so um it would be really interesting to go back and see what the social discussions were um as to where they were thinking until I met you not too long ago I learned that that was someone we're in talks with um per se so I would really I don't understand it or somebody has that information okay and that way we can look at that before obviously we need we have a lot of needs there isn't a question about that and love all the help that we yeah for me just because this community is so used to people starting their meal all the time that we get something promised to take those away but I want to make sure that we're doing right kind of people who were here we have whatever it was that was discussed and whatever works best in this day and age where our our students so for me it's important because so I'm excited discussions and it's also helpful for me to have a timeline so that we know stuff um for me I'm I'm wondering if you know or can talk a little bit about what's already in the works for them while they're just building like um what what are so we have a contract from an architect to do the schematic design on it and that's about as far as we know at this point there's been some conversations about you know the fact that the city staff will grow out of the Civic Center that we might put some staff over there especially staff that have um you know high demand for in-person meetings or plans so that those work would generate a lot of daytime activity to support the restaurants I know that the active city managers had some conversations with some other non-profits who would be interested in maybe having some space for after hours during hours but the goal is just to have a combination of uh non-profit institutional uses cultural uses whether it's a Historic Society maybe it's uh you know any sort of government or quasi-government organization kind of occupy that building it will be a tax exempt building we're looking to try to facilitate users that would be from sunup life or Sundown so that there's always activity there we don't have a dark space but say that we have specific users already identified outside of an agreement that we would Reserve at least 15 000 square feet for the average school team they're right now they're just ideas that's really helpful um I know we've met with the Historical Society a number of times and um I I think it's helpful to have this timeline because now I know you can reachable to them and catch up on the discussions I've been had because I no idea had an opportunity that changes yeah it's easier to design a building sure um thank you very much data analysis um we're going to spend about an hour during this time we'll have cable packs we will leave the live feed on during this time however we'll be needed after our table talks members of our team will provide a brief covering of what went on during this I'd like to have stuff here sorry members of the board thank you to all of our school leaders who are here today foreign um and um what those are and um and how we're gonna have those discussions I do want to also just clarify ing employees in regards to the changes that uh in the state you have with the accountability system so um very important for us to know if we need to share a couple of these um calculated framework for the 22-23 school year but automatic advancements on the account of Daily Talk has been suspended so unlike years before always automatic that has been suspended so for example a school and vertical Improvement uh your free plan of 2022 that earns priority Improvement or term in 2022 will remain in the Earth know that it is possible for sites to earn priority improvements or turnaround problem type in 2022 that they were not previously on the account for 2022 only the department is so um besides who will be eligible for supports in additional departments we'll apply for example additional building so um something else is the low participation flag in the Frameworks participation of north of 95 the school's ratings were not lowered due to a low participation this year so that's another point that has changed is um yeah our requests to reconsider is now available and this is for schools that have made progress but um there are requests or difference to um to uh to have the same consider uh advancement um this uh requested use schools or districts on the Block to exit the accountability talk or to move to onwatch if they have earned an improvement or higher tax money um so it's exciting is that we have three schools in that case we're not going to be our manager account so we will be asking for the states to consider preventing the higher rating for us those are cancer and Elementary yes sir Arnold involves here so we have already submitted the application or the requests to be considered in those retired they have been accepted and now we're just waiting for the statement to take action that will happen yes so we're not going to hear um the district is still eligible for the EC grants among the individual schools that we see opens this week in 2016 December and provides a wide range of school Improvement opportunities you can explore and uh just as an FYI we have these um discussing with CPP officials about these opportunities so um I'm looking at my team here for accountability to see if I missed it but if you have any questions so uh the next hour what we're going to be doing we're going to be looking at the data I'm going to pass it on to uh thank you isn't allowed distinguished board members as super incidentally a new audience as Dr Leia mentioned my name is Sheila Burke and I'm honored to serve as the chief academic officers I'm joined tonight by my academic colleagues at visiting local our director of assessment and our academic team here will be a part of our team we'll have discussions tonight I work here tonight to be able to provide you and our stakeholders with an overview of our progress towards our goals that we have established between Adams 14 and cncp over our time together this evening will be spent in three parts of South Carolina had mentioned part one is going to consist of a data presentation specific to the six major goals that we have established again between Adams 14 and cncp part two is going to consist of the tabletop discussions in the data protocol folks focusing on the six major goals as well as opportunities for questions and answers and we'll provide you with a date of homework for that that folder will be yellow uh Park Zoo excuse me after that will be part three and that'll consist of an overview of our data dashboard this part will be virtual by our colleague from Team CP Cassandra cross and she's going to provide an overview of the data dashboard that Adams 14 and cncp are utilizing to progress monitor our six goals you have blue folders in front of you this evening that include the presentation um it's for us to be able to follow for your convenience to take notes on and then we're happy to answer any questions but this time I'd like to turn our presentation over to miss local thank you cheaper before um I begin I wanted to share an overview of our data I wanted to take a moment to review the goals that we have co-created with tntp these schools are closely aligned to Adam's 14 forward goal number two that states every student experiences a safe and Equitable learning environment teacher of excellence in addition these goals are also aligned closely in Dr Maria's priorities specifically around learning and talent development on the next two slides our goals are referenced these goals fall into the three major domains talent management instructional transformation in culture and climate Additionally you will see how we are progress monitoring these schools tonight as we share our progress through our goals we will also share the progress we have made around meeting these goals as I moved to our data slides I wanted to frame the sequence of the data sets many of the goals have two data sets the first data set will show the district level data and then individual schools that are listed in alphabetical order the percentages are shown up at the top and the total number of students are below the name of the graph the second data set shows an overview of the data aligned to the district level School level and then broken down by subgroup there's some foods versus segregated data that we chose to analyze are spray and reduced lunch gifted and talented and ethnic group Chief Earth will now transition to our first goal and the progress that we have made thank you it's our first school as displayed in as the site that you see here is around 90 to 100 of our core content tasks are from the district approved curriculum and or aligned with the Colorado State Standards in partnership with cncp we started utilizing the Adams 14 student focused teacher appropriate to guide our observations utilizing the consistent observations will allows our teams to have a strong vision for strong instruction use of common language which allows us to identify Trends and return to build capacity of our school teams which leads back to our shared vision for strong instruction there are four performance areas on our Brew breaks including culture of learning essential content academic learning and demonstration of work within each of these domains there are performance levels and descriptors and then finally aligning with the core teacher skills we are excited to share progress in Valley School s the next school around and demonstrating their internet English language words Spanish language arts and math we will measure this by using a star map these assessments are 20 to 40 minutes of bonds that not only provide users and students learning data but also provides instructional planning and growth targets our beginning of the year testing window will begin this Friday September 30th our third goal is that 40 of students will meet or exceed expectations on Steam Mass the data set is from this spring when our students chose to see Mass on this side starting with our district data you will see each of our schools and the percentage of students who met or exceeded expectations the number below each bar graph shows the number of students who completed the assessment the goal line is at the top of the chart and is referenced by a dotted line since a district in our schools are all below the goal line we are in progress this next slide shows at the district level the disaggregated groups and how each subgroups performed on CMAs English language arts on this slide you will notice two bar drops the top graph shows the disaggregated data and the bottom graph is broken down by race our gifted and talented students have met our goal as a district since all of our subgroups have not reached 40 proficiency we are in progress meeting in school as we move into the next slide this growth graph shows our CNAs math proficiency our goal Remains the Same 40 percent of students will meet or exceed expectations the district data is on the far left of the graph and this school data is organized by alphabetical we are significantly below our whole life so we are in progress of meeting this goal as noted on the next slide you will notice again two bar graphs the top graph shows the disaggregated groups and the bottom graph is broken down by race similar to our English language arts data our gifted and talented students are outperforming our other subgroups as a district because there are subgroups have not reached 40 proficiency we are in progress of meeting as we shift from academic data the data we move to is around the goal of 80 of retention of our teachers and needy leaders meeting or exceeding except we are closely monitoring our teacher retention data we will continue to monitor their progress using the Randa evaluation tool as a district we are on track to meeting our goal because currently we are above the goal line the next slide shows the retention of our leaders currently we are above the goal line and we have retained a hundred percent of our leaders we will continue to monitor their progress as Outline by Senate Bill 191 and utilizing the random actually the next couple of slides are around the average daily attendance our goal is to have an average daily attendance of 95 and this is closely connected to our state testing participation rate in order to meet a rating of needs our students must have a 95 participation rate on CNAs on this slide you will see our district and our elementary data many of our elementary schools are close to the 95 average here is the data set for our preschool middle and high schools as a district and our schools have not yet been around 95 average daily attendance so we are in progress Ive one note before September 27-22 we revised a couple of the slides originally on September 16th we pulled their percentage of the total student population for each design for being a data up this new data shows the accurate persistent data because of this business there's slight change in the other data sets the updated data sets are in the second packet of your group folder these Provisions do not change the overall progress we are making towards as you know there's a strong connection between daily average attendance and student persistent data when we talk about persistent data we are analyzing the number of students who stay enrolled in atoms 14 in 2022 to 2023 school year and return the following this school year we are tracking their enrollment data to monitor progress to ensure that 90 of our students stay enrolled in the atoms Adam's 14th school next year the blue part of the stack data shows students who remain enrolled and the great part shows students who have disenrolled since the beginning of on this graph this shows the student persistent data at our yeah we're at our free schools middle and high schools at our early learning Childhood Center in our preschool a hundred percent of our students have stayed enrolled one piece of data that I would like to draw your attention to is Lester Arnold High School since this is an alternative high school in the major other structured students will transfer in and out of this school this is why their intimidatory will be lower than our other schools the final slide shows our persistent data broken downside to cyberbanding groups even though two of our schools have met our goals we are still in progress of meeting our goal because not all of our subgroups have met their goal this concludes our data around our atoms 14 and TNT peoples the next two slideshow of District level Behavior this first data set shows district-wide student Behavior here to do that this graph shows Behavior incidents by response the number above the bar graph is the quantity of the response as of September 19th we have had 448 behaviors formally documented or resolved in our final slide shows the total number of incidents that are reported since the beginning of school until September 19th we have had a total of important incidents and transition to our tabletop discussion there's one piece that I want to be able to clarify so as we talk about students who are not returning to Adam's 14 it may be that there's no Reserve or families of them in another school or district and so that data set in there represents both numbers or out of state right as families are transitioning outside of the metro area so I just came out of President Lovato this concludes the data presentation we would like to be able to move into our tabletop discussion with five groups here tonight um that represent five out of the six major goals we would encourage our board members and guests to be able to select self-select one of the five groups to be able to go into we are going to move the table slightly so if you give us just a moment to be able to do that part of it and then we will have our academic team members there to be able to follow a data protocol again as a reminder the groups are the core content we have a discipline group we have disaggregated groups HR Staffing including retention and attendance and persistence at the close of that you will have one of our table leads provide a summary of what was shared and discussed because at that time we will turn the microphone back so that the device doesn't carry through in the factory and then we'll move into the final piece of our presentation so we'll be in the section for 30 minutes yeah regarding um had heard [Music] okay so um board member Sylvia thank you for the question so we still have samville as a preschool uh the part that we moved was the location of in some of the Sandhill preschool is still open still running they are just now integrated inside at the location of Central but it's still a standalone peaceful program the old Danville location that we have on record has now been repurposed for that really usage to be able to accommodate another program that had equal means in central paths in space so central campus location has Central K5 students and it has Danville preschool students in there I'm still at the same school code we just switched the location I think it's important to call that out because whenever you say settle the whole Community still thinks it's for example the one building where they were before and not necessarily that there is because it just creates more confusion thank you I don't want to go to attendance first time so that makes sense numbers thank you guys let me move my information [Music] um yeah [Music] thank you all right [Music] guys okay all right um [Music] thank you today University tomorrow so please foreign uh total we have three 3.8 percent so um foreign thank you guys um oh yeah right now foreign situations foreign all right I got it it's also a smaller numbers experience thank you for directions [Music] is your questions sometimes together [Music] experience questions later thank you ladies [Music] their office foreign Americans thank you [Music] oh my God [Music] thank you [Music] foreign thank you so much we're gonna put the room back together and then our table leads we're going to quickly do a look around once our room is put back into our study session format to be able to share out on what your table talked about so they'll give us a minute foreign please yeah the red on the bottom thank you sorry to me going on [Music] thank you foreign content area that's right all right my name is Matt Johnson director here and our table discuss that has an opportunity to be currently have with math and really utilizing our math fellows during the day for tutoring and also potentially having a tutors after school um support us in our uh our road towards higher proficiency with the students and also receiving expectations as well because you know that's what I've seen so I was really excited so we have our disaggregated groups which is and what we found is that our gifted students were approaching or meeting in all areas where we had enough data we met when we spoke with the special education department we dug into the fact that we need to unpack the data to really understand the story and the narrative behind his students and a celebration with our social really students is that due time and Rose Hill culturally gifted students are keeping us with their moms and we also have a lot of homework to do because directors again gave us many tasks to get back to her and be well we will we will all right next we have our Behavior um we uh probably like a lot of other groups like the more questions um the executive director of secondary education um and one thing we really looked into was how do we start to understand what is documented document through our online system in terms of behavior instances I also talked about how we shift always in front of the extremes how does whole school suspension practices which restorative justice and other um and then I think um just continue to think through how we leverage restorative practices District wide and make sure you're in place make sure they're there to help kids feel supported and feel like they're working through these productive ways and conflicts um in their difficult situations come up oh and then we also noted there is some disproportionality in Behavior instances for our language Learners and our male students exactly thank you I'm Jeff McKenna I'm the chief of Human Resources here in Adams 14 and we um had a 80 retention of teachers and leaders and when we looked at the data of course it's super early so although it looks like we're off to a great start it's going to be critical for us to really monitor uh daily weekly where we're at especially in the state of Colorado where teachers are not bound by a contract and really can leave at any point in time um so monitoring is going to be crucial so that our teachers feel valued appreciate it and we help them grow we also know that in our data there's a critical piece that's missing and that's the effectiveness of teachers so until we get that data piece in as the years goes on that will be more telling because we want to make sure that we're keeping our Irreplaceable teachers and then growing and coaching those that need some support as far as what we really need to make sure that we're doing is putting in a state that underproduces teachers and has shortages Statewide really need to put systems and processes in place that are not just in the box but out of the box so that um that we have a robust Advocate pool of Highly qualified and effective kiddos and leader leaders and teachers thank you and last we have our attendance on persistence data in marijuana is choose business officer and we worked director of Easter Velasquez she's the director of community engagement and the student information system with the importance of Molina and we explore the subject of attendance we did not look at any of the numbers we actually discussed what their numbers do not say which is the personal stories of the children and the families we those of us who work in education sometimes were very quick to believe that in order for a fitness to get better we have to go in some sort of incentive and one of the most popular incentives is that it's about it for some of the progress materials that we have there aren't enough itself slices in from the cities so many situations that we have do not require incentives what they require is a solution a supportive solution to the companies and so uh one of our takeaways from this question is that we have to humanize the numbers we have to humanize the data understand what is the story behind these numbers or just simply that we are at 89 and we need to head to a 95 that is all you know we're gonna have to break these numbers down to 12 very personal level right foreign there are numbers but that is very generic and those numbers come with the assumption that oh children's almost schools all the districts having access to the same resources the same level of Health they have the same experiences you know that that is not necessarily true so even though we do have a legal obligation report and keep track of that data we still have to keep in mind that our families our community is unique um and there's there's more to the story about what the numbers tell us have to be sensitive and mindful of that there are still going to be cases where the numbers tell the whole story right that we still have to alert with those processes but um more often than not it's a matter of opening the door for that conversation and finding out how can the schools um put those resources in place those tools in place for those families so that this does not become and they should down the road that we are focusing more on the prevention side thank you all right so thank you as you will have teams and for engaging in this um at this time we'd like to be able to move into the third portion of our data presentations evening and we have joining us virtually missing Cambridge from tntp she's going to quickly provide us an overview of the data dashboard that we utilize between Adams 14 and team CCT to progress monetary our sex polls Cassandra um most of the data or around four contents that you need is based on the series I just want to make sure that we all hear loud and clear that Samurai's testing is not the only way that we actually is um there are a little studies around that it actually most recently just earlier this month in Harvard Society research project highlighted the significant challenges quality in schools uh animal students that relates to achievements right and as it is right now this achievement in um is if you are to probably order um factors that impact students such as brains or learning disabilities or absenteeism it is the challenges are even greater so um do not get me wrong it doesn't mean don't want our students we do not care about the students to be better and see lessons found the right testing but it's just one measure that is actually um not even not relevant um so just wanted to um highlight that because I know some of the data looks quite brutal it keeps me up at night but I just you know what we're going to be looking at is actually in some of the other measures to do a really be able to engage how much our students are making Partners or where we're not seeing that progress so that we can um as mentioned the name of the dashboard is to track the data that will allow us to assess progress towards with this major goals that we have fit each page will show what goal is represented by the data as well as an individual progress towards that goal we've been here in the top left hand corner that goal three 40 students will be your exceed expectations and we have several filters that will allow us to look at school level grade level and students membership so that we can monitor where there are difference is additionally we do have them at culture reported a year since there is on the store the uh on the dashboard we have the data sectioned into math English language arts in Spanish language art and as I mentioned we have indicators for progress towards the whole so in this math session we see this chart dependent grade level for efficiency over the years with about 30 409 and we're also able to hover over and see more details information about here that uh School level data with an enabler with more detailed student group data and go looking at those different areas that we've identified because there is so much data available the filters are really going to help their work and in addition to that math we also have this data on here for English language arts as well as the data versus so the next page that we have for you is to show the average daily attendance suppose you're being 95 and this is going to be a similar set of Genius page where we can filter down the data here we have Genesis school and group s and you can also look at this in that table of format and that is easiest and it's also going to be a lot more detailed with the different treatment groups as well as have that color scale there to help Focus the tension or it can be looked at it chart which shows for all students actually schools and over time being we are looking at attendance in a few different ways on this page and so the first way you'll see is that we have it in these sections of two week chunks of time and so that we can look at and this is changing over time at the different Zone and within the different student groups and you'll see that in both the table and the chart over here we are also looking at the data and work attendance cumulatively which can be seen in this chart by school as well as the data for all schools and finally on this attendance page there are a couple of years of historical data for attendance which we have is a bad chart and he will work at table before and then the last page that we'll look at is the resistance data where the goal here is for 90 of students are full this year to return next week once again there is a familiar structure to the page that allows for filtering here right now we just have schooling day and you can also view it in the people or chart form a lot of those colors we are monitoring student enrollment throughout the school year and we'll update this bi-weekly so the chart will eventually give us an overtime view of how involvement information so that we can monitor our progress towards that 90 gold at the bottom there is some data from the 2021 school year on student persistence throughout that school year that can provide a bit of a historical perspective on persistence password we anticipate that some features of this dashboard May expand or change based on identified means and ages and voters will be added as data comes in so for Golden 1 curriculum data will be available soon and will be updated quarterly in the dashboard for goal two which we'll do is on k2c and growth and POA math or have data available following the STAR testing window which means that could work with me and finally the page [Music] you may have thank you [Music] thank you so much um [Music] a while back I know that um I think Reddit and um we had mentioned that one of the things we'd like to see that I don't know if that's something that's so possible it's not just the percentages of what those represent so um when you say 90 is that nine out of 10 students is that 90 or 100 students is that what is that because percentages is one thing and as we said before we like to see the nicest data more and we want