001like to call our meeting to order. Is there a motion for the board to reconvene into open session? So move for minor. Okay. Is there a second? Well, second. Okay. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. Okay. We are now in open session. Good evening everyone. We thank those of you who are able to join us in person and also those who are joining us online. During our meeting, I'd like to ask each board member to state his or her name when making or seconding a motion or when speaking. At this time, I'm going to ask each board member to state his or her name when I to indicate that they are here after we get water. Yeah, the board just passles around. All right, we're good. Miss Mayan, are you here?
002I Okay, present. Okay, thank you. Mrs. Rebecca Miner, present. Mrs. Amy Richards, present. Dr. Daniel Wallace present and I am Ralph Fallon. Is there a motion to verify that our closed session was conducted in accordance with the code of Virginia section 2.2-3712 paragraph D and that only matters exempted from open meeting requirements and only matters identified in the motion to go into close session were discussed. Pres. All right. Is there a second? Amy Richard second. Any discussion? Ms. Mayan, how do you vote? I. Mrs. Richards, I. Mrs. Miner, I. Dr. Wallace, I. The chair votes I. And our close session has been verified. If there are no objections, I would like to ask Mrs. Mayan to lead us in prayer. Miss Mayan, please pray in your faith as I pray in mine. Dear heavenly father,
003we thank you for the opportunity to come together today to discuss the plans for the upcoming school year for our students and staff. We ask that you guide us through our discussions and make us mindful of our decisions as we move forward. We thank you for those who have joined us today and pray that you will be with us and keep us all safe to as we return to our homes this evening. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Miss May. At this time, let's stand and honor our country by reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. is our volunteer to read our statement
004of vision and our statement of mission. I will. Okay. Thank you, Miss Richards. Vision to provide an exemplary learning environment that empowers all students to find their voices and make meaningful contributions to the world. mission. Working together, we provide all students authentic learning experience, knowledge, and skills to become successful global citizens. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Richards. Do we have any suggested changes or additions to our agenda? Yes, M. Rice. Yes, sir. I would like to add an item under action items for um approval of res employee resignation. Okay, we'll make that the uh the first item under action items. Uh assuming that there are no objections from any board members. Okay, I hear no objections. Are there any other suggested changes for addition? Okay, then our amended agenda is approved by unanimous consent. Uh next,
005Miss Rice, uh student and staff attendance for June. Yes. Uh we uh are speaking to the attendance that occurred during summer academy. Uh we had a number of students attending and a number of staff members involved. So we thought it only right to continue with our attendance recognition through the summer months. So we'll start with uh student attendance at summer academy. Copel elementary had 89.05% of students present each day. Washington District Elementary had an average of 90.17%. Montros Middle School had 93.4% and West Morland High School had 93.09%. So the winner is Montros Middle School with the highest average attendance. One, two, three. Thank you all. Thank you. Congratulations to Montra Middle. And we'll move right on with staff attendance. Uh staff attendance over the summer was very strong. Copel Elementary School had 99.58% average
006daily attendance from staff. Washington District Elementary 94.36%. Montros Middle School had 98.89% and West Morland High School had 99.39%. So, the winner is Copel Elementary School 99.58. The high school just got edged out on both awards. We need some silver trophies. Congratulations to Cole. Yeah. Great. That's awesome. Staff attendance. Yes. Wish we had that throughout the entire year. But that's that's excellent. Okay, next we have character trait honores. Uh for this month, we'll have our principles come forward and it's on forgiveness. Good evening board. I am H Angel, principal of Pope Elementary, and this month we'd like to recognize fourth grader Gonzalo Romero Garna. His teacher uh said, "Gonzalo treats everyone with kindness and strives to understand his peers actions and intentions rather than jump to conclusions." During a disagreement with one of his peers
007while working on a project, Gonzalo was so forgiving with his part when his partner was having a difficult time completing their part. He is a student who is more focused on finding solutions when things go wrong. He reflects on his own actions and emotions, recognizing areas for growth. He is a peacemaker and exhibits the trait of forgiveness among his peers. Congratulations [Applause] I think. Do you have water, Mr. Did you get water? Oh, I passed it there. Got excited. Thank you. [Applause] Good evening. I'm Michelle Pas with principal Washington District. Um, our honory for the month of June is Coralyn Klein. Coralyn is not only kind to her peers and teachers, but she believes in giving everyone a fair chance. Despite children having differing opinions and occasional disagreements, Coraline respects the values and beliefs of
008everyone. She willingly assist other students in need, no matter who they are. Coralyn treats every day like a clean slate and comes into the classroom with a positive attitude. [Applause] Look at that smile. She's so happy. Oh my goodness. [Applause] I'm Janet Garland, the principal at Mont Trust Middle. Our student of the month is Isabella Cisneros. Despite her reserved nature, Isabella has shown extraordinary grace when others speak over her during discussions. Rather than responding with frustration or withdrawing further, she demonstrates the power of forgiveness. Isabella often chooses to let go of these moments, allowing her peers to express themselves without holding grudges. This admirable quality not only reflects her maturity, but also creates a more inclusive atmosphere for everyone around her. and it's not here today. So, [Applause] we'll take a picture. Hello, my name
