001Yes. I don't know, but I've heard King. [Music] County Board of Education to order the regular meeting for Tuesday, April 22nd in the board office in Buckeye, West Virginia. All members are present allegiance to the flag. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. First item on the agenda is approval of the minutes from education meeting held on April the 1st 2025. Anybody got any do I have a motion make a motion? Do I have a second? Second. Mr. Sen. Any questions about the minutes from the last meeting? No, sir. Hearing none. All those in favor sign. Motion carries. Item number two is the approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion? Motion. Do I have
002a second? This calls for second any agenda. All those in favor sign by saying I. Motion carries. delegation. Superintendent report and special recognition may county and regional winners and a few others. That's okay. I want to start. I was tight on my nose. So I have organized them by first recognizing our students because that's why we're all here is for the students of county. So I want to mention that the regional he had Alex Hmel the band director at Normington Middle and our high school. He took those two bands and they received an excellent rating during that April 11. [Music] from zero. Excellent. So, and then I want to also give you a social studies fair update. The following students have won first place at the regional social studies fair and are moving on to
003the state competition. That's Diamond Owens from Marlington Elementary with Why is the green book necessary? It's Oh, I could think that was the blue book back with you. Remember the blue? So, I should I should look at also Dave Smith and Troy Satler with great things to Bitcoin and Christy Drew Poe. I actually judged them at the school level was school. Oh my goodness. Excellent. So, and Catherine and Dixie Schoolcraft from our high school and their project is unit 73. That one either. So, I if I can I think it's about um prisoner of war camps or concentration camp somewhere. I believe it's in China. It's been a while since I saw their project, but threats was about the green book was about segregation. I'm glad we got some. Thank you all. It's I'm very
004proud of them to go on. I know we all wish and then we're going to do MJ winners and Joanna B couldn't could not be with us tonight but she said everything to um post all of her Yes. So she sent me everything that she wants me to read. So we're going to read this and recognize all the students um for their participation. Regional math field day was March 8th at WBU Tech. 10 PCHS students in grades 10 through 12 participated forming a team. They competed in two individual tests and these tests together form their individual score. In addition, they compete in three team contests. All individual scores and team contest scores contribute to the team score. Nicholas County took first place over Pocahontas by a razor thin margin. Our students beat Greenburn, Webster, F
005and Braxton. All districts compete on an even playing field regardless of district size. In total, 10 students from our region move on to state math building. PCHS sent 30% of the regional team even though we were the smallest district in the region. High school regional winners participate participated in the state competition. Wade Garber, Eden Smith six, Hannah Beverage ninth. In addition to our three winners, Ella Marle and Ramona Hardy were in the top 15 and all of our students contributed to the team total. High school second in the region team. Seniors was Eden Smith, Hannah Beverage, Ella Markle, Florian Bodler, and Will Oonnian. Juniors Wade Garber, Paul Jordan, Ramona Harding. And sophomores were Cash Beers and Cadence Cubba. Regional math field day for the grades 4 through 9 was held March 21st. The top three
006students in each grade participated. So grade four through nine regional winners. Fifth grade was Victor Dean. Third place or fifth grade was Victor Dean and he took third place. and Isaac Brown took second alternate. Eighth grade first place team in the region was Joey Mccclure third place. Callie Goldsberry second alternate and Zara Fanny. Our county contest was December 3rd at Greenbank Observatory. Huge thanks to the Greenbank Observatory for their support in donating the space and creating the estimation stations. Next year it is slated for December 2nd. All administrators and board members are welcome to the award ceremony which happens around 100 pm. So county winners top three places were regional participants. So for 9th grade you had Willa Hardy took first, Duncan Seismore second, Tristan Seismore third, Nadia Kerr fourth, and Mallerie Cobra fifth. Eighth
007grade was Zara Fanning first, Joey Mccclure second, Callie Goldsbury third, Eli Beasley fourth, and Ezra Bond fifth. Seventh grade was Ryan Wiro first, Ace Gregory second, Autumn Havley third, Liam Sutton fourth, and James Monaco fifth. Sixth grade you had Matteline Writtenhouse and she was first place. Hunter Hefner. Jonathan Burgess third, Lucas Sutton fourth and Sterling Tomlin fifth. Fifth grade you had Victor Dean first, Isaac Brown second, Conrad Lo third, Braden Ray was fourth, Jameson's labor was fifth. Fourth grade was Joseph [Music] Writtenhouse. Michael Briel was second, AJ Bett was third, Hunter Pasel was fourth, and Tyrell Davis was fifth. Crypto winners include Dylan Dun, Jonathan Burgess, and Joseph Writtenhouse. to double the staff members if we didn't have student volunteers for math field day grades four through nine. These students support all aspects of the
008day at the Greenbank Observer Collective. Volunteers for grades four through nine counting contest were Dylan Duns, Florian Bodler, Eden Smith, Ella Marle, Hannah Beverage, Kristen Friel, Wade Garber, Ramona Hardy, Cadence Cup, and Colin Sutton. So, we would like to congratulate all of our participants and winners. And I think that Superintendent Bals has some certificates. I do, but I don't have the ones that are here. mishap with the certificates. They were we actually had Nicholas counties shipped to us and they and so we played a little but I think there's some still in the mail somewhere because that's they were like yeah I said okay I'll make a deal I'll get yours mine but let's have our three students that are here with the board and then we'll I'm not growling at you, but I don't
009like it. Are you stand? Okay. All right. One, two, three. And one more. One, two, three. We see a lot of these new year also. Now, hold on. There's there was one thing that you read off that we sent 30% of our math people to what was that? Yeah. PCHS sent 30% of the regional team even though we are the smallest district in the region. some personnel or staff information. We started interviewing our year and service personnel of the year candidates this evening. We'll finalize interviews tomorrow. I was thinking we would make the announcement at our next awards meeting, but we have to have they have to have everything to the state by May 12th. So we will make we'll just visit the school and make the announcement and hopefully have them come to May
010to be recognized. I really enjoy those interviews. You learn a lot about the people. Also you get ideas for how well already have quite a few things started from just also just a reminder to everyone that tomorrow is administrative professionals day. Um it's an annual recognition and I've learned that it's not only in the United States but a few other countries as well. So our of course we know our school system cannot run without these valuable uh ladies. Also wanted to mention as a recognizing staff that Stacy Dunn who's a teacher at of the high school in social studies was selected as one of the 25 to go to Mount Vernon summer burn uh summer residential program this year. The focus will be on George Washington and the economy of a new nation. So we're
