Innovative Learning Solutions

“The district is committed to provide proactive and meaningful activities and homework supervision for the students,” he told the board.

Superintendent Duane Noggle said the district was planning to offer an after-school program this year even if the district had stayed with a five-day school week. “We need to offer something for the children from 2-6 p.m. so their parents don’t have to pick them up at 2 p.m.,” he said.

Noggle said this program will include the after-school tutoring program the district had previously.

With no school on Fridays, he said the town’s Parks and Recreation Department is planning to offer Friday activities for the children. Also, Grace Baptist Church will offer activities for children on Friday as well as five-day daycare.

Jason Kelly, Chino Valley’s Parks, Recreation & Senior Services interim director, said the town plans to offer a Fun Friday Youth Camp for elementary school and middle school children at the Chino Valley Community Center Park. “We felt it was our responsibility to provide worthwhile activities for our children on Friday when there is no school,” he said.

Some of the activities Parks and Rec plans to include are tutoring and mentoring, arts and crafts and other enrichment activities, and intramural leagues, running and biking.

Kelly said they are hoping to get members of the Chino Valley High School athletic teams to show children how to play soccer, football and basketball.

He also hopes to get a lot of parents involved in the youth camp. “The more help we get, the more children we can accommodate,” he said.

The CVUSD after-school care program, Muir said, is for kindergarteners through eighth-graders attending Del Rio, Territorial Elementary School and Heritage Middle School. The district plans to house the program at Del Rio and bus Territorial students to Del Rio.

Muir said the after-school care program will run from 2-6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. The parents must pick up their children no later than 6 p.m., he said.

There will be no program when the schools are closed for holidays, snow days and school breaks, he said.

Muir said there will be a one-time $50 registration fee and a set weekly fee of $16 per student.

“This program is designed to be self-supporting based on student tuition collected, and will allow the district to provide services that only maintain salaries and expenses incurred in the program,” he said.

Muir stressed that the district is sensitive to the needs of its families and will provide proportional staffing based on student participation.

He said a program coordinator is essential, as is one aide per each 20 students.

“This will ensure that each student receives the attention they need to be successful,” Muir said.

The startup cost for the program, he said, is $8,542, based on 46 students participating.

Noggle said they need 48 students for the program to break even.

The board unanimously approved the new program and the coordinator position.