Want to teach science next year?

You might consider Stanley- Boyd. Word at the Monday June 27 school board meeting was to the euect that an open – ing exists, with failure to fill it potentially auecting students schedules.

In the meantime and as part of a real life lesson in thermodynamics and the need for constant upkeep, the Stanley-Boyd School Board got an update from superintendent Jeu Koe nig regarding several summer projects now underway or planned in the gap between spring and fall classes.

“The summer projects are in good shape now,” Koenig reported as he said that buses would be at the district on Thursday. In addition the roof was being worked on, while the band room would also be in the course of the summer. The district had replaced ceiling tiles and lights in some Boyd Elementary classrooms, with the elevator at the high school gym also needing work. General cleaning was also in the cards, with holes yet to be drilled for the volleyball standards. For the present and in the meantime, there was the end of year AGR Report by elementary principal Dean Lew.

“As you can see, we’ve made significant progress this year,” Lew said of elementary scores. End of year results showed that 80 percent of kindergartners had scored 20 or higher on the PALS assessment by Spring, up from just one percent at the start of the year.

As to the ESGI letters and sounds assessment, 75 percent of kindergartners had scored 90 or higher by spring, up from 12 percent at the start of the year.

Finally on dictated sentences, 68 percent of kindergartners had scored 21 or higher on the assessment, up from zero percent at the start of the year.

Praising student and teacher euort, Lew also acknowledged some challenges, saying that current second graders had been most auected by COVID learning challenges, being kindergartners when the pandemic started. Chad Verbeten, meanwhile, had a question: had smaller class sizes helped?

"It's a divcult question to answer Chad,” Lew responded, saying that one of the reasons the district had gone for smaller class sizes was to lessen the potential euect if one or more classes had to be put on hold for COVID restrictions.