Board Members Present Gary Callison, President Jesús Hernández, Vice President Laura Jaecks Kevin Gilbert Wenatchee School District Board of Directors Wenatchee School District Regular Board Meeting Minutes of November 13 th, 2012 Wenatchee High School Staff Present Brian Flones, Superintendent Cabinet I. Regular Meeting 7 p.m. Gary Callison, Board President, opened the regular board meeting at 7:00 p.m., with the Pledge of Allegiance. Walter Newman has an excused absence, he is attending the WSSDA Annual Conference. II. School Presentation: III. Consent Agenda 1) Minutes 2) Personnel Report 3) Vouchers/Payroll Pioneer Principal Mark Helm welcomed the board to Pioneer Middle School. He introduced sixth grade science teacher and three of her students. They conducted a free fall marble demonstration for the board. The teachers wanted to show the board how the students are using their skills in this integrated math project. It was set up as a business and the students had to figure out how to conduct the experiment and purchase all the needed supplies to make it happen. They then had to track the results and sell their project results to NASA. The example of this project is used in the three grades to match the science/math standards such as gravity, life science etc. The board thanked the teacher and students for the demonstration. President Gary Callison asked for a motion to approve the consent agenda. Kevin Gilbert made the motion. Laura Jaecks seconded and the motion passed unanimously. Consent Agenda included: MINUTES: 10/23/12 Regular Board Meeting, CIPP Workshop 11/05/12 and Special Board Meeting 11/08/12. PERSONNEL REPORT PREPARED BY: Lisa Turner, HR Director: Nov. 13, 2012 personnel report is on file: PAYROLL PREPARED BY: Tami Hubensack, Director of Payroll: None VOUCHERS PREPARED BY: Karen Walters, Director of Accounting: Nov. 13 th 2012 General Funds: 4) Contracts Capital Projects: ASB Funds: Transportation: $0 Page 1 of 7
5) Surplus Report SURPLUS REPORT PREPARED BY: Karen Walters, Director of Accounting: On file IV. Citizen Comments: NONE V. ASB Reports WHS: Kelly Smith, ASB President reported on the following: Veteran s Day Assembly was a smashing success with a lot of complements on how inspiring it was to everyone. Bake sale to raise funds for the Wishes Come True Project Holiday Baskets project underway Another New Student Welcome project in the planning stage Keith Hawkins assembly and bullying and harassment awareness 2 weeks prior to his visit Sunshine Day organized recognizing the good in people to help develop good self-esteem. VI. Field Trip Requests 1) Assistant Superintendent Jodi Smith Payne introduced International Language teacher Fredrick Lenard and two of his students who are currently signed up to travel with the International Language Club. They share the reasons they wanted to go to Spain and experience the culture of another country with a different language. They answered questions from the board about chaperones and then asked for the board s approval. MOTION MADE: Laura Jaecks made the motion to approve the International Language trip to Spain as presented by Fredrick Lenard. Discussion: None SECONDED: By Kevin Gilbert APPROVED: Unanimously VII. Special Presentations 1) Advanced Placement Update: Kari DeMarco, WSD Enrichment Coordinator presented the following to the board: CELEBRATE THE PASS RATE Usual pass rate around state and globe = 61% WHS 2011 pass rate = 72%! WHS 2012 pass rate = 74%! WOW!!! And this with higher numbers of tests in 2012: 315 exams taken, which is our new record! Resulting AP Index:.8 (only higher in 2008 with.83). Goal: 1.0: # AP exams taken # Graduating seniors Page 2 of 7
Gender breakout for 2012 exam takers: 86 males 102 females 22.4% of 2012 WHS grads passed one or more AP exams in the WHS career! In the 2011-12 school year we had: 20 AP Scholars 9 AP Scholars with Honors 12 AP Scholars with Distinction 3 National AP Scholars (meaning they earned a 4 or 5 on all 8 or 9 exams they took whilst at WHS)! PROGRAM ON THE MOVE: We added a second section of AP Human Geography Added a fourth section of US History Added a whole new course, AP Computer Science, taught by Scott Feil/CTE! Plans to keep moving forward: Intentional approach to making Latino students more interested and aware. Encouraging every WHS student to take at least one AP course/exam. Visiting AP classrooms to make myself more aware of how to support teachers and students for learning. Additional Information provided for the Board: Page 3 of 7
Discussion points: Definition of Directional Study The10 courses offered Impressive increased numbers The board thanked Ms. DeMarco for the great job she is doing and asked her to keep them posted. Page 4 of 7
2) Aquatics Program Direction Superintendent Brian Flones and Assistant Superintendent Jodi Smith Payne introduced the committee to the board: Tina Tidd, Tawnee Tidd, Barbara Cece, Mark Peterson, John Pringle, BJ Kuntz. John Pringle, Aquatic Manager and BJ Kuntz, Athletic Director gave the following timeline to the board. Discussion points: Goals with the PE department Work with committee and community & Parks Board Use of facilities, much use is already in place Identify core issues in the community Who can we depend on to help educate the community. Main theme is to teach our community to swim and water safety as well, taking into consideration how many rivers and lakes there are in our area. Ideas to reintroduce Bruce Campbell s program to test and teach middle school students to swim using our high school pool. This is a problem across all cultural groups, nonswimmers Funding, grants other outside resources are available Programs to examine and teach swimming, like YMCA & City Parks department. Educating adults to the enormity of the problem What are goals, important to have access for youth to get everyone involved. Train all players to help, make a real effort countywide. Learning to swim is only part of the problem, water safety is another whole piece of the picture. Booth at Apple Blossom, annual event to focus on in our community. Page 5 of 7
Survey at the high school level - who knows how to swim etc. National curriculum to teach teachers how to teach swimming and evaluate the swimmer American Swim Coach Association Identify the future of the program and make a Vision for our community Have in place by end of January Money is not a factor when it comes to the safety of our children Logistics of Bruce Campbell s program The Bond Committee needs to support this issue There is a broad base of support for this issue The board thanked the committee for the update and showed enthusiastic support. VIII. New Business 1. Enrollment report: CFO Les Vandervort provided the following report for the board. Discussion followed and they thanked Mr. Vandervort for the report. IX. Communications X. Executive Session Laura Jaecks reported on a meeting she attended in which she participated in a nice Wenatchee Learns conversation. Thirty people attended. Jesús Hernádez reported on the Community Health Needs Assessment Project at the CTC. Also United Way efforts and other health agencies looking at health indicators. EXECUTIVE SESSION: Board President Gary Callison read the following statement: Page 6 of 7
MEETING ADJOURNED INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION: President Gary Callison adjourned the meeting at 8:15 p.m. MEETING OPENED AND ADJOURNED: After the closed executive session Board President Gary Callison reopened the meeting and adjourned at 9:00 p.m. President Date Superintendent Page 7 of 7