001United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, for roll call. All board members are present. Do we have any agenda items to table or remove? We do. We have one item that needs removed. under school year 25 26 and personnel in the 3C. We have a motion to approve the agenda with that modification. Mr. Reed makes the motion. Mr. Hall second. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Motion passes. Do we have a motion on the minutes from May 12th? Mr. Nelson makes a motion. Mrs. King will second. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Motion passes. And then the special meeting on May 21st. So we have
002a motion for approval of the minutes. Mr. Hall makes the motion. Mr. Reed will second. Is there any discussion? Not. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. Motion passes. We do not have any delegations. But next we have recognition of retirees for 2025. Mrs. So um I would like to welcome everyone here this evening. Um, I want you to know that this spring I've had an opportunity to be involved in many milestones for students, whether it be seniors or eighth graders, but I find it a great honor tonight for the milestone of the the people that we invited here as our guest. Um, for our retirees that have spent countless hours and time with the students and the community of Richie County. Together, collectively, our seven retirees have 150 years of service to
003Richie County Schools. Can I say that again? 150 years of service. And as you know, um, in a school system, you do have that opportunity to make a difference and change lives. And we want you to know that we appreciate the countless hours that you have put in and spent with the students in our community. So therefore, for your years of service, hard work, and the impact and the legacy that you are leaving, um we wish you all the best in your next adventures because we believe you've truly earned it. And tonight, we are here to recognize you and thank you for all you have done for our students. We will begin by You can also remind them if you ever get bored in retirement, you can always stop. That's an advertisement. We will begin
004with Rose Murphy. Rose has in recognition appreciation of 30 years of service for Ridgie County Schools and she finished her career at Harrisville Elementary in kindergarten. [Applause] What I'm going to ask you to do is wait on that board. We're going to take a group picture. This is your chance for local paparazzi. We have um one of our teachers that was unable to make it this evening. She did contact me and apologize she couldn't be here. That is Anita Rogers. She has finished her 17th year with Richard County Schools and finished as a Creed Collins Elementary first grade teacher. So, congratulations. Next, we have James M. White. For his 12 years of service to Richie County Schools, he has been the music teacher at Richie County Middle School. [Applause] You're good. Congratulations. I don't believe
005Rick has joined us. I thought maybe he would. He still cleans our building and visits often, but he did not make it this evening, but I do want to announce Rick Gay is also retiring. He has 32 years of experience as a clean. Next, we have Becky Martin. Becky Martin has completed 26 years of service with Richie County Schools in our food service program and she is a head cook. And let me see she's actually Yes, ma'am. [Applause] Yet she's seen a lot of pepperoni. She makes the best. the best. yellow. We would next like to honor Tony Marshall. Tony is about [Applause] Thank you and congratulations. And some of the kids you just take home. I'm making it up. Screen changing. Are you That's my fault. Oh, Jacob, I passed the button. That's my
006fault. You can come up and take a picture. Tell your wife come take a picture. Just come right up. We're not that long. [Applause] Brenda Layfield is our final rec person to recognize this evening and appreciation for her 16 years of service as a teacher's aid. Her final correct. Congratulations. And before we're done, we're going to get a group picture of our retirees together if that's okay. Let me get in there. I know. I like that. Jacob's not as good. Thank you all. Congratulations. I'd like to congratulate him and the voice of experience. You'll really really enjoy retirement. and I'll miss Becky's pepperoni rolls even even though I'm not allowed to eat pepperoni anymore. So once again, we'd like to and thank you for coming out this evening and bringing your families also with you
007to celebrate this wonderful time. You also will receive an invite to come to the first day of school. I know that you'll be excited to get up the one day that you don't have to start the school year the first day, but you will be invited to come back and we will also at that time just have a little celebration in front of your friends. But this year we decided we wanted to to start a tradition of bringing you here so your families also can be a part of this. So thank you for coming this evening. We really appreciate it. And also note that Denny is the only one of us who is retired and he still serves. Okay. Up next, we have the superintendence report and academic updates. I don't have much under um
