March 18, 2015 at 4:54 p.m.
FR students donate to facility
Fort Recovery Local Schools
FORT RECOVERY — Fort Recovery students are making helping a habit.
The latest project included the delivery last week of more than $800 in donations of food and other items to Ronald McDonald House in Dayton, Fort Recovery School Board learned Tuesday.
The board also got an update on Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) testing at the high school and approved an agreement with Fort Recovery Education Association.
Fort Recovery Middle School student council member Kendra Lennartz and sponsor Jessica Jutte told the board about the Ronald McDonald House donation visit, which has become an annual project. Elementary and middle school students donated food items and toiletries to the organization, which provides temporary housing for families of children who are hospitalized.
“My husband and I have already stayed there with our son, and my sister stayed there,” said Jutte. “So having those personal connections is pretty cool. … It’s great to be able to give back a little bit of what we got to benefit from.”
Board member Dave Hull also noted that he stayed at the facility.
The donations to Ronald McDonald House come on the heels of the elementary school raising $2,616 earlier this year for Pennies for Patients, which raises money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. In December, middle school students shipped 109 shoeboxes full of supplies and gifts through Operation Christmas Child and high school students raised nearly $7,000 to help 14 local families in need during the holiday season.
High school principal Jeff Hobbs said the first round of PARCC testing, which began Feb. 24, went smoothly. Freshman took tests in algebra, American history and English as part of Common Core.
“I thought it went really well,” said Hobbs. “I thought the schedule went very well where the freshman were just in their own little wing and all the other classes ran at their regularly-scheduled times.”
The latest project included the delivery last week of more than $800 in donations of food and other items to Ronald McDonald House in Dayton, Fort Recovery School Board learned Tuesday.
The board also got an update on Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) testing at the high school and approved an agreement with Fort Recovery Education Association.
Fort Recovery Middle School student council member Kendra Lennartz and sponsor Jessica Jutte told the board about the Ronald McDonald House donation visit, which has become an annual project. Elementary and middle school students donated food items and toiletries to the organization, which provides temporary housing for families of children who are hospitalized.
“My husband and I have already stayed there with our son, and my sister stayed there,” said Jutte. “So having those personal connections is pretty cool. … It’s great to be able to give back a little bit of what we got to benefit from.”
Board member Dave Hull also noted that he stayed at the facility.
The donations to Ronald McDonald House come on the heels of the elementary school raising $2,616 earlier this year for Pennies for Patients, which raises money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. In December, middle school students shipped 109 shoeboxes full of supplies and gifts through Operation Christmas Child and high school students raised nearly $7,000 to help 14 local families in need during the holiday season.
High school principal Jeff Hobbs said the first round of PARCC testing, which began Feb. 24, went smoothly. Freshman took tests in algebra, American history and English as part of Common Core.
“I thought it went really well,” said Hobbs. “I thought the schedule went very well where the freshman were just in their own little wing and all the other classes ran at their regularly-scheduled times.”
Board members Jose Faller, Ginny Fortkamp, Aaron Guggenbiller, Amy Bihn and Hull also approved an agreement with FREA that “value-added” scores will not be used in making employment decisions. The agreement will remain in effect as long as students are able to opt out of PARCC tests, which can affect teachers’ value-added scores.
In other business, the board:
•Accepted superintendent Shelly Vaughn’s resignation effective July 12. Vaughn accepted a job as superintendent of Mercer County Educational Service Center last month and was officially hired March 9. She will begin those duties July 13. The board also hired former superintendent Pat Niekamp at a cost of $50 per hour not to exceed 60 hours to help with the search for Vaughn’s replacement.
Also accepted the resignation of teacher Nicole Homan effective May 31.
•Learned from elementary school principal Tracy Hein-Evers that 54 students have signed up for kindergarten next year with another 10 considering enrollment. Preschool screening is scheduled for April 10.
Also, there will be a preschool literacy night at 6 p.m. April 14 and a preschool registration meeting at 7 p.m. April 28. Both events will be in the elementary/middle school auditeria.
•Approved a one-year contract with Jutte’s Landscaping for mowing and trimming.
•Accepted donations totaling more than $1,250, most of which was for Get Real Week.
•OK’d the FRHS volleyball team’s trip July 28 through Aug. 2 to a camp in North Carolina.
•Heard from Vaughn that “family week”, when there will be no school activities, is scheduled for June 28 through July 5. Summer in-service for teachers will be July 27 through 29.
•Set a quarterly financial report work session for 6 p.m. April 21. The board’s regular meeting will follow at 6:30 p.m.
In other business, the board:
•Accepted superintendent Shelly Vaughn’s resignation effective July 12. Vaughn accepted a job as superintendent of Mercer County Educational Service Center last month and was officially hired March 9. She will begin those duties July 13. The board also hired former superintendent Pat Niekamp at a cost of $50 per hour not to exceed 60 hours to help with the search for Vaughn’s replacement.
Also accepted the resignation of teacher Nicole Homan effective May 31.
•Learned from elementary school principal Tracy Hein-Evers that 54 students have signed up for kindergarten next year with another 10 considering enrollment. Preschool screening is scheduled for April 10.
Also, there will be a preschool literacy night at 6 p.m. April 14 and a preschool registration meeting at 7 p.m. April 28. Both events will be in the elementary/middle school auditeria.
•Approved a one-year contract with Jutte’s Landscaping for mowing and trimming.
•Accepted donations totaling more than $1,250, most of which was for Get Real Week.
•OK’d the FRHS volleyball team’s trip July 28 through Aug. 2 to a camp in North Carolina.
•Heard from Vaughn that “family week”, when there will be no school activities, is scheduled for June 28 through July 5. Summer in-service for teachers will be July 27 through 29.
•Set a quarterly financial report work session for 6 p.m. April 21. The board’s regular meeting will follow at 6:30 p.m.
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