USD #373 Board of Education

USD #373 Board of Education Date: Monday, May 13, 2013 Place: McKinley Administrative Center Time: 7:00 p.m. Regular Session 2012-2013 USD 373 Mission The mission of the Newton school community is to prepare our students to be capable, contributing participants in a changing world. USD 373 District Belief Statements We believe that: the educational needs of each student must be met. the needs of students must drive decision-making. education is an active partnership involving students, families, schools & community. motivation, opportunity and effort are critical to success. high expectations foster quality performance. the right to education conveys both privilege and responsibility. USD 373 District Goals . Student Learning: USD 373 will provide all staff with the resources necessary to assist all students in acquiring essential social and academic skills for success. Human Resources: USD 373 will recruit, support and retain quality personnel in every staff position in the school district. Technology Utilization: USD 373 will support appropriate technologies as both a means of managing data and expanding student learning. Funding: USD 373 will advocate for adequate and equitable school funding both within the school district and throughout the state of Kansas. Parent and Community Relationships: USD 373 will build positive parent and community relationships to increase educational opportunities for all students and promote vital economic development throughout the school district. Specific indicators will be identified for each district goal and progress reports will be submitted during the school year with a summary report at the end of the year. Approved April 18, 2011 1 BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING Public notice is given that a meeting of the Board of Education of Newton USD 373 of Newton, Kansas will be held in the Board of Education Meeting Room at the McKinley Administrative Center, Newton, Kansas on Monday, May 13, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. to consider and act upon the matters on the following tentative agenda and such other matters as may be presented at the meeting and determined to be appropriate for discussion at that time. Regular Meeting 7:00 p.m. CALL TO ORDER PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ADOPTION OF AGENDA COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC – Comments relative to specific personnel or students will be treated confidentially by the Board of Education and will be heard in Executive Session only. Comments will be limited to 3 minutes per speaker. REPORTS 1. NHS Student Council 2. Jason Chalashtari 3. English Language Arts Report – Sheila Wendling 4. Written Reports EXECUTIVE SESSION - Personnel ITEMS FOR DECISION 1. Consent Agenda a) Approval of April 8 and May 6, 2013 Minutes b) Approval of Personnel Report c) Approval of Treasurer’s Report d) Approval of Additional Vocational Cooperating Agreements with Area School Districts e) Ratify the Agreement with the Kansas School Food Purchasing Coop f) Approval of Bid for a 3D Printer for Project Lead the Way Classes g) Approval of Bid for Parking Lot Repairs h) Approval of Bid for Roof Repair/Restoration at Chisholm Middle School 2. Approval of Bills 3. Approval of Resolution Authorizing and Providing for the Sale, Issuing and Delivery of General Obligation Refunding Bonds 4. Adopt the Amended 2012-13 Budget 5. Approval of Staff and Student 2013-14 Acceptable Use Policies 6. Approval of Schools for Fair Funding Membership for 2013-14 7. Approval of Gift Request for South Breeze Elementary 8. Pay to Play ITEMS OF INFORMATION 1. 2013-14 Handbook Revisions 2. ELA Information 3. KCCRS - Kansas College Career Readiness Standards in ELA and Math (Common Core) 4. Health Sciences Academy Lease Agreement 5. Walton Rural Life Center Modular Building Addition 6. Personnel Realignment 7. Budget Information 8. Modifications to Early Retirement Program 9. Year End Activities FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS and BOARD COMMENTS ADJOURNMENT 2 May 2013 VOL 1 ISSUE 10 Instructional Services Sheila Wendling, Director District Level Mentor Teacher and New for an activity. Summer workshops will be Teacher Support available for LETRS to PreK-6 teachers June 19-20, 2013, on teaching literacy. Kagan will • Jean, Gail, Rochelle and I attended New be available to K-6 teachers June 27-28, 2013 Teacher Center Academy on April 22-23, on cooperative learning. 