School Board Meeting - Thursday, February 14, 2008

The Mount Baker school board held its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, February 14 in the District Office.

The following is a summary of the meeting. 

§         Ellen Dodson was sworn in for another four-year term on the Board.

§         The Board Approved –

                                                   i.      Personnel Actions – Attachment “A”

                                                 ii.      Policy –

1.       Policy 2410: Graduation Requirements; special education modifications – 1^st reading approval

2.       Policy 2161: Special Education; compliance modifications – 1^st reading approval

                                                iii.      Overnight Trips –

1.       State Basketball Tournament – March 4 – 7 @ Tacoma

2.       Floral Team –

a.       March 14 @ Warden, WA

b.       April 4 @ Spokane for State Competition

3.       State Ag Mechanics – April 22 – 23 @ Walla Walla

4.       Wake Robin Forestry Contest – March 7 @ Longview

5.       Livestock Judging Contest – March 28 – 29 @ Moses Lake

6.       Forestry Contest – April 24 – 25 @ Wenatchee

7.       State FFA Forestry – May 1 & 2

8.       State FFA Convention – May 13 – 18 @ Pullman

9.       Puget Sound Jr. Livestock Show & Sale – June 5 – 7

10.   NW Washington Fair – August 10 – 17

11.   State Math Team Competition – April 25 – 26 @ Yakima

                                               iv.      Curriculum Review Schedule

                                                 v.      Acceptance of donation of $500 from BP Refinery

                                               vi.      Acceptance of donation of $50,000 to Kendall Elementary from the estate of Catherine Snider

1.       The estate also left $200,000 to the Mt Baker Scholarship Foundation

§         The Board Heard Information About and Discussed –

§         Good of the Order – Attachment “B”

1.       School Board members were presented with flowers and candy in recognition of their good work and School Board Appreciation Month (January)

§         Budget Development Schedule

§         WSSDA Math Standards meeting

§         WSSDA Legislative Conference

§         Visits to Acme Academic Academy and Classrooms

§         High School Play – “Murder Takes the Stage”

§         Senior Citizens Dinner

§         March M & O Levy Voting

§         Meeting(s) Schedule – All meetings begin at 7 pm in the District Office unless otherwise noted

a.       Work sessions & Special Meetings –

                                                               i.      Thursday, February 28 – Jr/Sr High School Improvement Plans

                                                             ii.      Thursday, March 27 – Elementary School Improvement Plans

b.       Regular Meetings –

                                                               i.      Thursday, March 13 @ Acme Elementary School (Please note location)

                                                             ii.      Thursday, April 3 @ Kendall Elementary School

(Please note early date; due to Spring Break and location)

CERTIFICATED EMPLOYMENT

CLASSIFIED EMPLOYMENT

LEAVES OF ABSENCE

RESIGNATIONS

Attachment “A”

Good of the Order

February 14, 2008

Washington Aerospace Scholars, a distance learning and summer residency program for high school juniors, announces four junior from Mt Baker High school have been selected as Washington Aerospace Scholars for 2007-2008.  The Mt Baker scholars named are Alexander Cutler, Geliza Hoese, Jacob Larson and Kaman Lee.  The students are among 225 talented juniors from across the state accepted into the first phase of Washington Aerospace Scholars (WAS).

These 225 students are currently participating in Phase One of WAS: distance learning with a NASA-designed curriculum covering the history of space exploration, the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, the Moon, and Mars.  From January through May, the Scholars will complete ten lessons – submitting quizzes, math solutions, essays, and graphics concerning these topics every other week.  Scholars will independently select a topic of interest for a final project combining an essay with a graphic.  Scholars are also competing for a space in one of our four summer residency sessions. 

Phase Two of WAS is a six-day summer residency experience for 160 students.  Selection is competitive and centers around performance in Phase One of WAS.  In each residency session, 40 Scholars are selected to work cooperatively to plan a human mission to Mars with support from professional engineers/scientists, university students, and certificated educators.  Each session also includes briefings from aerospace professionals, tours of engineering facilities, and hands-on engineering challenges involving model rocketry, robotics, landing devices, and payload lofting.  The daily schedule is quite full, and the students lodge in double rooms at a local hotel under the supervision of certificated teachers. Summer residency sessions for 2008 are scheduled for June 22-27, July 6-11, July 13-18, and July 20-25.  Travel, lodging, and meal expenses are provided to participating students and teachers thanks to the WAS Foundation and many generous donors.

March 10-14 is Classified Employees Week in Washington State.  In a proclamation, Governor Gregoire continues a 30-year tradition, started in 1975 by Public School Employees of Washington, to recognize the contributions of classified education support professionals in education.  Classified personnel in the Mt Baker School District will be formally recognized in the March 13 School Board meeting which will be held at Acme Elementary School; other celebrations will be held throughout the month of March in school district buildings.

Our girls wrestling team has won the 2007-08 Wrestling Academic State Championship for our classification. Congratulations to the girls for this outstanding accomplishment!!  They will be competing this weekend (Feb. 15 & 16) at the wrestling state tournament in the Tacoma Dome and receiving their award for the Academic Championship on Saturday morning.

Girls Varsity Wrestling Team – Kristen Fogg, Chloe Grafwallner, Alexandria Lepper, Samantha Mount, Katie Newgard, Angelica Ortiz, Ahslee Phy, Rosy Rosas

In other sports news:

The following coaches were voted as Regional Coach of the year –  

Clyde Blockley - Girls Wrestling Regional Coach of the Year

Scott Smith - Junior High Regional Coach of the Year

Attachment “B”

Board Meeting Summary Page

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