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report on a 4-0 vote. Win explained that when the Supervisory Union transfers
over to VSBIT for their general insurance policy, the SU will receive $8500 to be
used for a surveillance system. Win added that they will look at obtaining dampers
to gain more control over the temperatures in the rooms.
Approval of Minutes:Nola Gilbert moved, seconded by Richard Flint to approve
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the April 9
minutes with revisions. Board approved 3-0 with David Roddy
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abstaining. Nola Gilbert moved, seconded by David Roddy to approve the May 4
minutes with the addition of the executive session and the adjournment times. The
board approved the motion 4-0 vote.
Buildings and Grounds Report:Terry Brace reported that one of the smoke alarms
went off in the white building. They have found that the wrong smoke detector is
being used. After Terry Brace has a Simplex conversation with Lora McAllister, he
will contact a vendor to make the change in the smoke detectors. Terry has been
working with Marcel Choquette and had a roof consultant look at the roof valleys to
determine why there has been leaks. The consultant will be coming on Monday to
provide a recommendation on how to best repair this issue. Richard Flint suggested
that they arrange a date to do a walk around to determine the summer work. Terry
Brace left at 8pm.
Principals Report:
Updates Announcements Celebrations:
Ted Sheu came in and worked on poetry
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with all our grade level students and teachers on May 13
& 14
. This project was
organized by the school librarian Kelly Thomas and was completely funded by the
collection of box tops. Edna Iannaco and Kyle Ashton organized a Literacy and
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Math night on May 13
. This evening was funded by Title I funds. The evening
started with pizza and salad and moved to the library for poetry writing activities
with Mr. Sheu. Families were given the opportunity to share their work at the end.
The evening concluded with a raffle for free books, educational materials, parent
educational materials and a Kindle. The evening was a huge success. Marcel
thanked Mr. Ashton, Mrs. Iannaco and Ms. Thomas for organizing the event.
SBAC:
Karen Casavant reported that the students have completed the testing
with 100% participating. The SBAC SWAT team were Edna Iannaco, Kyle Ashton,
Heather Larivee and Karen Casavant. Marcel thanked Ms. Casavant, Mr. Ashton,
Mrs. Iannaco and Mrs. Larivee for their great leadership from start to finish. The
Science NECAP will take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Summer School: Linda Rixford will be the director of the summer school. Mrs.
Iannaco, Mr. Ashton, Ms. Ormerod and Mrs. Vanslette will be the teachers. They
will have project based learning with hands on multi-age groups. The summer school
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will take place 5 days a week for four weeks starting on July 6
. They will be
actively recruiting more kids to participate. Marcel has emailed the board a
summary of the end of the year field trips.
Grant:Krista Tatro has received a Presidential Youth Fitness Program grant for
the school and our students. The grant will include Fitness Gram/Activity Gram
software for the FY16, FY 17 and FY18 academic years. This is a web based site
for students to record their scores. It will included the Presidential Youth Fitness
Program virtual training package for four courses, physical best teacher and
Marcel is working with NCSS on filling some of the roles of Jen Ormerod and
provide some counseling as well. The Staff is working on a school vision. He passed
it out to the parents at the Math and Liter3
Superintendents Report:
PLC Conference: Win attended the National PLC Conference with Marcel
Choquette, Libby Bonesteel, Brent Coon and Mike Weber. It was a fabulous
conference with top speakers on professional learning communities work and
culture. One speaker talked about 90-90-90-with 90% of the children from
different ethnic backgrounds with 90% poverty but with the right expectation and
culture-90% met or exceeded standards. With laser like focus on student
achievement, they have a no excuses approach that all kids can succeed.
contract on a 4-0 vote. Due to an evening conflict, the board decided to change
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the next board meeting to June 10
.
Connie Beyor declared the meeting adjourned at 10:15pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Chad Larivee
Highgate School Board Clerk