001All right, let's follow ordinance uh reg school district board of education meeting May 18th at 6 p.m. >> Mr. Waynefield. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hel, >> yes. >> Mrs. Heidinger, yes. >> Mr. Lovely. >> Yes. >> Mr. Styer, >> yes. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Item number three is a correction meeting. >> Mr. Hunel, >> yes. >> Mrs. Heidinger, >> yes. >> Mr. Lovely. >> Yes. >> Mr. Styer. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wfield. >> Yes. >> Okay. It number four is principal and student showcase with elementary principal nature. Good evening. Um tonight we are excited to share a glimpse into um the writing journey of our youngest learners in our
002presentation called Releasing Writers, kindergarten learners. Um I am pleased to introduce to you Mrs. Carol McKinley. She's our part-time literacy coach. She spearheaded this instructional framework and provided the professional development for this initiative. And Mrs. Sarah Fackler is one of our dedicated kindergarten teachers who has successfully implemented the strategies in their daily routine. And most importantly, we are joined by our true experts of this process, our students, Michael Jansen, Mac. Augur, Evie Smith, and Jordan Hanks. And they are here to show us exactly what this looks like in action. See, I could turn it by myself. Thank you, Mrs. Butterman. Can everyone hear me? Okay. All right. I am really happy to be here and we are going to talk about the new writing framework that we adopted for kindergarten all the way to grade
003five called releasing writers. You probably don't know this, but writing is the most challenging subject that students need to learn and it's the most complicated, complex subject that teachers need to teach. Well, releasing writers has made that job easier for teachers and students. Some of the challenges that students face are looking at a prompt and figuring out what they what the prompt wants them to write about, getting started, organizing their ideas, keeping themselves focused, and then after they write, how do they revise it, releasing writers provides the perfect simple acronym called power, and Mrs. Fler is going to talk about that and how she used it with her kindergarten students. We use that same um writing process acronym all the way through grade five. And you when kindergarten students start kindergarten, typically when they respond
004to a writing prompt, it's a picture, a drawing with a few letters thrown in. By the end of the year and probably sooner than that, these writing these young writers are capable of writing purposeful, organized, effective paragraphs that have a topic sentence, information sentences, detailed sentences, and an ending sentence. And that's accomplished because Mrs. Facer uses explicit instruction, a routine, a regular weekly routine that incorporates the strategies that we're learning in this new program. Did I skip something? Yeah, I did. Yeah, I did. >> It's much easier to write about what you know about. So in releasing writers that they encourage teachers to use whatever their reading curriculum is because the students are reading on topics. So the teachers t take those reading texts and come up with writing prompts usually more reading comprehensionoriented. They're
005they're actually harder than what the writing prompts are that come with the program. And another aspect of this program that we think is unique to this program is called self-regulation. And the students are um they learn to use positive self-talk to remind themselves that they can do hard things and that they have stamina to keep working even when it's even when they feel tired and frustrated. So I'm going to ask the students what their positive self-t talk is when they get tired or frustrated. What is your positive self-t talk? First, we have to get the microphone out. I'm not any help. Goodness. >> Okay. When you guys are tired or frustrated and you don't want to ride anymore, what do you say to yourself? Baby, >> I can do hard things. >> That's right. >>
006I am smart. I'm amazing. I've got this. >> Great. >> I don't know this. >> Okay. Many people believe that kindergarten students are not developmentally ready yet to write complete sentences, let alone a full paragraph. But releasing writers teaches students how to plan, organize their ideas, write a complete paragraph, reflect on their writing while building independence and confidence. Power is the acronym for each part of the writing process. Power helps students remember the steps of the writing process. Planning, organizing, writing, editing, and revising. Jordan, what is the gist? that this is red. >> The P stands for the most important steps of writing, planning. This includes three steps. Writing a gist, a sentence that explains the main idea of the story, pulling apart the prompt to determine the topic of the paragraph, and then picking
