Okaloosa County School Board — Regular Meeting, August 8, 2016 — reading text

Motion by Rodney Walker, second by Dewey Destin. Final Resolution: Motion Carries Yes: Dewey Destin, Cathy Thigpen, Melissa Thrush, Rodney Walker, Lamar White 7. Consent Agenda Subject : 7.21 Deleted - DoDEA - Contract with Harvard_EOL, presented by Dr. Sandy Arteaga, Title I/X Specialist, and recommended by the Superintendent for approval. Meeting : Aug 8, 2016 - Regular Meeting Type : Action (Consent) Preferred Date : Aug 08, 2016 Fiscal Impact : Yes Dollar Amount : $93,693.00 Budgeted : Yes Budget Source : Special Revenue, Project 5488 DoDEA - Science Recommended Action : Motion to approve DoDEA contract with Harvard_EOL between The School Board of Okaloosa County and Harvard_EOL. Consent Our adopted rules of Parliamentary Procedure, Robert's Rules, provide for a consent agenda listing several items for approval of the Board by a single motion. Documentation concerning these items have been provided to all Board members and the public in advance to assure an extensive and thorough review. Items may be removed from the consent agenda at the request of any board member. Motion & Voting Motion to approve the Consent Agenda as amended and all of the Consent Agenda items as recommended by the Superintendent Motion by Rodney Walker, second by Dewey Destin. Final Resolution: Motion Carries Yes: Dewey Destin, Cathy Thigpen, Melissa Thrush, Rodney Walker, Lamar White 7. Consent Agenda Subject : 7.22 DoDEA - Contract with Smithsonian, presented by Dr. Sandy Arteaga, Title I/X Specialist, and recommended by the Superintendent for approval. Meeting : Aug 8, 2016 - Regular Meeting Type : Action (Consent) Preferred Date : Aug 08, 2016 Fiscal Impact : Yes Dollar Amount : $53,090.00 Budgeted : Yes Budget Source : Special Revenue, Project 5488 DoDEA - Science Recommended Action : Motion to approve DoDEA- Contract with Smithsonian between The School Board of Okaloosa County and Smithsonian. Public Content Under the DODEA (Department of Defense Education Activity) Grant that was awarded to OCSD, Smithsonian will provide expertise in camera trapping and surveys of wildlife populations to school community in Okaloosa County School District, Florida. Smithsonian will share Ecology and Science learning to the school population using our website eMammal and a system of camera traps collecting wildlife images county-wide. They will help maintain volunteer teams to disperse and retrieve cameras in approved locations, including training of volunteers and tracking progress. They will provide expert review of all images provided by volunteers to ensure correct species identification. Smithsonian will make one (1) trip to the county to participate in School or District event. They will maintain functionality of the eMammal website by maintaining the site integrity and conduct security upgrades and patches as needed to allow the site to be used to upload data from volunteers and to provide county-based data to the school curriculum lessons. They will advise the School District on any curriculum developed that includes wildlife images and the eMammal tool. File Attachments CURRICULUM AND INST DEPT - SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.pdf (174 KB) APPENDIX A-Revised-Smithsonian.pdf (167 KB) Appendix B - Financial Performance Reporting Requirements (2).pdf (191 KB) Appendix C -Prime award _DODEA (2).pdf (88 KB) Consent Our adopted rules of Parliamentary Procedure, Robert's Rules, provide for a consent agenda listing several items for approval of the Board by a single motion. Documentation concerning these items have been provided to all Board members and the public in advance to assure an extensive and thorough review. Items may be removed from the consent agenda at the request of any board member. Motion & Voting Motion to approve the Consent Agenda as amended and all of the Consent Agenda items as recommended by the Superintendent Motion by Rodney Walker, second by Dewey Destin. Final Resolution: Motion Carries Yes: Dewey Destin, Cathy Thigpen, Melissa Thrush, Rodney Walker, Lamar White 7. Consent Agenda Subject : 7.23 Kindergarten Report Card, presented by Jeff Palmer, Director of Elementary Education, and recommended by the Superintendent for approval. Meeting : Aug 8, 2016 - Regular Meeting Type : Action (Consent) Fiscal Impact : No Recommended Action : Motion to approve the updated Kindergarten Report Card. Public Content Rather than a typical report