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Gifford just said I wanted to thank the high school staff because it was great to see the department's the department's coordinated with one another so I know for example the science department was all right on the bridge as we crossed over I saw the counseling department further on the art department had some great signs and so all of the high school staff that lined the parade route I really thank and appreciate them because they contributed to make it so special for our kids but the dr. Gifford it was also great to see you know the elementary staff and some middle school staff out along the parade route too because graduation really is I know it's a high school event but it's really the culmination of the work that occurs in the district K through or pre-k rather through 12 so you know on behalf of the high school I really appreciate all of the staff both at the high school as well as pre-k through 8 who came out to support the parade yesterday as well well thank you mr.
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Tebow and you know I would be absolutely be in favor at having a parade every year as well so I think I think there's something many years ago John will remember and probably Kathleen the Dartmouth pride parade that used to take place and you know I thought this kind of reminded me of the Dartmouth Pride Parade and I thought it was just extremely well done and you know our students were very deserving so once again thank you everyone thank you to you both all right yep absolutely dr. Gifford I'm not going to go through all the other year-end events but I think you've been receiving that information the grade five is doing at the schools is doing some drive-through recognitions for the great my students the middle school event two things at the middle school I think a ceremony is june 11th and gctv will be broadcasting that at six o'clock and the other one I wanted to mention was in case you haven't looked I watched it the they did a nice virtual tour for the six incoming sixth graders so it's on the middle school tab under parents you can watch that video it's really nice and welcoming students for next year so excellent yeah couple of things retirements I did give you a list of retirements and I yeah I'm not sure how you I do have other things before that so yeah I can go over those two with your doctor good for me so let me let me do my other topics and then we can move on to that so as you probably are aware we're continuing to receive guidance from the Commissioner relative to not only trying to run a summer school which we are doing virtually but also opening school in the fall so the first real almost I would say concrete set of guidance we just received on Friday was about the safety precautions that schools are going to have to put in place to even open and needless to say you know we discussed it today as a team it wasn't a happy moment as we looked at the guidelines that they're proposing such as and we can go over this a little bit more thoroughly at another time especially when we get the guidance about teaching and learning but the guidance for the things they're suggesting to even open school is obviously things like face coverings mass etc the normal things were thinking of now the hand sanitizing and all that but the the idea of that they're saying mandated 10 students up to up to 12 people in a room to 10 students and including the adults 12 people things like that 6 feet apart at all time students staying in their own room all day long with a particular teacher never mind the items that they're suggesting that we purchase between now and school opening which lord knows if they're even available and what a budget is looking like in the meantime but those are some of the things the guidance that is coming out as I said more is coming by June 9th for the esy programs I'm just looking through all this paperwork but there's a lot that's gonna have to be looked at and done as any school district tries to open up in the fall with that said the guidance for teaching and learning the Commissioner is set to come out in mid-june I'm not sure if that'll be next week or what but in his words the new guidance will be the items in it will be 80% mandatory so whatever they determine I'll make this up as an example every school district has to do one week split their classrooms and do one week of in personal on-site education and half the class is home remoting in and then we do a remote learn the next week and we switch kit just different models of what they're going to suggest but it'll be mandatory so whatever it is so we're waiting with bated breath so that we can then move ahead with all of this guidance about safety and teaching and learning and see what the school district might look like in the fall so that's that's that but the team is you know we're constantly meeting and talking about it helping our principals at least maintain their sections of classrooms that they have now talking about the budget etc of the decisions that we're gonna have to make moving forward so that's all part of it how do they separate kids the number of sections etc so that's that as well a lot of fun as you can imagine and the other thing other than the rest time is that I wanted to talk about for a minute if so much stuff is obviously I wanted to mention to you and to the community that in light of the situation that obviously our country is going through right now I did put a and I see you know they had some protests in town this past weekend etc and and I think the community came together and a show of unity if you will but I did put a letter out on our Facebook page and we sent it to home to parents last week and I just want to cite a couple of the things because I want folks to know that here we have been going through this koban saying and then now if I faced with another big issue that affects all of us so I just wanted the people at home to know that we as a district are always all inclusive and all welcoming we I think we through a lot of our curriculum and our teaching and what our teachers work with our students we teach about empathy and unity and and just all of that I we one of the things I put in the letter is that we're not perfect and none of us it will never be perfect but we'll never stop trying to ensure that all of our students and our staff and our families are welcome and respected and valued in our district so I just wanted to mention a couple of things that the district does do in light of that and one of the things we're working towards right now is adding more we've already been talking about this book titles to our libraries that include authors that from various races and cultures etc that talk about things from their perspective we in our normal daily routines we we are school class assemblies are always our PBIS rallies and that's always about positive and kindness and tolerance etc our second step curriculum k-25 includes such topics we have anti-bullying unit and k-25 as well our health and wellness curriculum six to ten includes very excuse me yeah six to ten includes those kinds of topics as well speaking of cultures and diversity we have a sophomore in ela unit based on the book speak which talks about people being ostracized for speaking their mind and then how they deal with that and it's from the authors from the main character's perspective and then we Lucy Caulkins units that we use and through our reading and writing curriculum K to 5 we address diversity it's through some units that are around a cultural cultural responsible framework and I'm teaching kids about that so I think again there's always more work that can be done but I feel good and positive about not only the maybe specific things that we do about culture and race and diversity but also our core beliefs that we practice all of the time when we speak about kindness matters and our anti-bullying and and and those kinds of things that we do in the schools all of the time so I wanted to bring that up and then I think the last thing I had was the retirements this doll of her so I think you have the list but I know that you'd like to mention some of our folks so I'm gonna turn it back over to I think mr.
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Nunes wants to mention someone and absolutely so let's let's do it this way I'll go down the list I'll read some off and we'll we'll discuss a couple of them and there are years of service here so it's always enjoyable taking a having a chance to look over our list of retirements at the end of the year it's also very bittersweet for these individuals and some of them that have spent their careers their endowment their whole life so it's I wish them all nothing but the best in a healthy retirement but we'll start with we have Lynn Vincent from Dartmouth high school social studies teacher she's going to be retiring after 33 years of service in the school department we have Susan Calvin she's the Potter elementary school cafeteria manager another one with 34 years of service to the school department Stevens arrest Dartmouth high school business education teacher 27 years of service to the community into this school department we have William Kingsland our dedicated band director that I'll be turning it over to mr.
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Nunes afterwards to say a few words about him 22 years leading a world-class band Dartmouth high school marching band he will be missed we have agnese Agnes frenzies a school cook at the Quin elementary school 23 years of service Valerie Jelena's a teaching assistant at Dartmouth High School 21 years of service lucy Medeiros also at the quinn elementary school she is a food service worker with 15 years of service mr. kohlrabi do our associate principal at the Dartmouth middle school 30 years of service he spent with the Dartmouth public schools and I will mention about him that he said I sure some of my committee members saw the the wonderful letter that he sent to all of us and you know thank you thank you mr. Robie due for your time and for all your energy and and your talent that you've given to the dom with public schools it will it will surely be missed and it's you've done some wonderful things with curriculum like you are brought up in your letter you know we're very very pleased with everything that's taken place at the middle school and thank you for your 30 years of service a wand rodriguez dartmouth high school music teacher 23 years of service heidi Brooks our beloved principal at plata elementary school she takes the cake in this group it looks like the 36 years of service in dartmouth she has spent quite a quite a bit working quite a bit of time and you know we she will be sorely missed and I'll go back to her in a few minutes Cheryl Allen D'Mello school grade 5 teacher 12 years of service Robyn Eusebio Dartmouth high school math teacher 22 years of service kathleen de campos she is an occupational therapist at Cushman she will be leaving us with 20 years of service and we have a couple of others they'll be retiring a little later but Sandra Nicholas Quinn elementary school she is a grade three teacher with 29 years of service I see the trend here that once we in this is what makes me proud to be environment in you know beyond school committee is that once people come to Dartmouth it seems as like they don't want to leave and I think that's a good thing I think that's a good thing and last but not least we have Maureen Mott savino's a Potter elementary school teacher grade five teacher with 25 years of experience and we wish her the best best of luck in the future so at this time I'm gonna turn it over to mr.
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Nunes if that's okay if you would like to say a few words in general and about your good friend mr. Kingsland yeah Thank You mr. Thank You mr. chairman yeah BK is he's no no you know it's gonna be missed I saw him yesterday he was also without you why not you know the administrators at the high school yesterday to come down and see the parade and you know he was looking good in that and you know looking forward to his free time and again like any of these administers or an administrators that are retiring you know this definitely was probably not the the way they expected their careers to end but you just have to put one foot in front of the other and go I remember when dr. Kelly Hyatt bill and you know it was like you know we gonna miss a step and we just you know move forward and you know continue to take the program to to the higher and better better wins and competitions and greatness that you know as I've said before in a number of meetings you know what you know we're kind of the envy of a lot of groups out there because when I kids are warming up you know their parent you know other groups other schools their parents and their students are you know ringing the area to to watch our kids just warm up the way the way we warm up the way we do things it's you know you you practice the way you play you practice the way you perform and you know this you know they're totally focused on what they're doing and that's how they do it so you know yeah can anyone else hear home nah John we can't hear you mr.
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Nunes yeah we can't we lost you last 30 seconds okay well that figures every once in a while my volume my Wi-Fi goes mobile but no problem looks like you're back now if you want to just take it back about 30 seconds I mean yeah what's the last fight you heard let me put it that way other schools watched our kids proud you know again you know what you know we practice we practice the way we play and you know they're when they're warming up they're focused on what they're doing and what they need to get done and they're ready they're ready to go the other one I'm just want to briefly touch on is mr. Rodriguez was you know high school chorus teacher and for a number of you know 23 years and he brought back the musicals that we used to have you know miss when you get hired by mr.
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Madrigal and mr. King and he brought back musicals and you know they were always sellouts for all the years that he had them you know from you know Once Upon a mattress his first one a funny thing happened on the way to the floor you know Spelling Bee like like you can't even think of all of them did grease and he did Titanic so just to name a few but you know again you know they're all gonna be missed they very quickly added them up you know 15 15 15 personnel and there's three hundred and seventy two years of experience going so you know you were right mr. Oliver you know they show up and they never leave which is great thank you thank you mr. Nance any way any of my other colleagues like to say something dr. Kara Fotis first of all mr.
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all I'm just thank you for doing this recognizing these individuals who have worked in our system and I've contributed in so many ways there are a number of people that I know from having worked with them and some of them their children to get Lee school while I was principal over there I it's hot just to name a couple but there are a couple that I work very closely whether one was mrs. Brooks she came home with a I hired her for a first grade teacher kid Lee and what she brought in her enthusiasm have sense of humor you know just lifted us up she also did an internship with me and then once I got her all trained mr. Kelly moved her to Potter school so it was actually you you're taking responsibility for bringing her on board preschool so she has many varied experiences and did she's just she's a great person very dedicated and caring talking about how we treat our what we teach our students about inclusion and social emotional development she was really right up front with that right from the beginning when she went over to Potter school and became the principal there again mr.