008my report today to give you other than just an update on summer programs. We had a meeting just yesterday about curriculum for the summer programs, transportation, food service. We provided the schools with the list of students that will be going to their schools for the academic. We worked on um students that are going to be attending the outdoor camp. Our numbers are about what we expected them to be and what we anticipated especially for the academic camp and the outdoor camp as you know is overflowing with students and we're doing everything we can to uh be able to provide that that opportunity for as many kids as we can. Um Mrs. Wagner is currently Kelsey Wagner is currently working on that plan. Other things I want to let you know is June 3rd. If you
009live in Richie County, you probably already know this, but we will have a power outage from 6 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. We haven't started the summer program yet, so that won't have an impact, but it will impact our employees over 200 days. So, I just want to let you know that that is something we will make a an adjustment with on on our time schedule. Um today I attended with our attorneys an update on legislation and the changes and what it will do to us in policy, what policies have to be updated, what um many many things that will be coming your way. I just want to mention to you that I'm overwhelmed and and I'm going to read it all again and I think I've got most of it, but it's probably well not
010probably it's my third time hearing the changes from the legislation, but today was like a deeper dive and um we will begin bringing you some updates from policies, you know, basic ones that you've seen. Our cell phone policy is is pretty much up to date based on legislation because we put one in. Um but there are certain things that the legislation comes out and says it has to be listed in there. So, we'll we'll make adjustments to meet those state requirements. That's just one example of many. So, other than that, that's all I have for you this evening. Thank you so much. Up next, we have director reports and Jacob Clevener, our chief instructional leader. All right. Um, listed on here are the topics that I will cover today on your agenda. I'm going to
011go slightly out of order just because it flowed a little bit better in my mind than the way we had it listed originally. I'm excited as always to talk about the good things that are happening in in Richie County Schools. Okay. Um so the first thing I'll cover is preschool registration that we've done over the course of the past month, our instructional materials adoption, um our end of the year attendance data and then end of year academic data as well. Our preschool registration numbers are very similar to where they've been in the past. Um down slightly in each of our schools with the exception of Smithville which is up a couple of students. um kind of what we anticipated as many of the things was mentioned before regarding book scholarship or um different things throughout
012the state um people I've talked to preschool numbers are down drastically across the state but ours aren't near what um and the situation other places are in. So we're very pleased with the amount of students that we have. Um of course we have a mixture of three and four-year-old students. So some of these students will be returning to us for a second year while others are making their first year with us. So around 84 students right now is what we're anticipating with the breakdowns um at the class of the schools listed above. Um in the same kind of vein as that we just went through our instructional curriculum adoption process. Um so I will start with preschool. Um our teachers uh through the decision process work diligently and have decided to adopt with our support
013every child ready by Apple tree. will be the first time in at least 20, if not 25 years that we've had a new preschool curriculum. Um, and all of our teachers unanimously decided that it was kind of time for a change and willing to push themselves and and kind of go in a new direction to support the needs of our students and kind of what we see in our community. Um, so kind of what I've done through this is provide a little snippet of different things from the curriculums that we've adopted so you guys get a feel for kind of what our our vision is with this process. We were looking for something to really support students who may not have a lot of experiences in the world or provide them with a a big
014um examples of um background knowledge that ties into our CLA that we use. Um Apple Tree was able to provide us with a documentation that showed how these skills tie directly through all the way through fourth grade and support the work that we're already doing. Um so again, those vocabulary words and this is an example of mimicking an art show um which is not something that our students experience on a regular basis. So kind of give them um a new cultural awareness of different things that they may experience if they travel outside of Richie County. So excited to to have this process started. Um our teachers will all receive professional development on this in the fall. Um and then we will kick this off with the new school year um beginning in August. So excited.