to make sure that um you know the it's representative of true members uh so for me it's important as opposed thank you for the question so we will continue to make sure that when we're speaking about data that we also have to present and the number of students requests any other questions and thank you for all of those within the teams um we're not in your world every day um and so it makes it really hard sometimes to understand the window but you can see a great job of explaining it and actually accepting some of our feedback because um we see it from a different perspective because you can see it on a regular basis so I appreciate the time today um it is Untouchable and it does help it helps like I said to my group the data helps us make better decisions of the better data we have the better information we understand but easier will be for all of us to work together thank you thank you my comment um is that this is beautiful I know it's something that we have asked for for many years so I would I would love to learn more about like how this was developed um you know tntv covered very hard on this so um as we continue to look at it because it looks different than even what I saw um yesterday and today so maybe you guys are messing with the access um but I just Kudos like this is ways we see real data and to be able to communicate what we want to see how [Music] members and members of the board thank you I don't think it's more so if um you know not providing access or vehicle access so this data changes every day because we are right um so it actually we um brushes I guess it's the right word um a plant so um every day we'll see some different data and one of the things um that we are aiming to do based on your feedback is really to be able to go in that into just a few now because as I said at the beginning and as we continue moving forward this year in a community transition into policy governance the board will be able to then identify areas that they want to hear throughout the year and then having scheduled for the table girls you know in the second quarter we're going to use operating tax data realized her goals to show you the progress because although we're going to be monitoring the Social Security theme as we know that cap is only at the end of the year but there are some indicators within the school year that will help us know that there's uh progress to see that and so that is um forward and during you know the year [Music] next on our agenda um because the unified Improvement plan presentation um foreign I'm going tonight by our school principals our executive directors of schools and we're here tonight to be able to share an overview of each school's unified Improvement plan or what we refer to as the byp in 2009 the Colorado Department of Education or CDE introduced the unified Improvement plan or uip to streamline school and District efforts to meet a variety of state and federal Improvement planning requirements the uip is designed to provide guidance to school leaders and their stakeholders regarding their Improvement efforts and strategies tonight you're going to hear from each of our schools by grade fan level and each goal will present in alphabetical order again by their grade fan level we're going to begin with Elementary so at this time we would like to turn our presentation over to principal Menards foreign so I also this year we're soaring to the top and we are going to do that by focusing on three major Improvement strategies and these uh major Improvement strategies are based on a thorough analysis of the previous year's data our three major Improvement strategies include high quality tier one early literacy instruction number two high quality tier one math instruction and three high quality science instruction through the alignment of next-gen science statements these Improvement strategies that we have identified are in alignment with our sixth district folks as we move into year two with our elg work and we've seen great success and growth in our early literacy data our goal is to continue this implementation with Fidelity and rigor and this will help us to identify students that are in need of additional targeted support and then with the implementation of our new math curriculum we recognize that we are still in need of thoroughly thoroughly implementing the curriculum to Fidelity in addition to identifying those students and need a targeted math interventions as we launched this year a walkthrough data has shown that our teachers and students have worked hard to set up a purposeful and productive learning environment this now gives us the opportunity to focus on our planning and preparation for tier one instruction in all content areas when we are planning for purposeful instruction that is rigorous and engaging we will also also see an increase in our daily attendance because students will want to be at school um in addition to this we will be monitoring all of our une goals through the use of what we call our student ambassadors and so as we continue to plan for rigorous instruction we've also identified our class ambassadors in both literacy and in math using our previous year's CMS and star data teachers thoughtfully chose three students in each content area area that represents low medium and high academic success we use these students as a pinpoint on how to plan for their needs precisely when we plan for these specific students we can then identify other students who fall into the same needs category each week at PLC team meetings we speak to each of our ambassadors presenting work samples and current data and as a team we plan for each of those three groups throughout the week myself our sister principal Miss Lady Gaga and our two instructional coaches will complete blocked groups um we have a shared document to capture what our ambassadors are doing at that moment in time so that we could use that data to give feedback to our teachers um and determine or identify areas of need for coaching support or to make better adjustments for our students monitoring these ambassadors will help us additionally in monitoring our assessment our success with our UI peoples and our achievement towards our overall District goals so I can tell you what our specific smart goals are if you'd like um and connect that to students is that helpful sorry so um by the end of this year 80 have also k-3 students will be reading on a grade level by the end of the 20 to 23 school year as measured by the acadians early literacy assessment and that 88 accounts it counts to 161 pages um our second one 40 of our third through fifth grade students will meet or exceed math achievement by the end of the year as measured by the Colorado measure of academic achievement and success or CMS and that 40 accounts to 78 third fourth and fifth graders and then finally um we would like to see 50 of our fifth grade students meet or exceed science achievement by the end of the school year again as measured by CMS and that 50 of our fifth grade students accounts to 33 students if you have any questions for us I just want to add um a little bit of to this process customer certification to the process what we have asked our principles is really to come in and show uh entity to you and have a conversation about what is different this year uh not so much on going through the document of the uid the goals and know checking all the boxes but more so what you know your interest is what is different this year how's it going through we're really working hard and maybe we would have monitoring students and provided effective feedback to teachers on how the students responded to instruction um so that's a little bit of what we've heard of the ambassadors of the different purposeful planning for those groups so some of the things that you're going to hear about probably similar from school to school as far as how we're monitoring and so as we go through the principles so that they are not repetitive you know based on some of those comments but we're going to be and you can see them what is different for them this year they go into a number of students because we are going down to not percentages of numbers and name of students um the process because I know it's different to last year absolutely I'm sorry I do have a question um the past few years it was physical bit so I I guess I'm just curious as to whether we've had um thank you for the question um we definitely have had some parents involvement we will be completing our first stack meeting within the next couple of weeks and that is a big meeting where we would really present this and make some adjustments based on parent feedback and so the full uh the pool uh plan is not due for about another month so we still have some room to make some adjustments so we will be bringing our parents and work thank you guys good evening madamboyant president Olado and distinguished board members a viewing audience my name is the proud principal of Central Elementary I'm excited to be able to sit with you tonight and present to you regarding our University plan this evening so essential are major Improvement strategies are increased to student access to rigorous instructional opportunities data-driven instructional practices and enhance social emotional support so the students are ready to engage in the learning we've identified these three strategies because of alignment with District goals a history of teachers with the best intentions lowering overall rigor to teach to students who are not yet on grade level and many students need additional social emotional supports beyond the universal supports in order to be ready to learn so here's what we've already done so far this year to make concrete improvements we structured our plcs to focus Dually on grade level instruction and then that data-driven piece through the focus of grade level complex text and short constructive responses in grades four five and a concentration on early literacy skills in grades K3 so that our students can be code techs at grade level we provided in regarding through fifth grade teachers with additional professional development and ongoing feedback and modeling on the most important early literacy skill instruction focusing on planning high quality tier one instruction explicit vocabulary instruction and engagement and management strategies some of those pieces have taken place just in P3 but they have support across all grade levels in some areas there due to our Innovation plans Central teachers were able to return one week early from summer break and engage in Universal tier one instructional professional development alongside all new staff within the district really supporting us with giving us a Common Language and expectations so that it's very important provide feedback on and teaching too we've revised our school-wide content language objective format to ensure that students understand what is going to be taught during a lesson the student-friendly standards one language and access to the academic vocabulary and language structures that students are going to use throughout the lesson we've also engaged teachers in professional development on restorative practices and more than several times so the teachers can be responsive to classroom needs and also revamp our morning Circle time to support with student engagement and connection we've also hired a Student Success coordinator to support students with higher level needs as well as collect data on Effectiveness and Coach teachers with tier one classroom Sports as written in our Innovation plan you begun the process with our instructional leadership team to identify the desired criteria or social emotional learning curriculum that better meets our needs and we begun the selection process to identify that correct in accordance again with our Innovation plan and the Community Schools model that's unique to Central we've set up parent workshops to support the conflict resolution and parenting strategies at home to further support the social emotional learning that our students are undertaking in school we've begun initial steps to contract through playworks to support with training for staff and students on conflict resolution structured gameplay and use of social learning skills in context on the playground so that our students arrive back in classroom recess ready to engage in learning and we're getting to more of those instructions so we've laid the groundwork for some really great work we're excited to see how this translates to our students progress specifically Ambassador progress so we're also taking a careful look at how our Systems Support our ambassadors so our teachers selected ambassadors based on CMS star Cadence and security event and I've identified students from each performance Span in both math and reading we've also ensured that a significant portion of our ambassador students are linguistically gifted as we know that these students both represent a significant portion of our students and also a data challenge that we need to directly address to effectively monitor our ambassadors we recognize that we need to create some simple systems that put them really at the center of our work um and not an extra piece of work right they need to be centered in what we're doing every single day so that they're folded into our practice so during plcs and grades four or five teachers will bring their student work sorted first Target our instructional moves to support those Learners first and in kindergarten through third grade we're continually looking at arcadians data and plcs so simple system for that is that we've highlighted those ambassadors of bright color on our projection sheets on our tracker sheets a really simple way to keep our ambassadors in the center of our mind again we Center our discussions around those students first so we can see their progress then we open it up our discussion to other pieces of data other students to make sure that what we believe to be true about our ambassadors needs is going to meet the needs of all students so as we begin our Focus walkthroughs special eye will be placed on Ambassador students to ensure that they are engaged receiving and relevant instruction and responding to that instruction focusing on Ambassador students allows us to identify specific needs but also think through Universal supports that both the ambassadors and other students will respond to well too this uip has been created with input from Central's instructional leadership team feedback from ESS staff and parent and Community input from both the 2122 school year and the start of this school year as well at our next parent copy and school accountability meetings this uip will be presented to the community members so we can go in depth and really work to make sure that this plan meets the needs of our community thank you so much for allowing me to share a vision in uip for social Elementary thank you all right president it's got a nice rank too his team members of the board Dr Maria we appreciate your service thank you very much I'm the proud principal Brian Clark Kelly Hines is our assistant principal she is with kids at Skate City tonight I'm going to try to do a number of uh events to bring the communities back into schools so much here um I want to give a shout out to the leaders in the room for where I begin to present some new fund but it's a cool vision for their teams they allow them to have a voice and they value them every single day principles I work with a very impressive team and I'm proud um let's see if Dupont dropped into priority Improvement by point on rspf from last year so we are disciplined about it but we're not going to use that to let us get down it's creating a sense of urgency around the school we have a growth mindset high expectations and we're very inclusive especially that's our mission so that we reach our vision of reaching our full potential so with that sense of urgency what are we doing what's new this year best first instruction but really specifically what's new is that we have a PLC structure that allows teachers to have two planning blocks every day because USS has provided pushing ELD and SLP support for our teachers and our students freeing them up to have time during every day not only to plan collaboratively together to analyze data but also to they have one less block to plan for so this in my opinion is the biggest shift and I know not everyone is staffed completely yet around the district but it's um we were really lucky to have that stretcher up and running so we're running nearly daily pocs and Mondays are the times for coaches Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday are mostly facilitated PLC time and then Friday is released so teams are working together to continue the good work that they're doing so that actually I think the biggest change is going to yield the biggest uh festival with us this year we continue to expand our new language program K5 with our traditional language program and with our full-only version we are now in preschool and kindergarten first the students that are related to that are more now they're more English dominant we don't have yet the pure English only students that are coming in but they're significantly more English dominant and we are attracting more people into our environmental program we had an increase of uh 30.
it just adds the section and the library books and materials and then 19 of that same section the right to access all written electronic records of a school district or School District employee concerning the parent's child's pursuant to section 15-134 listed in regulation kb-r and then just renumbered for 20.
I I guess I didn't ask the question the right way these dates in the calendar are happening this year oh correct yes okay yes that's my question yes thank you you're welcome yes uh Mr swallow starting September 2023. correct okay September 27th uh submitted to the school committee uh we moving forward from here forward yes yep okay if there's nothing further Mass higher Workforce board meeting update John I did want to update the committee that um that Sue Amano and myself were invited to the mass higher state workboard meeting and state conference on Thursday September 15th to report out to the board and to the secretary Acosta on our work that we've done with CTI as a grant recipient probably with the most Workforce Development programs they wanted to learn more about how our programs work in the success of the program and the benefits to our citizens and um uh and they had a lot of questions for us regarding um everything from instructors to the specifics of the program themselves but we were asked uh because they felt as though our our program was a model for other schools in other districts so we did that on uh uh September 15 2022.
it doesn't sound like much enrollment over last year it was the first time in over eight years so really significant so we continue to develop our program language program our community continues to enroll in it so I'm really excited about that on the instruction side but partnering with tntp they came to an audit this past week before that caring so we got some additional feedback which is useful and some additional reports so that we can know kind of where we're standing um we're working on 90 Day plans we're planning ahead and this information is going to give us a good Baseline to set our plans and planning our plcs planning our communities really understanding not only the needs of our staff but the users not only the names of our students of our staff as well um you've heard the ambassadors talked about a lot tonight for sure and I think that that's going to the strategy is going to allow us to reach our goal 1.5 years of growth with all of our kids as well as 40 of our third fourth and fifth on the CMAs state test and 60 and that's going to be 70 students you bought this year and 60 of our K2 will be at our most grade level in the primary and that is about 95 students as well but I think the Ambassador strategy is going to allow us to do that I did share with former president Lewis a slideshow if you're interested asking about it later and there's a video in that like what was that Ambassador strategy might look like just from a data demonstration but it really allows us to understand and to generalize the needs of all of our students by focusing on a few it's powerful we have lots of time for mplc with our teachers and they're bringing stated in not only for the ambassadors but for all students when we start with them because always these conversations take a lot of time and so historically like last year we did a nice job analyzing data but then we would kind of run out of time in PLC fall short planning that's not going to happen this year a because we have a strategy that's going to help focus on the needs of all kids and B because we have a significant and other areas on the culture and climate we're focused on focusing on this year at Tucson sorry um we continue to focus on the expanded we expanded the time in our daily schedule for social emotional working for our kids and we're really explicit with what we're doing during that time it's no longer something that might happen during breakfast it's something that is taught every day we're using the district resources that we think and also morning Circle and morning meeting to support the social emotional needs of our kids we have a care team structure that's sort of a anyone in the building that has a concern about the mental health any of our students can throw their name into their care and that's our therapist our medical counselor typically our social worker we're understaffed in that department right now um in admin and we process around how we can investigate the social emotions we're partnering with MSU we have parent classes happening right now Dupont Avenue we're happy to post that foreign to use our students as well and that's the fourth year those are some of the big things that Dupont is doing this year and again I'm proud to serve that I'm 14.
and that is this policy thank you board members is there a motion I move that we adopt to policy KB parental involvement in education thank you Miss Humphries is our second second thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion Madam president again just as a clarification much of what we saw in the policy presentation on screen in blue is statute language statutory language and we're simply attaching it immersing it into our policy thank you DR Sanders yes Mrs wood I I just wanted to mention I was going to mention this during the our reports but at the asba the pre-conference workshop was a whole day spent on the parental rights revisions that have been made during this legislative session and the takeaway I had from that was that we just really worked to engage our community and help them to know what our processes are and our and what we're doing with students because we want to partner we want to work as a partner with parents in educating their students that's that's our goal thank you anything further all right I will ask for a vote then all those in favor of approving the First Street of policy KB parent involvement in education please do by please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with name thank you 8.05 policy development first read a policy gbgcb staff health and safety Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members policy GB GCB the change in this policy is the addition of prohibition prohibition on covid-19 vaccinations and mask or face coverings the school district shall not a require resident of this state to receive a vaccination for covid-19 or any variant of covid-19 and B impose any requirement to wear a mask or face covering anywhere on the school district's premises except where long-standing workplace safety and infection control measures unrelated to covid-19 may be required c g b g b Dash R for a list of long-standing workplace safety control measures that's it thank you thank you Dr McCord is there a motion I move that we approve the first read of policy GB GCB staff health and safety thank you Mr Jetty and thank you Mr Parker no that was not interesting thank you Dr Santa Cruz it's been moved and seconded that we approved the First Street of policy GB GCB is there any discussion all right seeing none I will call for the vote all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye aye any opposed with nay thank you that moves us to 8.06 policy development first read of policy GCF professional staff hiring Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members this is an addition again to an existing policy based on legislation and here the main part of that is before employing a certificated or non-certificated person School District cell conduct a search of the prospective employee on the educator information system that is maintained by the Department of Education a school district may not employ either of the following in a position that requires a valid fingerprint clearance card a a certificated person whose certificate has been suspended surrendered or revoked unless the State Board of Education has subsequently reinstated the person's certificate and B A non-certified person who has been prohibited from employment at a school district by the State Board of Education pursuing ARS 15-505 each School District cell annually submit to the Department of Ed a list of certificated and non-certificated persons who are employed at the school district the department shall issue guidance to school districts regarding this requirement thank you Dr McCord members is there a motion I'll move that the board approved policy G f professional staff hard thank you Mr Parker it's been moved is there second second thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion seeing none I will ask for the vote all those in favor of approving the First Street of policy GCF professional staff hiring please vote by saying aye aye aye any opposed with nay thank you we will move to 8.07 policy development First Street at policy gdf support staff hiring Dr McCord senior minute president governing board members this is the same version of the last policy under although this is for support staff hiring the uh information containing that is being added is the same as the previous policy thank you board members is there a motion I move that we adopt a policy GB sorry gdf support staff hiring thank you thank you Mr Parker it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion uh I did want to point out just in the previous policy and in this one one of the changes is that the Department of Education will be tracking those who are not certified who may be disciplined I think that's a change from the previous uh that's correct that they've done previously thank you any further discussion see none I will ask for the vote all those in favor of approving first read of policy gdf support staff hiring please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay thank you 8.08 policy development First Street at policy ic-sch school year Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board member this policy deals with the instructional time model um basically it says the school district Charter May satisfy any of the time and hours requirements prescribed in Statute in any manner prescribed in the districts for Charter Schools instructional time model adopted under 15-901.08 except as maybe otherwise authorized by the superintendent of Public Instruction to accommodate a year-round school operation as otherwise prescribed under an instructional time model of the same statute the school year begins July 1 and ends June 30th and the school month is 20 school days or four weeks or five days each um notwithstanding nlr for the purpose of the meeting and the instructional time model instructional hours requirements prescribed by 15-08 and 15-09 a school district governing board after at least two public hearings in the district or Charter School governing board for one or more schools May adopt an instructional time model as prescribed by 1509 to meet the minimum annual instructional time and instructional hours required requirements prescribed by 150 808 as well as 15-901 for all the other purposes prescribed in 15-901.08 thank you Dr McCord is there a motion I move that we adopt a policy I see school year thank you Miss Humphreys is there a second second thank you Mr Parker it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion I do want to point out this is the one that gives us the opportunity to set our own calendar and that can be quite controversial so that's the policy that does it thank you if there is no further discussion I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving First Street of policy I see school year please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with me thank you 8.09 policy development first read a policy Iha basic instructional program Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members this is an existing policy with the addition of this portion right here where it says observe and stays September 11th and each year shall be observed as 9 11 education day on 9 11 education day each Public School shall dedicate a portion of the school day to age-appropriate education on the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001.
