School Department Report

 

TO:      Municipal Officers and Citizens of Lamoine

This Annual Report is submitted for your review:

 

Your student enrollment, as of October 1, 2003 was as follows:

K

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

K-8 Total

9

10

11

12

Total

12

12

16

12

19

22

15

16

15

139

25

17

21

27

90

 

Total K-12 229

 

Our secondary enrollment as of October 1, 2003 was 90:  Ellsworth High School (39), Mount Desert Island High School (43), George Stevens Academy (3), Sumner High School (1), and Brewer High (1), Liberty School (2), St. Mark’s School (1)

 

The following personnel were employed by the School Committee for the 2003-2004 school year:

 

Principal                                               Val Perkins                                           MA

Grades 6/7/8                                        Christopher James                                BA/BS

Grades 6/7                                           Tim Barlow                                          MA

Grades 6/7/8                                        Carol Duffy                                          CAS 

Grade 5                                                Linda Brooks                                       BA/BS

Grade 4                                                Diane Bonney                                       MA/BS  

Grade 3                                                Laurie Davis                                         MA

Grade 2                                                Leah Treadwell                                     BA/BS  

Grade 1                                                Amy Duym                                           MA

Kindergarten                                        Julie Jordan                                          BA/BS

Special Education                                 Jean Harris                                           MA

Speech                                                 Bradford Cook                                     MA

Physical Education (1/2)                       Michelle Morse                                    BA/BS

Art (2/5)                                               Patricia Haugh                                      BA/BS

Music                                                   Karen Hawthorne                                 BA/BS

Gifted/Talented (2/5)                            Mary Beth Miller                                  MA

Title I/Early Literacy                             Margaret Boshko                                 BA/BS

Guidance (2/5)                                     Vacant

School Nurse                                       Jacqueline Grohoski, R.N.                    BA/BS

Secretary                                              Betty Anderson                                    2 Yr.Degree

Librarian Ed Tech                                 Robin Veysey                                       BA/BS

Ed Tech Spec Ed                                 Debbie Lunt                                         H.S.

Ed Tech Spec Ed                                 Theresa Gordon                                   H.S.

Ed Tech Spec Ed                                 Christine Brown                                    H.S.

Ed Tech Spec Ed                                 Ronda Chamberland                             2 Coll

Ed Tech Spec Ed                                 Cheryl Curtis                                        BS

Ed Tech Spec Ed                                 Barbara Engstrom                                 H.S.

Cook                                                   Barbara Stratton                                   H.S.

Cook Assistant                                     Doreen Boynton                                   H.S.

Custodian                                             Lenny Bright                                         H.S.

Part-time Custodian                              Timothy Turner                                     H.S.

 

Robin Veysey, Librarian Ed. Technician is new to our staff this year.

 

I am pleased to report that your school continues to be in good shape with students progressing towards our goal of receiving a quality education.  We also are able to capitalize on our strength which is our ability to work together as a union for the benefit of our students.

 

Curriculum, instruction, assessment and staff development all continue to be a major focus of our efforts in Lamoine and union wide.  Progress continues on the development of our Local Assessment System.  New reading assessments have been implemented this fall.  Science assessments have been identified and at least one will be piloted at every grade level this year.

 

The U92 Design/Assessment Team, under Deb Metzler’s leadership, has been working to increase the staff’s knowledge of standards based grading.  As a component of our Local Assessment System we have the need to report student progress as it relates to the four (4) performance levels as defined by the MEA:

 

1.                  Does not meet the standard;

2.                  Partially meets the standard;

3.                  Meets the standard; and

4.                  Exceeds the standard.

 

Standards based report cards will be our next logical step.  It is our goal to have our local assessment and a standards based reporting system in place by the fall of 2005.

 

You are invited to a community forum to be held at the Lamoine Consolidated School to discuss information regarding the federal legislation, “No Child Left Behind” and Maine’s “Learning Results”.  This is part of our efforts to educate parents, students and community members of the impact on students regarding these two pieces of educational legislation.  Date and time to be announced.

 

The School Building Committee Chair, Bonnie Marckoon, reports that we are planning a Town Forum to discuss long range planning for school and town facility needs.  This will happen sometime in May.

 

Your school committee continues to work hard at updating their policies and on putting together their FY 05 school budget proposal which is presented in this report for your review, discussion and action.

 

Once again, it has been a sincere pleasure serving as your Superintendent during the past year.

                                   

Respectfully,

 

William A. Fowler

Superintendent