007ideas from the text that they may include in their writing. Michael, what do we do with the prompt? I pull apart a prompt. I pull it apart to pick ideas. >> Next for the O, we organize our ideas that pick that we picked by using a tide organizer. T is the topic sentence. The I is for information or important evidence from the text. D is added details about the evidence. E is the end or conclusion. This format is used throughout all grades starting in kindergarten with one simple paragraph leading to multiaragraph essays in the upper grades. Evie, what do we do with the ideas we picked? We take our ideas and put them on the tide organizer. >> The W stands for taking the ideas in the Tide planner and writing or turning them into
008complete sentences. This power writing process or cycle is done over and over with lots of explicit modeling utilizing a gradual release to allow students to grow independence and confidence. Mac, what do we do with the tide organizer? >> We write sophisticated sentences and strong paragraphs. >> Is that my last page? >> This is the final step in the power cycle. Edit and revise. In kindergarten, the teacher helps students color code each sentence, making sure they have all the parts of an effective paragraph using the tide planner. There is also a rocket that the students color, matching each part of the paragraph. At this point, students color stars for sophisticated words and moons for transition words such as first and next. So, at the end of the year, um, each of my students wrote to their
009first grade teacher and they are going to share what they were able to do independently. Microphone read your just read this. >> This is all about me. I can count to 100 by ones and tens. My favorite kindergarten memory is making Easter eggs. My favorite activity are drawing and crafts. That was all about me. This is all about me. I can count to 100 by 10. I play sports. One sport I play is soccer. My favorite kindergarten memory is playing outside. This is about me. This is all about me. I can count to 100 by ones, fives, and tens. This is my favorite kinder garden memory. We went on a scavenger hunt. I am six and my birthday is June 17th. This is all about me. This is about me. My favorite color is baby
010blue. I can count to 100 by ones and tens. My favorite sports is basketball and soccer. This is all about me. those around so they can see them. They are so cool. So neat, aren't they? The handwriting is so neat. >> So re re releasing writers is grounded in research and it has impacted our students, not only our kindergarten students, but all of our students in this sixstage gradual release model. Students move through each of these stages independently, individually, I should say, become in ways that are carefully structured and guided and supported by their teachers. The goal is to empower them to be self-regulated human beings and independent writers. This this program works and it works for all learners. It's because it has clear expectations, clear steps, consistent routines, and scaffolds. With releasing writers, we
011have seen amazing growth beyond what we've ever seen before >> in student writing in their confidence and in their love for writing. Students who were frustrated or disinterested or reluctant to write now want to write. When they have indoor recess, they want to write. So that's huge. I believe this quote sums up the writing framework. Releasing writers empowers even the youngest writers by providing them with a predictable road map for the writing process, turning a complex task into a series of achievable steps. Now we would like to turn over turn it over to our student experts and if you have any questions you can ask them. >> Do you guys have any questions for our students? >> Yeah, I'll ask a quick question. Just what's your favorite thing that you've written about? you remember writing
012about something that you enjoyed? >> What's your favorite thing that you wrote about this year? >> Something that you learned about in CKLA. >> Um, animals. >> Animals. Animals. >> Animals. >> Fantastic. >> Love it. I think I came in when you were doing um Little Red Hen >> Christopher Columbus. >> They write about um whatever unit they're studying. >> Well, I don't want them to go away. I I need to get a quick picture. If you guys would stay here for us real quick. Let me try. >> Come on over. All right, that's good. Everybody ready? One, two, three. One more time. One, two, three. All right, thank you very much. NOW tell your parents to take you to Dairy Queen. >> Stop by scooters. >> Scooters. >> Yeah. Parents, you're welcome to stay,
013but also if you'd like to leave, you can. So, you're welcome to do whichever one you want. Uh, educators, please stay put, though. Those that are being recognized here soon, you're not allowed to leave yet. Oh yeah, there you go. We'll see you this weekend. Okay, moving on to uh item number five is the public comment section of the board. Uh Mrs. Clark >> and we just want to remind you, Mrs. Clark, there's three minutes to speak. >> Thank you. >> Hi again, it's me, Becky Clark. I just wanted to give you all an update on our son, Kasein. He was in fifth grade this past year. but hasn't really received much of an education since the beginning of the school year. If you will remember, he was sent to Resilient Heights in the old
