Jewell Record News (Newspaper) - November 11, 1993, Jewell, Iowa State Historical Society Bureau Of Library 600 Locust IA Rec Serving and the South Hamilton School District South Hamilton Record Newt Iowa 50130 November 1993 Single Copy 35 ISSUE 45 School Board Meets The South Hamilton School Board adopted a Mission Statement at their meeting on November The Statement is The South Hamilton school and community will provide students a safe environment with high educational standards in which students will have the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills to be responsible members of The board has worked on this statement over a period of time and have also set up district and board goals to work towards from this The board also is going to work on some controls that will help organize all the various fund raisers that are conducted by booster clubs and organizations for the school so that there is some coordination on times and items being The board also heard a report on the Renaissance Movement in Education meeting attended by Superintendent Richard Textor and High School Principal Steve This program recognizes students for positives in academics and It also helps in building teacher recognition and is a morale bunder within the Steve Vocational Agriculture instructor and Gary Industrial Technology instructor were present at the meeting and gave the board a tour of their classrooms and work shops and an overview of the curriculum that they The board will be meeting an extra meeting per month during the winter months and will familiarize themselves with all the departments in the school as an update on the goals that are being worked The board amended Policy which is the school philosophy The state required the term safe and healthy environment be added to the The board approved the hiring of Jim Klein as varsity girls track coach and Shane Christensen as junior high track coach and he also will help with the other track The board approved open enrollment request from 2 families from Radcliffe for the 199394 school This will add 6 students to the An open enrollment for this school year was approved out for a student to go to Ames who has recently moved into the The board approved early graduation for one student and denied early graduation for another In budget the board discussed the schoolhouse fund which will pay off the loan on the new this the 53g the schoolhouse lurid should be in good shape to maintain the Next it is anticipated that major work will be needed on the high school gym The growth factor from the state has not been but there may need to be some adjustments made to the budget after that factor is The board also decided to draft some plans for the possibility of creating a district foundation that will be a corporation to accept donations that will be tax Fiber optics were discussed with the At the county seats have fiber optics capabilities available to Phase III of the Iowa Community optics development will be discussed in the Iowa Legislature and that development should bring fiber optics into all the schools in For the school to utilize that the district would have to purchase equipment in the range of but the benefits to the district would be In other the board heard from Principal Gray on the dress code and Principal Tom on the new things being done at the elementary The board decided to keep radios in the busies during the winter months and approved Mike Smith for snow removal from the parking NEW MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY Plans for Bike Trail in Jewell Are you interested in a bicycle and pedestrian trail in our community The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 ISTEA dictates a specific amount of funding for transportation enhancement Some examples of transportation enhancement projects include facilities for pedestrian and scenic scenic and historic landscaping or scenic historic preservation of abandoned Region V of the ISTEA funding consists of the Counties Webster and All projects are required to have a the sponsor being any agency that has the authority to levy An application must be completed and submitted to the Region V ISTEA Transportation Advisory One of the considerations of the committee will be the level of community Brian the Hamilton County Conservation Commissioner has offered to meet with local citizens Tuesday November 16th at 1 at Federated Church in North If you have any interest in a trail from Jewell to Little Wall have questions or any comments or would like to show your support PLEASE plan on state school will be helS on November 17 18 and Tom Bell will be a delegate to the policy and legislative The next school board meeting will be November 22 at This meeting will be hearing reports from curriculum Randall City Council Meets The Randall City Council appointed Alan Hanson as superintendent effective January at their meeting on November The city also received favorable water tests on recent water Discussion was held on a proposed ordinance regarding park curfew and a draft will be available at the December meeting for The shelter in the park has been closed for the winter and some minor repairs have been made at the Problem intersections in town were discussed as well as speed and pedestrian crossing The council also voted to exempt the GK Study Club from rental fees on city Ribbon Cutting in Stanhope New Members were inducted into the Raymond Johnson Chapter of the National Honor Society on November Only juniors and seniors can be selected for this Members are selected by the faculty based on the qualities of service and Those who were inducted are front row left to Rachel Jill Second row Tracy Darcy Melissa Amanda Krystal Back row Katie Tabitha Brandon Malinda Sara Moeller and Jeb Other members include Sarah Jenny Heather Chad Erin Long and Steffani EDUCATION UPDATE Ribbon cutting was held on November 6 in Stanhope at the new office of Nancy a certified She has completed 186 hours of training in Fort Dodge and has been seeing clients out of her home south of She now has an office in the medical building in Stanhope and will tee patients on Wednesday and Friday at the Stanhope Report Card Chapter of the Iowa Code mandates that each school establish an assessment committee which functions to review the districts operation and recommend goals to the board of The South Hamilton Assessment Committee met in the spring of 1992 and made the following recommendations 1 assess student achievement in mathematics and language 2 assess student achievement in technology in all curricular 3 develop grade level and course outcomes and assessments in and studying for all curriculum 4 improve public 5 continue to improve the home and 6 continue the SO Cent Levy for upkeep of the districts buildings and Chapter of the Iowa Code further requires that school districts report the results of the assessment committees established The following two part report will summarize the districts efforts and progress toward completion of the Part one will explain each goal and the districts and part two will describe the progress towards completion of the Summary of Efforts to Complete die Districts Goals 1 Assess student achievement in mathematics and language Previous to the 199293 school the only method for assessing student achievement was through state and national comparisons with Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and Iowa Tests of Educational Development Through the use of in grades and in grades we can make comparisons of our students to students in Iowa and the by Carroll McLuckie on the District Goals Tests results measure both student achievement and curriculum alignment of South Hamilton to state and national using only and to measure student achievement does not provide the district with information on how well our students are learning our In order to more accurately measure achievement with our we wrote grade and course outcomes for mathematics and language By focusing on ten to twenty significant learnings for each grade or students are more likely to have significant Examples of mathematics outcomes are the following count to tell time to the hour and half addition and subtraction facts multiplication facts Examples of language arts outcomes are the following for 199293 identify capital and small letters Aa identify final consonants in spoken effectively communicate using writing write a District Goals to page 7 Collaborative Planning Team Meeting to be Held The Collaborative Planning Team will meet on November 18 from in the high school resource Topics to be covered will include the and structure of the a brief history of collaborative efforts and a review new mission Patrons of the district are invited to be a participant of this Clip and Save South Hamilton Happenings November 11 POST OFFICE Veterans No rural Mail will be distributed to Post Office November 12 NO Womens Study Club Fun Party for Ellsworth Community Golden Age Ladies at Ellsworth November 13 Norske Elim Lutheran November 16 Community Support meeting for Bike Federated at FFA meeting 5th 6th Concert AA AlAnon at Jewell Bank Basement November 17 at Ellsworth Library If you would like to have event listed on this please contact the South Hamilton Record News at 1 f
