. And then we have our service personnel of the year for the county is K and she is a special ed middle school. Her children had some games tool involved and she was also very involved in scorekeeping I think and things like that. So she cannot be here tonight but
013we'll make sure she gets her items especially the parking. And our teacher of the year representing county for the West Virginia teacher of the year is Mrs. Michelle Roelle. I found a letter that I had started and actually that's the letter I kind of used and tweeted a little bit but I have to tell you that years ago well not too many years ago as a director we were having that time of the teacher shortage shortly after co and I believe you and your sister both came and when Mr. Be and I talked about what we can do to bring in more teachers not only to the state but to put county. They were gracious enough to give us great ideas and they've just been very supportive I should say to both of them um
014throughout my career here as well. She also particip was an active participant in the sparkling sparky early literacy grant with and she embraced that lesson study model and shared it with others and was really a collaborator among um her fellow teachers. She also is a leader in the county as the president of our local reading association. And while we were talking to her at the interview because we interviewed each of these candidates for the um for the award and the recognition and she mentioned that is it next year um Pocahontas County Reading Association will be hosting the state reading association so it conference so which is huge and I think it's going to be back at the green. So did you know that? Mhm. So she's she is organized all of that as well in
015her mind. Um while I was at one of the reading association conferences, she was also recognized for the or a nominee for the Dr. Jeannie Beal award which recognizes teachers who demonstrate excellence in teaching. She also has presented to our other staff a data collection and intervention tool. And the previous summer she's worked in the summer program and the reading providing activities for our young children throughout the county. And she was a mentor for our actually was the states for grow your own apprentice. It's the first teacher apprentice that we had here in the county and she was the mentor for um our representative. So I just thank you for everything that you did and have done um for the students at record. over there. You're all green. Don't have any. Oh, yes. Oh, I'm
016sorry. They did. And I knew they weren't here, but I started going sorry in Green Bank Elementary Middle School and they neither one were able to make it tonight. Is Cindy Hel finished first grade and is also retiring this year. She's really and their service person of the year is Teresa Clover and she also had a commitment to concert. So thank you very much. particular [Music] um you know the last few years we had two partic um were invited to go to state education alliance and receive an offer. Um, as you know, I think the last time we were one of eight regional ware applicants and we were one of eight regionals. And then um so they announced the winner of the state school business partnership of the year last uh and so as you
017can see over here we were announced as the state business partnership of the year. This is a the first of this time and we received a $25,000 package new Why would you let you want to show the video? They actually came um and did a just a quick twominute video. So that was shown before the announcement was made and then part of the package is actually for them to come back and do a professional video of all of the stuff. And you know what Christie forgot to show our teacher one second here. Um so county schools was selected as winner out of 75 school business partnerships in the state. It's just so there's four regions. We're using two from each region as the finalist and then the one statement. Sorry guys, there's not going to
018be much uh volume. I'm sorry. All of our students out of the four walls of the school [Music] and beautiful outdoors of Pokemon. We serve every student in the county prek through 12th with a series of adventure-based programming that relate back to the curriculum that those students in the regular classroom as for nature's mountain classroom is focused on whole child health. So everything from their mental health, their physical health to that connection to their community and support network for lifelong learning and physical activity experience. Here in county, we have so much public land and so many amazing natural resources and um our program is teaching them how to enjoy them forever and not only how to enjoy them but how to preserve them and utilize them to the best of their abilities for a whole
019lifetime. What about being through the careers that they encounter with a venture probah for instance you know the hiking with our sports department right now you know they're learning that could stay here and north of the gosh see all the different parts of a food resort it's just a vast amount of career and opportunities that our students just are not aware of and that hopefully through this program awesome learning they can do and stay right here at home. We love this program. It is great. Um it is providing a outdoor classroom that the kids are learning and growing in and they are learning all skills through the program. And then they also are getting um a classroom environment. There's either a history lesson or a reading lesson. Right now they're doing they're writing raccoons about
020the nature that's surrounding them. We had multiple students who are now starting to envision their future here for them and their families. So I think it'll be a really big help. So we really changed the way we're looking at West Virginia. You know, kids are seeing opportunity, quality of life, a beautiful place to live and really thinking about building their futures here. and newspapers and we'll continue um there's some games coming in from part of the prize package just to take our show on the road essentially and share with other communities what we've built here together the county schools to kind of mentor or share or whatever said is wrong county state, you know what I mean? Like that's always my number one priority and I want to make sure to communicate that to you
021all that no matter who wants to bring adventure to their county, but you know, we've been building such a beautiful sustainable model here in our county and that will always come first. And um I'm excited to share what we're doing. I think that it's really really unique um that you all were on board from day one and everyone kept saying what do you need what do you need what do you need instead of what about what about what about um and hopefully but I actually in our first meeting I had some of those what abouts and she had thought of every detail um you know blessing the insurance the food I mean every detail she had already considered I found my notes back from that original meeting I think it was April 2021. Okay. Um
022she came in to meet with Mr. Beanie who was superintendent at the time. He asked me to come over because I was director of instruction and curriculum. And Ry Bland um joined us as well because she was transportation and Tracy shared her dream with us and it's now statewide recognition and as one of our friends who is an attorney in Charleston said this is gone national. Um he really feels that it's it's something that should be shared nationally as well. So I'm very proud to have been part of it with Tracy. So just make I've always said I'm mature. She does all the work and I said go what you need. Do you want me to share that now? Yeah. Okay. Well, the memory of No, this part and then I'll leave this part. Perfect.
