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Our process involves inviting multiple vendors and includes stakeholder groups such as K12 staff, administrators, and parents. We display materials at school sites in the district office for at least 60 days to gather back feedback before seeking governing board approval. Thanks to our governing board support, we provide enriching and up-to-date curriculum for teachers and students. Supplemental materials are approved in two ways. They are part of the governing board adopted textbook process or we bring annually a list to the governing board as you will see attached to this presentation. As part of the supplementary materials process, we have also added an additional level of security for our technology- based materials. We added the trust ed apps dashboard that is located on our web page under our educational technology. All all governing board approved electronic resources are found on this page. These are some of the examples of our ancillary materials that our principles approved for to be utilized within their class their classroom sites at each of the different classrooms.
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But at the at the at the top level, we are setting setting the direction for um the focus of the town and and but we couldn't do that without the public. And so all of us are um really a part of public conversation and that's a a good chunk of what we do. We get all get emails, we all get calls and um it's being being a part of this community which is which is an awesome part because it just gives back so much. Answer um the grant. I'm actually gonna let Joe answer about the select board role and then you can start with the granting. That's right. All right. Um, thank you. Sorry, I was talking. That's okay. Brandy hit it on the head with uh everything that she mentioned um with respect to what we do as a as a board and the members of the board.
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So how can we create more lessons that are rich in building hand strength so that they're developing a dominant hand. They're learning how to use school tools right so they're going to be more effective writers once they get to those levels. Um and that's been really great. It's really nice to see the collaboration among staff um and to give them that intentional time to really think about all they do in play. It's work and so how can you just talk about how they're manipulating Legos to improve hand strength, you know, and now we're going to pull them apart. We're going to stack five and that's going to help them then when they go to grasp a tool um of a marker or scissors or those sort of things. So, that's something we're really proud of this year. Again, we we don't want to be like, you know, looking at a computer and analyzing data, but how can we then apply it into our learning every day.
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There is much more evidence, but I thought that was plenty at least for this evening. But you have access to all of the um Google Drive folders. And then I just have a quick update. Um the normal enrollment uh numbers. There were uh a couple of moves really significant at the high school that you'll notice five. We had two students that moved to Orange, one student who was placed out of district, one who aged out, and one who moved to Connecticut. So I just like to highlight some of the shifts. Um, and then I was asked to give a business manager update because um, we had uh, I had been directed by you to go out to bid for the business manager um, on the March uh, meeting and I had sent the bid proposal to the city because uh, there was a conflict of interest obviously for Andy to do the procurement for us.
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There is much more evidence, but I thought that was plenty at least for this evening. But you have access to all of the um Google Drive folders. And then I just have a quick update. Um the normal enrollment uh numbers there were uh a couple of moves really significant at the high school that you'll notice five. We had two students that moved to Orange, one student who was placed out of district, one who aged out, and one who moved to Connecticut. So I just like to highlight some of the shifts. Um, and then I was asked to give a business manager update because um, we had uh, I had been directed by you to go out to bid for the business manager um, on the March uh, meeting and I had sent the bid proposal to the city because uh, there was a conflict of interest obviously for Andy to do the procurement for us.
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Any opposed? Abstensions. Okay. All right. So, now we're on to administrative reports. Yes. You got all the information. We are up to students. We are Enrollment would seem to be on target for a similar number of students to start the year next year. As for personnel, par educator Thomas Montenez resigned his position for personal family reasons. Um given the late time of the year with only 21 days left of school, uh we won't have the time to fill that with, you know, hiring and background checking and everything else, but we do have one of our internal long-term staff currently filling in that role and that's been working out very well. And just while I'm on my the personnel portion of my report. You heard it mentioned earlier last week. We had the opportunity to um celebrate teacher appreciation week. We're very fortunate to be um a school that has an exceptional team of educators and staff.
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I have a president, a vice president and they run it and um, so I'm going to let them take it on after this. So why don't we introduce ourselves? My name is Alexis Johnson. I'm the president of Danberry High School's class act council. I'm the girls basketball captain and I'm going to Western Connecticut State University next year. Um, hi, my name is Braden Wolf. I'm the vice president of class act and I am the um varsity lacrosse captain and I'm attending Sunni Courtland in the fall. Hi, my name is Anna Chhatis. I'm the class act secretary. I play golf and I'm attending Yukon next year. My name is Trenen Frasier. I play varsity basketball and also run varsity track. And I'm undecided. My name is Khil Tal Van Wright. I'm a graduating senior at Danbury High School and a rising freshman at the University of Connecticut.
