That's the information items with which we have in front of us and that's how that policy takes place. So those questions that I have when I say hey is this there and you go it's the next slide over that does not have to be put in what is already a ridiculously long document in terms of the questions that go online. There is nothing that's not transparent about that. In fact, the information is publicly displayed. So, it feels as if that you think that in these meetings certain kinds of questions or things that are happening or taking place that are not because we don't have the same amount of questions that you do. We don't. To Miss Schultz's point, some of these questions are repetitive. I.e. the consent agenda is long. Every summer it is. Every summer, our consent agenda is overwhelmingly long. at the end of the year and the start of the year because we have things that come up annually and we do them over the summer.
>> Great. Thank you. Any questions or followups? >> I have a comment. Um, so I was struck when I was looking at slide 53, which shows that Helum's academic trends have actually been trending downward over many years in math and and also in ELA. And I feel like this is the first time that I've seen this data presented in this way. We've seen data from Pelum in a lot of different presentations and it doesn't tell this story. And so I this is actually a very important story I think and it is in many ways the most important story um for us to be talking about as we think about like how to support the school going forward. And so I am raising it just because it feels like it's something it doesn't make a lot of sense to spend time talking about, you know, this year's MCAST versus next year's MCAST, this year's I Ready versus last year's I whatever.
Um I think I've always kind of um loved being a part of the community and helping others, especially um taking on the role as president of the youth prevention council in my high school where we focus on prevention um of substance use and mental health support. and we recently went to the state house to talk about an excess tax um um policy and so we're currently like um waiting to hear back from them. So um with that experience I would love to be a part of like the board of health um to understand like the work that goes behind our community and especially um this year I will be the secretary of my student council. Um so I will get to connect with students and learn more about their perspectives and then bring it to the board as well. um and I would love to gain experience um on public health especially um in the future where I plan to study healthcare and I hope to pursue that path.
Um so yes it want to describe them or >> uh your transfers are pretty self-explanatory. Um, one that might look a little higher than you would think would be the uh transfer to cover the the banner upgrades. Those banners are are very very expensive to um to add things to or add new ones. So, um that was a cost that was a lot higher than we anticipated. >> Okay. Uh so we are looking for a motion to approve the transfers and reclass for a motion. Second.
What? You now have the floor. >> Erin, you can go ahead. Maybe you're muted possibly. Erin, you like to speak? >> It might be on ours. Hang on one second. There we go. Aaron, you should be able. >> Erin, your mic is on. >> Okay. Can you hear me? >> Can. >> Okay. Excellent. I can't see you guys, so whatever is going on with my computer, but you know, we're going to do what we can. Um, so my name is Aaron Wgner Vincent, 30 South Street. Um, I'd like to start with thanking the board for all of their hard work. I think at this point in the budget year, it seems like it would be an improvement to say it's a thankless job, but I just want you to know I appreciate you and I I know many others in the community do as well.
Jolly receives credits Dr. Campanot and Mrs. Merwaza for their guidance and inspiration. And she plans to attend college and medical school with the goal of becoming a cardiologist. CONGRATULATIONS. >> [applause] [applause] >> HELLO AGAIN. >> HELLO, WHO'S IN THIS up again? >> The 12th grade May Student of the Month is Emily Awada. Emily Awada is a creative and passionate senior who has discovered a deep love for ceramics through her experiences in the art program. She credits her ceramics teacher, Miss Ibrahim, for encouraging her to pursue ceramics too and helping her develop her artistic passion. Emily is also a board member of the Muslim Student Association and hopes to attend college and potentially become an art teacher so she can inspire future students through creativity. Is Emily here? >> [applause] [applause] >> And I covered my mouth. >> Moving right along, now I get the chance to introduce our superintendent, Dr.
