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School board honors students, discusses business

Tuesday night's Havre Public School's Board of Trustees meeting had many times the number of attendees than at any of the meetings in the past few months.

Most of the attendees were family, friends and supporters of students being honored as a part of a new program distributing Outstanding Achievement Awards.

Superintendent Andy Carlson said the administration started the program this year as a way to recognize excellence in the student body.

Members of staff or administration nominate students who are particularly notable in their pursuits, either academic or extracurricular.

At Tuesday's meeting, five of these awards were given out.

Four of the awards went to members of the Montana High School Association All-State Honor Choir: Samuel Curtis, Lauren Scofield, Kelsey Bakke and Shawna Cary.

The fifth award went to Kendall Murie for his accomplishments at the Class A state cross country meet.

All recipients were recognized in the meeting, given a certificate and had their pictures taken with the board members.

The remainder of the meeting better resembled past meetings with prior meeting minutes, expenses, personnel and policy changes all being passed unanimously.

The superintendent's evaluation forms were distributed among the board members to be returned by the end of next week. The input from these forms will be analyzed and summarized in a report before the next board meeting on Dec. 14.

The trustees that went to the Montana Conference for Education Leadership all talked about their experiences.

Curtis Smeby said the meeting about Class A Caucus was "a wondeful opportunity." He said that 22 schools attended, and accounted for about 25 percent of Montana school children.

"It's like the Goldilocks class," Smeby said after the board meeting. "It's not too big, not too small. We think we have a great district, and we want to share some of our ideas."

Tuesday night's Havre Public School's Board of Trustees meeting had many times the number of attendees than at any of the meetings in the past few months.

Most of the attendees were family, friends and supporters of students being honored as a part of a new program distributing Outstanding Achievement Awards.

Superintendent Andy Carlson said the administration started the program this year as a way to recognize excellence in the student body.

Members of staff or administration nominate students who are particularly notable in their pursuits, either academic or extracurricular.

At Tuesday's meeting, five of these awards were given out.

Four of the awards went to members of the Montana High School Association All-State Honor Choir: Samuel Curtis, Lauren Scofield, Kelsey Bakke and Shawna Cary.

The fifth award went to Kendall Murie for his accomplishments at the Class A state cross country meet.

All recipients were recognized in the meeting, given a certificate and had their pictures taken with the board members.

The remainder of the meeting better resembled past meetings with prior meeting minutes, expenses, personnel and policy changes all being passed unanimously.

The superintendent's evaluation forms were distributed among the board members to be returned by the end of next week. The input from these forms will be analyzed and summarized in a report before the next board meeting on Dec. 14.

The trustees that went to the Montana Conference for Education Leadership all talked about their experiences.

Curtis Smeby said the meeting about Class A Caucus was "a wondeful opportunity." He said that 22 schools attended, and accounted for about 25 percent of Montana school children.

"It's like the Goldilocks class," Smeby said after the board meeting. "It's not too big, not too small. We think we have a great district, and we want to share some of our ideas."

 

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