011proud of her as well. And I want to say to all of the five board members, thank you for getting yourself appraisals in. We met the deadline way ahead of time and um that has been sent to the state department and it's also on our website. You can find it under the board um the the board members page. So yes, um also wanted to recognize some of the programs and other work that we're um doing now. And I'm going to have Mrs. Spencer talk about the stuff is very active. So I said before we place this um the office outside I said that we should recognize the award at so this is actually our second round. It is a four-year cycle and so this is our second round of doing this and we were one
012of the first I think three counties that were full county compliant um the first round but we are still um in a small pool. I think we're about um a third of the state now, but we have every one of our um schools has this designation which then gives us county designation and the purpose of it is a partnership between the military and the West Virginia Department of Ed. They call it um the common ground. Um but its purpose is to not only support the students but the families and then any veterans on how they can do um next steps coming home, how they can um connect with education and jobs within our community and how we can help do that. So, one of the biggest things for us as a school is to identify,
013recognize, and support all military children and to make sure that um each school has a a military person in charge. In fact, Sherman is the one for the middle school. Um and the purpose to this is um that we talked kids whether their parents are deployed or um who have a lot of National Guard. So they are um back and forth and doing a couple you know weeks at a time or months at a time and we just take a little extra time to make sure these students are um supported and helped. Um but within this there's also a couple things that we have to do as a county. One of the biggest things is to provide and Mr. Christie helps me with that provide a platform on our websites and the county website for
014all military families to have that extra connection. Um and then the department of ed has also put a pretty significant piece in where all teachers can make connections to um military visiting or um tours or their education pieces that they can bring into the classroom. So those are the two websites I guess that you have um on there. So some of the things and this is just a snippet but I was trying to think of everything we have going on this year. Um we do veterans day assemblies in all five of the schools and feed the veterans in two of the schools on those two days. The high school has brought back having the ASBA at school. Um the military links are on the sides. We have annual military recognition at our sporting events. I
015know high school does basketball and football. We have the Christy's boxes which are a big undertaking through the high school. All Pocahontas County High School graduates that are active service tasters receive a box from our community and all of the things that go in the box are donated from our community and it's just a nice little touch of we're still ours and we're still thinking now. Um we also recognize military child week which was was just this last April and one of the things that we do um we you know kind of like a spirit week but we also have a lot of educational pieces in the classroom trying to teach the students what all the branches of the military are what's the purpose why we recognize um military children and um we have military
016sign at the high school which I don't have the date for this year but we've had that several and supporting all families in deployed military members. So on the back are the military connected uh each school has person that is the military contact. Um I was actually two of them wanted to kind of share it. They were filling shoes of Miss Anita and she did a fabulous job pulling a lot of things together. Um, but it's a pretty significant honor that we take the time to connect these families and to connect these resources to these parents. Wow. We we spend a lot of kids searched. We do. Yeah, we do. We do. Um, the year our kids graduated, it was almost a tenth of that graduating class that went military and are still good. It
017is. Thank you very much. You're kind of like drawing through the character, right? Your side's a little I also wanted to update you that we do have a meeting later this week and we're going to be working on the change plans as well as our crisis plans and I've also invited John Wilson from Mineral County Schools who's our safety and security coordinator. He's going to come down and share their student process for behavior. So, we're anxious to hear about that. something they have developed and he says they're always working on working on it. So he'll spend an hour with our principal on that. Also Tracy can watch with Makers Mountain classroom is going to be going on to get some feedback as well. And speaking of um nature's mountain classroom, I think I sent you
018all the email out. We did win a regional award from the education alliance. Could you bring up education alliance committee? So I won that on that committee with education alliance. And so as soon as they started talking about regional awards I think we were then they came back and said it'll be a so the regional award we win $2,000 that'll be for major mountain classroom work and then the state award. So all these regional winners, eight of them will go to the state and it's 25,000 and I'm like we got this too. You can see on the website on the educational website who the 2025 regional score and we are there's adventures now classroom for region one that's um got Monroe kind of the olda four and one together at Raleigh County you know some
019largered with this is a new program for educational Alliance are trying to bring back to life the business school partnerships and they have great tool and a lot of support for the businesses and the schools in order to do that. And you can see Jennifer Gardner is actually going to speak at um state award. I think she's on the bottom maybe of the but anyhow it's going to be it's uh they will announce it in May uh at 30 meeting so it's the launch I will be present for that response well then um you know we talked about that we're going to be working on strategic plans a very valuable resource that we have this year thanks to Christy Drao Stephanie Burns and Christy Hampton. It is a survey and Christiey's gonna hand hopefully you
020guys have kind of seen this out and about. We've shared it on social media. We've sent emails to staff to family to any kind of stakeholders that we can get a hold of. Um and we're just calling it a stakeholder survey. Um and if you get a chance, please do take it if you haven't yet. But um you'll find that it's a very targeted survey. We worked together, Mrs. Trinapo and Mrs. Burns and I to find a survey that gave us valuable feedback, actionable feedback, things that we can take and use and actually make progress on. So, we're going to take this feedback and it's going to mean something when we make strategic plans, when we apply for grants. we are going to use this feedback from our community to tell us what they want.