009is Michael Bathgate, the principal at Westmore High. Our student of the month goes out to Jay Ball, nominated by Miss Lewis. Jana is being recognized today for showing exceptional strength of forgiveness. During our summer school program, sometimes emotions can run high and missing understandings can happen fast. Uh Jana demonstrated maturity during our program by listening to students with empathy and responding with even with kindness, even when it was hard. Jana showed that forgiveness is not about pretending something did not happen, but choosing to move forward and grow because of it. Jana reminds us all that strength isn't about standing your ground, but knowing when to extend a hand. Jana couldn't be with us today, but our student of the month goes out to Jana Ball. [Applause] So congratulation to all of our recipients and also
010we thank everyone involved in that. Uh next we have some more recognition level up Virginia champion recognition uh Miss Jackson and Miss Payne. Hi, give me my name is Jackson. I'm one of the school counselors at the high school. She's our registar. Um so this year we were awarded um a level up champion designation which only 28 schools out of three [Laughter] um receive. Um so Level Up, I'm going to tell you what they are. It's a statewide initiative um led by the state council for higher education and the Virginia Department of Education. and their mission is to increase post-secary readiness, enrollment, and completion for all students in the Commonwealth. Um, and they're committed to making college access information easily understandable and accessible for students of all backgrounds. Um, they have a lot of resources
011on their website for parents, students, and educators. Um but they also um spearhead a bunch of this is a letter we got um letting us know that we got that designation of a little Virginia Champion. Um but they also they spearhead um four events um and they give us a little bit of funding. They give us $50 per event to help pay for that. We also have some partners that um we get funding from as well. Um Virginia College Application, sorry, Virginia College Advising Corps through UVA and um ECMC. We use money from those to help fund these events as well. Um and then to get this Virginia Champion designation, we had to run all four events. We had to send our data to them about all of our events. Um and a few of
012the events come with scholarships for our students as well. Um so the first event we have every year is Virginia College Application Week. Um and the purpose of this event is to help um our seniors navigate the college admissions process um and ensure that the students are submitting at least one admissions application. And then during that week, we also um a lot of the schools in Virginia will allow our students, no matter whether they're eligible for fee wavers or not, they'll give fee wavers to all of our student population. Um I really enjoy this week. Um our other college partners like our RCC high school navigator and our um college adviserss in the past um we run this event different than a lot of the schools in the area. Um, so for the entire week,
013we schedule every single senior, every single day, one block where they're pulled out of class so they can work on college applications. Um, any seniors that aren't collegebound, we let them do like career exploration, fill out job applications, um, or fill out like technical center applications as well. um if they finish their college applications early, we do co scholarship searches and we also work on like FASA with them during that week as well. Um this year we all of our seniors submitted um over 200 applications to colleges during this week. Um the next the next event is the FASA next project. Um, and this is to help get completion rates up for the FAFSA, which is the federal application, the free application for federal student aid. Um, and students have to fill out this application
014in order to be PEL eligible. And the government uses it to see if they are eligible for any other grants. And then also colleges use it in their financial aid offices. They use that information to figure out the aid that the college is going to give the student as well. I have students all the time, they're like, "I'm not going to be eligible for anything. My family makes too much." And we still have to convince them to fill it out because I'm like, "Your college needs it." So, you can get scholarships and grants from them. Um, so we really start this process during our senior boot camp. Um, we have a day that we call senior boot camp. We have a bunch of different workshops. Most of these pictures are from that. We didn't take
015any pictures during our FASA night just because of all the personal information, but um during senior boot camp, we have a workshop to help students sign up for their FSA IDs, which is required for them to be able to fill out that FASA later when it opens up. Um and then every year we also have at least one FASA night. Typically, we have two, but um the FASA has not been opening up in October the past few years. So, we've only been able to have one. Um but if it starts opening back up in October, we'll start having two again. But we'll typically want have one in October and we'll have one either in late January or early February um to and we invite families to come and we will help them fill out the
016FASA with us. So if they have questions or anything or if they run into any problems um we have a grasp advisor. They always come to the those events as well to help families. Our RCC um navigator comes and our college advisor is typically there as well as the whole counseling department. Um the fast next project does come with the opportunity for one of our students to possibly win a scholarship. Um it's this one is for everyone in the state that participates in the fastext project. We send in their information this year. One of our seniors did win a scholarship through this opportunity. Leland Bach, he won a scholarship through the Fast Next Project. And he did that because we filled out that survey and sent his information into them. All right, I'm gonna turn
017it over to Miss ECMC College Nights um is educational uh credit management corporation and the events are designed to help our students get ready for college. They go over postsecary plans. They explore different college options and bachelor scholarships, grants, loans, and it helps them to prepare for their future be beyond high school, including budgeting because they all need to know how to budget that money once they receive it and college and career exploration. And at our college night, uh is it one student or two students will earn a $1,000 scholarship. So, here are a few pictures. And there's Stephanie O. you want a scholarship. And this year we had several colleges join us. Rapahhanic, uh, Richard Bland, Mayor Washington, and ODU, and Sweep. They, um, attended college nights with us, which is new for us.
