The Winslow School District Governing Board met last week and approved the hiring of 11 employees, the transfer of two, two volunteer track coaches, and the resignations or retirements of six employees.
New hires included emergency substitutes Glenda McKenzie and Pearl Katoney, part-time substitute bus drivers Marandian Hayduk, Richard Attakai and Michael Montoya Jr., substitute Sue Currier, Winslow Junior High School track coach Larissa Richards, Washington School part-time CAN Jessica Fugatt, high school CTE Director/Career Tech Penny Brimhall, Winslow High School head wrestling coach Scott Larsen and Jefferson School part-time classroom aide Debra Cullum.
Transfers were approved for Mary Shumway from kindergarten classroom aide at Bonnie Brennan School to reading aide at Jefferson School, and Kenya Summerville from part-time classroom aide at Jefferson School to full-time kindergarten aide at Bonnie Brennan School.
Nick Anderson was approved as a volunteer track coach at WHS and Andrew Zimmerman as a volunteer track coach at WJHS.
Resignations or retirements were accepted from special education high needs aide at WJHS and Washington School Margaret Rogers, effective Feb. 14; WHS head wrestling coach Lawrence Watson, effective Feb. 21; part-time CAN at Washington School Alecia Alvarado, effective Feb. 24; WHS CTE/NAVIT secretary Cathy Candelaria, effective June 8; full-time teacher to part-time teacher Kaye Ricks, effective Feb. 13; and bus driver/grounds worker Michael Young, effective March 5.
Also on March 7, the board approved the donations of $200 for the WHS Baseball Club from an anonymous donor and $90 for Washington School from Arizona Restaurant Systems for Sonic Night.
The board approved the agreement with Navajo County Special Services for special education services, and then approved the open enrollment capacities for the 2012-13 school year. Both of these are routine annual procedures.
A letter of declaration to renew the district’s line of credit with Wells Fargo Bank was approved.
A new administrative evaluation was approved, which complies with a new state law that one-third of the evaluation must be tied to student achievement.
The board held the first reading of a series of policy services advisories from the Arizona School Boards Association. No action was taken on the items, but Superintendent Doug Watson explained each of them and recommended that one not be adopted, as he said it would make some of the teachers and others do now more difficult if not impossible to do. The policies will be voted upon at a future meeting.
Watson later said that in the year after next a new law will require evaluations to affect teacher performance pay.
Assistant Superintendent Lance Heister said that a group called Brayden’s Buddy had contacted him about placing defibrillators in the school and teaching how to use them.
