001AT&T So I'm I'm able to get out on it but they messed up my billing on it so I had to go down to I went to Verizon first they said we can't help >> Mhm. >> part of that program all year long and it's really been a fantastic one for us this year. So, they're going to make a presentation. I think Mr. Curry has some information related to the academic school year and then Mr. Todd is going to uh uh make a presentation related to our CTE programs and then at the end we'll take any questions or uh we'll tell you what we need and then we'll go >> Just wondering whether helmets and bunker coats are >> They had them on this morning. >> Okay. >> All right. So, I'm going to turn
002it over to our fire safety guys. >> So, y'all know me. I'm David Collins and this is some of my students from from my fire safety class. I'm pleased to report that all of them have passed state fire fighter one and state fire fighter two and at the presentation on the 13th everybody except the female will get their certificate because she's only 15 and she will get her certificate as soon as she turns 16. >> Wow. >> I tell you what, this has been a great group. I think they learned a lot and uh they got to do a lot of things that most high school kids don't get to do. We've done two live burns and uh they got to do auto rescue, we've done rope rescue, we've done all kinds of things. So,
003I'm going to turn it over to my three seniors and they're going to kind of make a little uh their observations on how the year's been. So, we'll go start with Parker. Step up there and start. I'm Introduce yourself. >> is Parker >> [clears throat] >> I've I've been a member of Canova Fire Department I don't know, it's 4 years now. >> Yeah. >> I'm in I've been in the day for a while and I was actually in this firefighter one class last year and I had to get out of it cuz it's what I was in the valley and I mean, it was a really good class. He's a great teacher. He gets along with everybody. Funny. Got a lot of stories, too. A lot of experience. I mean, he helps better with the
004class. I mean like he said, a lot of burns have been good. Everything's been good. He's partnered the neighboring departments school to help get classes together and then I actually I reached out to my boss at the airport and put together a little trip to Homestead to ARFF do ARFF training the airport rescues. And hopefully we can get a bus to go up there and do it cuz it's free through WBU. So it's a good experience, but that's all I have. Do you have any questions? >> The uh airport training, that's coming up on the >> The 29th, yeah. >> 29th. And WBU's bringing the simulator >> their their simulator. They'll do they'll do a simulated pit fire that's about 25 ft by 25 ft and then they'll do a aircraft tire fire which is
005a pretty big deal on an aircraft. They'll do a an engine fire and they do a special three-dimensional fire that comes out, goes on the ground and like that. And I don't believe that they'll land any fuselage fire cuz that's that's a very intensive deal. It takes a lot of experience and they're not quite there yet. I I think they would all jump in there to do it, but from experience they're not quite they're not quite ready for that yet. >> You guys excited for it? All right. >> I'm Dustin Epperly. Introduce yourself. >> Uh my name is Dustin Epperly and I've been on the Canova Fire Department not even a year yet, a couple months. So when I started out this year, I was kind of to hear that we were taking on fire
006buddy. I was like, "Sounds good." I'll be honest, Dave is a really good teacher because not only do you do your textbook and power points, he teaches you everything in the world. He also teaches you experience because he has a lot of experience. He's been here for a good amount of time, I should say. >> [laughter] >> And honestly, I think one of the most priceless things is someone being experienced is you get to learn a lot. You can save your life at some point or you can save someone else. You get to learn CPR, so being able to do that for someone if you ever need to give a a first aid to somebody is wonderful because it can make a difference between someone not making it when you're just out shopping or going
007somewhere or a car accident and someone making it, even if it can be a part of your fire department. And I will say that I love that with the information that you can gain from this, even if you don't join fire fighter, in civilian life, you get to also understand what fire fighters have to do to do their job and also what they do so that way you can stay out of their way and also, if you have if you can, you give them help. I will say that the experience you gain from this, I think is probably the best you can get from CTE. You learn a lot of common sense and a lot of knowledge with that. I think everybody should obtain. That's it. Thank you. All right, David. Any questions? >> Thank
008you. >> Um hi, so I'm Jacob Roberts and a lot of my peers have been talking about the big things that we do in fire fighting, but I would rather talk about some of the small things. Some of these are just basic fundamentals like learning how to work with a team. A lot of leadership skills come into this, too. See, I'm a Jersey City medic, so that is one of our big priorities, So, being able to apply that in this classroom, too, has been an extreme help. Being able to just step up and take turns when, you know, things need to get done, that can be very critical in, you know, a high-stress situation or when a lot of, you know, big things are happening, you need people who can be able to do that,
009and this class really does teach a lot of that. We also learned other things like CPR was another thing that we did at the beginning of the year. Like, I now have my CPR card, which I think is very important because if something like that happens, you need people who know what they're doing to be there. Um a lot of other things that we did, we did a lot of ladders at the beginning of the year, and that basically just taught a lot of kids how to overcome fears, especially heights, cuz we're 80 ft in the air climbing ladders in the year. It's very scary. And being able to learn how to overcome and adapt to certain situations like that can really help you um progress in life in general. Um that's all I have.