014Northwood building by Kitten City Schools against our wishes. He was there for five weeks. At the end of those weeks, Resilient Heights couldn't produce a shred of data about his academics, behavior, or IEP goals. In fact, they um hadn't been following his IEP at all. He did learn quite a few things there at the school, but none of them there to high content standards. We as his parents worried about him daily. Um finally, after proving all of my uneasy feelings correct, Kenton City Schools um allowed him to return to Makacheic for one week. After that, we found out that the negotiations about his transportation were over and the deal had not been reached with the cats program. He couldn't go to school there any longer unless we drove him or found a driver um who
015would be reimbursed at 70 cents a mile. Neither of these things were a possibility so he missed more school. Finally um he was allowed to go on home instruction which is only 5 hours a week. Kase was assigned an amazing home instructor but it hasn't gone very well due to Kase's um due to Kase and his behaviors. A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Mr. Ley about Kasein's schooling for next school year. He openly admitted that Kenton City Schools has failed my child this year, and his suggestion was to send him back to Resilient Heights. I said, "No thanks. My child's safety is my number one priority." I asked him about sending Kasem back to Kitten City Schools, as I had several times throughout the school year. I was told there's no place for
016cakes at Kenton City Schools. Sorry. Just need a minute. I hope none of you ever have to hear that about their about your child. There's no place for them. It's absolutely heartbreaking. I know he is difficult, but if you get to know him, he's so bright, funny, loving, and feels every emotion with his whole being. Um, since there isn't a place for him here, our wish is for Kase to go back to Makachic where he flourished. His grades increased, his behaviors decreased, and that was carried over into our home life. Um, he finally had love to go to school. I never will understand why transportation costs were more important than my child's education and well-being. Thank you for your time. Okay, moving on to uh the next item which is uh the public hearing for
017reemployment of Lisa Kokensberger um administrative assistant and we'll be taking action on that in the Jeremy. >> Uh moving on to item six, it's uh reports of the treasur. Okay, couple things. We met as finance committee meeting tonight. So, just a couple things. We are not obligated by law to submit a May forecast like we have in the past. It's now going to be August and February, but I've laid in front of you um where I think we're going to be at the end of this fiscal year. And if you look down on that first page, the very last number in 10.01, 01. Um we're looking around $5.7 million carryover. Um I also if you look at page three and it lists out purchase services and supplies. So as you're looking at the forecast line
0183.03 purchase services is we're predicting about 3.3 million and then in supplies for this year a little over one million. I just kind of listed out some items that goes into that figure. So, of the 3.3 million um purchase services, I've got a column labeled purchase services and that adds up to about 1.8. So, those all listed out are 1.8 of that $3.3 million that we have spent this year. And as you can see, we've got uh behavior school for 372,000, sign language um interpreter 100, virtual speech 100, OTP from the ESC 150, MRESC speech 105, North Ohio Central ESC hearing and aiology about 60,000. We have an MREC teacher for 90, an aid from the MRESC at 26. We have our uh community service truency gal for 65 and Chad sent you guys out
019um an email and has greatly reduced discipline issues, increased our attendance. So um we've seen some really good results with having that service in our district. Legal fluctuates, but right now we're looking at 85. Raptor, which is our safety software, is 20. WOCO which is supports our IT services that cost us about 90 since we've added on the middle school high school that's we're looking at additional electricity of 175 for the year we do pay tuition to other districts for general ed students and that's about 100,000. We do pay out for catastrophic costs to other districts for students with disabilities and about 140,000. We do pay for an autism school of 80 and our kids that take college uh courses um that runs us about 40. So that's about 1.8 million of that 3.3. And
020then supplies which is running us a little over 1 million this year. I've kind of um generalized what goes into that number. So just general supplies alone with around the district a little over 300,000. We've got books of about 214,000. We've spent about 6,000 on security maintenance supplies 120 in transportation supplies 125. So of that 1 million there's 872,000 that that has been spent from there. So it just kind of gives you an idea of what we're spending within those categories. Now next year I did increase that supply the 3.05 3.04 number. Um it's inflated just for that year because we are spending uh curriculum electronics costs a lot of money. It's $500,000 that we're spending plus Chromebook rotation about 320,000 for that next year as well. Um so and I always say where are