015Um and our teachers I think are excited and we're ready for a change um and are ready to kind of take it take this in a direction to to further support the work that we're doing. Um in addition to preschool, we also adopted social studies curriculum this year. Um elementary uh K through five adopted studies weekly. Studies weekly is a weekly reader type of material um that has standards driven lessons for K through fifth grade. Um, we use CKLA for our English curriculum and so much of that ties into both social studies and science standards um that our teachers felt like they needed something to just support that and to make sure that they were covering the standards that they needed to cover. A lot of nice hands-on projects and different things that the students
016can do through this work. They'll have online access as well. Um, again, a lot of focus on vocabulary, on writing, on research, evidence. um all tying towards our goals that they work for at the upper grade levels. So excited to work with studies weekly um through that process as well. Um starting in sixth grade we um our teacher selected H&MH. Um that would be the same for you'll see for K through 12th grade with the exception of 8th grade because they only have one option and I'll discuss that in a second. Um so kind of provided some examples of things that they will be doing. All of the lessons through HMH are driven by essential questions which kind of get the students thinking about different topics throughout history. Um, and then kind of they they
017end with a writing assignment or a creation of some sort. And I'll talk about some different ones in a little bit where they may be asked to um make a news article from a different time in history or make a broadcast explaining a different time in history. Trying to get a lot of the different career elements that our students may not necessarily know about or exposed to regularly um through this curriculum. And I think that that will be a very very good thing for them. Um also since we are one to one with iPads these curriculums are also downloadable to the iPad. So for NPI days and different things that we deal with um they will be able to have their iPad work on that if so depending on the programmatic level. So again features
018that we're excited about and our teachers have a lot of flexibility to create their own assessments and such within these platforms. Um, again, seventh grade wise, again, world geography by HMH. And this is just an example of where they had to research a place a thousand miles north and a thousand miles south and explain the differences in weather and climate from where they currently are. So, it kind of gets them thinking about places are outside of their environment. Um, West Virginia, our beautiful home by Thermmont Press was a selection for eighth grade. Again, only one selection for eighth grade because not everyone in the world's making books about West Virginia, surprisingly. So, we took the one that we had availability for. Um, and That's kind of what we've had in the past as well. So,
019no real changes there. Um, again, um, high school wise, HMH will continue to be that. Um, so this is just an activity from American history where they're writing a promotional pamphlet for a colony, explaining why people should join the colony that they selected. So, again, getting them used to different points in history. Um, being able to think about it from a perspective that is more than just fill in a blank or answer a short question. um from their world history. Um in this one um they're a curator for a museum um and asked to kind of gather artifacts and create and go through a project based learning type scenario where they're opening a museum on the different period in history. And kind of the the cool thing through a whole process that I didn't even
020know until I snipped all these was so here they're being asked to be a curator for for the museum in 10th grade history but then the curator was part of the vocabulary list for the preschool. So that background knowledge piece ties into all the way through 10th grade. Um which is kind of the process that we were looking for because it's what we do in CLA. It's what we've seen works with kids um especially kids who don't have a ton of diverse experiences to be able to to learn new vocabulary word and have extensive background knowledge um in in different parts of the world. So really excited to see how how that all ties in to everything that we're doing um through that process. Um and this is just a full list of all of
021the curriculums that or all the products that we were able to get. Um so again you can see HMH the bulk of those um like psychology and sociology are not offered through HMH and I think through age learning so they adopted those um but that is the full list and we have I believe a letter they got previously an attachment rate. So what they do is um Mr. Clevener and his teams have worked um very hard looking at curriculum and He's bringing it to us to ask for us to approve the curriculums that have been selected by the teams in the county, the teachers um for social studies because that and preschool because this is the adoption year and you will find that a little bit later on the agenda. And I think important to
022note too through that process we and I reiterated this and Mr. Pod kind of advised me of this when I started that we we never vote on anything. Um it's a unanimous decision with all of our teachers that sometimes they don't agree initially, but we kind of hold them hostage until they do sometimes. Um but but at the end of the day, they all have to be able to agree because they're all going to be the ones using it if we're responsible for it. So very proud of our people through these processes and the way that they handle that. Um civics I intentionally put after. So they have a unit in civics. This is for our 12th grade students on compulsory school attendance. um they have interactive court cases and things the kids can explore