010Is there anything that you have left to ask? >> So, let me just kind of wrap it up real quick. I'm extremely proud of this bunch, and I'm extremely proud of my females, okay? Uh we we did several exercises where they worked as a team. It was absolutely phenomenal. They were thinking, they were talking, they were communicating. Actually, they were very vocal on on that particular on that particular deal. But, I mean, they've all stepped up. All of them have done a great job. Uh they've done everything that I've I've asked them to do, uh not had any discipline problems at all. They're they're they're all all you know, ready to jump in. And uh I think that they'll all tell you that this is probably one of the classes they'll never forget in high
011school. And I hope, you know, we can continue this on in the in the future. I think we've got a real good base started. So, I appreciate the support that you all have given us. Also, want to, you know, sh- give a shout-out to all the volunteer fire departments in the county because they have all given us tremendous support with equipment. Lovelace gave us a fire truck. I mean, everything that I've asked the volunteer fire departments to help me out with, they've been right there. Heaton Fire Department has helped me out. We even had some fire departments out in Kentucky send me some stuff. So, I mean, it's it's got a lot of community support and I think if you look at the Facebook page, it's got a lot of a lot of feedback from
012the community. >> Well, actually, you know, I'm an old hunting policeman. I know all those fire departments down there. That's a good job. You going to do good on the civil service test. >> Uh >> Yeah, I I truly >> I dropped out around 50,000. >> I truly think after talking to Chief Fuller, who I've known since a long time. Um he has even mentioned that, you know, if we get this program really established good, they're going to be out here recruiting because, you know, they have a hard time getting people and being able to bring in somebody who's already certified and trained in just a couple of days, they're going to be ready to go versus six or seven weeks. >> Yeah, they probably trying to work into that constant process. >> Absolutely. So,
013I mean, it it it's a good program and uh I hope this next year to do it county-wide. >> Thank you. >> Chief Carlin wanted to add something to him. >> Ladies, I want to tell you I talk to Chief Carlin pretty often and he's all time bragging on his email fire department. He's really proud of you all. All of you. But, um one thing I do want to mention, I was in the House of Delegates for a while and I had contact people have been contacting me, delegates from all across the state wanting to know how we go about getting this program into our school system. So, you got a pretty famous, okay? That's when you put it on and this is awesome. It's great. I love putting the pictures on that Facebook page.
014I love waking up in the morning and going in and getting my coffee and I see you guys fighting the fire and all that stuff. I told Mr. Alexander last year on the first fire burn, I said, "I hope you didn't see the pictures because I figured you would have got a little bit nervous." >> [laughter] >> But, I knew that you were in good hands but I've known Chief for a long time. He's a great I'm really really really proud of him. >> Great great job presenting. >> I want to recognize too our students. Last year Jayda, who was a sophomore, she said this is going to be her junior year. She said I'd like to talk to you about graduating early. So I talked to her. And so what you know, I want
015to I want to enlist and and go to the military. I'll turn 18. She started late in her early months. We made arrangements, worked it out. She's going to graduate early. Now I'm thinking that if she So Austin and Jayda both have enlisted and they're going to graduate and and they're going to serve in the military after they leave. I'm wondering now did you do this just to line this up with him? Okay. I just occurred to me. >> No. >> All right. I felt like I was being You're being manipulative there for a second. But I mean all of these all of these kids here they're not kids anymore. They're young adults. They're all terrific. And but I did want to especially recognize these two up here. >> Very good. >> Very proud. >>
016Okay. Take care of CD stuff. I won't talk. I actually have a JROTC student. They've had an incredible year. I'm going to let him talk. So I'm just going to give you my little one page here like we always do. I'm going to have them on the highlight for our JROTC. Something I haven't really done a good job of highlighting is all of our carpentry students. We have a partnership with Men West. They're apprenticeship ready. And all of our carpentry students have earned 5 hours of black [laughter] credits, bunch of additional certifications. And then they'll get an apprenticeship ready certificate through Men West. So that that was a new thing we started this year. Also looking forward to uh the power of the environment program. We'll have enough students for two sections of that next
