Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome in.
Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection. First of two
Speaker 1: this hour, and we are speaking with Chuck Pacauley.
Speaker 2: He is the superintendent of.
Speaker 1: School's Bartonsville Public Schools and my goodness sakes, things are
Speaker 1: just getting better and better. The school and the foundation
Speaker 1: just received a big check the other night.
Speaker 3: Yeah they did, Tom, Thanks for getting me in today.
Speaker 3: I know it's a busy time. Yes, Monday night we
Speaker 3: received our vest wrote a give us a fifteen thousand
Speaker 3: dollars check to the Public School Foundation and this is
Speaker 3: there for their continued support. This is I believe three
Speaker 3: years in a row now and what that is is
Speaker 3: to help our teachers with the cost of childcare. We
Speaker 3: partner with Tri County Tech. They have an outstanding childcare program.
Speaker 3: This is something that was part of our strategic plan
Speaker 3: trying to come up with ways for the recruitment and
Speaker 3: retention of teachers, and daycare is one of those things
Speaker 3: that can cause teachers to choose to stay home when
Speaker 3: their kids are young, before they get to the school agent.
Speaker 3: So the way that has evolved is Try County Tech
Speaker 3: has modified their childcare where it's August through May, so
Speaker 3: our teachers, if their kids are enrolled in that program,
Speaker 3: they don't have to pay for June July when they're
Speaker 3: off contract, and in those months they do pay for,
Speaker 3: they get a fifty percent discount. And that's what that
Speaker 3: RVEST check is helping the district with HASP help cover
Speaker 3: that cost. And so that's tremendous. We have twenty three kiddos,
Speaker 3: little bruins out at Track County Tech that their parents
Speaker 3: are teachers, and so it's been a tremendous benefit. I
Speaker 3: really appreciate Tammy Strobel, Jolie Bryant out of Tri County.
Speaker 3: Of course, David Nickel and his leadership at RvEs and
Speaker 3: Stevie Williams. Earl Sears came to our board meeting on
Speaker 3: Monday as well. Of course Blair Elis and Jesus kind
Speaker 3: of works miracles for us. But it's really been a
Speaker 3: tremendous benefit for us. And we're excited to announce that
Speaker 3: on Monday.
Speaker 1: So we've got a big spring break coming up. And
Speaker 1: then after that, Boy, it's pedal to the medal.
Speaker 2: Isn't it. It's your Tom.
Speaker 3: We have you know, we have You're right, matter fact,
Speaker 3: we have a parent teacher conferences for a little for
Speaker 3: elementary parents or last night tonight, so elementaries will be
Speaker 3: out on Friday. Middle school and high schools having school Friday.
Speaker 2: Excuse me.
Speaker 3: Next week is spring break and then it's nine weeks
Speaker 3: in school. It's it's a race now. I mean, there's
Speaker 3: a lot going on, lots of activities. It's a fun
Speaker 3: time I think we have. We're out on Good Friday,
Speaker 3: and then we have a graduation that Friday before Memorial Day,
Speaker 3: last day on Thursday.
Speaker 2: I know, Tom, you've got one that's going to be there.
Speaker 1: The last, last, last one.
Speaker 2: Seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so it's been it is a race. We
Speaker 3: do have lots of activities. I want to hit on
Speaker 3: just a couple of things. Also, just tonight, there is
Speaker 3: the at the center that the tall cop is going
Speaker 3: to be here, and what that is. That's that from
Speaker 3: that opioid abatement grant that the district wrote. We have
Speaker 3: a nationally known speaker that's coming in. We receive this grant.
Speaker 3: This is just for opioid awareness and so he's gonna
Speaker 3: be from six to seven fifteen at the center.
Speaker 2: And this is for just for adults eighteen and above.
Speaker 3: No media, and he's really coming just to get they
Speaker 3: do some research on what it is and how that's
Speaker 3: impacting Bartlesville and Washington Counting. So encourage anybody that wants
Speaker 3: to come. They can just come. There's no cost, and
Speaker 3: it's it should be a good, good learning opportunity for
Speaker 3: all of us. I know I look forward to being
Speaker 3: there as well. It's tonight at six o'clock. I want
Speaker 3: to mention our we recognize a couple of things at
Speaker 3: our board meeting.
Speaker 2: In addition to the check presentation.
Speaker 3: On Monday night, we had our our Academic All Stater,
Speaker 3: Luke Huck as a senior, and they recognized one hundred
Speaker 3: the Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence, they recognized one hundred seniors
Speaker 3: in the state as Academic All Stators and Luke Huck
Speaker 3: is one of those, and we've had one of them.
Speaker 2: We've had at least one.
Speaker 3: At Bartlesville High School every year since they've been giving
Speaker 3: out those, making Academic All Stators.
Speaker 2: Really proud of, really proud of Luke.
Speaker 3: He shared with us he's thinking he's going to go
Speaker 3: to ou as considering going to being a lawyer. A
Speaker 3: really sharp young man, and really proud of him and
Speaker 3: his excellence.
Speaker 2: We recognize our swim teams.
Speaker 3: You know, are both of our swim teams, boys and
Speaker 3: girls finished as state runners up.
Speaker 2: We had a couple of girls.
Speaker 3: Anna Young and Addie High, won a couple of individual
Speaker 3: state championships and they're both neither one of those are seniors.
Speaker 3: So we just keep keep having a great deal of success.