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All right. So, I think that's it. That's it. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Town. Item 8B, we're going to schedule a board governance self evaluation. So, we already talked to all the board members. We decided on the date of uh July 16th or 18th, excuse me. I'm sorry. It's July 16th for the board self- evaluation and also uh a governance workshop to go over our governance handbook. So to look at our vision. Was that the September one? No, we're not doing September to July 16th at 5:30. So that would be an open meeting. That's at 5:30. Correct. Okay. Is that going to be here? It's going to be in the old about location open session. Open session here. It's in July. We're having July. Oh, you're not we're not having board meetings. It's not a regular but but those meetings have to be um it needs to be a public meeting like it will be here.
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I must highlight an important physical impact of our committee primary duties to ensure that bond compliance and appre and and appreciate expenditure of funds. While the district is technically in compliance with bond requirements, the timing of the school closure decisions were as created in an unfortunate situation by approving expenditure for schools that were under consideration for closure. funds were allocated that cannot be recovered or redirected to the remaining open schools. This sequence of events has affected effective reduce the resource available for improving our continuing schools schools. Early decision on school closure or a temporary pause on improvements to schools under consideration for school could have prevented this funds for more strategic use. fulfill the committee legal obligation to according to the law to ensure procedures are used as intended. Now I know that all everything is in compliance. there's no discrepancy in that and I just want to make sure that we are you know we know that sometimes the decisions are difficult to make and I totally understand but I just want to make sure that we know that sometimes all those funds that we have that we use for the bond are very critical on how we use to for our school to make sure that the many schools have what they need for the life of the school year and to protect our students and with that conclude my report I thank you for the time and have a good evening.
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Of course. I get to do that when I sit up here. Um, one of the things that um, we learned when I was attending the uh, LCAP uh, student feedback meetings, the students at at the levels um, that we had before us, they recognized the advantages of block schedule there. There was a considerable amount of not only the discussion but the identification of exactly what you just talked about Miss Sheridan was that that they have a lot of flexibility that they can utilize for whatever strengths they need or the weaknesses that they have that they need to go back and fill in. our students get it and they are using um along with the help I'm sure of their adviserss this block schedule to to really pull things together for them. Um I was very pleased in listening to the students talk about the advantages that they get it you know they know how to use it.
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your parents, your grandparents, your siblings, teachers, coaches, and mentors. Graduates, would you please rise, turn to the audience, and show those who have supported you and shaped you some love. I'm going to give you guys just a minute to connect, find your audience members, make some eye contact. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] All [Music] right. Thank you so much family and friends for your unwavering support. Before we closed, I asked a few of you what your future dreams look like now. My how they've changed. Jayla Martinez hopes to become a criminal profiler inspired in part by Mr. Roush. Caleb Smoot wants to be a psychiatrist inspired by his dad, Miss McCone, and Mr. Hogue. Nicole Deator Kantu wants to appreciate the moments in life. Ashley Moffett shared that she always wants to be a doctor, but Dr. Keith and athletic trainer Steven Reed helped her hone her passions.
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So this is the IG that we have to uh go into agreement with. So I'd recommend approval as presented. Okay. Any questions on that? Okay. I'll take a motion then. I move to approve the IGA for provisions of service by the panel county recorder and elections department in regards to the 2025 bond election. Second. Stephen second. All in favor? I I motion carries five to zero. Okay. 8.3 discussion of possible action to submit policy priorities for inclusion in the uh Arizona school boards association of two 2026 political agenda. So you had attached the 2025 political agenda from ASBA. And what this is really about is the board just looking through there and and uh indicating what your top five priorities are uh for the u um for the agenda that would be moved forward next year when they go into session in in January. Um if you have if someone has a new or revised priority that you would like, you're more than welcome to bring it at this time.
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And here we've provided different examples of adopted text, current supplemental materials that have been adopted, and some of the ancillary materials. And I'm here for any questions. Doc, and maybe I misheard. Did you mention something about security for Yes. All of our electronic um materials have to go through a vetting process. And so they're vetted through our uh through our TIS's, through our academic services department, through our director of technology, and then we um put them all on our trust ed web page that's found under that educational technology piece. And then as far as the ownership of the materials, um are is it kind of a lifetime purchase? So once we purchase materials, do we own it? Is it more of a we have access to it for a certain amount of years? Great, great question. Our text, our adopted textbooks, we are adopting them for a seven-year period.