017year. And of course EMT. Um so it's super looking forward to that stuff too. Also adding the fire fighting students up to we got our highest number of program completers. We got we got 150 this year. So that's awesome. And I'll say to you most of these guys are gold completers. They all are almost all of them are JROTC. Except Parker on the end he is aviation maintenance. So these are some of some of our best and brightest within the school and CT in general. But I am going to stop talking but if you guys have any questions feel free to let me know. I'm going to turn this over to Austin Holt. He's our cadet battalion commander. The Timber Wolf battalion and they have JROTC they always have an amazing year and this one
018was like extra extra amazing. And anyone else wants to talk too feel free. Austin. All right. My name is Austin Holt. I'm the cadet battalion commander of the Timber Wolf battalion. A few things I'd like to cover is that we have had three state championships this year. One in air rifle, one in archery, and one in unarmed exhibition. Recently we haven't had exhibition due to COVID but we're building up the program and next year we're supposed to have up to 120 freshman and we already have 88 in the program. So and there's not that many seniors because our class is small at the time due to COVID and things. So we'll have close to 200 maybe 160 cadets next year. We have a lot of community support. Recently we did a towel drive operation thermal
019towel. We collabed with the Honey Comb City Mission and we collected over [clears throat] 300 donated towels due to school support and church support just basically overall community support. Me being in this program for four years once I got into it it was just fresh out of COVID so things were slowly building back up but after immense support from Mr. Thornton and other uh principals, and things, we built the program back up to where it is now, and we're slowly getting back to where we were before COVID. And, I'm going to turn it over to Kaylee Walker, who is one of our younger cadets, who can tell you a little bit about this. >> Okay, so I'm Kaylee Walker, and um this class um honestly has really just changed like the way I look at
020things in life now, and how I handle like situations rather I don't anything really. Um all of our team is very welcoming. Um I always heard like we do like book work, we do like you know shooting in class and all that, and I know a lot of people aren't really that interested in that kind of stuff, but we do have like a lot of after school things, and I've always heard that like it's what you put into the class is what you're going to get out of it. So, like if you're interested in doing these things, and you go and do them, it's going to be really fun. But, I don't know. We learn a lot like leadership, and you know, how to help other people like service learning projects, and stuff like that.
021And the pool is behind all of that. Um that's all I really have. Do you guys have any questions? Feel free to ask. >> What grade are you in? >> I'm a sophomore. >> Sophomore, okay. >> What is what is the >> What what's the unarmed exhibition? >> So, basically uh so like when we do parades and things, we march in a platoon. Uh armed exhibition, unarmed exhibition is basically we march around like you do normal regulation, but we do like cool things where we like march in between each other and crisscross, and do things with our hands and stuff. Basically, just it's very uh attention to detail oriented. >> Okay. Thank >> Great, thank you. >> Mark, but tell us a little bit about aviation maintenance. What How's that experience been? >> Uh I
022was a cadet last year of it, and we did your grade jet drawers, and I mean you learn a lot. It's all all I don't think I touched a book at all, honestly. Like, we watched some videos on stuff, and they just just taught us real world experience in it. I already have a couple of job offers for it through the airport where I work up there, too, and I've talked about it. And it's a great experience. And then also, it kind of lines you up to go to Marshall's aviation maintenance program. And right now, with the Invest, West Virginia Invest, they'll pay for everything, tests and all, as long as you stay in the state of West Virginia for 2 years after you graduate from aviation. And uh I mean, it's a great opportunity.
