1. Opening Activities

The mission of the Warren County School District is to educationally empower all students to think critically and solve problems through a rigorous curriculum that will provide them with the skills necessary to graduate and pursue a career of their interest.

TO PROMOTE STUDENT GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT, AN EFFECTIVE SCHOOL BOARD ... Communicates with and engages the community by: a) distributing relevant information about the district; b) providing methods of communication to the board and appropriate staff; c) seeing input through a variety of methods; d) including stakeholders in all communications.

2. President's Statement

1. I.U.5 - Mrs. Donna Zariczny 2. PSBA Liaison - Mr. John Grant 3. Career Center Advisory - Dr. Paul Yourchisin

The PSBA Bylaws authorize school districts of the second class to appoint three voting delegates to the 2012 Legislative Policy Council. This year’s meeting will be held on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012, during the School Leadership Conference.

3. Superintendent's Reports and Recommendations

1. Pitt-Bradford Dual Enrollment 2. Superintendent Leadership Academy

4. New Business - Consent Agenda

The district has prepared an agreement with Saint Bonaventure University that continues the dual enrollment program for the 2012-13 school year, with the understanding that parents and students will be responsible for all costs related to the courses. The agreement, which follows the stipulations approved in a Dual Enrollment resolution dated May 9, 2011, is attached.

The Special Education Department requests that we continue to utilize the Barber National Institute (BNI) through consultation and services to support our autistic support programs. The Special Education Department successfully worked closely with the Barber National Institute for the past five school years. We continue to build the autism program as we have successfully offered services that were previously sought for directly at the BNI in Erie. We continue to strive to build this program to meet the unique needs of the A S students through the BNI Behavioral Specialist – autism, autism consultation services, observations of the BNI classes, autism/curriculum/sensory integration specialist, Discrete Trial training, and other services. We have worked with them to provide additional services through their Behavior Specialist.

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Performance Plus is a tool for the teaching staff. There are two components to this product. One is software for curriculum mapping which allows us to align our curricula both vertically and horizontally. In addition, it provides opportunities to identify appropriate topics for cross-curricular planning. Curriculum which is input into the system is searchable and can be aligned with resources, materials, and standards. Teachers will be able to share lesson plans and resources easily between buildings and classroom. The second component of this product is related to assessment. Student scores for PSSA, 4-Sight, District assessments and any other testing data that we would like to include are housed in one place. This data is then accessible to the classroom teachers who can use this information to plan lessons and guide instruction based upon the strengths and weaknesses of the individual students in their classrooms.

The 4Sight assessment, which is closely aligned to the PSSAs, has been used by the district for a number of years and has proven to be a valuable tool for determining students' strengths and weaknesses, thereby assisting teachers in the development of individual educational plans. If the purchase of the assessment is approved, it will be admininstered to students in grades 3 through 11. (DIBELS will be administered to students in grades kindergarten through 2.) The cost of the assessment for the entire district is $15,370. A copy of the purchase request is attached.

Each year, Head Start purchases meals for their students through the School District's food service program. This is an annual contract required by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

OpenArc has provided the district with a quote for an IP standards based phone system replacement for Beaty-Warren Middle School. This system fully replaces what currently exists, and adds several features such as bridged conference calling, homework hotline, and web based management. Phones will be installed in each classroom, office and common area. The phone system will also replace the classroom intercom system. This quote covers all equipment, installation and configuration as well as a one year maintenance agreement. The hardware quoted from OpenArc has come in lower than all COSTARS state contract prices.

Attached is a list of the Routes, Rosters and Drivers to be approved for the 2012-2013 school year.

This budget transfer adjusts the original budgeted amount due to less IDEA funding received than originally anticipated.

It is recommended that the Northwest Tri County IU5 function as an administrator for the WCSD in order to implement District ACCESS billing for the 2012 2013 school year.

5. Items Removed for Separate Action

The district has prepared an agreement with Clarion University that continues the dual enrollment program for the 2012-13 school year, with the understanding that parents and students will be responsible for all costs related to the program. The agreement, which follows the stipulations approved in a Dual Enrollment resolution dated May 9, 2011, is attached.

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One Call Now is a Blast Communication System that would bring the district the functionality to send bulk phone calls, text messages and other emergency communication. This web based solution also offers a parent portal to update contact information as well as providing 24/7/365 technical support for all district personnel. The proposal price is locked in for a three year term, with commitment dependent on annual budget approval. Should the district be unable to budget for a notification system, this agreement may be cancelled with no penalty.

6. Future Business for Committee Review

7. Other

The invoice presented incorporates several Pearson products that we have utilized for several years. SuccessMaker (SM/SME) is supplemental software for classroom teachers of grades K-8 to support instruction in reading and math. Nova Net (which is currently being upgraded to GradPoint) is the software that we use to provide credit recovery, supplemental instruction and classroom support for secondary students. This invoice reflects our 2012-2013 costs for new and ongoing licensing, maintenance, and support. We will be receiving 75 new SM licenses and maintaining the current 222 licences for SM/SME. We will also be maintaining 115 concurrent Nova Net licenses which will be converted to Grad Point at our request over the course of the next year. The pricing that Pearson is providing is extremely competitive since we are committed to these products for the next three years because of our participation in the QZAB program.

8. Closing Activities