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The Wayne Trace Local School District Board of Education met in regular session on Monday September 10, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lecture Room at Wayne Trace High School. Pledge of Allegiance was led by Les Hockenberry. Roll Call Mrs. McClure, Mr. Stoller, Mr. Sinn, Mr. Baumle, Mr. Hockenberry All Present Report of the Treasurer Distributed copies of the year end comparative report on the district. 09-01-07 Consent Agenda Items: On a motion by Pat Baumle one resolution passed by the Board to approve the following consent agenda items: A. to approve the minutes of the August 13, 2007 Board Meeting; B. to approve the investment report and payment of bills as presented by the treasurer; C. to approve fund transfers and advances of: Title I $3,730.91 Transfer Insurance $3,446.00 Advance D. to amend the appropriations and revenues for fiscal year 2008 as presented by the treasurer; E. to approve the constitution of the Northwest Ohio Computer Services Cooperative of which we are a member. “Before we pass the consent resolution, are there any items you would like to move from the consent agenda to the discussion agenda for further discussion and/or for separate voting purposes?” NONE Seconded by Dale Stoller. Roll Call Vote: Baumle, Stoller, McClure, Sinn, Hockenberry – All Aye Motion Passed Vantage Report by Les Hockenberry Enrollment is steady – Approx 496 total and 167 with OGT issues. Trying to set up a Tech Prep Agreement with Rhoades State for credits good at Rhoads. Report of the Building Principals – see attached Committee Reports - None Superintendent’s Report – Mr. Gerber presented Educational Impact report focusing on procedures and plans for improvement in curriculum mapping and alignment and a laddering approach to the content and benchmarks for each subject at each grade level K-12. 09-02-07 Consent Agenda Items On a motion by Pat Baumle one resolution passed by the Board to approve the following consent agenda items: A. upon the recommendation of the superintendent, athletic director and high school principal to offer a 1-year supplemental contract for the 2007-2008 school year to Lonnie Leverton for the position of basketball cheerleading coach; B. upon the recommendation of the superintendent and high school principal to offer a 1-year supplemental contract for the 2007-2008 school year to Camille Myers for the position of Junior Class Prom Advisor; C. to approve Terry Campbell as a volunteer assistant Cross County coach for the 2007-2008 school year; D. to approve Chad Goeltzenleuchter as volunteer assistant football coach for the 2007-2008 school year; E. to approve a Memorandum of Understanding with the Wayne Trace Education Association to have October 12 set aside for professional development in-service training of all staff in all grades. “Before we pass the consent resolution, are there any items you would like to move from the consent agenda to the discussion agenda for further discussion and/or for separate voting purposes?” NONE Seconded by Lisa McClure. Roll Call Vote: Baumle, McClure, Stoller, Sinn, Hockenberry – All Aye Motion Passed 09-03-07 On a motion by Pat Baumle a resolution to go into executive session to discuss personnel issues. Seconded by Les Hockenberry Vote by Acclamation – Motion Passed. New Business NONE 09-04-07 A motion by Dale Stoller to adjourn the meeting Seconded by Perry Sinn. Vote by Acclamation – Motion Passed. The next Board meeting will be held October 8, 2007.
