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Stories of despair turned to hope were shared with the Rolla Board of Education Thursday night by faculty members of the Early Childhood Special Education program.
“We love our students,” one faculty member said.
The program works with students with various disabilities including autism, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, drug-affected and chromosomal abnormalities.
The faculty members told of students who entered the program mute and inattentive, but who have grown to be able to interact with teachers and other students.
Therapies used in the program are speech/language therapy, physical therapy and occupational therapy.
The program has about 50 students enrolled.
In other business or discussion:
• Assistant Superintendent Craig Hounsom gave a report on the Student Growth Pilot Project.
• Assistant Superintendent Kelly Hinshaw updated the board on the construction at the high school and middle school.
• The board noted four candidates have filed for election to the board: Jeanne Cavender (incumbent), Rodney Southard, Gregory J. Stratman and Tom Sager.
• Board meetings in February are set for Feb. 2 and Feb. 16.
• In the consent agenda, the board approved hiring support staff members, declared an IBM Wheelwriter 5 and an nView View Frame II+2 Transparency Screen as obsolete property for disposal and declared English books and the VIPS car as surplus property. The VIPS car will be donated to the Rolla Police Department.
The Student Growth Pilot Project is a Department of Elementary and Secondary Education project to investigate two models of measuring student growth: Student Growth Percentiles and Value-Added Measures.
Student Growth Percentiles “express growth relative to that of a student’s ‘academic peers,’” Hounsom said. Value-Added Measures “provide estimates of contributions to student test scores made by districts, buildings and educators.”
The state is looking for student growth data that gives a better measure of student achievement than current methods.
In the construction report, Hinshaw noted work is on schedule. Construction at the high school began in July 2011 and the roof was completed December 2011. The new addition will be substantially completed by May and renovations of existing classrooms will take place through July.
Middle school construction began in November. The floor is to be poured by Jan. 27 and the steel delivered the week of Jan. 30. Substantial completion of the new addition, the new entry doors and canopies will be in August.
Stories of despair turned to hope were shared with the Rolla Board of Education Thursday night by faculty members of the Early Childhood Special Education program.
“We love our students,” one faculty member said.
The program works with students with various disabilities including autism, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, drug-affected and chromosomal abnormalities.
The faculty members told of students who entered the program mute and inattentive, but who have grown to be able to interact with teachers and other students.
Therapies used in the program are speech/language therapy, physical therapy and occupational therapy.
The program has about 50 students enrolled.
In other business or discussion:
• Assistant Superintendent Craig Hounsom gave a report on the Student Growth Pilot Project.
• Assistant Superintendent Kelly Hinshaw updated the board on the construction at the high school and middle school.
• The board noted four candidates have filed for election to the board: Jeanne Cavender (incumbent), Rodney Southard, Gregory J. Stratman and Tom Sager.
• Board meetings in February are set for Feb. 2 and Feb. 16.
• In the consent agenda, the board approved hiring support staff members, declared an IBM Wheelwriter 5 and an nView View Frame II+2 Transparency Screen as obsolete property for disposal and declared English books and the VIPS car as surplus property. The VIPS car will be donated to the Rolla Police Department.
The Student Growth Pilot Project is a Department of Elementary and Secondary Education project to investigate two models of measuring student growth: Student Growth Percentiles and Value-Added Measures.
Student Growth Percentiles “express growth relative to that of a student’s ‘academic peers,’” Hounsom said. Value-Added Measures “provide estimates of contributions to student test scores made by districts, buildings and educators.”
The state is looking for student growth data that gives a better measure of student achievement than current methods.
In the construction report, Hinshaw noted work is on schedule. Construction at the high school began in July 2011 and the roof was completed December 2011. The new addition will be substantially completed by May and renovations of existing classrooms will take place through July.
Middle school construction began in November. The floor is to be poured by Jan. 27 and the steel delivered the week of Jan. 30. Substantial completion of the new addition, the new entry doors and canopies will be in August.
