Regular Board Meeting Recap for April 8th, 2014

During the meeting Superintendent Himmel presented the Superintendent’s “Making a Difference Award” to Crystal River High School student Tyler Phillips and to Lecanto Primary School teacher Dianna Bandhauer. Tyler was awarded for his selfless commitment and work in helping the Crystal River High School campus remain the beautiful campus it is. Ms. Bandhauer was awarded for her work on the school’s, “Fuel Up To Play 60”.  Ms. Bandhauer  gave a presentation to the  school board about the  Fuel Up To Play 60 program LPS students have been involved in. Fuel Up To Play 60 is a nationwide movement focused on encouraging kids to eat healthy and be active for 60 minutes a day.

School district staff presented the bid results for the districts’ before-and after-school programs. The recommended bid was the Citrus YMCA of the Suncoast.   The YMCA won the bid process ; the  Y already has been operating the before-and- after-school program at Homosassa Elementary School. YMCA Executive Director Joanna Castle gave a presentation on the Y’s before-and- after-school and explained that the Y partners with the Early Learning Coalition and is  licensed through the state of Florida and the Department of Children and Families.  The Y will offer financial assistance for the before-and- after-school programs, something that the school district previously could not.  Ms. Castle shared that the Y has been  the nation’s largest before-and- after-school care provider for the past 30 years.  She went on to say that currently the Y offers before-and- after-school programs to about 5,000 youths at 51 child care sites already. After Ms. Castle’s presentation the Board voted unanimously to award the bid to the Y.

Also during the meeting Citrus Springs Middle’s Assistant Principal Jason Koon and AVID English Language Arts teacher Dan Koch gave an excellent presentation to the board about “Flipped Classrooms” and other strategies they learned  while they were at the Florida Educational Technology Conference in Orlando in January.

If you would like to see more of the board meeting  follow this link to the video stream: http://new.livestream.com/citrusschools/events/2901929

Our next board workshop and meeting is April 22^nd, 2014.

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