021we at with our spending? Are we taking in more than what we're spending out or or vice versa? Um last year we spent a lot out only because that was our transfer. We transferred that money from our general fund into the 070 capital improvement fund. This year um we're to the good. Next year you're going to see a bigger uh deficit spending balance only because we had to inflate inflate that cost for the uh curriculum electronic books that we're we're providing. So that just kind of gives you an overview of where we're at. And again, I'll come back in August and then we'll have um prediction then for the next five years. Even though we don't have to submit five year, it's really only a three-year. One other thing I wanted to announce is the
022city has given us graciously back our Blendale park. So, um which is located over there on Oak Street. We've talked looks like we would like to sell because no other public entity is interested at this point. We have to do a public auction. It is over $10,000. We did have someone um appraise the property. There is four par parcels there. So, at the June 15th meeting, you're going to see a resolution um to approve the posting and the um public auction for that property. Now, it's just a matter of when we're going to do that. Let's let's just pick an arbitrary date. Let's just say July 25th on Saturday. We're going to have that auction by June 24th. No later than that. I have to make sure it's in the Kenton Times. Just advertise it
023once and then we can go forth with that. Once it's sold, we'll come back in August, do another purchase resolution and a quick claim deed. So, that's just to kind of give you a little overview of what's to come. If there's any questions other than that, that's all I have. >> All right. Thanks, Joe. >> Motion on that. >> Oh, yes. Motion. >> Thanks, Brad. >> Styer. >> Thanks, Mike. >> Okay. Mrs. Hidinger. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ludley? >> Yes. >> Mr. Styer? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wingfield? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hel? >> Yes. >> Okay. Okay. Uh, item number seven are the superintendent reports. >> Great. >> We've got a few retirees that we want to recognize real quick. And I'm going to give you just a little bit of information about these folks.
024So, we'll start with Carol. If you don't mind, please come on up. You don't have to say us anything. I just want to give you I just want to give you something. Don't get me wrong. You're welcome to speak if you'd like to, but uh so Carol Scott has been a secretary. She started at Harden Central and make sure I get this correct. Uh was at West View and then has been at Kenton Elementary School since it opened. And so for 29 years with Kenton City Schools, we just want to thank her for everything she's done. And you get the golden apple, if you will. So again, if you'd like to speak, you can, but you didn't want to. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you, Carol. Uh, Nan, if you would come up, please.
025Nan Lever. Um, she was, I didn't realize this, taught art at one point. Um, and then also a reading teacher. And make sure I get all these correct. Uh, at Northwood, at Eastrest, at Harden Central, at Westview, and then did title, uh, began doing title at Kenton Elementary School. maybe had started title before that, but anyway, had been in all five of those schools, uh, teaching art, reading, and then as a title one teacher. Uh, so 30 years with Kenton City Schools. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. All right. And, uh, last but definitely not least, Kevin, if you would come up for me here and grab something else for him. >> He's got three arms. So Kevin already got his apple. Uh because Kevin already retired. Uh but uh he
026decided to come back after retirement for another 11 years. Uh a lot of times when you do a retire rehire, it's for one or two years, that kind of thing. But no, Kevin decided 11 more years. So um that gives was it 20, let's see, retire with 29 and then am I right? And then plus 11. Yeah. So yeah, but anyway, since I don't have an apple, I thought he likes to collect different things and his wife's going to kill me. Um, and so one more thing, right? I thought it might be appropriate that uh you have this because it got given to us. It has lots of teachers that you taught with. Uh, and I have an actual key for this as to which teachers were there and that kind of thing. We got
027we went ahead and took a picture and we're going to use it digitally, but we thought maybe you would like to have the original there cuz he's one of the few that we still have left that's in this picture. Sharon's in here, too. Okay. >> So, there are a few teachers that are still with us, but uh one of the one of the few. So, I just thought it'd be kind of fun to see if you wanted to put this with your other stuff. >> Where where did that come from? >> Yep. Uh I'll have to ask Linda, but somebody had brought it in to us. They found it, I think. So I'm not sure where and but this is an important part because that actually lists the names and stuff but again we all
