NEW ALBANY • PLAIN LOCAL BOARD OF EDUCATION

55 North High Street

New Albany, Ohio 43054

SPECIAL MEETING / WORKSHOP

Monday, March 8, 2010 — 6:30 p.m.

The Jeanne B. McCoy Community Center for the Arts

100 West Granville Street
Mershad Hall

AGENDA
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I. Meeting Called to Order—Mark Ryan, President

II. Roll Call

III. Additions to the Agenda

IV. Public Participation

V. Superintendent's Items

A. General Business

1. Items for Action

V..... a. Motion to Remove From Table High School Course Additions
for 2010-2011
V..... b. Motion to Amend High School Course Additions (C1-a)
V..... c. Motion to Approve Amended Resolution (C1-a)

2. Items for Information

a. Strategic Planning
b. Campus Master Planning
c. SAIL Update
d. High School Principal Search/Selection Process

VI. Executive Session: For consideration of the appointment, employment,

dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion, or compensation of a public
employee, official, or student.

VII. Other

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 VIII. Adjournment

Appendix Superintendent C1-a

Recommendation for Motion to Amend

High School Course Additions

It is the recommendation of the Director of Teaching and Learning to the

Superintendent that the Board of Education approve the following high school course
additions.

Career Skills - E2020

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12 — Online, Student-Paced — .5 Credit

Intended to be an upper level high school one-semester course, Career Skills introduces
students to a wide variety of career choices, by exploring the skills and steps required in
obtaining optimum professional and financial success. Units include: assessing personal
goals and attributes, exploring career opportunities, preparing career documents, (ex:
cover letter, resume, applications, etc), the job-search process, interviewing, work ethics,
interpersonal relationship at work, professional communication, time management, and
personal economic responsibilities.

Prerequisite: Application and administrative approval.

Strategies for Academic Success - E2020

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12 — Online, Student-Paced — .5 Credit

A one-semester comprehensive study skills and strategies course. The course covers
important study skill topics; such as time management, note taking, online learning
environment skills, and strategies for remembering key information. Within the course,
students receive real-world activities to further enhance learning, while utilizing newly-
learned skills and strategies in the E2020 learning environment.
Prerequisite: Application and administrative approval.

Literacy and Comprehension I - E2020

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12 — Online, Student-Paced — .5 Credit

A one-semester reading course designed for students who are significantly below high
school reading levels. This literacy and comprehension course is based on scientific
research including the Reading Next Report by the National Reading Panel (NRP),
reports from the National Institute for Literacy, and briefs from the Alliance for Excellent
Education. This course is an explicit and systematic instruction in comprehension

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 strategies; summarization, questioning, previewing/predicting, text structure, visualizing,
inferencing, and metacognition. The course uses a thematic and contemporary approach
on topics that interest students. The course helps motivate struggling readers and expose
students to effective, instructional principles using diverse, content-area and real-world
text. Approximately 75% of the text is classified nonfiction. The course includes
fluency, vocabulary, and structured writing through an engaging, technology- based
interface. The course includes both formative and summative assessments.

Prerequisite: Application and administrative approval.

Literacy and Comprehension II - E2020

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12 — Online, Student-Paced — .5 Credit

A one-semester reading course designed for students who are significantly below high
school reading levels. This literacy and comprehension course is based on scientific
research including the Reading Next Report by the National Reading Panel (NRP),
reports from the National Institute for Literacy, and briefs from the Alliance for Excellent
Education. This course is an explicit and systematic instruction in comprehension
strategies; summarization, questioning, previewing/predicting, text structure, visualizing,
inferencing, and metacognition. The course uses a thematic and contemporary approach
on topics that interest students. The course helps motivate struggling readers and expose
students to effective, instructional principles using diverse, content-area and real-world
text. Approximately 75% of the text is classified nonfiction. The course includes
fluency, vocabulary, and structured writing through an engaging, technology- based
interface. The course includes both formative and summative assessments.

Prerequisite: Application and administrative approval

Voting Designations
Throughout the agenda, the following designations may appear in the left margin.
H...... Items to be “heard” by the Board without action.
V...... Items to be voted on by the Board.
H/V... Items introduced to the Board that can be both “heard” and voted on at the same meeting or
tabled until the next meeting.

Public Participation Rules

The Board of Education recognizes the value to school governance of public comment on educational
issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on school matters
of community interest. In order to permit the fair and orderly expression of such comment, the Board
shall provide a period for public participation at every regular meeting of the Board and shall publish
rules to govern such participation in Board meetings. The presiding officer of each Board meeting at
which public participation is permitted shall administer the rules of the Board for its conduct. The
presiding officer shall be guided by the following rules:
A. Public participation shall be permitted as indicated on the agenda.
B. Anyone having a legitimate interest in the actions of the Board may participate during the public
portion of a meeting.
C. Attendees must register their intention to participate in the public portion of the meeting upon
their arrival at the meeting.

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 D. Participants must be recognized by the presiding officer and will be requested to preface their
comments by an announcement of their name, address, and group affiliation, if and when
appropriate.
E. Each statement made by a participant shall be limited to five (5) minutes duration.
F. No participant may speak more than once during each period of participation.
G. All statements shall be directed to the presiding officer; no person may address or question
Board members individually.
H. Tape or video recordings are permitted, providing the person operating the recorder has received
approval from the Superintendent prior to the Board meeting and agrees to the placement of the
equipment and to abide by the following conditions: 1) No obstructions are created between the
Board and the audience; 2) no interviews are conducted in the meeting room while the Board is
in session; 3) no commentary, adjustment of equipment, or positioning of operators is made that
would distract either the Board or members of the audience while the Board is in session.
I. The presiding officer may 1) interrupt, warn, or terminate a participant’s statement when the
statement is too lengthy, personally directed, abusive, obscene, or irrelevant; 2) request any
individual to leave the meeting when that person does not observe reasonable decorum; 3)
request the assistance of law enforcement officers in the removal of a disorderly person when
that person’s conduct interferes with the orderly progress of the meeting; 4) call for a recess or
an adjournment to another time when the lack of public decorum so interferes with the orderly
conduct of the meeting as to warrant such action; 5) waive these rules. The portion of the
meeting during which the participation of the public is invited shall be limited to thirty (30)
minutes at the beginning of the meeting early in the agenda.

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