023Um I mean, you get a lot of internships with them, too. >> What are you thinking about doing? Are you Are you going to go into Marshall's program? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Okay. >> I've already applied for it and everything. Except they don't They don't like to tell you that you're accepted until after they get everything finalized, which is in the summer, but yeah, I want to do that, and then hopefully be on a career department somewhere, too. Like a fire department, so. >> Fantastic. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Hello. How's everyone doing this evening? I'm going to hand out just a just a quick little one-pager on just some data. We just received our First thing I want to start off with is in the fall, our 10th and 11th graders had the opportunity
024to take the PSAT/NMSQT, which is a national merit scholarship qualifying test. And we had this We We got some results about a month or so ago. We had two of our students who were juniors who will be seniors next year who would national semi-finalists, you know, Lorraine and Cole Gates. So, we are so proud of those two kids those two students. You know, it's it's Mr. Hayes and I look at these numbers all the time. We've been We've been hunting for kids for the last 5 6 years, but these two students have had the opportunity to be We'll know more in the fall if they, you know, advance or Um and like I said, just in front of you, just kind of a quick overview of our data that we just received about a week
025ago. Um, our students, our 8th and 9th grade and 10th grade students took the PSAT 8/9 and the PSAT 10 on March 31st. And so, um, as you can see, um, we did very, you know, we did very well in in regards to the county and the state. Um, you know, we were 56% proficient on ELA in the PSAT 9. We were 20% proficient in math, um, which, you know, we'd like to have that a little bit higher, but if if we continue to stay around that 20% and over the next couple years that we you know, we take state testing, then you know, we'll have boosted our scores. >> So, these these numbers that we're seeing here, these are the average scores? >> Yes. Yes. Yes, sir. >> Okay. >> Yes. Of our of
026our 8th and 9th grade and 10th grade, yes, sir. So, and then on the and then on the PSAT 10, um, we were 40% proficient in ELA, but we were 26% proficient in math, which is actually an increase of 3% from our PSAT 9 of last year. So, you know, hopefully, if we see that growth even more coming next year as juniors, then then we'll really we'll have done very well. So, we're excited about that. Um, just a little overview about some other academic things with our class of 2026. This is our senior class. 55 students have earned college credit through AP courses and exams. We have another who are currently juniors who are in AP classes, but they don't take their test. They'll actually start tomorrow. They'll usually test tomorrow through next week. So,
027we'll get those results in July. >> Okay. >> Um, then we have 99 students, um, who have earned college credit through Marshall. And and again, this is the class of 2026. And we have 78 students who earn credit through Mount West to jump start our ASL and our apprenticeship ready program. Something that Miss Salisbury looked at this afternoon, she's had to put together something for one of her reports that she has to do for GEAR UP. So, between our 9th and 12th grade students this year, we have earned over 2,500 college credit hours. So, so between Mount West, Marshall, wherever it may be, we've earned over 25. So, if you think about it, you know, cuz everything's paid for and our students don't have to pay a dime. If you think about it, if it's
028$100 a college credit hour, let's just make the math simple, it's $25,000 that our kids have have saved from having to do that. You know, do that. So, that's just some information. One other thing that I wanted to mention, too, is um I don't have the data for my big 160 days, but after 140 days, you know, chronic absenteeism is down. Big push here in the county. Um and we had uh we had been at 20 We were at 28 or 29%, which was about 2% points below last year at this time. Um if Miss Alexander may comment, I don't know if it's 140 or 146. She just keeps dropping lower. We have a great um I I I know it's not a big drop, it's only 2 or 3%, but if you can kind
029of just, again, nail it down a little bit. So, our social workers um they're doing a great job. So, you know, we're just we're proud of that and I'm hoping it will stay at that as we continue uh later in the year. I hope that, you know, stay under I think we were chronic absenteeism last year was 33%. So, hoping that that we are, you know, below that by 2 or 3% this year. Any questions about our academics? >> I have not saw the uh numbers for the PSAT. And uh that's that's impressive. >> Well, thank you. We're Now we're just waiting till Tuesday, May 12th till Tuesday, May 12th to get our SAT. And I'm a I'm a I don't want to use that word. Uh I'm going to use a word I shouldn't
030use. Um I'm very uh I I just looked at it. Yeah. >> All right. >> I I >> I'm right there with you. >> Yeah. So and so even though we won't work on Tuesday cuz it's election day, I'll probably I mean sometime on Tuesday morning just to kind of see how we can get things managed. >> Excellent. >> All right. Uh I'll just conclude giving you an idea of some of the uh We're always proud of the the building and the the improvements we make year to year. We moved a lot of big rocks in the last 6 years with the help of the board and uh Mr. Alexander. But uh this year he um The one thing that the building we had that if you remember, I think we've all sort of forgotten
031about it now cuz we've been in here enough for our plays and various things. We had the uh snicker doo on the walls and the in the cafeteria and the gates. It's awful awful awful. And uh I said, "Can we please this white brilliant white we have? Can we please paint it?" And uh we had uh Johnny Conley who came in. He's just He's phenomenal. Came in by himself. He was so painted uh what we had left of the snicker doo. Uh so I think we have it nearly all off. And uh So it was But when the kids came in last year, they were excited and they see that we have pride in the facility. Uh you know, we deal with the same things that all schools deal with with vandalism and especially the