023Does that sound Yes. like I apologize. I've been meeting all day. Can I give you these and that might take up more of your time? Um, when handing out the um calendar of dates, I've already went for dates with our principles at their um principal meeting and we address some of the, you know, questions that they might have and um things that we can do to always strengthen the program. So, what you have in front of you, you'll notice is a very different calendar than we've used in the past. Traditionally, we've done four Thursdays in a row and with feedback from the schools as well as looking at this year's upcoming calendar, we wanted to tweak um we used the two days for two weeks model um this past year with second grade and it
024was extremely successful in their retention of information as well as the skill they were building. Um so we're really excited to try something new. So, we're going to be doing Thursday, Friday, Thursday, Friday for two weeks instead of Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday. Um, we're hoping that that will help um schools be able to plan things around and get those program a little bit easier. Um, but also that retention of knowledge week after week and day after day. Um, we're hoping that that would help. Do you have a clicketity thingy or do you just want me to have a clickity? Give you a um or I can clickity clickity and stand over there. Whatever. I'm happy to let you have that, but it's not talking to the It's okay. You can just click the button. Move
025on. So, what I thought I'd do is just kind of Oh, it's not It's not going It's not moving to the next. Um, let me try one thing before. Maybe it's not. So, while she's doing that, I do want to extend my gratitude to the board of education and to Lynn Bostic. Um, I know when I came in here spewing, let's go skiing, let's go biking, let's go biking, that, you know, it was really different than what we've done in the past. And I appreciate your trust um, in the vision. And I think that what we created together um as a board of education, as your leadership, um with your amazing principles, your fabulous teachers, um I'm just super excited about what we've been able to do together. And I just think that this award
026is like it belongs to so many people um and over 40 partners throughout the county. So, what I thought I would do is just kind of share some of the changes that we implemented this year. Um, so I'll just go through these quickly. Um, for those of you who aren't super familiar with the program, our preK, K, and first grade students do story book based playground adventures. So, because they're so little, we really bring the adventure to them. And then at the end of the year, we invite kindergarten and first grade to snow and we kind of do one big fun um, adventure with them there. But we bring the adventure to them in the beginning. We are um, story book based like I said. And this year we did our whole um curriculum around
027West Virginia, the symbols of West Virginia. Everything from making pepperoni rolls with the ProStart students to tapping maple trees um to Appalachin string music with the Burns. And our librarians play a really critical role in this program. They come to each one. We even got money this year from the Marlington Women's Club as well as the Snowshoe Foundation. We gifted every student prek1 um the books that we read for that adventure. So trying to build their libraries. We actually got the um a minor helmet on loan from the Beckley Miners Museum that the librarians got to share um and bring with the students that related to the book that they were reading. Um they studied black bears. We did a five senses exploration with a beekeeper where they got to check out um the honeycomb
028and use their five senses. And then probably my favorite was we brought a local quilter, Miss Linda, and she taught the kids about the basic shapes that make up the beautiful um images found in quilts. She showed them some samples and then they created their own quilts. And I actually had these printed and they were delivered today. I'm really excited to deliver these to the school um so that the kids can see their beautiful work. Um second grade skiing this year was I don't even know how to describe it. We had some students that were are some challenges in the classroom, some challenges to go outside. As I've gotten to work with these kids since they were in kindergarten now, this group was my first one of my first groups, Playground Adventures. I don't know
029if any of you know Milton, but he has my heart. The first time I met Milton, he was in kindergarten and I suited him up in one of those rainsuits and I had to go outside because it was raining and we were still going for adventure. And Milton looked at Heather Simmons and said, "I'm in hell." He did not want to go on the playground. outside. And Mililda walked down the hallway for second grade skiing. And he did not want to be there. You know, this is just not his name. He's not an outdoor kid. He's what I like to call an indoor cat. And Milton didn't want to be there. And I introduced Milton to my friend Walker who works for the adaptive program. And when I tell you this kid came in from
030lunch with a smile that could have lit up the whole universe, I am not lying. By the day, by day three, so Milton missed first day. Second day, smiling ear to ear. By day four, I skied with Milton and he is Lincoln turns and feet up down the mountain. This is him indicating that he's going for a break. He would indicate that he was going and he would crash into the mound on the side of the hill, but he had to indicate to walk at first that it was intentional. It was just the most epic experience. And when I say that it's not about the skiing, I mean it. It's not about the biking. It's about getting these kids into these experiences and out there into our communities, learning that there are people like Walker
031out there that can make anything possible. And um I don't know, second grade was just extra for me this year. I got to ski with them a little bit more. And then we always of course do our education stations um at the end of the day. And then moving into our other grades now that we've really kind of honed in our third grade always does the same things and we always have the same presenters. Fourth grade like it's like a ticking clock. Now our teachers are now able to say hey let's add this content. Hey let's look at connecting this dot. So, I added this year some posters to make sure that we're like bring it back home and we're not just out there willy-nilly. Um, the haikus have always been a really popular um
032part of the curriculum for the teachers and the students. And this year they were like sharing their um haikus at lunch and they were all snapping and sort of clapping like they were in a coffee shop. It was really cool. Um, and Alyssa from Parks and Wreck. Um, if you all haven't had the chance to meet our new park and rec director, um, Alyssa Vickers, she has jumped into the adventure programming with both feet and has been there to help to support. She jumped right in when our, um, WVU person couldn't make it that day and she is always there. She is a fabulous, fabulous asset. I'm super excited um, to bring her into that fold more. He is not hurt. learning basic first aid um from patrollers at Snowshoe along with Shane Van Meter
033who is a junior at the high school who's an EMT that went through the EMT program. He also assisted with that um first aid class this year our fourth grade do you recognize yourself? Um so once again bringing in our high schoolers um incorporating more learning. So, uh, Joanna Burke Kinderman had come to me saying, "What can we do to incorporate more math into adventure?" And so, we created angles and anglers on our fishing adventures. So, they spent half of the time um fishing with local trout fishermen and fly fishing and then the other half working with our high schoolers with giant protractors and making ridiculous voice tooth angles and silliness in the woods. Um, but it just goes to show that learning is all around us and um, Lyn and I got a lot
034of compliments about our not all classrooms have four walls motto and I think that, you know, this speaks to that, right? So, we've got Joseph, a high schooler, teaching math to our fourth graders on the ground next to the fishing station and right next to that was the history where they were learning all about West Virginia history. So, you know, I just I feel like we just I don't know, we just created something just really cool and I'm just super pumped that you all agreed to go along with all of this. Um, our fifth graders um once again just we've been doing simple machines for for years since the beginning, but adding those visuals, adding the signage, making sure that everything's really intentional. something we've done the last two years. Um I think there's a
035misconception that we're exciting kids about things they can't afford. And this is a perfect example. So we partnered with West um the West Virginia chapter of Free Bikes for Kids. We actually were able to give every fifth grader in the county who didn't have a bicycle a free bicycle. Wasn't brand new, wasn't anything fancy, but everybody went home with a bike and everybody went home with a helmet. Um same thing with the ski passes. Snowshoe does pre-k through 8th grade, free season passes, no questions asked. And then in high school, they have to earn it. So they can sign up and come on an adventure and be a volunteer. They can volunteer directly for snowshoe or they can get a job um and they can get their pass that way. So just trying to like