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rubadoux his beautiful letter that he sent out today and he's just done such a fantastic job at the middle school and we're gonna really we're gonna miss these people Kathleen to campus with her work with her service dog these Sandra Nicholas I hi actually joining them and Maureen of course was one of my grandchild my granddaughter's teaches there are so many good people on this list and I thank them all for their service and again mr. Oliver thank you for doing this thank you for recognizing them Kathleen would you like to say anything yeah I know looking through the list you know what a good we really were really I wish them all well in the retirement but we are really we're going to miss them me Brooke says has been such a partner in the work that I have done in the district with the parents for children who have you know special needs she's always been sharing information volunteering to collaborate and have been very helpful and yeah I just the the years of service it's incredible to see everyone here you know I just wish them well in their retirement thank you soin I will I will just add that there's many of these names that I read I'm I know them well you know they might they interacted with one of my two daughters whether it's in a teaching position or another role but I did over that my course of having two two daughters go through Potter elementary school I didn't have an opportunity to to meet with and speak to heidi brooks on a number of occasions and she exemplifies what it means to be a you know have Dartmouth pride and be Potter proud and bleed bleed green I know she said that a number of times and she she's definitely been the backbone of Potter elementary school and I think you know personally nan for some of our other administrators over the course of many years when they're looking for assistance or guidance the the one thing that I'll leave with with Heidi was that she's she always was looking out for her students whether it's reaching out to students because something was wrong making a phone call home and I know all of our administrators do this but to Heidi it was very personable personal she really wants to make sure she she takes care and she looks after all our families and what a great rapport and what a great reputation that she's leaving with I'm not only with the students of in the north end of town but also with the staff in that building so I wish you nothing but the best mrs.
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Brooks along with a mr. Robie do mr. Kingsland and all the rest of our dominant public school staff nothing but enjoyment and happiness in retirement so congratulations I want I guess I just had a couple of things very quickly right under the report of the chair I just like to mention that I'm once again wonderful job by the table with high school with a graduation and making everything flow together seamlessly I know the job of middle school graduation is happening this upcoming week Friday Thursday the 11th is the livestream where they'll be doing the virtual graduation and then on the Friday the 12th that is when Dartmouth middle school students will be God doing a drive through to collect their belongings including their diploma as well and hopefully get to see some of their teachers which I know my daughter is looking forward to seeing some of them so hopefully that'll go well we'll have great weather on that and you know during these uncertain times as we continue to move forward and you know look for more information I just would ask the community in general um you know to keep keep in touch with us if you have questions if you have concerns and reach out to central office reach out to dr.
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Giffords office to your building principals if you have students in town reach out to your students building principals the table with public schools faculty and staff we are here to help you you know these are some extremely very trying times and you know we're gonna get through this but we're gonna take it one day at a time and just keep up you keep looking for information look for the read the emails I encourage everyone to read the emails that go out from central office they go out from your buildings with information regarding what school will look like in the fall and as we get information I'm sure that um dr. Gifford and her staff will we'll share it with with the parents in the community at large so that's all I have for this evening does any of my other colleagues have anything to share all right so at this point oh and I do is wins wins the general town election do we have a date on that 23 the general town election is the twenty Tuesday the 23rd yeah so we're gonna have one more meeting before then so dr.
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Kara FLOTUS you we're gonna have you one more time one more time all right I I have a few words for you too before you leave you're not gonna leave us that fast all right so the next meeting of the Dartmouth School Committee is Tuesday June no I'm sorry Monday June 22nd and at this time entertain a motion to adjourn into executive session for the purpose to discuss individual personnel contracts and not to return to open session so moved and a motion by mr. Nunes a second by dr.
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Kara photos on the motion any discussion on a roll call vote please so Oliver yes carol care for this yes Kathleen Amaral yeah John Nunes yes thank you everyone be well be safe have a good night we'll see you shortly Charley
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hmm um [Music] good evening board members dr mccord staff and members of the community who are watching us on live stream it is tuesday june the 9th and this is the gilbert schools governing board work study session and brief board meeting we have several albums on our board regular board meeting short agenda and we have a couple of items on our work study session however before we begin i would like to make a brief statement and please understand that i speak as an individual i do not presume to speak on behalf of each and every board member however at the conclusion of my statement they are certainly free to endorse the statement should they desire to do so in thinking of the events of this week and the last two weeks exactly i felt compelled to pen something and to address it i would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the events developed in our community our state our nation and indeed the world the struggle for equality and justice has been a part of this nation's history since it's in as a society we must continue to strive to become that more perfect union we all desire gilbert public schools is not immune to the challenges that have sparked the protests that have occurred throughout our country we must always seek to establish a climate in a culture that is inclusive and just we must become a community that honors and respects the contributions of all people regardless of their social economic status a community is rich when it embraces its capacity to utilize the skills and the talents of all individuals as dr martin luther king jr stated human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable every step towards the goal of justice requires sacrifice suffering and struggle the tireless ex exertion and passionate concern of dedicated individuals in recent days and weeks we have all watched events that have reminded us that the progress we have made as a society is not enough we have witnessed the passionate demonstration of people of all races and ethnic backgrounds joined together and demanding equality and justice for all people in the words black lives matter we have been reminded that there is still a great deal of work that must be done to establish that more perfect union in our schools our communities our state and in our nation the gilbert unified school district is deeply committed to fostering and embracing the ideals of social justice equality and inclusiveness we reject the and repudiate the discrimination hate and racism in all its forms we will continue to promote and endorse the positive efforts educators parents and community members to establish a climate and a culture on all of our campuses that honors and respects the dignity and worth of all human beings in closing i would like to echo desmond tutu exclusive exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice the events of the past days and weeks sparked by the death of george floyd should serve to remind us that our work is not finished until we truly accept the truth that america is beautiful rich because of its diversity thank you we will now move to our work study session we'll call that portion of the agenda together dr santa cruz yes miss eugenie dr santa cruz i would like to do the same thank you for taking the time to convey the what many are feeling it's been a great opportunity the last couple of weeks to reflect on our own belief systems and the way that we treat other people and we we acknowledge as you've so eloquently done the the need for the golden rule and to treat other people with kindness love and respect thank you mr carl dr santa cruz i would just like to concur that was very eloquently said thank you mrs humphries and i as well dr santa cruz thank you your thoughts they represent how i feel as well thank you miss wood and we appreciate that support from each of the board members for a statement that is so critical and i think reflects and represents the sentiment that is held by those who are working for the students in our district doctor can i say a word yes dr mccor first thank you for your words um i know exactly where they come from knowing you for the last 20 years and as an administrator as a human being and as a friend um for those of you that don't know you in that capacity please know that every single letter in that statement was from the heart so again thank you and i appreciate our governing board members all of them for recognizing uh what this country is going through what the state what this town and what this school district is going through by no means have we looked in a different direction we have a lot of work to do in gilbert public schools and i want to make sure that i recognize that publicly to anybody out there watching or that will see this later we had opportunities already to speak with students at highland high school on monday and we gained a lot of information and a lot of understanding of what just a handful of students go through not just at that school but in all of our schools on a daily basis and i stated in my letter on thursday moving forward we're going to do a lot of listening to begin with because formulating a plan without listening is just a waste of time so as we move through the next month month and a half we'll be putting together teams to be able to listen to our students to our families to make sure that we understand what the issues are in gilbert public schools but we can make sure we take care of not just those students but all of our students so again thank you dr santa cruz and governing board members thanks dr mccord and my apologies i should have recognized you from the onset in my rush to get the statement read i failed to do that but i appreciate those remarks and i know you and the team will be working hard to make sure that we touch as many bases as we know to touch during this critical time so we move to our works portion say again do we need a roll call gabby i think we're we're okay but go ahead miss wilson go ahead and wrote that's okay so we moved item two a presentation and discussion of and there are two topics on the work study session tonight item 2.01 is task force update and item 2.02 is global academy update dr mccord your introductory remarks please thank you dr santa cruz governing board members uh tonight we will have uh our assistant superintendent of teaching learning doctor newman she is heading up our task force and within our task force we have several subcommittees i know over the past couple weeks in particular everybody's been working extremely hard just for the public i know that school districts may be surrounding us or found in the east valley or in the valley in general are coming out with their plans and um and and i'm happy for them but we also take the approach of looking at every angle that we possibly can making sure we had input from our staff as well as our parents uh to make the most informed decision as possible uh we sent out an email on friday i believe that just kind of give everybody an update where we're at and um as situations change uh related 19 throughout the weeks we want to make sure that our plan is as uh yet fluid as possible moving forward so uh i'm very happy with where the committee is at today and we're looking forward to it i know in the past uh when we talked about instead we would present on june 23rd we would like to extend that deadline to june 30th in order to give the committees ample time to put together all the information needed to open up as safely and securely as possible for our students and staff so dr newman all right good evening dr santa cruz governing board members and dr board uh first thank you for this opportunity for us to share with you the progress of the committee as well as some of the considerations that have been made before i formally move to my presentation slides i'd like to ask dawn please to share with you the results that she has compiled some of the summary for our surveys first and foremost that is most important as dr mccord mentioned and so um thank you don if you will begin that'd be great thank you dr newman um i'm gonna start by sharing the employee survey results beginning with a quick summary we sent the staff by all staff at gilbert public schools the survey via email on may 31st and followed up with a reminder june 3rd the total number of staff as of may 31st was and we received total number of responses was 3420 in the slides that follow i can show you a little bit more detail but here are some of the key pieces that came out of that survey we did ask staff where they had been working during the school closure 71 had reported that they had been working from home and 29 had been working a combination of on-site um and home or on-site completely we asked all of our employees their level of concern with returning to campuses and offices 30 percent reported no concerns 45 moderate concerns and 25 percent very concerned i'll show you a slightly more detailed slide in a moment but we did ask we shared a range of measures that may be put in place to support a return to our campuses and offices for employees and we asked our employees to respond um how they felt about the importance of each of these measures increased sanitization and health screening were by far the top measures so with the largest number of employees reporting these as very important as part of their consideration and comfort with returning to work and on our campuses and offices and in our offices we also asked about preferred teaching model this was around this three scenarios that were presented to uh by dr newman at the last governing board meeting stressing that these are not in stone but these are the scenarios that were being are being researched by the task force and by far the most favored model was for students to attend school full-time here's a breakdown we asked our employees the departments or school that they work in their role um where they had been working during the closure and their current level of concern for returning to work on campus and in offices and here are the different measures we asked for feedback on there was eight measures and we asked the employees to mark whether these were very important to them for their somewhat important or not important as you can see number three and for our hail screening and number seven is regular invisible sanitization uh and again this is the data that we received with regards to the uh favored teaching models and the number one preference there with close to 2 000 votes was a student's attending school in person full-time with appropriate safety measures in place we as part of the as part of both surveys we did provide ample space for employees and parents to provide their feedback it was very important for us for them to have their voices heard and for them to be able to share their thoughts and opinions some of the themes in the comments that we received from employees the importance noting the importance of support for high-risk employees and those with health issues concerns were raised regarding shared offices and spaces and how that might work the need for cleaning products in classrooms and features to have access to these questions over what happens if there is a positive case of colvid19 on campus or in the department to achieve social distancing on campus the need for clear expectations it was stated multiple times that the feeling that kids need to be back in schools and that importance of supporting our students with special needs i'll now move on to the parent survey results