December 13, 2021 at 7:00 PM - December Board of Education Regular Meeting

Discussion:  https://www.smore.com/aghsv

Discussion:  Ben Nelson is the project manager of ConnectEd.  His main role is to help deploy a new wireless network statewide called "EduRoam."  Your receiving the agreement because your LAN Manager has expressed interest in setting up EduRoam at your school.

EduRoam will allow your students and teachers to join a unified wireless network in any other location that offers EduRoam.  Users would automatically be joined to this network while at school, they would use this same network while traveling on a bus to a sporting event and finally, they would automatically join the same network after arriving at another school.  In a nutshell, EduRoam allows users to connect to a secure network anywhere they go so they can complete homework without searching for and joining numerous Guest networks.

The main costs for EduRoam are taken care of through an Innovation Grant provided by the state for the next few years.  The only cost to your school will be our labor to configure a radius server for authentication and to create the EduRoam network.  Some schools already have a server in place that can be used and a few will need to acquire a new server to make this work.

This will be a 9,000 upgrade which will come out of depreciation. 

Discussion: 

An Overview of ELA Standards:

Standards establish what students should know and be able to do by the end of a specified grade level. English Language Arts (ELA) standards are created and revised by stakeholders across the state, and are adopted by the Nebraska State Board of Education at the end of a 7-year cycle. The standards challenge students to develop the essential literacy skills needed to succeed in college, career, and life. They cover a broad array of core knowledge and  proficiencies in areas such as reading, writing, and listening and speaking.

Nebraska’s standards are organized with three levels of specificity:

• K-12 Comprehensive Statements - Identify broad, general statements that are not grade-level specific and cover big ides in English Language Arts (Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, and Multiple Literacies.)
• Grade-Level Expectations - Statements that identify what students should know and be able to do by the end of each identified grade/band. These are organized into categories, but not course specific.
• Curricular Indicators - Specific information to distinguish expectations between grade levels. They are no longer simply examples, but are considered an integral part of the standard to be taught.

Nebraska has historically been a local control state with no mandated curriculum or textbooks. The standards are not meant to be a curriculum. Rather, districts are expected to align their local curriculum to the Nebraska Standards to add more specificity. Nebraska’s draft standards are written using verbiage that describes the knowledge and skills students are expected to master at the various grade levels rather than using performance expectation language. Districts also have the choice to adopt their own standards only if they are more rigorous than the state standards.

Discussion: 

1. Middle School Speech 

• Kid driven - add to the extra duty schedule

• This year = 20 students interested - 2 confirmed meets this year

• Use these numbers to plan ahead 

• Add at 3% on the extra duty schedule

  • Kristen would do for free this year since not negotiated

  • 2 students brought it up to Mr. Tejkl

  • Surveyed and 20 students interested. Would be after state high school speech

  • Overlap with middle school track, but should not be any problems.

  • If middle school assistant needed - then 1%, but would be on a yearly basis to determine if necessary

2. Reexamine the 2% clause for track and speech

• % are too high for these events.

• Track - move down to 25% (~ 8 events) = 20 or more participants

  • 30% for under 20 participants

• Speech/Wrestling 30% (6 events) for 10 or more participants

  • 35% for under 10 participants

• Rationale ... even the best track team, did not meet these numbers

1. Salary = no change in insurance - $750 increase in base is 4.9% increase.