018Few more pictures. And we have bingo. I think that was a really good night that night. The students and parents were excited about it. I'll also mention, sorry, um, our JBG program also helped us sponsor this event. They helped pay for dinner that night, too. Yes, we had pizza. College students are supposed to like pizza, so we made it a pizza night. Decision college night. Now, decision day, my favorite day of the year. At WHS, we started with decision week and that begins the first week of May each year and ends with decision day on that Friday. We honor all of our seniors throughout the week. We highlight each senior's future plans on Facebook and on the announcement screens at Westb High School. We put their pictures and where they're going. Adalfo's going to work.
019Lydia is going into the Navy. Bian's going to Land's going to Rapha Community College. So, we celebrate all of our seniors, not just collegebound. James is going to trade school. Taylor's going to WWRC and they're excited about their plans and we are excited for them. And like I said, it's one of my favorite days as long as it's not too hot. We had a slurpee truck. The students are signing their decision day shirts. Um they're playing games. Connect for cornhole. It was just a really good day to celebrate the students. And we also have a video, but it's not playing. But that's okay because we're going to put it on. Oh, never mind. Mr. Ball made this video. Yes, Mr. Ball made it. And a special thank you to KG Bounce for our bouncy obstacle
020course and jargon gaskets. He's been there to put the food for the students the last couple years and he does that just for us. You see the kids playing their games. It was just a good day. But we're gonna put this on Facebook these slides so you can see it all. But thank you for having us. Awesome. Congratulations on the recog. Thank you very much for what you do. Okay. Miss Rice, do we have any written public comments that were submitted prior to our meeting? No, sir. Okay. Do we have any public comments from anyone present? Okay, we do not. So, our public comment period is now closed. Next, we have our consent agenda for personnel appointments. Also, religious exemptions. And you have copies of board minutes from the June 10 work session and the
021June 16 regular session. And you have copies of school division bills and school nutrition bills. Do I hear a motion to approve the consent agenda? Daniel Wallace. So moved. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Mrs. Mayan, how do you vote? I. Mrs. Miner. I. Mrs. Richards. Hi. Dr. Wallace. Hi. The chair votes I. And the consent agenda is approved. So next we move on to action items. Uh, Miss Rice, uh, you have an action item for us? Yes, sir. Uh, the first action item would be, uh, employee resignation. Okay. All right. And do I hear a motion to approve uh, Mrs. Rice? And the the motion is to not approve. Is that correct? Yes. I'm sorry. My recommendation is uh to approve the resignation only after a suitable replacement can be found. Okay. All
022right. Thank you. All right. We we hear the uh recommendation is a motion to approve Mrs. Rice's recommendation. Daniel Wallace, I move that we accept the resignation conditional upon the appointment of a replacement. Okay. Is there a second? Second. Rosemary Mayan. Okay. Any discussion? Mrs. Maym, how do you vote? I. Mrs. Miner, I. Mrs. Richards, I. Dr. Wallace, I. And the chair votes I. And Miss Rice, your recommendation is approved. Thank you. So, thank you very much. Okay. Next, we have uh donations and gifts. Uh, Miss Rice. Yes. We are excited that even during the summer months, we uh received two donations from community. Uh at Copel Elementary School, the Ball family of ball landscaping donated five gallons of paint for the copier room and that was valued at $75. And then at Montros Middle
023School, Strapford Hall made a monetary donation earmarked specifically for the choir program and that monetary donation was $300. So we are uh asking you all for approval to accept the donations. Okay. Well, we always appreciate these donations even in the summertimes is especially nice. So, in accordance with policy KH, is there a motion to approve the donations as presented by Miss Rice? Daniel Wallace, I move that we accept the donations. Right. Is there a second? Second. Okay. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. Okay. We accept the donations and very much appreciate them. Uh, next, one of our favorite topics, Miss Rice, is uh VSBA policy updates. one of my favorites, too. So, um, these were all presented to you for information either at last month's regular meeting or the most recent,
024uh, work session. I would like to ask Mr. Evans to pull up, please. I I a R2F. Thank you. uh at the work session it was the request of the board that we add the inventory to the bottom of the form. Uh so we have done that and you'll see that we've prepopulated uh distribution of a Chromebook or a power adapter for a Chromebook. And then because there might be an occasion where we gave out a different uh device, we included a space for that as well. We've indicated that when we give devices out, they are in good working order. Um, we did not put a column for parents to initial uh receipt of the device because they will actually be completing the form at home uh before students are issued a device and then
