School Board Town Meetings

Rye Junior High Structure Discussions


March 16th Presentation:  MiddleSchoolStructure031616

March 16th Time stamps:

0:00 elapsed:  Election of Scott Marion as Chairman, Kevin Brandon as Vice-Chairman and Kate Hillman as  Secretary.  Misc. matters.
47:25 elapsed:  Presentation on three options for Middle School structure.  Model One:  Integrate Social Studies with Language Arts.  Model Two:  Social Studies taught by each of the other three core teachers as a separate course.  Model Three:  Sixth and Seventh grades take each of Social Studies and Science for half a year.  Math and Language Arts have one teacher at each grade level.
78:10 elapsed:  Board discussion on Middle School structure.
110:34 elapsed:  Public comment on Middle School structure.
198:86 elapsed:  Public comment closed.  Board discussion, culminating in tentative selection of Model Two.  Special meeting to make final decision on Middle School Structure and vote on teacher nominations set for April 4 at 8:15 a.m. at RJH.