February 11, 2015 at 7:00 PM - Board of Education Regular Meeting

Rationale: 

Members of the Killingly community are encouraged to share their thoughts with the Board of Education and are invited to do so during this segment of the meeting. When appropriate to do so, members of the Board and the administration may respond to comments. However, in consideration of those in attendance and in an effort to proceed in a timely manner, follow-up discussion may need to take place outside of the meeting setting.

 

Rationale:  Scholastic Art Awards of Connecticut is an affiliate of The Alliance For Young Artists & Writers. This program recognizes the work of talented young artists in Grades 7 to 12. All Connecticut art students in public, parochial, and private schools are able to participate and submit high quality art work.  Each Connecticut Art teacher may submit up to 4 students' works. Student artwork is juried by professional artists and university art faculty and is selected on merit for inclusion in a statewide art exhibition held at the Hartford Art School. Beyond the honor of being selected for this high quality exhibit, students may be awarded gold or silver keys and honorable mention places in each of 17 media categories. The winners of the gold key award at the close of the exhibit  have their artwork submitted digitally to the National Level Scholastic Art Awards. A national jury will choose works for exhibit in the National Show held in June 2015.
Art teachers (grades 7-12) in the state of CT may submit up to 4 student works for the Scholastic Art Award.
There were over 1,000 entries. 

Lillian Sandberg - Junior - - Gold key in photography
Jackie Gendreau - Junior - Gold key in painting
Megan Cassada - Sophomore - Silver key in design
Megan Pulver - Senior - Honorable Mention in digital art
*Skye Stevens - Senior - Honorable Mention in photography
Ashley Livernoche - Senior - Honorable Mention in photography.

Rationale:  Courtney Cardinal with five of  FFA Officer Team Members.  They will give a brief (5 slide) presentation to the BOE on FFA Week and what the FFA is.

Rationale:  The proposed calendar for the 2015-16 School Year is attached.  ERD days will remain similar to this year as well, on Friday afternoons.   The state has passed a law that all districts must comply with a regional calendar (EASTCONN) by the 15-16 School year.