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Two of the paraprofessionals who do that role um are graduates from GLTS and they are assigned to the shop that they had gone through. Makes perfect sense. Our other five paraprofessionals support our students in the academic areas. Um it is based upon student need. Um every year I ask to ensure that the paras are feeling like they're in a good place. They have good relationships with the teachers. um they do know that I have to make decisions for placement depending on student need. Um however, we do look to assign with the same teacher or the same grade level content area. That way it's not somebody bouncing between multiple places but having that consistency to build collaboration and and build collegiality amongst each other. Um, also in terms of department upgrade staffing, we have added an additional teacher bringing the ML department, the multilingual learner department to seven teachers.
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>> Okay. >> Uh field trips reduced 50%. What does that guy that means? I pay my arm and a leg for every single field trip. I've never not paid for a field trip and I've never paid probably under $100 for a field trip. So, that I don't understand. So, I think a lot of times we were given, you know, supplies and we were asked like what supplies. So, this is very specific. Um I suggested NewsELA, Book Creator, things like that, but I was never told that that was a reduction. Um PSAT, what does that mean? Like, that was never brought up. Like, so we're not going to give our students the opportunity to take PSATs? >> Yeah. >> Like, I don't agree with that. That's an awful decision. >> Well, and and I think some of this stuff >> that for data. >> It's the first time we're seeing it, right?
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And it's just an incredible program and it's the dedication that you and our students and everyone have for our veterans uh just an incredible designation. So, I I'm excited. Uh thank you for everything, but I won't steal your thunders. >> Uh good evening, everyone. So, Mr. Miko and I had the great honor of going down to Lake um Joint Base McGuire in Lakehurst to receive this proclamation from the base. And we received one for the middle school and one for the high school. So, um So, new our our district is the only district in northern New Jersey uh Bergen County at least to have a Purple Star program. So, we're the only district that offers that to our military-associated students. There we are uh happy that we received our certificates on a windy day in Lakehurst. They had a beautiful program. And uh this is just an example of some of the things we do.
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Other people might not get to it until I was going to say super late on Friday night or maybe Saturday or Sunday depending on on the person and the week and what else is going on with life and work and family, but um but kind of seeing the questions that have come up and knowing kind of how the conversation will go um not only what information's been added to it through the questions, but also how the conversation's going to go in the meeting um is always really helpful. One thing that we've um So, if you don't get your question in or you know, during the meeting if uh if if the answer is not available to them that they just got the question right at that meeting. Um there's an opportunity for them to you know, inform us after the fact. Um, and so what we built in, I you probably notice this is after we um, go to action items, we say, "Any further discussion?" And that's because you might have new information that you might bring up or anything along those lines, which just happened.
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And I that's intentional that you the three of you did that. So, thank you for really making that a part of your day-to-day activity to stay connected with one another and move all of our 6th, 7th, and 8th graders along. Thank you for doing that. Um I also want to compliment your um the collaboration that is evident, I think, in all of your buildings. Um you know, to go into continuous improvement uh when you're a teacher or administrator uh uh you know, I've I've done that in business for years, and you're like, "Can we be done? I mean, can we just This is where we are, and this is where we'll stay." But, of course, when it comes to education and the demands that are both given to us and those we impose on ourselves, um that work is never done. So, to create an atmosphere where teachers who are already exceptional in their craft I'm looking at that one right over there.
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She is a very valuable and appreciated team member of our McDow staff. Matt Sher, information services center senior network administrator. We are thankful to Matt for going above and beyond expectations, for establishing the network foundation for BCSSE technology, and for always being a consistent and reliable team member in the ISC department. Matt Gilker, operations HVAC technician. Matt is a highly knowledgeable and skilled HVAC technician who consistently demonstrates a strong commitment to his work. He is eager to expand his understanding of our systems and is always willing to support his teammates when needed. His expertise, initiative, and collaborative attitude make him a valuable asset to the maintenance team. We also want to celebrate those that were not able to join us this evening. Rachel Wy, prime time teaching assistant, Rock Creek Elementary School. Samantha Claycomb, administrative assistant, Columbus Virtual Pathway. Tanya Moore, elementary lead custodian, Smith Elementary School, and Don Pedigo, teachers assistant, Columbus Behavioral Center.