_______________________________________ __________________________________________ Les Hockenberry, President Robert Wannemacher, Treasurer
High School
Principal’s Report Maintenance Report At the end of last year one of the teachers on the south end of the building put in a request to have his windows tinted. This past summer Kenny and Mary took some time and tinted the larger upper windows in the south classrooms. We are hoping to see a decrease in our energy use by doing this. Homecoming Next week is homecoming week. Ms. Fisher and the Student Council have put together a week full of activities. During this week we will have the high school classes compete against one another for bragging rights and a pizza party for the winners. Staff Professional Development On Thursday, September 6, 2007 the ESC came to meet with the junior high and the special education staff to discuss our test scores. We are looking at how our Economically Disadvantaged students scored. Future discussions will be on what we can do to ensure this sub group’s test scores will continue to rise. Testing The students in grade 8 will be taking the Stanford and Ottis-Lennon Test on September 18th and 19th. Student Leadership Teaching our students to become great leaders is a goal this year. We want our students to understand that being a school leader is not a popularity contest but a chance to have a voice in school decisions. To help accomplish this goal Ms. Fisher will be taking ten student leaders to a leadership conference on October 10. Each year Ms. Fisher takes ten students to this conference. This gives our student leaders a chance to meet with other school leaders and discuss issues and solutions to those issues. Secondly, I have contacted Kimball Camp in Reading, Michigan. They offer daily or over night leadership retreats. An over night retreat would cost $40 per student while the daily rate is $36 per student. The cost for taking about 21 students will be just under $1,000. Money for this retreat would come from the Principal’s fund. I am currently looking into an over night retreat for October 17th and 18th. A few of the team (leadership) build activities offered include: Teambuilding, Climbing Tower, Ropes Courses, and Wilderness Adventures. I have included a copy of the brochure for your viewing. Right now I am in the reviewing stage for this trip, but would like to have board approval to pursue this leadership opportunity. We would leave on a Wednesday and return during the school day on Thursday. Future Activities To help our students stay motivated or maybe even get motivated I have contacted Joel Penton’s people about him coming to Wayne Trace. We have set November the 13th as a day in which Joel will come and share with our student body. I do understand this is the same date in which our band will be at the OSBA Conference but since Joel is in the area that day already we can save some money by having him on the 13th. Joel will be speaking to the high school students during a 9:00 am assembly and again to the junior high at 10:00 am. The cost for this day will be $600 which will be covered by the Principal’s fund. *************************************************************************************************************************
To: Mr. Gerber, Mr. Baumle, Mr. Hockenberry, Mrs. McClure, Mr. Sinn, Mr. Stoller, and Mr. Wannemacher From: Sarah Deatrick Date: September, 2007 Subject: Principal’s Report for September 1- Open House went well. We had a lot of parents and students come in, meet their teacher, and bring their supplies. 2- We found that the heating/cooling computer clock was off internally. What we were able to see on the computer was not what was happening, so the air was running during the summer when it was programmed, on our end, to be shut down. We lost power again Friday night, and we are finding that the security and heating/cooling computers are off again. We are working on this problem. 3- We have had a great start to the school year. Everything has been fine and running smoothly with the classes and the students. 4- We are especially excited this year to have Renaissance Enterprise as our AR program. Renaissance Enterprise gives the students access to ALL the quizzes Renaissance makes - over 100,000. In other words, if Renaissance makes a quiz for a book, the students will have access to that quiz. WT Payne Elementary had ownership of almost 6,000 quizzes, so you can see there will be a big difference in choices. 5- We will be celebrating Grandparents Day throughout the month of September. Each grade level will be given a date where they can invite their grandparents to join them for lunch. ************************************************************************************************************************
Report to the
Wayne Trace Board of Education 1. The opening of the school year has gone great! The staff has eagerly taken to the new reading series that we adopted. There are still a few components of the series on back order. 2. Teachers at WTGH have completed their assessment of the social studies series. We should be ready to begin negotiations with a company for adoption and purchase in early October. 3. The PTO will hold the kick off for the fall fund raiser on September 17. 4. All students at WTGH were administered the Aimsweb Diagnostic Battery during the first week of school. This will give us a much better baseline to operate from when developing targeted intervention for individual students than using the results from last spring. This diagnostic procedure will be administered a minimum of three more times during the year. It will be administered more often for those students who are receiving intense intervention. 5. We have increased the AR capabilities for our students. It was formerly necessary to purchase individual tests for specific AR books. Now tests are available online. By subscribing to this system we are able to increase the AR opportunities for our students. This enables us to incorporate many books that are already in our library into the AR program. 6. We are planning to hold a Saturday preparation day for our third grade students prior to the administration of the fall Reading OAT. The Board has allowed us to do this in the past with great results. I guess I am asking you to allow us to do that again this year. |
