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Principals tout intervention gains; board praises evacuation response and recognizes school nurses
Summary
Madison Southern and Madison Central principals described reading and math intervention gains and morale-building efforts; the superintendent and trustees praised a rapid evacuation drill that moved 1,600 students and thanked law-enforcement and university partners for coordination.
School leaders told the Madison County board that targeted intervention and schoolwide practices are producing measurable gains while the district continues to prioritize health and safety.
The principal at Madison Southern (unnamed in the transcript) described a three-tiered intervention model for struggling students and said 99% of participating students in the reading intervention “have grown at least 1 grade level,” with 72% rising by two grade levels and more than 10% by three or more grade levels. He credited teachers and assessment-driven placement for the gains.
Brandon Fritz, principal of Madison Central, described short morale-building classroom activities (called Traverse or Starburst), scrimmage testing to align instruction with state-style questions, and preparations for graduation activities. Fritz and others reflected on a recent large-scale evacuation drill at Madison Central.
During the superintendent’s report, district leadership recapped the evacuation that relocated about 1,600 students to the soccer field in under nine minutes and then bused students to Eastern Kentucky University in under 30 minutes. The superintendent thanked the Richmond Police Department, state police, Madison County Sheriff’s Department, bomb squad, EKU police and Director of Safety Brian McEnany for rapid coordination and said a debrief with partner agencies is planned.
Trustees also recognized Heart Safe School designations and praised the district’s nurses and health coordinators for training staff under Project Adam, a program presented in partnership with Golisano Children’s Hospital at the University of Kentucky.
What happens next: principals said intervention work will continue and the district will complete a formal multiagency debrief of the evacuation to refine procedures and share lessons with other districts.
