Angie Zevallos-Vasco

Mrs. Sparks
10/30/15
The Board of Education Meeting held on September 10, 2015. Started around 7:30,
Jennifer Beausoleil called the meeting to order and then led the salute to the flag. She then
stated if there was anyone in the audience of citizens that had to announce anything. There was
none. Officially, the meeting had started and they continued.
The first motion of the meeting was brought up by Eugene Marchand, was to move the
Consent Agenda to before the Report of the Superintendent. Mary Kortmann seconded it and
the motion passed unanimously. Next, they had to vote on the Consent Agenda. Two of the
things that were voted upon was the resignation of Michaela Gorham, CHS Special Education
Teacher and the approval of the CHS April 2016 Field Experience to Nashville, TN. The motion
was approved by Eugene Marchand and Mary Kortmann.
Report of Superintendent, Mr. Petrone talked about different happenings taking place
around the district over the past few weeks. He talked about how all Coventry schools were able
to keep students cool during the tremendous heat. Having indoor recess, teachers bringing in
fans, making sure the students had water. Even though other districts were let out early due to
the heat, Coventry was able to handle it and so were the teachers. They all made it through the
heat. Mr. Petrone also talked about how the iPads are being used in school. In art classes,
students are able to use their iPads to search up artists and get inspiration and inform them.
The iPads are giving students a better access to more resources to educate themselves more.
Mr. Petrone was very content with the idea of the iPads.
Information was then given on the Student Board of Education Representative Report by
Emily Oliver. She commented on how the students felt tremendously hot during the heat and
uncomfortable. Scrimmages have been cancelled due to the heat and some have been
frustrated because of that. However, the fall production auditions are being held this week.

The Administrator 2015-2016 Goal Presentations were displayed. First was Business
office, by Robert Carroll, Director of Finance and Operations. Mr. Carroll, went over his goals for
the year. He wants to keep working with the administration to move forward. The budget is a
constant battle to refine it. He wants to help get more grants, to advance our technology within
schools. Get kids to contribute ideas on what they think would be useful for the school on
technology. Helping the technology department to help us within our schools and just continue
to better the schools is what Mr. Carroll wants.
Next, the Technology Department presented their goals for 2015-2016 by Cathy Drury,
Director of Educational Technology. Her goals were to collaborate with other district leaders to
ensure effective implementation of the Teacher and Administrative Evaluation instrument also to
provide on-going technology support including on-line professional development. Basically, just
advance us as we continue into the future. Another goal was to develop a structure, process,
procedure for managing, and accounting for technology requests to efficiently and effectively
support teaching and learning. Giving teachers the knowledge on how to work with all the new
technology to benefit them and their students for a better learning experience. Also, the
Technology Department wants to increase communication and working relationships with
parents and the community regarding educational technology initiatives through various venues
including parent presentations, district website, and other digital platforms. They can do this with
students grades, report cards, honor roll and more all through Powerschool Parent Portal.
Which has been very effective with students and parents.
The last presentation was Pupil and Staff Support Services (PSSS) by Christine Murphy,
Director of Pupil and Staff Support Services. Ms Murphy, reviewed her goals for the 2015-2016
school year .Wanting to increase parent access to important information related to their student
and special education by increasing the resources available through the PSSS link on the
Coventry Public Schools website. Doing this by providing more direct support to parents and
students to create better communication with their kids. They need to know how they are doing

in class and be able to support them through it. Another goal that was looked at was to work
collaboratively with the redesigned Technology Team to support PSSS staff members in the
development of individualized plans to integrate technology into our daily professional practice.
By increasing the use of iPads in classrooms, and figuring out how teachers can incorporate
iPads into their lessons and giving teachers training on how to use certain applications on the
iPads.
Report of Chairman, Jennifer Beausoleil talked about the GHR Open House. Even
though it was a very hot evening it went well. There were refreshments to keep everyone cool
and a fan, so it wasnt so bad with all those people inside the buildings. She mentioned the
other Open Houses coming up and hoping they will do just as well. Also, that the Transportation
Committee meeting is scheduled September 24. She also mentioned on how the PTO
volunteers are very important.
Lastly, the minutes were voted to approval by Eugene Marchand and seconded by Mary
Kortmann.