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Board packet lists curriculum contracts and purchases including Junior Achievement, math manipulatives and sousaphones
Summary
The curriculum report placed several items on the consent and action agendas: a truancy‑intervention pilot ($2,800), nursing services contracts, a Kencrest services agreement for $3,219.75, renewal of Junior Achievement ($37,000), a math manipulatives purchase ($68,757.20) tied to I Ready, and four sousaphones ($46,697.20) for marching bands.
District curriculum staff presented consent and action items that include program renewals, student support contracts and instructional materials purchases.
The consent agenda included: a pilot agreement with Academy Y Tri to provide truancy intervention support (district staff said the pilot would be at a middle school for a cost of $2,800), a contract renewal with Ata Home Healthcare Inc. for individual nursing care for special‑education students (amount not specified in the presentation), and an agreement with Kencrest for student support services for a specific student at $3,219.75.
On the action agenda, staff listed:
- Renewal with Junior Achievement for grades 1–5 economics programming, $37,000. - Purchase of math manipulatives aligned with the I Ready classroom mathematics program, $68,757.20 (staff said the kits are reusable and will supplement existing inventories). - Purchase of four sousaphones for high school marching bands, $46,697.20.
Director Grayhob said Junior Achievement is a core resource used for elementary economics standards and that math manipulatives were inventoried to confirm existing stock before purchase. A board member asked whether similar programs exist at middle and high school levels; staff replied the Junior Achievement purchase covers grades 1–5 and middle school economic standards are addressed through social studies courses.
Nut graf: The purchases and renewals carry district budget implications and were presented with alignment to curriculum (math manipulatives tied to I Ready) or student support needs (nursing services and Kencrest). Staff said math manipulatives should arrive in the coming weeks and that they had retained some AIMSweb licenses only for special‑education progress monitoring following the I Ready transition.
Ending: The transcript records the items as presented to the board; the meeting record included questions from board members about program details, inventory and instrument lifespan. The transcript did not record formal roll call votes for these specific consent and action items.
