On Monday, May 12, the Monroe school board:
• Recognized members of the Monroe High School Mock Trial Team: Chelsey Metcalf, Peter Kelly, Nicole Heinen, Niamh O'Neill-Culhane, Tessa Frutiger, Natasha Morgan and Maggie Shuda. Students in turn presented attorney Tara Kleinhans, who helped bring back the program after an absence of several years, with a plaque for her assistance coaching the team.
• Recognized members of the Monroe High School Forensics Team: Nick Hendrickson, Flannery Steffens, Theresa Wyss, Elizabeth Eiserman, Matthew Peterson, Blake Antos, Patrick Gellings, Nicole Heinen, Carlee Latimer, Gail LaVoie, Julie Hartwig, David Parr, Reuben Arnold, Stephanie Cline, Clarissa Liimatainen, Taylor Weis, Haley Sinklair, Katlyn Lee, Melissa Rufer, Coree Lee, Laura Chopp, Elizabeth VanNatta, Jennifer Buol, Christina Mellenberger, Lindsey Buehler, Eleanor Nesimoglu and Madeline Arnold.
• Hired Gail Eiserman as MHS Family/Consumer Science teacher; Mark Woelfel as Northside teacher; and Kyle DeNure as Monroe Alternative Charter School math teacher.
• Accepted resignations from Cheryl Deininger, district nurse, and Carol Botteron, exceptional instructional needs aide at Monroe Middle School.
• Approved spending $20,500 for the netIEP software program to manage special education paperwork and forms. Director of Pupil Services Joe Monroe said the district uses forms in Word format, which is cumbersome. The new software is Web-based, allowing teachers to access information from any computer with an Internet connection, and will save him and staff time, Monroe said. The software will be paid for with Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) funds.
• Accepted the low bid of $68,066 from Universal Roofing of Stoughton to install a new 60-mil membrane roof over the roof on the 1963 addition of the middle school. (The portion of the school between the north end of the building and the new addition.) The current roof is 45-mil and increasing the thickness of the membrane should add about five years to the roof's life.
• Learned the Northside PTO gave the school $4,386 for five Lifeline Amplification Systems.
• Approved the district's Information Library Media and Technology Plan for 2008 through 2011.
• Recognized members of the Monroe High School Mock Trial Team: Chelsey Metcalf, Peter Kelly, Nicole Heinen, Niamh O'Neill-Culhane, Tessa Frutiger, Natasha Morgan and Maggie Shuda. Students in turn presented attorney Tara Kleinhans, who helped bring back the program after an absence of several years, with a plaque for her assistance coaching the team.
• Recognized members of the Monroe High School Forensics Team: Nick Hendrickson, Flannery Steffens, Theresa Wyss, Elizabeth Eiserman, Matthew Peterson, Blake Antos, Patrick Gellings, Nicole Heinen, Carlee Latimer, Gail LaVoie, Julie Hartwig, David Parr, Reuben Arnold, Stephanie Cline, Clarissa Liimatainen, Taylor Weis, Haley Sinklair, Katlyn Lee, Melissa Rufer, Coree Lee, Laura Chopp, Elizabeth VanNatta, Jennifer Buol, Christina Mellenberger, Lindsey Buehler, Eleanor Nesimoglu and Madeline Arnold.
• Hired Gail Eiserman as MHS Family/Consumer Science teacher; Mark Woelfel as Northside teacher; and Kyle DeNure as Monroe Alternative Charter School math teacher.
• Accepted resignations from Cheryl Deininger, district nurse, and Carol Botteron, exceptional instructional needs aide at Monroe Middle School.
• Approved spending $20,500 for the netIEP software program to manage special education paperwork and forms. Director of Pupil Services Joe Monroe said the district uses forms in Word format, which is cumbersome. The new software is Web-based, allowing teachers to access information from any computer with an Internet connection, and will save him and staff time, Monroe said. The software will be paid for with Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) funds.
• Accepted the low bid of $68,066 from Universal Roofing of Stoughton to install a new 60-mil membrane roof over the roof on the 1963 addition of the middle school. (The portion of the school between the north end of the building and the new addition.) The current roof is 45-mil and increasing the thickness of the membrane should add about five years to the roof's life.
• Learned the Northside PTO gave the school $4,386 for five Lifeline Amplification Systems.
• Approved the district's Information Library Media and Technology Plan for 2008 through 2011.