036build and instill that adventure forever. This was a fun one. So, we took about 90 sixth and seventh graders camping at Thornwood and we've been working the kinks out of the overnight program and I met actually spent all day meeting with middle school teachers going over what content standards they're covering in the fall so that we make sure at their adventure that we are meeting their needs as teachers as well as the students needs. We've refined our guide process and working with Snowshoe Ski School to make sure that we're finding the right fit of guides. And this year was one of the most successful overnight programs we've had um both with sixth and seventh and eighth graders. We did it as a novel study. It was a Battle of the Books book um called On
037the Far Side of the Mountain. We partnered with the U Mountain Center. We had chefs from Snowshoe come and bring cast iron skillets and do lessons. Um they were doing shelters. They of course did their um hunter safety program that for cadence hunter safety we had Nancy Martin out there teaching the kids how to tie knots and do survival bracelets and um we've got hunter safety um they came and shot guns with the national wild turkey federation and then Greg Hammonds came as well and then they do appalachin heritage music and square dancing which is always a huge highlight Right. Snowshoe pulled out all the staffs for your eighth graders. It was wild. They went on razor tours. They hiked to the top of the fire tower. They learned um this was actually someone from
038the hospital teaching the kids as a respiratory therapist, teaching them about like emergency medicine, team building. They all created their own crypted um and then they got to create a mask that went with their short story and um created those like with some prep from the classroom and into the adventure. Um they really did fantastic. I was so impressed with these eighth graders, not just on this adventure, but you may have heard that two weeks ago we did the eighth grade lunchon. And one of the things the CBB had asked me was to take a more active role um to help kind of revamp that experience. And I brought to them the idea of hosting mock interviews utilizing our adventure our nature's map and classroom partners to come to the lunchon to do interviews. So
039when they came to Snowshoe, we did what we called a career adventure. They had done a skills-based um survey and we grouped them with either frontier um marketing, technology, education, you know, like different groups based on skills and those same people came back and did interviews. We um well, I feel like you recognize him and we had David Black from the Snowshoe Foundation. We had everything from um community members to mechanics from Snowshoe, bike parks from Snowshoe. We had two VPs. We had the director of HR doing these interviews. And your eighth graders crushed it. They were so professional. They had worked on resumes in the classroom, brought them with them. And the teachers today were saying that this was the most successful eighth grade lunchon they've had in a very long time. And that
040this part was extremely successful. you guys are getting some really awesome freshmen, by the way. Um, so that's kind of another piece that we've been trying to incorporate and make sure that Nature's Mountain Classroom isn't just looked at as outside playing, but we're really getting to the meat of education, getting to the um heart of the community. This is the leadership Pocahontas piece. So, the high schoolers Oh, look, you're in here twice. Do you feel like a celebrity? Um, this is them being ridiculous with their obtuse angles. Um, ProStart doing pepperoni rolls with Playground Adventures. Um, ProStart cooking a farm to table lunch for second grade. Um, this is how we advertise it. So, on these screens in the school, we had this ad that they could scan to sign up. Um, and Miss Campbell
041and I were just meeting at the principal meeting about making sure that that checks and balances so that the kids are getting credit and that the schools know where the kids are. Um, so we're going to make it even better next year. Um, and I feel like the ski day is a that's a fave. They love to come and help um with skiing. This is something we recently shared. So, Snowshoe alone gives about a quarter of a million dollars to this program annually. um mainly an income and about $15,000 in cash plus my salary to run the program. Um and this is what's in it for them, right? So creating a mountain culture that wants to be in Pocahontas County that wants to live and work here. Um the starting wage at snowsuit is $15
042an hour minimum. Um and then it only goes up from there. If they teach ski school, they get what's called a headcount. So they get additional dollars per hour on top of that $15 an hour for every kid they teach over um four children or something along those lines. So these are good lucrative jobs that they can have on weekends, holidays um and really for a whole lifetime. So when we started this program, when we took 187 of your third through fifth graders skiing for the first time, 170 of them had never seen before. Um, and now when we did our um, end kind of survey, we're looking at about from 5% skiing to 95% ski. And even if they never want to ski ever again, they had the opportunity, they had the chance, and
043they saw how many jobs were out there. Um, and all the hands that came to love on that program, even if it was just a free jacket, and that's what they got out of it. Um, the students, as you know, pay nothing for the program and we give them everything they need from the ski socks to the helmet to the gloves. Um, if anyone has mittens, feel free to donate them. I think we gave out over a 100 pairs of mittens this past year, which were kids in our county that didn't have. So, you know, this program is so much more than clock. Oh, no, no, they need to buy waterproof mentions. Please do not give me niche mater. Um, but I just wanted to kind of show you that. And this is a list
044of over 40 partners that we as nature non classroom have brought into your school system. Um a lot of them were already there but this way they're being there with our students on the adventure sharing their resources and their knowledge and knowledges knowledge and the careers that they have to offer. So once again thank you to you all. Thank you. I feel like I'm missing people on this list, but this, you know, I've talked to a lot of them and they've talked to Tracy too, you know, um like the forestry department, US Forest Service would be like, "Okay, we need to get into your schools and they were doing it individually and so was like the FN or you know, all any of extension service and this way they all have a platform in order
045to access right the students." So we're we're very proud of that as well which was a big plus and I think us also winning that state award. Anybody have any question? That's a lot of support. And everyone everyone says yeah like that's the part that when I first so the very very very very first person I approached was snowshoe because without them we just wouldn't have the the backing for the other pieces. Um and SL their senior leadership team was like, "Sure, let us know. We'll, you know, we'll give them whatever." And Patty Duncan at the um was she still the CEO? Um I guess I left that meeting and my husband is also on senior leadership at Snowshoe. He's the director or vice president of speech services. I don't know. Um he called it
046the left side of the menu. That means either. But he said that when I left that she said you give those students whatever they need. And that was the directive to all of her leadership was what those kids need, they get. And that has been, you know, her standpoint of this program from day one. And then when I sat in there with the three of them and they said, "Sure, we can get the kids there. What else do you need?" I was like, "Oh no, I got to do it now." So, thank you guys for being, you know, supportive from the beginning. and and really it's a testament to our amazing community cuz Ashing out the calendar um to get feedback and everyone's like count us in, count us in, count us in. The students
047behavior is phenomenal. Um the teachers are very helpful and you see it and so please take that calendar and put them on your calendar. This is an invitation. Christy Tankersley came to Cranberry and it was like I get it. I get it. you know, when you see it, it's different than when you hear about it. And you know, Susdale still shot. So, and then Robert uh Crawford with the education alliance came up that one day. He was he took on his tennis shoes for the hiking and walking around and he's like, "Wow, you know, you've all talked about this, but to actually be here and see it first and the engagement level of the student is just really special." Um, and it's because they want to be there. Thank you. Thank you. Do we need
048Do you need anything from us on the agenda? Okay. But I did see that. Yeah, we wanted to share um sorry the you know some information about it and I know they've already all left but we did a great video for our year and service personnel of the year how we announced it. So, um, and I visited the schools of our two county winners and is that okay or no, we need a tech person in here. See, you guys can see that, right? Yeah. All right. So, she sent this fabulous thing, but I just wanted you to to see this as well. I apologize for um so this is something different that we did this year too. This was Mrs. Fox's idea. Um we surprised the winners of the county soy and toy recognition. So,