023and exhibit. So again, another tie into things that they're exposed to and things that we focus on in our school system. Um which then ties into our kind of attendance data. Um proud of a lot of the work that has happened with attendance over the course of the past few years. Um particular the work that has happened this year. Um our main focus, as you guys have heard me reiterate countless times, is about chronic absenteeism. Our goal as a county was 15%. Um we are going to end up around right around the 16 a little bit less than 16% mark I think but two years ago we were 23% I think. So the work that is going on around this we were at 19% on those last year so down close to 3%. Um so
024not quite where we wanted to go but we knew that was a very lofty goal coming in. Um all of our school elementary schools have met that 15% mark which is incredible. um created finished at 14.78, Harrisville will be 11, and Smithville at 3.92. So, a lot of work going on in the elementary schools to make that possible. And then as we've had the challenge in the past, middle school and high school continuing to be our issue. Um but a lot of those healthy type of um behaviors and habits that are starting to build in elementary school are going to carry over. Um it just takes some time to get it there and then in the meantime focusing on what we can do the attendance and convert and promote that at the middle school and
025high school level as well. Um and then um again on the regular attendance rate which these are students who are attending 95% of the days those goals we knew were very very lofty. Last year these numbers were in the 30% tile range and very very low um so got it all the way up to 54.6 Harrisville at 50 um Smithville at 66 and middle school and high school 49 and 44 which put the county right at 50%. Last year I think the county finished at 41%. So 9% growth in that and again striving towards that 75% goal which again we know is a very very lofty goal. Um then you'll see the the county attendance rate again the goal 95% for the daily attendance. So that's the percentage of kids who are attending every school
026day. Um or so we have kids. I mean, 95 of them were there on that given day. Um, and again, um, Smith was able to surpass that mark with Creek Collins and Harrisburg coming very, very close. And the county finished at 93.62% up about a half a percent from last year. That number typically doesn't vary very much. Um, and it's a pretty big climb to get to 95%. Um, and on the bottom of the screen, you'll see that, um, 95% attendance is the 47th percentile. So, kind of ties me into what I'm going to talk about next on some academic data. And it was really neat how all this kind of came together. Sometimes you get in a project and it kind of flows that way. Um, so I took all 113 students in Richard
027County, one to one to 1,13. And the student, ironically enough, that was at the 47th percentile of that list had 95% attendance like on the dollar like just worked out mathematically exactly that way. Um so I say that to say when we had 95% group come um ironic that is the name of that not a not a function of the name um we started looking at different factors and things and trying to figure out how we can move the needle on different things and and looking at some uh GSA data historically for countless years and kind of what we figured out is um we do things like bibles I ready the different benchmark process um and we always focus on at benchmark, not at benchmark. Well, in reality, the mark is not really that. The
028mark is the 47th percentile is where we need these kids to get to, which is actually above what the state requires and a little bit higher of a mark. And any kid who is at the 47th percentile, um, has the opportunity to then be successful on some of the assessments, um, later employment, all kinds of different studies that you could do to show that. But that 47th percentile kind of is that mark of where we're trying to get kids to. Um so attendance wise and that so when like I said we were with them at hairstill looking at kids GSA results um and found out that that is the market they need to be. So I kind of went through and mapped out the 47% how every possible benchmark tool that we have and kind
029of looked at those scores a little bit. Um, and before we kind of do that, um, we'll show that, um, so that that 47% that would be anyone who's in the blue, right? So that 90 5% mark is are the students in the blue there. The chronic absenteeism students are the ones in the red listed below. Um, again, knowing that that goal was 15%. So you can see elementary wise doing a very, very good job with the exception of kindergarten. A few factors there. It's new to them. Also, every kindergarten in the world stick with everything that comes down because they're exposed to it for the first time. Um, but kind of what you'll see through this on on the next slide, I'll show a little bit of um our literacy data and you have
030that listed with the chart that says um literacy initiative goals. So, as I pull that up in one second again, 95% explaining what this is. So 30% of the kids will be automatically 50% need additional high quality instruction in a classroom. So that is your just coming to school every day and then 15% of those students need additional time and support and that calculates up to 95% of kids which I discussed before. Um and again that reading being the key to knowledge which is kind of what we're trying to provide them. We're in the information age and if our kids can't read then they can't obtain the information that they need. Um, so the chart on literacy information, if you look at the column that says 2025, um, and kind of lay it side by
