Longtime Principal Gensinger To Retire From Eisenhower
April 10, 2019 at 1:23 a.m.
Longtime Principal Gensinger To Retire From Eisenhower
By David [email protected]
Superintendent Dr. David Hoffert made the announcement at the Warsaw School Board meeting Tuesday afternoon.
“We were able to give him a certificate for 40 years of in-service at Warsaw Community Schools. Chris has really been at Eisenhower except for a two-year stay in the middle where he was over here at Central Office,” Hoffert said.
He said they already have some “great applicants” to fill Gensinger’s position. “We’ll hold focus groups with both parents and teacher groups next week. And then we’ll be putting together an interview committee,” he said, with the hope of bringing a recommendation to the board in May.
Special ceremonies for Gensinger are being planned.
Warsaw Community Schools Chief Academic Officer David Robertson announced the high school is getting a full-time drug dog.
“We are working on an agreement to enter into with the Warsaw (Police Department) to have a dog full time with officer (Brandon) Zartman,” Robertson said.
Zartman is a school resource officer. The dog is an English cocker spaniel.
“He’s a highly trained dog” the police department got two years ago, Robertson said. “It’s the sweetest-looking dog. You wouldn’t believe it’s a police dog if you see it.”
He said the dog can detect drugs and any kind of paraphernalia.
He said police dogs have been used three times since the start of the semester – once at each of the two middle schools and once at the high school.
Board Vice President Randy Polston said he was in the meeting where they discussed a full-time dog at the high school and “Warsaw PD just jumped on it right away. They said, ‘If you want it, we’ll make it happen.’ I just really appreciate the relationship we have.”
Chief Financial Officer April Fittering presented contract awards for four-year leases of 1,050 1:1 iPads for fifth and ninth grades and 90 MacBooks for secondary teaching from Apple/Apple Leasing; and 130 HP laptops for secondary teaching from American Capital. The board will be asked to approve the contracts at its April 22 meeting. The cost of each iPad is $294, for a total of $308,700.
Chief Technology Officer Brad Hagg, explaining WCS’s 1:1 program, said when fifth- and ninth-graders are given iPads they use them for four years and then may purchase them for $1. For first through fourth grade, iPads are purchased for classrooms.
He said the majority of the cost comes out of textbook rental. “Parents pay $59 a year for the iPad plus another $5 a year for the case in textbook rental, so $64 a year for their student to have that iPad. Parents that are on textbook assistance obviously receive that at no cost as they do their other textbooks,” Hagg explained.
Because it is a 1:1 program, Hagg said Apple gives the school corporation a promotional lease rate of 1.8 percent. “So it’s pretty attractive and doesn’t cost us too much money,” he said.
He said they have a four-year replacement plan for other systems within the district. “Last year, we upgraded laptops for teachers. We gave them a choice of either an HP laptop or a MacBook. And we’re doing the same thing now in year two of our replacement cycle,” Hagg said.
Teachers also get a dock that lets them use a local monitor, keyboard and mouse to project up on a screen, and a document camera that can double as a webcam.
“All of that equipment is included in the other leases,” Hagg said.
Hoffert used that presentation to remind everyone that Saturday is the last eLearning Day. It was scheduled to make up the instructional day missed Feb. 1 due to dangerous weather conditions.
Making up lost instructional time in this manner allows students to be dismissed for the summer before Memorial Day.
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Superintendent Dr. David Hoffert made the announcement at the Warsaw School Board meeting Tuesday afternoon.
“We were able to give him a certificate for 40 years of in-service at Warsaw Community Schools. Chris has really been at Eisenhower except for a two-year stay in the middle where he was over here at Central Office,” Hoffert said.
He said they already have some “great applicants” to fill Gensinger’s position. “We’ll hold focus groups with both parents and teacher groups next week. And then we’ll be putting together an interview committee,” he said, with the hope of bringing a recommendation to the board in May.
Special ceremonies for Gensinger are being planned.
Warsaw Community Schools Chief Academic Officer David Robertson announced the high school is getting a full-time drug dog.
“We are working on an agreement to enter into with the Warsaw (Police Department) to have a dog full time with officer (Brandon) Zartman,” Robertson said.
Zartman is a school resource officer. The dog is an English cocker spaniel.
“He’s a highly trained dog” the police department got two years ago, Robertson said. “It’s the sweetest-looking dog. You wouldn’t believe it’s a police dog if you see it.”
He said the dog can detect drugs and any kind of paraphernalia.
He said police dogs have been used three times since the start of the semester – once at each of the two middle schools and once at the high school.
Board Vice President Randy Polston said he was in the meeting where they discussed a full-time dog at the high school and “Warsaw PD just jumped on it right away. They said, ‘If you want it, we’ll make it happen.’ I just really appreciate the relationship we have.”
Chief Financial Officer April Fittering presented contract awards for four-year leases of 1,050 1:1 iPads for fifth and ninth grades and 90 MacBooks for secondary teaching from Apple/Apple Leasing; and 130 HP laptops for secondary teaching from American Capital. The board will be asked to approve the contracts at its April 22 meeting. The cost of each iPad is $294, for a total of $308,700.
Chief Technology Officer Brad Hagg, explaining WCS’s 1:1 program, said when fifth- and ninth-graders are given iPads they use them for four years and then may purchase them for $1. For first through fourth grade, iPads are purchased for classrooms.
He said the majority of the cost comes out of textbook rental. “Parents pay $59 a year for the iPad plus another $5 a year for the case in textbook rental, so $64 a year for their student to have that iPad. Parents that are on textbook assistance obviously receive that at no cost as they do their other textbooks,” Hagg explained.
Because it is a 1:1 program, Hagg said Apple gives the school corporation a promotional lease rate of 1.8 percent. “So it’s pretty attractive and doesn’t cost us too much money,” he said.
He said they have a four-year replacement plan for other systems within the district. “Last year, we upgraded laptops for teachers. We gave them a choice of either an HP laptop or a MacBook. And we’re doing the same thing now in year two of our replacement cycle,” Hagg said.
Teachers also get a dock that lets them use a local monitor, keyboard and mouse to project up on a screen, and a document camera that can double as a webcam.
“All of that equipment is included in the other leases,” Hagg said.
Hoffert used that presentation to remind everyone that Saturday is the last eLearning Day. It was scheduled to make up the instructional day missed Feb. 1 due to dangerous weather conditions.
Making up lost instructional time in this manner allows students to be dismissed for the summer before Memorial Day.
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