049America. [Music] I'll pause here to note that you can see that Haley is involved in baseball and she was very like tugging at her clothes because she had already changed so she could go straight. So she was very [Music] million every day. What's up? change. [Music] together. Oh my god. Um, so the last part where Michelle was going out, um, that was my favorite part of the day. We actually did that with Haley and we forgot to get the footage, but um, each teacher got to walk through the hallways lined with students and their their colleagues and they clapped and cheered for them. Uh, it was amazing. It was electric in both schools when that happened. It was um that was fantastic. So, did you show this to your staff or Michelle need to show
050that? It's on the web page. Okay. Sorry, I meant to show that when they were all here earlier, but um and that is for special. Okay. Number five isformational report and academic updates to represent Ryford and Joseph Van Mer to celebrate goodass and finals start next week But um our schedule one day is 1st, 3rd, fifth and 7th period and the next day is sixth second, fourth and sixth period. I'm kind of give a break in between each class you're not really stressed out. Um which kid seems to be relieved about that's um a highlight from the test. Uh our final for the class is conducting interviews. We have volunteers from the community uh that's helping with the interviews. We had to create a portfolio. Uh we had to submit them today. Well, we submit
051the for feedback and submit it tomorrow and the volunteers will have them discussion based on and it's supposed to be a discipline next year for juniors and seniors coming to college. uh the CTE program. We went to Marlington Middle School and Greenbank School and we talked to eighth graders about the different CT courses and that because they did come for move up day but felt like they they didn't have enough opportunities to ask questions and haveations. So we got 12 and answer some questions they had for scheduling for the CT classes and Miss Camp to talk today about what student recogn that looks like next year and I just had an idea in mind on how to elect next year. Okay. So, just touching lightly on the senior's final. It's the exact same way as
052their take place tomorrow and Thursday. Um, so our last day of school is this Friday. So, she will be gone. So last week um also touching on the seniors, the seniors were given final projects by our college English class with our teacher Melinda Ruth and she wanted us to think of a way to get involved in our community and aspect we chose to do that community service or just hanging out with kids all day. Um some of the projects that we had was showing up at the local rodeo to get donations for the animal shelter. they need more were um redoing the flower room at the train depot. Then another one was repainting the room. So now everything looks very space that look very good. And then for my last thing is highlighting on our
053dirty grease that we had at school. So I think it started last year, right? And so that's the work of Mr. Taylor, Jonathan Taylor, the carpenter teacher. And his students will go in and they make little box derby cars. So if you've ever watched like the red derby races that take place, that's how we do them. And so each class gets two cars. You can customize your car however you want it. We have mystery machine, a beach theme, we had a biker jet, we had everything. And the carpentry class and Mr. camera to like cut out a pathway. Our school did the mud ball. It was really fun. Enjoyed it. Everyone got super creative. Sadly, the juniors won because the seniors had some technical difficulties, but all in all, it was very fun and it's
054very fun to get these things incorporated in all. Well, thank you all very much. Where was the where was the course at? I was looking at that. I couldn't I can't figure out going down softball field between I've never seen that before. And my final thing I forgot about was our track team did exceptionally well this year at regionals. We had 19 students who made it to states out of 20 something. So the best new school record set by sophomore who I believe was in discus. She threw 117 ft and three in to break the new school record beating this old previous school record by 12 ft. This is this is your last meeting of student represent Christine Campbell acting Principal and Casey Griffinda students and Mr. Blind Department of Education. Yes, she is online
055but she also sent me all after music. We had deer's list. So if you she had said that you could go through it. We also had here. So if you want us to just kind of run through it, we can and that way we can details or answer questions if you have any. Um, so she made a list of the accomplishments that we have made in our phase two. So we're not talking about all the things we've done this year. We're talking about the things we've done since just in the last month, six weeks. We have three phases to get us through to um the review of what we've accomplished under our sailing. So this is the list here has made based on things that were in the report and then adding things that we
056have achieved along the way. So we start with her list. So started with the testing and what has been completed and I made a list because when I put on the testing coordinator at the beginning of the year when u retired then I didn't realize how many test and so just in the since the first week of April we have administered and completed the SAT school day the PSAT, which is for we test all three grades, ninth, 10th, and 11th graders. um which the board office and central office you all have approved to pay for us to pay to test which is super helpful because then it gives them you know Joey knew last year where he was in terms of getting to that next level to get a scholarship and also take your PSAT
057as an 11th grader in the fall. All of our students took that sense that made them all national. You have to take that sense at that time to do it. We just made sure every kid. So, we've done those tests. We had our SAT weekend fest um that I don't know that we've been able to host one at our school recently, but we got back on the list as we're able to test. We had students from our county and Pendleton County and Grand County there came to our site was actually prom. So we did that. We had four AP exams, um, ELA, calculus, and two different calculus test, and the computer science test. We've, the students have done the senior civic exam, the junior US history exam, both required by the state, and just last
058week and finished up our makeups today for the CTE national exam, which is not. So that's all the tests that we've done just since April. Um our senior walkthroughs went really well. The derby race was up the annual course. So that super cool and the kids are very appreciative of that opportunity. And the teachers all survived because they're the ones that drive. Kids build the cars. Actual adults are driving the car. Miss Griffin, she wasn't too sure that it was gonna make it going through here, but it worked out. Um, we've been meeting pretty much every Monday for the last two months. Uh, working on graduation, so feel pretty solid about the graduation planning. The program of study is complete. The um, it is online if you want to look at it. That was a
059huge undertaking as not like that was a big deal. We did not have a course catalog per se or programs of study that we could hand and say this is the things you need and Joey can attest to like having that document having those requirements and then we created course fair which we've never done before that students actually work on their pep plans as their personal personalized education plan with their advisor. teachers to do their Pinterest surveys. They did a survey, then they do the inventories, then they go through this with their advisors. Every advisor goes through just their home room, their advisory group. So, it's anywhere from 10 to 20 plus kids and they have to update that in the um state information system. So then the students plug that in information in then
060they request their courses. The course fair was designed for them to get to talk to the teachers about what is required of an honors course. What can be expected if I take this course? What kind of level do I need to be at? Is there a recommendation? do I which all those things that we have had approved by you guys and what the policy says as far as honors criteria and things like that. So the students got to meet with the teachers in each department to talk about the electives that they offer, dual credit courses that they offer, and then any additional um honors courses, their core classes that recommended, math department, they know what they need to take. And then that course there was followed by actually requesting courses. That's what we're building our
061schedule on this year. Not building it on we here's a schedule now and put the children into it. We take the what the children choose, what the students choose, then that schedule is generated by their choices. So yes, they have to make take math too. But if you put out 10 different electives and 20 kids picked this elective, then that's the elective that will go into the schedule. So all the teachers have a variety of electives that they offer, but the students are choosing what electives end up in our schedule based on their interests and their needs. That makes sense. Yeah. What's the difference between electives and personalized qualify? So in policy 2510 that's what lines this is what a student needs to graduate. So for each subject there are prescribed courses and personalized credit.