025they will present their form to the technology administrator who will then uh exchange with them for the form. they will receive the devices, but the tech administrators will keep track of what they distribute both on this form and through u scanning barcodes for uh Destiny and then also an inventory database. So uh we're keeping track three different ways of devices that are distributed. So I wanted to let you see the change that had been made at your request and then Mr. Evans, if you could please pull up um I think it's JJ I need to look myself. We also did fix the typo in uh regulation R2. So that was uh taken care of and it was the safety JJ Ag. Uh no, not that one. I apologize. J I'm gonna get it here a
026minute. It's the one on math acceleration because we made a change based on a change from VDOE. Uh I GBJ. I knew there was a J in there somewhere. IB, IGBJ, advanced or accelerated mathematics. Um, we wanted uh to see if you could scroll down to the automatic enrollment portion. I have added a phrase in parentheses. Um after we presented this policy to you all for information, VDOE uh gave school divisions an additional year uh to delay the implementation if the division chose to do so. And so this is all the one that's all about automatic enrollment based on a student's performance on the standards of learning assessment. if their score is in the upper quartortile, they would be automatically enrolled in advanced math for the next year unless their parent opted them out. And
027the reason we would like to delay is it allows us to get students better prepared for that move to an accelerated math course. And very specifically what we were concerned about and we're grateful for DOE allowing the delayed implementation. Uh we were concerned about students who scored high on the seventh grade math test in particular who would then be automatically enrolled in algebra 1 without ever having had the opportunity to take pre-alggebra uh which is what we would typically do. And pre-alggebra covers, as you know, um both seventh and eighth grade math content. So, we would have had students who were leaping to algebra 1 without having had the eighth grade content. Uh we also had some concerns uh to a lesser degree because we can talk with parents and they can make a decision
028about opting out, but some of our students um scored very well after having received pretty intensive uh remediation and intervention supports. So, they may or may not have been um successful in the advanced math class. Perhaps they could have been with the same intensive remediation uh supports, but um again, we're glad to have the delay so we can plan for this implementation, make parents aware that this is coming, not for the upcoming school year, but for the following school year. U and we think VDOE made a good decision uh to allow us more time. so that uh students and parents can be better prepared and staff uh for this transition. So, we wanted to um present that to you because you had not seen that parenthetical phrase that I inserted and make sure you're okay
029with that. Okay. Did you And that's all I wanted to bring to your attention this evening. Okay. Are there any questions on the previous policies that were discussed in some detail at our work session? Okay. Do I hear a motion to approve? Rosemary may ask you approve these. Okay. Is there a second? Second. I'm sorry. We had a second. Okay. All righty. Any discussion? Mrs. Mayan, how do you vote? I Mrs. Miner I Mrs. Richards I Dr. Wallace I chair votes I and the VSBA policies as presented are approved. Thank you very much. Okay. Next action item is uh school nutrition adult meal prices. Mrs. Rice. Yes sir. I I am presenting this action item on behalf of uh Mrs. Hickman, our school nutrition program supervisor. Um, Mrs. Hickman shared information that the minimum adult
030lunch price for the upcoming school year is higher than what we currently charge. And we are required to uh make sure we're asking adults to pay um at least the minimum cost. So, the minimum adult lunch price for the upcoming year is $4.84. Mrs. Hickman's recommendation, and I agree with her recommendation, is to set that price at $4.90 for an adult lunch. And then for breakfast, the minimum adult breakfast price for the upcoming year is $2.84. Her recommendation, with which I agree, is to move that price to $2.90. So, we are asking for board approval to change the adult lunch price to $4.90 and the adult breakfast price to 290 for the upcoming. Okay. Any questions for Miss Rice? Okay. I hear a motion to approve. May hand move to approve. Okay. Thank you. Is
031there a second? Daniel second. Any discussion? Mrs. Mayan, how do you vote? I. Mrs. Moner, I. Mrs. Richards. Hi, Dr. Wallace. Hi. The chair votes I and the school nutrition adult meal prices as presented by Miss Rice are approved. Thank you very much, Miss Rice. Okay. Next, we uh move on to what I think is an exciting presentation. Uh Westb High School Stadium Plaza. Rice. Yes, sir. We are making progress. So, last time I presented on the stadium plaza, uh you got to see uh holes in the ground and concrete uh because we had uh started the process u but we didn't have anything in place yet. Um so now we we've moved forward. Um probably uh the most exciting uh thing was the 80 foot flag pole uh was installed and is now standing