021And even just today when I mean we were sitting here working on a grant and waiting data already and we got so excited because this survey is really beneficial in so many ways. So in an example, we asked the parents, how can we support you? And we gave them about 15 or 20 options to sort of narrow it down because, you know, if you get comments, you get a big garbble of things, but we gave them 20 things to pick from and so we get a ranking of what can we do to support you. Um, and we're working on a grant for after school programming and that was actually one of the top things that our parents had asked for. It's after school tutoring and access to afterchool programs. So again, this is great actionable
022data. We'll bring it back and share it with you guys when the survey closes so you guys understand what the community wants from you as well. Um, but we've already got 160 responses. We just sent it out on the 15th. Um, we're going to close the survey next week. Um, but we're getting great responses in. Um, we're very pleased with it. Um, and then we're going to follow up with a specific staff and a specific student survey. So, we're going to dig in there deeper. We want to know what do our students want? What kind of programs? We want to know from our teachers, how can we support you better? We're going to give you guys that information, too. Um, we want this data to better make plans that that support what our community wants.
023That's out there now. If you get a chance, please take it. Anybody that's here, make sure you try to take that survey. We want to take that data. We want to hear your voice. I said I have noticed some big there were too many good options. So I filled it out and I'd have like 10 replies to get replies I didn't like. Here's the option of but that's good. Thank you. I think it's right. I think it's great. Thank you. Information reports and academic updates meter. Apologies for being late today. Come from Murphy. start. Um, so I had the opportunity to talk with Miss Camp today um about a student concern that I've heard from many students um and it's about super scholars this year. Um it's been heard that super scholars based on standardized
024testing scores um this year and some students felt like they were at a disadvantage because they may excel in the class but may not be at a point where they're getting their test scores and I mean their hard work may not be reflected in their test. they don't test well, right? And that may be um a different case for people who aren't looking as hard in school but get higher test scores. Um and me and Miss reflected on like what is a well-rounded high achieving student? Is it attendance, grades, and stand testing or all three? And um I kind of came to the conclusion that maybe that is all three and that's maybe what that should be based off of um for the for coming years. Um before it was just GPA. But I mean
025anybody can be high achieving um in any classes. They can be taking easier classes or harder classes but maybe they're not showing up to school frequently or not getting those test scores. So maybe it is a good thing to have those categist from the county perspective and then we talked about if we did school awards based on multip multiple categories um instead of the county. But even the principles had pretty serious discussion about how do we make it consistent when we don't all do the same thing, but also is it just the test? We talked about that. It was it was not just a one discussion. So enjoy I mean Joey's points are out, right? We also have kids that can make straight A's and knock on the school. So, it's hard to decide how
026you're going to set a bar for standard of excellence is what we changed to as a county. So, it was previously only your GPA only, right? Like last year, we sent GPA. So this is new new system this year and all the county schools is doing the same will be doing the same thing hopefully. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of discussion with either oh months. Well and it for me came down to when we had percentage of super scholars and then took that percentage against grade level achievement. we weren't anywhere in the same ball. So, we were recognizing students that received higher grades, especially from my viewpoint in elementary. We have three different schools, different teachers in every classroom. The the consistency was a little bit tougher. Then we've come down to standardized tests and
027we're scoring in the 30%. But we're cranking out 60% super scholars. That's a discrepancy that's not accurate. Um so that's where we came with the standards for vaccine that there needed to be a standardized measurement and we didn't have a better measurement for that particular yes for that but we did say at the school level we would do other things for everything that we do um from you know social studies fairfield that like every achievement is acknowledged at the end of the year award ceremony, but for a county level, we needed something standardized. We had to use an SAT, but it's still what whether the student bar is meet or received standards in either math or reading. So, we have students that meant math, but maybe not reading, students that reading, but and then students
028that meant both. So they would get recognized for each of these things. But it's meets or exceeds standard. Wow. It's it's really impressive. Do you all work this out? Good. That's a good thing. I'm sure they could have done without you. Christy Trin textbook adoption. You have five minutes. Well, listen. So, we've been working on textbook adoption. Um, Stephanie Burns has taken on the elementary social studies textbook adoption and I've been working with secondary ones. So, I invited the secondary teachers to come and talk to you all because I thought who better to explain why they chose the books that they chose. Um, we all attended the textbook caravan a couple months ago and I have given you all an update on that, but I invited u Mr. Beina and Mr. Taylor to come and
029talk to you about some of the textbooks that we are asking to be adopted for the county tonight. Um, Melissa Robertson who teaches sixth grade at Marlington Middle, she could not be here and Holly um Chestnut cannot be here. She's off on maternity leave. But um Miss Robertson sent me something and I'll just read what she said. She said, "I chose the text because it covers the standards and uses the same language as our standards. I also like the economics connection provided in each lesson as well as technology and built-in scaffolds for students with accommodations and needs support. So, I will let them talk to you about their textbooks and what they think about the options and that's all I have to say. Yes. Yes. Um, do they still have the state list of textbooks