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If that doesn't happen, then we get whoever applies, whoever's left in the applicant pool when the others was a paperwork smash. How was principal here? You had a couple of really good hires in August, right? But it was two people, right? You got lucky, but it could have gone wrong because that was your only option, right? >> [snorts] >> Anything else, team? I I just want to say one thing. I'm I'm overjoyed as a general body of teachers. And I'm overjoyed with the work that that folks do. But I will say and I continue to say, we have to invest in PD, professional development. Teaching is hard. It is so freaking hard. And it gets harder every day. And and I get it. And I don't know I I In some regard, I'm I'm very sympathetic to what you folks have to do. >> [snorts] >> But we have to find ways to compensate people because it is so hard to do.
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Are there any questions or comments? There being no questions or comments, we'll move to a vote. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Nays? Uh there are no nays, so the vote carries 4-0. Uh just want to say thank you to the booster club for continuing to raise those funds for to support our our student athletes. Always helps a great deal. Uh we'll move on to item 5.05, uh donation Crown Point Music Boosters Association. Back to you, Mr. Reese. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh tonight we bring before you a donation from the Crown Point Music Boosters Association. The the the donation's for $6,108.08. Resources will be used to purchase new instruments and music stands for the band programs at Crown Point High School. Administration recommends uh accepting the donation from the Crown Point Music Boosters Association. >> Thank you, Mr. Reese. Board members, you heard the recommendation of administration to accept the contribution of $6,108.08 from the Crown Point Music Boosters Association for the band program.
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We have been at 4.55% for the last 12 months. Um so it helps us by keeping some of these reserve funds in those accounts. Um we are rewarded with more interest. So it would be my recommendation that uh enter into another agreement with Everwise.
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That's where you sell grain, Chuck. It's not the elevator. And your grandparents are going to hear about it in Sunday school. And that has all been true for more than 30 years. The community is amazing. Our students are amazing. Um kids were helping me carry trash out in their own post-prom at 2:00 in the morning cuz they were afraid for Ms. Brown to go out in the dark by herself. Right? That's how sweet our kids are. I spent the day working with teachers who are rewriting curriculum again because they felt like they weren't pushing kids quite as hard as they could be pushed. And they were excited and they were thrilled. And my administrative team are here to support me tonight. I can't tell you how blessed I am. Russ Daggett is in the comments, but he was sending me texts. He's with the basketball team.
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Again, alignment. And then choosing to be aligned 7th through 12 with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt into literature. Again, maintaining some of our previous interventions with SRA, visualizing verbalizing, and language live with a new adoption of 95% phonics and rewards to again assist with our students. As you're aware, honors level courses, advanced placement, International Baccalaureate, and dual credit through IU, those resources are generally dictated by the universities or by AP and IB as to what we can choose. So, we chose then to go through that HMH model in grades 7 through 12. So, again, you will see alignment with our ELA curriculum. Again, we'd like to recognize some audience members that I believe are here that participated in our K-12 ELA review. If you'd stand and be recognized.
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It's a goal by the Wolverines. So 136. Make that 146 with 7 seconds left in the third quarter. So Ashton scored two goals in the first, two in the second, two in the third. We just got to, you know, they only three goals in this third quarter, five goals in the second quarter, six goals in the first quarter. So we got seven seconds left in the third quarter. Obviously, I think both teams just wanted to prevent the shot. See if she can get a quick goal. That's Lily Vidy. She's got four seconds. Can she get a quick shot on two seconds? Good try. Good try. All right, so we're going to end the third quarter with a 146 lead by the Wolverines. So, we're going to take a quick break and hear from uh once again our sponsor, Townhouse Pizza, and we'll be back for fourth quarter action.
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You hate to say it, but Yeah, I mean, it's uh I >> is where going to sound biased as the announcer, but um I don't want I do and I don't want them to score cuz I like that if it's a 12-goal lead that fourth quarter has the running clock. >> Yeah, that's I mean >> And >> That's a fact. >> And everyone wants to go home quicker for dinner. At least that's how I feel like and I'm going to speak for everyone there. >> Well, that one You can't. >> [laughter] >> That's true. >> And if it's just my camera person and me right now on that, that's fine. Fowler fires a shot, save from Landergan. And now it's the end of the third quarter. >> Yep, so at the end of three, Bellingham still with the zero. DS with 13. We'll be back in a minute and 50 seconds with some audio.