032proudly behind the high school in front of the football stadium. So we don't have the flag raised yet. Uh I think they're still allowing all the concrete to set and everything to be completely firmed up before we fly the flag. Uh but you can see the pole uh rising up behind the high school from Route Three. So that was an exciting day. And we have a few additional pictures of that installation taking place. That flag pole is an 80 foot pole with an additional 8 feet in the ground. That's how deep it needed to go. Uh that's a look uh just standing at the flag pole and looking up. Yes, my artistic moment. Um and then I wanted you to see this side. It's a little harder to see because it's in shadow, but this
033is the side that has the um rope to raise the flag up. And then also uh last time I showed you a picture of the concrete pad where the ticket booth was going to be constructed. So now we have the beginnings of a ticket booth. Uh it's been uh built and the roof is shingled although my picture doesn't really show that. Uh, but the roof has been shingled and if you look closely, you can see some electrical uh sticking out of the front of the ticket booth where some lights are going to be. So, the electrical is has been run. That's all in place. And I wanted to show you this. This is the cutout where the transaction window will go on the front of the ticket booth that faces the sidewalk. And then we
034will have a window of equal size that is on the back of the ticket booth facing the field so that those that are in the ticket booth um can do transactions out the front window but also still see what's happening with the game out the side window. uh the window on the side facing the field, those windows will open up and down in case in the future we want to add a window air conditioning unit because we did not add AC to the ticket booth. There is heat um in the ticket booth. We thought we would be more often using that than AC, especially with the windows. We'll have a cross breeze so we can open things up. And the ticket booth is scheduled uh to be completed by the end of the month, we
035hope. Um Okay. And we seem to be on schedule, so we're excited about that work that's being done out there. Certainly, we'll be ready for football season. The other exciting part of that is when this is completed, it means that the entire stadium has been completed. Yes, this is the final. So, and it feels good. The eagle has been powerwashed and he's ready to go on the pedestal. Um, so that move will be taking place as well. Awesome. So, okay. Thank you very much, Miss Rice. Uh, next we have summer academy 2025. Uh, our principles and Mr. Bathgate, I guess you're going to start. [Music] Um classes that we offered were algebra 1, AFDA, English 9, English 10, um USDA, history, biology, driver's ed, personal finance, and multiple discipline classes. Um as you see, I
036kind of put the highlights. Um our kids were really successful this summer school. Um you can kind of see the numbers from this year to last year. Um if you kind of remove the kids nonacredited class six and they completed driver's ed that gives you like 30 37 and then if you subtract that number off the total number of students. So we had 37 students and at least what 45 of them received something either was a verified credit or credit recovery class. um a big you know you can we've taught this summer we equal the total number of students passed the SOS during this we equal it for the previous three summer sessions so you took our numbers I think we got 17 students passed the so that I was hoping we get one more
037so I can say we surpassed the last three years but tied last three years the number pass so um big hand you know goes out to our teachers our staff um you know the assistant principles who worked hard make sure that you know they they did it right that teachers were teaching. Um we also you know big thanks goes to Mcconville who kind of kind of shared some ideas about hey let's do this a little bit different you know let's give the the students as many opportunities to pass these classes as humanly possible. Um so we were able to our thing was we tutor for three days then we test them. um if they didn't pass but they met the criteras for a retake, we gave them that retake. Where last year what happened was
038they did month-long class and took at the very end without any opportunities for retake or for that test. Um for seniors that came uh we actually gave them four opportunities to take it. If you have, we had students there who passed two. So they took three days, they meet, they meet for three, they passed, they came the next week, they did a different class, we made it for three, passed another one. So we try to give kids as many opportunities to to do it. And you can see that we were pretty successful in getting these kids through what they needed to do. So yes, may I ask what is AFDA? So sure that is our algebra function data analysis class. So that's kind of like the in between between algebra and geometry. So students who
039were not successful as an algebra student that needed additional skills put in the AFDA class. Thank you. Any other questions? And then you know why were we successful? Because we made kids believe in themselves. you know, we we are we're pushing hard. We're not about the minimum anymore. We're about reaching all those potentials. So, you know, we're telling kids, we're telling parents by newsletters just kind of sent out the message that it's not good just to pass on just not graduate because we want to surpass that. So, that's kind of kind of our goal. Anything. Yeah. Awesome. No, but thank you. Thank you. Yeah. very much. Next one is is what is Copeland next? Mont. Oh, Montros. Okay. So, we had sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. And we did English, science, and math. And you
