Amy Antle

This Continuous School Improvement Plan (CSIP) serves as a roadmap for the Licking R-VIII School District, guiding budget development and overall decision-making. The plan outlines three core goals: achieving academic excellence with high expectations and accountability, providing safe, supportive, and engaging learning environments, and maintaining highly qualified staff. It aims to empower every student to reach their full potential through a culture of excellence, integrity, respect, innovation, and community connections, ultimately enhancing student mastery of Missouri Learning Standards.

The agenda for the board meeting includes reviewing and approving the Annual Secretary of the Board Report (ASBR), approving bus routes and milk prices, and special education determination. The board will also discuss Reg 0342 (Conflict of Interest Regulation), review goals for the Board and Administration, and hold a public comment session. Additionally, the board will move into a closed session to discuss student matters, hiring, firing, disciplining, or promoting employees, personnel records, legal matters, and other protected records. They will also approve a substitute teacher list, new hires, and stipend positions.

The Licking R-VIII School District Technology Plan (2022-2027) focuses on five key technology focus areas: student learning, teacher professional learning, resource distribution and use, administration and data management, and technical support. The plan aims to align curriculum with ISTE standards, provide timely and effective professional development for teachers, ensure equitable access to technology resources, improve data management and security, and enhance technical support services. Specific goals include improving the student-to-device ratio, maintaining device age, upgrading network infrastructure, and enhancing user satisfaction with technical support. The plan emphasizes the use of SMART goals, regular monitoring, and community engagement to achieve its objectives.

The Licking R-VIII School District's Continuous School Improvement Plan (CSIP) serves as a district-wide commitment to enhancing academic achievement, ensuring secure and engaging learning environments, and cultivating a highly qualified workforce. The plan is structured around three core goals: fostering academic excellence through high expectations and accountability, providing safe, supportive, and engaging learning environments, and attracting and retaining highly qualified staff. It emphasizes curriculum alignment, evidence-based instructional practices, student recognition, behavioral and academic interventions, facility and technology improvements, enhanced safety measures, and strategic professional development and staff retention initiatives.

The board meeting covered various topics, including an optional quarantine proposal due to COVID-19, 2021 Map Test data, COVID-19 updates, a health services report, campus improvements, an update on Licking Fall Athletics, September enrollment figures, and approval of two early graduations. A two-year agreement with Catlett and Associates for audits was also approved. Discussion included questions about the Veteran's Assembly and a request for information for a publication.