Board approves retirement of long-time teacher Pearson

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Tom Olson was elected by unanimous consent as the new chairman of the ISD #402 Hen­dricks School Board at their Jan. 20 meeting.

Angie Schumacher and Ches­ter Frank will remain board clerk and board treasurer, re­spectively, as they were re-elect­ed to these positions, also with unanimous votes.

Committee appointments were also made at the meeting with the following results:

HendricksPublic SchoolPer­sonnel Committee – Nick Citter­man andChesterFrank;

MSBA Liaison – Phil Moen;

MREA Liaison – Nick Citter­man;

Community Education Advi­sor Committee – Tom Olson and Lisa Schmidt;

Curriculum/Wellness Com­mittee – Angie Schumacher and Lisa Schmidt;

School and City Committee – Tom Olson and Phil Moen.

Jessica Jordahl presented in­formation on the FLY (Flexible Learning Year) to the board ex­plaining what the FLY is and what the FLY team does. Accord­ing to the handout provided by Jordahl, “The FLY is made up of 25 school districts in southwest Minnesota including the Hen­dricks District, who have agreed to cooperatively work together to provide high quality profes­sional development by pooling human intellectual and financial resources together. Our goal is to improve student achievement in the areas of math and reading. The goal of the FLY team is to create a framework for profes­sional development to be imple­mented collaboratively among the FLY districts.”

Jordahl told the board that the FLY committee is made up of one representative from each of the participating districts. Jordahl is the representative for theHen­dricksSchool.

Jordahl also explained to the board that there are three sub-committees that meet and plan all of the activities associated with the FLY with representa­tives within each district for each of the subcommittees.

During the principal’s report, Principal Shelly Jensen spoke about the girls basketball team, saying the team has been im­proving and that it would be nice if there were more people in attendance at the games. She asked Tom Olson if he would put information on the signboard by his business announcing home games. Olson said that he could do that.

Jensen also said she had met with the student council and that the students would like to combine a Snow Days celebra­tion with a winter formal. The students do not wish to have it called a prom. This event will be held in March.

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