Speaker 3: Coach Inglehardt, who does such a tremendous job, he mentioned
Speaker 3: both of our swim teams. Their team great point averages
Speaker 3: was almost three point nine and our boys team minished
Speaker 3: by one hundredth of a point being the academic state
Speaker 3: champion as well. We have ten boys on the swim team,
Speaker 3: all of them qualified for state. We had seventeen girls,
Speaker 3: sixteen of them which qualified for state. And so they
Speaker 3: just keep having tremendous success. And then I want to
Speaker 3: mention also something exciting a couple one thing that you
Speaker 3: might have seen tom as Oklahoma Western University of partnership
Speaker 3: with their we are working on really trying to grow
Speaker 3: our own teachers. And so something I saw at the
Speaker 3: national conference a few years ago and we've been talking
Speaker 3: about it, but now it's happening. And so what that
Speaker 3: means is at Bartlesville High School. If we have students
Speaker 3: that are interesting becoming teachers, if they go through our
Speaker 3: internship program, which we have many kids as seniors that
Speaker 3: are interested, they do in a couple hours a day
Speaker 3: at one of our schools. They can earn up to
Speaker 3: five hours of credit at Wesleyan University. If they go
Speaker 3: to Wesleyan University and get into College of Education there
Speaker 3: eligible for a five thousand dollars scholarship annually to become
Speaker 3: a teacher. And so it's really a tremendous benefit, especially
Speaker 3: for our local kids. You know, Wesleyan is a private school.
Speaker 3: I mean they do the best they can, be competitive
Speaker 3: on their tuition costs, but you know you can you know,
Speaker 3: living at home and getting some scholarships and and you
Speaker 3: know you can graduate. You get a head start on
Speaker 3: your college credit. You look at graduating from college when
Speaker 3: you're twenty one, twenty two, and we will hire you
Speaker 3: at Bartlesville and help train you to be successful. So
Speaker 3: really proud of that. We want to make sure we're
Speaker 3: doing the best we can. You know, we talked about
Speaker 3: the teacher daycare in terms of kind of recruitment and retention.
Speaker 2: This is hopefully a way for us to help with.
Speaker 3: That in terms of growing our own because you know,
Speaker 3: we want to open that door to our to our
Speaker 3: young youngsters to help them see all the benefits of education.
Speaker 3: And then I'll also mention Ladan and Chancellor shared with
Speaker 3: us Monday night regarding our enrollment for next year in
Speaker 3: construction and aviation, some of those programs that continue to flourish.
Speaker 3: We started a construction class this year. We have ninety
Speaker 3: two kids taking construction at Bartlesville High School. Doug Bidrou's
Speaker 3: teaching the course. So next year we're adding a construction too.
Speaker 3: And so we've gone through the enrollment process and we've
Speaker 3: had we're adding a construction two class, which we had
Speaker 3: I think it was thirty five kids requested to be
Speaker 3: in construction two, and then we had one hundred over
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty kids request to be in construction one.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna have to add some additional Uh, Doug can't,
Speaker 3: mister Madreau can't teach all those, so we're gonna work
Speaker 3: on We're gonna work on that, but we're gonna add
Speaker 3: at construction too. That's going to continue. I see that
Speaker 3: being a four year program and really want to get them.
Speaker 3: Kind of my end goal would be where they can
Speaker 3: be involved with some intornships where they can be out
Speaker 3: in the field and learning and getting them ready to
Speaker 3: go to the world to work, because you know, there's
Speaker 3: lots of lots of good jobs out there. If you
Speaker 3: just have those have some skills and will work, you
Speaker 3: don't have to go to college to really to really
Speaker 3: have those opportunities. And then our aviation program, Uh, we've
Speaker 3: this is our third year of having that.
Speaker 2: We're gonna add a fourth year next year.
Speaker 3: Uh so we have four years of aviation at Bartlesville
Speaker 3: High School, so that construction aviation program continue, uh, just
Speaker 3: continue to flourish. We're excited to excited to offer that
Speaker 3: for our kids. And then you know, kind of the
Speaker 3: last thing Tom I wanted to mention that I have
Speaker 3: on my list here just to remind folks if they
Speaker 3: have a kidd oh that's that's going to enroll in
Speaker 3: pre kindergarten, if they're going to be four years old
Speaker 3: before September first, we need to know, so please help
Speaker 3: us know. You know, we have a pretty good handle
Speaker 3: on our kids that are in school. They're gonna they're
Speaker 3: gonna age up to the next grade level for staffing,
Speaker 3: So please reach out to that elementary school. We have
Speaker 3: information online on how they can figure out what but
Speaker 3: boundary they're in. But if they'll just call one of
Speaker 3: the schools, we can help them to bring them up
Speaker 3: and help get them ready. We have full day you know,
Speaker 3: we have full day pre K for our four year
Speaker 3: old programs. You know, this year we offer we have
Speaker 3: free breakfasted lines for all kids. We're gonna continue with that.
Speaker 3: It's been very successful. It's really helped our kids. Now
Speaker 3: that we have the number of kids I qualify for
Speaker 3: free and reduced lunch, So now every kid, no matter
Speaker 3: whether they qualify or not, they do get that free
Speaker 3: breakfast and lunch as well. So yeah, I'm pretty quick Rundown.
Speaker 3: I was looking at my calendar and the next time
Speaker 3: I'm going to be on our next board meeting, I
Speaker 3: think it's April twenty first, and you know, by that
Speaker 3: time we're.
Speaker 2: Just literally days away from graduation.
Speaker 3: So it's been fast and furious, but it's been a
Speaker 3: great year so far and looking forward to spring break.
Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Chuck, thank you very much, and keep
Speaker 1: up the good work. You know, we've got the Bradys
Speaker 1: some best looking kids in all Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: That's a parent and school combination, all right'd be good.
Speaker 1: All right. Once again, folks, you've been listening to our
Speaker 1: community connection, and that's Chuck McCauley. He is our superintendent
Speaker 1: of schools Bardonsville Public Schools.