Avon School District 4-1

Students interested in playing Wagner 14U or 16U VFW Teener or Wagner Senior Legion Baseball, please contact Sam Metzger at 605-491-2838 or Matt Slaba at 605-491-2707. Eligibility: • Senior Legion Baseball, your birthdate must fall on or after January 1, 2005. • 14U VFW Teener Baseball, you cannot have turned fifteen (15) years old prior to January 1, 2024. • 16U VFW Teener Baseball, you cannot have turned seventeen (17) years old prior to January 1, 2024.

Due to potential weather the softball game has been moved up to a 2 o'clock start time with Varsity playing first.

McKenna Kocmich placed 1st 🥇 at the Burke/Platte-Geddes invite at Dakota Trails golf course today with an 82! Congratulations Kenna!

Gold Standard Pirate of the Week: PK-4: Tyson Voigt 5-8: Kaylee DeJong 9-12: Courtney Sees (not pictured) Congratulations!

The first Friday in May is School Lunch Hero Day, dedicated to those men and women who make the cafeterias and schools a better place to be! We have some of the best in our kitchen! Thank you to Angie Ferwerda, Heidi Penning, and Jennifer Ridgway for all you do for our students, staff, school, and community!

The circus is in town! 🎪 Yesterday the Preschool class put on a circus for parents, grandparents, and anyone who could attend! They were such great performers! Thank you Mrs. Brandt and Mrs. Sees for putting it together.

Congratulations to Aziah Meyer for being chosen Midco Athlete of the Year!

Avon School District 4-1 Regular Meeting of the Avon Board of Education Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 6:30 pm Board Room Join Zoom Meeting https://sdk12.zoom.us/j/9883059751?pwd=dlJMZGRsb1NPcVMvd1cwakxUaGdzZz09 Meeting ID: 988 305 9751 Passcode: 3291 Agenda: 1. Call meeting to order: roll call and establish quorum. 2. Adopt Agenda. (m) 3. Disclose any new conflicts of interest of public school officers per SDCL 3-23-6 and determine if these conflicts of interest are fair, reasonable, and not contrary to the public interest. (m) 4. Principal’s report. 5. Superintendent’s report. 6. Public Input—during public input time, we ask that you remember that South Dakota law prohibits you and the Board from discussing specific employees, their job performance, or students. 7. Approve the minutes from the regular meeting on April 10, 2024, and special meeting on April 22, 2024. (m) 8. Approve Financial Reports. (m) 9. Approve May claims/payment of bills. (m) 10. Approve Multi-tiered System of Support (MTSS) stipends to staff. (m) 11. Approve Special Education stipends to staff. (m) 12. Approve Phase request(s) for staff advanced learning opportunities and graduate credit/CEU hours. (m) 13. Approve 2024-25 Certified Staff Contracts, Classified Staff Work Agreements, and Administrator Contracts. (m) 14. Approve Avon School District’s partnership with the South Dakota Virtual School for e-learning and online courses for the 2024-25 school year and authorize K-12 principal Mrs. Fathke to sign the agreement and enroll students in courses. (m) 15. Cast Official Election Ballot for SDHSAA Board of Director positions. (m) 16. Cast Official Election Ballot for SDHSAA Constitutional Amendment. (m) 17. Second Reading and Adoption of the Credit Card/Purchase Card Use and Electronic Transactions policy. (m) 18. Discuss HB 1060 and the impact on the District’s mileage rate (state rate or federal (IRS) rate, whichever is higher) paid to parents for transporting their children to school for the 2024-25 school year. 19. Other Business. 20. Committee Reports. a. Budget/Negotiations. b. Building/Grounds. c. Policy. d. South Central Cooperative (SCC). e. Associated School Board of South Dakota (ASBSD). 21. Review the results of the Board Self-Assessment and Evaluation of School Board Operations. 22. Reminder that the June regular meeting of the Avon School Board will take place on Monday, June 10 at 6:30 p.m. in the Avon Board Room. 23. Set special board meeting date on Wednesday, June 26 at 12:00 noon in the Avon Board Room to approve year-end claims, budget supplements, and budget transfers at the close of the 2023-24 fiscal year. (m) 24. Executive Session—SDCL 1-25-2 (1) personnel. (m) 25. Adjourn. (m) Published once at the total approximate cost of __________.

April Student of the Month HS Positive Pirate: Kaden Mixon HS Student of Excellence: Karlie DeVries MS Student of Excellence: Addison Lavelle MS Positive Pirate: Ava Johnson Elementary Positive Pirate: Bronc Cihak Elementary Student of Excellence: Hudsyn Tjeerdsma Congratulations!

Family Engagement Survey Thank you for supporting our school’s MTSS RTI implementation this year. Please take some time to complete this survey to share feedback on our school’s family engagement practices. SDDOE uses this information to develop family engagement training and supports for schools and families. Please complete the survey by the last day of school. Family Member Survey Link: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6440499/SDfamilysurvey

Today the high schoolers participated in a "Bite of Reality". The students participated in a simulation where they were given an occupation, salary, student loan debt, credit card debt, cost of medical insurance, etc. They had to build a monthly budget and visit eight merchants to purchase items. It was a great experience for the students. Explorers Credit Union and the Department of Labor and Regulation hosted the event. Thank you to all the volunteers who came to help today.

Today was National School Principal Day! On behalf of the Avon School District, we would like to thank our K-12 Principal Mrs. Lindsey Fathke for making a difference in the lives of children in the Avon community! We appreciate all that she does for our students, staff, families, and community!

The 5th and 6th graders took a field trip to Sioux Falls today! They toured Dakota News Now and learned about news and broadcasting. They also checked out the exhibits at The Old Courthouse Museum.

The Avon Pirates softball game with Freeman today (Tuesday, April 30) has been cancelled.

The softball game is in Marion today, not Freeman. Varsity starts at 5pm followed by JV.

The K-2 students went to the Washington Pavillion today for their field trip. They had a blast!

Megan Gretschmann went to Pierre today for the Governor's Luncheon to receive her Academic Achievement Award. Congratulations Megan!

Landon Thury, Megan Gretschmann, McKenna Kocmich and Courtney Sees will be competing at the Genius Olympiad at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. The competition accepted 367 projects from 1014 submissions. Entries came from 33 states as well as from countries including South Korea, Ukraine, China, and others.The competition will be held the Week of June 10th – June 14th Afterwards, the students will spend 1 day in Washington DC and two days in New York City. Congratulations and good luck!

The softball triangular for tomorrow with Redfield and Castlewood has been postponed.

Thank you to all the grandparents and special guests that joined us for Games with Grandparents today!