030that are approved? Yes, it's on an app now on the state website and all of these are on the app. Yes, we can only pick the ones that are on the app. So, we we go to the caravan, they're all set up and then we look at the app and we pick the ones that we want to ask for uh materials from and then we contact those people. The contacts are all on the app. Then we have to get on the app, fill out certain things, submit certain things. We also have math textbooks on the agenda for because we didn't adopt those for the high school last year. And we also have prek curriculum. So, um I was on a meeting the other day and we cannot submit for any of our textbook adoptions until
031we have all of our items for everything that we're working on. You can't submit just for prek. So, uh, prek teachers have picked their curriculum, which will be on the next board agenda, but I can't submit for them until everybody's ready. So, one person will have to we'll have to upload everything and then one person has to hit the submit for but yes, everything that we're picking is on the state app and has been approved by the West Virginia Department of Ed. Five minutes left, right? Five minutes. Thank you. um you got as long as we need and I put the books up there. I give I give her a real time all the time. It's uh I don't really know what to say. Uh seventh grade the standards changed quite a bit this time.
032If you remember years ago, seventh grade used to be geography and with the words for history whenever the standards were revised and rewritten last year to be adopted this July. Um effective this July they went back to more of the geography. So for us, the whole Google world kind of align more with what where Western Virginia standards are now. And in West Virginia history, we chose two uh there's a consumable the um the gallop page the the yellow book on the end is more of a a consumable book for students. We felt like we got a really good uh quote on those and they'll provide uh workbooks each year for students, but we wanted something with a little bit more indepth information. And so we're going to supplement that with the West Virginia textbook for
033Western history and just uh Miss Chest and I just would like a a classroom set of those to have in our rooms to for students to work in. That is just a a sample. The the actual textbook will be a traditional art cover text. Well, and for the high school um to address what um Mr. Collins asked about, some of the books actually said West Virginia edition on them because of course standards are different in every state. We know that. Um and I'm not sure which ones. I looked at them and I think the government book is up there. I'm not sure what the big one is. It might be a little civics. United States civics. Civics and uh United States studies. Oh, okay. You right. Um so we decided and for the last two
034book adoptions at the high school, we've gone with the whole world and have been very happy with it. Um but for the last uh couple of years, um I'd say about three maybe at the high school, u myself, Mr. Q. Um, we found ourselves not using the book as much because it just wasn't as user friendly and studentfriendly. And so when I got to the book fair, I was a caravan. I was really excited to see some of the other options. Um, and we ended up with the Negro Hill book for all of the courses we offer at the high school. So for the 9 through 12 and then also for the geography elective that requires offer. Um, we found that Mcgirl Hill was first of all user friendly. Um, the flow of the book
035was really nice. Um, I spent a lot of time comparing all of the world history books because the standards have changed uh, starting next school year and in world history they have changed I think more than in the other two courses. I look at Sherman because he was on the uh, committee that started to work on that. Um, and so they they're starting at a different point in world history in the ninth grade now, a little bit closer to more modern history. And the McGraw Hill book aligned with that and so it was a little bit easier to use. Not only that, and actually Mrs. Trin was there for the presentation. They gave a fantastic presentation. Some of the resources that come along with McGill, I think are going to be so helpful. Um, the
036digital platform is I I think going to be great for our students. very user friendly and it comes with different modifications. So you you can um uh help of students if they need reading support or if you need to modify assignments. They come with a couple of modifications already built into them. So it's going to free up time um not only for us but for our special ed teachers um in doing all of that extra work. So I'm pretty excited. book. Um, I think not only that, I it's just laid out so nicely and that's one of the reasons why we wanted to go with it. Not only just line with our standards, but I think it's just going to be a good book for us to use. And we're getting classroom sets because we
037um we don't want to put a lot of money into a book that we may not be using a lot, but the digital platform is there, which I think we're going to be utilizing a lot. So, so we I'm seeing a pattern and it's like last year we selected remember was it two years ago so this is all this is all social studies this time right so next summer will be like what math next is next they do rotate they rotate three months Okay. [Music] The textbook companies have come so far and the resources being said just the online versions you can even uh modify the lifestyle levels for students with different uh reading abilities. Um there's a lot of different activities for students of different uh different ability and learning style. They really come
038a long way. And um the McGraw Hill on their digital um platforms, they're updating. So they will go through periodically every um once or twice a year and they'll do updates. So the book will remain the same. you still have that same part of because there are people that need it and want to use it, but then they're updating with with new maybe new projects or or new information or pictures or um updated videos like you know there's a an election so now we need to update information as opposed to textbook where of course you can't update um and actually um saying the word project um reminded me that there's um project based learning built into to textbook, which I think is a a really um great option. And I happened to take a class