040can see we had 89 students. So, these are students who were required to come either pass the class or their so. We also um added attendance in there for our policy. So you saw our average daily attendance and some of the things that we did that had a lasting impact. Um Mr. Brown, our math specialist, and Miss Henry, our reading specialist, um tried to close some of those gaps with foundational skills for both reading and math, and they would pull small groups. So that made a difference. Um and then some hands-on experiences I'll talk about in a second. And as I said, attendance, kids who were chronically absent were required to come to summer school. And then we did, it's a little more than our average. Our block during the school year is 91. It
041was 97 minutes um a block. So I want to before I show you the pictures, I want to talk about the things that we did. So I'll start with science. Um sixth grade had hands-on learning experiences. They invited friends in the Rapahhanic and students also did an H2O Olympics where it was set just to mimic what an Olympic competition would be like. So they earned gold, silver, silver and bronze um medals and what they were learned about was reinforcing the properties of water. They also made um bottle rockets which you can see it's going off there. And they also um learned about thermal heat expansion with the making of s'mores. In seventh grade, they did an egg osmosis experiment um where they would watch based on what was added to the water, either it was
042shrink or swell. That was pretty cool. And they also extracted DNA from strawberries and they also built real DNA models. And in eighth grade, they used um Skittles to comp um complete a scientific method activity where they went through the hypothesis, classifying variables, and collecting, analyzing data. and they use sour pouch kids to act as a decimal when they were doing metric conversions and English for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. Across our school, the skill deficits that exist across all grade levels are main idea, theme, tone, mood, and inferencing. So, they really focus on those skill deficits. Sixth grade mostly worked with pair passages. Seventh grade worked with the novel The Red Kayak. And eighth grade with a novel um entitled House Arrests. And then for math, they focused on skill deficits that took place
043and introduced concepts that would help them for the upcoming year. Much like Miss Rice talked about for eighth grade math, um she helped them learn about like multi-step equations and it slope intercept form to get them ready for algebra in high school. So I'll show you the pictures. These are things from math and English science for sixth grade, seventh grade. Any Questions from anyone? Sounds like fun. Well, I'm just looking at those um M&M's in the bowl there and it's making me hungry. You want to do an experiment now? What is it? Statistics on that one. That's when they were um they use those Skittles as a decimal for conversion. And then they um skills with a scientific methodic and the sour patch kids was for the decimal which I believe is what Miss Grimstead
044said has top right just to give them more manipulatives and help engage them where they may not otherwise be engaged. It's nice to see smelling faces. Thank you for So they believe in themselves also. Cope Elementary had 67 students attend summer academy. um 13 second graders, 30 third graders, eight fourth graders, and 16 fifth graders with our average daily attendance at 89.05%. Um we also highly recommended uh students who are chronically absent attend summer academy. We had two second grade classes, two third grade classes, and then we did a combined fourth and fifth grade classes with three teachers. We also had two reading specialists, one special ed teacher, and their specials um for the week were STEM, art, PE, and computer. And then we also have one school counselor. So, their daily schedule, you can
045see them playing uh recess, and that's some art that our second graders did, but they had a 90 minute literacy block, a 90-minute math block, 40 minutes of content that switched um two weeks of social studies and two weeks of science. 20 minutes of recess, 30 minute lunch, and then 45 minutes special. So, it kind of mirrored their typical day during the year. And these kids loved having a gym, by the way. So, like I said, I can tell Miss still trained you. So they had the two weeks of science and two weeks of social studies where they did PBL um projects. The science for second grade they did adaptations based on the animals habitat. Third grade did grow green. So they learned about plants and they actually grew their own plants that they were
046able to take home. Fourth and fifth grade did forms of energy and then for social studies second grade they made maps of different continents and land forms of the United States. and fourth and fifth grade. They were travel agents for the different regions of Virginia if they were in fourth grade and then US if they were in um fifth grade. I got to watch some of their presentations and it was really cool. They even told you what to pack and what things you might encounter, what animals you might see. So, it was really neat to get to see them actually presenting to their peers. So, some highlights for summer academy is the students were able to receive small groupoup explicit instruction during their literacy and math um blocks just to help close those gaps in
