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Health and wellness issue • Board president spends day as teacher April 2015 • Volume 59, Issue 2 J OURNALOHIO SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION Keeping kids healthy forlearning Ohio School Plan Solutions with RESPONSE We understand and value your time. Ohio School Plan claim calls are answered 24/7 by our experienced claim adjusters – call 866-825-2467 For more information, call 1-800-288-6821 Our claims handling philosophy is to be Fair, Friendly and Firm. In collaboration with each educational institution, we fully Hylant Administrative Services investigate every incident to ensure the utilization of defenses 811 Madison Avenue Toledo, Ohio 43604 and immunities afforded to Ohio’s public entities. We treat each call with promptness, professionalism and courtesy. ohioschoolplan.org The Ohio School Plan is exclusively sponsored by BASA, OASBO and OSBA. Table Of Contents ON THE COVER Growing healthy students, p. 14 J OURNALOHIO SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION Health and wellness issue: South Euclid-Lyndhurst City program brings fresh produce to school cafeterias. — photo credit: iStockphoto FEATURES p. 26 Playing for keeps 26 Academic pressures are pushing recess aside despite proven benefits. Board president spends a day as a teacher 34 Experience broadens Port Clinton City board veteran’s perspective. Let’s hear it for the board 40 Districts recognize the service of Ohio school board members. NEWS p. 18 School nurses play vital role in student health, learning 18 Rx for success — optimal health for optimal learning 22 OSBA offering resources for school board candidates 36 DEPARTMENTS p. 3 Executive Outlook 3 According to Law 4 Management Insights 8 Boardmanship 10 Capital Insider 12 OSBA: Working for You 32 Digital edition available OSBA Journal (ISSN 0893-5289) is published bimonthly by the Ohio School Boards Association, 8050 N. High St., Suite 100, Columbus, OH 43235-6481. Periodicals postage paid at Columbus, Ohio, You can access the Journal’s digital and at additional mailing offices. Postmaster: send address changes to OSBA Journal, Attn: Mailroom, Ohio edition on the OSBA website at School Boards Association, 8050 N. High St., Suite 100, Columbus, OH 43235-6481. www.ohioschoolboards.org/journal. Comments and articles should be sent to the editor at the above address or email [email protected]. The views expressed in articles appearing in OSBA Journal are those of writers and do not necessarily represent OSBA policies or positions. Notice of rights: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. For information on permission for reprints and excerpts, contact OSBA. Who We Are OSBA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE JOURNAL STAFF Ed Penrod President Eric K. Germann President-elect Crystal Davis Susie Lawson Immediate past president Randy Reisling Central Region Editor John W. Halkias Northeast Region Timothy McKinney Northwest Region Gary Motz Gail Requardt Southeast Region Managing Editor Rick Foster Southwest Region Angela Penquite OSBA BOARD OF TRUSTEES Assistant Editor/ Central Region Layout and Graphics Dr. Marguerite Bennett* Mount Vernon City & Knox Richard Lewis, CAE County Career Center Bryan Bullock Kevin Crosthwaite North Union Local (Union) Assistant Editor/ W. Shawna Gibbs Columbus City Communication Coordinator Randy Reisling South-Western City Lee Schreiner South-Western City Judy White Lakewood Local (Licking) Amanda Finney Senior Marketing Northeast Region Denise Baba Streetsboro City Coordinator/Advertising Thomas F. Brophey Wellsville Local (Columbiana) Albert Haberstroh Trumbull County ESC Jeff Chambers John W. Halkias* Plain Local (Stark) Director of Communication Robert M. Heard Sr. Cleveland Municipal Sara C. Clark Services Susie Lawson Tri-County ESC & Wayne County Schools Career Center Richard Lewis, CAE Veronica Sims Akron City Executive Director Doug G. Stuart Rittman EV & Wayne County Schools Career Center Northwest Region Jaimie L. Beamer Seneca East Local (Seneca) & Mission Statement Vanguard-Sentinel Career and Technology Centers OSBA leads the way to educational Eric K. Germann Lincolnview Local (Van Wert) excellence by serving Ohio’s & Vantage Career Center public school board members Kevin Landin* Ottoville Local (Putnam) Kenna S. Haycox and the diverse districts they Timothy McKinney Bath Local (Allen) Robert McPheron Bath Local (Allen) represent through superior service, Lisa Sobecki Toledo City unwavering advocacy and creative Bob Vasquez Toledo City solutions. Southeast Region David Carter East Guernsey Local (Guernsey) Bruce D. Nottke Athens City © 2015, Ohio School Ed Penrod Logan-Hocking Local Boards Association (Hocking) & Tri-County All rights reserved Career Center Gail Requardt* East Muskingum Local Ohio School Boards Association (Muskingum) & Mid-East 8050 N. High St., Suite 100 Career and Technology Centers Cheryl W. Ryan Columbus, OH 43235-6481 Kevin E. Weaver Crooksville EV & Mid-East Career and Technology Centers (614) 540-4000 Southwest Region fax (614) 540-4100 Mark Ewing Batavia Local (Clermont) & www.ohioschoolboards.org Great Oaks ITCD Rick Foster Manchester Local (Adams) Gail Martindale* Cedar Cliff Local (Greene) & Greene County Career Center A. Chris Nelms Cincinnati City Sue Steele Goshen Local (Clermont) & Great Oaks ITCD Warren Stevens Urbana City & Ohio Hi-Point Career Center Jennifer Hogue *Region president Executive Outlook Your voices continue to make a difference Speaking up for education Richard Lewis, CAE, executive director he voice of Ohio’s school board was instrumental in pushing the Ohio As we near the midpoint of the state members in our legislative process Senate to move forward with Senate budget process, all these issues — as has always been important. While Bill (SB) 3, a proposal to reduce at well as the need for a more equitable someT have cynically viewed grassroots least some unfunded mandates created school-funding formula — will require advocacy as “tilting at windmills,” your by prior legislation. Sens. Keith Faber members to continue to make their efforts already have resulted in several (R-Celina) and Cliff Hite (R-Findlay) voices heard. Other items will positive changes in 2015. With that in both called for reducing reporting continue to require our constant mind, it is more critical than ever to requirements, curbing testing and vigilance, including yet another stand up for public education. revising the competitive bidding legislative effort to eliminate one of the threshold for school building and repair two special elections (HB 81) and a Your voice helped protect the “thorough contracts. SB 3 also would give high- proposal to prevent school boards from and efficient” clause in the Ohio performing districts the opportunity to seeking property valuation adjustments Constitution. School board members, employ certain individuals with unique (SB 85). superintendents, treasurers and their skill sets to teach under alternative respective associations helped convince licenses, if the local board approves. In his 2015 State of the State address, members of the Ohio Constitutional Your voices made a difference. Gov. John R. Kasich likened special Modernization Commission’s interest groups to “barnacles layering up Committee on Education, Public Longstanding frustration and outcry on a pier in the ocean,” clinging to the Institutions and Local Government from teachers, administrators, board status quo and opposing any change as to vote unanimously to retain this members and parents is leading the disruptive. The governor continued by important language. The phrase has House and Senate to take another insisting, “We have to continue to battle been the subject of school-funding court look at testing, and the Partnership special interests that want to lock us in cases, and is a cornerstone of Ohio’s for Assessment of Readiness for where we are today.” I agree. But let me responsibility to offer and support public College and Careers (PARCC) testing be clear: School boards are not special schools. in particular. House Bill (HB) 74, interest groups. They are public officials introduced by Rep. Andrew Brenner representing the constituents who Chad A. Readler, chair of the (R-Powell), and the Senate Testing elected them. They were elected to speak committee, ignited passionate Advisory Commission, under Sen. up for public education and their voices debate in April 2014 by suggesting Peggy Lehner (R-Kettering), both must be heard. a constitutional change that would provide promise for greater local control have required the General Assembly over testing as well as relief from some Your legislative team will continue to only to “provide for the organization, state-mandated assessments. Your voices act on behalf of the OSBA membership administration and control of the public made a difference. and work to provide board member school system of the state supported by input into the process. But in the end, public funds.” The Columbus Dispatch Finally, the voices of many have led it will be the voices of the collective recognized the value of the original the legislature to re-examine several body of nearly 3,500 public school board language, writing: “The 164-year-old aspects of charter school operations. members that carry the day. phrase has defined Ohio’s school- While not going as far as we believe funding battles, including four straight necessary, HB 2, sponsored