031side with your attendance chart, um, and you look at phmic awareness, which is really the key skill that we're looking for, um, at that at that um, at the kindergarten level, you'll notice that 80% of our kids were at that 47th percentile, but 19% of our kids were chronically absent. So, so which color are you looking to look at? You're looking at the the column, the 2025 column on the chart. Okay. And then the red on the kindergarten um attendance. Which one down? The PSF for the PSF. Yeah, the orange PSF. You went fast. Sorry. I I even knew what you were pointing at and I wasn't sure. The orange PSF PSF is make awareness. Um so that's how many a beginning. So if I said the word back to you and you would say
032what sound do you hear first? Repeat the sound that you heard first. So they go through that process. It's an oral assessment um of really assessing whether they are be able to identify syllable types and different things of that nature. And and again that is the key indicator in kindergarten of kind of school readiness and literacy readiness. Um and you can see that we went from we put a focus on that this year. we went from 63% um at that level to 80%. And again being at 80% but 19% of the kids in that grade level being chronically absent. So really a 1% difference um looked up and saw um on just the like letter naming fluency for example um the kids who aren't meeting the overall benchmark goal. Um, we had eight kids in
033kindergarten that didn't meet the overall benchmark goal. Um, and seven of those kids were chronically absent. So, I say that to say we are seeing a strong correlation with school attendance and academic performance. Um, these you guys have been very supportive of getting programs um that we need to support children. Our teachers work tireously to to implement those programs, but really um continuing to promote school attendance and the importance that has in the future of our children is becoming more and more apparent of a need for us. And we've done a lot of work on it, but still a lot of work to do to get to where we think that we can eventually get. And I do think it it needs to be said that our attendance elementary wise has greatly improved. So from
034support from the the community and the parents and making sure that they are at school, you know, we're in a partnership and that has has has been successful for children in our school system for sure. And the work the elementaryaries are doing and the parents bringing in um I discussed with some teachers the other day, Richie County geographically is a large land mass county with countless obstacles that sometimes pre prevent student attendance and we understand all the factors that go into that. um but at the same time understand the importance of our students coming so we can provide them with the education we know um that we can and then to for them to reach the marks that we know that they can. So um again that chart explains it's a slight update from the
035one I presented previously because I've been able to add in the 2025 data that we didn't have previously. But you can kind of see all of those marks are starting to climb. Particularly the first three on going down of the LNF, the blue, the PSF, the um so it's letter naming fluency, phmic segmentation fluency, and correct letter sounds. Those are the three really building blocks of literacy. Um and you can see the growth that we've made in all of those. And it's starting to trickle into the oral reading fluency, which is our eventual goal. But that's an upper grade level skill that we're building towards. Um so again, excited about that. um excited to have our are our people excited to have lofty goals to work towards and and some of them that are starting
036to see those results are very excited about that. We're we're proud of them for that. Um this year for example the first grade um or the whole I guess the whole county um that first grade pmic awareness um sorry the whole county came 80% the first grade themselves were at 88% which as of last year there was 62% but a lot of focus and work for our first grade teachers to meet that mark. So again very excited about that. Um and then very quickly this is just the same chart to go in and show again that 19% in kindergarten. Um and then mathwise looking at this 2025 column. So um 91% of students met the kindergarten benchmark for math there was one student who was here at least 95% of the time that did not
037meet benchmark. So of the students who were here that amount of time 84 out of 85 students met benchmark. So again, showing that wii with with the programs that we have and the programs that you guys support, that our teachers support, that our community supports, we can do really good things um just getting kids here from an early age and and and understanding too. I think a lot of times attendance has a misnomer of we want kids to come to school sick. We don't. Um we just want them to be there as much as they can be um and so we can provide the types of things that we know that we can. So again, just goes all the way through and you can kind of see the 24 to 25 growth. So a 19%
038growth in kindergarten. And these are different groups of kids, but still the the programs a new math curriculum, a 9% growth in first grade, one and 2% in second and third, 14% growth in fourth grade. Um I will I will say 74% in fourth grade. This is on our I Ready assessment. That is very very very very high. Um, and something that we're very excited about. A lot of hard work went into that. Um, and then again, you can see the growth through the middle school with the exception of sixth and seventh grade. Um, and that just did very often. We're really excited to to do that. I say tirelessly just your top 10 in the state growth room to grow. Like we want to be better every single day. Um that's kind of the
