Reminder:

 

 

Tomorrow night (Thursday, September 12th at 6:00pm) the Wythe County School Board will meet at the School Board Office. All employees are encouraged to attend. You can find the agenda on Wythe County Public Schools website   boarddocs.com/vsba/wythe/Board.nsf

 

 

 

Topics on the Agenda that may interest you:

 

*  Wythe County School Board Goals and Objectives will be shared. 

*  Dr. Poole will present an update on Capital Improvement.

*  Dr. Brannon will give a First Reading of VASS High Stakes Testing Resolution.

*  Dr. Brannon will also present the VEA report on required local effort.

*  Dr. Melinda Robinett will present policy for Student fees, fines, and charges.

 

 

We hope to see you there!

Welcome Back

 Check out these photos from the Back-to-School County Wide Convocation. Thanks to all the people who stopped by the WCEA table to see us and put your name in for the drawings. We were excited to give away a KindleFireHD, iPod Nano, Happy Nails $35 gift card, teacher supply basket, a Sheetz giftcard, and a table full of teacher goodies! A special thanks to members - Delores Craig, Joey Russell, and Annie Zorn who joined our WCEA officers at the table to meet and greet folks. Best wishes in overcoming your Goliaths this year!

More info on our great speaker, Dave Weber. http://daveweber.com/

Gubernatorial Education Platforms

Interesting article on the platforms of the gubernatorial candidates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/cuccinellis-k-12-education-plan-would-let-virginia-parents-take-over-failing-schools/2013/08/13/213cfcb8-03cd-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html

Member Benefits

Don't forget about your NEA Member Benefits. Here's a link to the back-to-school deals that are being offered. You can register for a chance to win an Ipad Mini!!!

http://www.neamb.com/backtoschool 

School Board Meeting

August 8, 2013 at 6:00 pm the Wythe County School Board will meet at the SBO. This evening meeting will give you an opportunity to provide input or simply show up---- to show your interest! Please plan to attend.

                                            AGENDA HIGHLIGHTS

*  Beginning of school information

*  An update on the Capital Improvement Projects

*  DRESS CODE Policy Revisions (Can be found on Board Docs - "fifth option" is crossed out and underlined version; "final" is the clean copy) http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/wythe/Board.nsf/Public

• There's another policy mentioned that has to do with 12 months employee leave. It doesn't appear to change much. 

School Board meeting news...

1. Stephanie James, Kim Aker, Denise Davis, and I all spoke with concerns regarding more night meetings and the dress code proposals. 
2. Mr. Kidd and Mr. Frye were reelected to chair and vice-chair, respectively.
3. SB meetings for the 13-14 school year were set. Meetings from Sept to May will be held at 6:00pm on the second Thursday of the month. We all will now actually have the opportunity to attend the SB meetings! This a great accomplishment that WCEA has been working toward for several years. We were tasked with getting more teachers to attend :)
4. The dress code proposal was presented by Dr. Robinett. The formal and casual plans that were on BoardDocs were presented and compared to the current dress code. She then explained several drawbacks to implementing a new dress policy - including many of the problems that we had brought to their attention in our remarks. Dr. Robinett's final recommendation was to not adopt either of the proposals - instead she recommended amending the current dress code policy. The policy vote was not held today. We were asked to get feed back on the idea of keeping the current policy with amendments. The vote will likely be at the August meeting. 

The current policy can be found here on p.220-221. The four amendments she suggested were:

• No denim is allowed (excluding dress down days)
• Limit number of dress down days (proposing 10 days per school year - 1 per month)
• No sweatshirts are allowed (excluding dress down days)
• Require employee signature (doesn’t want anyone to violate without them knowing)

WCPS School Board Meeting 7/10 @ 9am

Topics of interest at the SB meeting include:

1. Elections of SB chair & co-chair
2. Proposed dates/times for SB meetings
3. Proposed dress code for teachers

Please come at 9am on Wed to hear the details. If you'd like to share your opinion come a few minutes early to sign-up for public comment.

Check out the proposed meeting dates/times & dress code at BoardDocs.