032bathrooms. But uh it it does make a difference. And so we do appreciate that. Uh we put the banners up I think this summer. You'll probably see them now. It's the common place where we put the banners up. So I'm up for any ideas to try and I try to pick one little thing that uh everybody in the community especially can drive by and pay attention to and and get excited about the facility. So, uh if you have any suggestions, we'll take them. But, we're uh we probably want to get some murals up on the walls. Uh those are some ideas and some signs and some things, but uh we're just proud of the the uh the work we've been able to accomplish here. Um The I I I know you're wanting to ask what
033can you all do to help us. So, I'll beat you to it. I'll go ahead. Uh I came to you for 2 years in a row and it didn't cost you a dime and you all came through. We got a calendar that does not have our kids going to school in June. So, thank you. That is uh uh I won't belabor but it's just it's pointless. Let's never go back. Um if on behalf of our I think on behalf of our kids going to Marshall and Mount West, I don't know if it impacts any of you all. The one thing we do hear about how that if it's feasible for us or not, but uh uh the one thing that because we do have so many students now who are going to Marshall and Mount
034West, we you know, we were talking this week education needs to evolve and I think we're evolving where we we're probably leading in the state in terms of our students accessing um dual credit courses at at the community college and university. But, um the spring break is always a challenge for us because we have our spring break, but they've got to go to Marshall and Mount West and then they have their spring break and they never want to know. And I know their spring break usually just generally falls into your year somewhere in March. Uh it's I'm not going to fall on my sword for that one, but it would probably be helpful for those for those kids, but um it gets brought up in our LSIC meetings some of our past that one. The
035other thing that got mentioned in our LSIC, uh the paving which we we've patched and that that's looking okay. Uh couple of things we put rubber over there. The one thing they they have mentioned and I I I wondered how they knew about it is on our stairs, the rubber caps on the top elements, you know, those have all come off and need replaced. Uh I think if you walk through a lot of schools, they just rip them off and you're you know, it leaves a footprint, but uh that was mentioned uh in our LSIC. Uh so I'll pass that on to you all, but uh otherwise we're very appreciative of your support in what we're doing here, and we're happy to answer any questions you have. >> Looks like you got it. All of
036it is going well. Sports are great. >> Well, that's what we like to think. >> Well, >> [laughter] >> Uh I I I'm going to brag on the administrators. The week I you know, we couldn't do what half of what we do here with I mean, we all have our own strengths, and uh it's the best administrative staff I've ever worked with and for, and I've worked with good ones before, and this is one of the best. This is hands down. The staff that we just really got a really good staff. Uh we've got our challenges like everybody, but we I I will say this, these guys are not afraid to to to tackle the have the hard conversations. And we do that regularly. Um but uh so I just want to brag on these
037guys, especially our staff and our students. I I I When I came here, I wanted us to provide the best be the best best high school around, provide the best education kids or around, and I honestly feel like as a school with our programs we do that. Um I just I feel like I feel like we we've got a place where the people need to consider moving the kids to and we do. I've got We've talked to a couple here in the last three weeks that are coming here because of our programs. They're coming here because of Marshall, because other schools are capping it for whatever reason. I have It doesn't make sense. I know why they do it, but there's no reason to do that. Uh so they want to bring a kid here
038from Marshall University. No one's bringing a kid here for robotics and uh he's already working with one of our He's already met up with a friend over here. They're working together already getting ready for next year's competition cuz it is our goal, Mr. Faucett, to do what? >> Win nationals. We want to go to nationals next year in robotics. So we I mean we've got a pretty good thing going for us here. So. All right. With that I'll sit down and shut up and you all can ask questions. >> Any questions? >> Good. >> And I think you guys are doing excellent work. So from the staff, the students, and we've got a lot of unique programs that, like you said, will hopefully attract more students. >> I'd like to make one more comment. It's
039been mentioned to me a couple of times by the bus drivers. Next year when they have their in-service, a couple of them mentioned to me several years ago that they did a fire extinguisher class and they would like to do that again in their in-service. And also the the cooks in the county, and I noticed this away and I noticed this being Valley. You're very unfamiliar with the fire suppression systems in the kitchen and and I would be willing to in their in-service do a class for that cuz that's really important. >> We will pass that information right along. >> Perfect. Appreciate that. >> No. >> Anyone else? >> Is this one of the schools that you put in for the MIP? >> Yes. >> Same schools? >> Yep. Yep. And uh Mr. Hayes has
040requested that if we do get a chance to do a safe schools entrance here, >> Yes. Yeah. >> we're going to look at possibly putting an entry into the uh bathrooms from the cafeteria side. >> Oh, okay. >> Uh to make them accessible more directly accessible and more easily monitored. >> Yes. >> So. >> That that's the That that's the drawers going to be an issue. That's Not having doors on this side is a challenge for us. That that would be helpful. >> So, we'll find out in June whether we're going to have funding for that. I think we're ready to recess. >> So, well, thank you all for participating. All your hard work, we really appreciate it. >> Motion to recess. >> Motion. >> I'll second. >> Seconded by >> Dennis. >> All in
041favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carried 5-0. It's 4:30. >> And we are headed to Pritchard. For those online, we'll start a new stream at Pritchard. Okay, Johnny, I'll call you from Pritchard. >> Yeah.