039last year in project based learning. I've been trying to implement some things in my classroom. I think this will just make things a little bit easier for us to do that. What's this cost shares? Over $70,000. Wow. That this is just high school, middle school right here. They do not really cut that cost for those individuals because they still have all their research and you know work on so they were getting a book for everyone. I think we're all just one classroom sets across the board. Yeah. I thought it might be a way to try and see a couple fact that they have differentiated learners in here. It's not an important area language learners and all that stuff for you which a tremendous amount of time. I can't remember if it was sold or McDraw
040Hill, but I mean you could do it. I you know I mean they you do the online textbook in just about any language you can think of. I said not such a big deal. Does does green bank have any extra book fees because you know we don't have the online up there significant is a factor. Is there any is there any difference in cost or anything of that? No. Um, Miss Chestnut has requested the consumables and plus the digital because if she can use the digital, she would like to use it, but she also wants the consumable books so that if she doesn't have internet, she can use those. So she has she requested license. Okay. Uh Is that on behalf? Yes. Thank you both very much. Thank you. It number six, approval of the
041following consent financial requirements. Payment of vendor listing $216,28910. Payment of local government purchasing card $126,6828. April the 3rd, 2025. Employee payroll $300,379.65. Grant awards. E is Pocahontas County school summary of schedule of revenues and expenditures on a cash basis for the month ending in March 2025 and budget adjustments. Do I have a motion? Motion. Do I have a second? I'll second it. Any questions? Yes, sir. All those in favor sign. Motion carried. Under miscellaneous. Approval of the adoption of the following instructional resources. Pomus County High School is requesting approval to adopt the following math textbooks. Image Learning LLC. Math 1 image IM integrated. Math 2 image IM integrated. Math 3 image IM integrated. And algebra image IM integrated. Do I have a motion? Motion. Do I have a second? It's for a second. Questions on
042the math books. Think there's going next to the next one. I think that's a fine here. It should go on to the next should say McGraw and and Hill LLC an eight weeks transition math for seniors beginning an immigrant algebra with power introduction to math matic applications math and the world and then we go on the world history so I don't know whether that's under two or one hill world history US history commentary studies civics US comprehensive and geog Green Bank and Mike and Middle are requesting approval to the following textbook. Sixth grade history textbook McGraw Hill social studies grade six West Virginia edition. Greenbank and Mike Middle are requesting approval to adopt the following eighth grade West Virginia history textbooks. Gib Smith and to West Virginia. Any questions on everything? Seventh grade. Um Paul
043M will be on the next agenda. He was left off. So on the next one, right? All in agreement with this. This is what they want. Yes. All those in favor sign by saying I. I motion carries. I like loud. Item number eight is approval of contract between Impact Learning Services representative by Carrie Bowers and the Poconus County School to provide death and heart of hearing DHH support services to a designated student at Green Elementary Middle School. Do I have a motion? Made a motion. I have a second. Any questions on number eight? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. Motion carries. Item number nine is approval of a 30-day public comment for the policy 5460 graduation requirement. Have a motion. Have a second. Mrs. Holl second. Is this to change the
044from 24 to 22? Is that what No, we want to go to what the state requirement is and policy to have more credits required than state. But this policy is actually we're now 23. and the state what's this why would we want to lower our standard standards we're just delaying what the state requirements are. We have a few students at the same actually. So, it's actually just one student. What was you were on there when they went to 24 from 22? What was the deal? Why did we go to 24? Yeah, I support this, but stand my own wife say that may make the difference between a paycheck and a welfare check. And if you get to be a signature to get through credits, you're probably not going to come back one year, one credit.
045So, we're going now, let me get this straight. This get about as clear as the state is going to require 23 credits with this 54. We require 24 now. We are going to change that back to 23 to meet the state average. Right? Okay. If you have that policy like this, if the state changes, then ours will change. Okay. Personal violence. If we had a policy written this way, we wouldn't have to adjust it every time the state adjusts their stuff. It would just be Where did the 22 come from? That was that was the state originated. Yes. Finance last year. The current freshman has 23 required. Everybody graduating before then has 22. This a faculty agreement with this. You like it? Yeah. We're actually puts it out. We will get those back those folks
046but I mean our conversations about them we need to be in okay your higher food is still going to have more credits. Yeah. Any more questions? No. Yeah. Feel feel free to speak. I'm just going to say I mean if you're passing all your classes you're going to you have to I mean yeah if I yeah 17 I know I could remember that I don't know why I didn't think about hang out. Motion carries. I didn't realize I was supposed to go over the financial statement for you all. I will not be in the next meeting because I'm in the um treasures workshop in May. So, did you all have questions? I was just happy to add it to the next agenda for approve. I will try to be available by phone uh at that
047meeting. Would you have any questions on the financial statement then? Congratulations on your audit. Yes. Thank you, Sher. Number 10 is approval of high school standards for the following courses. See text academic enrichment algebra 3 anthropology appalachin literature Greek writing one film history of the 20th century US history of the Holocaust journalism photograph learns of music of films myths and legends Shakespeare test strategy weight training and world religion do I have a motion on it tonight but I have a As long as we're a second, [Music] okay, any questions on number 10? Sounds cool. Everybody all right with that? That was really interesting meeting. All those in favor sign by saying I think approval of the council approval of the 2025 2026 school calendar for Pop County schools. I have a motion. Mr. Co made
