February 14, 2014 at 4:00 PM - Superintendent's Weekly Update to the Board of Education

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You can find a brief thank you message and your group photo on the district web site.  Thank you for your participation and leadership.  We have a great school system because of you!

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Sarah emailed me the following information regarding our preschool enrollment:

39 students registered for preschool
6 addresses have a Rice zip code
3 addresses have a Bowlus zip code
3  addresses have a Little Falls zip codes
27 have a Royalton zip code.

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A question was asked about what schools or projects had Paul Youngquist and ARY worked on in the past.  Please find attached a listing.  Also, this link will take you to their web site http://www.aryarch.com/profiles.html 

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Please find attached school districts in our comparative groups (conference & section football) that have settled 2013-15 contracts and submitted their data to MSBA.  There are 7 other section football schools that have not settled and 5 conference schools.

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The principals and I will be interviewing Shari Bishop for the gifted, talented and enrichment coach position.  She has an elementary degree with a 5-8 math concentration.  She is the religious education coordinator at Holy Trinity in Royalton and has two years of teaching experience.  She is intelligent, enthusiastic and has strong character.  She would be a good fit and lives in Royalton.

We all know this will be program in development.  We will support the person in this position with resources and training (e.g., Hormel Foundation Gifted and Talented Education Symposium -- June 9-12, 2014).

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I sent Joel an email that I want to visit with him next week about this report.  In particular, the data interesting me most is on page 7 "Score Distributions of AP Exams Taken by the Class of 2013 During High School."  AP classes are good for our students.

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Please find attached the weekly bills for your approval.