062And so for example science you have to have three credits to graduate. the two prescribed ones are space biology and then you have to have a third personalized credit. Those personalized credits are all the things that you can pay for your third class. And the electives are general electives that do not fulfill a graduation requirement. they would fill in that personalized four credits of your graduation or just kind of the extras that you would do either because you enjoy it or fits into your life like a Spanish class in a require probably something that if you want CPE completed then those four electives may be in that particular pathway where other students aren't interested in carpentry. Then we have included this year some more content area related to English and science and social studies and
063electives that aren't required but they can use for their personalized electives. So when I look at the say math in the program of study um there's two prescribed credits and then two additional credits. They have to be personalized offers. They can't be robotics. Yes. That's why we structure it all differently to make it really clear to kids just because taught by a math teacher doesn't necessarily mean it fulfills that. So the robot becomes Yes. robotics pardon robotics. They have their vocational certification. We talked about this for the last three years, right? Last year the teacher said they were going to get certification certification so that it count in CTE certified for computer science not robotics. So we have looked at it as a pathway. You could have a CT for robotics. Um but right now
064they're focusing their efforts on getting certified for CTE pathways for computer science that we you all approved last year. to project lead and they finished their training this at the end of the school actually. They they took the first two trainings last year and taught those classes this year. They will take the next two and those are they will summary they will be certified they won't be certified um so I looked at the CTE standards course it can be a pathway when I looked at the standards miss the one who teaches that she does have certification to teach it but she does not have the if you jump in anytime. Um, Mr. And I talked about this a lot and this came on talked about it. She does not have all the eyes across for
065that is an extra math teachers which can teach the class as an elective but it's a whole different make that ACT and she's teaching math the majority of her classes and then she has the robotics one computer science so it's something We've discussed, but we decided to table that particular aspect until the computer science is done to protect the moon. We're leaving money on the table this and I know it's not that big a deal. No, but we have a lot of CT programs and in terms of what a US school our size would have. So, we're not leaving much money on the table in terms of the number of programs that we offer. And we also have to have the teachers to teach them. So that's been I mean if we had someone that
066was certified in computer science and robotics you know that would be easy transition to get that program in place but we're pretty much maxed out on our teaching making sure that all the math courses are covered and those are the folks that are actually getting certified to use these other classes too. So it would take a different kind of person that was certified in multiple both of those. If we added one of those then we could have programs running like we do the aggra business and we have agricultural science those are both taught by Mr. B. He covers multiple programs as a person. Well, it's a lot to get certified in computer science and as Mike has said that um Miss Nail is certified to become part of robotics, but we don't want to spread
067her too thin right now. We need to kind of focus on what we're doing and just number one, we want our core class to cover and math is her thing. And then we've added the computer science, which is a nice it's I think we've got more numbers this year, okay, for computer science. So it's it's building and we want to establish that and we don't want to number one over her and um we don't want to water them out right now. We want to establish this before and that's definitely something we can look at next year after they finish these two courses that these courses that they pay for computer science are two weeks and they are sitting in front of the computer non-stop for two weeks and they have homework every day and it
068fits on. Well, this kind of ties into the other things that we're talking about here tonight in terms of our little credits and our college courses. Like it's been it's like a scatter block and we're trying to focus those dots in place. So our kids, you know, before we said get them to the stage, we got to get them to the stage. You got to get across the stage and my vision and my focus and along with Miss Griffith and I think everybody we've been working with in the central office is we need to have these students placed in a job in a school in a career when they walk across that stage. They need to know where they're going. Amen. and they need to be that's our focus is that we got to align
069forces to get these kids to their next thing not just across a stage and say what to do next. So that's been a huge focus of all of this is trying to align this pro the program of study to what is your career path, what are your interests and using Weeus and a system that's designed to actually help direct the students or their teachers to make sure we're providing the courses to get to college, to get into the military, to get into a job. Um, Miss Shifflet has worked really hard this year to that tour she made happen for us. She said, "Here's the dates. Here's a bus like let's go." So, she's committed to we have an advisory meeting coming is committed to actually connecting the businesses back into our school. That advisory board
070is a group of people who have ideas how to get our students to the job sites to visit and know what kind of jobs that they're going to get when they leave our school. When we recruit and you say to the welding students, why should I what job can I get if I finish your program? Somebody say, well, a welding job. No, but where can I go to work? We're We're in Pocahontas County. What I mean, we have a student going into mechanics. He is leaving our building and he has a job according to him. It's far. He has a job in Alaska. Like connecting those kids to the industry, to the businesses that they have a place to go when they need the stage. It it used to be that way. years ago. It
071used to be that way and we're trying to we need a highway on a bunch of side roads that people get lost on and trying to veer all of these things to connect and get. So that's what all of this is about really. Um, and we can make a list of all the things that we've worked on with deer and it's helpful, but really this course fair and the plans we've been working on for the last two months is the most important thing that we've done this year that is directing putting us in a different path that I think is super focused on the students and what they need for their next for their careers another lifelong. Did you agree to that, Joey? you see us crying too and even even the conversations we had
072with Joey saying why be able to do this if I'm like I think through our conversations and why we came here to explain similar things to you is that the students realizing that we're trying to get them to a place they want to be and taking all these willy-nilly courses be college credits for just, you know, a CTE path you never plan to go down. Like it's not really helping them get where they want to be. Being more intentional about our choices, our courses, kids plans through these peps. We now can all anybody with administrative access can click on each kid and now see a list. By the time they're a senior, we can see a list of when they were in eighth grade, they wanted to do this. they were in ninth grade their
073kid they changed from wanting to be a welder to wanting to work in construction in 10th grade so and we have extra levels like I have two or three different teachers saying hey this kid is looking for this class we have extra levels that we're adding with our advisors of people to catch children catch their ideas and make those connections and that's a lot of what we've been building through these processes there it shouldn't be one person knows everything about this kid or that's how it gets involved in the graphics. We're trying to make baseline levels and give students information where they don't have to ask a better question because there's a very different conversation when somebody comes in and says I'm going to go to college and I don't know what to do and
074they say is this class helpful or is this not helpful in my pathway? So it's a little bit of a problem, but we're trying to get better and there are more adults in the building now that can can have those conversations, those rooms in plans and we've been giving more time periods to talk to students about that. So there are now more adults in the building than there were last year that actually have had meaningful conversations with kids about their next step and not just about algebra. It's so important so it's a little bit of a balancing act of how we balance making our schedules and our stuff better for the next year and how do we also balance giving the kids what they need for this year. What goes away? When did they when
075did the pet plans go away? I remember when you said Rachel, I remember doing one with her. I remember doing James and possibly Patrick, but I don't think Val's been out of school for a year, four years now. I don't remember ever doing since I started at public school. No, it wasn't. It never went far away. No. Yeah. Yeah. There was a time when they changed being a pet with something you did as an eighth grader and a 10th grader to being done high school. So it has changed in the process since then, but it's at some point. Well, and it was on papers. Like now that the information, the state information system, everything can be you can track kids better and look at trends better and keep up with those students and their course
076requests. And having the system itself run your schedule. that's more student centered based on their needs and their interests and their requirements then that all has just happened since we was 2.0 No, like that wasn't you weren't really able to enter all that information and that system had it talk each side talk to each other so that it can put in that make sense. It does. Sounds like you totally remember guys. What are you changing? What are we When is graduation? June 1st. June 2 p.m. Where? What? Sunday at the high school. One June 2 p.m. at the gym football. It's on your What do we have? So, what's the numbers? How many seniors aren't graduating in 70 last year 69 last year much larger class we have any seniors that's not going to graded
077a lot of times kids a little bit of that balancing act of one minute we're talking about teacher plans and I still want to talk about this is something we can focus on not just seniors but any student at risk of failing that may need recovery in the summer or breaking students and parents and that's something that helped us develop was an actual you know process to all the parents and what to go through their courses those things. Then we've been meaning sorry I just didn't want to interrupt you. No, no, no. He's talking about maybe you all can stick around to matter of the board is what we answer some questions for us or do you want to answer them now? I mean we are that's I was going to wait till you're done.