the survey was sent to all parents monday june 1st via email that's a total of 41 000 parents and a reminder was sent out on june 3rd we ask the parents to complete one survey per student and the total response is received reflecting 22 405 students again we asked our parents to gauge their level of concern with returning to school in person in august 42 no concerns 39 was reported moderate concerns and 19 very concerned we also shared a number of measures that may be put in place and by far the uh rather than rate as very important somewhat important or not important we asked our parents to respond to each measure based on whether it would make it more likely less likely to send their child back to school in person or if the measure wouldn't impact their decision either way by far the measure that was most likely to uh support them sending their student back to school in person it was health screenings for employees and students and again uh similar to the employee survey results the preferred teaching model out of the three scenarios was for students to attend school full-time and this was and this just shows the levels of concern and here is the more detail with the 11 measures that were presented that we were exploring including um physical distancing limiting the number of volunteers and visitors on campus as you can see five and six in blue more likely to support sending students back to school in person five is employees having daily health screenings and six is students having daily health screenings and here as i noted earlier based on current family situation and personal concerns about safety and health if you could use a learning model for your child next school year would you choose and we have 67 choosing a 10 school in person full time with appropriate precautions in place we also asked questions around riding a bus to school 30 percent responded that the child does ride a bus to school and these are the responses regarding whether or not they would choose for their child to ride the bus at the beginning of the new school year and we have sixty percent yes thirty two three percent maybe with appropriate safety precautions and eight percent no again we sought we sought to provide ample space for our community to share their views and opinions with regard to this and we did receive over 8 000 individual comments from parents which was incredible and very helpful and here is a summary of some of the themes that came up the importance it was very frequently stated the importance of balancing safety precautions with the mental health and well-being of our students also that returning to school may be [Music] create vulnerabilities for higher students and family member members and that there needs to be options questions around how health screening would actually work the need to ensure no more breaks in students education as they have perhaps already suffered academically concerns over the number of students in a classroom and how that might work um again similar to mirroring what we saw in the employee survey it was iterated many times that kids need to be back in schools that we need to support students with special needs and again we heard from a lot of parents commenting please make the return as normal as possible and that concludes my sharing from the employee and parent survey you don let me i'm going to uh governing board members do you have any questions about the survey before we get into the presentation dr newman just a clarification for me the number of uh the percentage of folks who on the teacher and staff side said normal as usual and the number percentage-wise of folks who said normal as usual i think it was pretty close if i recall it was 19 or 20 or something dawn can you give those specific yep so for the can you clarify what you mean by normal as usual do you mean returning to students uh on campus yeah yeah so for the parent survey it was 67 responded to be uh back in person and i'm gonna have to go back and check the data for check the presentation just for one moment to confirm what it was for employees um it was close to i'll have to check the percentage but it was close to 2000 out of 3420 responses so i will follow up with you with the exact percentage okay but they were close is that right yes and in both instances it was the clear front runner preferred uh return to school would be in person on campus thank you don thank you dr newman thank you anything else before we move on okay i'm going to share then my presentation there we go so as um as you can tell we're very impressed with um the responses that we received and we know obviously that um it's so important that we listen to um our community and regard to making some decisions and that really goes along with what our guiding principles are so i just wanted to start the presentation just reviewing some of those um we know again that we're obligated to serve our students even during those times of disruption so it's important for us to look at all scenarios to make sure that we are ready to serve our students and our families in any way that we find ourselves necessary we also need to be sure that we're meeting the needs of all students including those that have specific learning or other needs whether that be their situation at home students with disabilities and our english language learners and then lastly as i mentioned our decisions are best made when we consult those closest to the problem so we do appreciate all of the feedback that we received with that too we are going to operate again on assumptions we will be reopening in 2021 school year we know that there may be some modifications that are needed based on guidance national state health officials and we are going to create plans that take into account both short and long term solutions and i wanted to spend a little bit more time this as we really started working through our subcommittees and talking daily at um our leadership meetings and working with our advisory committees as well we really were able to perhaps um clarify what some of these scenarios might look like so scenario a would be our return to campus full-time and putting some safety precautions in place our scenario c would be our online instruction utilizing gilbert public schools global academy and we know that as we move through this process we will probably be hiring or relocating some of the staffing so that we are able to meet the needs of students if our numbers are what the perhaps the survey suggests and we'll need to hire more teachers um and then lastly our hybrid our blended learning model really is more of students that are attending full-time and then there's a disruption in their life whether that be specifically related to their health or um their home or something happens in the state or otherwise so we need to be able to seamlessly move from our scenario a to our scenario b and that's where our conversations have been for all of our various subcommittees again these are our subcommittees we moved from um initially thinking we're going to need 11 and um mr ryan and his team very very um wisely decided that we probably need to separate one of those committees into two so all of the subcommittee leaders are here during this evening on our webex presentation so at the end if you have any specific questions they are here and ready to answer those for you it was important for us to be sure that we share with you what we're sharing tonight are our considerations um relate some of the conversations that we're having some of the areas um that we're discussing we don't have the set plan in place we are meeting again as an advisory team on thursday and that is when all of the leaders will come together with what they believe would be the plan for their specific area and then the advisory committee will look at those recommendations we'll be able to really um solidify what our plans are once we see and hear more specifically about each subcommittee's we know that so many are interrelated that we're going to be going to the advisory with what we believe is our best plan listening again to all of them and then making adjustments accordingly before we um share out what our final plan will be at the end so our subcommittee focus areas first and foremost um it was perfect that dawn started thank john for the information because communication is going to be key so as don leaves this committee it's important to make sure that we are addressing and presenting information for all of our audiences our students our parents and our employees and that achieving the consistency and that clear district we have been doing that since march we've been trying really hard and circling back to that message what is that message that we want to deliver make sure that it is clear and message for the entire district and then also making sure that the communication channels the existing ones continue to work um and then already her committee has looked at the importance of providing um parent website specifically to this task and for that reason um they are developing it right now and then we'll be sharing it out as soon as it's ready but that will be um begin it will begin with the information we have now and it will be continuously updated and more information shared as that information presented to it dr newman this is mrs wood can i ask you could you give us a brief description of what the subcommittee is um the representation on the subcommittees who's involved working on this yes i will thank you and actually i have my notes so thank you for asking for them i should have given those to you um the subcommittee is um comprised of members on our advisory committee with that those are staff parents and governing board members then the subcommittees are there are 12 of them there are over 100 members that are representative of the same groups um and then in addition to that we have additional work teams so we have about 20 individuals that um do not sit on the sub committee but they are doing the work that then guides what those individual subcommittees um do and the decisions that are made so essentially we have 135 individuals that are providing and working with that individual process with the feedback and then in addition to that we circle back out to various stakeholders as we continue through that process thank you thank you i appreciate that our whole child supports um that's why we're here we're here for our kids and so it was really important for um susie kadena and her team is working on that what is that social emotional learning and those trauma and four practices that we need to be sure that we are ready we have that tiered approach for our students um what will the identification of needs and even more so how can we do that quickly so that we can provide the supports for our students and our staff um re-engaging the disengaged we have some students who maybe did not engage not maybe we do have students who did not engage in our quarter for learning and so therefore it's important for us to re-engage them in this and in their learning and as well as addressing the grief and loss so dr santa cruz um so eloquently put it we not only do we have students that have dealt with um coven 19 and being away from friends in fourth quarter and suffering losses in that way the world is looking very different for them and they're experiencing some things as well and so it's really important that we have supports in place for them and we are able to do that in addition to that um we are um really pleased that we are able to already um thanks to our override put some mental health supports in place for next year so we have our social workers and our mental health counselors that will be at our secondary campuses we continue to have the support of our social workers at our elementary campuses and just being able to provide that continuum of care for k-12 elementary through secondary and also continuing with our community partnerships that we have and the third thing as we're looking at is that committee's looking at whole child support what is that professional development what is the professional development being for our administrators for our teachers for our support staff um we have our behavioral health teams and they are there what professional development and what guidance can we provide for them as they're working with and supporting our students and then also our district crisis team as they're engaging in various activities that they have for academics um that's the committee that i and um actually miss wood you're on this as well that's a committee that we are on um for academics who are looking at that continuity of learning we know that we need an accessible platform um for our students and families we know that we um we did our best in fourth quarter but it's important that we um have a platform almost like as i mentioned before one-stop shop so our we are not um having our families our students our parents looking at all different kinds of apps a compilation of apps well we have some really great apps we want to be sure that we're able to put that all in one place for them as they access we also as we look at the continuity of learning we want to look at our curriculum when we are looking at scenario a which is where we know most of our parents and families and staff want to be back at school it's important that we continue to use our district approved curriculum it's important that we continue to engage our students in that we also know that um if we do have to move due to a disruption to a blended model that we continue to also use that blended and that district approved curriculum with some online supplemental resources and then lastly with scenario a we know that we have our florida virtual curriculum at through global academy that we have been using and you'll hear more about that from dr barton this evening the committee also looked at addressing the learning gaps so as we continue to remember and remind ourselves that our students did not necessarily progress in the learning as we would have wished we need to be sure that we are looking at our priority standards this work has really begun already back in march and so um as i've talked about the work teams there are there is the curriculum work team that has been working knowing that this would be something that would definitely be a priority for us and so as we look at our priority standards see which priority standards our students were not did not receive in-person instruction for during this closure and then also determining with that we know we're not going to take fourth quarter and we're not going to pop it into first quarter of this next school year so instead our team has worked on looking at our curriculum guides looking at our scope and sequences and saying so if i know that students are going to be learning this concept in this school year meaning the 2021 school year what scaffolding do the teachers need to have in place for them to be able to progress at this grade level standard so we want to make sure that we continue with the grade level that the students are in while providing those supports and then also for the learning support and services we look at that in two different ways for example in special education we need to look at what does instruction look like for our special needs students but also what are the services look like um same thing with our students that are on 504 plans our students that are receiving title services and then as well for our ell services so we are really looking at two things for those what are those learning supports and then what those services are and then john castellano is leading the remote learning technology team um the teacher training we know will be super important whether that be the platform or the um the curricular pieces that we use and also though also training our teachers on best instructional strategies for online learning how to engage we're just having this conversation how to engage our students in a platform perhaps if they have to move to an online or a blended situation parent training and support training and information when a lot of this will be able to be to be placed on our website um for platform access resource navigation and then also strategies for student support that's probably one that we really didn't address corridor for but we do know need to know that that's important for us to do that for our families and for our students and for teachers as the students keep um as they perhaps um continue with their learning through the classroom work as well um technical support i'm continuing to help our families to ensure that our students access to the resources and the devices that they need and then also distributing that device at a case six since our 712 students already have that and looking at perhaps um moving their our insurance options that we provide for our families at the 7-12 level offering some of those those are as a consideration that the committee is making right now do we want to offer some of that similar things to our k-6 parents and again that internet accessibility working with our um both with our old child support team and with our title team and