048a motion. Do I have a second? Mr. McN over there. This is the school calendar. We also show the survey results because this is why the survey results show. Can we make it bigger for us old on the back? Okay. Is this the one that goes to June 15th? Yes. This is the calendar, right? How what was you see the numbers on? So the results are calendar three votes were 376 in favor calendar two was 83 votes and calendar one was 149 that your children will be in till June 16th 4 will start before school's out. I've already talked to um she's already in contact with me today. What time is up these numbers? 2011. She asked me if the staff who worked if they would be allowed to uh take office days. Why we
049don't have days if they can take professional leave and personally I like calendar one that starts first of August middle of August I'll tell you why two reasons and I think they're important number one is the semester wraps up before Christmas and number two the fall support schedule starts the first day of practice is in August 1st August and so you it's 10 days and you start scrimmaging and live play so that's in essence when school starts for most school athletes anyway and if we wait till August So just to remind you that we did a calendar today. We got this survey to all stakeholders, students, staff, community members. We got those results back and the committee created three calendars based on the results from the survey about when do you want to start school,
050what days do you want off, when did you send days and the end of the school year. Those three calendars then were put out to vote and these are you think everybody understood it? It was pretty clear. There's an explanation beside each calendar. Yeah, it's got the on each one it's got the start date, the holidays, the winter break, turkey season, something what h here's what I'm afraid of with calendar 3. Once the testing is done, students shut down and most time teachers do too. Well, it's easier to teach the baby. That's at that point your baby said your baby said you're not teaching once once test is done that is done they're done and if we get into another snow day situation next year knock on wood we don't but if we do then
051we won't have those options and make those days up it'll be hard to to done by a certain date. Contract 30th. When is it? June 30th. June 30th. July. How many days are in this calendar? Well, if the legislature passes that 160, would you have to educ the worst? Well, I can tell you that most I don't know if anyone's here that was on the committee, but that was why they also said teachers and you know there were some parents that would also that time. Is there is there a way that we could I mean I don't know how much work I know it's a lot of work. Is there another way that we could table this and put it back? We can table it. We can table it for another night to make I
052mean cuz people were upset. I can tell you that we can uh we can table it. I say a lot of it I've heard was people didn't realize what they were voting for. Is it the three or four votes? Do we know whe So what are So you're you're you're you're recommending calendar 3 tonight. Superintendent. So based on the stakeholders fixes. Okay. be interesting to listen to those stakeholders. Chris, is there an option to re to re from my standpoint just from purely technical? It's not a big deal to reissue a survey. Um, it takes minimal time to to make it up. Um, that's not a big deal. I I I mean, I can tell you that part. Um, I don't know the logistics on Mrs. Boston. So is it something else? What do you
053think? We're in school 200 days. Yeah. Yeah. But you know what? How do you think the teachers will react? Are they for it or against it? I know that the folks that were on the calendar committee put out the calendars based on the stakeholders based on the surveys and they all have opinions about people want to start later because the summers are gone. But you can't start later without ending later. They want to start later, they want to quit earlier. I mean like that's not Yeah. Either way you go, somebody's going to be upset because they plan out their summer and 180day mandate. There's if you guys want to look at this is a survey that folks um so when people click on the link, this is the survey that they saw. Um there's instructions
054at the top that tells you you can vote of one and then you can make a comment on any calendars. Um so what happened was we put a picture of each calendar and it has each like specific when do you start when do you finish? Um we did one two three. They're colorcoded. Um, I mean, frankly, I I don't know what mean. Um, for instance, when you look at calendar three, it tells you first date of instruction, last date for students. Um, you know, it's on there. I'm not sure what else we would do. Um, and then it's just as simple as pick the one. And we said on here it's a late start and end date. It's a mid start and end date. It's an early start and end date. So, um, you know,
055um, by May 2nd. we decide the other thing is whenever I can't answer that. Uh the here's something else that concerns me. If our graduation is June 12th, did you say miss? That's going to throw our graduates almost a month behind other high schools graduating. And these kids that are are they graduate 27.8 of May right now. But I mean a lot of high schools are these these these young men five days before the rest. Yeah. These young men that's going to Virginia places to find jobs. It's going to put them behind them. Can I ask why we changing anyone? Why are we changing every year? People just didn't want the same one. Not when you took it yesterday. We took a few surveys. SP. So the original survey says, "What do you want to
056see in a calendar?" Yeah. And then the survey committee takes that information and they make three calendars. What I believe, and I I don't have those original results, what I believe we saw a lot was families want to start after the fair. Um, so they made a calendar that starts after the fairy. Um, do people realize it's the middle of June get out? It's on the calendar. I'm not sure how else. Yeah, they never get to school. They never get to school during that week. fire close to mid June when they get to some days at the end of their 62% calendar But you hear from the people that don't watch. You don't hear from the people. And I feel like if we say because they're say why did you then we'll see what happens.