047learning from year to year. We had continuity of services. So, we did have our TDT program um with us at summer academy. Reading intervention was provided by the reading specialists um that were there. And then pull out services were provided by our special education teacher for students with IEPs who attended summer academy. And our school counselor also provided some social emotional learning activities with our students while they were at summer academy. Here are some of our second graders. Um they are working on literacy in the small group and you can see that is part of their um project where they made a map of the world. Our students also believe in themselves. Thank you. Any questions? Any questions from anyone? Yeah. Thank you very much. Enjoyed that. So, we only had 38 students attend. Um,
048we tried really hard to get more students, but it was a bad year for attendance. Um, as far as number of kids that came, but we had two second grade classes, two third grade classes, one fourth grade, one fifth grade. Um, two reading specialists and then we only had two specialists come and so they had PE twice a week and art twice a week. And they really enjoyed that because of art they could do projects like from one day to the next and continue them on. and we didn't have a counselor. So, we were really glad that Copel had a counselor because we made use of her. She was wonderful. Came and helped us. One student in particular um met with her almost every day. Um she needed that support and council was amazing. You
049know, she came every day to see her. But anyhow, um we had a 90% 90% attendance rate with a high of 93% a low of 71. And that was the first day. I don't know if kids didn't know we were having summer academy or I don't know. But the first day the attendance was awful. It got better after that, but first day was a little rough. Um, and their schedule very similar to um what CO's schedule was and don't the same except we had 60 minutes for content instead of 40, but very similar. And students also believe in themselves. And then they um did PBL. So I just took some pictures while they were doing um those which were really cool. They made bridges in fifth grade out of macaroni and pasta and um I
050don't know how they got them together actually. It was glue. I was in there when they were doing it. They used glue, I think. But anyway, and then they put things on the bridges to see how strong they were. And these were the ones that didn't break. Um all the kids made some, but the others broke and were little pieces all over the place. Um they also made mo. Um and that was um really fun. And I they let me make mo with them. And actually some of them put it in balloons to make like stress balls for themselves. So, it was neat. And then the third graders pretended to go on a trip. Um they um pretended they were on an airplane and it was really neat. Miss Dean, I don't remember Miss Dean,
051but she's hilarious. Um she was like, "Well, where are your bags? What are you doing?" And treated them like they're at the airport. Um and then they sat down and the seats were arranged like a um airplane and they watched a quick video on airplane safety and what to do if something happens on the airplane and they had to stow all their baggage off to the side. Um and then they talked about different countries and different places and then they did some work with that. But um it was a good way to start it out on the plane. Um and then our second graders similar to I was middle school or high school that did the solar energy middle school. This is their high school solar. Someone did solar energy. Um but they made s'mores.
052Um and I tried to take pictures of them eating them, but they were really quick about the just empty napkins over there, but they enjoyed themselves. Any questions? Questions? Just just noting on the airplane trip, you know, it would have been more realistic if a couple of them had their backpacks just disappear and end up in another room. Get used to it. I I also think it's it's pretty cool though that they all got to see the high school and and you know, it gives them some familiarity with that as well. That's pretty cool. Yeah. How how did the high school perform for um as a venue for combining everyone? We loved it. We were kind of show uh a lot of everyone came together. So where teachers couldn't talk at the high school they
053all kind of work together like I was I was kind of kind of scared at first. How's this going to work? How's it going to look? and they did an excellent job. Yeah, I I'm I'm encouraged and excited to see, you know, teachers from the different buildings interact so they have a better appreciation for, okay, what am I preparing my kids for? Where are my kids coming from? You know, it it just helps establish a better context. That's we were really fortunate. The most visibility class for the high school was our wing and so we got to see them all the time and their teachers and walk through it. So we really had to interact with each other. That was neat. Yeah, these were all excellent presentations. So and I think everybody must have had
054fun because u all the presenters seem to have fun. So we appreciate all the time you spent over the summer with their children. So thank you very much. All right. Next, uh, Miss Mayan, I don't know if you have any, but do you have any, uh, report from the Noveneck Technical Center? No, we won't be meeting until tomorrow night. So, right kind of ahead of the date and, um, we have gone now to every two months instead of every month. So, um, plus it's summer, so, right, not a lot talked about, but we'll learn a lot of new stuff tomorrow, I'm sure. Well, you may not have a report every month. Maybe I'll have a report next time. Yeah, maybe next time. Okay. Thank you very much, Dr. Wall. You I got nothing. Awesome. So,
