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I.
Call to Order
Mr. Tom Wherry, Board Chair
II.
Roll Call
Mr. Tom Wherry, Board Chair
III.
Pledge of Allegiance
Mr. Tom Wherry, Board Chair
IV.
Welcome and Board Chair Comments
Mr. Tom Wherry, Board Chair
V.
District Recognition and Presentations
Board Member
V.1.
Certified Employee of the Month ~ Ms. Karen Alexander
Board Member
V.2.
Classified Employee of the Month ~ Ms. Jessica Hamilton
Board Member
VI.
Informational Items (Action Possible)
VI.1.
Ninth District Annual Update
Ms. Kieli Ferguson, Principal
Ninth District Elementary School's administration and staff will report to the Board their annual report.
VI.2.
Health Services Update
Ms. Jenn Fowee, Director of Health Services
Director of Health Services, Ms. Jenn Fowee will provide the Board an overview of the COVID Response chart, discuss alternative diagnoses and address any questions or concerns the Board may have.
VI.3.
School Report Card / Graduation Rate / ACCESS Results
Mr. Bill Grein, Secondary Director
The State School Report Card was updated and opened on KDE’s website on October 14, 2020. Normally at this time of the year, we have access to the assessment data from the different state assessments as well as graduation rate data from the previous year.
This is a unique year because the only assessment data that is being released is the WIDA / ACCESS test results.
Graduation Rate data is also on the state website.
The first eight pages in this agenda item is what you see when you log into Covington Independent Schools on the state website. Page nine is the WIDA / ACCESS results for the 2019-2020 school year. It is broken up by elementary, middle school and high school. Page ten is a look at Graduation Rate Trend Data for the district and Holmes High School. The second graph on page ten shows our graduation rate data by student groups.
VII.
Consent Agenda
VII.1.
Approval of Minutes ~ October 22, 2020 Regular Meeting
VII.2.
Fundraiser Request ~ Ninth District Elementary Penny Drive
Ms. Kieli Ferguson, Principal
Pursuant to CIPS Policy 09.33 Fund Raising Activities, Board approval is required for all school-wide fundraising activities. Ninth District Elementary is requesting approval to coordinate a Penny Drive. Proceeds will assist the Family Resource Center to purchase food for Thanksgiving to give to their families in need.
VIII.
Individual Approval Agenda Items
VIII.1.
Districtwide Subscription to Mastery Connect ~ Assessment Builder and Analysis Tool
Mr. Scott Alter, Assistant Superintendent of Learning Support
Currently Covington Independent Schools is in Year 2 of our Curriculum Development Project. All schools K-12 have been involved in this process led by a design team of teacher leaders, coaches and principals. Part of Year 2 is the development of common embedded assessments across the district. Currently, CIPS does not have a common system across our schools to develop and house our assessments or to analyze assessments at the school level or at the district level. This will be the first year for many schools that our KPREP assessments will be taken online by our students. Mastery Connect allows teachers to develop end of unit assessments, formative assessments during a unit which students can take on the computer as they will for state testing. This gives our students the ability to experience assessments online throughout the year much like many other students in our area and state are or have been.
This system will also benefit our teachers because it grades much of the work the students complete and communicates that directly to Grade Book in Infinite Campus, saving our teachers hours of checking multiple choice questions and entering grades in IC. The system will also automatically create reports teachers can analyze by student, class or school- again saving teachers hours of time creating their own analysis tools.
Most of all, this system allows us to continue our collaboration across schools with our new curriculum work on a daily basis. At the district level, we will also have immediate access to all school's data and how they are progressing in the curriculum.
Part of our Strategic Plan as a district under Leadership and Accountability is to ‘Develop systematic processes that effectively utilize internal and external data to improve teaching and learning in each school’ and to ‘Establish a districtwide system to monitor data to ensure students are progressing in all of our schools’. In our Strategic Plan under Teaching and Learning it reads ‘Develop and utilize common assessments districtwide’. This system would move us closer to reaching our goals as a district, continue to create a more collaborative community and to provide our students with more 21st century learning opportunities.
To view a demo of Mastery Connect click this link or copy and paste into your browser: https://masteryconnect.com/video/demo/
VIII.2.
Non-Resident Student Contracts 2021-2022
Mr.Ken Kippenbrock, Director of Pupil Personnel
Each year surrounding districts except Bellevue and Campbell County agree to reciprocity on any/all non-resident students. Bellevue and Campbell County agrees only on case by case situations.
IX.
Addendum Agenda (Action Possible)
IX.1.
T-Mobile 10 Million Project Contract
Mr. Alvin Garrison, Superintendent
T-Mobile Project 10 Million is offering school districts low-cost options to increased monthly data plans to provide connectivity to their students for free.
The district would like to participate in the $0 a month 100GB data per year option.
X.
Report of the Attorney
Ms. Mary Ann Stewart, Board Attorney
XI.
Further Discussion and/or announcements by the Board of Education
Mr. Alvin Garrison, Superintendent
XII.
Upcoming Events
Mr. Alvin Garrison, Superintendent
November 18 ~ Budget Committee Meeting, 2:30 - 4 p.m., in the Boardroom
November 19 ~ Regular Board Meeting, 5 p.m., via video teleconferencing
December 2 ~ Budget Committee Meeting, 2:30 - 4 p.m., in the Boardroom
December 4-5 ~ KSBA's 2020 Winter Symposium, Louisville Marriott Downtown
December 16~ Budget Committee Meeting, 2:30 - 4 p.m., in the Boardroom
Visit our District App for upcoming Athletic events and our website for District apparel online store.
XIII.
Executive Session
Pursuant to KRS 61.810 (1) the Board may go into executive session.
XIV.
Adjournment
Mr. Tom Wherry, Board Chair
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