Peters said that although the Principal's Council was able to come to a consensus on a common bell schedule, there was no agreement on a common calendar. That did seem to work for the fall semester when the community college started before a number of high schools and students had to start attending classes before their actual school year began. Training - A tentative timeline for Phase Two was presented by B.J. B.J. is trying to arrange site visits to all the schools by the telephone companies and by Cytek our equipment provider. It is hoped that these visits will take place before the end of February. Shirley Schall, coordinator, of the Southwest Consortium will present the first day with the second day devoted to B.J. covering policies and procedures and practice teaching by participants.
Money is available in the lottery grant to pay for substitute teachers.
Schools are encouraged to identify faculty that should attend this workshop. Another training session will be offered sometime this summer but no dates have been set yet. The proposal is seeking funding for Minatare and Kimball to join our distance learning consortium. It was hoped that Bayard and Banner County would also be included in the grant proposal but their superintendents indicated that the ongoing costs were too expensive for their districts. The motion passed unanimously.