looking at the resources we have like we did this past quarter of um seeing what funds are available for title four so if our families do not have internet accessibility how can we do that and support them in that way campus operational management is led by jason martin and marcy taylor and they are really the this is the nuts and the bolts these are the things that the parents the kids are going to see what are the schedules going to be like on a campus what resources are are needed for them and really a lot of this is this campus processes and procedures what is it what is the classroom setup going to be so that it is um providing opportunities for us to keep our students in a safety a safe and healthy environment when we have common areas in our common areas what will that movement look like they're talking just even about students moving from classroom to classrooms students moving from a classroom to another area cafeterias what will that environment be do all students need to eat in the cafeteria so there's been some great conversation that they shared with us at the advisory committee and even with us in our leadership meetings every day about some modifications perhaps can be made um at that time so that we don't have a large group of students in a particular area playgrounds what are playgrounds going to be what are some of the access to our students getting some physical activity office areas we know that um we have our office staff and what what precautions and what procedures and can we put in place specifically for our staff but we also know we have families coming in and we have staff they love to come into the office and they love to you know interact with their staff members that are in the office and so it's really important to establish procedures about how they can do that and ensure that they are doing that in a way that is um the best for all of our individuals on our campuses and then lastly cleaning and that cleaning um really ties directly also into the operations that's just to the right of this section um what does that look like what resources are needed when will that happen how will that happen who will be responsible for that those are all of the pieces that that subcommittee is working on right now with operations uh bonnie betts is leading this committee and looking at the financial impact on the karazhak grant and how that money might be utilized i know that it's going to cost more for us to um this next school year just because of some of the things that we're going to be putting in place monitoring the funding and that can also mean the monitoring of the funding for our adm and how we're funded as a district for our students and then just making sure that in the warehouse they have um there's protection equipment for our in for our staff the cleaning supplies are available and how does that translate when they need something so putting processes in place so everyone knows where to get things how to get things and looking at how those are going to be paid for nutrition services i'm looking if there needs to be some modifications to the lunchroom as i mentioned these are all considerations more specifics about decisions will be made when we talk later and as the advisory team does provide additional information and um as when they look at our recommendations from a subcommittee they'll be able to guide us as to where that might be transportation the cleaning of the buses making sure that we also in addition to full cleaning of buses on a daily basis also looking at hand sanitizers at the bus entrance and also through a facilities mine perspective providing and putting some duct work inline infiltration within cleaning protocols and materials making sure that um what is the best protocol how is it done how often should it be done who should be doing it as similar to the campus operational management team is looking at some of those and then also making sure that sanitizers are throughout the building so for example we just had a conversation um the other day of at an elementary campus where are the important places to make sure that we have sanitizers is that the same at secondary no it's not and so as a secondary at a junior high where are those places at is um high school where are the best places for those the next two subcommittees are led by jared ryan and um they really are these two are interrelated but they're also very very different and unique so our extracurricular looks at the athletics our performing arts our special areas and also the activities that they may do so here we're looking at the phased approach that he presented prior to that we can look at some of the phased approaches that they've already looked at for athletics some of the phased approaches they're looking as they're moving into some of our summer camps and learning a lot from what they have already been doing and experiencing and that really does help us get as to where we might do as we try to replicate some things in different situations the other thing is to for this area this might be performing arts this might be special areas we just communicated today cte is one that while that's not extracurricular cte does involve activities and things that are look very different so those are the components of that extracurricular committee and then the programs the before and after school vik enrichment preschool are we looking at a modification of a schedule maybe or offering that option for parents that's they'll be considering that's what they have been talking about in their subcommittee some are in holiday camps and specialized programs our employees group this is this committee is led by miss udall and sean mcintosh this group really touches and is very insulated to all of our areas as you can imagine first and foremost i'm looking at the susceptible personnel making sure that they're surveying the at-risk members to gauge their intentions we want to see who is able to return to work in the situation like coming right back to our brick and mortar wanting to be sure that they're maintaining confidentiality they are consistent with their americans with disabilities act and some of the other state privacy laws it's important to also offer some accommodations um such as maybe an alternative teaching assignment so as i mentioned before as we look at some additional students perhaps going due to health reasons or others to online institution we will want we will need to increase our staffing there so a reassignment of staff in that way adhering to our ferpa and hipaa requirements um adhering to state and federal employment laws and offering that employee assistance program that we have making sure that staff members are continue to be aware of it and just remind them of the support that they get in that area for teacher certification they are going to um and they continue to look at making sure that we're using appropriately certified teachers for the online scenario for in-person scenario and perhaps for a blended if we do have to move to a um due to a disruption whether it be um as i mentioned before if students are absent that might be our scenario for blended learning or if we become in a situation that's outside of what we can make decisions about and our school needs to be perhaps closed for a brief moment for some time then what types of um reallocation of staffing can we do to ensure that we are supporting our students and our staff both making sure that we have students and teachers in front of our student our teachers in front and staff in front of our students but also that we are supporting them in their learning when they're working online staffing and adjustment costs just the consider is there a need for us to employ additional staff in certain areas whether that be nurses healthcare aids custodians full-time substitutes and other employees and what might that look like and so they as they gauge some of that and get feedback for example from some of our parents again we'll have to be circling back and see what their choices based on the choices what their options are what do they want to choose and what is best for their student and then that will again circle back to the employees so we can be sure that we are ready to serve them in whichever way um is best for them and the determining the vacancy rate of employees so um if we do have a need um for um a substitute or there's a vacancy in a classroom making sure that we have that in place for all of our staff and students also as we return to work making sure that precautions and procedures are in place allowing our vulnerable staff for health reasons to order some personal protective equipment establishing a process for check-in with um vulnerable staff so our administrators there'll be a process for them to check in with with those staff members and see if they're what and help guide them with the questions that they could um be asking so that they can best support the students or communicate needs back to that employee subcommittee group or to our office of talent management all as well they will establish a point of contact local health department as needed and is appropriate the next area that they are looking and considering um what our processes will be is that return to the reporting of identified coveted cases with employees whether that be establishing the procedures and training with school administrators school nurses and other health care providers so that we can maybe they have covered like symptoms and what procedures place to utilize and to remain healthy inform those that have had close contact with a person diagnosed with coba 19 to stay home follow the state guidelines and the state department of health guide guidance as well there will it'll be important to have an easy to read flow chart for employees so when they know that they need to report a possible diagnosis or exposure they have that readily available to them so they know exactly what to do and talk to it about that and then also to report those confirmed cases as appropriate our family's first coronavirus response act and our american with disabilities act um it's important to establish easy to follow guidelines for the employees who qualify and also to inform and educate employees of their rights under those acts as well so that would be our in all of the considerations and obviously not an all-inclusive list we learn more every day about some of the areas that we need to so um that will continue to grow i'm sure just as some of the others will and they will work in close contact not only with the subcommittees that i've already mentioned but with health services jen frost is leading that committee looking at what our department of health guidance and cdc guidance guidances what directives or developments occur and what is needed for that and also to develop guidelines and protocols for district offices for campus campuses for their offices as well as their classrooms making sure that students receive protocols we're educating their students we're providing protocols for treating our students and protocol calls for giving them more information about prevention same thing with that staff that education the treatment and the prevention um some of those will be put in place by this committee developing modeling education for students and staff regarding proper hygiene whether that means signs and symptoms of illness positive practices to stay healthy and in addition to that looking at protocols for procedures just as the employee group will doing that we'll be working with her and her team at um what those procedures are for illnesses what the procedures are for outbreaks and what those prevention modalities whether that be mass or barriers are most appropriate for the various groups our last two subcommittees um accountability that's led by brandy burton and accountability really um talks about various types of accountability for example assessing student growth we have we will not have spring 2020 instruction or assessments and we won't have spring 2020 instruction and so how do we assess where our students are and what they need um we know what we want to teach them we know we have a plan for that but what are we going to use in order to assess and and provide information to our teachers to inform what that instruction will be in addition we know that for our teacher evaluations there's an accountability piece related to um part of that is school letter grade and in absence of that or in absence of a letter grade that is more than a year old it's important to look at that and so she will be working and she has already been communicating as i mentioned interrelated work all of the time she's working with vicki jones who does a lot with our evaluations and some of the guidance and development of working with the office and talent management as well um what would also would our um evaluations look like in regards to some of those indicators we learned that it's very very different for in-person in-seat kind of instruction and engagement it looks very different when we're looking at virtual or online and so making sure that we do provide some of that for them attendance requirements and reporting right now currently we we report attendance differently for in-person and for online and this year the state did allow us to submit a comprehensive plan and by submitting that they allowed us to continue with our in-person attendance reporting will they let us do that later on we know and so um it's important for us to be aware of that in in-person brick and mortar our students we have report attendance based on who's absent that's considered negative attendance when we look at online learning historically and what we um currently do for our aoi for for our global academy is we're reporting the number of minutes that students are working on a course and so obviously those are different and so if we're moving um from a brick and mortar and we have to move to a blended setting for a disruption whether that be because one an individual student or um a group of students are no longer able to learn for the moment in time or for those weeks during our brick and mortar can we still continue attendance reporting like we would just as if they were on our roster because they are on our roster or are in person and so those are some of the things that they'll be looking at and giving us guidance with that as you can only imagine yes related to that and student attending obviously as you stated previously we are encouraging students who are showing any signs of health issues to stay home uh or even if their family has potential health issues yeah we tend to send letters home and track attendance if they're excessive attendance how will we balance that where we want students to stay home in certain cases to protect themselves and others but we have limits on how many absences they can have we that would that goes along with our next um subcommittee and that legislative advocacy um we have talked about that we talked about so are we going to send that 10-day letter right that 10 that the students need to be um once they miss that we generally will send a letter home to them um i think and we've talked about as the guidance is provided for our families um as far as when it's important for them and as we educate our staff well it's important for them to stay home as you mentioned that we are hoping will work in tandem with that um and then also looking at making sure that the legislators and our state officials understand that um there will need to be some modifications and adjustment to that because we certainly want our students to be healthy and it's important for them to do that as well dr mccord is leading the legislative advocacy group and that does tie directly into our funding identifying the needs as we are all finding many of them and communicating that as he already has been doing to our legislators we want to be sure that we're getting full funding regardless of the service delivery of our instruction and we will continue to advocate for that and ask for that as well and also our school district and our accountability grades our letter grades we need to look and see we have some things that are connected to that so it'll be important um for us to continue to communicate with dr mccourt as we do of course all the time but communicate specifically about those things that we know we're finding hiccups that perhaps our legislators can help us out with that as well our timeline we know we've been working long before june but our official task work task force work began in um at the right at the beginning end of may beginning of june um there will be ongoing updates throughout june for our to our families to our staff and also to all of you um june 30th will be our formal governing board presentation at that time that is where we will have a very very clear plan in place for you um based on after listening to all the considerations as i mentioned before we we know as our subcommittees as we're doing our work what recommendations we want to make but there's so much interrelated components to all of this that we need to go to our advisory get guidance and then go back and refine some of