card, Okaloosa County Kindergarten teachers use an age-appropriate comprehensive reporting system. The system includes a quarterly assessment checklist that is fully aligned to the Florida State Standards. In addition to the quarterly checklists, the system includes a Teacher Guide providing explicit directions for administering each assessment element, a Parent Guide, a mid-quarter parent progress report, and an appendix. The appendix, which was developed by a group of Kindergarten teachers, includes all resources required to administer the assessment system. Prior to the end of the 2016 school year, all Kindergarten teachers were provided the opportunity to submit feedback concerning both the Kindergarten Report Card and Curriculum Guides. Initial revisions were then made to the report card based on teacher feedback. A group of Kindergarten teachers received the initial revisions via email. This group then met and collaborated with District Instructional Coaches on to provide additional feedback and approve the final revisions. The assessment system is completed online; MIS has developed a program that calculates each individual skill score once the teacher has entered the raw score. A Kindergarten representative per school is trained to serve as a resource in communicating the annual revisions. Upon approval by the School Board, the Parent Guide will be available on the OCSD website. For more information contact Jeff Palmer at 833-4208. File Attachments 2016-2017 Parent Guide Kindergarten Report Card[1].pdf (258 KB) 2016-2017 KG Report Card Teacher Guide[1].pdf (414 KB) Consent Our adopted rules of Parliamentary Procedure, Robert's Rules, provide for a consent agenda listing several items for approval of the Board by a single motion. Documentation concerning these items have been provided to all Board members and the public in advance to assure an extensive and thorough review. Items may be removed from the consent agenda at the request of any board member. Motion & Voting Motion to approve the Consent Agenda as amended and all of the Consent Agenda items as recommended by the Superintendent Motion by Rodney Walker, second by Dewey Destin. Final Resolution: Motion Carries Yes: Dewey Destin, Cathy Thigpen, Melissa Thrush, Rodney Walker, Lamar White 7. Consent Agenda Subject : 7.24 Additional Course Adoptions for the 2016-2017 School Year, presented by Sheila Lightbourne, Director of Secondary Education, and recommended by the Superintendent for approval. Meeting : Aug 8, 2016 - Regular Meeting Type : Action (Consent) Fiscal Impact : No Recommended Action : Motion to approve the attached course adoptions for the 2016-2017 School Year. Public Content Request to adopt the attached courses. Course titles, course numbers, credit, requested weighting, and rational for course adoption and weighting is attached. For more information contact April Branscome, Career and Technical Education Specialist at 833-5858 or Kelly Hayes, Assistant Principal, Okaloosa Technical College at 833-3500. File Attachments CHOICE July REQUEST FOR COURSE ADOPTION 2016-2017 School Year.pdf (124 KB) Consent Our adopted rules of Parliamentary Procedure, Robert's Rules, provide for a consent agenda listing several items for approval of the Board by a single motion. Documentation concerning these items have been provided to all Board members and the public in advance to assure an extensive and thorough review. Items may be removed from the consent agenda at the request of any board member. Motion & Voting Motion to approve the Consent Agenda as amended and all of the Consent Agenda items as recommended by the Superintendent Motion by Rodney Walker, second by Dewey Destin. Final Resolution: Motion Carries Yes: Dewey Destin, Cathy Thigpen, Melissa Thrush, Rodney Walker, Lamar White 7. Consent Agenda Subject : 7.25 Addendum to the Master Contract between the School Board of Okaloosa County and the Okaloosa County Educational Support Professional Association, presented by Stacie Smith, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources, and recommended by the Superintendent for approval. Meeting : Aug 8, 2016 - Regular Meeting Type : Action (Consent) Recommended Action : Motion to approve the Addendum to the Master Contract between the Okaloosa County School  District and the Okaloosa County Educational Support Professional Association. Public Content Addendum to the Master Contract between the Okaloosa County School District and the Okaloosa County Educational