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 . . . ensures effective planning occurs by: Adopting and implementing a collaboratie strategic planning process; setting annual goals that are aligned with the strategic plan; linking board actions to the strategic plan; adopting a financial plan that considers short-term and long-term needs; adopting professional development plans for board and staff; adopting a plan to ensure evaluation of student growth and achievement using relevant data; adopting a master facilities plan conducive to teaching and learning; and adopting a plan for curriculum review and development.

1. Appointment - President Elect of PA Middle Level Education

2. President's Statement

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

Executive session held on Dec. 17 to discuss litigation.

3. Superintendent's Reports and Recommendations

4. New Business - Consent Agenda

From the PDE website: Project Financing, addresses the financing used for a project. Calculation of the temporary reimbursable percent for a project's financing occurs at PlanCon Part H. Once PlanCon Part H is approved, reimbursement on a project commences.

The Technology Department has been receiving quotes for laptops to be deployed to EMHS to assist in providing instruction once construction begins and classrooms are shuffled. Three laptop carts with 30 laptops each will be outfitted with charging stations, extra batteries, power adapters, and wireless access points. Three quotes were received from three different vendors based on the CoStars state contract. GovConnection was the lowest quote under state contract pricing.

Warren County School District is working in conjunction with the National Education Foundation (NEF)to offer Parent Academies. The Parent Academies will offer top-rated web-based, tuition-free courses for K-12, Business, Management and Test Prep to community members of Warren County.

This item was sent back to committee from the November 12, 2012 Board meeting as it was deemed necessary to make some changes. The attached Planned Instruction reflects the changes that were requested. The planned instruction for kindergarten mathematics instruction has been updated to reflect the Common Core standards adopted by PA and a change in the sequence.

These planned instructions were presented at the Board meeting of December 3, 2012. They had been updated to reflect the changes to our biology curricula based upon the adoption of the Common Core, and the assessment anchors and eligible content for the Common Core Anchors had been added. This item was sent back to committee as changes were needed and have been be made regarding weighted value.

Administration has sent out requests for participation in the Comprehensive Planning process. The attachment lists the names of those that have been invited to be members of the committee. Members of the Comprehensive Planning Committee must be approved by the Board.

The administration will be asking the Board to approve the preliminary Comprehensive Plan at the January Board meeting, and the Board of School Directors is required to advertise the Comprehensive Plan for a 28 day public review period prior to final approval and submission to PDE.

Policy 9732 was recently approved by the Board with changes in the language regarding the Keytone requirements for students to graduate from the WCSD. Based on current PDE requirements for graduation the administration would like to rescind this policy.

Policy 9733 was recently approved by the Board with changes in the language regarding the Keytone requirements for students to graduate from the WCSD. Based on current PDE requirements for graduation the administration would like to rescind this policy.

Transfer is requested to move Access dollars into the proper account area.

Several local businesses and individuals have committed to donate funds for a Director position for the Warren County Career Center.

5. Items Removed for Separate Action

6. Future Business for Committee Review

7. Other

This policy was presented and approved on second reading at the December 3, 2012 Board meeting. It was found that the number assigned to this policy was already in use, making it necessary to assign a new number. The attached policy is exactly the same as the one that was approved with the exception of the the new number.

Zito Media Communications have provided the district with a quote for SIP Trunks for the migration of service for Eisenhower Middle High School. The quote covers activation of the service, e911 options, and porting of existing numbers. S This service would begin on or around March 1, 2013. This would replace the school’s current telephone service.

PlanCon A and PlanCon B approvals for the SAMHS K-12 Additions and Alterations project were received from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. As per the instructions that accompanied the approvals, "This document [the approval letter] and any appended materials should be entered into the minutes of the next Board meeting."

8. Closing Activities