anything further admission policy update John so if you have a copy the admissions policy work is still ongoing we haven't completed it yet because there are some significant uh concerns and work being done around the equity aspect of the policy to ensure that we are meeting the expectations and been and ensuring that all students have a fair opportunity to apply to jlts and get in because there are so many students that are applying and we have such a long wait list one of the standards that's critical for us to meet that we have been struggling with the last couple of years is the number of el students that are accepted into this and not so much even accepted well I should say accept it into the school and special ed so our numbers have been going down and I think part of the problem of that has been because so many students are applying we don't know who's a special ed student or who's the ell students so we need to look at what our criteria what criteria is to see if the criteria is Equitable and fair to El students and special ed students so we are we were given a grant to do some research work which has been going ongoing for one last year and then we received a second Grant to continue that work and I think we're close to I'm hoping that next school committee will be able to bring you a final version some things that are you there are some changes in here that are in red that you can take a look at before next meeting and the critical pieces that we are looking at closely we do have a committee together that's done a lot of good work some of the area the area of particular concern that we're working on is our criteria our Point criteria that we use for accepting students and how they score on the application so everything from scholarship achievement attendance school discipline and recommendations that point system we're looking at closely to see if it needs to be changes need to be made into it so we've we've made we're trying different versions of this particular system and going back and looking at the students we accepted this year to see what the impact of our acceptance would have been had we had a different criteria in terms of the point system and how that would impact our moving forward so we're doing some continued work on that and should have some hopefully have something completed by the next school committee meeting so that we can give you that would be more concrete for your consideration uh Vivian superintendent I'm noticing that under uh late applications there hasn't been any changes as we discussed previously we um we mentioned how and you could correct me if I'm not speaking correctly on this on this topic but um late applications some students depending on how they're graded they are bumped up from students that did apply on time correct so are we are we not addressing that we we are addressing it and looking at it hits some of the problems with that is well our policy uh is an open enrollment so February is the uh when we start accepting students or looking at or start scoring students one of the problems that come out of a discussion with the committee in particular who are working on the equity piece of it is because one of the concerns with putting a hard deadline and is that they feel like that might have a bigger impact on El students and special ed students and regular students so they tend to submit later applications albeit there are others too that do well so that's I'm not saying that that wouldn't be a recommendations coming out but they want to look at it more closely before they and give you a rationale if they recommend that that not be the case so they're not saying that that won't change just that that that's being looked at and I want to make sure that I'm not being misunderstood in the previous conversations and comments that I've made regarding uh late applications by no means am I saying that when a student applies late that they should be discarded completely um but I do think that there is a level of unfairness for those that did apply on time and a student that applied late is able to take seniority in the list so I just wanted to make sure that I was clear in regards to that um do you mind also uh letting me know what does this Orange Box next to school discipline slash conduct um I'm not quite sure what is that supposed to represent page 7 of 11.
[Music] thank you so much [Music] all right good evening Adam president esteem board member from the superintendent Lauria and the under viewing guest I am excited to be here as the interim principal of Hanson Elementary and share with you our unified Improvement plan after we reviewed our state and local data and we worked with our school and our community stakeholders we have identified two major Improvement strategies based on the need of our school one of those is to raise academic achievement and growth and the other one is to improve our school climate and culture by bringing staff students and our families together which was a huge huge need at Hanson over the past year so I'm going to talk to you through some of my strategies so strategy number one to attack academic achievement is that Hanson will create a system where teachers have the resources support and time to intentionally plan high quality tier one lessons to ensure that our curriculum is utilized effectively to meet the needs of our students all of our classrooms features are 100 using the curriculum so we just need to get better at it and improve our tier one instruction so here's some of the strategies that we're going to go about attacking this the first one is around lesson planning and preparation with the lens of planning with our ambassadors in mind so with the added PLC time that we have this year we're able to include curriculum expectations and really get into backwards planning of what the day-to-day lesson Looks Like That explicit planning also looks at student engagement by providing opportunities for students to think speak and write students to speak think and write throughout the lesson which is one of our major engagement pieces that we need to include and then also ensuring that our learning objectives are aligned to tasks with at grade level standards all right the second piece of that is our observation and feedback so through walkthroughs we are observing for tier one practices and giving small actionable steps to our teachers um we'll also um started instructional rounds which is peer-to-peer observation so you can see the amazing things that are happening within our classes and share that feedback with each other in a debriefing session so that we can use that to help plan forward in addition to that we are monitoring our data and doing that with our leadership team and our coaching staff and looking at our continuing our data driven Culture by using our ambassadors as our North guiding Stars so as we presented um how we were going to go about Masters this year we really took the North Star and our guiding stars as the model for that of how we're going to get there the second major Improvement strategy is around school climate and culture and so we said that cancer could create a positive school-wide culture among staff students and parents by improving the school-wide PBIS system to build a strong community of improvement enhanced student learning so when we looked at our survey data from the end of last year how our families are feeling how our teachers are feeling we knew this was the stuff that needed to take uh one of the major things that we implemented this year in addition to our current PBIS system is the hawk house system for every student and staff member is part of a hawk house that represents our Hawks trades and they are all yours within the school photos this has provided clear and consistent school-wide routines that are taught expected and rewarded and it also has linked our students across classes and grade levels which was a huge huge need to bring our students together as well this also allowed us to develop common language amongst our students staffs and students about what it means to be a hawk at Hanson weekly lessons have been implemented within our dedicated SEL time as part of morning meeting every Friday to help us meet our Behavior expectations and teach our students what it means to be a leader in each of our hot houses of hard workers um active listeners wise choices kind and respectful and strong leaders so each of them are learning about those trades each week and being leaders within their houses monthly and quarterly rewards are recognized by students and monthly PBIS team meetings and quarterly staff development is occurring to keep that going in addition we're adding Community nights at least quarterly which we hope to have one of those very very soon in addition for this we are using our observation and feedback diagram to really focus in on our SEL type and not just our regular academic side to make sure that that's a focus of what we do every day with 100 of our teachers and students circling up in the morning having those svl conversations along with our Hawks trades we also are utilizing the instructional rounds which is the pure observation to see how we can improve in those practices ongoing throughout the year through an additional monetary piece that it has not started yet but we'll be starting at the end of this quarter is providing monitoring data by students staff and parent surveys to see how each of those groups are feeling about how things are going into Hanson and also start doing deep dives into analysis between not just instruction but behavioral and attendance friends listing across the building at grade level those are two major strategies this year to help improve cancer and looking at our ambassadors I'm just going to give a brief overview since they are really similar is each of our core teachers have selected three to five ambassadors in both literacy and math and I've been giving ongoing feedback to make sure that we're selecting the best students that we can to meet those needs we're meeting in plcs to look at student work and what that looks like and really dive into how our students responding to instruction in the moment and taking that back to teachers and having conversations and moving the cognitive load to meet moving the cognitive loan to our students to meet those needs so all of our conversations are around what do students need how did the student respond and what is our next step for this student and so if we're sitting similar data what do we need to do different next time so our ongoing PLC and principal directed time allows us to not just dig into the unit planning and daily lesson planning but purposely look at what does each Ambassador need throughout the week and look at that formative data collected and have those discussions to develop next steps for ambassadors we are not just looking at our classroom data and assessments as they occur we are also looking at each it as an individual to see how they respond to each other in that social emotional [Music] is there any questions not yet thank you good morning president Christine board members my name is Bob Savage I'm the National Health Elementary which is my amazing assistant I told him and I'm gonna give you an overview of our unified Improvement plan started by reviewing our state local data with our school leadership team to come up with a plan and then next month we'll be reviewing that plan and getting the info for parents that are Saturday foreign system to improve our student attendance the steps we will take to achieve these major schools Improvement strategies will be principal directed blocks like the contract Aid and have PLC data analysis meetings and team lesson separations monitoring them and differentiation for investors attendance procedures introduce a great group in individual incentives increased price awareness incorporates the health of the entire staff our goals for our uip this year are the same goals we've had in recovered he uses these scale score on ski mask as our goals because we know that if you get approaching and achievement on Ela and math and we did needs to growth of elas in there we will have a verified supporting School foreign we did the single above grade level studies with above and significantly above we created a spreadsheet for Teachers Day Access the spreadsheet has directions for choosing students we recorded their band and their language level language level is important because differentiation for a language learner that is low grade level may look a lot different than an English only student at the same beginning of the year data was collected and inputed on the spreadsheet after all the investors were chosen the prints will need to review the choices and review the class data the teachers have chosen two students from the same band they were asked for by increasing that decision making sure that choice as an intentionality behind it a group of students did not have a representative Ambassador chosen I asked the teachers to change their list of ambassadors so that there was a representative for that group every teacher observation the codes are a minister of your checks on each Ambassador are looking for differentiation that allows for independent practice at the instructional level or for scaffolds that will help them access great level instruction and or practice individualized feedback is given to the teacher based on what was observed parenting planning to refer to the ambassadors to ensure we have intentionality on planning differentiation and scaffolds during data meetings we check on the success of the ambassadors look to see if their data is representative of the other students in their group or banned and during plcs we study work samples at each scan compared to teachers employers determine Works absolutely any changes that scaffolds or differentiation that result from these meetings are applied to all students in the band that the Ambassador represents I'm very excited to see the results of the implementation of the ambassador program questions is there a way that or are we going to get a class you have a chance I'd say you're talking about the presentation of the actual UI itself because whatever change is really good to actually have that because I'm curious to see what changes between what do principles have decided and come up with or staff versus what your parents yeah thank you um this year we have a new system that we put everything into within the Department of Education and so we're working to be able to extract that information out as they also provide you with very happy that it's right now it gets entered directly into that so we'll be able to provide that copies of which is why you don't have it in front of you today um I know we're flying right through this and we haven't had a chance for any break at all do you guys take about 10 minutes is that okay five five so we'll come back at um thank you situation okay that's okay normally tonight somebody oh I was like thank you so much thank you foreign okay schools thank you very much that's Miss Ramona's felt Patricia brought the best and thank you so much I think I ever did it yeah how many [Music] oh my God and you just kind of like that smothered burrito foreign thank you all right thank you so much okay sorry thank you I love those I've also set my timer to my Bob when I have a microphone that has a lot of fun um so good evening President Bush members of the board uh my name is um instantly so my colleagues have provided a lot of information regarding what we're doing differently um I hope to provide information that's different than what they have already provided also understanding that many of our systems and structures are similar because we are receiving similar supports um our root cause is very similar to what you've heard already um we we have a lack have and have had a lack of language supports and tier one instruction but also planning for that tier one instruction um and something really different that we're doing um yeah you know the the the practice on an airplane if there's an emergency you got to put the mask on yourself with others um last year was my year to put the mask on my staff members before we were able to really see some growth with our kids um and what I mean by that is we needed to establish that Monaco is a safe place for staff um so that we had an environment so that we have an environment where each of us could push on each other without the fear of percussions termination or any sort of reprisals so um this year 100 of my staff including myself including my assistant principal we are ready to change any part of our practice even if it's a pet practice as long as the data indicates um had some some difficult conversations in the school year last year preparing my staff but I know that you are safe you are safe here as long as you're willing to change in that practice that you have don't worry about evaluation we are here to coach each other and that that includes me as well my staff knows that I have blind spots they help me with them I know they have blind spots I help them with them um and when we have those conversations when we talk when we give feedback um shifting from adult Focus to student Focus also I'm sorry for the fluctuation I'm getting excited started out with saliva um also making sure that we are talking about students we're not like we were saying earlier we're not talking about percentages we're talking about numbers um and so we are receiving supports that we did not receive last year for example um our coaches through the elg grant they have come to our building and they have had conversations with each of my uh teachers I was there with them and we discussed how many kids in each grade level in each class need to move from uh one proficiency band to the next um in order to to meet our goals and so what that means for example um in order to meet the 40 goal and proficiency on CMAs in both math and in literacy we're going to need um to have 38 more students uh either meet or exceed expectations on Star and CMS than what we have from grades three through five in ela or English language arts and uh 44 more in math but we're breaking that down by grade level and by teacher um when I go into classrooms when my assistant principal goes into classrooms like or my coach goes into classrooms we are not watching the show of what the teacher is doing which is traditional and what I love uh tntp the new teacher project what makes it the new teacher is that the new teacher can't step aside and guide student learning or watching students so when we're in classrooms we're looking at the effect of the practice on each kid um and I know that we've heard that um we're using the academic Playbook to help us do that we're using the support from dlg to help us do that we're using support from there's another rubric that tntp has recently provided us that focuses on student behaviors and student practices we have already got that um I have weekly conversations with each of my staff either myself my coach or my assistant principal has a conversation with each um of my staff members to give them feedback and let them know what we're going to be observing next time um so those are some things that we're doing differently my timer just went off do you have any questions for me thank you so much for your time oh I'm sorry oh no I was done um but I just because everybody's doing an awesome presentation I'm very loud yes thank you thank you so much for your presentation um I was uh I understand that each school has different needs according to whatever the state is requiring us from for from us however I notice like a lot of similarities in some of the presentations I just have a quick question you know I got to be part of I was part so I got to be part of some of the igp uh stuff during the doc for a year a few years back so I'm excited just to hear going on now and see the final results but have you guys um like met together and shared some of these before coming to us with the final uh presentation have you as uh executive directors is there a coalition or committee that has shared your plans comparing them because there's a lot of similarities and it seems like at least in my hearing um uh uh same niece in summer does that make sense and again I don't know if this might be towards the end or maybe you can meditate on that until the end of it so we can hear the rest of it anyway I was just wondering thank you thank you for the question so yes as part of the school accountability Community similar to The District accountability as spreading the statutory requirements for schools to be able as an accountability phase to be engaged to the university process part of that process means that they're providing input into the unified Improvement plan and that began in the spring of 2022 so right around March through being when school is in and then we're re-engaging in that work now as we have our district initiatives going forward and then our alignment with our goals between Adams 14 and tntp and so you're hearing alignment between the data goals that we have named here and what the schools are presenting that work will continue throughout the school year because the unified Improvement plans are designed to be able to provide guidance I'm in the school accountability committees is part of their statutory requirements to be able to continue to provide input and update and progress monitor the principles work regarding what it is that they're sharing publicly and committing to public thank you so next we have um Rosa I'm gonna start this it's always a pleasure as director Clarkson earlier it's always a pleasure to be here well now eventually middle school high school we just such a committed group of my career it's an honor to be here um my name is Anderson she is passing out something we're going to start with a little bit of History banking here for our school they're very proud you know we have a long ways to go but you have before you're there is our SPF history in 2016.
that's it thank you board members is there a motion so moved thank you Mr Jetty is there a second thank you Miss Humphries it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion I guess I would just ask is that in going to be in place then for next year or what does that that is correct and we'll we'll receive guidance from the Department of Education on curriculum as yes and our schools already know that that's coming as well okay thank you it has been moved and seconded is there any further discussion okay board members I will call for a vote on the policy Iha basic instructional program all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay thank you 8.10 policy development First Street at policy i h a m b FamilyLife education Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members um this is in addition to an existing policy this is instruction in sex education as Dr Newman like to point out in our policy meeting we do not have sex education in Gilbert Public Schools but this needs to be contained in our policy so destruction of sex education may be offered in The District in Conformity with the requirements of Arizona law a public school shall not refer students to or use any sexually explicit material in any manner except as provided by the governing Ward approved sex education programs materials may be Exempted from this requirement if the materials meet the definition of ARS 15-120-02b listed in the regulation IAH amb Dash R the school shall obtain signed written consent from a student's parent or guard before doing either the following using a video audio or electronic materials that may be inappropriate for the age of student and providing sex education instruction to the student at the time at the same time the public educational institution seeks consent it shall inform the student's parents or guardian of the parent or guardian's right to review the instructional materials and activities school districts and Charter Schools may not provide sex education structure before grade five before a parent provides written permission for the child for the parent's child to participate in any sex education curricula the school district or Charter School shall make the sex education curricula available for parents review online and in person pursuant 15-102 A2 the school district or Charter School May notify parents where the sex educational curricula are available for review at least two weeks before any instruction is offered pursuant ARS 15-711 a school district's or Charter School will with exist or with existing sex education curriculum shall include instruction on the laws relating to sex sexual conduct with a minor for pupils in grades 7 through 12.