So that's why they're longer. We've actually literally had complaints about how long it has been before with you on the board in my time here. And the explanation again is that they are policies that come through annually and that's why they are here. To be clear, if you have an issue, you can, and we've done it tonight, always can take them out of consent agenda and move them. We did this because at one point Lingal talked about how consent agenda is not a time to debate and hash out which is why we removed them. Whether or not we keep the practice to Miss German's point, I agree the burden that is on our administration team to answer some of these questions that ultimately don't always impact our ability to do our job. So for example, keeping with consent agenda item, there are sometimes staff travel to conferences and the questions are the company that is putting forth the conference and questions about that company.
like we're we're look and I I feel like I've been asking for this like year over like time over >> I've been asking for this slide since I joined the committee. Um this is a conversation piece. I feel like this is the conversation that we should be having as a committee about because I think we've heard there's so much about Pelum that is wonderful and that is to be celebrated and this is problematic. Um this is this is not the data that we want to see for our kids um over time. And so I I guess I'm just raising it as it feels like an important conversation um for us to have, not uh you know I I think we're putting a lot of attention on the future of the school. And I think we need to talk about like the present of the school and how do we better support the school?
So um I'm just really excited to be here and gain experience. Thank you. >> Great. Anybody have any questions for her? >> Nice to meet you. Thank you. >> Yep. Thank you. >> Welcome. >> Yeah. Welcome. >> Thank you. Thank you, Sunny. You can stay on if you like, you know, to see see the board functioning, you know. Thank you. >> All right. So, the next thing on our agenda is the Mary Mortonson 9th annual public health award discussion. Um, I know we have some nominees. Raj, do you want to take us through that? >> Yes, so we we have three nominations, you know, but let me let me pull that, you know. So, one nomination is for Emmy Tungliff. You know that the town manager have nominated her. Uh, give me one second. I'm going to pull all three here and we have sent the details right the second nomination uh was uh by Mr.
Does >> anyone have any questions or comments about these? >> All those in favor, please say I. >> Uh, is there anyone opposed or abstaining? Thank you very much. On to curriculum. um curriculum committee meet met on May 6th and we just did an update of courses and professional development. Um we do not have anything new to bring to the board.
Um, my hope is that our Canton community gets more involved prior to the budget vote. I think it's too easy to look at a dollar amount at the end of the year and simply say that's too much. My hope is that if there is something specific that someone doesn't agree with, they reach out to the members of the board. My hope is that if someone hears something that doesn't sound correct that they reach out to the source directly. My hope is that people will learn about the process to understand the why part of things. The humanto human part needs to be more prominent because that is what community is. Uh I'll say again that teachers are leaving the profession at record rates across the country. As a community we need to ensure that we are attracting and maintaining educators. We need to offer competitive salaries for pair of professionals.
Robertazzi, for the Governor's Education of the Year Awards. >> [applause] >> MRS. BASFORD, IF YOU WOULD STAY HERE, uh please, and hand out the plaques as I call out the names. Ladies and gentlemen, each year, uh in the state of New Jersey, the Governor's Educator of the Year program uh awards uh Educator of the Year and an Educator Educational Service Professional of the Year from each school in New Jersey. And then in each county, there's a County Teacher of the Year and a County Ed Service Professional of the Year. And then out of the 21 counties, they pick a New Jersey Teacher of the Year. Uh we are very proud to recognize the Teachers of the Year and the Ed Service Professionals of the Year from the Clifton School District this evening. When I call you up, please come up, see Mrs. Basford for your plaque, and then we're going to take a picture of you near the step and repeat.
How is that pertinent to us and our ability to do our job? If the argument is sometimes staff will be given information that they should never bring into our classroom. They are upheld to our policies to not bring it in our classroom. They are adults doing their job. So asking those questions are in fact repetitive and insulting to say the least with respect to the professionals that are doing their job. I struggle when we say things like we are not transparent as a district. We are overwhelmingly transparent. overwhelmingly the questions and the concerns and the things that I have when I have questions that deal with data that deal with specific information, they either end up in that report because I put it there when we were meeting in the first place or they come in the superintendent's report on that Friday or sometimes if it's an immediate question like if we get an email that's concerning something I will call Mr.
how do we better sort of organize the school so that we see this data moving in the opposite direction. So I agree that was the purpose of the summit to kind of bridge that gap into the conversation. Um I think at my evaluation we asked me how can I talk a lot about construction and that was my time on stage to kind of really delve into the data and what we're seeing. Um this came out of us having the data chats that I have with the prince. I started it last year with the principles and this year I added the departments. So um uh S SSO special education came in they presented their data English learners came in we did yelling we did mathematics um we had a lot of departments I can't remember all of them and so and then I just had the second loop and circling of schools right so the schools did their second um data test and what came from the ground level view was one thing because we had a conversation at the beginning of the year when we talk about the trends of our English learners across the different schools.
