Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Notes from Board of Education Meeting, 4/12/22

The Board of Education Work Session on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 was streamed live on ccboe.com and aired live on Comcast Channel 96 and Verizon FiOs Channel 12.  The meeting will be re-broadcast on Comcast Channel 96, Verizon FIOS Channel 12 and is available via webstream at http://www.ccboe.com/ .  CCPS also will post the meeting on its YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/ccpsmd.To view the full agenda and the various reports, please visit BoardDocs .

The below notes are my personal notes and are not intended to be all-inclusive or official minutes for the Board of Education meetings and are provided as a request from my supporters and the general public in a personal effort to be more transparent. Although I have diligently tried to make these notes as unbiased and accurate as possible, I am only human and do make mistakes. Individual names are spelled to the best of my ability.

Executive session – 11:30 a.m.

Call to order – 1 p.m.  

Recognition of student athletes

Superintendent’s update

Board Member correspondence
  • Lukas - Strategic Plan Launch; Art Event; Chorus events; NSBA Conference
  • Herd - 2 student board member finalist and election results;  NSBA Conference; Theater productions attended; Strategic Plan launch
  • McGraw - NSBA Conference; Equity lense; Strategic Plan; Band and chorus events;
  • Abell - NSBA Conference; BoardDocs
  • Battle-Lockhart - MSDE Business Leadership roundtable focusing on apprenticeships and need industries to support our endeavors.
  • Wilson - Recruiting fair at Salisbury University; low number of teacher graduates; HIT Expo; Years of Service; Chorus and band; NSBA Conference.
  • Brown - Strategic Plan launch; HIT Expo; Rainbow Fish Play; NSBA Conference
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) update
  • Wilson - Sensationalism, peer pressure, parent involvement/engagement
  • Lukas - Page 3 - compared to other school systems?
  • Herd - annual culture and climate survey; push for return of hour lunch
  • Battle-Lockhart - extended school hours; mentors are key
  • Lukas - lack of outside peer mentors
  • Hancock - inform commissioners, ie overcrowded classrooms etc.
  • McGraw - Interested in visiting newly renovated Brown Elementary; also asked why they cannot get new furniture and technology to go with their new renovation.
  • Battle-Lockhart - McDonough renovations and need for new technology and furniture as well.
  • HB739/SB916 - P3 Study - Public Private Partnerships
  • HB1450 - Blueprint Alterations; Timeline changes to due dates due to COVID; Maintenance of Effort requirements.
  • SB528 - Climate Solutions Now Act - Zero Emissions school buses with funding
  • HB1349/SB831 - $500 payment to non-certificated employees
  • HB753 - Study on bus driver wages
  • HB277/SB234 - Purple Star School Program; opional to provide additional support to military families
  • H1433 - Redesginates Indian Head Hwy to Piscataway Highway
  • Change in Spring break for 2022-2023 School Year
Unfinished business  - None
New business - None
Future agenda items
  • Lukas - forward any ideas from NSBA to Dr. Navarro for possible inclusion in future board meeting

Recognition – 4:30 p.m.

  • No Kid Hungry award - Michelle Atwell, Food and Nutrition Services manager, Dr. Thomas L. Higdon Elementary School; Vickey Langley, Food and Nutrition Services manager, J.C. Parks Elementary School; Marcia Brown, Food and Nutrition Services manager, Westlake High School; Charla Hillyard, Food and Nutrition Services, senior field operations manager
  • Teacher Appreciation Week - Keyons Djossou, PLTW engineering/technology education teacher, Maurice J. McDonough High School; Helen Garvey, kindergarten teacher, Indian Head Elementary School; Stephanie Barry, special education teacher, La Plata High School; Corrine Deavers, reading resource/language arts teacher, Benjamin Stoddert Middle School 
  • Administrative Professionals Week - Laurie Silk, registration secretary, Robert D. Stethem Educational Center; Amanda Chapman, secretary, office of technology, Jesse L. Starkey Administration Building; Martha Miller, financial secretary, Henry E. Lackey High School; Yushica Walthour, principal’s secretary, J.P. Ryon Elementary School
  • Child Nutrition Employee Appreciation Week - Crystal Richardson and William Kreuter, supervisors, Food Services 
  • National Physical Education and Sport Week - Kellee Shoemaker, physical education teacher, William B. Wade Elementary School
  • Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month - Kellee Shoemaker, physical education teacher, William B. Wade Elementary School
  • Students

    • Eileen Browning, Grade 12, Academic Achievement, Maurice J. McDonough High School, Principal: Darnell Russell

    • Eleanora Jones, Grade 8, Academic Achievement, Milton M. Somers Middle School, Principal: Sandra Taylor
    • Austin Polhemus, Grade 5, Personal Responsibility, Gale-Bailey Elementary School, Principal: Tangela Scales
    • Keely Pham, Grade 5, Academic Achievement, Mary H. Matula Elementary School, Principal: Carrie Richardson
    • Alison Marroquin-Corzo, Grade 5, Career Readiness, Arthur Middleton Elementary School, Principal: Benjamin Harrington
  • Staff
    • John Hairston, pupil personnel worker, McDonough

    • Julie Snavely, physical education teacher, Somers

    • Michelle Foxx, instructional specialist, Gale-Bailey

    • Mary Buckey, attendance secretary, Matula

    • Jennifer Toone, learning resource teacher, Middleton

Public forum – 6 p.m. - Virtual speakers must preregister by 4 p.m. Monday, April 11

  • Melissa Carpenter - resident and teacher, school climate presentation and what are we doing about the 16%.  Need for more counselors  Testing season is upon us and counselors will now be pulled to help with testing.  Schools are in crisis, even before the pandemic.

Action items

  • Minutes
Motion to approve the minutes from the March 8th Executive Session by Abell; Second by Brown
Yes = Abell, Battle-Lockhart, Brown, Hancock, Lukas, McGraw, Wilson

Motion to approve the minutes from the March 8th Board Meeting by Abell; Second by Brown
Yes = Abell, Battle-Lockhart, Brown, Hancock, Herd, Lukas, McGraw, Wilson

Motion to approve the minutes from the March 28th Work Session by McGraw; Second by Abell
Yes = Abell, Battle-Lockhart, Brown, Hancock, Herd, Lukas, McGraw, Wilson
  • Personnel
Motion to approve the Personnel by Abell; Second by Brown
Yes = Abell, Battle-Lockhart, Brown, Hancock, Lukas, McGraw, Wilson
Motion to approve the textbooks by Abell; Second by McGraw
Yes = Abell, Battle-Lockhart, Brown, Hancock, Herd, Lukas, McGraw, Wilson
Motion to approve the MOU by Herd; Second by Abell
Yes = Abell, Battle-Lockhart, Brown, Hancock, Herd, Lukas, McGraw, Wilson

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

  • Director of Community Engagement & Equity - Ms. Sylvia Royster
  • Chief of Schools - Dr. Marvin Jones
Adjournment 

Posted by Jennifer at 6:13 PM

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