Revere Board of Education OKs Extended Days for Counselors, Librarians

The Revere Board of Education spent about 10 minutes deliberating the merits of extending days in the 2011-2012 school year for certified and licensed staff, particularly counselors and librarians, before deciding in a 3-1 vote to approve Superintendent Randy Boroff’s recommendations. George Seifert voted against the measure. William Hoover was absent.

The recommendations by Boroff were meant to offset some of the time cut out of the 2010-2011 budget for the staff to process transcripts and other information that extends beyond the regular school year. Seifert pressed for justification to extend the days.

“At the high school level you have college applications going out, you have transcripts that have to go out, you have scheduling meetings that are going on in the middle of the year,” Boroff said. “You can’t have your counselors not be in the buildings at that time to make up the time for the summer.”

Boroff next introduced Sarah Smith as a candidate for intervention specialist at Hillcrest Elementary School and recommended the board approve her appointment. The board approved by a 4-0 vote.

Director of Student Services Susan Chute said, “We’re just spectacularly impressed with the breadth of her experience and her knowledge about kids in early childhood. When we asked her why she went for her certificate – that was pre-K-3 – she said, ‘Well, that’s really all I want to teach. And I want to know all that I can know about that group of kids.’ I think that you will find that she’s an enormously creative and knowledgeable person and we’re very excited about working with her.”

Boroff followed with a progress report on building improvements throughout the district and also gave a summary of the Aug 2-3 retreat at Geneva-on-the-Lake sponsored by the Summit County Educational Service Center. Boroff suggested that Revere’s next mission statement might have been conceived at that retreat:  “To launch intellectual and social leaders into a diverse world.”   

“If you read anything about mission statements etc., they need to be quick, they need to be easily understood and be able to be recited,” Boroff said. “Everybody ought to be able to remember what the mission is.”  

Also introduced were new requirements for staff to be trained to administer any sort of medications for students.

Afterward, the board entered an executive session to discuss the employment or compensation of employees.  

The meeting began with a moment of silence observed in memory of two Copley High School students killed in a shooting rampage Sunday in nearby Copley Township that left seven victims and the suspected gunman dead. 

Before the meeting, a 6:30 p.m. reception welcomed new Revere High School Principal Phillip King to the district.