our plans and so that's what we will continue to do um throughout the month of june and as i mentioned there are um i'm obviously here to answer some questions and we have all of our subcommittee leaders as well so if you have any questions um i'm going to get out of this so that we can see everybody a little bit better that's okay just an observation and perhaps a thought to consider and that is similar to what we do with our special education students where we have uh documented service hours and points of contact per student if we can do that without being too onerous on the teacher and actually make it as automated or electronic as we can just in terms of the accountability piece and the finance piece and how those dovetail uh that we can document service hours per student somehow automatically as tracked by computer if we have to modify the attendance thing to some degree just a thought thank you um dr santa cruz i have a question or i have a few questions mrs humphries so dr newman when we're talking about our extracurricular activities specifically our music choir band and general music what are some of the protocols that they are discussing as this is one of the issues that we have to deal with is the you know when you're doing band and choir you're producing more and greater volume of sound and more um breath mr ryan hi we're fortunate to have members of both high school junior high band programs marching band program particularly concert band programs as we've discussed the kind of the size of the group and the the nuances of that um a number of things have come up including uh the goal of reducing the number of instruments that are shared between members of different bands and musical groups we've discussed not utilizing the same stands between members of the groups one of the concerns that we have right now that we will need to address is actually where they store their instruments and go and pick them up whether we have them going in in some sort of rotation or keeping them in smaller groups within their sections and whatnot but um mr bennett has has been kind of a leader for us and a voice for the group from the high school level um which has been great to learn from him and his perspective is the band director of one of our largest groups at highland high school um and so we're addressing those uh we have another follow-up meeting on thursday we were actually really excited about the governing board meeting tonight and to hear the questions that you all had and and to kind of push us forward to finalize some things but those are all discussion points and certainly things that that we're looking to address to to minimize the contact students have between one another but certainly extracurriculars pose a new unique challenge yes and and they are very important to the students and um choir and singing has definitely been an issue in the church setting so i think it's really important that we work to address those issues i don't i don't want to see kids miss out on choir or band i mean it's a little different in orchestra it's a bow it's not your voice but those who are using their breath and their voice um that's going to be uh something we really need to work on and resolve um especially if we consider wearing masks because you can't play a band instrument with a mask on and it may be hard to sing as well um another question i had was just for the um legislative advocacy committee um part of the thing i think is very difficult for us as a board is we don't have guidance from the legislature and the governor at this time about the flexibility for example with attendance or additional funding or what the funding might look like how are you addressing those issues because you have so much you don't know it's difficult to figure it out bill what we have done and what i'll continue to do is communicate with uh representatives not just from the legislature but uh other groups that represent asda asb uh oh as well others who work on behalf of school districts and like you said there are not any ants as of yet uh but i i guarantee you um they definitely know our concerns uh things that are being thrown around is is funding us off of last year's this well current school years but for next year's 100th day number because uh we're very concerned about um adm dropping and being built accountable for uh covet 19 and how it makes an impression upon our attended on a daily basis again a lot of things that uh dr newman spoke about a few minutes ago and other subcommittees plays into um what we would like to accomplish in terms of just making sure that um all school districts are treated in a in a fair and respectful manner when it comes to funding again and and i don't have any indication that anybody in the legislature wants to do anything to damage that we just want to make sure that we're continually in their ear and they understand that this is important to us and you know another example is how will online classes be treated uh currently we're not funded at 100 for students who are taking online classes and if we're forced to go in that route or we have options for families because of health issues or primarily if they're just they don't want to send their kids to school because of cobit 19 they want a different route for them how will we be funded for that and uh we're pushing for 100 on that as well all right thank you i appreciate that and then just uh another one was when we talk about internet access and i wanted to know kind of what percentage of our students are we helping to get internet access are we able to um provide enough that we have a hundred percent of students who want that are we having some students who prefer using packets how are we dealing with that did we deal with that in the spring with the remote learning as far as having internet access or desiring packets since we are such a large district what uh mrs kadania mrs connor did was reach out to the schools because the schools know best who really has access issues at home and that's how we work that program with the cox connect to compete so i don't we don't have exact numbers on that but we're going to continue to offer that uh and now we can get access points as to where before we couldn't so that could be another possibility that my subcommittee is discussing at this time okay all right thank you can i jump in on that just a bit not about connectivity but the city of mesa i spoke with their uh city manager today and their council has um decided that with some of the money that they receive from the federal government for coven 19 they are going to purchase a little over chromebooks for gilbert public schools and what will happen is that we will purchase them and they will reimburse us uh for those dollars used for that which comes to about right around a little over 140 000 and that's for uh elementary schools that reside in mesa so a big thank you to them and um for their efforts to make sure that even though we're gilbert public schools they recognize the fact that a third of our district is in within the city of mesa uh limits and so again thank you to them that that is very generous i'm really glad to hear that they're uh being proactive in helping us out in that way so thank you dr mccord and ms wood if you would uh extend our appreciation for that generosity and consideration the next time you see councilman thompson we'd appreciate that i will just sorry one more thought i just i i do want to thank um the committees for all the hard work this is a lot of planning that we're doing in a very short space and um you know instead of taking two years to do it we're going to smash it into two months so thank you to dr newman and all of the committee members for that hard work other board members any questions or comments dr santa cruz yes miss wood go ahead so uh barbara dr newman i had a couple questions i've noticed and have received emails about um what i noticed on the surface of the teachers and the parents mentioned the idea of would we have any reduced capacity in our classroom or would we reduce the numbers in our classroom to kind of help with the healthiness in our classrooms do you have any comments on thoughts about that that would be our campus operational management team um jason or marcy do you have any hi there um we have studied that right now from our perspective we are not proposing to do any of those things we do know that possibly with some of the students wanting to go to online learning that could reduce the overall population in the classrooms with with that but as of right now that is not a consideration um just because of space and staffing and all of those other implement implications okay i need to yeah go ahead go ahead i was just going to say same a larger discussion with that committee for both levels if we could just keep that in mind um the best we can first of all we've committed to having more teachers in our override as far as you know i think we have some ability to have that staffing and then i think if that's something that's been mentioned by teachers and parents if we can find any way to just have even just a you know a little bit of reduction and it sounds like we might just naturally is kind of the idea but if we can kind of keep an eye on that and just see what we can do to manage that i think that would be important and then um i also we received many emails and feedback um that and you mentioned it dr newman that we want to take into account the health and prevention but we also want to return back to school as normal as possible like we received several emails about masks we received several emails about different things like that that might be prohibitive to the wellness and the normalcy of school i just as you as you went through the health subcommittee that was kind of mentioned and i just wondered what's what's the how can we have a balance how can we try and you know find a balance the right balance of that um the subcommittee is working on that to give that guidance but we also um just as our guiding principles we want to be sure that we are listening to what our um families are saying and our staff is saying um dawn sharon you know when she shared the statistics um our families really said that it was important for their students to not be required to wear masks um and so um that will be in that information will definitely guide some of the decisions that are made um as well inc in relation as you mentioned um two health services and gen's committee great just so they'll take that into consideration that's great and i know we're all doing the best we can and trying to do this i just want to make sure that was mentioned and then finally i just want to um mention again and i know we've talked about this in subcommittees every single person every single subcommittee has just that we are mindful of our teachers and what we're asking of them as we you know try and accommodate the best that we can and add different things on them i just i i just want us to be mindful that we are realistic and supportive in what we're asking our teachers in their classrooms um and not adding and adding and adding to to what they're trying to do they can focus on the students and the learning and those basic things and and not i mean there's going to be some you know here and there but just how do we best support them be mindful of them and what we're asking of them so thank you thank you board members any additional questions mr carr mr jenny i would just like to go ahead mr jetty no go ahead i would just like to thank the committee and the various committee members for all of their work um i i think has has been highlighted there there is some consistent feedback that we're receiving i spent some time really looking at the apparent the parent survey and the faculty survey and and certainly there are some consistencies there regarding the desire to have some type of health monitoring sanitation seems to be very important uh you know there seems to be some real mixed feelings on on different categories and i i know it's difficult to take into consideration the needs of all so thank you i look forward to seeing some of those recommendations and i very much appreciated the comments up front that we recognize we're trying to balance the health associated with covet as well as the mental and emotional health and physical health in other ways with with these students and as we said it really is a focus on enabling the students to be successful so thank you mr jetty yeah i just want to say thank you um for all that you've done i i think uh obviously we're i think we're between a rock and a hard place and you know just listen to all the things that you you know that you've talked about you know looks to me like it's going to cost a lot of money to make all of it work and at this point don't know what's going to happen in terms of the legislature helping us out with that so just have to do the best we can do and thank you very much for you know for all the work that you've done thank you board members uh and to all the subcommittees and to dr newman and dr mccord uh you are moving with all deliberate speed to come up with something for june 30th and make the appropriate recommendations and again i echo what this board has already stated we appreciate the hard work and all of the effort that is going into getting us back to a sense of a new normal dr mccord we can move to item 2.02 on global academy your introductory remarks thank you dr sanders governing board members um this next presentation uh will be headed up by peter barton and i will let um dr newman introduce him from there but this is directly related to uh forced work and ensuring that we do have options for children moving forward as we go into the fall of 2020.
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going to the roll call to me and most of you have known me for a long time and those that don't know me I think it's the most appropriate thing if you don't want to be a part of this just go to mute there's no way that I could be on this board as many years that I have been on this point has worked with as many youth that I have worked with in my in my church and I recognize what can happen I think you just muted again we lost you Gladys we lost you it may be it may be her connection oh yeah I don't think she knew it let me see no she's not on mute it has an open mic [Music] and I don't want to have to go through that with my grandchildren my son Gladys you may have to repeat that I missed you a friend other than you lived worked in the community and recognized okay I just wanted for a Jewish boy and his family I don't want to have to talk to my grandchildren the way I talked to my son about what do you do when the policeman stopped you and he's 37 so that was 37 years so I just want to take if you don't want to do it you can mute to whatever you want to do we're not gonna take 8 minutes 46 seconds like the policeman just his neck down that his knee on his neck we just want to take a few moments and just bow our heads for a few minutes or however you wanna look at me and stuck to you we just want to take a few moments hope our world would change when we talk racism and the color of people's skin thank you thank you all so very much of course Joe Britain Rachel Solinsky yeah [ __ ] never here Gladys cool yeah Lauren Daly here Joe de Silva was here he may have had a technical it's probably trying to work his way back in yes okay thank you sorry about that guys that's okay Catherine Houston hair rich Ginelli here Cathy Molinaro here al Russo he's here and Amy's Polina yeah thank you yes each year that when we go through our accountabilities work which is based on student achievement levels closing the achievement gap or exceeding performance levels we we've been very fortunate with our faculty and our principals for their leadership we've had two or three-year the past three four years we've had six or seven schools of distinction it's done on the back a lot of hard work and thoughtfulness from the principal's and what the teachers work and support from parents I'm just exceedingly impressed with the results I can't tell you enough going around the state when we do get enquiries how are you guys doing well you know that you can't replace hard work and and working smart and these principals and their faculty epitomize that and I'm just so proud to be a part of their team I'd like to run we have many from central office that support them as well so I'd like to go through the list if it's okay we'll start with Hayes down with Stefanie firm and Stephanie are you here I am here I'm just so proud of Hayes Todd this is our third time being recognized as a school a distinction we work really hard we dig into the data we follow all the various curricula and it's exciting when it pays off so we're really really proud thank you you welcome congratulations and by the way the board has purchased a flag for him did you get yours delivered yet yes I did thank you oh great so you'll have three and over at no Ridge primary it was done exceedingly well exceptionally not only in terms of school distinction but they're in the upper echelon what achievement and dr.
