Fort Frye Local School District

The board meeting covered several critical items, including the acceptance of multiple donations for track resurfacing, gym wall pads, musical theater, Science Olympiad, and athletics. The board approved various operational and academic items such as student handbooks, an out-of-state trip for eighth-graders, summer credit recovery programs, and gap-closing services. Employment-related actions included supplemental contracts, support staff substitute approvals, salary increases, and a reduction in force for paraprofessional positions due to financial revenue loss. Additionally, the board ratified a three-year OAPSE labor contract, reviewed financial reports including account transfers, appropriations amendments, and invoices, and approved security camera additions and various policy updates related to food, artificial intelligence, and student admissions.

This document outlines Fort Frye Local Schools' comprehensive wellness program for the 2024-2025 school year. It is passionately committed to promoting knowledge, skills, and habits for life-long wellness through educated, healthy decision-making, aiming to develop and sustain healthy bodies, minds, and relationships within the school community. Key objectives include implementing comprehensive wellness and wrap-around services, a K-12 health curriculum reflecting national standards, mental health supports, family educational programming, and robust community partnerships. The plan also focuses on promoting healthy nutrition, physical activity, building a positive and safe school culture, ensuring student attendance, preventing substance/tobacco use, and supporting staff well-being.

This document outlines Fort Frye Local Schools' Funding Plan for FY 2024 and 2025, encompassing student wellness and success, and DPIA initiatives. The plan's primary focus is on implementing a comprehensive preK-12 wellness program to promote healthy minds, bodies, and relationships, supported by health/wellness curriculum, mental health programming, family education, community partnerships, staff wellness activities, and ensuring access to healthy foods. Additionally, DPIA funds are strategically allocated to enhance literacy instruction and close achievement gaps for K-12 students through benchmark assessments, specialized curricula like Lexia and Orton Gillingham, teacher training in the science of reading, and individualized tutoring. The overall objective is to foster life-long wellness through educated decision-making and ensure universal literacy among students.

The wellness plan for Fort Frye Local Schools focuses on promoting knowledge, skills, and habits for lifelong wellness through educated, healthy decision-making. It emphasizes positive nutritional, physical, social, and emotional choices to foster healthy bodies, minds, and relationships. The plan includes implementing a comprehensive wellness program from preK-12, supporting a K-12 Health/Wellness curriculum, providing mental health supports, offering family educational programming, maintaining community partnerships, and ensuring access to healthy foods. The plan also addresses student attendance, substance prevention, and the creation of a positive and safe school culture.