School Board meeting agenda for Monday, September 13

There will be two public hearings prior to the September Board meeting.

Bancroft-Rosalie Community School
Budget Hearing Agenda
Monday, September 13, 2010 --- 7:30 p.m. in Bancroft

1. Call the hearing to order.

2. Roll Call

3. Board discussion on the proposed 2010-2011 Budget.

4. Request for public input on the proposed Budget.

5. Final Board discussion on the proposed Budget.

6. Adjourn.


Bancroft-Rosalie Community School
Regular Board of Education Meeting Agenda
Monday, September 13, 2010 --- 7:50 p.m. in Bancroft

1. Call to Order

2. Roll Call

3. Read and approve the minutes of the August 9, 2010 regular board meeting.

4. Treasurer’s Report
A. Approve the Bills
B. Financial Review

5. Review Agenda

6. Public Hearing

7. Administrator’s Reports:
A. Superintendent’s Report
B. Principal’s Report

8. Old Business:
A. Classroom addition.

9. New Business:
A. Approve the district budget for the 2010-2011 school year.

B. Approve the district property tax request for the 2010-2011 school year.

C. Building Construction project- Sidewalk replacement

D. Girls Basketball Coach

10. Discussion Items
A.

11. Executive Session-

11. Future Planning- Next scheduled meeting- Monday, October 11, 2010.

12. Adjournment



Bancroft-Rosalie Community School
Tax Request Hearing Agenda
Monday, September 13, 2010 --- 7:40 p.m. in Bancroft

1. Call the hearing to order.

2. Roll Call

3. Board discussion on the proposed 2010-11 tax request.

4. Request for public input on the proposed tax request.

5. Final Board discussion on the proposed tax request.

6. Adjourn.

Community Betterment Meeting Sept 13, not today.

The community Betterment meeting is Monday September 13 at 5:15 pm at the Country Pub. I mistakenly posted it as today. So if you show up at the Pub today at 5:15 pm, there will be no meeting.

Double the poetry this Sunday at Neihardt site

The Neihardt State Historic Site is pleased to present poets Jim Reese and Patrick Hicks for the September 12th Sunday Afternoon at the Museum at 2:00 P.M. Jim Reese is an Associate Professor of English; Director of the Great Plains Writers' Tour at Mount Marty College in Yankton, South Dakota; and Editor-in-Chief of PADDLEFISH. Reese's poetry and prose have been widely published, most recently in New York Quarterly, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner, Paterson Literary Review, Louisiana Literature Review, Connecticut Review, and elsewhere. His new book ghost on 3rd (New York Quarterly Books 2010) includes Pushcart Prize nominated poems. Reese has been the National Endowment for the Art’s Writer-in-Residence at the Yankton Federal Prison Camp since 2008.

Patrick Hicks teaches creative writing at Augustana College and he is the author of several poetry collections, most recently, Finding the Gossamer (2008) and This London (2010) both published by Ireland's acclaimed press: Salmon Poetry. His work has appeared in scores of international journals including, Ploughshares, The Utne Reader, Glimmer Train, Indiana Review, Christian Science Monitor, Virginia Quarterly Review, Natural Bridge, Commonweal, Tar River Poetry, Poetry East, Briar Cliff Review, Nimrod and many others. Patrick has been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize, shortlisted for a variety of awards, and he recently won the Glimmer Train "Emerging Writer's Fiction Award". Aside from being a Visiting Fellow at Oxford, he is the recipient of a number of grants including one from the Bush Foundation to support work on his first novel, which is about Auschwitz. He has lived in Northern Ireland, England, Germany, and Spain, but has returned to his Midwestern roots.

The program begins at 2:00 PM and is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. Authors’ books will be available for purchase and signing. The John G. Neihardt State Historic site is located at 306 W. Elm Street in Bancroft, Nebraska.

Bancroft Betterment meeting Tuesday at 5:15 pm

Bancroft Betterment Monthly Meeting Agenda
September 7, 2010
5:15 pm at the Country Pub

Call to order.

Thank you to this month’s host- Cuming County Power

Read and approve minutes of August 2, 2010 meeting

Guest speaker-

Reports
1. School
2. Village
3. Betterment Corporation
4. Cuming County Economic Development
5. Neihardt Center
6.

New Business
1.
2.
3.
4.

Old Business
1. Fall Garage Sale update
2.

Public comments


Next meeting October 4, 2010 , 5:15 pm at ________________. Host ___________________.

Meeting adjourned

Lewis and Clark Conference general information

The activities of the Lewis and Clark Conference:

Volleyball
Academic Contest
Basketball
Vocal Music Clinic
Boys Track
Instrumental Music Clinic
Girls Track
Speech Contest
Boys Golf
Play Production Contest
Art

LEWIS DIVISION
Allen Eagles
Bancroft-Rosalie Panthers
Emerson-Hubbard Pirates
Homer Knights
Ponca Indians
Wakefield Trojans
Walthill Bluejays
Winnebago Indians

CLARK DIVISION
Bloomfield Bees
Hartington Wildcats
Newcastle Raiders
Osmond Tigers
Wausa Vikings
Winside Wildcats
Wynot Bluedevils

Conference teams are divided into three divisions for regular season play in basketball and volleyball:

Central
Emerson-Hubbard
Homer
Ponca
Wakefield
Winnebago

East
Allen
Bancroft-Rosalie
Newcastle
Walthill
Winside

West
Bloomfield
Hartington
Osmond
Wausa
Wynot

Enrollment Figures

Homer 105
Ponca 105
Winnebago 102
Wakefield 93
Osmond 79
Winside 76
Hartington 74
Ban-Ros 72
Emerson-Hub 70
Allen 64
Walthill 63
Bloomfield 59
Wynot 48
Wausa 40
Newcastle 38

State Board of Education presentation

I just returned this afternoon from presenting a report on Reading First at the Nebraska State Board of Education meeting. My 5-7 minute presentation ended up lasting 15 minutes, but I hope I did an adequate job of informing the State Board of how Reading First has impacted reading instrution in Bancroft-Rosalie School.

I presented test data for 3rd grade performance on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills from 2002-10 (we started Reading First in 2004-05) along with DIBELS oral reading fluency scores for that same time period. I will try to upload the charts onto this blog in the next few days.

Remote Desktop helps with Internet safety and security

According to Apple "Apple Remote Desktop is the best way to manage the Mac computers on your network." Apple remote access allows Mr. Sjuts and Mrs. Nolting to observe and obtain access to all of the school-owned MacBook computers. If Mr. Sjuts wants to see what students in school are using their computers for, he can find it. Remote Desktop provides a list of all of the student computers in the building and what application the student is using. By clicking on the student, he can see what the student is seeing.

Yesterday he was showing me how it worked and we we able to see the u-tube video a student was watching. Students were made aware of the capabilities of remote desktop prior to receiving their lap-top, so hopefully they will use their computers for appropriate activities.

Remote desktop also allows Mrs. Nolting to install upgrades or software on any/all of the Macbook computers without actually touching the computers, making it quick and efficient.

The student computers have a filtering system installed that should prevent access to inappropriate materials both inside the building and when students take the computers home. The school software does an effective job of filtering most inappropriate web sites, but some things could slip past the filter. If that happens, then Apple remote desktop provides another way to ensure Internet safety and security for computers in the school building.