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Ben looter in addition board Education member mr. Paul Kyler passed away earlier this year from natural causes please keep them and everybody affected by coded 19 in your prayers at this time I'd like to recognize and thank our Board of Education members for all their support Ella mayor and Town Council our superintendent schools mr. Michael Roman Geno our business administrator mr. Lou albano our building in scible mr. Larry Pinto and our Vice Principals mr. Ken Schmidt and mr. John Lombardo our athletic programs were able to run so efficiently because of the outstanding support staff we have in place those include our athletic coordinator mr. Jenny Diez our athletic trainer mr. Phil screwsie Stephano and his entire maintenance crew and our transportation department run by Glenn Perry and all of our drivers who keep our kids safe on the roads during the Whooper season in the limo League Cliffside Park at 9:00 first team second nine second team and ten honorable mention all the gadlin's to continuin accolades three junior wrestlers advance to the state regions one of them qualified for the state finals in Atlantic City the dance team earns 2nd place of states in only their their first season ever here at clips pride park and the boys basketball team advanced to the vit finals while there's so many amazing student athlete and team accolades we were so proud of I think it's these last three months that have been the biggest test for all them if you're an underclassman use this pandemic as motivation your four years of high school goes so quickly and we know know that tomorrow is never promised so every game you play you have to play it like it's your last if you're a senior the virus may have stolen your senior senior spring season your senior events in your activities but one thing you can steal is your future stay positive work hard and continue to look for opportunities you say a few words about their team and honor each student athlete I ask that the student-athletes take their microphones off when your only winner team is there as long as there's no background noise at acknowledge recipient receipt of your award with a quick thank you holding up the plaques and certificates that was previously handed out to you starting off tonight is our girls basketball team I'd like to welcome head coach Carly Cerrone and assistants Tim Shaw and Randy looter hi everybody can you hear me last okay I'd like to start by taking a moment of silence for Ben leader thank you Ben was at almost every one of our games both home and away I'll be supporting the team and giving us some much-needed comic relief he was a great coach and teacher and a loving husband and son and he'll be greatly missed but I know that will all continue to honor him and his legacy through our passion for athletics and education I want to begin tonight by thanking the Board of Ed mister for Fito the athletic department coaches parents and the players in addition I'd like to extend a huge thank you to coach Shaw and coach looter as they've been a great support to myself into the team I can't do this without them and I really thank them a lot I'd also like to congratulate everybody on here tonight I know we wish we'd be we were at Villa mafi but you know this will do we have the athletes this year to recognize to walid honorees and six seniors so just bear with me as I get through our season got off to a little bit of a bumpy start but I'm proud of where we ended up there's no better way really walk away from a season than a competitive last game against a really good DePaul which tells me it's not how you start but how you finish that really matters so thank you girls for sticking with it and never giving up first I'd like to announce the Sean Tisa tongue shot you could say thank you and hold your award up for a sec if you want thank you I want to congratulate ashati for earning honorable mention all League she's the type of player you want on your team she always works hard gives it her all and she's totally dedicated to the game which makes it really easy for us to coach her and which makes her such a great role model for her teammates I don't think she missed one practice this year she's a really good kid and I'm very eager to see what she brings to the table as a senior next season of Sean Tisa Tom thank you you're welcome second I'd like to announce my winters they thank you thanks I want to congratulate Maya for earning second-team all leaf coming off of a very successful freshman year Maya did not disappoint as a sophomore her skill in handling the ball her ability to create offensive opportunities and her confidence and hustle all make her a dynamic threat on the court Maya's truly fun to watch as a bunch of other coaches and refs make a note of every game and I'm very excited to see where her and Ashanti lead us next season Maya winters thanks coach you're welcome next our seniors I'd like to give them a huge round of applause first up is Madison illegal unfortunately Madison couldn't play the season due to a knee injury but she was with us at every game to support do the book and provide some welcomed comedy to her teammates and coaches she has brie Drive a good sense of humor and she's a hard worker and we wish her all the best as she attends Sacred Heart in the fall Madison oligo next ups of Maya Dolce Thank You Maya is our recipient of the heart of a Red Raider award for her tremendous efforts on and off the court samaya was an absolute pleasure to coach she hustled listened worked hard and wanted to get better despite being prone to some accidents and injuries she had a great attitude and awesome work ethic and we wish her all the best says she's thinking of attending Penn State this fall so nice okay next up Dorothy Anderson I got five thank you very tough and very aggressive dorothy was a strong defender always under the rim battling for a rebound not afraid to fight for the ball or guard the biggest girl on the floor she's both mentally and physically tough and this type of resilience will serve her well moving forward and we wish her all the best as she pursues a nursing degree at the College of her choice in the fall Dorothy Anderson next up Breanna Lopez practices games bus rides always joking around making everybody laugh even coaches sometime but we really put her mind to it she was a huge presence on the floor and he missed her sighs when she got hurt late in the season despite that she managed to push forward with a laugh and wish her all the best of attending Montclair steak in the fall Yatta Lopez next up I don't know if you've seen an asthma Dean's was she here all right Deana all about basketball diamond she may be smaller filled contagious whether it was pushing her teammates to finish sprints or fighting after a loose ball he was fully committed to being the best that she could be we loved her energy and desire to win and we sure all the best as she attends ftu this fall Dina Najma Dean and last but not least Emily orbea I love it act me so Emily every practice she greeted the coaches with a huge smile and hello she was pretty cheerful except when running a 17 and we could always count on her first few clutch threes and when she was on she was on we will enjoyed watching Emily develop as a player and seeing her confidence grow tremendously over the years and we wish her all the best as she attends Penn State in the fall Emily orbea a big thank you again to each of the seniors for their army commitment to Cliffside Park athletics and another congratulations to all the other athletes being honored tonight I wish you each the best of luck and all that you do thank you and everybody be safe Congrats girls thank you good job we're gonna move on to our sort of wrestling head coach Charles O'Hanlon assistants Craig cetera Cory Monta Fort Benton egg walk and all del Toro the opportunity to coach Cliffside Park mr.
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dr newman thank you um dr barton if you don't mind um sharing them starting to share the presentation that would be great um as dr mccord mentioned this really is an opportunity for us to um share with you as well as um to our families that what type of curricular options we do have for our students that will choose an online option or scenario and we also know that you we maybe haven't always shared with you about global academy i know we've done a couple presentations but just for you to better better under um be able to see what our students see what our parents see and the type of curriculum that we're using so i'm going to turn it over to you dr barton thank you dr newman um dr santa cruz uh governing board members and dr mccord thank you again uh for the opportunity to share uh what global academy looks like and what some options are uh going down the road um when we talk about global academy there's really two components to our program we have our curriculum provider which is florida virtual schools and our learning learning management system which houses our curriculum called agilex buzz so i'm gonna kind of divide my my presentation in half and show you what each of them looks like from both the student and teacher perspective and go into just a little bit of detail about uh what we've done with each of our components here so to begin uh agilex buzz is our learning management system and it is the preferred learning management partner of florida virtual schools um so it's included with our florida virtual school license um blood agilix buzz is compatible with google which is obviously our district standard in terms of what students and teachers use and then it's also compatible with turnitin which is a anti-plagiarism software global's been experimenting with turnitin with good success this year and i know several of our high schools use it as well buzz provides us some robust tools for content creation it isn't just a place where florida virtual lives but there are some tools which i'm going to show you the teachers can use to really customize their courses and personalize it for students and also bring in some of the adopted curriculum resources that we have in our district so in addition to those adopted resources teachers are able to import content from every other florida virtual course within our catalog so even if a teacher is teaching ninth grade algebra if they need to bring in some content from pre-algebra for example they're able to do that very easily and bring that in from another class from our florida virtual curriculum through buzz teachers can also import curriculum from khan academy as well as open ed so there's some resources automatically built into the system and then obviously like i mentioned we have lots of adopted curriculum that teachers can link to or import and we're really we're researching ways on on what that might look like specifically for all of our resources from kindergarten through 12th grade over the past few years our technology team as well as global academy we've worked to really make buzz a part of what we do in our district especially for students and for parents so for students buzz is right on their rapid identity home page so all they have to do is click that tile and press launch we've been a we've customized our homepage and we plan on customizing it further if we have to have a larger audience of of students joining us but we've tried to build out our social media we've tried to um you know build out some some videos and training materials for students and parents when students log in this is the kind of the the first thing that they see and again what you see here is pretty customizable and we've put things up here that our global academy full-time students definitely need like i mentioned we've i've been building out over the past few months a set of orientation videos so that any student who's never taken an online class before or who's never taken a class with global has something to look at and you know model their first steps after we really want students who are new to this to be able to to jump in and get going as quickly as they can within buzz we have the ability for teachers to communicate with students and students to communicate with teachers so there's a communication component built in that capitalizes on student email accounts but there's the convenience of having a communication piece within our platform over the past couple years i've developed a technology help page all the questions that we get all the things that we know that students need to to know how to do when it comes to their chromebook and online courses it's all here and we've compiled a frequently asked question page with screenshots with videos and helpful tips for students and parents again so that they have ease accessing our content and doing their courses my favorite part of having a platform is the fact that when on students home page they're able to see all of their classes in one place and get a snapshot of their current grade and their current progress and they're able to see how much time they have left when and and they can click right into the course and go students and parents are able to see this and they can click on this if you see the bar chart icon on one of those course cards that takes them to a very detailed grades page which i'll show you momentarily when students click on or into that grades page it looks kind of like a pretty standard progress report but there's some important functionality here first of all if you see at the very top assignment there's a little bubble which indicates that the teacher has provided feedback our teachers are able to provide either written or verbal feedback to students on their assignments and so all that feedback feedback is compiled here in the grades page and students can go back and look at that at any time over on the right hand side you'll see a set of due dates our the way that a global academy is set up is that students are enrolled at pretty much any day of the year and can move through the course at whatever pace they need to these due dates are a benchmark for students to follow in order to finish the course in that default nine week time that we give them in our in the way that global set up right now students are definitely able to work ahead um and there's they can also turn things in past that target due date with no penalty but we really wanted to give students a guide and you know to help keep them organized and help their parents keep them accountable towards finishing their work the best part of this grading page is that there's a lot of information embedded when you click things so students when they click an exam for example that they've already taken they can see the questions that were asked they can see what answers they got correct and what they got incorrect they can see how much time they spent teacher feedback there's just a ton of information and analytics built into every single assignment that's available for students to view once they've completed that assignment students also have access to a comprehensive to-do calendar so this calendar lives with within buzz um and the beauty of is is it that it shows all of the assignments across all of the different courses that a student's taking so at any given time a student can head over to the calendar and see exactly what assignments are due that day so it's a great way for students to stay organized they can even in terms of personalizing their calendar they can even set their own blackout dates you know so we have students for example who are professional athletes and are going off to world championships and if they know that they're going to be away from the computer for a week they can block out on their calendar and everything will readjust for them so i i think that's a good way for for students to who need flexibility to be able to do that and not lose their organization i wanted to highlight our google integration buzz is able to integrate with google docs and google sheets and slides and all of the productivity tools that our students and teachers are able to use one of the popular features of google classroom that our teachers love is the ability to create a template in google and push it out to all students so that students are working off of the same document and turning in something that's consistent but it's also giving students an idea of what the expectations are and what they clearly should be producing well buzz also has that ability and so within buzz teachers are able to create templates and push those out to students when students are ready to do those assignments on the teacher side it's a very similar interface obviously the first thing that teachers see is a little icon on their front page that just tells them how many assignments currently need grading and when teachers open that up they simply get a list of the assignments and a little interface to enter points and provide uh oral or written feedback to the student we can also customize the landing page as much as we need as you can see i've put up a couple resources for our online teachers that they need pretty much every day our teachers also have access to a a pretty robust editor so this is just a glimpse of it here but this is essentially a drag and drop tool so if teachers want to move things around it's just as simple as clicking and dragging and moving it to a different spot you can see the eyeball that's where teachers if they want to hide or make things visible to students they can use that function this is a list of all the things that teachers can create within within buzz and that would be in addition to the florida virtual content that already lives there so on the left you can see kind of static resources that teachers can add everything from files that they've created to youtube videos and on the right are all the different kinds of activities that can be created and as you can see several are collaborative and interactive everything from blogs to