039work that we put in here to make sure that that happens. So excited to see what the future holds for the students of Richie County. Um and continuing to work towards that attendance goal and then our literacy and math goals as well. Um and again these kind of projections to 2030 like these are I'm a firm believer in setting goals that are high and if you don't achieve them you're still closer than you were previously. So these are all goals that that we can have shown mathematically through the kids and chronic absentis and data and different data that are achievable if we're able to line everything up the right way. Um and and we're starting to see that at 10 pockets of our school system at at every school and I'm excited to see the
040approach that that takes. So I know a lot of information but I feel like important information that you guys need to hear and want to thank you for your time on that. And I think one of the things Mr. has made comment about are the programs that we have support and we need to let you know that we are examining a different program um at the middle school level. We have used Ready for many years and we went with the program um early on because it was the best game in town and and in our elementary schools we still feel that it's very strong. A program that we have piloted this spring in the middle school is called ISL and we are looking at it for multiple reasons and that um it seems to address
041things better for middle school and high school age students. It's actually something we're looking at. We went with Khan Academy last year. We kind of liked it, but it's not given us what we really wanted. And um has created some data points that we think are good. Some of the things that we like for uh middle school students um if they miss a pro a problem, they don't have to work through seven problems to find out which ones they miss and not taught what they how to do it. They miss a problem, it tells them and then it works it through them. And it kind of is more um it trains them more also for later online classes and to be able to um it's just a little bit more mature. I don't know how
042better to say that. It doesn't have all the and um like the little pictures and stuff. It just seems to be a little bit more on their level. We've had very positive um response. Not only we've interviewed students, we've looked at the data, we've interviewed the teachers, parents at home, and parents from home. We've called some and said, "Hey, this is something your kids are working on. We've gotten some feedback. We are highly considering um in the middle school looking at switching making a switch to ISL. That's that's a big change for us." And and but one of the things that we do as a group, we have we don't we always believe you don't ever Whenever you do something, you do it with purpose and you make sure that you are prepared and then
043you also make sure that you are seeing progress and that it meets your needs. And so we looked at every program we have in the county that we purchased and we looked at each one of them with those goals in mind and said which of these do we need to look for additional support? And that was the one that we went our middle school kids are struggling with this. Um and I think that do you want to add anything? I mean I think I covered a lot of it deals with maturity wise of you guys most of you have children who have been through that process and the the maturity level that goes along with it and the frustration level from students of I have seven questions and if I get one wrong then I'm
044anxious and I'm where I excel on the flip side. They can do a thousand questions and they're working towards a school and a proficiency level. So it gives them instant feedback after every question. They they really respond to that because the the more success they have, the more they see that success piling upon itself and then working more towards a goal of mastering a concept versus passing a lesson. Um very very good feedback like said from all the stakeholders involved in that. Um and excited to potentially be able to do that for them because I think it's kind of ran it course there. Um and students are ready for something new and if we're making recommending that they put time and effort into something like we want to make sure we're getting something back out
045of it and that we don't think necessarily that a lot of the data that we get back from IA currently at that level is as accurate as it could be and again our purpose of collecting that data isn't for any purpose other than making our schools better. So we want to make sure that what we're getting is something that we can provide a product back to them for. So kind of our mindset I I would agree as a parent that they seem more engaged elementary school and I already but that they get tired of it by the time they get to middle school and so they do what they have to do to get through the lesson, right? Yeah. And and that's like I said something we're fully aware of and it it would be
046an easy thing to ignore and just to do what you've always done. That would be the easy option. Um but the best option not the best option but the easy option. So we're looking at that and know those facts. We piloted it this spring knowing that we needed to look at an option for that level because you you can look at data over and over again and if it's not pure good data it's it's not doing any good and so we know there's a correlation but what we we examined I've been here long enough we examined I ready when we went with I ready to begin with or examined I exam that program has really developed a lot really developed since we adopted years So, um, we still are compliant with the state if we