078Yeah because we have it might be covered in one of these things. Yes. So, the course fair, the tests, we talked about the um course requests have been completed. We have a bill schedule for next year. The semester exam schedules in place as Joey referenced and Riley. Um our credit recovery, we've been working with well, we've been working on contacting parents and students and making a plan to hopefully not need credit recovery. We still because we have credits, we do have students that did not pass the first semester that we will need to recover. So, we're working on prioritizing the grade levels and the core classes to have students be able to recover in the summer if they meet those needs um that we prioritize with Miss Shifflip and then they will can make up
079forces during the year next year just like they did this past year. We put book kids in a repeated whichever semester they needed. We're trying not to feast mail credits like that, but we only have so many resources to do credit appropriate in the summer and we have a hard time getting parents and students to attend those things. Is that I mean, can we legally do that? Like if they flunk a class, can we legally let them go till next year without doing summer school? Is that what you're saying? Yes. So, we're working that list together and everything we're doing to not have them fail in the next two weeks. Um, the IEPs are completed, the staff evaluations, that's what I do mostly on Sundays. Uh was there not enough hours in the school day
080or week two for 40 regions? End of the year checklist for staff or all staff. So we have checklist end of the year list that they have to check off and turn in things. Um those have gone out to secretaries, custodians, cafeter I created too with collaboration with other principal although principal meeting we updated those I found that the TCHS teacher one wasn't quite as didn't work as much as because the lower levels have such different things right so that I had to provide that for the high school teachers and then the crisis plan we had were missing a lot of pieces that need to updated. So, we just got that approved. We will then use that information for next year as well. And update things like that. The folks that are working on the
081gym floor and electric beard this week, last week, the folks doing the cameras were at the school and walked around and Mr. Taylor um who is understands camera systems and security systems. I don't know if he had a side job somewhat, but he was super helpful in where we needed cameras and where our blind spots are um outside the building and I worked on mostly where blind spots are inside the building. So, those folks that from the cops grant have been up there, we're moving forward with all of that. Um there was question about the honor graduates that you all wanted us to follow up on. Is that true? Yeah, I think that criteria for honor graduates. I think we did that question. Yes. So, and I'm going to let Casey talk about this because
082she the one that actually did the calculations. I will point out that we have an honor graduates policy and the piece for validictorian and saludiatoran is a section in the policy. That section has very specific direction on how to calculate based on this not a national standard. This was the policy that was in place when I got to code on scouting on school. We have not changed it. Um but there was a problem in the handbook that that piece was not in a handbook. So we just like you guys you have to follow the policy you have until you change it. This is the policy we have. This is Alex. So what you have in front of you is from the 22 2020 handbook which was the last approved published policy. Um as she said
083it was left out of some handbooks and we didn't feel without notification without approval. It was fair started high school career change that right after finish just as they do at the state level. Anytime you change something, change a requirement or process, you have to start with your freshman cohort and move forward. If we were to change the the way we do this, we would have to one get it approved and two, we would have to start with a new freshman. I think the question was remember we thought it uh you know it was it wasn't in a handbook because we don't have a handbook. There was no written changes. So you know I think that was the the problem was some some people felt that it had changed. There was a lot of discussion
084about changing but never saying you have to go from approach when you're up if you was going to change it. It says beginning with 205. So I'm so after I actually talked to Miss Bos the same thing and so I follow one of 3.8 At the end of the third time before we calculated any of the hers um we did update all transcripts procedures. We did not feel picking valid employees. So we felt sure that we write those class first and we did all that before we could pick any of those honors. Um the valorian is selected of the core classes in the following 25 that are things that the state of West Virginia says that a kid has to take in high school in order to graduate. That are your that is your four
085English math four social studies three science health a PE and an art class. I went through each student's transcript that had a 3.8 or higher to all our undergrads. I went through each of their transcripts here. I took a transcript checklist and the quality grades. So I had several math classes. I picked the four class highest grades and the highest quality. So they took a dual credit math class that is weighted higher than a regular math class. I chose that one for each kid. So of their of their grade, I didn't just pick the ones that were first or second grade and highest quality point to give each kid the highest chance and then all of their points together to get poor GPA and the validator was the first one the highest poor GPA in
086that policy. And the funny part is we have a new tie record that came into effect. A lot of those conversations based off of my memory came from a few Four years ago we had several valadictorians like six fields of everybody at the top. So we didn't have a tiebreaker. The type used this year was we would do the same process but without waiting. Funny enough, these students all had same GPA after the time because they all took all the same classes with all the same A. So super helpful but and that's why we do that and all therefore the GPA it's exact and even after the still ends up I checked it once checked it twice checked it three times and left it all ready in case anybody needed to check me And I
087explained the student handbook in terms of the updates that have been made to the handbook in years. I we had the 2223 handbook did not there were a couple changes to the next handbook because there was one of the directors here brought us all together and so it either comes as a policy change from the state that we have to update based on that change or there are like our discipline rubric. So policy 4373 is the state code or the policy from state code that says here's how discipline works. Here are the behaviors. Here's level one. Here's level two. Here's level three. The state actually in policy recommends here's what the consequences should be. First offense, second offense, third offense, fourth offense. We borrowed and looked at things from other counties to determine what we
088were going to do as a county. So for the last two years, the principles got together and said, "Okay, what what's realistic for our kids and our situation?" Because a lot of these schools don't have in school essential. So their kids are kicked out straight up for fans where we can do detention in school suspension and then out of school suspension. So what we did as a county with under the guidance of um Mrs. ball and all the principles get together and we talk about what's what what's relevant for elementary school kids, middle school kids, high school kids and try to have one rubric that is for countywide and there may be some variations in terms of elementary versus high school. But when that went into effect, we put that in our handbook. So the
089things that have changed in the handbook aren't just what we decide to take in and put them out. There's some things have been lost in the process which we then we have to go back and that policy did not change. We just didn't have that piece of it in one handbook that got changed for other reasons. Does that make sense? It's not okay. It's just that's how it went. And so that's why that changed. Policy 2510 changed. You all realize that our county credits and state credits weren't the same. We have to change our handbook to match your policy changes, too. So every time you do a policy change, we've got to review our handbook for policy changes at the state level, the county level, and then what is aligned specifically to our school that
090isn't necessarily in the elementary handbook or the middle school. So that's another focus is what is our process and what is our review team to make sure that we are reviewing that handbook annually which Miss Nicole Taylor did. We had a team that met and began to review that handbook and try to update it. And the reason there's nothing been published is because we changed so many policies here. Like our handbook is outdated. So we just didn't publish a new one because we need to change the things that you all change this year. And then the last thing we were asked to talk about was the um the dual college courses and yeah if you look in the study when we talk about student handbook that's a lot of policy and procedure what you have
091in front of you a program study based academ there is a page of actually a page and a half of all of our dual credit offerings. Um, and I have highlighted for myself what is different from this year and last year and kind of why Miss Campbell and Miss B and I did go through um along with Miss Shiplet and been in those conversations as well to talk about a lot of the state kind of initiatives to getting kids with dual credit classes and not just for kids to have college credit. It's the for kids to have college credit that shaves years off their college degree. So if college credits you money, you have to go to college. What the state is finding is that kids are taking any college class anyway and then they're
092paying for them here. They're getting all of the four years. So that's we did not take off very many classes. Um our inerson classroom we kept as is a teacher teacher that was already approved. We kept that. We did shave a few virtual classes off. Um we are not offering medical terminology virtually because Miss Cindy Solac is teaching in person. We rather our kids would rather not pick up resources to give the kid a virtual class when we have kids a better for them. Um, we do not offer a criminal justice or foundation for health science, which is a safety and first aid class anymore. The criminal justice class we did not offer because that course have a dual credit class, the high school class standards for it. That was something that did not have