055you don't I was hoping you would have something. All right. Okay. Maybe next month. All right. Well, thank you, Bo. Um, Miss Rice, upcoming events. Yes, sir. We have several upcoming events through the SBA on the 25th, this coming Friday. Uh we have the VSBA conference on education being held in Richmond. And then uh this is not a VSBA event, but I just wanted to sneak it in there. On August 8th, we will have opening convocation at West Morland High School. We will begin with refreshments and a benefits fair at 8:00 and we'll have the convocation program beginning at 9. So of course, uh we would like to have all board members there. Um, and then on September 11th, we have our VSBA masterboard uh, renewal training scheduled in Charlottesville at the BSBA office. September
05619th is the VSBA legislative advocacy conference in Chesterfield and please let uh, Miss Sumpter know if you would like to attend that event and have not yet shared that with her. Is that one also virtual? Do it probably is. Do we know? I believe it is both. Let me check. Well, we can we can hear. You don't have to check now. It probably is. Yes. The legislative advocacy conference is in person at the Chesterfield Career and Technical Center or virtual? Virtual. Okay. Great. Thank you. Uh September 30th is the BSBA superintendent evaluation workshop and that's in Charlottesville uh at the BSBA office or virtual. October 21st is BSBA basics of budgeting for student needs and that is exclusively virtual and then we have the annual convention of course November 19th through 21 in Williamsburg. Okay.
057Any questions for Miss Rice? Okay. Miss Mayan, do you have any additional comments this evening? No. Um I still have got have not gotten with Miss Sumpter about um going to DC for the COSBA conf legislative conference. Um I've actually been trying to think whether it's even worth going. Okay. Well, if you decide Yeah. that you want to go or not, we have a lot of our own stuff going on and um I'm just not sure. Okay. Beneficial, but anyway, I will I'm still thinking, but we got to get make a decision soon. So, yeah. Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you very much. Okay. Ms. Richards, do you have anything? No, not this. Okay. Okay. That's in the middle of all that September stuff that's all this other thing going on. It's quite a bit
058when we get into Hope we'll walk away fall. It's quite a bit. Y So, Mr. Miner, you have anything? Enjoy the rest of your summer while it lasts. Dr. Wallace, uh just logistics of um Friday the conference on education. Should we leave at what 7? That's what we did before and that seemed to work pretty well. Well, okay. Yeah. And so um to assign action action items to the superintendent, but um you'll take care of the car. I will. Yes. And you willing to drive? And I will drive. Okay. See, I got the best end of that. And I will sleep. I never sleep. Okay. So, we'll meet at the schoolboard office at 7 office. Okay. All right. Great. Thank you very much. Uh Mr. Evans, do you have a a poster or something that
059you can show us? Do does he have a picture? I don't know if it got Yes, we have the actual poster. I think Mr. Fallon wants you to show the image. Oh, correct. Yeah, that's correct. I got you. Sorry. That's it. Thank you. It looks pretty good there. I don't know how it's going to look with that pictures, but anyway. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Evans. Okay. Uh, Miss Rice, do you have anything to add? No, sir. Except we we do invite you all to stay for a photo op with the real poster. Uh, Miss Alexander has it and her phone ready at the back. Okay. All righty. Our next uh board meeting uh on Tuesday, August the 12th, uh we have a work session beginning at 5:00 pm. And on Monday, August the 18th, we
060have our regular session with the close session beginning at 5 and the open session uh at 6. Uh I do want to ask uh the board uh at our work session on the 12th of August, we need to uh prepare for giving Miss Rice her year-end evaluation as well as uh performance indicators for the new rating year. We may not change those, but we still not the indicators, the standards. And I was wondering if it would work for the board to have a close session on August the 12 to discuss uh performance as well as standards for the new rating year. And we could do probably unless we wanted to meet early earlier than five, it would probably be best to do that at the end of that work session. So, if that works for
061everyone uh on August the 12th, uh we'll plan on that. Okay. Okay. Miss Riches, does that seem to work for you at the end of the work? After I Well, I'm thinking after would be best and then we could still meet at five for the regular part of the open part of the work session. Okay. So, and Miss Rice is going to provide us with some inputs prior to that. That will be helpful. So, we'll plan on that. And if that all goes well, which I expected to go well, it's more about the length of time. Uh, could we actually meet with Miss Rice during our close session on August the 18th? Sure. Would that work for everybody? Yeah, works for me. Okay. All right. So, we will plan on that uh at this time.
062Do I hear a motion for adjournment? And also moved. Okay. Is that a second? Mayor Mayan second. Okay. We are journ. Okay. Thank you.