{"id":139035,"date":"2021-01-12T01:28:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=139035"},"modified":"2021-01-12T01:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T06:28:52","slug":"mollenkopf-hybrid-learning-to-end-jan-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/01\/12\/mollenkopf-hybrid-learning-to-end-jan-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Mollenkopf: Hybrid learning to end Jan. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent writer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CONVOY — The first meeting of 2021 was a short, but busy one for the Crestview Local Board of Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the annual organizational portion of Monday night\u2019s meeting, John Auld was re-elected as board president and Brad Perrott was chosen as vice president. Lori Bittner will continue as legislative liaison, while Nan Grace will again serve as student achievement liaison. Auld and Grace will serve on the negotiations and audit committees, and Andy Perrott will continue as the board\u2019s representative on the athletic council. Andy Perrott was tabbed to be the Ohio School Boards Association\u2019s Capital Conference delegate, while Brad Perrott will be the alternate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crestview Jazz Band member Ethan Best plays guitar during a brief performance by the band for the Crestview Local Board of Education. Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Board members set the meeting calendar for 2021, with most meetings set for 6 p.m. on the fourth Monday of each month. Lonnie Nedderman will continue to serve as Crestview\u2019s representative to the Vantage Career Center Board of Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board also held the annual budget hearing as required by law, then went to work on the regular agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Superintendent Kathy Mollenkopf informed the board that hybrid learning for Crestview students in grades 7-12 will end on Tuesday, January 19. Those students will return to the classroom and there will be a two-hour delay that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the delay, an informational meeting will be held for all school employees about the COVID-19 vaccine, which will be made available to teachers, staff and other employees, including substitute teachers, coaches who don\u2019t work in the building and perhaps bible teachers. After the meeting, employees will have several days to respond to a survey asking if they want the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be able to turn specific numbers into the health department and that\u2019s critical because we don\u2019t want to waste doses of the vaccine,\u201d Mollenkopf explained. \u201cWe\u2019ll implement the first dose on Friday, February 5, then schedule to implement the second dose on Friday, March 5.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other business, Mollenkopf presented board members with certificates honoring them during the OSBA\u2019s school board recognition month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEach one of you bring your own particular talents and gifts to the board but what overrides among all of you is your care and consideration for students of our district and for our staff,\u201d Mollenkopf said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Board members met Vicki Smith, Crestview\u2019s new representative to the Western Buckeye Educational Service Center Governing Board. She told the board the ESC\u2019s current focus is the future of Synergy Learning Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSynergy is a very important part of Van Wert,\u201d Smith told the board. \u201cIt\u2019s that school for the kids that don\u2019t fit in anywhere else so I\u2019d hate to see it go, but we\u2019re just really trying to work together with our local schools to see what we need to do to help with that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

James Lautzenheiser was hired as the new high school varsity football coach (see related story on the Sports page) and Randy Grandstaff was approved as the new varsity cross country coach. Both are former assistants and both are replacing successful longtime coaches \u2014 Lautzenheiser is following Jared Owens and Grandstaff is stepping in after Jeff Bagley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board also heard a brief performance by the high school jazz band, directed by Jason Lozer, and the board graciously accepted an anonymous $500 donation for the softball program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next meeting of the Crestview Local Board of Education is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, February 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent writer CONVOY — The first meeting of 2021 was a short, but busy one for the Crestview Local Board of Education. During the annual organizational portion of Monday night\u2019s meeting, John Auld was re-elected as board president and Brad Perrott was chosen as vice president. Lori Bittner will continue as legislative liaison, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 00:20:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}