Congratulations to the following students and staff members who were recognized at the March 16 Board of Education meeting at Edna L. Toliver Intermediate School (not all were present to be pictured):

• Student Tanner Estep was recognized for his wonderful wax museum presentation as Bob Ross.
• Student Kaitlynn Pinkston was recognized for her growth this quarter in assessment performances and completing extra practice work at home.
• Students from the Toliver academic team were recognized for their medals and high placements: Mildred Ramsey, 3rd place in Language Arts; Waylon Clark, 2nd place in science and 3rd place in social studies; and Owen Kuchenbrod, 5th place in arts and humanities.
• Student Reia Frey competed in the Regiona Big Blue Spelling Bee as Toliver's school winner, placing 12th.
• Several students met and exceeded their personal reading goals and surpassed the 5th grade end-of-year goal of 125 Accelerated Reader points: Blaise Wittig, Mildred Ramsey, Anna Neikirk, Jaryd Ellis, Waylon Clark, Jhoana Mejia and Alyssa Policarpio.

 

 

• Several students met and exceeded their personal Accelerated Reading goals: Riru Yamada, Hazel Knoll, Kinley Grider and Caroline Robbins.
• 4th graders were recognized for excellent classroom engagement, effort, responsibility and behavior daily: Mason Layne, Draylan Francisco, Mackenzie Shelton, Sontana Nget and Harold Gatica.

 

 

• 2nd Grade Teacher Jessie Johnson and 3rd Grade Teacher Sarah Moss were honored for making exceptional reading growth with their students this year. 3rd Grade Teacher Brooke Winderl and 2nd Grade Teacher Angie Holderman were honored for making exceptional math growth with their students this year.
• Physical Education Teacher KT Kennedy was honored with being "All In" for students. She participates in Zero Hour, lunch groups. a girls' club and a boys' behavior academy group in addition to teaching her PE classes.
• Counselor Sequoya Brand was recognized for fully embracing her administrative role this year and becoming an asset to Toliver.
• Toliver Instructional Assistant Brooklynn Goodman was recognized for joining the district's Option 9 cohort.
• District Director of the Arts Bo List was recognized for his excellent work putting together the Frank X Walker Creative Arts Festival.

 

Other business from the meeting

The Board of Education unanimously approved raising tuition costs for preschool. This will not impact students with disabilities or students with household income that meets federal income guidelines.

The tuition rates are raising from $48 per week for half days and $90 per week for full days to $55 per week for half days and $100 per week for full days. Chief Finance Officer Nic Senak said during the meeting that this is still considerably lower than rates in surrounding school districts and that tuition costs go toward salaries of bus drivers/monitors.