discussion boards surveys and wikis but the most powerful piece is at the very top called the library and the library is is where teachers can import lessons from other florida virtual classes they can import content from open ed and khan academy so really they have access to a lot of resources right at their fingertips and can import them through the library here's an example of just a couple uh basic customizations that my full-time teachers have done um my full-time teachers they're they're a part-time basis so we really don't expect them to do a lot of modifications to the curriculum that's already there so what they do is customize their their classroom really make it a place where students get to know their teacher they're able to access their content information or contact information uh and some teachers they have even gone so far as really uh providing more direction on assignments that are there and giving students specific things that they need to do and just some help in addition to what florida virtual tells the students other features that we provide through buzz we provide parent portal accounts to all parents uh if they have students who are taking a class with us and that parent portal account gives the parents access to everything a student sees parents can do everything except turn in assignments through their parent portal account and so we really value that transparency we want parents to be partners with us and supporting their students and so we want to give them access to everything so that they can use it we also through buzz are able to provide parents with email and text alerts um that are pretty much instant the parents can be texted or emailed when when their students grade falls below passing or when the teacher grades an assignment or even when the student turns something in students uh can also get those notifications as well as they if they opt in to do that from a from a more district level and even at an administrative level we are able to run detailed reports on activity and grades and mastery and we're able to align standards to whatever activities are built in in the buzz shells so next i want to flip over and talk about global academy's curriculum provider florida virtual school is a non not-for-profit entity it's actually a school district a statewide school district in florida and completely online and so they have teachers developing their curriculum and engaging in a cycle of refreshing and updating that curriculum so a florida virtual course will get updated every couple of years which is great the curriculum is does meet standards it's advanced ed which is now cognia accredited uh and it meets the quality matter standards so it is very high quality uh it has lots of engaging activities lots of rigorous texts as you're going to see um and it's i wouldn't say it's the easiest option out there but it meets the standards of gilbert public schools we purchased a 6th through 12th grade license beginning in 2016-17 global academy is always or at least as long as i've been there been 7th through 12th grade so we haven't really used that 6th grade component but we now have the possibility to do that thanks to you we're also interested in taking advantage of the kindergarten through 5th grade license which has been piloted for over a year even by some districts even in the valley here and became available for public consumption on may 1st we are not the only school district in in arizona or the phoenix greater phoenix area who use florida virtual i we we have about five or six districts who are joining us and exploring the kindergarten through fifth grade curriculum uh and you know really exploring how it would how it would work and i'm collaborating with them on what are some best practices that we can put in place to really meet the needs of those students because it's going to be a quite a bit different from our secondary crew this is a pretty typical florida virtual lesson this is i chose a lab biology class on uh classification of living organisms as you can see it's a it's a pretty friendly user interface students have access to a glossary in many courses they also have access to some videos that will help them practice essential skills or or you know brush up on something that they might have forgotten from a previous class the next slide shows this is the same lesson so i just wanted to give you an idea of how much content is packed into these lessons and it's not just reading it's not just videos there's interactive materials there's virtual labs um you know there's lots of things that students engage in before they have to produce something and to show their mastery a typical florida virtual unit is laid out like this you can see those icons that look like blank pieces of paper those are actually the lessons so students spend the most of their time engaging in those lessons and practicing and then move right right down the list into their assignments so you can see quizzes you can see drop boxes for students to produce work and turn it in for feedback you can also in our in our units you'll also see discussion based assessments which are designed for students to have conversations with their teachers and really verbalize what they're learning in their course and showing their teacher that they're indeed learning the material i wanted to show you the a a glimpse at the elementary curriculum you can see that the user interface is definitely more elementary friendly and florida virtual has even integrated more tools for students including a text-to-speech tool that's built right into the curriculum as well as quite a few more resources for elementary teachers to scaffold learning for students lastly i wanted to share the catalog offerings at the elementary level we know that the curriculum will provide core classes and i've also seen electives including physical ed technology spanish and visual art at the middle school level we again have core classes as well as some credit recovery classes and our elective offerings are a little bit broader including pe reading study skills spanish coding and art and then at the high school um our course offerings are quite a bit broader we have a full suite of on-level core classes we also offer some honors classes and then our electives include pe languages we have several languages that we we have the capability of offering we have technology classes including a few in-depth computer programming classes we have art history as well as social science classes including psychology the catalog also includes curriculum for pre-calculus which we currently do offer and ap classes which we currently do not in the full-time setting um i wanted to note that those pre-calculus and ap courses have an added cost of a virtual textbook that we we do have to purchase when students enroll in that class that's really what i wanted to share um i'd love to answer any questions and and share my experience further dr parkman thank you very much for that presentation uh one question i have is in your view how difficult is it for the educator at the brick and mortar facility to transition to a global kind of service thank you for that question dr santa cruz um what i have found is that the functionality that teachers have learned within google classroom is transferable to the buzz environment i buzz has many of the features that are found in google classrooms and the tools look very similar but buzz off does offer a little bit more and i'm excited about the possibility that teachers would be able to bring in potentially resources that would supplement our adopted curriculum um so you know i i think there will be some transition but i think it's doable because our teachers do have experience in that google classroom environment thank you dr bartman board members any additional questions so um a couple thoughts that i have um one could we go through some type of a curriculum approval process or at least um as before in in conjunction with looking at the elementary addition to this global academy especially if we're going to offer that to our students as an option we definitely this is what we definitely would um not only would we want to provide some presentation and some opportunities to look at the resources for us to get feedback um prior to students beginning but also we would be able to um for sure continue to go through that process of um answering questions and providing additional resources for them to look at and to ask questions during that time that we are implementing okay and that that would be sooner than later if we go this route great um i was thinking about it and i thought could be almost if we if this is the route that we're going for the online to include um the elementary students as well could we like you said post presentations maybe open up some of this so parents and families can see kind of almost have like a tour you know how we have those tours of the schools and stuff could we have kind of a tour of global academy to give people some idea of what this will look like the best we can and i know with the elementary you mentioned dr barton that it would need to look different than the secondary because there needs to be more hopefully teacher interaction is what i'm guessing is that what you would anticipate thank you miss wood yes absolutely i think um when i envision elementary i i think that there has to be a significantly higher level of teacher interaction uh with students obviously there needs to be a lot of onboarding with students and parents at the start of a course so that parents are comfortable supporting their student and the student develops a sense of autonomy with the platform but you know i i think it would be imperative that the teacher is communicating if not once a week perhaps more because online curriculum is just it's a different a different way of learning and for students who've never been exposed to that or or maybe have less of a sense of of individual organization and motivation the teacher definitely needs to have a larger role than perhaps we do with the secondary well and in addition to that kind of some feedback that we've received as well would be people would appreciate especially if we can hire more full-time teachers people families would appreciate more interaction in general even with secondary that it's you know a daily or a video class that you join in here and there or regular hours that you know your teacher will be there just a lot more of that hands-on interaction more maybe more of a hybrid feel if we can work toward that i think would would be a really good addition again i know we're trying to put this all together to provide this option you know by august but just maybe if we keep that in mind as we keep working toward that absolutely thank you finally um another suggestion that i'd heard too is could we look at offering rolling start dates especially for secondary maybe in providing more and tell me if maybe maybe this is what you already do but i don't think so like every two weeks or three weeks a course would start so that or two course you know you could start every couple weeks rather than just by the semester um thank you yes uh we actually enroll students pretty much every day of the year um so and we get like we get usually a hundred hundred plus enrollments a week and so we enrolled immediately the next day um again because we want students to get in and going so you could if a student's already um involved if they finish their class they could start a new class as they go okay that's great so we encourage just the summer school has specific start dates though yes and and you know that's a result of our we have to have a certain calendar with summer school especially this year um the way that the state is funding us um so yeah and we have a lot of pieces that are happening at the same time as summer school is a lot of uh technical things that our technology services office is doing in terms of rolling over to the new year um getting everything set up for the next year so we we have to somehow have kind of a an end date for that summer school session so that we can make sure everything's ready to go for day one of the school year okay i appreciate that i appreciate that you're working toward flexibility and i know that you have how many students do you have enrolled for summer school this year we have 3 200 students how's it going very busy but it's so far so good i think thank you board members additional questions doesn't sound like it dr newman dr bartman thank you for that presentation dr newman you've been very busy sorry you has been extremely busy for sure thank you for that dr santa cruz sorry dr santa cruz i do have some questions i forgot to unmute my mic so could i go ahead with my questions too late go ahead ms humphries well i'm learning technology too and and doing the same thing i have to remember to unmute myself so i did have a couple questions i really appreciated seeing the curriculum i know that when we upgraded our online curriculum that this was a much better option than we had previously um are we able to help students finish are we getting a better percentage of students who are finishing their courses and going through to completion yes uh over the past couple years and especially leading into this year that was a priority of mine so one example that we just launched is that we have a referral system for teachers if they spot a student who's struggling they can fill out a referral which goes to our staff and we're following up with students immediately and that's you know intended to really target students that could in other ways fall through the cracks and just really making sure that we're helping them and making sure that they know what they're doing and what needs to happen next all right thank you i appreciate that because i know that sometimes with online in the past it has been more of a struggle to make sure that students finish the class and complete it so they can get that credit so i really appreciate that that's a priority and that you're working on it the other question i had also had to do with teacher interaction um if we have students completing the course at a time that's convenient for them and then teachers reviewing the assignments or working on that course at a time that's convenient for them how do they overlap or how do they communicate when there is an issue or the student needs help from the teacher so their model is asynchronous right where they're they're not you usually matching up in terms of the time that they're working our teachers work extremely hard to try to connect with students i we have teachers who create videos for students who ask a question so that you know there's some personal interaction and some direct answers to the students questions we have most of our teachers have a voicemail line set up so the student can call leave a message and expect that the teacher will call them back um and so you know it's hard because our teachers are also teaching during the day right they're they're doing this part time and kind of doing the best they can with with the time that they have but i i can tell you that our teachers really are are there to help students and are doing their very best to connect with them even at all hours that's good to know i appreciate more information also what kind of a ratio do we have students to teacher when we're considering how many teachers we need to hire these students in their coursework can i jump in on that one that's all right this that is what the committees are looking at right now because we know that there will be some um teachers that will not um perhaps be able to work within the brick and mortar setting and so the reallocation of their um or their reassignment of them to the global academy and that will also provide that will be their full-time job so they will be working during the day while our students are working so that will be a little different than what it was previously because we've had teachers working part-time working really really hard to support kids but working part-time so we're looking forward to that opportunity but what does that look like what does that load look like that's what the committees are working on right now okay and so when we did the summer school the virtual summer school did we pretty much use the teachers who would have taught summer school at the brick and mortar to do the online classes or how did we um scale that up so i used uh obviously the online teachers who were slated to teach online and then hired uh the brick and mortar teachers as needed so we weren't able to hire all of them unfortunately but we were able to get quite a few to come on especially in social studies where you know that that's by far our most popular subject this summer okay all right thank you for your answers and and thank you for the hard work i i know i've really seen the difference since we've been able to adopt this curriculum and how much better it's been for students and and to hear that they're doing better at completing the work and getting that credit that's really important thank you thank you thank you ms humphries anyone else doesn't appear so dr mccord anything for the good of this particular session no i just want to thank uh dr newman our task force uh committee members and dr barton wonderful job excellent uh explanations about what we're doing and how we're moving forward okay it appears that we have reached the conclusion of this work study session we're at item three which is adjourning this work study uh i have had a request in the past to take a brief break so we will take a five minute recess and begin our brief board meeting after that it 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Mary Cronin dr. growing here is there anybody from no Ridge here tonight we'll pass on our congratulations that's their third or fourth time as well South Street School Carmen Fergus Carmen in south street and I thank everyone especially dr.
