Federal Hocking Local Schools

The FH Board of Education unanimously voted to give Dr. Spencer a four year contract effective August 1, 2024. Jason Spencer is in his 26th year serving public education. He began teaching in Orlando, Florida, where he spent 8 years in the classroom. Dr. Spencer began his administrative career in Central Florida before moving to Ohio to continue his administrative career as an elementary principal. Over his 12 years as a building administrator, Dr. Spencer spent 5 years at the elementary school level, three at the middle school level, and four at the high school level. Following his school-based administrative career, Dr. Spencer spent five years as a district administrator, supervising and coaching principals and leading a team of over 200 employees as the Senior Director of Safety Services. Dr. Spencer passionately believes that excellent instruction is the key to a successful school and loves coaching principals on the importance of being strong instructional leaders. Jason is a high-energy, inspirational leader. He has high expectations for himself and those he works with. He believes in continuous growth and building solid teams that benefit students. Dr. Spencer is a student-first administrator and will work tirelessly to help ALL students find success.

MIDDLE SCHOOL CHEERLEADERS NEEDED! Courtney Bliss Mccune Still looking for 7th and 8th graders who may be interested in cheer for the 2024-2025 season. Feel free to share my info or my post with everyone you know 😁 IF INTERESTED, EMAIL MRS. WHITE swhite@fhlancers.com I will pass your info on to Coach McCune.

Dear Parents and Community Members: The Federal Hocking Local School Board wants to hear from you! The board recently surveyed the community and staff. The board is hosting focus groups on Tuesday, June 4 to have deeper conversations with parents, staff, administrators, community members and businesses. You are invited to participate in one of these focus groups in order to have a deeper discussion about what is important to you as a member of the Federal Hocking community. Each focus group will be limited to 6 - 12 participants. Please RSVP to Lavonna Laughlin at laughlin@fhlancers.com to share whether or not you will be able to attend on June 4 in the Federal Hocking High School Library. When you RSVP please share which school your child has attended so we can be sure to have parents and community members from each school in the district. Please RSVP by Thursday, May 30, 2024. Please call 740-662-6691 with any questions. 10:00 - Business Partners 11:30 - Teachers 2:00 - Support Staff 3:30 - Administrative Staff 5:00 - Community Members and Alumni (non-parents) 6:30 - Parents We hope you will be able to join us!

Just a friendly reminder that tomorrow is Field Day for all students! As such, there will be no morning clubs.

New Staff and Re-assignments: Please see below the list of new staff, re-assignments and fall sports coaches for the 2024-2025 school year: District Curriculum Director and Federal Programs - Bruce Hoover Coolville Elementary School Principal - Ashley Miller Amesville 5th Grade - Tanner Esselburn High School English - Kaitlyn Jarrell High School Intervention Specialist - Rebecca Jessee Amesville Intervention Specialist - Jennifer Williams Amesville 4th Grade - Laurel Davis Middle School Intervention Specialist - Phil Hoffman Coolville Custodian - Jerry Jackson Coolville 4th Grade - Mavee O'Callaghan Coolville 5th Grade - Ashley Ward Fall Sports Coaches: Cody Mason - Varsity Football Head Coach Ryan Grimm - Varsity Volleyball Head Coach McKenzie Steel - Varsity Volleyball Assistant Coach Dave Miller - Boys XC Michelle Miller - Girls XC Levi Thompson - Varsity Girls Golf Head Coach Sheridan Boyd - Volunteer Girls Golf Coach Assistant Diane Richardson - Varsity Cheer Head Coach Lori Cline - Varsity Cheer Assistant Coach

Dear Students, Staff, and Community Members, Please read the statement below from the Federal Hocking Local School Board about deficit reduction: We are following the legal process, we would like to meet with the leadership from each union. We are leaving current building principals in their current buildings, which includes Ashley Miller becoming the Coolville elementary principal. We understand student and staff mental health. We are looking at sub cost, overtime and working through attrition when possible. We are discussing the possibility of an earned income tax levy.

Tonight is the night....it's the Amesville performance of Shrek, Jr. Doors open for dinner at 5:30. The show will begin at 6:30. If your student(s) is a performer, they will need to be here at 6:00. Can't wait to see you all this evening!!!

Our hard-working Career Coach Evin Stotts shared this opportunity for students interested in healthcare or behavioral health. Priority will be given to those students who apply before June 1st, and sessions begin in August, so now is the time to sign up! Email shawk@ohio.edu for more information

We held the 2024 Senior Signing Day this week to recognize students who have committed to plans for success after high school. This year we brought all high school students to the ceremony so that they could begin to see themselves as future graduates.

The Federal Hocking Local School Board will hold a Finance Committee meeting Thursday, May 16, 2024 in the Federal Hocking High School Library at 4:00. There will be no public participation at the meeting.

Wyatt has spent each Friday of second semester taking courses at Washington State College of Ohio and has earned his CISCO Networking Academy Cybersecurity certificate - all while making up the coursework that he missed in his FH class! Congratulations, Wyatt!

Happy Monday, Amesville families! Hope you had a great weekend. Linked here (https://5il.co/2lhzk) you can find the news for the week ahead. Looking forward to a fantastic week!

REMINDER: Senior Showcase is tonight at 7:00 in McInturf Gymnasium! Come join us in celebrating our seniors and the hard work they've done on their self-directed Capstone Learning Experiences.

Good afternoon, Amesville families!!! Hope all is well with you. See the newsletter link (https://5il.co/2k0dt) for more news about what is going on at Amesville!

We're always grateful for the many community members who volunteer to come talk to FHHS students about their careers. Pictured are: Judge Zachary Saunders - Athens County Juvenile Court Judge Chief Rymer, Chief Hart, Hailee Hart and Wesley Carpenter - Firefighters Ryan Stolz - The Athens Real Estate Company Sara Conroy- Hopewell Mental Health Counselor Aaron Dixon - Lanning Mechanical Tracie Dixon - First Responder Will Tevis - AirClaws HVAC Jake Clark - Manager at Avalanche Pizza Terrie Baringer - Hopewell Nursing and Healthcare Administration Kristi Weber - Occupational Therapist

We had a great time celebrating A/B Honor Roll this morning!

Ms. Roberts' Modeling and Mathematical Reasoning class created blueprints and used them to build a mini golf course for Ms. Terwilliger's class to play today. Math in the real world!

The high school has a busy month scheduled between now and graduation!

On Friday Amesville students, staff and families celebrated reaching our 7,000 mile running goal! We recognizing our top runners, took a victory lap and had a sweet treat from the Mister Softee ice cream truck! Thanks to everyone who joined us! 10,000 by the end of the year!

Happy Monday, Amesville families!! I hope you had a lovely weekend. The newsletter for this week is linked here (https://5il.co/2ijmz). A big thank you goes out to everyone who was able to join us on Friday for our Victory Lap celebration. The weather wasn't ideal but the celebration was fun. I'm so excited for the students and can't wait to watch them crush their next goal!!!