- Presentation at national level. First graders describing what an algorithm is.
- Work with Park Ed to increase salary
- Citizen asked abut continuation of AP versus IB since people think IB may be better.
- So much memorization inAP says DR Conley
- Education is trying to put in more rigor.
- Dr Conley tried IB for a few years and it didn’t go well.
- Citizen asks how many kids do AP at high school
- Dr Conley says students did 1400 test
- Over 55% of kids took AP class.
- Citizen says it is good that the district has choice.
- Numbers for all day kidergarten are good
- The board asked for 1.5 redsitribution from no instructiona l to instructional. If you tok that it would $800K to 1.1 million. But we’ve now been abel to shift and are at $550K. WE’ve added 14 FTE. WE have 12 teachers, a nurse, and a councilor. In 2008 we cut a huge amount of maintenance and custodial and we can’t, with our pay structure is, we can’t get subs. We put in a request to hire roving custodian and maintenance person. So, we have added a little to budget to custodian and maintenance. Requested that Molly go full time. After school administrator being shifted into a teacher. Restructuring transportation.
- Citizen asks if any more school start times. It won’t happen this next school year. The hardest thing is that the other communities that have implemented later start times, the traffic patterns are many different. We are going to have to continue to work with our cities and minimize the traffic. If we are going to go to later start times, it means riding the bus and carpooling. So, with th start times things are going in tthe right direction and we will go there.
- Citizen asks if survey is still going to come out. Answer is yes.
- School District working with county on new land next to Jeremy Ranch.
- One of things learned from post bond survey is that parents with kids understand how bad Treasure Mountain is but adults without kids don’t understand.
- Starting to re-form team that will look at high school.
- Board will be voting to hire an architect. Putting $140K in
- Shuttled direct from areas is something we’d like to look at.
- Citizen asks about later start times and impact on sports. Another citizen says it’s hard to go to tournaments with later time.
- Citizen says there must be a way to adjust school schedules perhaps 80 minute classes.
- Hard to put 6-8th grade
- Hard for dual language
- First year dual immersion will be at TMJH
- French teachers easy
- Vail funds our preschool through Ed foundation they have funded it. All day pre school at Parley’s this year. Next year at McPolin.
- Met yesteday with chiefo of pioilice, sherrif, Emergency response coordinator. This year at Sundance will have checks to open your bag. What are added risk to children?
- Getting to a place where we have critical conversation.
- Conley says she’s always open to new ideas.
- In any field it takes about 10 years to be an expert. In education, we can teach a techer in 6 years to be an expert. You have 6 years. Most teacherhave een here 12-16 years. More vertarna teachers …
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