it's right next to suspensions so I'm assuming it's because there's a change yep so that's a major change in school discipline we are not allowed to utilize School discipline in our scoring except for if someone is suspended other than like for regular uh disciplinary issues we used to if a student was had a detention for detention let's say they would lose points we can no longer utilize uh disciplinary actions day-to-day actions that are not severe the only thing we can use if it's a severe action or discipline issue that came up then we can deduct points but other than that we can't utilize discipline as a criteria um [Music] I'm just going to continue to go down the list of things that I saw if you don't mind um under page nine of 11 where it says replace within red each student is evaluated based on a scoring rubric which includes the following categories um collaboration and employability what do you mean by that so it's it's a criteria in which students would be if they work well together uh they collaborate so if they're working as a team or if they're collaborating well with the the instructor uh they're staying on task all the time those are the kinds of things that they would be evaluated on and could get graded on the collaboration part wasn't uh so much my I guess uh my confusion it was the employability so we're evaluating them based on how on their freshman year on how employable they are um if we were to refer them to a co-op site no it's specifically when they're in a specific program how well they meet employability skills in terms of are they staying on task are they working well with others the kinds of things that an employer would think are important but only for that one program not for like if they do poorly in carpentry it would impact it could impact their uh points for carpentry they're great in carpentry but not in any other program um and I'll just uh considering that this isn't we're not voting on approving or anything like that um so I'll leave it for like I guess whenever we continue to discuss um the admissions um the fact that I have discussed it many times um regarding the whole appeal process and how us as a as a school especially a vocational school what could we do to be more efficient and effective in a technical way when it comes to the appeal process I'm not sure if that's something that would have to be discussed within um this policy per se but um we'll we'll get to it in further detail I guess as time progresses yeah so if you have any ideas or thoughts on that uh I would love to have you email them to me because as they're doing this work um if you might be considering or thinking about something they've not thought of at all that might be beneficial in doing their work so I'd be happy to hear from you know any thoughts you have regarding that because they would I could pass that along to the committee that's working on this foreign at this time anything further yes Zoila the moment I only have one question um back on the conversation only applications you mentioned that it's because we have open enrollment can you hear me yes okay um so my question is are we going to consider um to not to have open enrollment like we already discussed in previous meetings that is part of the committee's discussion regarding opening enrollment whether we should continue to have an open enrollment or have a specific deadline now the committee will make a recommendation to the school committee on that and with rationale either way why they believe it we should have it or we shouldn't have it for the school committee's consideration and control um do we have any com um conversation with Desi because I know that even us approving this it still needs a Desi approval which they can definitely override at any time um are they and I can't remember that all their guidelines they said for your in admissions policy can we close the um open enrollment based on Dusty's um requirements or an dessie has um very they really don't have requirements the way they used to I mean they have expectations more than they have requirements but um they outline what are some what they feel might be some of the things that are we need to be uh find uh resolve like the special ed in the ell but in terms of the policy it's totally up to the school committees this is the school committee's policy which we submit to department now we if you we put something in the policy they don't like they'll get back to us if they feel as though it's something that has an impact on students getting into the school but basically it's um it's up to the school committee to present their policy if a policy we put in place results in um only High performing students getting into the school and they feel like we're not being uh not having a fair and Equitable system then they can come back and request us to do um [Music] a what they call it yes yeah pulling names out of a hat Lottery that's what I was trying to think of yes Lottery Vivian I just want to make sure that the committee that you have in place um considering how much if it feels like since I've been a Committee Member that the majority of the complaints when it comes to the whole admission process enrollment process it comes when a student is either denied or waitlisted and the majority of the complaints is that it comes across that the parents are not aware as to why um so if there's something that the committee could put in place that it's not violating Desi rules or and guidelines regarding the rubric that we have in place and highlighting within that rubric where that student had you know how is it that uh you know their point system has been calculated that way it's showing the parent the reasons why um so if that's something that you know you guys could take into consideration I think it would alleviate a lot of the questions and you know concerns that parents have in feeling that they don't have an understanding why the student was waitlisted in the letter yeah within the letter yeah the the well I don't want to call it denial letter because now it's it's a waitlist letter if they're if they know it was attendance or great issues that they could look at before they could apply for an appeal they know what they're looking for and and yeah if it's in the way um the letter they received it gives a little bit more information and a little clarity so out of curiosity my apologies Leo considering what I'm seeing right now the rubric right as to how we conduct our point system when we're calculating the whole enrollment process do the parents know that their student in attendance they scored a 10 in Scholastic they their their child scored a 25 like are they notified on the letter can we do that um all the time we can't do that but it can cause a lot of other issues um I will bring it up to the committee and we'll have a discussion on the letter that goes out to the parents um what is the best way to address the parent concerns with Why students aren't accepted we don't typically in the letter doesn't say well they only got 10 points for this so they only got 15 points for that I um suspect that one of the uh and I don't I'm not going to say this is um totally the rationale for it but then it becomes a lot more uh subjective and more difficult you're going to get a lot more calls and then people are going to try to you know argue the point of you know why that point or disagree with the amount of points that somebody got I think it just causes more controversy but I'm bringing to the committee and we can get a better and I'll come back with a better understanding a clear understanding of you know what are the difficulties of doing what you're asking what would be the outcome or the consequence of what you might be asking that fair enough I I think it would alleviate in the sense of so if if the if a parent wants to appeal they at least have an understanding as to what they're appealing for because you're requiring parents to bring in documentation to to justify the the appeal so if they have no clue if it's an attendance issue or if it's a dis you know what I mean they wouldn't know why they're appealing and what documentations they need to bring to to justify and defend themselves um but I I'm actually looking forward to hearing the pros and the cons um and I think it's it's I don't I don't know I don't I don't maybe it's my lack of ignorance in the sense of me not seeing um the the cons I mean the challenges to some degree because like I said it's black and white like a parent you know if if there's an attendance issue it's like a parent you can't really argue you know if you're if you're stu if your child was absent x amount of times or if they were suspended you know there are certain things that you can't argue um so I'm looking forward to hearing what are the pros and the cons from the committee yes and um when the final version gets presented to the committee I will have the director of guidance and admissions here also to help answer questions that you may have and also can help articulate because she's the overseeing the committee so she'll be able to answer a lot of the committee of the thinking that went on with the committee as well might be useful in answering some of your concerns outside Vivian okay Mr Cirillo I think if they understand is this attendance issue or not disciplinary because disciplinary it would be the head of a severe infraction but the grades issue if there's something like that along the lines I mean the point system might do bring a lot of more confusion um but if they understand that there's attendance in their submit day the kids was out for medical in the school didn't put it appropriately then they at least they know that it was a tendency they could go back to the school and say oh well there was a medical reason that my kid was out but can we they could have reapplied the um those medical letters to the school so they could fix those attendance issues before coming here and they'll be a little bit more of a clarification for the parents especially when they're making calls to school members saying this is what it is and he's like well you know bring that stuff back to to their schools Vivian I guess I'm curious today would you happen to know and maybe I'm I'm super curious today I don't know if you have this answer uh superintendent but uh would you happen to know the majority of the students that we wait list is it due to academic issues is it an attendance thing like where what are the percentages most kids who don't get in the biggest issue is attendance has a big impact on students not getting in uh more so than even grades so that's where a lot of this yeah so you'd be shocked at how many attendance problems there are but I will say that we do articulate and when we meet with the guidance counselors which we will be meeting with them soon from our different various schools we do tell them we do explain to them when they do the any parents that has extenuating circumstances and also we articulate this to the guidance counselors themselves if they know that there was an extenuating circumstances on absentee that they should note that because we do consider that look at that you're spreading it um question so remind me why we stopped denying and we now only have waiting list because um the way I see it if we have a waiting list because one of the things that I thought you were going to say why we had such a large wedding this is because we don't have the the seats to give to students I mean obviously we have um more applications than what we can accept so why are we not doing the the night and waiting list so it helps the process of knowing okay this student definitely they they are not considered and then we have a waiting list I think uh Department of Education frowns on denials and they and they are well it's something I mean if we wanted to do that process we still could but they don't like the idea of us denying to say that you're denied from coming in you're not denied you're just on a wait list because of where you scored so um and you know and we're always open you know you could be the last one on the wait list if you do an appeal you may still get in there might be um uh rationales or there may be extenuating circumstances we're unaware of that we're still you know you still may get in but if we deny you you're done yeah I think I understand yeah thank you anything for anything further uh Mr swellow um now following the Curious Trend um is there anywhere online where the parents apply they're they're shown that they've got a waitlist letter I deny a waitlist letter in in because if we send them emails and we send them letters they should be able to be a process online where they could just start filing um the appeal process is there as well makes it easier for them instead of sending out millions of emails and and or physically coming to the schools to drop off letters uh in terms of uh on the response on the wait lists uh I'm not sure if there's a uh anything might be a something for us to pursue to look at that might be helpful so that's actually I'm not sure myself I'd have to check with Brenda on that but if we don't that might be something we want to consider foreign no we're all curiosity though huh okay very good yes it is it's very important topic especially for to a lot of people no doubt about it okay um aquatic handbook to tell except this has to be voted on the chair except a motion to accept the Aquatic handbook to to accept the handbook yes I'm sorry maybe I pronounced it incorrectly the water the the swimming pool handbook comes out did I have a motion in a second okay discussion this is the show yeah there was a second right it was I thought there was I'm sorry it was interested Mrs Fishel did you have a question uh yes I had a question a couple of comments um first of all I'm probably the only Committee Member that read every single word of it um but um that my first comment is that um this looks like the incredible work of our two cpos Jen Dube and as if and Isabel Joya and I think it's fantastic there are a couple of things that I would want if we do um approve this as submitted to us that at some point either on the front or the back it says adopted or approved as of today's date because so that it will come before us as other regulations might need to be done um I I really it's comprehensive I do wish that the state regulations would come into this Century anyway and stop using the term bather load or bathers rather than swimmers originally swimming pools were used as bathing units so it's just a side comment so because so many times in here Vader is used and it's because of the state regulations so congratulations to the changes that were made and the work they continue to do and it's a great place so so you're about okay we can't do anything about the bathers okay but but your motion you want to include the date on the front okay are you okay you okay okay with that anything further all those in favor and he would opposed thank you very much okay the uh Alice uh alert update uh John I was wondering about this um is there anything anything going to be said that shouldn't go out to the public uh no I don't think so we've uh We've kept the faculty we've kept everybody informed on this and what I'm going to articulate to you probably is a little more uh detail on the specifics but there isn't anything in here that I think would warrant any real uh severe concern but I'm not worried about this severe concern I'm worried about it's it's a warning system and you know it's supposed it's supposed to work okay don't get me wrong it's supposed to work properly but I just don't want to give the particulars out to the public of how it uh of how it works or how it sure it should work yeah well and we can first vet it out in executive session if you'd like I wonder if we I'm just wondering if we should do that I think this should be done in an executive session yeah so that's my that's money feeling on it okay Joe accept a motion to move this to the end of the meeting to Executive session so move d uh discussion all those in favor you were opposed sorry I didn't give you a heads up on that but okay principal's report is she still here oh yeah okay good evening everyone tonight I'm excited to um just share some details regarding back to school night our summer reading program our September staff professional development and just update you on an exciting opportunity we have coming up as part of his Spirit Hispanic Heritage Month we're having a community family game night so um I want to start off with our back to school night this year um it was pretty exciting for not only um faculty but families as well as all of us this is our first in-person back to school night since 2019 and one of the other things that we did was we kind of looked at it a little different and we really tried to connect students and families and teachers kind of from a student perspective we used to have our back to school night a little bit later in the year and it was around first quarter progress reports and so sometimes the the purpose of back to school night was really just to introduce parents and Guardians to teachers and connect them with the curriculum in both shop and academic areas sometimes it got a little bit lost so this year we not only had it earlier but we changed the format you know we had families arriving we split our schedule into Act academic and Shop time we had parents and caregivers follow the actual student schedule so there's a lot of parents hustling around the building like their students because we didn't give up much time in between we also made allowances for our grade 9 families because they do not have a shop yet and we presented we did a present the CTE team did a presentation on our new exploratory Discovery process overall I just want to share too we had a staff survey we had 60 staff members fill out the survey after and you can see that I'm sure there's more but even I was pretty excited to see that some staff responded that they saw 40 or more parents so I thought that was great just to share some of them say not applicable may have been our members of our support staff or other words but I thought it was really exciting to see that we had staff members seeing that many parents and just a visual for you it was a packed house I will save that I believe that around by 6 30 we had the parking lot full and it was a great night and I had a lot of feedback from both staff and parents that were excited to be here any any questions for the principal Mrs Fitzgerald no uh no no questions just a wonderful comment it was so nice to see on the unofficial parent website so many positive comments um the only thing that was mentioned to a negative that I saw was the fact that parking was at a premium so I'm assuming that night school was also going on at the time which takes up a lot of spaces but anyway it was just wonderful to hear all the positive comments that's great and actually night school was canceled but we have all of our staff and typically for our for our open house and other events we move our staff over to a different parking lot we've never done that before but back to school night but that's already a plan for next year to ensure that we have more parking anything further I have a question of I'm sorry John no go ahead I have a question um I should know the answer to this our student representative what are they expected to uh to join us I was going to mention that um so Maureen is going to join us in October she was going to join tonight but she's going to join us on the October 11th meeting we're also recruiting an additional student member but she will be back she actually stopped by this later this afternoon to see the superintendent and I she'll be back are you already sick of hearing of me no I'm kidding yeah no she'll be back yep she'll be back in October very nice reports last year she will be back October 11th okay thank you uh superintendent uh well I at this time just wanted to congratulate Susan and the team that worked on putting the uh back to school night together it was the best back to school night in the 50 years I've been in education that I've ever attended so it was pretty exciting and it was just amazing to see not only the enthusiasm of the parents but the staff and it just went it was just a terrific event terrific night so a great congratulations to everybody in the school that put so much effort and time into planning it thanks it was it was great to see so many families in the building and we look forward to having more events which I'll talk about a little bit um so I I promised the staff I we will plan a little better next year but the next day after our busy back to school night we had our community school-wide summer reading program and this year was a Jeopardy theme so again we had all members of our staff teachers guidance counselors administrators anyone that we could get to um kind of you know contribute we had them we had a little bit of a difference this was a Jeopardy theme so we had students in discussion groups and they also had an opportunity to play a Jeopardy themed game during summer reading it was great so I was a little bit nervous about this that students wanting to participate in some of the acting out and drawing but that was their favorite part so it was it was great to see the you know a community and I also just want to thank the committee because this committee the last meeting of last year voted to contribute and and make available some funding so we could give out more books and I will say that we had great participation this year so a shout out to all of the staff especially the library media specialist and the summer reading committee for making our summer reading a great success this year we also had our September professional development we started and the theme of our first professional development session which aligns with our work we're doing with University design learning and mtss is the topic was unlearning and I just want to share a couple slides you know the theme was that like we do the best we can until we learn like how to think do things better and that only is not only in life but also in education so it was a great great session for our teachers to kind of reflect on um you know what what are some things that maybe that they have changed in their practice or maybe one of those what are the some of the things that they want to change and let go so I just even shared these slides like we talked about how you know things have changed and like at the time when you use something you think it's great until you know better I also shared these are some of the staff Reflections on some things that they said what it's time for them to let go in their practice I was pretty excited to see some of these silent classrooms lectures assigned seats we're really trying to get to the whole idea of udl and providing choice and opportunity for our students so it was a great session and I think it's a great way to start off the year we are also in the process of Hispanic Heritage Month is underway here and some of the things that we've been doing is this year some of the added features is we're going to start a door decorating contest so any shop any classroom they are in the process of putting up door decorations we are going to have them judged I saw one come up already in Dental that's pretty amazing also Mary ringland in the cafeteria staff are working to provide Hispanic food at every Thursday during the month and last week the students were really excited for that we are also having our very first family game night I gave you some information on that it's going to be October 13th in the cafeteria there's going to be games some food and different activities and we encourage all members of our community to attend we've invited staff to bring their families and we hope that our families will attend too and that's my report you know she didn't say anything about school committee so I don't know I said all members all members there um no problem Mr Cervelo you said every Thursday they have in Spanish food as do we have a menu as one option I know um okay I'll definitely like another menu might show up um no this is great thank you for the report um very interested to see and it's always great here in all the good stuff that's happening I look forward some to these reports so anything further thank you very much um be perfect committees I see none all business policy policies uh section B bdd school committee superintendent relations need a motion on that foreign excuse me you got drunk I'm sorry and um turn your microphone on jump please I'm sorry no so this particular uh policy uh outlines the uh basically the committee and superintendent's relationships and some of the work that we do as a team and I thought it was important to outline some of it because it has an impact on some of the work that we do together and some of the understanding of how we should work together as a team so I would read it out loud and then any questions that come forth all I think I have is a motion on it correct I have no second right yeah right but I have no second on it right I need a second so before we continue on second superintendent continue please uh so this uh this particular policy school committee superintendent relationship is basically what it outlines and I think it's an important one so that's why I thought it would be important to read through it uh so it says the committee will lead to the superintendent director all matters of decision and administration that comes within the scope as executive officer or as professional leader of the school district while the committee reserves itself the ultimate decision of all matters concerning General policy or expenditures of funds it will normally proceed in these areas after receiving recommendations from its executive officer further superintendent director May seek guidance from the committee with respect to the matters of operation with whenever appropriate it is necessary to make exceptions to an established policy they will submit the matter to the committee for advice and direction and to the superintendent director will assist the committee in reaching sound judgments and establishing policies and will place before the committee all relevant facts information and reports necessary to keep the committee adequately informed of situations or businesses at at hand so um I know that um I think some of the in this particular policy it kind of outlines um kind of where the line is between my responsibilities to the committee and the committee's responsibilities um which I'm not going to go through some but as I I believe that at times um we don't always keep within the lines and I'm very flexible about that because I respect committee's intelligence and the Committees need to be heard but I do want the committee to to um if they had any questions or not sure about what this all intent or means that I'm happy to respond to any questions questions comments yes Vivian [Music] Prince and then out of curiosity um do you feel like the the committee has overstepped um considering the roles and the description that you just read have you ever felt that the committee has somehow been confused in regards to their role and overstepping I do at times I haven't gotten to deep discussions and I think the biggest the biggest place where that happens often is in postings if you think about postings posting is a is a process that the superintendent determines what the needs are for personnel what they um what the requirements are in terms of the skills and the description of what their job responsibilities are as well as what their need for competencies degrees all of that is really under the direction of the superintendent director um and to advise the school committee we cross that line all the time as far in my opinion and uh and I've asked for a vault on this in the past so that I didn't have to bring that particular issue to the committee we've had more arguments in this and discussions regarding this and I truly believe it crosses the line in terms of my responsibility versus the school committee's responsibilities that's my that's my I mean you'll ask me I'm telling you Mike true and sincere opinion about that but and there have been other issues or other other situations but as I said um I respect the Committees you know need to understand and do things and it's not like I want to control the committee or the or any of that but it can get it has gotten frustrating for me at times when I'm trying to move the school in a direction or trying to do something in a timely manner and I get jammed up because I don't get something approved by the committee which is out of the realm of the committee's decision making at times but I don't argue the point that just moved forward anything further okay well oh I'm sorry I didn't see it Mr Hayden Mr Lavoy you've always had an open door policy you've put up with me for years being the vice president I appreciate the fact that you let us be heard and I for one will continue to be heard and I'm sure you'll open that door all the time thank you sorry and with regards to that Tommy I am always open to be heard from the committee and my door is always open so if there's any real concerns about the operation of the school or anything that you're unhappy with I am thrilled to have you come in and have a discussion with me and I'm happy to do that I would prefer that as to try to have a discussion regarding something you may be unhappy with in a public session when we can resolve it outside of a public session unless you feel it's important for the public to know then that's fine too if you feel like if I'm not performing a task that's important for the public