2013, in Wichita. We gained an understanding of the fundamental Curriculum and Instruction principles of adult learning as they relate to staff development. We also learned On April 22, 2013, grades 5-12 had their strategies that support adult learning. For professional day. At Santa Fe, the ELA example, knowing your audience is teachers scored the state writing assessment critical in designing and presenting on the KWIET tool. Special education professional development. Multiple teachers discussed needs for students and strategies were shared with purposes and when to use push in or pull out. The math applications as they pertain to adult teachers brainstormed about common learning styles. For instance, a journal assessments and resources. In the afternoon, write provides for deeper, inner thinking the staff did some follow up on their explicit and humor always aides in relationship instruction book study and prior text building throughout a presentation or complexity training. professional learning activity. The staff at CMS scored the state writing • We are currently planning for support for assessment on the KWIET tool. Calibrating the year 1 and year 2 new teachers for the scoring and reiterating the importance of 2013-2014 school year. Adjustments writing across the curriculum was also a topic will be made to the schedule. Surveys of discussion. were sent to the new teachers to provide feedback to us on what was helpful for At NHS, staff received training on how to them this year. administer the AIMS web tool for fluency (R-CBM) and comprehension (MAZE). Each PDC committee seminar teacher will be working with small groups in May to administer the spring The Professional Development Council met benchmark. This information will be used in on Thursday, April 4. We discussed how to creating a schedule to meet the needs of help those that presented on January 11 to students. move to the application level. My Learning Plan will still be used for staff getting points The PreK-12 ELA committee met on for activities. Aesop will be used for Tuesday, April 30. We finalized the absences other than professional learning. philosophy of ELA instruction, definition of MLP can still be used to request a substitute curriculum and the essential elements. 3 PreK -12 ELA (continued) We reviewed the innovation configuration We also refined the K-6 framework for the matrix and made some movement on the 90 minute uninterrupted block of instruction. rubric. We also updated our action plan for The committee will continue working on leadership and professional learning. vocabulary lists and common assessments with grade levels throughout the next year as Curriculum Director’s Meeting in Topeka they implement the essential elements, On Friday, April 19, I attended the framework and curriculum map. Training Curriculum Director’s Meeting in Topeka. and support will be provided to schools as Diane DeBacker gave compliments to the needs arise. It certainly has been a pleasure group for the support of the KCCRS and the working with this group of dynamic teacher House Education committee. The state leaders!! assessments for 2013-2014 will be called transitional assessments. KU/CETE is ELL creating these for the State and the questions will be multiple choice and all based on the ELL teachers spent the day on Friday, new KCCRS. For special education, there April 26, 2013, grading the reading, writing, will be no KAMM assessments. The testing speaking and listening for the KELPA. window may be shorter for spring 2014. Below you will see projected numbers for the The Next Generation Science Standards will schools. Teachers and paras will be allotted be presented to the State BOE in May with a to each building accordingly. vote occurring this summer. Projected ESOL Students for 2013-2014 KWIET Active Monitored NHS 10 11 Grades 5, 8, 11 scored writing during the CMS 23 13 month of April. In the last few months, SF 44 12 NR 13 3 Stacy Smith and I have been training SC 51 2 teachers in grades 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10. This SB 29 2 tool was created by KSDE as an SS 27 1 instructional tool. The idea is to have students create sentences, paragraphs, and/or Total 197 44 essays with KWIET and have an electronic portfolio that will show all phases of their MTSS writing throughout their school years in Newton. Collaboration among content areas District MTSS met Monday, April 29 and we is also a possibility with this tool so that if began brainstorming on curriculum protocol, there is a project being taught in science, for universal screening flowchart, decision rules example, then the ELA teacher and the and problem solving model. We will meet science teacher can coordinate with each again to finalize these as committee members other for the same group of students. get feedback from staff. 4 Harvey County Special Education Cooperative Newton USD 373 Halstead USD 440 Hesston USD 460 Mitchell Neuenschwander, Director Report to USD 373 Board May 7, 2013 The FY2011 Level of Determination report issued by KSDE indicates that all Harvey County Special Education Cooperative (HCSEC) districts (Newton 373, Halstead 440, Hesston 460) “Meets Requirements”. The detailed report is available by request and will be shared with the Cooperative superintendents and Cooperative board representatives. This level of determination allows the Cooperative to receive the $3,000 Leadership Stipend and will also allow the Cooperative to submit the shortened version of the Targeted Improvement Plan (TIP) Grant. The TIP Grant in the amount of $40,845 is due June 1, 2013.

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