093standards and we could not write them in their time through time. So, we did not review that one. the safety and first aid. It goes back to we want to offer general education requirements, common ones. So kids, you think they're college English in high school, that really sets them up to have less to do when they go to college. And this class also didn't fit in a particular pathway or particular major. So we shaved that one as well because we want to get our kids more focused instead of just collecting credits. We do not offer computer sorry Microsoft applications, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, digital illustration, desktop, publishing and presentations because those four CTE classes that we no longer offer because they're being transitioned out at the state level. So the computer business program study at
094the CTE of the CTE department they're changing the way that those programs look I guess they're better business and so that was a program that's being eased out so those courses are being eased out those code no longer for us to use. So there's no class for the credit to align to. So we took those out of our schedule and that happened to me that those last one we're no longer offering is a civics class a dual credit civics virtually uh so it is protoered by a teacher at our school but the assignments and the instructions coming in and this one we took away for teacher recommendation because the content did not align to the high school credit didn't feel like we were doing it justice to say this kid's giving students credit if they
095were just following class. We do so honor offer an honor section of that in the future. We're going to start looking into it. Whenever you start looking at theus and the laying the groundwork to teach a dual credit class in high school, that stuff needs to be in place by January. So looking at it in April or isn't enough. It's not for our lack of want to for some reason. It's just for our lack of resources, time for question. So our curriculum is set. You have the curriculum set for for next year. All right. How many when do you project that all the students that are going there next have their class schedules set? I had a meeting with State Department who is real to figure out and when we we worked one evening and
096we hit the button put kids in the class and build the schedule and we hit it a few times. We worked out some bugs and we got to a point where we got a little stuck and we said we need to bring in the big gun. Um she met with me for an afternoon yesterday. Um and she actually offered some help fix some of the things that um she said we did not set it up on. There's bugs in the system to fix minor details. Somebody from her office work on that today. So tomorrow should be able to darn. So our eighth graders going to the high school will be freshman next year. Is their schedule ready? No students have a schedule ready because we do not have a master schedule but they have all
097completed their course request. So every student that is an upcoming 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th grader has completed the course request except for I think there's we're down to 10 kids in the county that haven't would not be due to absences, sickness, things like that. Um, so those would not change your master schedule dramatically. after a master said it was set and hit play, put all the kids in their classes and then they showed me on Monday a way to go through and see each kids schedu. So you're telling me by the end of the week the kids should have their schedules for next week. Okay. Some huge like I can't predict. It seems like we worked everything out to where it should have been. We have to also look at the we have to look
098at our special education like we have to do some hand manipulation after that. So in terms of the kids having a schedule we have to go back and make sure that all those classes are balanced the way they are by state code as well. So even if a kid has a schedule, we may have to change their where they where they take that class due to other state requirements. So it's more than just hitting the button and having them have a schedule. We have to make sure that we're meeting all of our state requirements as well for students with special education needs and our co-teers. like there's a lot to it. But yes, we are way ahead of where we were last year in terms of getting this done and we will have a master
099schedule and students will be able to take on the schedule before they leave school. What's your plan? That category I want English with Susie and I'm not there. Yeah, English with Suzie is not that's a thing. That's a different when I was there, right? They got their schedule. Summer came. They broke up. They repaired up. One thing about using an electronic Susie and Jim broke up for that. That leads into the next question coming up. want to change all that which created working on a process to make sure that students want to change their schedule it is for their betterment not should be a priority you schedule it well and that's what all this boils down to is the processes and we have learned so you don't know what you don't know in terms of
100and how to make sure that we are following all the policies and codes you guys have found policies unit I guess um we are too and we're working everybody's been working super hard and together and without in terms of having someone who can say yes I can I can pull an example for you like she's not saying you need to do this thing she's saying you need a process for this look at this we adjusted the process for the DNFS and having those oneonone meetings with kids, including the parents. Like, it's a lot, but it's not something we can't do. We just have to get these in place. And I know everybody wants Instagram gratification. I wait. It's every step forward is two steps back and sideways, but we're making a lot of progress and
101it's I mean, superintendent question that leads in next question this year where the senior's transcripts were so messed up. Where are you at on the sophomores, juniors, and freshman? Three quarts away through juniors because that yes, they're going to have to be done before you know what class that they need to take. So the plan for that is we are currently reviewing their PES which has an aspect of that is a graduation tracker. So to make sure that the computer screen actually matches what's true so that we're not thinking of kids are no good or thinking of kids in the red when they're not. Um, and the other part of that is updating those transcripts to see did this kid actually get it. I have been taking Miss Klein helping with the seniors and I've
102been helping with the juniors as well. We have taken progress reports and report cards from each year and cross reference this course with this grade and this course with this grade kind of align that. The second part of that process is changing anything that we found to be a mistake, documenting it and parents and students. This is what change made. Superintendent Boston, can you hear me? This is Deardra. Yes. Okay. Uh, is it all right if I chime in? Sure. Yeah. soon as Christie find you some volume. Try it now. Dear, thank you. I'll be very brief. Board members, hold on just a second. Yes. Okay, one more time is fine. Sorry. Oh, no. No worries. I appreciate you being so accommodating. board members can uh I just want to tell you that I'm sorry
103that I'm not there. I had planned to be there and had an issue that came up unexpectedly and could not be there. Um I just want to interject four points here. First of all, the amount of time, energy, thought, collaboration, and creativity that it has taken to accomplish what has been accomplished on our to-do list is not measurable. Miss Campbell and Miss Griffith and the central office team headed by Superintendent Bostik and her team has absolutely produced an amazing amount of work in an extremely short amount of time. My understanding is is that Campbell has only been acting principal since February 17th. And all of this has been done when Miss Griffith is in a new position as dean of students and they have been minus without an assistant principal to handle the dayto-day student
104interactions and family interactions and so forth. So this is to to use the word amazing again is all that I have to share with you how wonderful this progress is to see. Second thing, the list that has been shared with you tonight is only the list as as principal Campbell said that has been done since the last update that I gave you. We are absolutely moving with precision and extreme speed on this. we get the importance of the processes, protocols, procedures and I'll add in another element of documentation. We do not find and I speak for myself but I have not found that that was occurring with fidelity and it is now for sure. The central office team I don't want to start naming people but I see Julie Shifflet there. She's been invaluable. Of
105course, Superintendent Bostik, anytime Miss Campbell and Miss Griffith have asked for support, they've received it quickly, quickly. And anytime that they've asked me to reach out to the Department of Ed, like Miss Griffith was alluding to about getting help on the um automatic scheduler, we get it quickly. So, that collaboration is my second point there. Third, I'd like for you to know that everything that's going on at that high school is student centered and done with collaboration with the staff. I've never and I've seen a lot of leaders in 37 years. I've never seen a principal be as collaborative as Miss Campbell has been with the staff at Pocahontas County High School. Now, that's not to say that everybody would give five stars. That's not to say that everybody's happy all the time. But like
106Coach Nick Sabin says, and I have to remind Miss Campbell of this every now and then, if you want to make everybody happy, Coach Sabin says, go sell ice cream. If you want to be a leader, you've got to have tough skin, thick skin. And that is true. But but she is working hard to be a collaborative yet decisive leader and that is not easy. And then the last thing I want to say to you is if you would know from the outside perspective that I had when I came there and I saw the amount of work that laid before us to now instead of saying they I say we like it or not I'm kind of sort of a Pocahontas County girl at least for a while and we led by Superintendent Bostic and
107Christine Campbell, acting principal, have made unbelievable progress. I'm so grateful to have got gotten to be a part of this and to watch this growth. Thank you for indulging me and I wish I were there with you. Thank you, M. Thank you. Thanks all very much. Thank you, M. Number six, approval following consent financial requirements payment of vendor listing $32,214.99 payment local government card $154,554 May the 6, 2022 grand awards Pope County School Summary of schedule of revenues and expenditures on a cash basis for the month ending in April 2025. The following revenue and expenditures for April 2025 are funds 115161 and 71. See if one down the list there on schedule. Yeah. Down and number is budget adjustments. Do I have a motion? Made a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Mrs. Hollinssworth.