to know then all by by all means we should discuss it in Open Session but if it's something that can be resolved that not necessarily would have an impact on the operation of the school with regards to what the public needs to know then I would certainly appreciate having communication and discussion within my office and uh I'm sorry yeah Tom oh okay Zoila pause but because um Mr Laboy mentioned the posting and obviously I'm the one that is the most vocal when it comes to posting and the inconsistency of information that we get I need to say something um I understand what this says here but when it comes to things like the posting the job posting it's things that we need to do I mean that's why we are a committee that's why we need to make decisions and help to make sure that things are being done in the proper way so again I was I was going to not to say anything but I do need to say it just because of the comment you made so I believe one thing is not related to this whole policy as you mentioned John so well first of all this isn't directed at you Zoila I mean everyone has had their own considerate with regards to postings but the bottom line is that the postings really belong to the superintendent not the school committee in terms of what gets posted and what doesn't get posted except for is it in the budget if it's been approved in the budget you know what the requirements for the job are what the job description are is all in the realm of the superintendent it's not a policy school committee deals with policy and budget so in terms of voting for the position that's a budget items committee has every right to vote Yes or no so if if the position is in the budget the committee has already voted for that position there's no need to vote a second time for the position that it's already told under any other school in any District that I'm aware of the superintendent does not bring back to the committee another vote for position that just doesn't happen because it's already been voted in the budget if it's a new position that's not in the budget the committee has to vote to allow it to be in the budget if in fact if funding is there it would be incumbent of the superintendent to demonstrate along with support from the business director of uh Finance to ensure that the finance is there funding is appropriate for that position and the rationale for the position certainly that then becomes in the realm of the school committee okay John I'm going to stop I got to stop you there we're getting off track of what we're actually voting on here to be perfectly honest with not that it's not to be discussed at a later time or whatever but right now we're talking about the the two paragraphs that are up there that are going to go into the school committee uh policy book Mr Cirillo based on what's on here and my questions have been passed by a couple of times I don't see any changes on it are there any changes in this particular section okay is there anything further on this matter I have a motion I have a second somewhere yeah somewhere okay all those in favor all those opposed okay motion carries new business uh non-table matters I see three items there does anybody want to make a motion to remove any one of those items for discussion we did the admission policy we did that already correct uh MCAS strategic threat go ahead Mr Cirillo I make a motion to um take mcad strategies out of the table as emotions are made do I have a second it discussion all those in favor anyone anyone opposed Mr Sorrell and in do we have any um updates on the strategy we're using to help with the students in the new applicant to get to up to the new MCAS course that was just just submitted by Destiny earlier in the year so um I believe I'm not sure that the MCAS has been listed yet but uh our intent uh intent is the principal is going to do a report on mcats and strategies and all that at our next meeting she's working on that as we speak I mean she's already started doing the work on that and working with our data Specialists on uh we're putting together a report on that as well as what we're doing moving forward in terms of supporting students who have either not passed the MCAS or and also in how strengthening our success moving forward with regards to MCAS yeah and I'm looking more more particular with the new scores that have just come out um with Desi um that's where we're looking to see where making sure that we're moving in the right direction to make sure our students are are going to meet meet those scores um and it's going to be in the next meeting so I'll probably promotion retail I had uh before I left on vacation I had missed one meeting we were discussing stop ongoing projects until a lot of the projects that were started and supposed to be done we're done I had met with the superintendent on Wednesday it was good enough to take me on a tour a lot of the shops are still in disarray but there has been a lot of um process as far as sheet rocking electrical he's really come a long way we're still not done I like committee men's Cirillo have my meetings at Market Basket and uh the latest one was my daughter's in cosmetology and they're sitting in a library doing related work and I assured her I was just in cosmetology and the freshmen were up and running and uh Mr Lavoy had High Hopes on getting everything done and I just want to give credit what creditors do a lot of work has been done I'm anxious to see it finished our kids have gone through two years worth of covert they don't need to go to another half a year of this shop being torn apart um we haven't taken it off the table okay okay that's what I was that's what I thought that might have been okay I'm sorry that was the comment I I know it was I know it was disgusting when I wasn't here and that was fine I'm sorry I want to take it off the table I I thought it was mine I'd like to make it a motion please second uh just follow those in favor opposed okay do you wish to continue no I'm long-winded enough thank you having the discussion I understand I thought a comment was going to be uh four four words four words not not you know oh sure not full of paragraphs this is uh Mrs Fitzgerald on this matter okay Mr cell yes um I don't remember seeing in here for future is future agenda items in here [Music] oh okay because I would like a every meeting update on the projects going on so basically I don't want to I don't want to table it I just want it to be a a regular report so you want to make [Music] do I have a second discussion all all those in favor and you want to pose to see where we're going to put that down uh well no you don't have to put in the future why don't we put on the superintendent's report please yeah okay go to the superintendents report you can doesn't have to be a long report like Mr Hayden there can be something shot you know okay uh president if nothing further on this matter Personnel consideration resignations executive assistant to the principal effective December 30th 2022 leave of absence retirements appointments uh the following ladies and gentlemen need to be voted on job posting superintendent you're up yeah so um at this point here we're looking for a final vote on the posting for director facility and operation I think there was a lot of confusion in our last meeting but we're resubmitting the last posting that we had positioned a description and posting that we'd like to put for move forward on for director of facilities and operations if the committee is comfortable with the posting as written recommendation we have a second discussion Mrs Fitzgerald yeah I guess it's a wording thing again um I don't know why I'm having so much feedback I can tell you why but it's not nice okay I know what you're gonna say um going down to qualifications number two Contractor License or professional trade license required I thought that we had decided that the sticking issue was they had to have a contractor's license so my second part of this does professional trade mean it would be okay for them to be a licensed electrician or if they didn't have a contractor's license they could be a licensed plumber I really thought that we had agreed upon the fact by vote that contract's license was one of the big sticking points I don't remember the or professional trade license you wish to answer that John I thought there was some discussion on that but I'm happy to take that part out and just leave it supervisor construction supervisor's license I don't have a problem with that if that's what the committee preferred um yep and anything further Mr Cirillo their qualifications number two bullets under qualifications okay any other questions or comments no no right so we're all set with that yet yes okay did you second it there you're okay with that Mr Hayden okay now that we're all hunky dory all those in favor anywhere to polls okay uh the next one superintendent uh Early Childhood teacher please um so I think in uh in order to open the child care center to meet state regulations we need to hire two Early Childhood teachers for different age levels you need to have a teacher for each age level so um the range would be 50 to 60 and the pay would come out of the um Revenue that we bring in for opening the center so if we don't have enough we don't have enough students or children coming in then we would go with less teachers so it would be in aligned with the amount of children that come in that are brought into the program so we want to post to see what would be if their what the interest would be and if we're going to have an issue with finding an early childhood teacher in order to open we're looking to try to open before Thanksgiving okay there's a recommendation for the superintendent you have a motion please I have a second discussion uh Mr Cirillo thank you Leo this late in the game are we going to be able to get any um School teachers I mean Early Childhood I mean I look at the qualifications that I know it's not going to be the same as our regular staff um but being that this such a hard time right now filling these positions um can we uh is are we even yeah I mean trying um I'm not going to have to delay the opening I'm sorry superintendent so in working with the new director of the center she feels pretty confident we'll find people anything further Mrs Fitzgerald I agree with the superintendent at the salary being offered and the fact that a college degree is not required but these are people that are out there already fulfilling this role in other people's programs that are paying less I think there won't be a problem they'll be stealing somebody I'm sorry Zola is this a union position it's a part of the Local 70 no this won't be in position nope anything further all those in favor and he would opposed executive assistant to the principal so this is a replacement position exactly system to the principal is is retiring uh in December so we need to post in order to ensure that we have somebody uh when she retires to assist our principal you know oh you don't have the posting because we don't typically give you postings on replacement I think but we can if you yeah okay Joe accept the motion we have a second discussion all those in favor anyone oppose the future agenda items I think it we are we already got it okay uh I do want to let you know that as chair I'm going to uh move us our student report I'm going to put it under Communications for him to here to come just nothing against you okay just so that she can excuse herself earlier in the meeting if she needs to okay without us adjusting the agenda every time it's even more than welcome to stay too and and just can see how we conduct business yeah I'm sure okay okay or I don't see it here that's why I can see it okay all right uh the need for an executive session for contract negotiations John and um yeah yeah another second all those in favor all those opposed uh we will be coming back here to adjourn Sue will you call a roll please Miss Fitzgerald yes Miss disler Mr Hayden Mr Cirillo Miss mammal and Mr LaMontagne what time is it 8 11.
30.1 this is all according to the CBE performance and you can see in the historical data there Department of North Korea it just I have such a committed our Valley State University is very connected with each other and committed to our students and this is what this is the results of the dedication was at 4 30 in the morning of our teachers do too and this is so great to see the progress you look at the growth growth wasn't talked about earlier this evening in my opinion I read the research especially has been and so if you're looking to grow up there historically it's an all-time line if you've seen that so we wanted to make sure I respect my staff my community let you know them a few weeks ago I think a lot of people and it's just exciting to see you know it's Chrissy mentioned earlier to me when we were just chatting here our talk is how we get to Performance because right now we're at yellow and that's not what we want to be we're proud of that we're excited about that but we think with our leadership our strategies that we've all highlighted that's how we're going to get to the next level we hope as I mentioned tonight industry our goal is to be preventively High goal identify that episode is pandemic that next level is also something to um my UAV this is going to talk about the strategy is really important some new highlights I think but I want to make sure I'm clear as Dr Maria asked what are some of the new things one of the first things that I see is um champions of Staff especially our BLT teachers we know that that's been a huge thing most of our language Learners we have a new stem teacher science hasn't been talked much about sciences and testing content area on the CMA specific Colorado we're a little confident that our new stem teacher who's dedicated to helping our kids science Americans love science success School ambassadors of the Cris all year long this year so that's the advanced core reading that is like an important step for all of our schools it's all agree with this International school-wide math goal that's also new for us where I was taken back by our math results good understanding essential math our students also having expressing their thinking about to expand their thinking and fluency that goes back to planning also this year not only do I have a mouthful we have a new partner gncp we had a visit a week or two ago with Kendall Brianna streaming collaborative very hopeful with their feedback to us using a focus teaching rubric so that's new also this year the teaching program and they had us doing well with cultural learning social content went well as well we had an academic ownership the demonstration was right that's where they want us to focus so we're excited about that and I want to send us to talk about the ambassadors and I'm not a president in Tennessee board members similarly to the other elementary schools we are also implementing the ambassador's strategy with our math and language arts classrooms however since we have a dedicated science teacher at Rose Hill we're also working to create science ambassadors in fifth grade students Associated subject area on CPAP and these ambassadors are going to be selected using our first unit assessment it's really new and promising approach to addressing student achievements science that we're very proud of and excited for it at Rose Hill our dedicated ELD teachers are actively planning and delivering rigorous language opportunities and collaborating with our homeroom teachers on our school-wide writing goal and to measure this growth and to provide that teacher Clarity for differentiation our ELD teachers are also selecting ELD ambassadors for each grade level so that we can continue those conversations not only in our poor constant areas but also for our emotionally Bush developments at Roseville new this year we also are using a digital platform to report assessment notes and observations of ambassadors on a weekly basis we have focused our data protocols or plc's on analyzing student ambassador work to identify success us Trend staffs and teacher moves to address those steps we also as an administrator team have carved out the first 15 minutes of our work day each morning to conduct Ambassador check-ins make sure that we know the data before leaving plcs with our teachers and also before doing uh so to be clear for digging deeper it's a great question to I think the former winner asked if we are working on these ours are still in draft we're going to support the district as well with Stephanie and other people our team have said it as well just it just takes a while to build a plan like this but it's something that is really important we know that you know that I wanted to make it a true action plan to what we're actually doing let's be clear it's about reading special purpose I mentioned that last year last year I said reading is important absolutely that's going to work well for us so it's right I'll never forget when we had like 12 fifth graders ask me April District Moss why was there so much writing on sequence it all last so they were like oh it was so hard because of the rice so just one of those things where um this is something that his name is also now like you mentioned that's another way of reach our kids rigorous math opportunities so those are the two strategies with mbcriot that continues as well we just have a lot of focus areas that are making a difference for our kids so that's our progress for this school year if you guys have any questions thank you Middle School hi good evening Dr Lauria I'm Adam president of Lovato and members of the board I'm Jennifer Lindberg and I'm here this evening on behalf of Adams City Middle School the Adams City Middle School strives to align our daily student and staff experience with that of the academic goals identified in the Adam's 14th Playbook goal number one uh 90 to 100 of core content tests are from approved to curriculum and or aligned with Colorado state standards in our uip we have identified that acms staff will engage in content-specific collaboratively collaborative weekly planning and preparation using student-facing materials this planning will ensure that we're using the district approved curriculum and teachers are focused on the student experience keeping that in mind with rigorous and grade level content the goal of one and a half years growth on Star and Ela math currently our math our staff collaborates with our colleagues at Kearney Middle School to ensure alignment in data and instructional systems would recognize this collaborative partnership as crucial to much of the success and the momentum that we experienced last year specifically growth in our math department but we have identified the need this year for additional collaboration among the current acms staff this collaboration will include vertical planning to conduct analysis of content specific data data to support in developing scaffolds differentiation data initiatives to improve the overall learner experience so really utilizing the expertise within our building within those specific content areas to support the new staff we have in our building with the veteran teachers that we also have retained um goal number three 40 meets or exceeds on CMS for students in literacy and math we believe that by supporting high quality instruction in every classroom every day we will increase student engagement and performance we will also measure the daily student experience so professional learning will focus specifically on a co-teaching Model to utilize a veteran teacher and support staff that we have available um we will build strong structures and instructional routines to support a culture of learning scaffolding and differentiated instructional strategies for all students anchored in our student ambassadors and monitoring their progress we will also be planning and preparing for engaging students in rigorous learning including planned structured language development extensive writing prompts and then student discourse was focusing on students really carrying the cognitive load in the classroom we will conduct our regular walkthroughs with observations including bite-sized actionable feedback for teachers to improve a lot of modeling for our new staff members learning walks to include targeted classrooms with teachers who are exemplary and a certain skill or a classroom culture that they have established and also support with instruction based in student strengths and developing again that rigorous learning environment finally attendance at 95 is our goal we are currently not quite there we are working hard to establish a positive behavior intervention and support system with our within our building um our focus is on student and teacher voice in developing that Pro um that PBIS system to ensure buy-in and ownership and getting everyone on board um and getting students to school and making their experience at school a positive learning environment I know that was brief and quick and to the point and I'd like to answer any questions that you may have at this time [Music] so okay thank you um I appreciate the PBIS system having um you know voice I think that's critically important specifically in the 6-12 setting my one dream is if in your major Improvement strategies for your employee you are also taking into consideration um for sort of Justice um and other I guess proactive systems and structures to address the um the 49.23 of UK residents reported because if we're thinking about the rigor and the instruction if we don't have the students um after we engaged feeling safe coming into welcoming environments um you know just different I guess barriers that might exist um then we can create all the major Improvement strategies around rigor but we'll never get there so I guess my my question is just around um how or if you've thought about um sour or other type of proactive family communities that will address let me jump in here so um one thing we're working on at Adam's middle school right now is we're working on kind of taking the stock at some of the reasons that you're alluding to the director Estrada um we've uh Dr Josh Cochran and myself and Jen have um all been super present in the United States Middle School's work as a week and I've done a lot of resetting of student behaviors to try to make classroom environments as supportive as possible and to your point right we left that conversation around some of those Behavior Jam points but a lot of things too don't be curious about um so we we have we have some plans in place to do a tackle that are some immediate and short-term plans to try to clear some of those behavior issues that we want to try to solve for our students so they should have a positive experience we want to do that really fast so like you said students can have that instructional experience that we know they need to have in order to have achieved benefits so that's there's there's some short-term planning that we're trying to do right now as a team to try to try to keep those symptoms they're talking about uh kids I would also say that restorative practices are something that have been in place and are in place they continue to be in place at Adam City Middle School we emphasize building relationships with those students and really go so far as to make sure that every student in the building has a staff member that they can build a positive relationship with so so every Everybody in the building has a trusted adult that they can go to at any time foreign [Music] culture at the school and we are also we actually have to get together we had another meeting today specifically to the instructors and support systems we will have a a designated person that will be supporting specifically when you're addressing around practices and we just we're hired an individual to come and support the district with pbas positive behavior systems or social practices District Library against the the need and that President will be dedicated to Odyssey Middle School because although practices may have been in place with your results right so the research the Dr Schneider was talking about is very true as far as retraining new Administration students I'm having a um truly a research I don't know what I had a lot of ways to say um or or helping students you know there are different classifications but also to your goals understanding that we are expected schools suspending students um not least the first um alternative that they go to I'm not saying that but suspended students resource foreign and that's my question because I have been through your apps what percent of the principal's office because she asked for more work that eventually so my question is how many of these how many of these issues that we're seeing because we don't have support and we have a lot of long-term subscribe to meet that support um specific numbers we do realize that there is [Music] um we're hiding the school is having struggles with the Staffing right with the students which has not had enough staff we have long-term substitutes of course there's going to be additional struggles to the schools however we also know that um we were having a very same conversation last year about discipline in million discipline specific um so um I I do believe um in one of the areas that they mentioned about the culture is right on point we need to address the cultural points at all levels student expectations like some of the other schools have mentioned you know this is [Music] um environment where they you know push each other and they can all support each other it's really needed as a student and um so specifically just because it's teachers out I know that my um student discipline but I also know it's not the only one this is not an outlier this year I just wanted to um now what we're having right now because I think um is that you're absolutely right start checking the call mindset around student behavior and um yes acknowledgment there are external factors of training our students long-term success um so I appreciate you mentioning that a few times um this one we're gonna have one quick question I I do appreciate the collaboration that I always want to comment um that Island City Middle School or working together um did you mention student ambassadors in your plans we are yes I did okay writing a bit here awesome thank you any other questions or comments good evening Madam president distinguished members of the board superintendent Maria thank you for this opportunity to expect great things that you're doing at Prairie Middle School my name is Tom Selen crowd principal Community Middle School career assistant principal let's see Kearney has always really thrived on taking students where they're at and showing approach with them and helping them improve academically that can be seen in our school performance framework this past year where we've met expectations and growth for Math and we're approaching in language arts now while we are showing growth we are still striving to improve improved with that in mind we have two major Improvement strategies that we believe in our committee that helped us come to these major Improvement strategies believe will impact student achievement first one as you mentioned earlier you've been here some consistency is around high quality tier one instruction we need to make sure that our first instruction is really at Great level and rigorous and is pushing students to think and be able to uh show what they know we are in year one we now have curriculum across our four major content areas which so thrilled about we are in year one of our social studies curriculum we're in year two of our science curriculum and then in math and language arts we're going into years three and four and so with that in mind we have really thought about what the components of the curriculum and what tasks within the curriculum that we want students to really be exposed to and solving and working through so that we are really pushing them to think and putting the ownership on the students we don't want the teachers teaching we know the teachers have passed Middle School we really want our students to show what they know so that um that we can take that information as teachers and staff and adjust our instruction to filling those gaps so that then they can reach those great numbers continue to build off of best practices we do and thank you to the support from the district but we've had taken our infrastructure and backers plan from that and using that backwards plan we have a unit assessment that is basically that is from the curriculums with that human assessment that we create and collaborate with Adam City Middle School as well teachers to create and select weekly common formative assessments that are given to our students on a weekly basis those common formative assessments are then used in our data team meetings which we are you that we analyze on a weekly basis to see where our students are being successful as well as what maybe next steps we need to re-teach and think about how to approach and fill in those gaps from that daily instruction as I said we were really strategic about one question from the curriculum so that we can make sure that along can't just expect teachers to do it right we need to teach what we mean what we want our teachers to be able to do and what we expect our students to do so we have been specific professional development for our staff we're on the Essential Elements of instruction especially around do now is right we want to maximize our instructional designs and transition from home to classroom is immediate there's no downtime like we are maximizing Federal instruction uh our content learning objectives as I mentioned we want our students