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Um it's not a two-hour meeting that we have on Wednesday nights that it's all we do. Cton knows that I'm part of the affordable housing trust, but I'm also a member of the uh uh road rate safety traffic committee. Um takes up time. We hit complaints from the residents in town about traffic issues from speeding to to having signs put up for uh you know watching out for children and things of that nature in in different neighborhoods and every neighborhood is different. Um one of the uh committees of one of the other uh departments that Brandy uh didn't mention but I would like to add is that uh the DPW and the the the maintenance of the roads every development there are new roadways coming in. So there's an additional work add workload added to the the DPW and the only time they get their kudos is during the winter time when people want their their streets plowed.
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Um, so that was the highlight there. We continue to um participate in vertical team meetings. So, as we discuss like curriculum and Mike's working on, you know, what are we adjusting for curriculum? We want to make sure we're aware of it so we can continue to guide um and expose kiddos that are here at Pitway um with that language so that they'll be ready to go um when they hit kindergarten. um social emotional learning. Um you've heard a lot about how we're working with families to support social emotional learning. Um but for us, we continue to work in collaboration with Jen Taylor at the district level and our SEAL team. We have a smattering of social emotional curriculums. We continue with our positive behavior intervention supports, which you heard about I think a couple months ago when we were here, um and our be kind and be safe.
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Um, I posted it again on school spring. it was refreshed and it was also refreshed with MASBO. Um, as of May 1st, I didn't have an update on the bid. Um, but we did receive two qualified candidates on School Spring. So, I have contacted them to engage in interviews. On May 9th, um, I met with the school committee chair just to seek out an alternate vendor to complete the bid process. Um, I had indicated to the city finance director that we were going to use a different vendor. The collaborative for the educational services is going to conduct the procurement process for us. I've been in uh conversations with them this week and we will be moving forward the bid uh with the bid and then one of the qualified candidates who had applied actually withdrew their application on May 13th. But we do have one interview set up on Monday the 19th at central office and uh member uh secretary Deniv will sit on that as she had in the previous round along with the other members of the interview committee.
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Um, I posted it again on school spring. it was refreshed and it was also refreshed with MasbowBow. Um, as of May 1st, I didn't have an update on the bid. Um, but we did receive two qualified candidates on school. So, I have contacted them to engage in interviews on May 9th. Um, I met with the school committee chair just to seek out an alternate vendor to complete the bid process. Um, I had indicated to the city finance director that we were going to use a different vendor. The collaborative for the educational services is going to conduct the procurement process for us. I've been in uh conversations with them this week and we will be moving forward the bid uh with the bid and then one of the qualified candidates who had applied actually withdrew their application on May 13th. But we do have one interview set up on Monday the 19th at central office and uh member uh secretary Denene will sit on that as she had in the previous round along with the other members of the interview committee.
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We proudly celebrated them last week and a time is dedicated to recognizing their incredible work for all those who educate, support, and uplift our students every single day. Um we want to just make sure that we took a moment to extend our gratitude for every member of our BCS team. They call it teacher appreciation week, but we know that it's more than our teachers that make our school great. So, from classroom teachers to pair professionals, administrators, support staff, each person plays a vital role in helping our students become the very best versions of themselves. Um, we appreciate your dedication, your passion, and your tireless efforts. They do not go unnoticed. The countless hours you invest, the care you show, and the highest standards that you maintain to help create a learning environment that is not only safe and supportive, but also inspiring for our students is appreciated.
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I am a class member along with a cap basketball Danbury boys basketball captain and track boys outdoor track and fields jump captain. Um I am also from Danbury, Connecticut by way of the Bronx. Hi I'm Gi. I'm the girls captain of varsity team and basketball varsity team and I'm undecided. Uh my name is Caitlyn Zowski. I'm a track and cross country captain and I'm going to Western Kentucky State University in the fall. Um, my name's Addison Michael. I'm the varsity cheerleading captain and in the fall I'm going to Penn State. Whoever got the right. Okay. So, we want to thank you guys for letting us take the time to introduce to you guys everything that our class act council does. So, we have a quick little presentation. So, class act is a select group of 20 DHS senior captains and we come together to represent our athletic department.
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