The Kingfisher Board of Education will continue its annual evaluation of Superintendent Jason Sternberger at its next meeting.

The board met in executive session for two hours and 15 minutes Monday during its January regular meeting.

After the executive session, Mike Copeland made a motion to continue Sternberger’s current contract and finalize the evaluation at the February meeting.

The move was seconded by Charles Walker and approved unanimously by Dana Golbek, Jim Perdue and Carly Franks.

“We are just wanting to gather some more information so we can make his evaluation complete,” said Franks, the board’s president.

Most of the executive session consisted of board members only. The final 30-plus minutes included Sternberger.

Sternberger is currently in his ninth year with Kingfi sher Public Schools. His current contract runs through June 30, 2022.

The board voted after last year’s evaluation was complete to extend Sternberger’s then-current three-year contract by one year.

As it stands, Sternberger will move into the second year of that contract, although the option to extend it remains after the evaluation is complete.

Prior to moving into executive session, the board approved hiring Lainey Coldren as a special education teacher and Tiffany Crawford as a paraprofessional.

The district is again looking for a part-time nurse after Katrina Farr’s resignation was accepted by the board.

Farr was hired prior to this school year, but her husband’s relocation to Durant for work prompted her family’s move.

The board also approved a calendar for the 2020-21 school year, which again includes dismissing school the entire week of Thanksgiving.

Sternberger polled staff members on their preference for the Thanksgiving break.

The district this year took the entire week off as opposed to three days in years past. He gave them the option for three days, which meant school would start a day later and have an extra day off in the spring.

Those who responded to the poll voted 80-14 to take the entire week off.

They also voted to have the spring parent-teacher conference on Monday, March 8, and Tuesday, March 9, 2021, as opposed to Tuesday and Thursday of that week.

A graduation date for 2021 has yet to be fi nalized.