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Pinto mr. Lombardo mr. Schmidt all the high school administration mr. poor feet Oh for everything he does a special shout-out to miss Diaz in the ADEs office mr. screwsie sergeant detective Miller who is our recreation director the recreation wrestling is so important for the high school they are feeder program and he's doing some great things there also would like to thank mr. poor feed Oh mr. coach Miller and coach Cabrera for coming back for our Matthew Jocelyn's memorial goals this year something that meant meant a lot to me in honor of Matthew Jost which and I would be remiss if I did not mention coach looter great coach you know great guy someone who will definitely be missed so want to mention him start off by just talking about my coaches really quick cooking staff I have two three volunteer coaches coach Ventura coach ed glove and coach Monta Ford these are guys who I have known since they were kids I was fortunate enough to be on staff when they were in high school and when I got the head coaching job they just reached out I wanted to help are not teachers work a regular job you know after their their job they come out and you know help the kids that Cliffside Park so I really want to thank them my assistant coach coach you Tara kosha Tara is my right hand my right hand in the building and out of the building you know I couldn't imagine coaching without you just a phenomenal coach phenomenal person I wanted to thank him our team this year we finished 11 and 11 step in the right direction for us you know we spent a couple seasons below 500 what is what's most important to me what stands out the most to me is our perseverance this year we were riddled by the injury bug we did not have our full lineup for most of the season we asked kids to step into situations where they didn't think they would have to and the kids just really did a great job 11 and 11 just missed qualifying for the states so I just want to point that out I will start off here with Armani Nunez Armani are you here yeah I'm here Armani has a freshman came out first team All League turn down a sophomore year gets hurt in football where mine show you me off but this was all of last year with the torn hair had the opportunity to hurt the Restless because called it a sneeze and decided to come out help the team came out came back out this year injury bug hit we did not get our money back until the middle of January and for wrestling that is a long time we start right after Thanksgiving our first match is the third week in December our money did not get all league honors it here quite frankly because he was hurt and he missed matches and he could have packed it in but he kept coming here thank you very much hello hello Sean okay Sean again coming off a really solid sophomore season injury bug hits injury bugs gonna be a little bit of a theme for our team this year injury bug hit got him a couple weeks into the season he starts he's working out everything's going great gets injured again if we did not have Sean until the middle of January as the coach is you know in the sport of wrestling this is crazy not having kids until the middle of January but Sean comes back out puts together a really just a solid season 17 wins on a limited schedule it was honorable mention all League one match away from one of the ring pins Junior will be back next year Sean fought thank you Jack was very vera thank you all right so Andre really just emerged as a leader this year hardest worker in the room just a phenomenal example on the mat off the mat student-athlete was named as a captain this year Andre last year wrestled 220 and heavyweights for us this year Hansen up cutting down to 170 pounds it got to a point in the season where our lineup started to to fill out a little more and we needed someone to cut down Andre just like coach I'll do it I'll do for the team helped us win a lot of matches went on to the district tournament ended up making district finals qualifying for the region's no great accomplishment Junior come about next year captain on the honorable mention all league on Andre Rivera next Brandon del Vera Brandon Brandon oh you're here you are Brandon injury he's gonna strike again with Brandon unfortunately Brandon tore his labrum during football this year Brandon had points coming towards the you know it's it's end of November now I won't go see to see doc and Doc's like you got two choices you can wear the sling try to compete for as much as you can do we can get surgery now Brandon chose to compete want to help the team really for someone who wrestled a limited season with a torn labrum had just a great season took a was second team All League with honorable mention all County I think he finished the year eighteen and three just really a great year considering he wrestled the entire year injured captain of our team will be back next year Junior brendi Oliveira last what a Jacob Leyva Thank You coach Jacob Jacob team captain really been the backbone of our team ollie all year long you know we are in such a such a tough League one of the toughest leagues in Bergen County and we wrestle a tough schedule and we looked at our schedule this year we kind of went to Jacob and we're like you have an opportunity to wrestle a just tough schedule you're going to what we call and wrestling the battle-tested and it's really up to you if you want to go through that he just looked at us as a coaching staff said whatever you guys want Jacob wrestled every tough opponent possible this year and it paid off he was a Bergen County place winner he was a district place winner again he placed in the region tournament which qualified him for the state tormak so he's a state qualifier there have not been many junior underclassmen state qualifiers in Cliffside Park so he's definitely in good company on that he was first team All League and he was honorable mention all County our team captain junior returning next year Jacob Layla I just want to thank everyone congratulations once again to all the athletes tonight and thank you very much good evening Thank You coach with no senior Queen honored we're expecting big things from you guys next year great job good luck thank you we're gonna move on to our new dance team our our competition dance team please welcome head coach Courtney Lynch and assistant ashley Fredo hi guys can everyone hear us yeah my girls okay so good everyone we hope everyone is doing well and swings even during the time that we usually never have with our family or loved ones before we like the first debut theorem you know and the Board of Education members support you know without these people we would have three more had the opportunity to start this team and blowing something new to look like Park High School so the time came out to everything one of our composition and created that we think you've won a lot of support and importantly entrusting their clothes with us as some of you may know I cried to me different person for a high school in 2009 my senior and to be a Memphian coach azar I arrived on create memories and Watkins take me for my entire career thank you to my coaches for inspiring me more than you'll ever know this year we had the great opportunity to start the Cliffside Park dance team and to say it was one for the books as a complete understatement although we didn't really officially begin our season into September and we continued to dancers through October and November we finalized our roster with 17 varsity athletes these dancers worked hard and every single prac in every single practice and efforts to go head-to-head with some really big teams in the medium hip-hop varsity division our season started in January and continued to March where we had to second place wins two first-place wins which included dance team Union regional champs and placed second at states where we placed higher than the 2019 state champs we are incredibly proud of these dancers for the endless hard work on and off the floor before their love for each other and their team as we have been coaches for over a decade now we have never witnessed such a strong bond and pride of their hometown and for each other in such a short amount of time although we will miss our three captains and seniors we are proud of the legacy they are leaving behind the first senior we would like to honor is miss Brenda Evangelista whenever it's under the practice where she wasn't happy her energy was always positive and a smile could light up the room from miles away she never placed limits on herself even when she struggled at times and tumbling or when we would encourage her to dig deep to feel that hip-hop expression and less beauty and grace from her technical ballet backgrounds he always got up tried harder she led her team with poise and grace and her positive enthusiasm will leave an everlasting impact to carry through next season Brenda we're so proud of you and your accomplishments and we know we you will go far in this chapter and your natural positivity and determines attitude thank you next senior was our final athlete to our roster Victoria Ramos hi and welcome Victoria although started the season a bit more shy within weeks she started smashing goals and proving to herself her inner strength she displayed constant strength throughout the season it was never filled for too violent to volunteer herself to fly through the air in stunts as the season went on her confidence began to shine and her energetic attitude was what started the team's gained any mentality within five minutes if we were entering the gym level competition Victoria was leading the team with the utmost confidence and energy we'll miss her determination but we need to leave a mark for another athlete to lead by her example Victoria we're so proud of accomplished and know they'll continue to bring that gameday attitude in every aspect of your life Thank You coach welcome and our final senior we would like to acknowledge is Anya Rundlett you're welcome so we have had the joys of coaching Anya's and she was actually 9 but it was until this season on CBDT where we actually heard her voice Anya has always been respectful bright and extremely quiet this scene was the best decision for her in our opinion since cpdt gave Anya her voice she discovered that she can outwork any obstacle that stood in her way and get back up with a smile and do it over again her leadership skills are outstanding her passion for her team is inspiring and her loyalty to her art team and coaches is something that rarely exists and as her coaches we are so proud who thought the witness it we know whatever her plans are she will determine to be the best version of herself that she can beat not only for herself but for everyone and anyone who had the pleasure of working beside her Anya we are so proud of you I know you will accomplish whatever you set your heart and mind to thank you lastly we wish we had more time with you girls to Baskin everything a year that one team has to offer we're so lucky to have these memories with the three senior captains it wouldn't be the same without them we know they'll continue to crush goals push themselves beyond their capabilities and leave their mark on whatever they touch as you stand in your homes remember this moment remember the lesson that life has taught us these past few months life has its own plan and we all can't control so don't become complacent in your life or in your sport strive for more prepare for more because you never know what's gonna happen and when you have to just pivot and adjust we're so proud of the three of you and we wish you the best good luck thank you guys so much thank you everybody thank you hey job straight job coaches and good luck to the three seniors here we had the opportunity to have them perform at halftime and a few to basketball games and I think the entire student body in the crowd was just in awe of how hard they work and what they put into it and just go it goes the show and it showed second place in the state so next year we go first place that's all great job moving on we're gonna go over our boys basketball team head coach Steve Geno assistant Mike scars a father and Scott Warren didn't even everybody can everybody hear me okay good I'd like to thank mr.
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