Present: Winston Wright, Chairman, Don Arguin, Dixie Gurian, Patricia Smith, Gus Lerandeau, Stephen Mettling, William Felton, Alan Gross, Gene White, Richard Thackston, Geordie Fifield and Jonathan Kirstein. Absent: Robin Marra, John Morin and Larry Colby.

Also present: C. Cardine, Supt., K. Dassau, Asst. Supt.; L. Biron, Business Manager; D. Hodgdon, Dir. of Curriculum; B. Fowler, Director of Buildings and Grounds. Principals: D. Stockwell, B. Tatro, D. Dahl and S. Rashid.

Minutes of May 21, 2002 MOTION: G. Lerandeau MOVED to approve the minutes. SECOND A. Gross VOTE: 8.89/0/0/6.11 Motion Passes.

2. CITIZENS CONCERNS: Kathy Kenney, a parent from Gilsum commented on the Communications Letter from the Northern Schools, and informed the board about permission slips for field trips. C. Cardine replied that it is policy to have individual permission slips and that the teacher involved was reminded in writing of the procedures that needed to be followed. R. Clark told the board that at a past field trip a student did not get back on the bus and was left behind. C. Cardine responded that he was aware of the incident and the appropriate discussion was held with the teacher. R. Moriarity asked that the minutes and reports be put on the web site.

3. STUDENT COUNCIL CONCERNS: W. Wright informed the board that J. Duca will hold his Teacher Student Committee request until June 18, 2002, when he has more time for it to be reviewed by D. Stockwell.

4. CORRESPONDENCE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: C. Cardine informed the board that students from the Cutler School participated in the NHDI shows at the Keene State College Art Center and had a wonderful performance.

B. New Business: E. Cronin passed out a request for Continual Varsity Status for the MRHS Hockey Team. She also passed out a budget for the 2002-2003 school year. She is recommending that the team stay the same and charge adults $3.00 and the students $1.00 to attend the games. R. Thackston suggested that if it is a money issue this situation be handed to the Finance Committee to make a recommendation to the board. D. Gurian asked what the transportation costs would be for the team. E. Cronin said that they would be announced. N. Moriarity asked if all club teams received finance from the school. E. Cronin said that the club is already a varsity sport.

Scott Cody the general manager for the Monadnock Maurauders a semi pro football team is asking to use that Monadnock Game field for their season. The Maurauders would pay for all costs and an additional $5,000.00 annually would be given to the school for the upkeep to the fields. The details have been discussed with the schools attorney. G. White asked if it was a summer league and S. Cody replied that the season is August until October, the season is nine games and they are played on Saturday nights. The group has worked with E. Cronin and any school event will take priority over the Maurauders. G. White was under the impression that the fields were only for the school football team. D. Stockwell replied that anyone can use the field but they need to upkeep it. D. Stockwell would like to earmark the $5,000.00 to field improvements. G. Lerandeau asked when the Maurauders needed an answer. S. Cody replied that they had received a letter of intent from the board and that allowed them to receive a schedule. R. Thackston suggests sending the contract back to the facilities committee and then to the board for action on June 18, 2002. D. Arguin thinks this is a great idea, positive community outreach but has a problem with earmarking of the $5,000.00. L. Biron suggests putting it in a private grant so that it would go to the fields.

C. Old Business: The board was introduced to Officer Wayne Kassotis, who is the School Resource Officer. He explained that he is continuing training, attending classes, teaching in June, and making sure that all the emergency planning for the schools are up to snuff. This summer he will interact with the children by attending camps and being visible in the community. W. Kassotis is a tremendous asset to the district and was given a round of applause for his accomplishments.

Curriculum Report: D. Hodgdon was asked by the Superintendent to review and begin to map out the curriculum of the northern schools' fifth/sixth grade teachers in the four major subjects. The findings of this review of the curriculum were presented to Mr. Cardine in a six-page memo that focused on the purposes underlying curriculum mapping, the teachers' curriculum approaches, the use of books and other resources, the extent to which the standards were being taught, the role of assessment, and recommendations. He indicated that the teachers in Surry and Sullivan tended to share an approach for curriculum delivery. The teacher in Gilsum had adopted a fully integrated program; the other two teachers integrate aspects of their curricula, but structure their programs around individual subject areas and more readily use textbooks and materials focusing on those subject areas. D. Hodgdon emphasized the value of curriculum mapping and made recommendations in his report, including the opportunity for teachers to meet to discuss the results of the mapping and to learn from each other in areas such as the connecting of the curriculum areas and assessment.

A. Gross thanked the teachers for the time they invested to complete the process. D. Arguin thanked the teachers and D. Hodgdon, thought that getting together in the future would be a great idea, and suggested that this reflective process would be positive for all teachers in the district. D. Hodgdon agreed, although acknowledged the time requirement for teachers to complete the mapping process

K. Kenney asked D. Hodgdon if he had observed the classrooms. He replied that he had observed the teachers in Surry and Sullivan, but not the teacher in Gilsum. R. Clark identified items that in his opinion were absent in an integrated classroom - tests or quizzes, a daily agenda, and research information being given by the teacher to the student. N. Moriarty asked whether or not a major problem in the 7th grade could be traced back to a particular school. D. Hodgdon indicated that, since students are viewed as Monadnock Regional Junior High School students rather than students from a particular town, it would be difficult to discern this information, unless there were a widespread issue.

D. Hodgdon pointed out that, although all of the standards are being met in language arts and math, several of the standards were not necessarily being addressed. Although during the two-year period that these teachers had the students all of the standards would likely be addressed. He said that he would have to see the progress for more than a year.

D. Curriculum Report: See Above. E. 21st Century Report: No Report.

G. Lerandeau MOVED to approve the manifest in the amount of $ 764,814.24 SECOND: A. Gross VOTE: 10.02/0/.74/4.24.Motion Passes.

6. SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT: C. Cardine passed out the information on the turnover of teachers within the district schools to the board members.

7. SETTING UP THE NEXT MEETING'S AGENDA:

1. Student Teacher Committee
2. Policy Committee
3. Communications Committee
4. Facilties Committee
5. Monadnock Maurauders
6. MRHS Hockey Team
7. Hearing in Non-Public

9. Motion to Adjourn.

Respectfully submitted,

Laura Aivaliotis

MRSD Board Secretary