talking about the content but we want to make sure that we're structured way so that they remain on task and are able to access it right and that can be through sentence range and different protocols that we have provided our staff my instructional leadership team and I we also conduct weekly observational walkthroughs as well which is provides of the ms-14 Playbook and really thinking about collecting data to see where are we thriving and also where are our gaps right what supports do we need to provide and using that to then guide our future professional development as well we do have some we have had some staff turnover so we have some new staff in the building we have some stuff on intensive coaching Cycles as well where coaches are planning with them observing with them decreasing with them and that is all of our instructional leadership team that is doing that if our coaching is in the Moment Like right there like as we're in classrooms here exactly the moment feedback the other is decreasing afterwards coming up collaboratively coming up with that next step and so that we all understand and take ownership over those next week so the last thing around high quality zero one instruction is we have a lot of great experts in our building too and we want to learn from each other we think the best professional development sometimes can be just like going to connected to our classroom and really highlighting the great things that are happening is that we can see and teach others how to make answers I'm going to have Mr Cabrera speak about our second future [Music] so one of the major things that we've had to this year from previous years is kind of narrowed our focus a little bit from having a continuous Improvement around shared accountability really focusing on differentiated language supports and so we've seen um you know historically have had a high number of language Learners within our building but we see that there's some opportunity here to really make conscious effort and make a larger impact on this from the students and just have some solid instruction across your building so you know some of the recent things that we've been doing and you know that sometimes they hear things but you have a folder a black folder that has a couple things that we're going to share with you as well so you've done specific Beauty around some different language functions we established collaboratively with teachers as well as our instructional coach um specific to ELD around the Olympic function outline and we're having very specific sense of time throughout the year but we're focusing on different language functions so if you look at kind of the cause effect and sequencing language uh that's within your folders We are having a specific PD around these are the first two so we've done PB around sequencing language and haven't done some observational walkthrough and see how that's being implemented within classrooms and now we're checking into our next thing to function with our own cosmet background and our goal is that students see that this language is is probably not just in their plg classrooms but in all classrooms um and hopefully we'll get to a higher elevated use of academic language with our students as we notice that while our students are answering answering questions sometimes they're using overload language to answer that so this is a one of our efforts to really support that higher level language and make it consistent across results yeah the last thing we want to discuss is our processor of ambassadors as well which you will see in your folder as well we used we had good for me teachers we have each teacher select 10 ambassadors and so with that in mind uh 40 teachers times 10 we have about 400 students identified the teachers are monitoring yes there is some overlap across different teachers some teachers may have the same ambassadors but when you think about the overall percentage we are looking at close to 40 over 40 of our students that are really being monitored closely in monetary for your observation feedback so when we come into classrooms there's this paper in there that kind of shows you which core the student ambassadors are in as well as what level they're currently performing at along with their pictures so that people go to them directly teachers in their classroom also have a seating chart where they have a starred investors where when we go in we can grab that and just take a look and check in with those investors directly as well and then every Tuesday and Wednesday uh contents you'll see our data analysis our weekly data team template that we use here and so this is that common formative assessment not only are we monitoring the entire class just to see like that bigger picture we also are looking specifically at the student work of our ambassadors and looking at what are the successes as I mentioned earlier as well as what are those next steps so that we can really targeting strategies I think director Zubia detect me as comments it's about humanizing data and so having our teachers select these students have to picture with them have them identify it on their senior chart so that we can check in specifically with those students is a way that we are trying to do it um just for everyone's approvision at the end we will need the Ambassador information very cool we just wanted to make sure there is that visual to go with that for sure and um we're open to any questions you may have I have a quick question oh sorry um and this is regarding the community engagement um I was born this might also go to Valencia middle school because you might remember me chasing my child um it's one of my concerns always was the community engagement and the anti-bullying which is you know you know you have many students but one of my my child was considered not one but she didn't want to go to school um and then as far as the community engagement because I don't feel I was really my kid is now in high school and I don't feel she was believing with her right um of course she was uh no health issues and you know a lot of people no more information before um but um I was not really engaged or invited into um you know there's not a lot of parent engagement my question was I mean I did see I did hear um you know some of the student engagement a little bit but as far as the parent I believe the whole child includes the parents and this goes fine for everyone I did not hear myself included as a parent I did not hear myself in any of your presentations um because uh as students uh and as parents the students our children listen to their parents seventy percent of you know what they're their opinion and their people bear their parents um and it's very important you know that we are included uh for example I do have a mandatory meeting with my senior tomorrow and he was like very like Mom just I don't care what you stop what you're doing you're gonna go and I will I'm gonna go whatever I'm doing I have to go because it's important to him and it's important to me but again um I feel that my junior was a little bit um cheated up right she was not prepared and she's still facing a lot of issues in high school right now so again my question is as far as Community engagement how are you engaging the engage with the parents uh to knock out some of the attendance issues absolutely it is 100 a partnership right we need to be working together to be able to support our students this is not a school can do it or Americans has to be working collectively and I think having those avenues for any creating that welcoming environment making sure parents do feel comfortable we have different events as well where we are talking with the principal in the morning we have our PTO meetings we have our sack meetings but one thing that we're really proud of this year is we are really uh we have increased largely the number of home visits we are conducting as well just to meet families where they are as well as we are starting to see some of the concerns right they come up with students at middle school we want to help support families and be able to make those Partnerships and there could be resources through the academics but it's it's finding out what our families need how we can support and sometimes meeting our families at their homes instead of coming into the building right and so that we can definitely open up that communication I would just say that the pandemic did slow down a little bit of our momentum around trying to build the school and make center for the community in terms of some of our PBIS events that we hadn't really person that kind of got solved a little bit but it is coming back so every single order we have some different parent opportunities for for engagement not necessarily always academic Focus but just let's be together as a community so we are trying to build our community with our parents and collaborative Partnerships in a variety of different ways as well as utilizing learning resources of our Student Success coordinator as well and that's been a big piece in being able to increase our amount of home visits that we're doing as well as just the increased communication and collaboration with parents around some of our students that have been struggling to either with academics attendance or behavior of award multiple multiple pieces thank you I just had a quick follow-up question um you mentioned a little bit about how it was cared towards the population of students you have um what are your vendors for that I'm looking at access growth United relations what are you using so we definitely use access data to support that in identify where students are currently at whether in 3D practice and then and then differentiate our supports based on those uh where students performance was on access but once again um some of the language supports are beneficial to all students and then our other folks areas of structured students are students as well as looking at their writing samples in our common formative assessments we are we're tracking these uh specific language and like the function steps and things and Signal Works in their writing as well as conversations as we're doing our observations I guess I was just trying to understand how how you would measure this and know if you were successful or not implemented thinking about like is that access point that you're looking at and saying oh this is um I mean I don't know a certain percentages absolutely that is the benefit of the access test is we do get that data this year so we are able to see the impact of our work yeah thank you [Music] Chris Garcia principal at Panama City High School and I want to give something but Tom and Nathan Jessica they're stuck together and also give you a chance to step up so now your team starts very very early but um first of all I want to discover some victories in Madam president team members of War Dr Maria and to our uh family members uh just really thankful to have this time we'll try to be real brief and very succinct about some things that maybe you need to do it but um this this coming year last year were 85 or 84.6 graduation rate this this coming year this last graduating bus 85.3 so we have what's really different is the last few years we've been above the state average and graduation contained some very strong people we've seen a lot of great families and kids I feel like we really focused on that first level of need with our with our whole school Community like that care uh respect and support and just being there was a giant Challenge and we're honestly the last two years I think that's that's something that we really focused on which I think kept our really quality people at our school including our classified staff but also that's where that jumping graduation was right we followed that through and and never gave up until the end of the summer and that's why it's 85.3 that's that's 11 in five years giant amount so I think we've addressed that piece about that Maslow's unique part like we're going to be there until you graduate proving that we want to make sure you're safe we've proven that and we will continue to do so now our challenges in in quality instruction tier one instruction and then being driven by data now we connect the success rate and graduation and improve our academic performance right that's where our disconnected so that's why you see those two goals and in a live document you'll be able to get into those um and see the things that I feel I mean the reasons we're at high quality everyone instruction and being driven by data that culture of data Improvement instruction but those are some things I want you to have and and to the point of uh parent involvement uh this year our our first sack meeting we had 10 parents seven uh Spanish league parents three bilingual and I have to give credit such Isabella and the classified staff at Easton herself but they fully endorsed our our goals uh approved our budget and has some really hard questions which were amazing I mean it was one of the best ones I've ever been a part of and this is very excited about that um I'm excited about the rest of the restoration of our accreditation um I'm excited about our culinary work in academies our our staff committee fully endorsed and we're also very excited about the academy Direction they can't really they wanted to start so very excited about that new things for our school school across the board school-wide writing rumors we serve constructed response to essay extender writing all the way to exit tickets we're going to actually have a Boston board consistency in that large Workforce staff uh doing that re-establishing mtss and pisfoa three years ago um you have to have that it has to be robust so I have quality people starting that one I also have quality people that believe it and also are qualified to establish restorative practices and I love that character so I brought that up because there's a distinction between restorative justice right that's the that's the reactive for their cause and restorative practice which is that full-on social uh commitment and I think we're committed that and that falls right in line with what we the work we've been doing around trying to build a positive effective accountable relationships with our kids so I'm excited about the restorative practices work that we we're starting and I think we're going to really make some strikes and track that with mtss and pbas and then with our attendance discipline numbers so I'm really excited to see where our staff can take that free brand new off-track credit counselors from last year uh we had four but one of them moved into uh an internship was one of our counselors um former grad right amazing great people counseling department and those contract counselors in Manchester they're amazing home visits calls pyramids we've got senior meeting tonight with 350 parents and that's because of those people so super excited about that uh the clarity and support and the positive energy from tntp in our district leadership we have skilled people that bring a lot of energy and they walk the walk they support us through everything that is an absolutely new Endeavor and deciding for us having a Playbook that makes sense but also really holds itself animals is a very hard work we're excited about that it's scary but we're excited um and meeting our staff where they're at like trying to meet the staff um where they're at in professional development we started doing not just Ed Camp style where the staff is self-selected the PD that they need this year we did a walk-in PE model around June apps where we borrowed about 25 minutes of their plan time across content areas just based on their planning the schedule where they came in and we shared what we have learned from tntp in the district around Quality House um ask our staff to come in and bring examples give your critiques and ensure best practices so at the end of the day we have about 25 elements identified by our staff that work and they learn they could learn from someone in their period in a different discipline because they have that idea so those things are doing different um last couple of things I think obviously tier one instruction and better instruction you know the complex grade level text grade level material material and students doing the work not the staff the students can work the only way we're going to get there with academic that's even integrals so that's why those two goals are there I think we move some people in and our building I'm super excited about administrative team um they're talented and they're in key positions and I think we lose some people out there at the level that we needed so I'm excited so um this documentary live will make sure you get to share to you I know director Lovato um have all come out from school um so you you know what we're trying to do um and keep visiting keep all this accountable and everybody else is going to make it great we love to have you but I think we're doing the right work for the right reasons and we don't have the time anymore it's got you got to make the move this year and then put a lot of connection you have any questions um I I wonder these these were the same two strategies that we had last year in our UI series um have you identified um I think it's great that we have increased our graduation rates so dramatically but I know we've talked about um supporting students opportunities is one of our board goals and I know we're important economies and programs like Inspire in Europe and things like that but I I'm curious as to how we can dig into our um and support our post-secondary and Workforce Readiness because that is part of our State performance rating but just just to secure updates around that and then um to possibly read about it you absolutely sure but you know last year we had upper Range Community College credit right and then we've had 650 graduates [Music] so while they can share that from last year this year and track our progress in there we've added more programs on the CT side you know the struggle is the quality staff but we've done a fantastic job I mean that monthly at least I'll share that with you I think the piece that will help us is that student facing rubric across the board something that I think is unique to us it the success criteria for the teachers are listed right and and for living on the student demonstration of learning faster so I love the clarity of that and it actually helps us the ambassadors heads home when you put names and faces and in our case it's 86 teachers right and they're picking 12 ambassadors based on a schedule about am a PM and odd and even things we have 12 sold nearly a thousand or a little over a thousand but you know somewhere around 8 to 900 if you listen to that's that's a lot of it just as mom said you could really contract those kids and really connect I think that's when we have an adventure that stuff did you connect with it so now we have to connect that to academic learning right and we'll tell them available staff it's not more work it's better work around instruction and you have to be better supporters of that so I think I think great and and not only data I just think it really helps um we need to celebrate and highlight these amazing things that our students are doing um because I don't think we do enough of that and I'm floored every time or a walk-in 13.
each School District or Charter School May develop its own sex education course or study or adopt an existing sex education course to study before school district or charter school offers sex education instruct the school district governing board or Charter School governing body shall review and approve the sex education course of study that has developed adopted revised or updated the governing board or governing body shall provide parents with a meaningful opportunity to participate in review and provide input on any proposed sex education course of any study before it is adopted and may not approve a course of study unless it complies with RS 15-711 before approving any sex education course of study developed adopted revised or updated pursuant of 15711 the school district governing border Charter School governing body shall do all the following a require that all meetings of committees that are authorized for the purposes of reviewing and selecting the sex education course of study B publicly noticed at least two weeks before occurring and be open to the public pursuant to title 38 chapter 3 article 3.1 make any proposed sex education course of study available and accessible for review and public comment for at least 60 days before governing board or governing body decides whether to approve the course of study and C conduct at least two public hearings within 60 day period before the governing board or governing body decides whether to approve any course of study public comment may include written comments oral comments and comments submitted through email a school district or Charter School is not required to provide a sex education instruction to pupils if a school district or Charter School decides to provide sex education instruction after school hours ARs 15-711 and 15-102 apply statute does not prohibit age and great appropriate classroom instruction regarding child Assault Awareness and Abuse Prevention and I believe those are the changes thank you Dr McCord board members is there a motion I move that we approve policy IH amb Family Life Education thank you Miss Humphries is there a second second thank you Mr Parker it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion I just want to re-remind as as Dr McCord said we do not have comprehensive sex education in Gilbert Public Schools so this is just a policy we need to adopt per the law for the steps change thank you is there any further discussion seeing none I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the First Street of policy i h a m b Family Life Education please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay thank you 8.11 policy development First Street of policy IJ instructional resource and materials Madam president governing board members policy IJ instructional resources and materials essentially this just defines what textbook is it says textbooks means printed instructional materials or digital content or both and related print or printed or non-printed instructional materials that are written and published primarily for use in school instruction and that are required by state educational agency or local educational Agency for use by pupils in the classroom including materials that require the ability of electronic equipment in order to be used as a learning resource thank you Dr McCord is there a motion I'll move that uh we accept first read of uh policy uh hi Jay thank you Mr Parker is it is there a second second thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion seeing none I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the First Street of policy IJ instructional resources and materials please vote by saying aye any opposed with nay thank you 8.12 policy development First Rate of policy ijj textbook supplementary material selection and adoption Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board members ijj is essentially the same thing in terms of defining what textbook is and there was nothing further on that that was it um well we added governing before board okay thank you is there a motion my move that we adopt policy ijj textbook supplement supplementary material selection and adoption thank you Miss Humphries is there a second thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved and seconded is there emotion is there any further discussion see none I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving frustrated policy ijj textbook supplementary materials selection and adoption please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with me thank you 8.13 policy development first read a policy jfaa admission of Resident student Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board member this is an addition based on uh legislature and it is letter N under section of parents or legal guardian that maintains his or her own residence and the addition is a consular identification card that is issued by a foreign government has a valid form of identification if the foreign government uses biometric identity verification techniques including fingerprint identification and retina scans in issuing the Consular identification card thank you Dr McCord is there a motion so moved thank you Mr Jetty it's been moved as their second second thank you Mr Parker it's been moved and seconded board members is there any discussion seeing none I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the First Street of policy jfaa admission a resident Student please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay thank you 8.14 policy development First Street of policy jfab tuition admission of non-resident students Dr McCord thank you madam president governing board member our last policy talked about Resident students this is tuition and admission of non-resident students and the addition is exactly the same as the last policy in the same place thank you board members is there a motion so moved thank you Miss Humphries is there a second thank you Mr Parker it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion seeing none I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the frustrated policy jfab tuition admission of non-resident students please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay thank you and again these will all go back to the policy committee and then come back for a second read before they are finally approved so thank you that concludes our action items we'll move to requests for future agenda items if there are any board members with requests please let myself or Dr McCord no be before the next meeting now that will take us to our board committee reports 10.01 Gilbert Education Foundation I will mention that there's the bowlerama Thursday night if any of you can attend we have details about that and we appreciate the businesses who are there to support that as well as a business breakfast meeting the Wednesday after fall break seven o'clock here so great thank you um Mrs Humphries 10.02 city of Mesa and legislative representative I'm just going to report a little bit about the law conference that I attended and the delegate assembly I already mentioned that the parental rights Workshop just a lot of great information at the law conference and the delegate assembly I just really appreciate going to that because we really get to watch uh democracy representative democracy in action and and the items that were put together and I think it might be a good idea to do an agenda item where we can look at the the political agenda for the next upcoming legislative session there were a few changes and some things that were new that we might want to discuss at some point thank you 10.03 town of Gilbert liaison Dr Santa Cruz I have nothing to report thank you 10.04 finance audit committee Mr Parker nothing thank you 10.05 Insurance trust representative Miss yugetti we're just getting started for the year so I don't have anything to report tonight thank you thank you that will take us to 11.01 Future meeting dates Dr McCord I think you've met a present governing board members our next meeting is October 11th which is a board work study and brief board business meeting policy meeting is October 18th and on October 25th a board business meeting I'd like to note that in November our first meeting is scheduled for November 8th and I would like to change that to November 1st November 8th is an election night and I think it'd be best if we not have a meeting that evening if there's any issues with that November first day please let me know if not we will keep it on the first okay and we'll update that on the calendar yes thank you all right uh we'll bring us to adjournment board members is there a motion I move that we adjourn tonight's meeting thank you Mr Jetty is our second second thank you Mr Parker it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay thank you the meeting is adjourned
okay where am I do we have any Advil or aspirins I do it like I do no I have some I have a whole bottle yes all right let me go get it right now shut this off
