Jamestown, ND (KCSi- T.V. News) — The Jamestown Public School Board was informed about administrators progress in year three, of the five-year AdvancED.,school improvement program.

District School Improvement Committee member, Jamestown Middle School principal Gail Wold said “It’s taking a look at who we are a district, what are we doing well and what are we not doing well, adding, It’s a way of looking at ourselves.”

The AdvancED guidelines are required to be met for the district to maintain accreditation with the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement to receive funding.

There are five standards and 35 indicators throughout those standards that are used to measure the quality of the district.

Those include, purpose and direction, governance and leadership, and teaching and assessing for learning, along with resources and support systems, and using results for continuous improvement.

The improvement committee is to meet once a month, and in March of 2013, will have an external accreditation team conducting interviews and observe classrooms.

The committee will then have two months to take actions, based on recommendations.

 

The School Board was updated by Joe Hegland, Director of Curriculum and Professional development, on the transition process to the new Common Core education standards.

Common Core, will have a more difficult curriculum for math and language arts.

 

The school board also organized a committee to look at the support staff salary schedule, chaired by Diane Hanson.

The committee will address a 6 percent raise that was given out as 3 percent on base pay and 3 percent in a step increase, while support staff received a flat 6 percent raise.

Jamestown School Board, Support Staff Salary Schedule Committee will meet on Monday, October 22, 2012 at 5:15 pm in the Central Office Conference Room located in the Administration Building, 207 2nd Avenue Southeast, Jamestown.

The meeting was recorded by CSi and is now showing on KCSi-T.V. 10 THE REPLAY CHANNEL.