028have that digitally now but wanted you to have it. So >> again thank you very much uh Kevin for all the years and I thought this was very appropriate for our educators here that we're recognizing just the fact that you know we can say thank you but at the end of the day it's all these kids that you guys reached over the years and did what you did for those kids. So thank you guys very much. AND JUST like the kids, if you would like to, you don't have to stay, but you're welcome to stay. >> You've done your time, Kevin. You can go. >> He's like, not another minute. >> Thank you, see an end. >> Okay. >> Um and then also a public hearing will also be held on June 15th um to
029discuss the remployment of uh Bev Miller as the secretary of Kenton High School. Um, was there any committee reports >> other than finance? >> Okay. >> And there was item number nine, no old business. >> None. >> Motion. >> No motion. Um, new business authorizations and resolutions. Item 10A is to approve the following donations. And there's quite a good list there. So, we just are very appreciative of of all the generosity from all those donations. Um, item 10B is to approve the following trips. Um, KHS JOTC to Camp Manito and Peninsula, Ohio. Uh, June 1st through the 5th for Cadet Leadership Challenge. Um, item 10 C is to approve the following resolution of urgent necessity. Um, and I think this basically just uh entails uh some upgrade upgrade verative work at the uh existing high
030school or the a building of high school. >> Um item 10E is to approve the following amendment to the certificate of estimated resources. Um item 10 F is to approve the K city schools nutritional standards report for 202526. Item 10G is is something similar again uh just approving a resolution of urgent necessity to again renovate uh some things that are within uh the central office um the the old part of the high school in the the A building. Um, let's see. Item 10H is to approve the Midwest Regional ESC real estate purchase agreement. And then item 10 I is to approve the agreement with Perry Protek beginning August 1st, 2026. Item 10J is to approve the uh Kenton High School 2025 2026 uh tenative graduation listing. >> Thanks Tasha. >> Thanks Rodney. >> Any uh
031discussion on any of that? >> Mr. Styer? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wingfield? >> Yes. >> Mr. Hel? Yes. >> Mrs. Heidinger? >> Yes. >> Mr. Ludley? >> Yes. Um item 11, personnel items. Item 11 A is to approve supplemental contract employment for employees. And we can see that list of individuals there. Item 11B is to approve supplemental contract employment for non-employees. Um item 11 C is to approve the following volunteers for the 2627 school year. Item 11 D is to approve the following substitute for the 2526 school year. Uh Carol Dawson as a substit substitute custodian. Item 11 E is to approve the following teacher contracts for the 2026 2027 school year. Continuing contract for Luke Abbott. Um item 11F is to approve the following people for the 2026 summer help. And then item 11
032G is to approve the following classified substitutes for the 202627 school year. Item 11 H is to approve the following substitute teachers for the 202627 school year. And then item 11J is to approve uh Canton CJ CJ Sharp as K City School's athletic director for a two-year contract for the 2026 2028 school year beginning August 1st of 2026. Um item 11J is to approve the interim athletic director supplemental contract for CJ uh for a temporary time effective May 19th of 2026 until July 31st of 2026. Item 11K is to approve the written resignation of Jaclyn Fitzgerald as KMHS educational assistant effective at the end of the 2526 school year. Item 11L is to approve Lillian Lzini as KMHS counselor for a limited one-year contract. Item 11 M is to approve Ryan Collins for K from
033KCS technology director to KCS teacher on special assignment. Um item 11N is to approve the renewal of the following administrative contracts. And item 11 O is to approve the interim food service supervisor supplemental contract for Jennifer Spencer um for the summer 26 lunch program. Item 11 P is to approve the four-year contract for Chad Thrush, uh, commencing on August 1st, 2026 and ending on July 31st, 2030. Item 11 Q is to approve the following people for the 2026 summer school staff. Item 11 R is to approve the following certified transfer for the 2627 school year. Uh, Jeremy Reid from KMHs 6th grade teacher to KMHs intervention specialist. Item 11 asks to approve Jessica Brandt Bar um KES intervention specialist for a limited one-year contract for the 2627 school year. Is there any discussion on any
034of that >> motion >> Wingfield? Thanks Brady. >> Thanks Mike. Got lost >> Mr. Wingfield. Yes. >> Uh, Mr. Hel, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hidinger, >> yes. >> Mr. Ledley, >> yes. >> Mr. Styer, >> yes. >> Okay. The next regular board of education meeting will be held on June 15th, 2026 at 6 p.m. >> 6:37.