047choose to go that way. We just wanted to let you all know that we are looking at that. It is not a change that we're going to make at the elementary level, but it is a change we're looking at at the middle school and the high school. I mean, based on the numbers, we need to make what do surrounding counties use in those schools such as Tyler Pleasot? different things. I know has been for years. Pleas varies depending on programmatic level, but middle school wise, I think more people are starting to make a switch due to the maturity level of the lesson. I have a couple questions. Always want to score higher than neighboring counties. I got you. You don't know, Denny. Are these Are the scores still going to be embargoed like they are
048until August? Till August. Okay. And then the comparison of each county and Yes. and how each county did. And Mike, you were mentioned about the the fourth grade doing is that probably pretty hot. That's pretty high. And that could be the first in the city. That's pretty high. Yeah. Okay. So, so the numbers you have here, these are ready numbers. Yeah. The numbers you have here are ready. So, we don't want it to come across that we are handing you anything that is important. This has nothing. This is this is I ready and this is GSA but GSA wise it's bound to go together. Yes. The there is a correlation. Yes. My other question about the social studies you were mentioned about the is the textbooks like based on both. Yeah. Well the elementarymentaries are
049like readers like the like the scholastic magazine you used to get. That's kind of what the social studies for elementary is. So it's consumable. Yes. Okay. Because that's good. 100%. And then the middle school, high school will have classroom sets of textbooks and then electronic textbooks on the iPad. Because I always felt the weekly readers was a quick easy way to do the learning outcomes and still have current events. So like four years from now, it'll be a different thing when you're not locked into it five years. Which the same company will have the whole time, but they update their product. Yes. Okay. All right. That's one and I think we were able to go with that also because our reading series in the elementary is very there's a lot of social studies based so
050it covers some of the content as well. So it allowed us to meet that expectation. Right. Yeah 100%. All right. Well thank you guys very much. Thank you. All right. Next is the consent agenda. Um, we have a number of things on the consent agenda. The first two are retroactive um for the middle school boys team. I explained that to you that they went to the best of the best invitation on Huntington. I also have a retroactive for a student at Glenn State University to compete to complete 20 hours. He he has completed those. We just needed to help him finish in the fall. Um, that same young man, we will bring it back to see if he can do his student teaching here as well. We had an adjustment to the date for the
051aviation program. We had a date and a rain date, but they didn't look at the calendar, right? And they made the rain over a holiday. So, they now came back. They will go May 31st. I just was I wanted to update you with the date. Also in here is an agreement with for um next year for our cooperative for purchasing with um Mountaineer Highland. our agreement with communities and schools, our memorandum of understanding from the West Virginia Department of Ed. We also on number six, eight, nine, and 10, those are all agreements for next year that deal with physical therapy, hearing, visual, and occupational therapy. Those are all the contracts um for those companies that we work with. Number seven is a contract or an agreement with Smith for the Smithville water system plant with
052advanced Appalachin Advanced Environmental Services. And then number 11 is what Mr. Clevener has been discussing and that is to ask you to adopt preK and social studies instructional materials as he reviewed and that are listed on your um attachments. So I ask you approve the consent items as listed on the agenda 1 through 11. The superintendent is recommending that we approve the consent agenda as stipulated on the record. Do we have a motion for approval? Mr. Reed makes a motion. Mr. Hall second. All those in favor please signify by saying I. Motion passes unanimously. Next we have policy 6010 which is parent engagement to be placed on comment for reading. I will let you know that um please take some time to review this policy and I we will send that out to the schools
053as well. Um we brought a committee together of all of our title one teachers as well as community members, parents um here last week and that policy has been completely revised based on um changes in the world and changes in state policy as well. So I do ask that you put that out for a first reading. We have a motion to put the policy out for first reading. King makes motion. Mr. Nelson will second. Any comment. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Motion passes. Next we have resignations. We have four resignations. Lucas Hangar as the girls track coach at the middle school assistant. Joey Carmichael as a multi-ubject teach or multi-catategorical teacher at CRED as well as his extra assignments which were extended school year at Harrisville and the teacher in
054the outdoor rep camp. I ask that you approve those as listed. Superintendent is recommending that we approve the personnel resignations as stipulated on record. Do we have a motion for approval? Mr. Hall makes a motion. Mrs. Kee will second. All those in f by saying I motion passes. Resations after the publication. We have some resignations after the publication that includes George Hilers as a bus operator. Robin Jones, teacher at the outdoor rec camp, Jacob Clevenger and Connor Schaeer, both boys basketball coaches at the middle school. And once again, Joey Carmichael for an extraur an extracurricular assignment or a summer program that is. I ask you approve those as stated only. We have a motion for approval. Mr. Nelson makes a motion. Mr. Reed will second. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I.