any other schools the students are just so eager to talk about you know the great things that are happening but we stick to the data yeah and the kids do it for us so yeah we do have to be better about that thank you very much foreign High School I'd like to bring the latest school performance rating for restaurant High School to attention from 37.4 percent of possible points replacing some priority Improvement category on the school performance framework the current framework that just came out near 58.6 possible points and moved us into the approval category if we have received an additional 1.2 points overall we would have been in performance rate those we believe our success with the results of placing the great deal of emphasis on rivers great level instruction using high quality curriculum this is a direct response to foreign I came into this wall a few years ago I I don't know what's that for teachers when we talked about our expectations for grade level Construction because it was always a comment that our kids are different they come to us over agent but and uh we have to do things differently well I agree with it still leads to random content Earth resistance was uh not wanting to practice level professional development for teachers our coursework is designed and we design our enforcement to two different but we still can we put a level of content uh efficiency so I think we're telling that so our plan this year is to build on previous years success by following through with what we started uh and doing it veterans times following the atoms of 14 academic Playbook our teachers are using at the same time keep refining their lesson plans our teachers are becoming more familiar with and visited using the important we're making sure the teachers are being gentle about buying applying best practices from the moments students walk into the door to further Ado now haven't just finished a potential understanding that you know continue to work on improving how we analyze student work and I will continue to elevate academic discourse in the classroom be sure to have people focus on these major Improvement strategies strategy number one is delivering rigorous first time grade level instruction steps will include continuous monitoring Improvement in planning first time exposure that emphasizes good outcomes as opposed to teacher actions that restaurant we have 30 minutes per day four days a week dedicated to this one because an area that we will emphasize more this year is decreased student engagement the classroom discourse with emphasis on using grade level academically this is important for both our native English speakers as well as our second languages we'll do this through intentional planning providing feedback our second strategy will be to apply a protocol for identifying and addressing running depths I'd like to hand out a are today so you can see what it looks like in the teacher's hands who our action steps to improve teachers having identified ambassadors for his performance band in our classroom based on Smart scores from the beginning year of the Year assessment teachers will use this data along with informal classroom observation of progress monitoring methods to identify me through their students and forms multiple construction plan attention on specific learning activities which is Ambassador they'll then use the same intervention for all students in the same performance chat they will be used in the storage personal planning class report and that's what this is it's just one page I think was like a nine page so I just took a snapshot of it they will use this to identify specifically what students in that performance band need so this identifies uh the median or loss in our highest score within that band this is for reading uh medium percentage of where those students are uh this report hasn't lost to those students names I left that part out um and I think it's important to see how this looks in the classroom uh for reading this group has identified outside the storm Renaissance has identified these skills as being the starting course starting commercial planning and um which we'll see is like the key ideas and details for example uh grade seven standards that have the uh some of them that have a little black people next to it these are identified as Focus skills that um the uh the ones we want to use in the classroom so I'm asking every teacher to be able to look at this for their uh Ambassador codewords uh the grand gentle light green activities for uh in our classroom that addresses we want we do know activities we might be small group interactions it might be built into the regular content level planning for the day the teachers I relying their professionals to be able to know and we're kind of why these in our classes so I just thought I think that was important for you to see what it looks like to the teacher's hand s um so that is our third uh Improvement strategy um which will be to improve less tomorrow and completion and attendance Ways by establishing system to support students in career and post-secondary planning research illustrates that when students are engaged in learning activities that are connected to their lives and what they've learned in their future and try to be more motivated to be in school every day and follow through with learning activities so we're lucky to have a congratulations company coordinator who's a former Adam City graduate uh working for us full-time she's already made uh almost and she said 75 contact with 75 of our seniors to get to know them introduce yourself let her know what your role is she's establishing a database to find out what you're looking to start with your experience and where they might end up after high school so that we can plan specific activities that might be guest speakers it might be field trips anywhere to support them and then for students to achieve their post-secondary and also she's planning uh monthly return meetings um so everyone Adam said he had the other day to talk about uh posted grid planning including things like Philadelphia forms and college applications so I thank you for your time and I would like answering the questions working together when it comes to the kids having geography to take advantage of those easy courses and any of the other courses that are happening at the hospital um I just don't see enough of that and I've just been wondering if that's part of the coordinators um position now or how is that um coming together because I know in the past year we've asked about Transportation yes it is no it's not so now I'm like what is it how is it that you guys are meshing together to help support those students that can be utilize and really think advantage of those successful because that's the whole point of they're not separate as a whole who still want those kids to have that opportunity some of the issues involved there are typical CTE pathway program at Adam City maybe you started as it is not great for them to be able to fall through and finish the whole process we don't get these students until they're sometimes years sometimes seniors and you're already done to correct so our task is to try to fill deficits in their learning uh bring them up to grade level standard in their uh proficiency from in their content classes and um still support them in their identified goals and their their future so when we know students are already involved in the CTE pathway program at the city will do everything we can to support that and allow them to go back uh and see if they're part of the data groups on people down the street and attend those classes we had a cohort master that did this I believe successful I think immediately uh not sure what that number is this year um CTE leadership so I think some of the coordination may have founded the website but it's definitely on our radar as we look at our future uh what our future looks like in terms of academic or on campus I'm sorry Atlanta City High School and our our uh ability to support that that's definitely one of the things that we're going to uh being worked very hard the intentional about planning and making that happen so um we haven't installed all the problems uh we're working on it and we're open to suggestions uh every year our population of students change meaning you might identify a handful of kids that are interested in a particular career pathway with The Graduate we've only had them for about a year maybe two years at the most and it's hard to support them if they're not already started we've we've started discussing ways that we can work on focusing on that on like the opportunities more so right now the great relationship is dropout rate has decreased for four years in a flat 3.4 of these last two years but it was as high as seven five on seven so we have that part solved and his under credit issue is a challenge um and we've done one awesome kids like the four or five from last year were kids that we knew were in that interest path that we made it happen now we have to just make it more of a systemized approach which I think we have some pretty good ideas in the times that we've been able to talk so we'll have it planet of Europe my brother and members of the board um Schneider because that is this is actually the topic of conversation during the meeting we're connected and how to extend those opportunities not only to students and as Leicester Arnold potential proximity of the students with one another but also expanding it to the middle school so to [Music] um transpoint presumably awareness Point sorry um we can start supporting students earlier so Dr Schneider oh yeah I think what I wanted to highlight is um are deeply engaged in some really rigorous pathway design work over basically fours three to four hour sessions on the months of August and September in the evenings and there's some really Innovative and flexible thinking around what the Western Arnold model might look like that way students have the utmost flexibility as we go to the academies approach to be able to go in and out of some of those of those programs there's some logistical models in this concept right like we're working on it but we're having some really exciting things to share with you in the coming weeks about what that work is going to look like and how we can maximize it's that actually has a library customer service the same opportunities for years and years we've been talking about this over and over again where are those systems what's the breakdown and often what do we need to do to make sure that that happens because we you know the real news is what's going on personally opportunity the new models we're thinking about are still on rough draft mode and I really believe [Music] excited thank you all for making them nervous thank you very much um yeah this includes our presentation a moment to be able to thank our school year is this please please pass along our appreciations our school leaders have been working on the current District staff since the street of 2022 our unified Improvement friend work will continue throughout the school year through each school's identified School accountability committees as identified in the state statutes in addition to their leadership team and District leadership teams at our next board meeting on October 11th there will be a superintendent's recommendation for the approval of all district uip's and the schools this recommendation is provided to ask the board due to our District's turnaround status once approved we will continue to work through the Colorado Department of education's online system to submit all uip's by the state Department's deadline on October 25th unified Improvement plans um board I just want to also ask about the keys um personal [Music] um they're differentiation right amongst the schools although you've probably heard that the U.S is appear to be similar to what is different issue in the nutshell we want to get um in our age again very good at two things number one monitoring students and that will bring a little the differences of all students and the most needs because what do you monitoring a student we're not monitoring necessarily the same things but monitoring to help the students making problems based on the needs so that will bring the piece of the differentiation however the structures that we're putting in place and with support of TNT is how to get ready for their monitoring and once you're um teachers and we're actually practicing that we're calibrating as a Cabinet as a member I was actually with a few um three or four schools between yesterday and today um with the principal and um just calibrating on that feedback so that will bring the differentiation and I hope that you because I think that you're asking um a little bit of you know they all seem so similar these two IPS but yes physicals are so different right so again to see what our ideas to be getting good at that entrepreneurial students and the other piece that we're looking at is um very good at that tier one instruction you hear that a lot and that basically means the first time students hear that from the future there's the tier one you know their first time instruction um at the greatness um and then from that breakdown instruction we're going to go to scaffolding those or maybe um that are actually supposed to get there or accelerating our students um so um the last ask that I heard from the feedback that I heard in your questions is you are very interested in how our viewers are being very specific on are engaging parents not only uh engagement of the approval of the unity but throughout the year how to re-engage them Partners other children's education so those two pieces I've heard we're going to bring it out to um on that it will continue to have touching them because they basically have about three weeks thank you expenses maybe just how are we building the trust I guess that's a little Community yeah um [Music] there is a need for an executive session I move that the Board of Education session relative property CRS 2460 legal advice is writing accountabilities CRS 246 4024b District security and CRS 24 6 402-483 personal Personnel contract negotiation may I have a sentence hi thank you all for joining us this evening thank you
audio works come on we are live it's just floating I just want to make sure oh God my voice okay those are good all right good evening I'm going to start by doing some uh just of our mundane stuff I have to read our New Jersey open public meetings long we're going to Pledge of Allegiance and get right to why most of you are here which is to celebrate our first students of the month for this year so with that being said New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which time any business affecting their interests is discussed back that Bond in accordance with the provisions of this act of Board of Education policy zero one six two Board of Education of the Bureau of Bound Brook has caused notice of this meeting to be posted in the forward office at Bound Brook High School and mailed reflects to The Courier news about Brook Borough clerk southbound Brook Board of Education and any person who is paid I'm sorry who has requested individual voters and pay the required feet please advise for the Pledge of Allegiance [Music] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States one nation under our indivisible with liberty and justice yes sir Mr Bob here Mr Fazio here Mr Dawson here Miss casino here miss Lima here Mrs here Miss Wilson [Music] here of the community here support president you have acquiring president this evening thank you sir uh I think we'll skip president's comments at this point go right to our superintendent's reports well good good evening everyone uh Welcome to our September board meeting I have the pleasure tonight to introduce you principles who will introduce our students of the month these students have earned the uh the right to be recognized from all their peers in the schools for their outstanding accomplishments so without further Ado what you've been waiting for we'll have Dr s come up and introduce all right good evening congratulations to Farooq Isa [Applause] congratulations to Macy Guerrera [Applause] foreign [Applause] and congratulations to Adriana Jasper Gutierrez [Applause] next up from school Edwards good evening everyone our recipient one of our recipients is Sophia Ashley Diaz [Applause] our next recipient is Ethan bogantis [Applause] our next recipient is Iman Zaid [Applause] and our final recipient Santiago Rodriguez Rodriguez [Applause] thank you [Applause] and then we have a recipient who just walked in from Vermont schools congratulations [Applause] [Music] thank you here yeah right here yeah wow vice president all right everybody where are we over here come this way right up here you're tall enough you don't need steps Sophia come on you're swelling now where I take lots of photos [Music] foreign [Music] okay congratulations [Music] [Applause] okay next is our Middle School um good evening everyone the Community Middle School is proud to recognize a student of the month Martens or Kimberly [Applause] the Community Middle School is also proud to recognize as student of the month Lorena Reyes Silva foreign all right good evening Bound Brook School Community it's my pleasure and an honor to recognize our Crusader citizens of the month for Bound Brook High School uh Casey Alfaro foreign [Applause] next we have Jesus Lopez Antonio [Applause] last but certainly not least Diana Salazar Rodriguez [Applause] on both sides and this is sitting on the other side sure sure [Music] all right um [Applause] let's see Roger all right [Music] okay congratulations congratulations [Applause] okay just a couple of upcoming events we have uh this Friday September 29th at us at our football game is 6 30 we have our annual pow Mia ceremony where our Mountain Brooks will present some presentation for the prisoners of War at the recent connection who wish to participate would be at the age of 6 45 this Friday the second is um this weekend it's a free event it supports our robotics team we work very hard represent our district very well and we will they will be participating in the Radisson Valley Science and Technology showcase how to bring to our Commons it's two days Saturday 11 to 5 and Sunday 12-4 and it's a priest if you want to join bring your family to have food and drink it would be a great time uh also next week we have the week of respect for all of our schools will participate in activities that focus on catholication and child bullying and inclusivity and then on October 7th we'll have our football game please come out to support them we may have a special presentation by our band I think that is it well one last thing when we're in our second full week of school I want to give a shout out to all our administrators essential office our teachers I've done an outstanding job in the last two weeks things have gone very smoothly if I wish that it has been very positive kids are happy they're feeling safe and included so I'm gonna command them and give a shout out for the great work that here do at this time that's it Mr President thank you sir um so we're going to take a brief recess for anybody who uh wants to leave it'll give you an opportunity to do that anybody that wants to stay always five minutes with our general business so again like Dr Freeman say congratulations welcome back to the school year and thank you all for being so great all right thank you thank you foreign muted great all right so we are into committee meeting reports at this point which based on our new schedule we actually don't have any for this evening but I will take this as an opportunity to remind everybody that based on your schedule committee chairs should be getting their agendas into your administrative liaison by end of business tomorrow so that we can properly prepare and circulate those in advance of next week's meetings so if you have any questions about what needs to go on the agenda or how to do that feel free to let me know I'm certainly confirm all the members of your committee with your soliciting ideas and let's try to stick the timelines all right I think at this point we are open to the public for agenda items agenda items no area so there are two item 5.1 resolve the development report of Education approves the minutes for the following meeting this is the regular meeting minutes from September 12 2020 .
We Ready can we please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Mr Fano ons okay High School and notices room here question here Mr room here here okay thank you Mr alfano did you call Mr Russo I apologize okay okay thank you Mr alfano I would like to take this opportunity to welcome everyone to our meeting tonight this is our first um open board meeting since we opened school on September 8th the students so I do want to take this opportunity to thank um all of our faculty members staff members Administration for a very smooth opening of school in September and so far since that time uh things have been going very very well as Mr alfano is going to mention later we are finishing up some construction projects which should be finishing up within the next week or two and the schools I want to thank our custodians for the work that they did over the summer getting our schools in great shape so thanks to everyone for parents and staff and students you are well aware that I did post the updated covet guidelines to the website as you know we still have some cases of covid uh intermittently throughout the schools staff and students right now the guidelines are that if someone is positive they stay home for five days they can come back on the six day um with no symptoms and as per CDC guidelines and the local Borough guidelines from our Borough nurse there is no quarantining of students and staff members if they come in contact with covid we hope as the year goes on we experience less and less cases and as I mentioned before I think at our last August meeting we're looking forward to be getting back to normalcy as far as schools concerned I want to thank our principals and our parents who have come out so far to our parent visitation evenings actually tonight our middle school has parent visitation uh the last one after the middle school will be our high school we move that to October 13th so that it would give assigned time to finish up some of the construction projects that are taking place at the high school but I do want to thank our parents for coming out we've had a good turnout from parents out our last couple of Elementary back to school nights I do want to make mention that our guidance departments across the district are celebrating a couple of different events that occurred during the months of October this month September is suicide prevention month and I know our councils are addressing um that topic with students and with staff and running some programs also as we do each year we'll be celebrating respect week the week of October 3rd and also School violence Awareness Week the week of October 17th through 21st so our elementary counselors I want to thank Mrs R for getting some information out our middle school counselor and our high school counsel will be um offering some programs for students and staff that relate to these specific programs I have in your folder tonight a little spreadsheet of our current enrollment um at this time we are we have 3147 students we're up about 25 students from June if you look at the bottom of the sheet you don't have to do this now but when you have time you can look it over in 2019-20 we were at our highest of 33.19 so from that number we have dropped off somewhat and I think that's due to covid because that was when covert uh broke out and I think we did lose students during that two-year period And I think little by little we're going to gain those students back and I think our number now with 31.50 just about uh will probably creep up as as the year goes on but I did do a spreadsheet uh you could take your time look it over it if you have questions uh I can answer them next time or you can email me but that that's in your pocket for tonight I do want to make mention that on October 26th which is our next open board meeting we will have some of our principals here Mrs Calabrese director of curriculum and Mr Alban uh who's our Title One coordinator and does a lot of our data for us he'll be doing a presentation uh which is State mandated on our spring test scores for grades three to eleven so you know each year we have a a slideshow and he'll do the same this year comparing Cliffside to State averages and you'll have an opportunity to see some of the scores in all of our elementary schools middle school and high school we also are developing action plans for each of our elementary schools middle school high school to address deficiencies that we still have and we're working on that plan now and we'll be sharing it with the board and the public at our October 26th meeting also that night October 26th I've invited Mrs russos and and as you know School 4 was honored by being named a 2022 Blue Ribbon School by the New Jersey Department I'm Sorry by the United States Department of Education and I just want to read a letter that we received today from Mr delicio who's our interim County Superintendent day Mr Roman Gino gives me great pleasure to offer my sincere congratulations to you the Cliffside Park Board of Education the staff and the students at school number four in recognition of the 2022 National Blue Ribbon award granted by the United States Department of Education School number four is only two Bergen County Schools to attain this recognition and one of nine in the state of New Jersey as you are well aware of being recognized for this award by the United States Department of Ed takes diligence perseverance hard work and strong leadership on behalf of the Bergen County Office of Education congratulations to the entire Cliffside Park School community on this prestigious honor so I thank Mr delicio for sending us this letter and again as I did last time I want to publicly thank and congratulate Mrs russos and her entire staff at school number four they will be here the night of August 26th we'll present them with a plaque from the board this is I'm sorry October 26th Mrs russos will outline some events that we are planning for the fall as far as celebrating this this great honor and I met with her yesterday we have some tentative dates that once we firm out firm up I'll be sharing with the board and she will be sharing with you that night so that's a great honor for school four but the entire District so I do want to congratulate her again okay there are only 200 something in the whole United States that got the award yes that's about all those schools it's really a great recognition for the district and and and for the school and uh we should be very proud of that extremely proud okay at this time um any questions from the public okay so what I would like to do then is um before we look at the consent agenda any committee reports a lot of progress three major projects I've update out to uh there's a high school masonry project with the Courtyard little lane concrete down um the high school Red Oak project equation moves at the high school number six we hope to have again substantial substantial issue with walk through it on October 5th email stated from facilities managers espanella I'll take him down the scaffolding at the high school it's Friday of September 30th project I'm all we've really gotten some really good with the contractors Mr alfano is it safe to say for the public that the volleyball team will be able to have spectators okay confirm one scaffold ing up the area also we've done a pretty good back to school night High School we believe that's the majority of materials will be gone like I said we took a lot on last October in November as a board in the district and I think we signed up to where we are today back then I think we would have signed that before like I said we've gotten some real good tracks in the last in the weather really good net good news on all three major projects okay anyone else any questions okay so at this time what I would like to do is just point out a couple of items on the consent agenda I believe you have a copy of it in your folder uh page two um as we do each month we are approving professional development for staff members we're approving their registration fee travel expenses some of it as you can see is still online but a lot of it is becoming more and more in person as as time goes on a couple of transfers Carmella tufano High School social studies teacher uh was transferred to the middle school as a full-time social studies teacher uh Wanda parent who was filling in in my office for a maternity leave will be transferred to the high school effective this Monday October 3rd and will be a full-time secretary at the high school with Mr Pinto's staff a couple of um salary classification changes you know that staff members who as per contract move from one category to another with that is a pay increase Susanna Pacer is moving from ma15 to ma30 uh we we approved most of those last meeting but um this was one that my office missed so we're just putting Susanna on the list tonight uh we're just readjusting our salary at Ma 30 step 8.
all right I'll say that again welcome um so thrilled that you're all here tonight and uh thank you for being here uh before we even start with Pledge of Allegiance um we had a a tremendous meeting tonight uh we we um appointed our new pupil Personnel director and it's Barbara McLean right here and Barbara's here tonight and she accepted she's stepped it all off of it and we wouldn't let her out the door till she did so uh but we're thrilled to have her and uh I'm sure you all get a chance to to meet her at some point she'll be part of the administration team and she'll be up and about but uh welcome Barbara and thank you for staying for the meeting or for whatever part of the meeting you want to stay for happy to be here okay uh with that we'll kick it off with the Pledge of Allegiance who would like to lead us tonight okay thank you sir all right of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty Justice for tomorrow thank you thank you I'm going to remind everybody a couple times that this Friday uh the uh Canton Granby football team plays 6 30 our field it's our one home game Khalil is a member of the team and uh everybody can get out there we got to fill that stands for these guys and Bella I went to the um coffee house uh that was a phenomenal uh presentation I don't know did I catch you on that which part wait you got to remind me um okay I happen to leave towards again to go check on basketball but they and it was just a wonderful success and we need to do more get more parents out for that too I know you guys are fundraising because that was fantastic okay so the who girls are well the volleyball goes I went to the volleyball game yesterday and and the team didn't show until like I waited for like a half hour I saw the freshman game and then um was it East Windsor they didn't show to like 5 30.