108Second. Any questions for Mrs. Radcl. [Music] 4 months. Uh and that is state aid and a large property tax. All those in favor sign. Item number seven is approval of the 202526 budget including child nutrition and step seven motion. Do I have a second? Second. Any questions about the 2526 budget? No. None. No. How much carryover? No, I just want an estimate that I I realize that u I'm certainly doing our 11th fund. How much carryover do we have? That will okay. If I use more of that now and this year, maybe it helps to cover some other expenses. may have it might not be the same all the time have transfer minimum pays 3 to 5% gas requires around 16 or 17%. and contingencies. It's not clear. They want that contingency. All those in
109favor saying I some will go away. What I hear in all the federal grants is about to go away. will be done with the state and it still be better. Yeah, but it's coming. Yeah, just different name. Okay. Number eight, approval of me memoranduming understanding with the M classroom for 2025 2026. Do I have a Mr. McN made motion? Do I have a second? Second. Any questions? No question, but I would it would be in vote yes to this and I would appreciate you all voting yes to. All those in favor sign by saying I. Motion carries. Number nine is approach point construction company Banon West Virginia for the county high school electrical renovations and gymnasium floor replacements for $1,344,000. Do I have a motion? Call motion to have a second. Now, are they still
110planning to start the day after graduation? Uh, close to it. We're still kind of sweet after graduation. Or I mean the day after which school's the last day of school. That's what I've been told all along. The day after school. Okay. As much as they can before school was in it evening hours. Yeah, they replaced Green East and West. They replaced Hillber one time too and it bowed up moisture content was too. All those in favor signify by saying I. We move number 10 to under personnel. Number 11, approval of the adoption of the following social study books for elementary grade K through five K. Teacher created material exploring social studies West Virginia kinder garden second edition. First teacher created material exploring social studies West Virginia grade two edition. Second teacher created material exposed in
111social studies West Virginia second grade second edition and then three four and five I have a motion make a motion do I have a second any questions or about this on the books this is the books hearing none all those in favor signify saying I number 12 approval of program of study for county high school for the 2526 school year for EDA attachment. Still have a motion. Second call to make a motion to have a second. Mrs. Holl for second. Any questions on that one? All those in favor signify by saying I. Number 13, approval of service and professional service. Professional service. Do I have a motion? motion. I have a second call for a second. Green Bank Elementary School requested transfer of Jes for the 2526 school year employment of Tammy Cerson as summer
112school program coordinator for summer school assignment Greenbank Elementary Middle School $35 respective per hour effective for the seven week program which is June 16th through July 30th plus an additional 5 days for prep work has ended. Of course, wages bars dependent upon adequate staffing and student enrollment. Paid holidays are not part of this contract and funding is provided by federal programs. Employment of Charles Mainer as school bus operator for the 2025 summer school assignment elementary middle school and rate for the seven week program effective July 16 through um June 60 through July 30th. I'll just get because that's all kind of the same about the holidays. Employment of Tina Jackson is a for the 2025 summer school program to be at Green Bay. Uh wage at $17 per hour for the seven week program. Laura
113Miller is cafeteria manager for the 2025 school feeding program. The signing of elementary middle school Marlton Middle School probationary contract request rehire of Abby Cox at the probationary contract for the 2526 school year and we requested transfer of Abby Cox from an alternative education interventionist at Martin Middle School Greenbank Middle School to teacher special education multicategorical at Martin Middle effective May 21st, 2025 for the remainder of the 2425 school year and then of course next school year as well. requested transfer of Perry Curry as ECAT third grade to ECAT preK at Marlington Middle, I'm sorry, Marlington Elementary for the 2526 school year and employment of Sher How as cafeteria manager for the 2025 summer feeding program and Energy Express effective June 13 through July 31st. Resignation of Emily as teacher of fifth grade at Monton
114Elementary School effective June 30th 2025. Employment of Alexander Hmel as band director, music teacher at Pocahontas County High School effective for the 2526 school year and employment of Christine Campbell as head principal at Oklahoma County High School effective May 21st, ML because we did approve to restructure those music programs and so he wanted to This time I'd like to make a second session discussion made motion for an executive session on personnel. Do I have a second? Mr. Mcome second. We will go into executive session at 8. Mrs. Hall seconded. All those in favor sign I. Let the record show that we come out of executive session and into session at 9:21. Okay. going to vote on all of them but Christine Campbell. We're her out on everyone but Christine. All those in favor signify by
115saying I. And now we're going to vote on Christine Campbell as head principal of Cocon County High School effective May the 21st 2025. Do I have a motion? Miss Horth made motion. I have a second. All those in favor by saying I. Motion carries. Number 10. Uh, it's going to be rewrote. Uh, number 10 is going to be rewrote. Okay. Make motion to vote on number 10. You're correct. Now mo on number 10 make a motion and Mrs. Hanss were second it and we pulled one item out of number 10 because we was moving days from 220 days to 240 days we did that this was the same it's just that yeah that's got to come out once it's an agenda item is the reason we did that. So all those in favor of number
11610 signify by saying I motion carried is now. That's the rest of my paper. Here we go. Our next board of education meeting including discussion on the student. Well that's matters on board. Sam I am so sick and tired playground thing. Um you know and miss thank you so much for that. I am exuberantly excited about finishing school year. We have a great schedule, great finish coming up and um I want to acknowledge staff for doing such a great job this year. That's all I got. in the room. Yes, sir. Mr. I don't have anything. Uh, next board of education meeting will be held. Miss Hollsworth, do you have anything on matters of the board? No. Okay. I meet you. Next board of education meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025, beginning at
1176 p.m. at the board of education conference room. Do I have a motion to adjourn? Motion to have a second. Second and all those in favor saying I.