057I'll I'll speak as a person who voted for calendar 3. Um this is the calendar I grew up with in Pennsylvania. I like it because first of all, our family always went someplace in August and it frustrates me every year when I'm in school and I can't do anything in August when the weather's beautiful, but I'm out of school in June when the weather sucks and it's raining and it's cold. And I also heard from a lot of our students um about the fair. Every year when we start school, I miss a large percentage of my students because they're all at the fair. They're at the concerts. They're showing animals. They're just at the fair. And then they come back two weeks later and then I've got to start all over because now I've got
058a new class of students who weren't there. So I mean in that case and I didn't realize when when it ends, but again I was always in school as a child. I mean, it could have senior until June 12th, June 14th, June 15th. One, my birthday is June 22nd. One year we got out on the 20th. Um, so to me, it wasn't that big of a deal. I understand here it's a different system, but so I I was the person that supported calendar. It's also discussed. It's usually a little warmer and I'm always Oh, in your garden. I'm sorry. I forgot your garden. I lose tomatoes every year because you can get what really matters. I mean, we always started after Labor Day and until the law opened up the window, you had to be
059out by June 8th, but we were always there and then they changed the law and opened up the weeks that you could have. That's when the state started requiring regardless too. So days when they had the date June 8th or 9th whatever it was back in those days you had 30 snow days you still couldn't go past June 8th or 9th but those days you didn't have snow day that was a lot different. Okay. All those loose in favor sign by saying I. All oppose. Motion carries. 5. So you got your calendar. June's calendar when they don't get out till June 15th. Okay. Approval for Justin and Dilly to take approximate gates to King's Dominion in Dollsville, Virginia on May the 19th. Yes, sir. 2025 transportation by private. You'll have a motion. I have a
060second. Okay. I don't think we're going to take a three minute break. I don't have any break music. I'm sorry. If you could do the same. I heard Elvis. I thought you're going to say no or else. Thank you. Thank you. Did you see? I did. Neighbor. Yeah. is like that. I'd like some follow through with this follow through with some maybe some data on how our kids did after winter break. We uh we need to I think how's that fold out? That's what I want. We need to we need to switch a couple items on the agenda to change them around. Uh service personnel, we need to move to 16 and then they expectation. We need to move down to 17 so we don't have to wait around. Swap them to around. No, I
061don't think we need a motion, do we? I don't think we need a motion for that. We're just changing them around. That way people don't have to wait till we go into executive station. No, no, there will be no decision made tonight. Uh this is to set up probably the interviews and stuff. We have six. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Number 12. Miss Hollinssworth, we're ready to go. I just needed to get in here down. All those in favor signify by saying I. Motion carries. Number 12 is approval for Scott Gardner to take between six to eight students to Mountain Gateway Community College for three department in Clinton Forge, Virginia on April 23rd, 2025. Transportation provided by the Orry Bane. Do I have a motion? Most made the motion. I have a second. All those in favor?
062Motion carries. Approval for Jonathan Taylor and Wooden to attend a national skills USA conference and commercial roofing competition in Atlanta, Georgia on June 23rd, 2025 to June 28, 2025. Transportation provided by private vehicle though I have a motion. We have a second and second. All those in favor say I. [Music] Atlanta for Andy Freel, Greg Hammonds, and Lucy Messo to take approximately 31 students to the Poconos County Producer Stockyard in Martin, West Virginia on April the 28th, 2025. Transportation provided by bus. Do I have a motion? San What are they going to do? They don't go to the north. They're probably but they not they go through the process of doing all the things with the yeah run through way are we live gets kicked already be underrisisk okay we're covered a year. All those
063in favor by saying I now we're going to change over. We're going to jump down to 17 and then we'll go back to 16. So approval of service and professional personnel. Do I have a motion? Do I have a second? Second elementary April 22nd 20 for a period up to 12 weeks of excuse me part-time students effective at the end of the 24 25 school year marine elementary school resignation of Martin Walton as a custodian at Hillsboro Elementary School like to create a special education elementary teacher for the 2526 school year. And I'll explain that position. I talked to Denise Blet from Randolph County. She actually suggested I do this. I told her, I said, "Here's what uh Mrs. Spencer needs uh for the school. you know, hey, why don't I pass special ed teachers
064and but she also would like some related arts, PE, uh, music, art, you know, something like that. Right now, she we have a half time PE position, which we have not filled at all in there. So it would suggest that if we do an elementary teacher as the other part of this position, an elementary teacher is qualified to teach all subjects including PE or humanities. So it's not a classroom teacher. It is somebody to the related arts. So that's that's what I'm asking to create. and then asked me to abolish the halftime PE teacher that we have right now posted but we had not filmed that this year because um and then a special education teacher at the end of the 242 school year because we one and a half special education teachers they go
065to next year so that's the explanation of those uh the high school resignation of Taylor as athletic director at the end of the 2425 school year in the high at Oklahoma County schools. Should I read this one retirement? Let her read. Sherry Radford is director of finance treasure for county schools due to retirement effective change and hard workers. Um, okay. Now, I'll explain these others, too. Uh, abolish the music band instructor at Wington Middle and Pocahontas County High School. That's the two jobs that Alex was. Yes. That would be at the end of this school year. Also abolish the position at Monton Elementary/Killsboro Elementary 25 school year. best position that currently Graham Morgan has. But that's when um Mrs. Spencer said I could really be somebody who do music. Um and then we'd like to