I have a motion motion thank you Mrs second go for the clean Suite thank you any discussion amendments questions [Music] okay can we do a roll call please yes sir Mr Bell yes Mr Fazio yes this is awesome yes it's Casino yes yes abstain this is Januzzi yes Ocean passes thank you we are up to item 6.1 resolved that the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in Personnel resolutions of your District in high school this is 6.2 through 6.13 they have a motion motion thank you Mr zip code thank you Mrs declazio any conversation discussion the only thing that I'll call out and you'll notice that the goals that each of these agenda items are linked to or re-entering the agenda I think this is something that we should all kind of have our eye on now that we've adopted District goals for the coming year as we go through our committee meetings as we take action at the table let's just make sure that we kind of realign or at least align all of those decisions with uh the priorities that we've set so just saying thank you to our ministry apply I just have an item 6.9 so I don't know if that's just a mistake or not so uh there's Junior and then there's no Junior um different two different people yes okay any other comments or questions okay hearing done can we have a roll call please yes sir Mr Bell yes yes this is awesome yes you know yes Miss Lima figure Park design yes yes this is upcoming yes Mr jamuzzi yes we're president of motion passes thank you superintendent recommends for approval the resolution as outlined in Personnel resolutions under middle and elementary schools 7.2 through 7.16 I have a motion motion thank you for a second second thank you Mrs cousin discussion how'd you say congratulations I heard Mrs Pennington had her baby very healthy so congratulations to the family okay hearing no discussion can we have a roll call please Mr Bell yes yes this is awesome yes yes yes motion pests thank you up to item 8.1 resolved at the boundary Board of Education approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions under District High School this is 8.2 through 8.5 I have a motion promotion thank you Mrs DeFazio II second thank you Mr Bob any discussion I wanted to uh have a question I had a question about the 8.2 um if are the reason we need to go back to Virtual learning I wanted to double check on the high school schedule plan I know right now they go through um like an A and A B B but from the virtual plan it looks like it would be a short schedule where uh students would have an A B and C shortening class each day I just wanted to clarify that make sure that's what I what I was reading post um what we're intending to do yes okay thank you Mrs guzino any other questions hearing none can we do a roll call please Mr Bob yes yes it's awesome yes you know yes Miss Lima yes motion passes thank you 809.1 resolve the amount of Board of Education approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions under middle and elementary schools is 9.2 and 9.3 no motion motion thank you Mrs DeFazio a second thank you Mr bow any discussion just wanted to uh congratulate the district pilot program I think that that looks incredibly interesting us thanks Roger any other comments or questions Mr Bell yes yes this is awesome yes yes thank you Mr mid Haas yes yes Mr Januzzi yes motion passes thank you item 10.1 resolved at the Bound Brook Board of Education approves the resolutions as outlined in Special Services resolutions this is just motion motion thank you Mrs DeFazio a second thank you Mr minhas Joshua okay Mr Bob yes yes Mr Zucker yes and Mr Januzzi yes motion pests thank you item number 11.1 resolved at the Bound Brook Board of Education approved the resolutions as outlined in financial resolutions this is 11.2 through my promotion motion thank you on a second second thank you Mr Zebco discussion uh thanks to the Presbyterian Church for Their donation that's wonderful absolutely and uh can we make sure that we all get over reforms for for pies this year yeah you should be able to get them right for me this time oh even better you know where to send them signed up sounds good all right oh I use Miss Mustard last night yes those are great things any other comments or questions okay hearing none can we do a roll call please Mr Bell yes yes awesome yes yes Lima yes Mrs yes yes motion pests I should have asked thank you very much I should have asked Mr Edwards or cements coming back for Smalling I can't wait I'm gonna start saving them now okay uh we are up to other matters to come before the board or a new business well I am stop looking at me like that with great concern Ed with the coming of the new school year I'm back in the classroom I've been out of the classroom for eight years as a theater teacher now I'm back in a fifth grade classroom with a new principal new curriculum every single new program from Soup To Nuts and I I just I want to make sure I do my job job the right way and after 13 years I had already decided that once I put a new superintendent in which I was a part of and we got the right guy and I wanted to get through the teacher contract and we are almost done that it's pretty much so we did the two things I wanted to get done so like this will be my last meeting yeah well so on behalf of the members of the board the community Michelle thank you so much for all of your service you know it's been uh really helpful for me personally to have you on award um to learn from to really grow in serving the community and everything else um and I don't think it could be underscore the contributions that we've made over a decade plus so it's been a long it's been a long road thank you foreign so um over the summer we had a lot of teachers that had resigned or or for whatever reason um moved on um so we had asked a couple times um to get an understanding of why the resignations were taking place just to get an understanding for the reasons and we were always told um it's coming it's coming and here we are now in the second week of the school year and wanted to know is do we um is this going to be the Game of Thrones so the reasons are coming excellent thank you thank you so much my two cents I just went with the second week of school having two children in the district to thank the administrative team who also had a special services for the incredible job everyone's been doing um my kids are loving the year so I want to thank you guys I know I mean without you welcome enough in place so we really appreciate everything you've done and continue to do for all the children so thank you [Applause] yeah I want to I want to second that as well okay um I believe we are now open to the public for any items you have one comment online just so you know very good person do I get to do Vanna White do I get to read it please yes absolutely it's from Colleen Rick um do I need to read the address Mike yes uh 633 Crescent Drive um comment uh what is being done to hire more aids for this special education students that have one-to-one Aids on their IEP but no dedicated Aid in the room since school has begun question mark I contacted Miss trilise and Mr DeMarco and they responded that they are in quotes doing their best to meet the needs of the students who require an aid end quote I understand they are able to pull people into the room to help in the meantime but that is not consistent for our children who need a routine and familiarity as well as their the aid to know about our children's specific needs thank you for your time okay as you see on agenda we just Contracting the Delta team we're having difficulty getting paid we're working with the Education Service Commission they just didn't have the cool events to give us a dislocated so we contracted with delta T who is in the process of getting aids for us I think at this point we've gotten two additional AIDS and we're looking uh to get more in the very near future great thank you and the only thing that I would suggest in a follow-up to to the question um this is really geared more not for the people in the room but for our board members in general for the folks tuning in at home um we do have a new administrative team and some new leadership and I think the question that you should probably ask before you come to a board meeting for a specific grievance or question is really have I brought this to the attention of our school's Chief administrator and if that really hasn't been the case or you haven't brought it to the principal school if it's a school related issue I really encourage you to Avail yourselves of that opportunity um I you know we sit up here and we're loading our administrators for the outstanding job that they're doing I would just ask the community and the public really give them an opportunity to solve your issue because in all likelihood what we're going to do is perceive and understand your comments but likely refer to the administration for action so you're best bet at a quick solution is really to Target those people first and really overuse coming to a board meeting for one of those issues as a last resort and with that I believe we are ready to adjourn for executive session I think ocean sure may I have a motion motion thank you Mrs DeFazio a second thank you Mr Dawson all in favor aye aye you're unmuted all right uh we are reconvening an open session we actually do not have anything to move in section 16 so at this point we are approved no it wasn't himself he said it wasn't it didn't even know why it was there so I can read it it says that was it wasn't even a hit it was no no information no yeah I mean okay I thought we were more approving the report than okay happens and if it's different I'll tell you but I think it is so I will entertain the motion to adjourn motion second thank you Mr zip code all in favor aye have a good evening everybody
below that on page three we are approving as per contract with the CPA graduate reimbursement for this coming school year so these are all the amounts that have been requested for this coming year and these staff members once they show evidence of uh fulfilling all of the guidelines such as a b average submitting um tuition uh costs and so on and so forth will be approved or will be reimbursed the amount that is indicated on this printout so each year we probably get about 20 staff members that take advantage of this in order to take advantage of it as per contract you have to be a tenured staff member which all of these staff members are below that we have some co-curricular activities that we didn't get a chance to fill in at our August meeting so these are people that have applied for these co-curricular activities and as per contract the computation is listed also below that we are approving uh some additional coaches for spring Sports uh assistant coaches in baseball softball tennis track and field and again the compensation is as per contract um at the bottom of page five again as per contract with the CPA we are reimbursing staff members who take on a six class or staff members that teach in two different certification fields for example a math teacher might teach a science class a social studies teacher might teach a special education class as per contract there's an extra thousand dollar stipend for the Dual certificate of fifty five hundred dollar stipend annually for the uh six class and we're just readjusting salaries for those staff members that's in the high school and that's also in the Middle School continued on Page Six uh bottom of page six seven we are uh adjusting the salaries for our bus drivers that has to do with recalculating how many days bus drivers work during the school year we had calculated it on 208 days but they're actually working 211 days so we had to recalculate their salaries and uh based on the additional three days for the school year so although it's an hourly position we calculate an annual salary based on the number of hours they work per day and per week and then annually okay um then bottom of page seven I'm not going to read a lot of these page eight uh resolutions where we are we're pointing teacher aids these are primarily teacher aides uh who who are part of our special education program as you know in self-contained classes depending upon the disability you may have two AIDS in a class three AIDS in the class you may have a student that needs a one-to-one aid and um by the end of August we had filled most positions but there were still some positions that needed to be filled we're also appointing some lunch AIDS uh who help out with our elementary lunch program and all of our elementary schools and that's actually continued on pages eight and nine again primarily bus aides teacher aids lunch AIDS okay on page 10 uh about the fifth resolution down I just want to approve for Jacqueline Monte Carlo a classroom teachers School Number Four has submitted a request for four personal days and an unpaid leave from the 26th of September until October 7th we've granted that Luisa Meyer who's a classroom teacher aide is returning from an unpaid leave actually she returned just this past Monday so that is going to have to be actually adjusted could you make note of that Mr alfano that it's beginning September 19th it should be through September 20.
oh was it Ellington yeah okay yeah yeah so we have the girls if you'd rather be inside you've got the girls playing volleyball we got a great night um and then there's you better check on basketball tomorrow whether they're moving to have it because you got a volleyball going in okay so a lot of activity and one of the things I love about Canton is you know I went I was there yesterday and it was football in one field there was soccer on another girls volleyball and another school's being used Friday night we had um the um Coffee House going on and basketball going on so wonderful things going on in Canton so everybody um you know if you can make an event please make that event all right so information reports we're going to start off with our student reports uh sure um you can stand do you like okay sure that's great uh so for our Pass events uh Wednesday September 14th was uh Sherwood Primary School open house and curriculum night as well as a CHS class student parents tonight Tuesday September 20th was a Canton High School in Canton middle school early release day Thursday September 22nd for let's say CIS curriculum night Friday the 23rd was the CHS coffee house Monday the 26th we were off because of our four Rosh Hashanah on Tuesday the 27th there's an early release from all right okay okay for um upcoming events Saturday October 1st is going to be the music mattress fundraiser at 10 A.M to raise money for the Disney trip Wednesday October 5th there's not going to be any schools until Yom Kippur Friday October 7th will be early release for all schools and Monday October 10th there won't be any school due to indigenous people's day we're ongoing uh fall School sports teams are continuing their Seasons I included some of the games and dates for when we have home games under the lights if you'd be interested in attending and the high school fall plans begun and we'll have an anticipated performance in November the day before or tonight I believe there was a soccer game and then there's football tomorrow and there's a soccer game Saturday the volleyball on Friday night and field hockey has a game Friday as well or uh tomorrow as well there is a lot going on oh Alice in Wonderland there's a concert there's a Disney Concert I think towards the end of October which is going to be fantastic it's a Saturday and if you can make that that also is a fundraiser now this mattress fundraiser is a big deal because you can make a lot of money on these mattress things because everybody whether you have a a room upstairs that needs a new mattress or maybe you're a summer Cottage or whatever it may be so uh this is a big fundraiser for the kids that are trying to get to Disney the music program getting to Disney so if you can uh you need a mattress and see the uh where's that going to be it's going to be at the high school and kind of and it's all mattresses too it's it's um you know it's it's all good stuff who's putting it on is it sleepies or but independent company it's an independent but they can do it because they don't have either ah it's beautiful but it's all good stuff yeah Beautyrest and all that so um if you need a mattress tell your friends okay all right perfect um okay thank you for the student reports any questions for the students okay thank you okay Nora you want to talk to us about the um overnight trip to the uh un sure thing so first of all let me uh introduce you North sorry um for our board members who may not have met Nora this is Nora mccarski who is our uh outstanding social studies department chair for Canton middle school and high school and um for several years now Nora has taken our students to participate in the overnight United Nations trip um some it's it's a it's a trip that our students remember years later as one of the best experiences in the Canton Public Schools and we're so grateful that Nora that you take the time to organize this well thanks for being here tonight to present your proposal which will need to be approved by our board thank you for the introduction I know that this is your first read um I do have a handout that I'd like to give you that gives you the overview of of the model un program and the history and some of the awards that we've won and then you prepare for your reads I have some links that are attached to it but I realize your agenda is full so I'd like to to just be in and out if you would because I know you've got a busy day thank you Nora's also a board of ed member in Winchester so she understands what it's like to sit in your seats Nora also runs the student election when when you run for board so if you want to get jiggy with Nora we used to relax this year we've got the governor right right a year from now I'm already thinking about you to learn all right okay uh the program's been in existence since uh 2007 to 08 so this is the 15th year and we've taken hundreds of kids and I've lost count um but I I do want to say we went from 12 to 60 kids at its Max right before covet shut us down and uh so I call this a rebuild because the two years without actually going someplace is really more or less devastated the club so I'm rebuilding it reconstructing it I had 17 kids going and ready to go to Yale last year but then Yale went virtual so all but two dropped out because they all want to go to campus they all have a great time there and so it was really a Hands-On Club so uh the good news is though I've enrolled about we've got for UConn seven kids enrolling to date for Hartford 14 to date and yeah we've got 16 to date that are rolling so that's good to see this interest that's coming back but what is model un essentially it's role play kids act as a delegate it's a simulation they go to a college campus they meet other students depending upon the actual event could be from everywhere around the world or they meet kids from other parts of Connecticut or they meet kids from New England it just depends on the conference when they go the point that they go there with is that they've identified a problem they've done some research on the global problem but they have to do it from the perspective of their country that they're representing so it can be Jordan it could be Saudi Arabia so they have to learn something about the issue they have to learn something about the country and then they have to learn about the country's position on the issue and then they have to find solutions to those issues and they write and what they do is they write position papers and they come into the room with maybe as few as 15 kids or as many as 100 kids depending on the camp of the actual event and then they have to work to negotiate with the other persons inside the room to try to find a resolution to that and then now you go through voting procedure so the other really neat thing about all of this is they learn parliamentary procedure so the reason why I like this this actual this club is because they could be you someday sitting here in a board of bed running parliamentary procedure passing motions and voting and that sort of stuff go to bed Board of Finance very very acute very specific to New England towns so um these are the things that the student must do examples of topics just so you know vary from meat to meet conference to conference so these are just some samples and over the years there have been hundreds of different issues that have just come and gone depending upon the global crises so I just wanted to you know give you a hint of what is there students could typically choose an area of interest um what happens though is sometimes we're given a country so we might be I don't know Uzbekistan and we're stuck with that within that though there might be 16 different topics and so we go through we have meetings as needed after school this is all an after school program and then we go through the process of selecting topics based on student interest and then we go seniors to freshmen sorry sometimes the freshmen don't get their number one pick with topics um but in the end it's more than just that sort of academic although that's huge writing position papers resolutions they're working with leadership inside the room they work with conflict resolutions cooperation negotiation all of those are great things including public speaking um particularly the one that we're talking about tonight is Yale which is an overnight trip it's two nights three days we do leave campus on Thursday um the kids go till Thursday night to midnight and then Friday morning we wake up late thank God and then we're able to visit the Yale campus in the morning we have lunch with professors we can sit in on lectures and call in the campuses we can go to the Yale British Art Museum because we have free tickets tickets we go to Starbucks that's very important we do a lot of different things and then the lunches and everything is there all the restaurants it's like they're exploring the Yale campus they're exploring and they're really availing themselves to the high school kids there's about a thousand that pop onto that campus for Thursday night Friday and Saturday they do continue to Sunday but by the time Friday night rolls around I'm in a coma and I need to go to bed so we're done at 7 30.
26th okay I think that was just changed on Sunday so it was probably my mistake that I didn't tell Gia so we can just update that the last resolution is we're approving a maternity leave for Joanna Hernandez who's a teacher rated number six uh effective November 21st she'll return January 3rd first resolution top of page 11 uh next Tuesday or this coming Tuesday October 4th will be our first staff and service day of the year we have a number of activities planned for the staff this coming Tuesday when we have an agenda uh which Mrs Calabrese will be putting together I will share that with the board and we'll we'll talk about some of the activities and programs that the staff took part in in our October meeting but for now we're just approving the fact that it's a half day session for students full day session for staff we are um recommending or we're confirming the outcome of a bullying incident as per state guidelines and then buildings and grounds on page 12.