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gives the ball over to Mckne. Keney goes through one, two, turns around, takes a shot, throws it right into the goalie's net. Good job by the goalie. Fink gets the ball up to Green making headway. She's going to by Northampton. quickly get the ball up 60 yd cut the starters deficit to five >> 14-9 all really making a game of it now >> 14-9 Spartans still down a player as Northampton capitalizing on Spartans yellow card scoring two goals. [laughter] >> We're on a draw. Ball goes up where comes away with it. >> Draw stick. >> Goes around. One, two. Pulls the ball back out. We're still going with the ball. We're going in and out of everybody. gets the ball over to Mckne >> and Spartans will LOOK TO KILL OFF THAT final 10 seconds of the penalty. Peler will be coming back up and Pelers back in and Spartans up full strength and Kek goes in and out [cheering] [applause] put the Spartans back up by six 15- minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
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Um, I do need to shout out my teachers. They are amazing group of people. They do an amazing job of being of teaching two different areas. They have their ESL, their EL curriculum that they teach um, and using the curricular resource that I'll talk about. They also co-e in ELA, math, science, or history. And by co-eing, they're not just going into the classroom. They're co-planning, they're co-eing, they're co-assessing, they're truly working in a collaborative nature with that other teacher. And it's something that I'm super proud of them for. Um, if you on this slide, ninth and tth grade, we have a focus on ELA and math. So, as an example, one of my teachers teaches their EL classes, but then they go to an English teacher who has a ninth grade and a tth grade class and works with them throughout the year. And we're maintaining those relationships.
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>> That's the first time I'm seeing it. >> Like, athletic banquets and AD conference. Like, are we going to allow those students to go and the parents to pay or are we just eliminating it completely? I mean, I think a lot of these will have significant impacts. So, what does that look like and what's the alternative? [clears throat] Right? So, if it can't be funded in the budget, can it be funded by parents? So, you know, if cap and gowns, which I mean, I have a senior. I don't even know anything about cap and gowns. I don't even know if we're paying for them. I might not have seen an email. Do you know what I mean? But, what historically does that look like? You know, and we go through graduation and, you know, we spend a lot of money to have graduation out there.
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We took the kids on a trip to the stadium and a few museums. Uh there they are. We have a joint uh team now of the middle school and the high school kids going together. Uh here we are in the stadium learning about uh, the Negro Leagues and uh, touring the stadium then we went to the falls. There they are in front of the falls. A lot of them had never been to the falls before so that was nice. And we offer them a a opportunity for community service. We'll be going with the VFW from Garfield. We will be putting the flags uh, with the veterans in in May then we'll have a pizza party at the VFW. So we're really proud of this program. I'm happy that we were able to uh, fill the application and it was successful for the high school. I hope in the future that the elementary schools kind of band together and maybe can put together a program.
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Lightning behind you. Sorry. Oh, okay. That's pretty cool, Dominic, actually. Oh. >> [laughter] >> So, question. Light effects now. The power, Dominic. Oh, jeez. Um, >> [laughter] >> So, there was um, so that that was something that we we changed. And the other thing is I, you know, I I I'm going to bring back to the audience of this discussion a little bit is um, you know, sometimes you know, we get questions um, or he he'll get questions and it it's not clear, you know, kind of like how it like the interpretation part, right? You know, like what how can we help you? Um, you know, sometimes there's going to be follow-up and it's important for us to kind of give that context before they answer a question that they're not sure what they answer and spend hours doing so. Um, you know, but that's one thing that that courtesy that we need to make sure we're providing.
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Um are willing to come and learn more and do more and be more as teachers, I think that's really laudable. Um so, thank you for creating and and modeling, obviously, that uh continuous improvement and collaboration that the three of you do, and how that carries over to your buildings. I think it's exceptional. All right. Well, thank you, everyone. We'll go ahead and adjourn this meeting. Have a good evening.
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With 218 years of BCSC experience, please join me in celebrating the 2025 2026 classified employees of the year. Good job. >> Congratulations. Thanks. >> Good job. >> Thanks for coming tonight. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you for all you do. Thank you. >> Congratulations. Thank you very much so much. >> Congratulations on the recognition. >> I love your shirt. >> Thank you for all you do. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, you're a star. Congratulations. >> Thank you very much. Thanks for coming tonight. >> I'm a big fan of your daughter. Good >> job. We're lucky to have her. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Good recognition. They're running out before we can trap them in taking pictures. >> People ran to the door to avoid taking member reports. I'll just go down the line. I hit the full screen. >> Hi, I'm Dr. Aaron Stalbomb, assistant superintendent at BCSC.
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