066create a fulltime music instructor at the high school and create a music teacher shared with Marlin Elementary and Mar school year. Those positions were discussed with the music teachers I had in Ir. Yes. But that's elementary and only because I'm I have the certification where teach all subjects. So that's that's why when I spoke with the other human resource director she suggested I do it that way. It's not a classroom teacher. an elementary teacher has special that makes women music teacher. So Marlington Elementary will have a music teacher. Marlinsson Elementary will now share with Marlon Middle and we'll have to have a full retire right I know retired. So we I guess my question did we just create a vacancy? No, we only have three. Mr. McLolin is still a green bank. Two. Okay. So,
067we have three with Mr. Morgan or three. Yes. After he's three after an opening. So, we're abolishing Mr. Morton specific because he was elementary and in Hillsboro. So we're abolishing that and creating a more elementary and middle again drive time's going to be you know they won't do so much drive time and then making that high school level right so we we I talked to M and they had some he had some great ideas. Um Mr. more than talking about recruitment and colleges to go out and find you know some young um teachers also of course reached out to our neighbor county of Randol to say that you and these are the positions we have Mr. have a story to tell that they had to they had to revamp the whole music. I'm still confused
068on I know we need right now we have two I mean after Mr. Morgan we have two three next year. Who's the third? Okay, that's my question. Yeah, we have fun. Yes, because Mr. Morgan has retired. It was a good time to ship it, right? That the math wasn't for you. We have to have to any questions. All those in favor by saying hi. You all want to go ahead and do matters to the board while everybody's here. These people don't. Well, that's personel you done. No. No, just read the headlines. Read the headlines. We done hard. So provisionary contract service 2526. We need to see the employees return of employment and assignments and also employment of continuous contracts for service 526. But again, you'll see the list of employees, the term of employment, and
069their refinement. And then on the next page, you'll see the employment or probation area contract from professionals from 25 to 26 employees, current assignment, and on the last page, you'll see terms of employment. Yes. So the one question I have here I need to have a question is how come most of our principles have 200 and 20 days or 250 days and we got one principal middle school something that Mrs. and I have been talking about. Are you talking about 20? I think that one says 240. Yeah. city high school. I think all of them were done. Assistant, huh? Assistant Elementary is 215. Principal grand is 240 and the hospital principal bounce. Well, I'm not going to understand that, but you can balance it up, but Greek bank also has an assistant and high school
070should have an assistant will um but principles go beyond the 220 days. Teachers go. Yeah. So, you know, something high school has an assistant. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. [Laughter] Mr. All right, we done voted on this. So, it passed. They're contracts. Good. Okay. Uh you all want to go ahead and do matters of the board now while everybody's here and then we go into the executive statement. Uh Mr. Gibson matters of the board. Yeah. I don't have this I've been hearing a lot of great things about you know we're in the fourth quarter and there is a lot going on in schools. You know the sports are off the charts. the advance trip. It's a busy time right now and you know and I would just encourage again I want to encourage the parents
071and the students out there knuckle down and and finish strong. You know we we could ask for extra credit could bring that B that C up to a B and uh really would encourage families to do that. That's all greenerator has a new director has had for a while. So, I think it's time we tried to engage him some conversations about Wi-Fi. Yes. And actually, I talked to Michael O'Brien earlier in the week. Um, and he said in their last meeting, he said to the new director, we need to do something for Greenbank School. And and the new director and the National Science Foundation agreed that we need to do something. I don't you know what I mean? Uh that's very vague, but that is much more progress than we've had for some time. So
072yes, I think that's a great idea. Uh I drafted a letter sent to Mrs. Boston to send to them um requesting that. So yes, that would be great. Miss uh Tim McClung approached me about a basketball camp that he wanted the girls to go to. They have collected their money. It's their money that they collected. How did they get that released to them so they can go to that camp or can they send it to central office? Okay. I told him I told him that I said you have we'll have to get put on the agenda. The board will have to vote where you're taking so many students. But uh he said I I don't know how their money is set up. Sherry secretary, not the summer time. So it's in the summer. Yeah. But
073they could do that anytime. Yeah. He needs to talk to Well, they told him Sher. Okay. Something about I've I've wondered how how does the sports fund do we have a sports fund? Do the boo. There's still the boosters club at the high school at the hospital and there's confusion about when if it's a team event or if it's a traveling like a wreck team can't use the school team money to do a wreck team. This was a camp, a basketball camp for there is some confusion about how that money could be spent out of the school team fund if you're doing something outside of that. The one question I asked him I don't know the answer either. I'm confused. I asked him how did that you get this money and he said well the
074girls work to raise that money. They can raise like the rec team can raise their own money. The school team basically pays for the concessions and the referees and so they make money and go ahead and check if they're joined as a rec team. They should not be using Oklahoma board of ed county high school in any this is a different yes but I think that's not clear is it not they have they do have travel team too. Yeah, they do. But I don't He wasn't talking about that. He was talking about a part of the problem is because it's not been clear the team that's going to something or just because they are this kind of the same kids like it's not all the same kids. It's not, you know what I mean? Yeah.
075They're two different. It's hard to differentiate between the two because the kids overlap, right? But you can't spend the school team money on a travel team. Well, he's contact. You can explain. But the travel team can do better. Are they going like that? Isn't the school? No. That's what Cory does. Yes. Okay. Any anything else at this time? I need a motion approval for the POS County Board of Education to enter into an executive session to discuss the superintendent interviews and personnel. Do I have a motion? Mr. Mcomes make the motion. Do I have a second? Second. All those in favor at 7:32 we're going You don't find it.