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Williams Bay School District board approves calendars, staffing moves and K–5 curriculum purchase
Summary
At its Jan. 13 meeting the Williams Bay School District board approved the consent agenda, multiple personnel hires, the 2025–26 calendar (with three added professional development days), open-enrollment caps for 2025–26, purchase of K–5 Studies Weekly materials for $19,005.24, and a revised middle/high school handbook.
The Williams Bay School District board met on Jan. 13 and approved a slate of administrative and curriculum actions, including personnel appointments, two school-year calendars, formal open-enrollment caps for 2025–26 and a K–5 curriculum purchase.
The board approved the consent agenda, which included bills payable, a seasonal temporary maintenance-worker job description and continuation of a gymnastics cooperative with nearby districts. Administrator (speaker 9) said the seasonal position will help with sporting events and summer work while the district continues to recruit for a full-time maintenance hire. The motion to approve the consent agenda passed by voice vote.
On personnel, the board approved hiring Justin Alberts as a second-shift maintenance worker and Scott Gump as a seasonal maintenance worker. The board also approved Curtis Brown and Mark Stanick as assistant high school softball coaches to share a stipend. The hires were presented as part of the personnel transaction sheet for Jan. 13 and the board approved them by voice vote.
The board approved the 2025–26 school-year calendar as presented, adding three professional-development days on Aug. 19–21 to accommodate training for an anticipated English language arts (ELA) curriculum adoption. Administrator (speaker 9) said those days are needed to “properly implement that curriculum” and estimated 20–25 staff would attend training, with an associated training payroll cost of about $20,000–$25,000. The preliminary 2026–27 calendar was also approved as presented.
The board set open-enrollment caps for the 2025–26 school year. After a correction at the board table, the approved caps included: 4K, 5K and 1st grade — 36 students each; 2nd — 54; 3rd and 4th — 38 each; 5th — 42; 6th–8th — 50 each. Special-education caps were set at 55 for speech programs and 60 for multi-categorical programs. A board member read the caps aloud before the board approved them by voice vote.
The board approved purchase of the Studies Weekly curriculum for K–5 social studies and science. District staff said Studies Weekly was first purchased in February 2023 in parts and that the district later added Explore Science content; staff described the materials as inquiry-based and aligned with reading and writing instruction. The board approved the purchase at the figure stated in the motion: $19,005.24 and $0.27.
The board also approved a revised middle- and high-school handbook. Administrator (speaker 9) said changes include explicit mention of smartwatches in the electronic-device policy and an addition to the dress code wording. The handbook motion passed by voice vote.
With no public comments and no further business, a board member moved to adjourn and the meeting ended.
What’s next: Administrators said two ELA-vendor presentations are scheduled for Feb. 10 and Feb. 11; the district may pilot a curriculum this spring for possible fall adoption.