San Germaine uh that he have nominated a organization called Kasa individual named Dieago Lo he's the executive director there uh at Kasa and Metro West workers solidary network and the third one we have is for uh Kristen Quinn who was nominated uh last year as well uh This nomination was by Lee Suridge, you know. So, we have three nominations, you know. >> Um, so I think we'll open this up for a discussion. Um, and then if we um come to a consensus, we can go for a vote tonight. Um, did everybody on the board have an opportunity to read the three nominations? Yes. >> So, everyone did any um does any board member want to make any comments? >> Uh the only comment I had was that they all look great and um I'm sure that you all felt the same way. >> Yes. >> Yeah.
>> Um anyone have any questions for finance curriculum on to community meetings and we'll fill in on >> It's been a busy month already. Um, so in we had our spring ga. We've also had a teacher appreciation week. So, we had lots of travel and coffee trucks with there plus some catering and they all appreciated um snack delivery service that the PTA put on. And we are very thankful for all the community members donating snacks and time to help get that off as well as the art show, springfest, ice cream social, book fair that just happened on Tuesday. That is a huge um lot of work to get up and going from getting all the artwork out, the book sale, and just it's just a lot. And so we appreciate all the community members that come out and help with that. Um including our high school volunteers to get their last minute hours in for the year.
Paying $17 an hour when the national average is 21 to $24 an hour is completely unacceptable and cost more money in the long run due to having to hire temps. Um, that's mostly all I have. I just want to say again, you know, I I I think the more human we can all get with each other about all of this when it comes to budget and different items and things that our children need, the more we can then focus on that these are children, right? Like that's why we're all doing this. Um, and for adults, for us to be more human to human with each other and trying to be more curious and learn about it, I think is also going to be um a better way to support the children in our community. Thank you. That's all. Thank you for those comments. Anyone else online that would like to speak?
From our School 15 Early Childhood, Teacher of the Year, NICOLE SENZER. >> [applause] >> AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICE Professional of the Year, CAITLIN BONAVENTURE. >> [applause] >> FROM SCHOOL NUMBER 2, Teacher of the Year, Nicole Lavender. >> [applause and cheering] >> And educational service professional of the year, Christine I'm sorry. I just skipped the whole school. Christine Rowland. >> [applause] >> THEY ALLOW ME TO DO THIS. I MISSED THE WHOLE SCHOOL. Uh teacher of the year from school number one, Anna Excuse me, ANNETTE GARTSKA. >> [applause] >> AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICE PROFESSIONAL, REGINA KENNEDY. >> [applause] >> FROM SCHOOL NUMBER THREE, TEACHER OF THE YEAR, Anna Gorecki. >> [applause] >> And our educational service professional of the year, Maria Pacalova. >> [applause] [applause] >> From school number four, our teacher of the year, LISA SMITH. >> [applause] >> AND ED SERVICE PROFESSIONAL of the year, KRISTEN REAL.
Lenheiser and say hey we just got this can we send something out to the board and then it gets sent out. We are following this communication protocol. The idea that our meetings, which I am grateful that Mr. Glover, Miss Gar, I have to do it as a board president and fun facts, I will always do that now, even if I'm not the president because it does make me feel more prepared having the ability to go through it in a in a less stressful environment than what this is. And that's great. I think I agree with respect to the gray area of open meeting. I I find the idea that we can know or that you would even post publicly, this is how I feel. I find it to be gray. I find that the policies and the laws that were in place were in place before social media, before our phones are the way that they are.
But then when we were able to bring it in by department, that's when I was like, wait a minute, we need to have a deeper and broader conversation because all of these groups, right? All of these stakeholder groups are talking about supporting schools, supporting schools, whether it's the school committees, whether it's CPAC, whether it's EMPAC, like everyone has their focus. Um, we have I had just Roger Wallace Foundation there. Everyone's like, "Oh, we support the schools." But we're s seeing where we're ending up very similarly, either in the same space or lower than where we were within a 9-year gap. And so, one of the things on this page is that the metrics changed at at one point in terms of what they were measuring, but also you see where we clearly identified the pandmic disruption, but we haven't really closed that gap since there.