055Motion passes. Next, we have employments or other. We have lots of things under employments. This first one is um to approve regular service personnel employees to substitute for summer programs in accordance with West Virginia State Law 18539. Our fulltime employees that our service personnel have the right to say, "Hey, I want to be a sub for a cook this summer." And that's what that chart is. You receive is we send out a an agreement form to everyone and those that want to sub this summer are listed so that we meet that code. And I ask that you approve that list of service personnel to sub this summer. We have a motion for approval. makes a motion second. All those in favor proceed by saying I motion passes and summer 2025. We have one summer program
056to fill and that would be Lauren G as a special ed instructional best at elementary school. Mr. Nelson makes a motion. Mr. Hall second. All those in favor please signify by saying I. Motion passes. 2526. Um, Mrs. Wagner has been very busy and um, as the school's policy 5000 committees are as well, making sure that we do have staff to begin next year. Um, I ask that you approve Chelsea Breer as an elementary teacher of kindergarten at Harrisville. Maya Hunsburgger, she's one of her current subs as a music teacher at the middle school. Abigail Janeek um, for a multicategorical teacher at Harrisville. Carrie Roberts, first grade teacher at Creed Collins. Um Carrie's returning to us. She worked for us prior. Samantha Wagner as a preschool teacher at Creed. Aaron Baker um is returning as a
057substitute teacher. And then we've got in service personnel, people switching jobs because it's that time of year. Bobby Watson to Harrisville. Dan Depo is switching on a bus route. Larry Hilkkey is moving to Greek Collins as a cook. Then KLM O are all aids for next year. And we have Elaine Bartlett, Bailey Bolley, Tasha Davis, Pam Griffith, and Abigail Morrison. And they all join us from the sub list to become employees of ours. So I ask that you approve those as listed on the record. The superintendent is recommending that we approve the 2526 school year employees as stipulated on the record. Do we have a motion for approval? Mrs. King makes the motion. Mr. Hall second. All those in favor please signify by saying I. Motion passes and then we have more we have three
058more because I told you up above some of these service moved out of positions. So then their positions once you just approved them, they've now transferred to another position. So we've posted their jobs already to fill them because we wanted to get as much done while people were still in school. And so these positions are Sam Wolf is now moving to Smithville. Zack Foster is now a substitute that will have a bus route and Tammy Bird is a substitute that will now have a two position at the middle school high school. I ask that you approve those three as well because we accepted it's a pending acceptance of transfer since we did that. That's why Zach's best. That's okay. We've been on who's on first and who's on second. It's not done and it's not
059done. So don't get permitted. Okay. Do we have a motion for approval? Mr. makes the motion mel second. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Okay, that's it for personnel at the moment. Next, we have payment of bills in the amount of $294,89149. Do we have a motion for approval? Mrs. King makes a motion. Mr. Reg. Is there any discussion? Not. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. motion passes. Next, we have financial request for We ask that you approve supplements and transfers and you only had one supplement which was a donation and then you had um four transfers and they were being transferred out of like a general account into specific purchases for things like a don like a donation or office furniture um prek supplies and they're just
060basic transfers. I also you approved United Dairy to be our they they um were our seal bid winner for milk and this is from the ex we were allowed to extend that for one year which we are doing that also in Mr. Clevener social studies textbook purchase for grades 6 through 12 excluding 8th. We would like you to approve the purchase of those because they're $106,55.75. And then the young group for next year for student athletics um for optional medical insurance. We would like you to approve that company. That's the one we've used in the past. We also want to close out the bank account for cash online and gate receiping. We have moved to a different format to do that and we want to remove that as um a process we had in place
061and also approve placing banking services out for bid for a 2-year automatic renewal. I ask that you approve those financial requests as listed. We have a motion to approve the financial request as stipulated on the record. Mr. Nelson will make the motion second. Is there any discussion? I got a question about the West Virginia history books. Do they remain the same? You don't have to replace them as often or you don't get what they also have online access with it as well. That's primarily what they use and they have a classroom. Exactly. So we don't have to read them. We adopted them but we may not purchase and some of the others will be purchasing. Okay, Mr. Nelson, that was a good question. So, what happens with with adoption of textbooks is that for preschool
062and for social studies, we adopt the first sheet that you saw that you put up there, we adopt all of those. Then we break down what we need to purchase. Okay? Anything over a certain dollar amount, we have to ask you if we can purchase it. That's why that one's listed there. But that but we also were purchasing all those pamphlets for preschool or for the elementary school. They have to be listed because they don't need that dollar. But we don't have to you have to adopt if you don't have to purchase. But we are purchasing at least licenses for um textbooks and things because we buy both a hard copy most of the time and online. Thank you. All those in favor, please signify by saying I motion passes. Next, do we have a
063motion to enter into executive session at 6:55 p.m. to discuss an employee personnel matter? Mr. Reed makes a motion. Mr. Hall second. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. We expect no further business after this executive session.